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Time capsules to ourselves

It was a little over a year ago that I posted my first article over here at Anomaly Magazine; a look back at the year 2007, as a year of Fortean anniversaries. A look back at 2008, personally, as a nation, and as a blogger here at Anomaly, reveals a number of false starts and stops, lots of disappointment, and tons upon tons of soul searching. Personally, throughout 2008 I’ve been self-employed, unemployed, taking advantage of free time to work on the blog, too busy looking for work to work on the blog, too poor to concentrate on anything but finding a job, and finally working a job and too darn tired to dedicate myself to keeping up a blog-post-a-day schedule like I would like to. It isn’t just me. My fellow … Read entire article »

Filed under: Community, Cryptozoology, Economy, Elections, Feature, Fortean, Globalism, hoaxes, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, President, Uncategorized, year in review

Raelian’s Israeli “orgy for world peace” cancelled

I found this item about those crazy Raelians on Huffington Post thanks to Chez Pazienza over at Deus Ex Malcontent. For those not familiar with the Raelians, they are a saucer cult founded by French race car test-driver turned spiritual guru Claude Vorilhon. The Raelian ideology is the standard ancient astronaut world seeding theory, with heaping dollops of late 60s and early 70s free love, and generically spiritual “war is bad” platitudes. They have been in the news most recently for their support of, and claim that they had succeeded in, human cloning. Vorilhon, who currently goes by the name Rael and claims to be the son of an earthly mother of an extraterrestrial father, founded his religion after an alleged close encounter in 1973 where he met his father … Read entire article »

Filed under: Aliens, Consciousness, cult, Cults, Events, Feature, Fortean, Globalism, Government, History, hoaxes, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, News, ParaPolitics, Politics, religion, saucer cult, Science, Science Fiction, Technology, UFO, Uncategorized, War

Beware Gingerbread Houses

In addition to the various folk tales and fairy stories they collected in their publications, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm also collected supposedly true stories of tragedy, such as the infamous Children Play at Hog Killing, from the first edition of their book and dropped from later editions as too grisly. In these types of stories a group of children, usually after witnessing a butcher slaughtering a hog, play a game to reenact the spectacle with the end result being the tragic death of the child playing the role of the pig. The butcher boy story may or may not be an exaggerated tale based in actual occurrences, as analogs are found in other regions and cultures. But regardless of the butcher boy’s veracity, there are real life tragedies, ones we can … Read entire article »

Filed under: California, captives, Community, fairy tales, Feature, folk tales, folklore, Fortean, History, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, kidnapping, News, Torture, Uncategorized, witch, witchcraft