Yet another "Halloween Hotdog!" (I've been celebrating/ rewarding/ punishing myself for each upload by eating a hotdog, but that's okay...I'M...oh...kay.) Alright HOLLYWOOD! Where's THIS romcom! (Besides the movie that's already based on this..."The Forest of Love"...c'mon, isn't time for another lackluster American re-make of a great Japanese film? Here ya go!) (Actually, while I'm thinking about it, the movie "BUG" is aaaalllllmmmooooost kinda close. Both worth checking out.) TIME FOR ANOTHER HOTDOG! By the way, this actual case was extremely fucked up, like to a mindboggling degree. Worth checking out. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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SOURCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futoshi_Matsunaga

"Forest of Love" trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWvCo3RCro

"Bug" trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkCTuBW694g

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Another Halloween Hotdog! In this one I relate a story in which there are no heroes. Somewhat heavy on the editorializing, as I discuss some things which I view as exemplifying just about everything wrong with true crime. Also...there's a curse.

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SOURCE:

https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/10/15/the-overlooked-confession-morgantown-man-thinks-he-knows-who-killed-two-wvu-coeds-in-1970-and-hes-getting-assistance-from-the-state-police/

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MORE HALLOWEENIN"! This episode covers a "quadrilogy?" (sure, why not) of four mysterious deaths with potentially "otherworldly" details surrounding them. While the actual cause of death may seem evident at first glance, it's the circumstances surrounding them that leave both us, and investigators, scratching their various itchy bits.

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SOURCES:

https://medium.com/@anncarney51/the-strange-death-of-netta-fornario-b4d6817d7e6f

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Scott_Rogo

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/mountain-lion-christopher-whiteley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8x1x5zrqE&t=1243s

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Round 2 of Halloween (mini?) episodes! This one covers the exploits of Sigvard "Manhunter" Thurneman & The Sala Gang, an under the radar influence on Nordic black metal's intersection between crime & the occult!

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SOURCES:

*https://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2021/06/30/wulvaricht-interview-manhunter-the-story-of-the-swedish-occultist-and-serial-killer-thurneman/

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_gang

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigvard_Thurneman

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Here it is folks! The first of an unknown number of Halloween episodes! Hope you dig it! It's gonna be a half & half-ish mix betwixt silly and spooky. I think. This one covers the concept and creation of the "homunculus". People actually tried this...many people, many times. Stay tuned for more murder, mayhem, & madmen! More around the corner folks! Happy Halloween!

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SOURCES:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/alchemical-recipe-homunculus-sperm-rotting-meat-mini-artificial-human-009836

https://pelicanmagazine.com.au/2020/04/18/how-to-build-a-guy-in-40-days-paracelsus-homunculus-recipe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus

https://recipes.hypotheses.org/7052/the‑curious‑case‑of‑the‑homunculus‑and‑the‑allegorical‑recipe/

https://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/01/grow‑your‑own‑homunculus.html

https://www.crazyalchemist.com/dark-history/the-strange-experiments-of-count-kuefstein-the-man-who-made-ten-homunculi/

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It's the first ever "Request Line" episode! In which I take a listener's request and utterly warp it into my usual variety of utterly weird shit! Enjoy! Spookiness coming soon!

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All excerpts from copyrighted material included for educational and/or cultural critique purposes.

Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

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[**SOURCES**]:

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (John Canemaker, 1996) — definitive biography from Da Capo Press.

https://archive.org/details/texaverykingofca00cane

The Tex Avery interview (1975) from Animation World Magazine archives — insight into his humor and philosophy.

https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.1/articles/lamb1.1.html

A Wild Hare (1940) & Duck Amuck (1953) — both available in the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection (Warner Bros.) and on the official Warner Bros. YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ9FzYw9K1g

Metafiction & cartoon semiotics

Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Routledge, 1992) — foundational text on audience participation and fictional awareness.

Umberto Eco, “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage,” in Travels in Hyperreality (1986).

Borges, “The Circular Ruins” (1940) — prototype of creator/creation recursion in fiction.

Occult / cultural crossover

Joshua Cutchin, The Ecology of Souls (2022) and Fourth Wall Phantoms (2023) — discussions of thoughtforms, media attention, and liminal awareness.

https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=176

Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (1995) — classic study of imagination shaping the real.

Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working materials summarized in George Pendle’s Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).

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This was a fun one to study up on, lot's of potentially awesome & terrifying possibilities! Please to enjoy! (P.S. This episode is dedicated to my big sister. Without her, there would be no show...so get better! And don't let the Commies steal your organs!)

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Featuring excerpts from the Communist Chinese national anthem...please don't come and arrest me.

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[**SOURCES**]:

钱学森 [Qian Xuesen], “人体科学与现代科学技术的比较研究” (A Comparative Study of Somatic Science and Modern Science and Technology), 1980. Published in 自然杂志 (Nature Journal, Shanghai).* — Qian’s founding text for Somatic Science, arguing that psychic phenomena are manifestations of higher-level systemic information.

钱学森 [Qian Xuesen], “从宏观到微观的人体科学” (From Macro to Micro Somatic Science), 1986. — Introduces “information field” and the idea of consciousness as a measurable force.

钱学森与宋心之 [Qian Xuesen & Song Xinzhi], eds. 人体科学研究 (Somatic Science Research), Beijing: 1988–1992, serial publication.

David Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Richard H. Wang, “China’s Somatic Science Revolution and Its Discontents,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 6 (2012)

Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill, China’s Super Psychics (Marlowe, 1997).

Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Harper & Row, 1970; updated 1997 ed.).

Robert Ford Campany, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (SUNY Press, 1996).

Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point (2001)

Martin Cannon, The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien Abduction (self-published, 1990).

Includes early speculation that “psychotronic” mind-control work migrated from USSR and China to U.S. black projects.

Nigel Pennick, The Secret Lore of the East (1985).

Mentions Taoist alchemy and early “bio-energy” research

David A. Palmer, Qigong Fever (Columbia UP, 2007) – Appendix A lists 1980s “extraordinary phenomena” investigations.

Richard H. Wang, “China’s Somatic Science Revolution and Its Discontents,” EASTS 6 (2012).

Paul Dong & Thomas Raffill, China’s Super Psychics (Marlowe, 1997) – chapters 4–9 cover Zhang Baosheng and mass phenomena.

Flying Saucer Review vols. 32–40 (1986–1995) – English translations of CURO bulletins.

Somatic Science Research periodical (1988–1992).

Jilin University UFO Symposium Proceedings (1994).

China UFO Research Organization (中国UFO研究会) website archive (retrieved 2018 via Wayback Machine).

ALSO! Here's an awesome interview with Simon Duan!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyLgeQWzIUs&t=11s

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This is a big one. It makes me wistful for the 1980's when The Soviets controlled all of our minds (and if not our minds, our economic choices...Doritos, Miller Lite, & the like.)

SOURCES:

*https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000500210001-9.pdf

*https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3.pdf

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qhye0cMWI&list=PLnORemBrCOZO9iXv-k_VjU3m3WHTZFCyL&index=184

*https://everydayconcerned.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nikolai-Ivanovich-Anisimov-Psychotronic-Golgotha-From-the-Author-web.pdf

*https://www.rexresearch.com

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs&t=2196s

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPV0BU9Vbk8&t=1115s

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Featuring excerpt from "Battle Hymn of The Republic" by The Russian Military Choir...which is weird.

Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

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