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MORE HALLOWEENIN"! This episode covers a "quadrilogy?" (sure, why not) of four mysterious deaths with potentially "otherworldly" details surrounding them. While the actual cause of death may seem evident at first glance, it's the circumstances surrounding them that leave both us, and investigators, scratching their various itchy bits.
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SOURCES: https://medium.com/@anncarney51/the-strange-death-of-netta-fornario-b4d6817d7e6f https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Scott_Rogohttps://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/mountain-lion-christopher-whiteleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8x1x5zrqE&t=1243s
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Round 2 of Halloween (mini?) episodes! This one covers the exploits of Sigvard "Manhunter" Thurneman & The Sala Gang, an under the radar influence on Nordic black metal's intersection between crime & the occult!
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SOURCES:*https://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2021/06/30/wulvaricht-interview-manhunter-the-story-of-the-swedish-occultist-and-serial-killer-thurneman/
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_gang
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigvard_Thurneman

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Here it is folks! The first of an unknown number of Halloween episodes! Hope you dig it! It's gonna be a half & half-ish mix betwixt silly and spooky. I think. This one covers the concept and creation of the "homunculus". People actually tried this...many people, many times. Stay tuned for more murder, mayhem, & madmen! More around the corner folks! Happy Halloween!
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SOURCES:https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/alchemical-recipe-homunculus-sperm-rotting-meat-mini-artificial-human-009836
https://pelicanmagazine.com.au/2020/04/18/how-to-build-a-guy-in-40-days-paracelsus-homunculus-recipe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus
https://recipes.hypotheses.org/7052/the‑curious‑case‑of‑the‑homunculus‑and‑the‑allegorical‑recipe/
https://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/01/grow‑your‑own‑homunculus.html
https://www.crazyalchemist.com/dark-history/the-strange-experiments-of-count-kuefstein-the-man-who-made-ten-homunculi/

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It's the first ever "Request Line" episode! In which I take a listener's request and utterly warp it into my usual variety of utterly weird shit! Enjoy! Spookiness coming soon!Email us! [email protected] excerpts from copyrighted material included for educational and/or cultural critique purposes. Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!
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[**SOURCES**]:Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (John Canemaker, 1996) — definitive biography from Da Capo Press.https://archive.org/details/texaverykingofca00cane
The Tex Avery interview (1975) from Animation World Magazine archives — insight into his humor and philosophy.https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.1/articles/lamb1.1.html
A Wild Hare (1940) & Duck Amuck (1953) — both available in the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection (Warner Bros.) and on the official Warner Bros. YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ9FzYw9K1g
Metafiction & cartoon semiotics
Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Routledge, 1992) — foundational text on audience participation and fictional awareness.
Umberto Eco, “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage,” in Travels in Hyperreality (1986).
Borges, “The Circular Ruins” (1940) — prototype of creator/creation recursion in fiction.
Occult / cultural crossover
Joshua Cutchin, The Ecology of Souls (2022) and Fourth Wall Phantoms (2023) — discussions of thoughtforms, media attention, and liminal awareness.https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=176
Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (1995) — classic study of imagination shaping the real.
Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working materials summarized in George Pendle’s Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).
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This was a fun one to study up on, lot's of potentially awesome & terrifying possibilities! Please to enjoy! (P.S. This episode is dedicated to my big sister. Without her, there would be no show...so get better! And don't let the Commies steal your organs!)
Email us!: [email protected] excerpts from the Communist Chinese national anthem...please don't come and arrest me.Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!
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[**SOURCES**]:钱学森 [Qian Xuesen], “人体科学与现代科学技术的比较研究” (A Comparative Study of Somatic Science and Modern Science and Technology), 1980. Published in 自然杂志 (Nature Journal, Shanghai).* — Qian’s founding text for Somatic Science, arguing that psychic phenomena are manifestations of higher-level systemic information.钱学森 [Qian Xuesen], “从宏观到微观的人体科学” (From Macro to Micro Somatic Science), 1986. — Introduces “information field” and the idea of consciousness as a measurable force.钱学森与宋心之 [Qian Xuesen & Song Xinzhi], eds. 人体科学研究 (Somatic Science Research), Beijing: 1988–1992, serial publication.David Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press, 2007).Richard H. Wang, “China’s Somatic Science Revolution and Its Discontents,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 6 (2012)Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill, China’s Super Psychics (Marlowe, 1997).Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Harper & Row, 1970; updated 1997 ed.).Robert Ford Campany, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (SUNY Press, 1996).Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point (2001)Martin Cannon, The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien Abduction (self-published, 1990).Includes early speculation that “psychotronic” mind-control work migrated from USSR and China to U.S. black projects.Nigel Pennick, The Secret Lore of the East (1985).Mentions Taoist alchemy and early “bio-energy” research David A. Palmer, Qigong Fever (Columbia UP, 2007) – Appendix A lists 1980s “extraordinary phenomena” investigations.Richard H. Wang, “China’s Somatic Science Revolution and Its Discontents,” EASTS 6 (2012).Paul Dong & Thomas Raffill, China’s Super Psychics (Marlowe, 1997) – chapters 4–9 cover Zhang Baosheng and mass phenomena.Flying Saucer Review vols. 32–40 (1986–1995) – English translations of CURO bulletins.Somatic Science Research periodical (1988–1992).Jilin University UFO Symposium Proceedings (1994).China UFO Research Organization (中国UFO研究会) website archive (retrieved 2018 via Wayback Machine).ALSO! Here's an awesome interview with Simon Duan!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyLgeQWzIUs&t=11s
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This is a big one. It makes me wistful for the 1980's when The Soviets controlled all of our minds (and if not our minds, our economic choices...Doritos, Miller Lite, & the like.) SOURCES:*https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000500210001-9.pdf*https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3.pdf*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qhye0cMWI&list=PLnORemBrCOZO9iXv-k_VjU3m3WHTZFCyL&index=184*https://everydayconcerned.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nikolai-Ivanovich-Anisimov-Psychotronic-Golgotha-From-the-Author-web.pdf*https://www.rexresearch.com*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs&t=2196s*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPV0BU9Vbk8&t=1115s
Email us!: [email protected] excerpt from "Battle Hymn of The Republic" by The Russian Military Choir...which is weird.Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!
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Did you know that early Communist Russia almost became a Buddhist theocracy? That's just a fraction of the craziness that sets the foundations for later "Soviet Psychotronic Super Science"! I just had to get into the story of "Red Shambhala" & this is it! Don't hate the Great Player, hate The Great Game! It's history comrades...Enjoy!NOTE: episode thumbnail created by someone else, all credit goes to...them, whoever they were...good job!Email us!: [email protected] theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!SOURCES: "Red Shambhala" by Andrei A. Znamenski & "Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia" by Julia Mannherz
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My brain hurts...maybe I shouldn't have ate those brains? This episode covers everything in it's provocative title AND MORE! Listen to Mike pretend to speak Chinese! Oh, and one last "tidbit" of a programming note. All the jars along the walls in "ye olde timey apothecary shoppe" in the thumb art? Gonna go out on a limb and say that probably around 80% of them? Various jars of misc. animal piss. It's a safe assumption. ALSO! Coverage of yet another occult/ritual murder(s?) tied to this topic! AND YES! The terms "ragu/jazz" in this particular context are indeed code for menstrual blood and seminal fluid, respectively. Now here's your SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannibalism#See_alsohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicines_derived_from_the_human_bodyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacamantecashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-JamalEmail Us!: [email protected] ft. music such as "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs and an army of banjo players. Also featuring "Evil Plan" by Scott McLeod via (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/license/by/4.0/
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SOURCES (part 2): Yomiuri Shinbun, Sept 11–14, 1934: “Asakusa Lens Sect Under Fire”Mainichi Shinbun, Oct 1934: “Families Warned of Spirit Fraud”Tokyo Metropolitan Police Memo, File #1183-9-1934, partial summary republished in:Sakai, Eiji. “Occult Photography and Grief Commerce in Showa Japan,” Jōhō to Bunka, Vol. 5, 1998.Abe, Ryuji, Dark Lenses: Spirit Photography in Japan 1900–1950, Tokyo University Press, 2004. Wakayama Prefectural Mental Health ArchiveCase file: “WAK-PMH-1936-43-K” — Entry on Kagawa SeijiDiagnosis under prewar code: “精神神秘病第七号”Tenri University Religious Studies ArchiveCollection: "Shin Shūkyō Shiryō-shū" (New Religions Documents Collection), folder on KagawaHand-copied excerpts of Kagawa’s scrolls labeled: “KAMIKAGAMI-A-6/7”Wakayama Shinbun (Local newspaper), Oct. 3–9, 1936 issuesKōyasan University Thesis Series:Ichijō Masami (1969): “Mirror and Sky in Proto-UFO Mysticism”“Shūkyō to Seishin Byōri” (Religion and Psychiatric Illness), Nihon Iryō Shakai Gakkai, 1981Grapard, Allan G.The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History (University of California Press, 1992).Teeuwen, Mark and Rambelli, FabioBudddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History (Continuum, 2003).The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton University Press, 1998).Hori IchiroJapanese Folk Religion (University of Chicago Press, 1968, translated).B. Modern Revivalism, Fringe Thought, and Ultra-nationalismAmino YoshihikoRethinking Japanese History (University of Tokyo Press, translated by Alan Christy).Miyata Noboru Ueda MasaakiConnections to State Control and Secret ResearchBarrett, David P. & Shyu, Larry N. (eds.)Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II (Free Press, 1989).CIA-RDP78-00915R000600280008-5Genyōsha (Black Ocean Society)Kaplan, David. Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld (1991)Kaplan & Dubro, Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan’s Criminal UnderworldH. Neill McFarland, The Rush Hour of the Gods (1970)Kokuryūkai (Black Dragon Society)Richard Deacon, A History of the Japanese Secret Service (1983)Boyé Lafayette De Mente, The Japanese Samurai CodeWalter Skya, Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism (2009)Tenkōkai (Heavenly Light Society)Ian Reader, Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum ShinrikyoH. Byron Earhart, Japanese Religion: Unity and DiversityŌmoto (Omotokyō)Nancy K. Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Omoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial JapanHelen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary JapanHitonomichi Kyōdan (Way of the Human Path Sect)Winston Davis, Japanese Religion and Society: Paradigms of Structure and ChangeUlrich Möhwald (ed.), Changing Japanese SuburbsTaireidō (Great Spirit Path Movement)Jean Herbert, Shinto: At the Fountainhead of JapanIchiro Hori, Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and ChangeIan Reader, Religion in Contemporary JapanHelen Hardacre, Shintō and the State, 1868–1988CIA-RDP82-00457R007100340003-1CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP80-00926A005200100001-6CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP78-03425A002500080001-0CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP82-00457R000400190003-9CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP83-00415R007100040010-5CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP83-00423R001000050004-9CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP78-04864A000100040013-0
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Wooooooooooo! This one gets pretty fucked up! Lots of bad stuff in this one! Occult murders, far right ultra-nationalist mysticism, spirit possession cases, roving tumors (yeah I said it!), "schools" for "spiritually gifted"/"psychic" children, future America's roadmap to theocratic terror! It's all in here!Email us: [email protected] Japanese Imperial March on Nanking in 1937: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cufG2DlxvkIf you are dealing with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, please dial 988.
SOURCES (part 1...I probably won't have enough room to post all the sources so I'm just gonna do the best I can):- “Occultism and Empire” by Hideo Suzuki- National Diet Library Reports on “New Religions” (1940, declassified 1978)- *The Occult in Imperial Japan* by M. Sugimoto (Kyoto Press, 1991)- Translated excerpts from *Asahi Shimbun* newspaper (1912–1941)- Internal notes from Japanese Imperial Home Ministry on spiritualist surveillance (via National Diet Library)Primary Legal and Police Documents (Japanese Archives)These are often stored in regional police history volumes or court reports:Kyoto District Court Records (1916) – Case No. 明治45年(刑)第211号Sexual abuse trial of self-proclaimed “Buddhist healer” using "aetheric alignment."Held in Prefectural Archive Annex – Kyoto.Tokyo Prefectural Police Report (1912): Raid on “House of Light”Metropolitan Police Bureau internal memo (警視庁内部報) dated June 1912.Refers to "Hikari no Ie" (House of Light) fraud exposure and material seizures.Nagoya Police Bureau Case File (1921) – Trance Murder Case (大正10年)Cited in Nagoya Shinbun, March 3–7, 1921.Interview excerpts with surviving cult members.Osaka Juvenile Affairs Unit Memo (1933) – Missing Child Following SéanceMemo recovered in 1991 during restructuring of Osaka PD archives.Associated Case Code: 昭和8年(少)第17号.Newspaper and Periodical SourcesAccessible in national microfilm archives or Meiji/Taishō-era digital collections:Asahi Shinbun (Tokyo), May–July 1922Coverage of the “trance-induced investment scam” by a self-proclaimed magnetist.Yomiuri Shinbun (Nagoya), March 1921Séance killing involving attempted possession by Amaterasu.Public trial of sect leader in April.Mainichi Shinbun (Osaka), June–August 1933Ongoing reports about the child disappearance tied to spiritist group.Investigative journalism hints at a larger child relocation ring.Academic and Ethnographic WorksMostly Japanese-language, with some English-language citations:Helen Hardacre – Shinto and the State, 1868–1988 (Princeton, 1989)References suppression of folk shamanic groups and "special schools."Itō Takeshi – Religious Deviance and the Japanese State (1981, in Japanese)Discusses early state efforts to contain cult activity in Meiji and Taishō periods.Murakami Shigeyoshi – The Spiritualist Schools and Militarism in Prewar Japan (1977)Touches on psychic child “grooming” and Imperial Army cooperation.Sakurai Tokutarō – Spiritual Healing and the Decline of Imperial Morality (1934)A critical text written before WWII censored by the Home Ministry.Modern Compilations and RetrospectivesThese offer historical summaries based on recovered documents or oral histories:Hayashi, Noriko – “Possession and Murder in the Countryside: Rural Spirit Cults in Taishō Japan” in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2004).Kobayashi Masaru – Hidden History of the Black Ocean Societies, 2003Claims links between spiritist children’s schools and nationalist cults.Okano Tomoko – Spiritist Crimes of the Empire: Child Mediums and State Secrets, 2010Based on interviews with descendants and recovered police testimonies.Yomiuri Shinbun, Sept 11–14, 1934: “Asakusa Lens Sect Under Fire”