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Having it their way

  Because it can’t all be about ghost and goblins all the time. And because, frankly, as far as I’m concerned there isn’t anything more anomalous than a sytem that gives wads of cash to the uber-wealthy as a reward for inefficiently running a business that exploits the most desperate and needy members of the workforce. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Activism, armageddon, Economy, Feature, Globalism, Government, History, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, News, Politics, Video

Dan Aykroyd’s spirits

Somehow this has flown under my radar for a couple of months, but Dan Aykroyd is marketing his own brand of boutique vodka sold in a skull shaped bottle. What does this have to do with anomalous phenomenon you ask? Everything! In his online video explaining the liquor, an oddly sweaty Aykroyd almost seems to be parodying himself in some Twilight Zone episode of SNL as he talks about everything from ghosts, UFOs, and the “invisible world”,  to ectoplasm (a running gag of his Ghost Busters movies) and the latest Indiana Jones movie. That’s right. The latest Indie movie and this vodka have something in common other than actors who made their best movies two decades ago. The bottle shape was chosen as a tribute to the infamous crystal skulls. So that the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Aliens, Austin, Consciousness, Crystal Skulls, cult, Feature, folk tales, folklore, Fortean, Ghosts, History, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, metaphysics, Movies, Occult, Paranormal, saucer cult, spirituality, UFO

Bird Beaks, Bible Belt Biology, and Bigfoot

Next Thursday, February 12, marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Few figures (if any) have had a greater impact on the course of scientific discourse and understanding, religious dialogue, and continuing public controversy.   This includes the controversy surrounding cryptids.   For some people, Darwinian theories are “proof” that certain cryptids are “impossible”. Ignoring (or misrepresenting) available evidence, they argue that certain animals simply can not exist because the design described by eye-witnesses doesn’t seem, in their mind, adapted to the environment where it was sighted. Ironically, some on the other end of the spectrum balk at the idea of cryptids because they are unwilling to confront their insecurities about where these creatures may have come from, or how they might have evolved to fill certain ecological niches.   It’s curious to me … Read entire article »

Filed under: Bigfoot, Cryptozoology, Feature, Fortean, History, Internet, News, religion, Sasquatch, Science, Uncategorized