Macabre Grimoire

Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations. The practice is widely considered discredited and unscientific by medical practitioners, and experts generally regard claims of recovered memories of past lives as fantasies or delusions or a type of confabulation. It’s typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation, though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of repressed memories of past lives.

This week we explore the ghost ship Ourang Medan. One of the strangest Ghost Ship stories of all time. But did it happen and why was CIA leadership so interested in it?

In 1896 and 1897, hundreds of western American newspapers reported mass sightings of fantastic, winged airships performing maneuvers years ahead of the technology of the time. In some cases, the airships landed,  and their pilots talked to witnesses. Most Americans assumed a secret inventor would soon take credit for the sightings,  but no one who did so could prove ownership of a functional flying machine. The “mystery airships” remain unidentified, constituting an early wave of UFOs before flying saucers, and almost before flight itself.

Aliens, Spies, Snipers, and Trolls Oh My!  No this isn’t the premise of Netflix movie, this is a real life story from the internet that has grown way beyond it’s joke page origins to become the talk of the web.  But is what has started as a joke turning into a national security issue? Maybe even another Russian internet psy-op? This week we’re looking at the “Let’s Storm Area 51” Facebook gag event that took over the internet.

The gang catches up on what we’ve been up to, Travis shares some of the times he’s been hurt doing magic, and we cover some performers who weren’t as “Lucky.”

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” – From Propaganda, by Edward Bernays, 1928

Traditional playing cards were first seen in Europe around 1375, having been brought over from the Islamic societies where they had been used for centuries before that. The concept of playing cards have been around for much longer, but it’s important to mention that the origin of the Tarot isn’t exactly known. What we do know is that once playing cards came to Europe in 1375, it wasn’t until 1440 that Tarot cards were first mentioned.

Macabre Grimoire Chapter 23 Strange Skies Past and Present

In 1922, six people were killed at a remote German farmstead at Hinterkaifeck. They were bludgeoned in their bedclothes, but were their deaths the result of a manic serial killing, out-of-control family feud, or something else?

In the mid-1950s two families in rural Kentucky made headlines across the country when they told police that their home had been approached by small metallic creatures that could not be killed or scared away. The media coverage of the incident helped draw attention to neglected reports of UFO landings and entity encounters and the strange goblin-like creatures excited the public imagination. At the same time however hostile and sensationalized reporting on the incident served to discredit stories of contact with anomalous entities and help direct the veil of ridicule that now surrounds them.