The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | New Series | Tuesday, March 31 at 10/9c | HISTORY History For the first time ever, HISTORY is gaining full, unprecedented access to one of the most infamous and secretive hotspots of paranormal and UFO-related activities on earth, Skinwalker Ranch.
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Skinwalkers: The Evil Navajo Shapeshifters - (Native American Folklore Explained) 427,650 views - March 26, 2019 Mythology & Fiction Explained 773K subscribers
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Montague Summers Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the notorious 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.
The occult Summers' career as an ostensibly Catholic clergyman was highly unusual. He wrote works of hagiography on Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria, but his primary religious interest was in the subject of the occult. While Aleister Crowley, with whom he was acquainted, adopted the persona of a modern-day witch, Summers played the part of the learned Catholic witch-hunter. In the introduction to his book on The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (1926) he writes: In the following pages I have endeavoured to show the witch as she really was – an evil liver: a social pest and parasite: the devotee of a loathly and obscene creed: an adept at poisoning, blackmail, and other creeping crimes: a member of a powerful secret organisation inimical to Church and State: a blasphemer in word and deed, swaying the villagers by terror and superstition: a charlatan and a quack sometimes: a bawd: an abortionist: the dark counsellor of lewd court ladies and adulterous gallants: a minister to vice and inconceivable corruption, battening upon the filth and foulest passions of the age. In 1928, he published the first English translation of Heinrich Kramer's and James Sprenger's Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches"), a 15th-century Latin text on the hunting of witches. In his introduction, Summers insists that the reality of witchcraft is an essential part of Catholic doctrine, and declares the Malleus to be an admirable and correct account of witchcraft and of the methods necessary to combat it. This should be contrasted with the vastly more sceptical and critical attitude of mainstream Catholic scholars, reflected for instance in the Rev. Herbert Thurston's article on "Witchcraft" for the Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1912, which labels the publication of the Malleus a "disastrous episode." Montague Summers then turned to vampires, producing The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (1928) and The Vampire in Europe (1929), and later to werewolves with The Werewolf (1933). Summers' work on the occult is notorious for his unusual and old-fashioned writing style, his display of erudition, and his purported belief in the reality of the subjects he treats.
"One of the greatest scenes in cinema history. Such a powerful scene, spectacular acting. 10/10" -- PythOn GH, YouTube user
"Bryan Cranston is such a genius !! Bryan Cranston is such a genius !!" -- Moussa Fayyad, YouTube user
"Walter died in that crawlspace ... Only Heisenberg came out of that crawlspace" -THE EQUALIZER, YouTube user
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I added: With his head shaved and the facial hair, it gave him that Anton LeVey look... like "a devil"... then he's down in the dark crawlspace .. like "hell".... then "the evil laugh".... overt/covert symbolism.. ... also money "the root of all evil" And, obviously it's like the Devil's evil laugh. Also, the end of the scene with him "framed" by the wooden frame floor opening; that reminded me so much of the old 'Night Gallery' series of the 70s which used to be in syndication every evening late on the old analog UHF channel 44 in the Bay Area.
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Neo-Western genre Recently I watched 'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie', which was initially on Netflix before airing on AMC. It featured the yet untold storyline about Jesse Pinkman's fate at the end of the 'Breaking Bad' series. One interesting aspect of 'Breaking Bad" and now 'Better Call Saul' is that they are under what is something of a new genre of Western: "Neo Western." 'Better Call Saul' is in its fifth season now, and while I appreciated the laid-back New Mexico backdrop to its tense storyline, I still have found it a little slow in developing. Some absolutely love it, while others wanted the "Saul Goodman" from 'Breaking Bad' immediately. Well, he's finally arrived! El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - Let Me Explain
Apparently it was refurbished a few years ago. Prior to that, or possibly even now, it was a target for vandals; mostly of the spray paint variety. Really?.... or as they say.. Really bro?? Do you really want to anger the spirit of Marie Laveau? If I had to vandalize a tomb, she would pretty much be at the very very bottom of the list!
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"Tradition is not to preserve the ashes, but to pass on the flame." -- Gustav Mahler
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'Angelic Figure' Photographed in the Sky Over Argentina By Tim Binnall - CoastToCoastAM.com - May 16, 2019 A remarkable photograph taken in Argentina appears to show a giant angelic figure hovering in the sky. The breathtaking image was reportedly captured by Monica Aramayo in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. As is often the case with such photos, it was soon posted on social media and quickly went viral throughout Argentina and beyond. Many observers have suggested that the figure is a depiction of Jesus, since it looks like the figure is wearing a robe and a crown. Whether that was interpreted to be a good or bad sign largely depended on one's perspective on the current state of the world. Given the anomaly's massive size and seemingly outstretched 'arms,' it also drew comparison to Brazil's enormous Christ the Redeemer statue. Skeptics, of course, say that the photograph does not show a 'sign from God,' but is merely a literal trick of light and shadow produced by a combination of the sun and clouds coming together at just the right moment. While that very well may be the case, more spiritually-minded individuals may understandably wonder if there was some kind of divine hand at work when the figure 'naturally' formed in the sky. What's your take on the intriguing image?
'In Search of...' was the essentially the original, the classic, the first of these types of programs that are so common and popular today. Before this... that really wasn't the case. Of course, Leonard Nimoy had that great resonating narration voice. Airing from 1977 to 1982, it had that wonderfully dated 70s cinematography. I think that one can find all of the episodes now on YouTube.
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worn out I saw this when I was a kid. I was home alone it scared the piss out of me.
hammer down fast lane worn out no kidding no kidding me 2 we live in the country and I used to have to go to my grandma's house she lives way in the back on the way back from there I always felt that something was following me and we live right next to the mountains in the foothills of course it probably wasn't anything of course but still
Michael Me too even now it's still scared the crap out of me lol
Joseph (my own response) hammer - My parents owned a cabin up in Lake County northern California, and I remember watching this as a kid during the warm late Saturday afternoon heat amid the shadows of the tree cover.. and it was truly frightening... especially since it was close to "Bigfoot country" up there. *************************
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Mussenden Temple (Ireland) The inscription around the building reads: "Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem." "Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore The troubled sailor, and hear the tempests roar." *************************
I had no idea of the full frightening biting power of crocodiles. It's actually a leftover dinosaur; not figuratively speaking, but literally. They have been around 250 million years. A pit bull has a bite of 235 pounds per square inch, a jaguar 700 psi, a Kodiak bear 930 psi, a Bengal Tiger 1,050 psi, a grizzly bear 1,250 psi, a hippopotamus 1,821, and a saltwater crocodile 7,700 psi. I've seen videos where a zoo keeper is tossing meat at crocodiles, and in two such cases zealous crocs fighting for it took off another's leg... and in another case took out another's tongue.
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'Cosmology Has Some Big Problems' The field relies on a conceptual framework that has trouble accounting for new observations By Bjørn Ekeberg - ScientificAmerican.com - April 30, 2019 What do we really know about our universe? Born out of a cosmic explosion 13.8 billion years ago, the universe rapidly inflated and then cooled, it is still expanding at an increasing rate and mostly made up of unknown dark matter and dark energy ... right? This well-known story is usually taken as a self-evident scientific fact, despite the relative lack of empirical evidence—and despite a steady crop of discrepancies arising with observations of the distant universe. In recent months, new measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate of universal expansion, suggested major differences between two independent methods of calculation. Discrepancies on the expansion rate have huge implications not simply for calculation but for the validity of cosmology's current standard model at the extreme scales of the cosmos. con't....
Lorraine and Ed Warren were pioneers in the paranormal and metaphysical field in the truest sense. The moved the bar as much as anyone in history.
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Etymology of "Druid" Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally “oak-knower”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) and *weyd- (“to see”). The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druà (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).
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'American Psycho' - A modern 'Phantom of the Opera' The above scene from 'American Psycho', much like 'The Phantom of the Opera', shows the main character Patrick Bateman with the normal/malevolent duality in the form of one side of his face being covered in blood... while the other side is clean. In 'The Phantom of the Opera', the character's mask is his normal facade... while his true hidden face reflects the evil side. At one point Patrick Bateman sits down with only the clean half of his face showing, and he just looks just like any normal person. However, just prior to that he had committed a horrible murder, and at one point directly afterward... only the bloody half was showing. 'The Phantom of the Opera' was first published as a novel in 1909 France. By 1916, it was released as a silent film, followed by an endless stream of adaptations in film, radio, and theater... including musicals.... right up to the present day. 'American Psycho' was also originally a novel of the same name in 1991. In 2000 it was released as a soon-to-be cult-classic film. In 2013 it premiered as a musical on Broadway. Both main characters---Erik, "the phantom," and serial killer Patrick Bateman---although very different in many ways, both possess a particular love and passion for music... of which they share openly. Both were born with a debilitating deformity; Erik on the outside, Patrick on the inside. Erik seeks to be normal, wearing his mask (malevolent to benevolent); Patrick purposely seeks to be abnormal, ending up with blood on his face (benevolent to malevolent). One exists in 1880s Paris, the other in 1980s New York.... and that's the sealer for me! I think it's likely that 'American Psycho' was intentionally patterned after "The Phantom." One could argue that Jack the Ripper would have been a more logical person for Patrick Bateman to be modeled after. However, "the ripper" was a real person; and he didn't reflect anything of a "duality."
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Clouded leopard from Asia
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There are tremendous amounts of legend and folklore surrounding Mt. Shasta; Pre-Columbian and American. For some reason, interest in them and the location has increased a lot in recent years. In large part, it appears to me that this interest comes from both the New Age and paranormal communities. They've done some interesting work; in digging up a lot of this folklore if nothing else. *************************
The Witch Queen of New Orleans 'The Witch Queen of New Orleans' is about a 19th-century practitioner of voodoo from New Orleans named Marie Laveau, referred to in the song lyrics as "Marie la Voodoo veau". The song was written by the two Native American brothers of the group Redbone, Lolly Vegas and Pat Vegas. It shows influences from New Orleans R&B and swamp pop.
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Although anyone has the impetus to honor or portray whomever they choose, the cover of this album is clearly exploitative; showing what presumably is Marie Laveau as either a slave or someone who was denigrated. This was not the case; she was respected. Perhaps the record company pushed for this marketing art.
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'The Lake House' The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama film directed by Alejandro Agresti and starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Christopher Plummer. It was written by David Auburn. The film is a remake of the South Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000). The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two meet via letters left in a mailbox at the lake house they have both lived in at separate points in time; they carry on correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years.
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Last week I watched this film, which I had never seen before, and it was better than my best expectations. A movie that really makes the viewer think. It reminded me of one of my favorites, the 2000 film 'Frequency' staring Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid. Although I didn't think it was as good as the emotional roller coaster ride of 'Frequency', it was a very good film.
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato
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RIP Stanton Friedman By Tim Binnall - CoastToCoastAM.com - May 14, 2019 Coast to Coast AM is deeply saddened to share the news that iconic UFO researcher Stanton T. Friedman has passed away at the age of 84. He is undoubtedly best known for being the first civilian investigator to research the landmark Roswell incident. His explosive uncovering of the mysterious 1947 event in New Mexico left an indelible mark on not only UFO studies, but the zeitgeist as well with 'Roswell' becoming synonymous with the phenomenon in the minds of millions of individuals around the world. A myriad of books, movies, TV shows, and other forms of media that explored the infamous incident can be traced back to Friedman putting Roswell on the proverbial map of UFO lore. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1934, he received BS and MS degrees in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. Friedman subsequently spent the next 14 years working on advanced nuclear propulsion projects for such companies as General Electric, General Motors, and Westinghouse. On a whim in 1958, he purchased Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt's book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects and this sparked an interest in the UFO phenomenon which would change his life forever. He dove headlong into studying what were then known as flying saucers and began lecturing on the topic in 1967. con't....
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I remember my father telling me about the Roswell incident when I was a child, long before it became something of a household word. I recall a documentary from 1985 on HBO--which was part of their 'America Undercover' series--entitled 'UFO's: What's Going On?' At that time the subject was still more-or-less taboo as far as the mainstream was concerned. I remember Stanton Friedman was in it and he used the phrase that he had coined regarding the subject: "Cosmic Watergate." It was though his credibility as a nuclear physicist and his efforts that the Roswell Incident wasn't buried away, not to mention the larger subject itself. He did it with intelligence, facts, logic, and humor.
The word "Dümènica" means "Sunday" in the Camunian dialect. I just wanted to put some various miscellaneous items together here under two postings. They won't follow any consistent pattern. The following news item I found so bizarre: 'Prehistoric forest arises in Cardigan Bay after storms strip away sand'. The "Borth forest," a forest of legend, was unearthed by a big storm off the coast of Wales recently. More eery images of the forest, last alive 4,500 years ago, can be found on a Google search for "Borth forest." That is such a long time, and in just one day or so... there it is! Just as the word "Israel" is an old reference to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the Egyptian god Ra, and the Phoenician god El ("Isis-Ra-El"); the Christian term "Amen" actually means "Amon-Ra," or "so be it Ra." A huge pentacle upon the ground in Kazakhstan, and only visible from the air, is explained in the following article: 'Mysterious Pentagram on Google Maps Explained.' It's so curious that this relic from the Soviet era was fashioned after the pentacle, rather than a Soviet star. After all, five-pointed stars have many meanings, and a pentacle is a distinct one. Have a look at it in any case, on the article link. The country music star Bobby Bare composed a song entitled 'Marie Laveau', from his 1973 record 'Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies', about the "Voodoo Queen" of New Orleans. It was a song done in sort've a silly, not-serious, story-telling style; but I like things like that.. legends and folklore. Marie Laveau was a native believer.
I don't like to go off topic much, but for me this is a crazy time warp thing. It never ceases to amaze me the types of things you can find on YouTube. I was a fan of hard rock/heavy metal music. Not a huge fan, but a fan of the culture of it as much as anything. Here is the entire concert footage of Van Halen in Sao Paulo, Brazil on January 21, 1983. I can remember in Junior High School and High School of them being usually at the Oakland Coliseum... probably on this very same tour. It was like a really big deal then. There are so many long videos now, you can just skip down to the end. Sao Paulo is at the south end of Brazil, and about five million Italians live in that province if you can believe that. The most prosperous part of that country. I remember attending a David Lee Roth solo concert in what was not much more than a garage in San Francisco in the 90s with two or three hundred people. Then when the band reconnected, they could pull a huge crowd again. While I'm on the subject, I ran into a music video ('Buttercup' by Sinboy) that reminded me of when we used to go down around the LA metal/rock scene during weekends in the 90s, which was basically after this music genre was being fazed out by the big record companies. I remember two all-female bands in particular, Sinboy and Phantom Blue. A lot of times they would bounce around band to band because those gals didn't always get along and there wasn't the fame and big money to keep them together. I remember the late bassist Rana Ross, she was really good. Nice gal too. Another singer who could have, and really should have made it big, was Gigi Hangach. Sometimes they would talk to you, other times they would just sorta laugh at you.. but it was a fun time. One thing I remember that you never say to any member of any local scene band is to imply that "they're popular locally" or even "local legends." As far as they and their hard core fans are concerned, they're the best in the world! I like the cable channel Investigation Discovery, and one program is about missing people--I think the name is 'Disappeared'--where it had one docudrama about the account of a woman named Tanya Rider. She went off the highway and crashed, and survived I think it was eight days severely injured without food or water. I thought one of her quotes was important: "No matter what life gives you, you have to embrace it and move forward." It's very true, although it's much easier said than done. I think one add-on to it is to, for-the-most-part, try to forget bad experiences of the past that just drag you down. Again, easier said than done! The head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, lives by something called "the Harbaugh rule." This "rule" is that no matter what happens, good or bad, forty-eight hours later you're onto the next thing. What's done is done. If you can learn from mistakes, fine, but "highs and lows" aren't helpful after forty-eight hours. It's true.. and pragmatic.
I have thought about devoting a post to bumble bees, probably mainly because I can remember as a young child playing in our backyard with trucks and things. There were several large bushes with lots of flowers, and I can remember playing on warm days with large bumble bees all around me. We paid no attention to each other. They were so big, and in hindsight I now perceive them as equally gentle. Actually, they were just doing their job collecting pollen. Just a couple of days ago I caught one who accidently entered the garage here. I caught him in a glass container and walked him outside. I stared at him for a moment, and then lifted the top, and off he went. A few times I have found a bee who was weak and vulnerable, probably due to dehydration. I put a little water, and sometimes sugar, down for them to ingest.. and they eventually gathered themselves to moved on. There are quite a number of fairly well known people who loosely fit into the category of "truthseeking." Whether referred to as researchers, activists, authors, academics, spiritual gurus, Christians, or those unlocking negative aspects of the occult at the highest levels, etc., they all loosely fit into this same category... and they rarely fit into the "right-left paradigm" which is always good and allows for honest interaction and open-minded study. Michael Tsarion and Mark Passio are two good examples in the latter category... which overlaps a little into the pagan arena that we cover here, but I could list one hundred off hand in a short time. Many over time have passed on, such as Ted Gunderson and Michael Ruppert.
One women within this truthseeking milieu is Nancy Red Star, who is more in the "spiritual guru" category, but also a native pagan, author, researcher, and activist. She stands out in some ways, to me, because she represents Amerindian pagan culture and occultism of the positive aspect of the word. Her work on native "star ancestors" is not totally unlike evidence of certain strange rock drawings in the Val Camonica, which we can cover at another time. It should be pointed out that a "native believer" is any person who believes in their own ancestral-spirituality, but I've sort've mixed the two definitions here a bit. I thought her name was worth mentioning because she is well known (she has been an expert on the tv program 'Ancient Aliens') and is a type of pagan leader of a sort for her culture. A lot of her lectures and interviews are on YouTube. What is really disturbing to me is how Nancy Red Star, or Steve McNallen, are frequently attacked online... usually by anonymous sources. Yeah, Steve McNallen and Nancy Red Star are "the problem" with the world... right!
I left the following comment on the Asatru Update blog a few weeks ago, and I wanted to place it here because I think it captured a certain idea well. The following comment was from an entry from Steve McNallen entitled 'The Gods and Goddesses Are Not Online' (3-26-14): "I am a non-Asatru folkish pagan. Yesterday evening, we took a time out
from our busy lives for an unofficial "roundtable" with our fold up
chairs on a trail at the base of the northern Santa Cruz Mountain chain.
There, among the soft sound of crickets and an occasional hoot of an
owl... only a few lights from the nearby business park and an occasional
truck rambling by reminded us of the nearby urban sprawl. The darkness
of the mountain even provided a window to view some of the stars.
Through the break in the trees we could see the black mountain peak
standing majestically amid the navy blue sky. A small caravan of racoons
moved by at one point. Pagans and Heathens need to force themselves to
get away, even if it's just a short distance. That was the best Sunday
evening that I have had in awhile." I should point out again that I am not an Odinist/Asutrar. .
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