Tracing Owls

I guested on Bug in a Rug Podcast to talk about a giant mosquito cryptid!

If you were on Fear Factor and had to decide between an eagle-sized mosquito drinking your blood or a hot coal thrown on your back, which would you choose?

Join us as we discuss the tall tale of the Averasboro Gallinipper, a giant mosquito that supposedly tormented the swamps of North Carolina!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Kaitlyn for letting me feature my guest appearance from her show! Everyone knows I love talking about giant insects, and how they totally cannot exist in modern times!

Check out her podcast, Bug in a Rug Podcast ⁠HERE⁠

If you have topic suggestions, or just wanna chitchat, reach out to her on Instagram ⁠@biarpodcast⁠

Check out this episode with a topic suggested by us! (WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC) ⁠Ep. 101 The Murder of Robert Beckowitz⁠

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SOURCES:

Mosquito - Wikipedia

Psorophora ciliata - Wikipedia

Gallinipper Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

Are Gallnippers Giant Mosquitoes? (thoughtco.com)

Gallinipper (mythology) - Wikipedia

Averasboro Gallinipper | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom

NATIVE HISTORY ASSOCIATION - The Great Yellow-Jacket: Origin of Fish and Frogs

Averasboro (Town of) - North Carolina History Project

Cryptids and Monsters: Averasboro Gallinipper (Giant Mosquito), which was seen as large as a hawk - YouTube

Giant insects once covered Earth. Where did they go? - Big Think

How Many Mosquito Species Are There? | Ask A Biologist (asu.edu)

The Carboniferous Period: When Giant Insects Ruled the Land and Sky - Owlcation

Jason and Karly join a roundtable to discuss the most bizarre divination methods from ancient history, and how our need to interpret messages from our environment paved the way to our modern scientific understanding of the world!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Jason from Esoteric Book Club. ❤️

Check out his podcast The Esoteric Book Club ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠ or visit their website at ⁠⁠esotericbookclub.org⁠⁠

Follow them on Instagram ⁠⁠@esotericbookclub⁠⁠ or Facebook ⁠⁠@esotericbookclub⁠⁠

Support them on Patreon ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Karly, The Village Tarot Witch. ❤️

Follow Karly on Instagram ⁠@thevillagetarotwitch⁠ or TikTok ⁠@thevillagetarotwitch⁠

Check out her YouTube Channel ⁠The Village Tarot Witch - Karly⁠

Check out her podcast Drinks and Disasters on Instagram ⁠@drinksanddisasters

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"Farting Around" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative

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I guested on Todd Purse's podcast Create Magic to share a plethora of creative weirdo ideas relating to consciousness, the nature of the paranormal, Gaia theory, and the spooky synchronicities I encountered when making my prior podcast!

P.S., This discussion was recorded almost a year ago. Though I have scrapped my project to remaster Darwin's Deviations, and a lot has changed, this conversation amazes me with how relevant it still is and inspires my present self in my spiritual journey.

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Todd Purse for radiating with so much enthusiasm and positive energy, and allowing me to share my guest spot from his show!

If you wish to see more art like this, follow Todd on Instagram ⁠⁠@toddde85⁠⁠

Check Todd's regular podcast ⁠⁠Create Magic - Daily Weirdo Art⁠⁠

...and support him by visiting his website ⁠⁠www.createmagicstudios.com⁠⁠

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Episode artwork by Todd Purse ⁠⁠@toddde85⁠⁠

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A peek into an open and honest conversation between 2 friends about fear, change and personal growth!

Trina co-hosts the podcast Spooks, Creeps and Assorted Devilry, a role she found very difficult adapting to but which ultimately transformed her into a more positive and sincere individual.

Today we sat down not as podcast hosts, but as two regular, honest and vulnerable people, discussing the role of fear in shaping our decisions and beliefs, the masks we wear in order to avoid confrontations, the magickal power of intent, Tarot reading for personal guidance, as well as the role of kindness and hospitality in diffusing antagonism from other people, but also entities as well!

P.S.: Yes, there is no intro. This is not an episode, rather it is personal conversation between people. By some strange circumstances it made its way on the feed so y'all may listen in!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Trina Close for this honest, inspiring and open conversation, as well as her kindness and hospitality leading us to become great friends! ❤️

Check out her podcast "Spooks, Creeps & Assorted Devilry" HERE

Follow the podcast on Instagram @spookscreepspod and Twitter @SpooksCreepsPod

Join their amazing Facebook Group and get some awesome merch from RedBubble

Listen to her amazing conversation with Todd Purse on Spooky Skeptics w/ Todd Purse

Check my guest appearance on Trina's show: Spooky Skeptics: Dyatlov Pass Incident

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Episode artwork by Todd Purse @toddde85

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I guested on Spooks, Creeps and Assorted Devilry to discuss the mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident with my friends Trina Close and Cole Herrold.

We start the show off laying down the facts of the case, but it does not take me long to deviate the whole discussion into crazy talk about magic mushrooms, fairies, reindeer pee, the incompetence of communism, and even Mother Nature's thirst for blood sacrifices!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Trina Close for letting me feature my guest appearance on their show! This was a very fun discussion about looking at things outside of the box and embracing differences in perspective ❤️

Check out her podcast "Spooks, Creeps & Assorted Devilry" ⁠HERE⁠

Follow the podcast on Instagram ⁠@spookscreepspod⁠ and Twitter ⁠@SpooksCreepsPod⁠

Join their amazing ⁠Facebook Group⁠ and get some awesome merch from ⁠RedBubble⁠

Listen to her amazing conversation with Todd Purse on ⁠Spooky Skeptics w/ Todd Purse⁠

Check my guest appearance on Trina's show: ⁠Spooky Skeptics: Dyatlov Pass Incident

Cole and I lose our heads sharing creepy stories of ghost animals missing their heads! (or even other body parts)

TRIGGER WARNING: Ghost animals are most often dead animals. If they're missing their heads, they obviously died a gruesome death! Though no animals were harmed during the making of this episode, we will be dancing around suggestions of animal cruelty or mutilation.

Discussed are spooky tales of a ghost cow with a detached floating head, a frozen ghost chicken in London, haunted slaughterhouses, headless phantom dogs, a man who turned into a flaming turkey, mountain lion taxidermies coming to life, and even a cursed skeleton of a freakin' donkey!

As this episode was already dead on arrival, we also consistently deviate into movie tangents, random biology lectures, and cringy jokes which will make the listener's head fall off!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Cole Herrold for doing amazing research and digging up so many obscure stories about such a specific weird-ass topic!

Check out his work for New World Explorers Society at newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com

Follow him on Instagram @coleherroldresearcher or Twitter @Coleherroldres1

For more interaction join his Facebook Group

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SOURCES:

The Cambria County Ghost Cow - Paranormal World Wiki

The Ghost Dog of Tingewick - Burials & Beyond

The Frozen Ghost Chicken of Highgate | Cole's article

Headless Mule - Wikipedia

Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikipedia

Elliott O'Donnell (2006): Animal Ghosts Or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter. IndyPublish

Darren Zenko (2004): Ghost Stories of Pets and Animals. Ghost House Books

Andrew Gable (2012): The Mystery Animals of Pennsylvania. cfz

Mary Beth Crain (2011): Haunted Pet Stories: Tales Of Ghostly Cats, Spooky Dogs, And Demonic Bunnies. Globe Pequot

Conrad & Burgess (2017): The Headless Dog: and Other Extraordinary Far-Fetched True Tales of Central Pennsylvania. Salem Swamp Press

Tom Ogden (2014): Haunted Colleges and Universities: Creepy Campuses, Scary Scholars, and Deadly Dorms. Globe Pequot

Elizabeth shares a slice of her experiences with sleep paralysis, as well as all associated entities! Shadow people, hags, hatman, biblical angels, fae... even knife man (a new one), she's seen 'em all! We even throw unicorns and mermaids into the mix to make the episode more whimsical!

Can sleep demons actually be angels, and can sleep paralysis be a gateway towards lucid dreaming? Along the way we discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality and science, we attempt to communicate with our child selves, and share the burdens of being fellow indie/hobbyist podcast creators.

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Elizabeth from Slice of Life Podcast for being brave and sharing her very personal, very spiritual experiences!

Grab a slice of her podcast, Slice of Life ⁠HERE⁠

Follow them on their Instagram ⁠@ursliceoflife⁠

Check out Elizabeth's book "Love in Me" ⁠HERE⁠

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Follow Christina's new project: The Celestial Alien Oracle Deck, on Instagram ⁠@celestialalienoracle⁠

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This is a republish of my original episode ⁠Slice of Sleep Paralysis - with Elizabeth from Slice of Life⁠, published on April 25th 2022.

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FURTHER READING:

⁠Sleep Paralysis and the Monsters Inside Your Mind | Scientific American⁠

⁠Sleep paralysis: The devil, the ghost & the old hag⁠

⁠People Seeing Strange Entities When Taking DMT Could Be The Source Of "Alien Abductions"⁠

⁠The Horn of Windsor | History Mash⁠

⁠Are Mermaids In The Bible? | Think About Such Things⁠

⁠How Angels Really Look Like, According to the Bible | History of Yesterday⁠

⁠The DMT 'elves' people meet while tripping - Big Think⁠

Davis, Alan et al. (2020). Survey of entity encounter experiences occasioned by inhaled N,N -dimethyltryptamine: Phenomenology, interpretation, and enduring effects. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 34. 026988112091614. 10.1177/0269881120916143.

Ness RC. The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural  interpretation. Cult Med Psychiatry. 1978 Mar;2(1):15-39. doi:  10.1007/BF00052448. PMID: 699620.

Landen and Shibble join my roundtable to discuss the cultural impact of Freddy Krueger, as well as the inception and evolution of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, emphasizing its unique place in the annals of horror history!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Landen from Horror Makes You Brave for joint hosting this episode with me.

Check out his podcast Horror Makes You Brave ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠

Follow Landen on Instagram ⁠⁠@autopsypodcast⁠⁠ or Twitter ⁠⁠@autopsy_podcast⁠

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Shibble from Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour for reminding us of the playfulness and fun of this wonderful horror franchise!

Follow Shibble on Twitter ⁠@christhefriend⁠

Check out his podcast Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour ⁠HERE⁠

Follow the podcast on Instagram ⁠@unclemonster6⁠ or Twitter ⁠@UncleMonsterpod⁠

Check out their Patreon for cool horror movie discussions at ⁠www.patreon.com/unclemonster6⁠

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We share 2 tales of high strangeness involving the witness enveloped by a mist while watching TV, resulting in an out-of-body experience, communication with extraterrestrial entities, and in the case of one man a brief, yet ennoying, intergalactic trip with a strange masked woman he met on his balcony!

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FURTHER READING:

1990: January UFO & Alien Sightings - Think AboutIts

Albert Rosales (2021): Humanoid Encounters 1990-1994: The Others Amongst Us.

Alexey Priyma (2000): From Mystery to Mystery. Olimp; LLC Firm Publishing House ACT

Morgan and Luke join forces to discuss the convoluted etymology of the term "fairy", as well as its prevalence (and oftentimes misuse) in pop culture and the paranormal!

Grab a fresh-off-the-press copy of Pagan Portals - 21st Century Fairy: The Good Folk in the new millennium HERE

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Morgan Daimler for engaging in yet another fascinating conversation, and always bringing the techno pixies to my show! ❤️ 

Follow Morgan on Instagram @morgandaimler Twitter @MorganDaimler or on Facebook @Morgandaimler

Check out Morgan's academic writing at Adacemia.edu or grab one of their many amazing books on Amazon

Be on the lookout for Morgan's new novel "Into Shadow: The Tallan Chronicles" which you can find HERE

...and another upcoming title: "Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic" HERE

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Luke Greensmith of LukeLore Podcast for providing so many valuable insights and leading the conversation into the realm of pop culture and fiction! ❤️

Check out his podcast named LukeLore

Check out his website as well at www.lukelore.com (yes, my dude here is a professional)

Also, join his Facebook group HERE so we may continue with the insightful discussions! Feel free to reach out to Luke anytime, he is very responsive and nice!

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