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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! MY BRAIN IS OFFICIALLY DEEP... FEKKIN'...FRIED! This one's heavy on the history of gold, heavy on history in general! Then, at the end, we examine money as an egregore, goetic demon "dark loops", algorithmic occult economics, and the quack new age feel goodery of watered down chaos magick paperback "get rich quick!" schemery meets the blasphemous scourge that is called..."prosperity gospel"! Blab it & grab it! PLEASE TO ENJOY! (Also...NOW GIMME SOME CANDYYYY!...I mean MONEYYYY!) P.S. You can't really tell because it's in B&W, but the corpse in the thumbnail is covered in gold. YOU WIN MOTHERFUCKER!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:- Heiliges Geld ("Sacred Money") by Bernhard Laum (1924)- Financial Vipers of Venice (2010) and Babylon's Banksters (2009) by Joseph P. Farrell- Solomon's Treasure (2011) and Money Grows on The Tree of Knowledge (2010) by Tracy Twyman- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein (2011)- The Lost Science of Money by Stephen Zarlenga (2002)- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein (2000)- The Gift by Marcel Mauss (1925)- The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker (2016–2018)
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SUP KOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOOOO! SO MUCH IN THIS ONE! JUST LISTEN, YOU'LL BE GLAD/WEIRDLY UNCOMFORTABLE YOU DID! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.
SOURCES:- Heiliges Geld ("Sacred Money") by Bernhard Laum (1924)- Financial Vipers of Venice (2010) and Babylon's Banksters (2009) by Joseph P. Farrell- Solomon's Treasure (2011) and Money Grows on The Tree of Knowledge (2010) by Tracy Twyman- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein (2011)- The Lost Science of Money by Stephen Zarlenga (2002)- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein (2000)- The Gift by Marcel Mauss (1925)- The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker (2016–2018)
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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is all about dat FIRE! We take a look at arsonists and pyromaniacs, pyrokinesis, SHC, fiery humanoid entities and elementals, mysterious rains of fire from the sky, plus strange "suicide clusters" of self immolation! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:- Gaddis, Vincent H. "Mysterious Fires and Lights" (1967)- Coleman, Loren. "Incendiary Poltergeists, Spontaneous Human Combustion and Fire Suicide Clusters" (The Anomalist, Vol. 1)- "The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena" (sections on fire-walking, fire-immunity, human radiance, fiery persecutions, and spontaneous human combustion)- Arnold, Larry E. "Ablaze!" (1995)- Heymer, John. "The Entrancing Flame" (1996)- Various newspaper archives and case reports from the 19th and 20th centuries- FBI reports on spontaneous human combustion- Fire investigation records from Glendale Fire Department (John Leonard Orr case)- Nunnelly, Barton. "The Inhumanoids" (Part Four: Fiery Phantoms, Grinning Men, Mad Gassers and Killer Clowns)- Deutsche Sagen, Vol. 1, page 229 (A.D. 1125 German fiery man account)- Abbot Ralph of Essex. "Chronicles" (York footprint cases, 1189-1205)- Various 19th century Kentucky newspaper archives (Bracken County beast-man reports, 1866 & 1868)- Putnam, Frederick and Neely, Thomas. Personal diaries and local journal entries (Old Town Hill Entity, Indiana, July 1867)- Rosales, Albert S. "Humanoid Encounters" (Brazilian road cases/Type-E entity classifications)- Brazilian Air Force (FAB). "Operação Prato" (Operation Plate) documentation (Colares wave, September-October 1977)- Ipswich Evening Star (Felixstowe Fire Demon case, September 20, 1965)- Regional folklore collections: Harz Mountain "Der Glühende Mann" traditions/Paracelsian elemental theory/Brazilian "Curupira"/"Mulinha sem Cabeça" folklore

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's another installment in the semi-regular series called THE OCCULT CRIME ATLAS! This one takes us to India, where there's a lot of human sacrifice, like a LOT! Holy shit! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:- All India Police Gazette Archives (colonial and post-independence)- Bombay Presidency Police Records (1900–1947)- Bengal Presidency Criminal Investigation Files- Madras Presidency Police Special Branch Reports- Uttar Pradesh State Police Occult Crime Dossiers- Bihar/Jharkhand Witchcraft-Related Homicide Case Files- Kerala State Police Elanthoor Investigation Records (2022)- Delhi Police Burari Deaths Forensic Reports (2018)- Maharashtra State Anti-Superstition Unit Case Files- The Times of India — colonial-era crime reporting (1900–1947)- Amrita Bazar Patrika — Bengal witchcraft trial coverage- The Hindu — Madras Presidency occult crime reports- Hindustan Times — post-independence ritual crime documentation- Indian Express — Stoneman murder investigation coverage (1980s)- Malayala Manorama — Kerala esoteric crime reporting- Regional-language dailies (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Odia)- Crime beat reporting: Delhi Monkey-Man panic (2001)- Investigative journalism archives: Noida Nithari coverage (2006)- Documentary journalism: Burari deaths forensic analysis (2018)- Field reporting: Chhattisgarh witchcraft violence (2020–2025)- Indian Journal of Psychiatry — mass hysteria and psychogenic illness studies- Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology — ritual homicide case studies- Anthropological Survey of India — tribal shamanism and witchcraft accusation patterns- Legal history reviews — colonial-era anti-superstition legislation- Religious studies scholarship — Tantra, Vamachara, and folk esotericism in South Asia- Census of India — special reports on witchcraft-related mortality- Ministry of Home Affairs — internal security reports on mass panic incidents- State Crime Records Bureaus — occult-linked homicide statistics- Law Commission of India — reports on anti-superstition legislation- Society for Psychical Research archives — early 20th-century poltergeist investigations- Indian Army border observation post logs — high-altitude aerial phenomena- Maritime records — Arabian Sea anomalous sightings (1909)- Railway Police Archives — Stoneman murder investigation files- Sajal Nag (ed.), Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism: Secret Cultural Practices in India (Manohar/Routledge, 2023) — including chapters on the Kecaikhati cult, U Thlen, human sacrifice in Assam, Mayong, Naga lycanthropy, and Khasi-Pnar witchcraft- Edward Gait, A History of Assam (1905); E. Gait, "Human Sacrifices in Ancient Assam" (1898)- J. H. Hutton, "Leopard-Men in the Naga Hills" (1920); "Some Astronomical Beliefs in the North-East" (1925)- P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis (1906)- W. B. Brown, An Outline Grammar of the Deori Chutiya Language (1895)

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's my "Halloween-ish" episode! It's all about the history of ritual murder! More specifically, it's about for the purposes of diving the future. But what if it's something so deeply ingrained in the human psyche, that in unconsciously drives modern day ritualistic murders? ALSO! Learn the origins of the phrase, "I gotta see a man about a horse!" HINT: IT'S ABOUT HORSE FUCKING! And the bogeyman is lurking in the background of the whole bloody affair, so watch yer back! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:

• Mesopotamia: Cuneiform omen texts and liver divination compendia (such as the Barûtu series), alongside archaeological finds of clay model sheep livers (such as those recovered from ancient Babylon and Mari).
• Etruria & Rome:
  • Disciplina Etrusca (attributed mythically to Tages).
  • The Bronze Liver of Piacenza (discovered in 1877).
  • Writings of Julius Caesar (Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Book VI, regarding Gallic customs and wicker figures).
  • Writings of Lucan (Pharsalia, describing sacred groves and extispicy).
  • Writings of Tacitus (Germania, regarding Germanic lot-casting and sacred horses).
  • Accounts from Herodotus (The Histories, Book IV, detailing Scythian burial practices, divination with linden/willow sticks, and skull cups).
• Greece: Homeric accounts of heroic sacrifice (e.g., Achilles at Patroclus's pyre in the Iliad); descriptions of the pharmakos and Greek sacrificial terminology (sphagia, splanchna, bothros).
• The Hebrews: The sacrificial codes outlined in the biblical book of Leviticus (chapters 1 through 7); Leviticus 17:11 ("for the life of the flesh is in the blood"); accounts of Yom Kippur and the eglah arufah (Deuteronomy 21).
• India: The Rig Veda (specifically the Puruṣa-sūkta) and the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa detailing Vedic sacrificial architecture and ritual logic.
• West Africa: Accounts of the Dahomey Annual Customs, notably recorded and counted by Victorian explorer Richard Burton (A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 1864).

• Mesoamerica: Primary and secondary source frameworks regarding Mexica cosmology, the Veintena calendar cycle, Tlacaxipehualiztli (the Flaying of Men), and ixiptla (god-impersonation rituals).
• The Andes: Archaeological findings regarding the capacocha ritual and high-altitude mummification, including the discoveries on Mount Ampato (1995) and Llullaillaco (1999).
• General Anthropology / Sociology:
  • The conceptual study of sacrifice, ritual structures, and substitution.
  • Research on global folk traditions, bog bodies of Northern Europe (e.g., Tollund Man), and head-hunting/trophy traditions (e.g., Dayak ngayau).
    • Joseph Vacher ("The French Ripper"): The 1890s French vagabond and serial killer studied by forensic pioneer Alexandre Lacassagne.
    • Eusebius Pieydagnelle: The 1870s French killer whose case was famously analyzed and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s foundational psychiatric text Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
    • Juan Díaz de Garayo ("El Sacamantecas"): The 19th-century Spanish serial killer active in Álava.
    • Edward Leonski: The US Army soldier executed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1942 for serial strangulations.
    • John George Haigh ("The Acid Bath Murderer"): The English serial killer executed in 1949, whose crimes were investigated by Home Office pathologist Keith Simpson.
    • Vaughn Greenwood ("The Skid Row Slasher"): The Southern California serial killer active between 1964 and 1975.
    • Nikolai Dzhumagaliev ("Metal Fang"): The Soviet-Kazakh serial killer active in the late 1970s and 1980s.
    • Tomás Maldonado Cera ("El Satánico"): Convicted for murders committed in Barranquilla, Colombia.
    • The Lokesh Case (Alwar, Rajasthan): The July 2025 ritual murder case from Sarai Kalan village, investigated by Rajasthan police.

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is an exploration...of trepanation...and that's my declaration. IT'S A CELEBRATION! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license and copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:
- Alt KW, et al. Lancet 1997; Ensisheim burial.- Verano JW. Trepanation in Pre-Columbian Peru (2003).- Andrushko VA, Verano JW. World Neurosurgery 2008; Inca survival rates.- Li H, et al. Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences 2021; China trepanation.- Hippocrates. On Injuries of the Head (c. 400 BCE).- Galen. De Methodo Medendi; On Anatomical Procedures (c. 150 CE).- Breasted JH. Edwin Smith Papyrus (1930).- Huges B. Homo Sapiens Correctus scroll (1965).- Mellen J. Bore Hole (1975).- Feilding A. Heartbeat in the Brain film (1970).- Turner C. "Like a Hole in the Head." Cabinet 28 (2008).- Arnott R, Finger S, Smith CUM. Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory (2003).- Missios S. "Hippocrates, Galen, and trepanation." Neurosurgery (2007).- Wikipedia entries: Trepanning; Trepanation in Mesoamerica; Amanda Feilding.
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WASSSSAAAAAPPPPPI SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOKS! In this episode, I've had to reroute some programming but perhaps it's for the best, as for the upcoming Halloween season, we're covering the dark theories of one SALVADOR FREIXEDO! A former Jesuit priest who became a ufologist and paranormal investigator, only to ultimately arrive to much of the same conclusions as figures like John Keel, Jacques Vallee, or Bob Monroe...WE...ARE...FOOOOOOOOOD! Oh yeah, strap on the chum bucket friendo! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES: listen and find out! (but nah, for real, it's pretty much ALL of Freixedo's books, so check' em out!)

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is exactly what it says on the tin! Put it up in ya! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:- Keel, John. Our Haunted Planet (1970) and The Eighth Tower (1975)- Paulides, David. Missing 411: Western United States (2012) and subsequent volumes- Rosales, Albert S. Humanoid Encounters series (multi-volume, spanning 1900-present), specifically "Type H" case classifications- Redfern, Nick. Body Snatchers in the Desert (2005) and The FBI Files on UFOs- Martin, Jorge. Ufological research regarding Puerto Rican Chupacabra wave (1990s)- The Daily Colonist newspaper archives (1884) - Jacko incident, British Columbia- Scottish fishing syndicate records (1899) - Loch Ness and Firth of Forth trapping schemes- Pacific Northwest logging company archives (1920s-1940s) - Ape Canyon and "Jacko" expedition claims- Charles Hall (whistleblower) - testimony regarding Nellis Air Force Base "Tall White" and bio-container programs- USAREUR personnel testimonies (1978) - Garmisch, Germany giant hominid encounter- Fort Campbell military police archives (1970s) - "Gargoyle" containment allegations- Fort Custer Reserve Forces Training Site records (1970s) - bipedal canid reports- Hahn Air Base security personnel accounts (1988) - Morbach Werewolf incident- Mount St. Helens emergency responder and Weyerhaeuser forestry worker testimonies (1980)- U.S. Forest Service "Hotshots" wildland firefighter accounts (1999) - Cascade Mountains Sasquatch recovery- Fort Bragg vicinity military veteran testimony (1978) - Fayetteville reptilian encounter- Brazilian Military S2 Intelligence Division and SAA Army Fire Corps records (1996) - Varginha incident- South African National Defence Force incident reports (1993) - Giyani entity retrieval- Soviet Naval Intelligence and KGB classified archives (1982) - Lake Baikal "Swimmers" incident- Red Army and KGB security records (1967) - Kapustin Yar entity containment- Soviet Border Troop and KGB scientific recovery team records (1983) - Dalnegorsk retrieval- Russian Military and Spetsnaz accounts (1991, 2001) - Krasnoyarsk Taiga and Primorsky Krai incidents- Polish Border Guard and State Security records (1989) - Kasprowy Wierch incident- Turkish Military and Intelligence accounts (1977) - Batman Province capture- Argentine Air Force and Gendarmerie records (1984, 1998) - Cordoba and Salta incidents- Chilean Municipal and Construction records (2002, 2005) - Calama Desert and Villa San Rafael incidents- Australian Cattle Station records (1995) - Northern Territory entity capture- Vieques Island Naval Facility security personnel accounts (2002)- Cryptonaut Podcast, Episode 260: "Clean-Up Crew: Who's Capturing Cryptids?" - "Beyond Creepy" YouTube Channel - Video: "The Clean-Up Crew"- Lon Strickler's Phantoms & Monsters archives- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) regional reports- Pennsylvania UFO/Cryptid research group archives (1973 Enon Valley incident)- Appalachian mining folklore archives (Kentucky cave-gargoyle extraction)- Enon Valley, PA regional UFO/cryptid research group archives (1973)- West Dade County, FL incident reports (1996) - Ted Karbalde testimony- Rock County, WI investigator field notes (2012) - Donna Fink encounter- Department of Defense CBRN and Joint Task Force Civil Support protocols- FBI Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) and Hazardous Materials Response Unit (HMRU) operational guidelines- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) Biosafety Level 4 containment protocols- Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate emergency response frameworks- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office research directives

HEYYOOOOOOOO! What's up you beautiful KOOOOOOOOKS! This episode covers werewolf and dogman encounters! AND! It's also the episode where Mike either reveals his ignorance or makes some enemies he's too tired to deal with! Or neither! But either way, just what the heck is going on with all these garshdern werewolf and dogman encounters? This episode covers at least around 40ish...SO SOMETHING MUST BE GOING ON! Listen up and lemme know what you think. PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email is: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:Primary Case Documentation:- 1913 Bronx Werewolf: New York Tribune (March 1913); The Evening World (March 1913); Fortean/Urban Legend Compilations- Horseshoe Lake/Blackfish Lake, Arkansas: Cryptomundo.com (2013); witness submission "Unknown Wolf-like Creature in East Arkansas"- Southern New York UFO-Dogman: WeekInWeird.com (Greg Newkirk, June 2016); Paranormal Witness (Palmyra, PA episode)- Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee: Phantoms & Monsters Blog (Lon Strickler); MUFON Case Files (1973)- Brighton, Ontario: Phantoms & Monsters Blog (2015); Provincial corrections officer Davis testimony- Talihina, Oklahoma (Coyote Man): Phantoms & Monsters Blog (June 2017); Lon Strickler telephone interview- Suceava, Romania: Christopher Middleton, The Telegraph (UK) (1971); personal account- Vidor, Texas: Texas Leader Newspaper (John Rice, 1978); Beaumont Enterprise (1978, 1983); Las Sabinas Vol. 20 No. 3 (July 1994); Orange County Stories "The Creature of Tram Road"- Nebraska/Fresno/Texas Compilation: North American Dogman Project; witness submissions to What Lurks Beneath; Michael Lacoma footage (Fresno, 2004)- Appalachian Cases: What Lurks Beneath witness submissions (Scioto County OH 2005, Athens County OH early 2000s, Hancock County WV 1980s)- East Texas Fishing: These Woods Are Haunted (TV program); What Lurks Beneath- Palmyra, Maine: Paranormal Witness (TV program); Martin family testimony- Law Enforcement Encounters: Linda Godfrey, Monsters Among Us (Burlington WI 2011); What Lurks Beneath (Cedar Rapids IA 2014, Ontario Canada 2003)- Mandy's Lifelong Encounters: Dogman Encounters Radio (Vic Cundiff)- North American Dogman Project Cases: New Jersey 2002, Florida 2020, Oklahoma City 2020, Alberta, 1969, 2007-2010 Wisconsin, Arizona 1980s- Defiance, Ohio: Toledo Blade (August 2, 1972); Defiance Crescent News (August 1972); Monsters of Ohio website; Astonishing Legends Podcast (October 11, 2020)- Niles, Ohio: Witness Michael testimony (2016)- Lawton, Oklahoma**: The Lawton Constitution (March 2, 1971); Gary Reddin, Monstrum Obscura; The Weird and Wild West; Paranormal World Wiki
Theoretical Frameworks:- Robert Eisler, Man Into Wolf (1948)- Project MKULTRA documentation (CIA Records)- Clinical Lycanthropy literature (DSM classifications)- Fortean analysis (Charles Fort, John Keel, Jacques Vallée)
Media Archives:- Beyond Creepy (YouTube) - Cases 1-6- What Lurks Beneath (YouTube) - Cases 7-16- Paranormal Witness (Syfy Channel)- These Woods Are Haunted (Travel Channel)- Dogman Encounters Radio (Vic Cundiff)

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AHHHHHH FUCK! I DON'T EVEN WANNA DO THIS PART! SPACE VAMPIRES Y'ALL! I'M SO TIRED! I GOTTA GET BETTER! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES:
Scott Corrales' "Alien Blood Lust-Are There Vampires in Outer Space?" w/ Tim Beckley, Sean Casteel, Tim R. Swartz, Hercules Invictus, & Nigel Watson (2019)
(HELL YEAH! JUST ONE SOURCE! I FUCKING LOVE IT! IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN MORE OFTEN!)

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