Revisiting An Old Favorite

Lots of great entries at the always-interesting TheoFantastique blog.

500 Years Of Satan

In the 16th and 17th century, grisly paintings of the Evil One were intended literally, Barryte says.”They were meant to have a moral effect, which is why artists made him awful looking. Even if you were educated, you would wonder, ‘What if?’ No matter how skeptical one might be today, there was real faith underlying this imagery.”


The Enlightenment began to change that. As our conception of evil shifted, so did our personification of the devil. “He becomes more human, even romanticized, after the popular revolutions of the late 18th century, especially the French Revolution,” Barryte says. In the 19th century, the devil was often depicted as a “shrewd and wily dandy,” a Mephistophelean figure who would trick you out of your soul, not brutally tear it from you. “Fear is no longer his most effective tactic,” Barryte says. “And in the 20th century, he all but disappears except in advertisements.”


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From the always-awesome TheoFantastique blog.

2014 Spookytown

Spotted at the TheoFantastique blog.

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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

A trailer for the new Apes film (my personal nightmare, btw).
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King Kong Puppet

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Lesley Bannatyne Interview

At the always-interesting TheoFantastique.

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The Beast Of Bray Road

In my initial investigation I found that people had been calling the county’s animal control officer, Jon Fredrickson, to ask what the strange creature they had seen could possibly be. Some of the reports to Fredrickson involved multiple eyewitnesses, so that my first count of people who officially claimed to have seen a large, mysterious canine totaled at least eight.

My next step was to visit Fredrickson at his office, where he pulled a manila file folder from a drawer. The folder was labeled “Werewolf.” As I have said many times since, when a county official has an active file folder marked “werewolf,” that’s news. Armed with only a notebook, a pen, and a driving need to solve the puzzle, I began the wild hunt.

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Men In Suits

A documentary in the works exploring the men inside the Hollywood creature suits.

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Cinema Of The Afterlife

A neat book review over at Theofantastique.com - Ghost Images: Cinema of the Afterlife, which explores ghosts as they're depicted in film.

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Telephone Calls From The Dead

Interesting interview at the always-intriguing TheoFantastique blog.

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Dead Island

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Remote Viewing

More from the amazing TheoFantastique:

In his 1990 book Out There, Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist Howard Blum recounts how a Stanford Research Institute psychic inadvertently viewed a UFO during a remote viewing demonstration being conducted for military bigwigs in the Old Executive Office Building of the White House in 1985. He also relates how Army remote viewers were called on to provide information regarding an anomalous object detected by the U.S. Space Command in December, 1986. Several former government viewers, including Joe McMoneagle and Ingo Swann reportedly had spontaneous and unexpected encounters with UFOs and aliens during viewing sessions. The true extent of the connection between government remote viewers and UFOs remains clouded in official secrecy and has become a controversial issue in the history of Remote Viewing.

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