High Strangeness
"Don't Explain." - Billie Holiday
I had a very long rambling thread of “weird stuff” that some people seemed to like. I’d been working on this post of a small fraction of those, presented here in no particular order. Click the pics for links. To be continued if there’s interest…
"...if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere." - Charles Fort, Lo!
“A procession of the damned By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded." - Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned (1919)
"He became fascinated by what he called “damned data”: the unexplained and often inconvenient facts that the high priests of mainstream science – who preferred to chop reality into reassuring artificial categories – sought to exclude or ignore." - David Sutton, talking about Charles Fort
"How will you go back?" said the woman
"Nay, that I do not know. Because I have heard, that for those who enter Fairy Land, there is no going back. They must go on, and go through it.
R. Macdonald Robertson, Selected Highland Tales
I have seen much and my childish sense of wonder remains unshaken. But Charles Fort’s question always haunts me: “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?”
John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies
The most curious thing to me here is that the song playing faintly in the background is my favorite AC/DC song:
They stole little Bridget
For seven years long;
When she came down again
Her friends were all gone.
William Allingham, The Fairies
"Muhammad Ali being laughed at and ridiculed on Live TV for talking about UFO Phenomenon." With Ken Norton, Sept. 7, 1973. Ali won a split decision 3 days later. I met Ali once in the 1990's.
“The lamps are different, but the Light is the same: it comes from Beyond."
- Jalal al-Din Rumi
The search for dark matter has produced an elaborate, delicate edifice of presuppositions, and a network of worship sites, also known as laboratories, all dedicated to the search for an invisible universal entity which refuses to reveal itself.
On July 30 1915, our U-28 torpedoed the British steamer Iberian, which was carrying a rich cargo across the North Atlantic. The steamer sank so swiftly that its bow stuck up almost vertically into the air. Moments later the hull of the Iberian disappeared. The wreckage remained beneath the water for approximately twenty-five seconds, at a depth that was clearly impossible to assess, when suddenly there was a violent explosion, which shot pieces of debris – among them a gigantic aquatic animal – out of the water to a height of approximately 80-feet.
At that moment I had with me in the conning tower six of my officers of the watch, including the chief engineer, the navigator, and the helmsman. Simultaneously we all drew one another’s attention to this wonder of the seas, which was writhing and struggling among the debris. We were unable to identify the creature, but all of us agreed that it resembled an aquatic crocodile, which was about 60-feet long, with four limbs resembling large webbed feet, a long, pointed tail and a head which also tapered to a point. Unfortunately we were not able to take a photograph, for the animal sank out of sight after ten or fifteen seconds.
- U-28 Boat Commander Freiherr George G. von Forstner, taken from his log books.
Respondents reported the primary senses involved in the encounter were visual and extrasensory (e.g. telepathic). The most common descriptive labels for the entity were being, guide, spirit, alien, and helper. Although 41% of respondents reported fear during the encounter, the most prominent emotions both in the respondent and attributed to the entity were love, kindness, and joy. Most respondents endorsed that the entity had the attributes of being conscious, intelligent, and benevolent, existed in some real but different dimension of reality, and continued to exist after the encounter. Respondents endorsed receiving a message (69%) or a prediction about the future (19%) from the experience. More than half of those who identified as atheist before the experience no longer identified as atheist afterwards. The experiences were rated as among the most meaningful, spiritual, and psychologically insightful lifetime experiences, with persisting positive changes in life satisfaction, purpose, and meaning attributed to the experiences.
Conclusion:
N,N-dimethyltryptamine-occasioned entity encounter experiences have many similarities to non-drug entity encounter experiences such as those described in religious, alien abduction, and near-death contexts. Aspects of the experience and its interpretation produced profound and enduring ontological changes in worldview.
"You getting anything weird down in the Southern Ottawa Southern County area?"
Albert Einstein wrote the introduction to Upton Sinclair's 1930 book, Mental Radio.
"Virgin 76, we saw two bright lights at 11 o'clock. Seemed to bank over to the right, and then climb away at speed, at least from our perspective." Probably swamp gas.
“There’s stuff flying over military installations, and nobody knows what it is and it isn’t ours." - Senator Marco Rubio, member of the Senate Committee on Intelligence
"The secret to reading critically? Ask yourself this: Why am I reading this article NOW?" - Ben Hunt
Interview with John Keel, July 12, 1992. He comes off as quite a skeptic here. The book of his he wishes more would read is "Operation Trojan Horse."
"If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have bothered with it. I thought then that there was a chance that this thing was a living creature and that I could catch it...and now I don't believe there was any chance at all." - John Keel (47:15)
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire,1770
"What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." - G. K. Chesterton
"I mean you have to understand: these are metaphors in the truest sense, meaning that they're lies!" - Terence McKenna (1990)
"Although more than 700 pages exist on Hitler from the FBI, multiple files have been destroyed, specifically those that likely pertain to his escape to Argentina. After requesting additional records, I was informed that the remaining files pertaining to Adolf Hitler were destroyed on March 7, 1973. Another letter indicated files were destroyed about Adolf Hitler’s escape to Argentina.”
"INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM LONNIE ZAMORA, CONSIDERED SOBER, DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF FANTASY, OFFICER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO, N.M."
"No further evaluation was attempted..."
“They told me that they want you to know they hide in the clouds.” —John Ramirez (A comment I saw on Reddit. No idea who John Ramirez is.)
The fact is that Ufology, as a collective community, has been the victim of highly-skilled manipulators for a long, long time. Those same manipulators were experts in the fields of disinformation and counterintelligence. And Ufology absolutely fell for their garbage. The big irony is that much of this had nothing to do with real aliens or UFOs - just like the Serpo yarn. A great deal - behind the scenes, I should stress - was done to try and terrify the Russians into believing that the U.S. had crashed UFOs and alien technology. Maybe, even, live aliens out at Area 51. None of this was real. But, it was all meant to look like it was. It worked extremely well and Ufology got sucked into it all. The fact is, there is a genuine, unknown UFO phenomenon. Whether it's extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional, I have absolutely no idea. Maybe our presumed aliens are time-travelers. Then, there's the demonic theory. But, it's very important to know this real, elusive mystery has been hijacked by intelligence agents who - in the early years of Ufology - came to realize they could use the UFO mystery as a tool of the Cold War. And they did. To Ufology's cost.
Gordon Cooper on events that took place in 1951 and 1957:
"This technology can be built today, with technology that is not developmental, to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour." - retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast, Dec. 2019
Rafael Hernandez airport runway Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, April 25, 2013
"One teenager was unconscious; others injured. Kids had smashed windows and ripped doors from their hinges. Police and firefighters who raced to the scene found hundreds of hysterical high schoolers fleeing the building as if it were ablaze."
"What's the creepiest thing your child has ever said to you?"
“This was not a plane. It was not a helicopter. It most certainly was not a jet. I saw the body. No wings no fuselage no tail. the light configuration is that crafts configuration. The lights were in the under side."
"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text..." ("Phone recording of a security cam playback")
"Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things." - Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
"One can't learn much and also be comfortable."
- Charles Fort, Wild Talents
I reckon this latest Twitter ban should easily push you over the 100k twitter followers.
Then you become a GSITA (global systemically important twitter account) and, ironically, the Fed will stop you from being banned.
Weirdly satisfying. Thanks!