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Hildegard von Bingen's Octopus Visions
In 1141, a land octopus living in the spandrels of the convent of Disibodenberg, in Germany, visited Hildegard von Bingen, the new head nun, and gave her visions, most likely via a combination of...
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"Sword of Fire": Mind-Controlling Alien Jungle Octopods
Illustration from the novella "Sword of Fire" by Emmett McDowell, published in the Winter 1949 issue of Planet Stories (full scan here, mangled text version here). Spoilery synopsis follows: Jupiter...
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Archie McPhee's Finger Hands
Why wait for spontaneous polyvolution? Now, thanks to Archie McPhee's "Finger Hands", you can manifest a second-order dactyl fractal on your hand for under US$5 (right hand only). Polydactylightenment...
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Octopus: Devil Of The Trees
In less enlightened times, traveling sideshow exhibits, such as this one by Glen "Bones" Hartzell from 1942, demonized tree octopuses to the ignorant masses. This and other fear-inducing anti-octopus...
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Woodrow Wilson In The Clamp Of A Yeti
Happy New Year! Here's US President Woodrow Wilson being delimbed by a Yeti with the help of a knight monster (representing the Cotton Trust and the Steel Trust, respectively), by Rudolf Herrmann,...
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Ajooba Kudrat Kaa: Yeti I Love You!
Happy New Year again! Here's a 1991 Bollywood film called Ajooba Kudrat Kaa (English: The Magnificent Guardian) about a young girl, Sasha, who befriends a Yeti and helps save him from yetinappers....
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The Reed Hollow Earth Exploring Club
Special Correspondence to The Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—The Wm. Reed Hollow Earth Exploring club has just been incorporated. The purpose of this strange organization is to prove by experiment that...
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Of Bees And Men: The Riddle Of The Flying Saucers
(Click for full dustjacket.) Did super-intelligent Martian bees visit Earth in flying saucers to observe us and examine the stockpile of gold at Fort Knox, concerned that we were on the verge of...
View ArticleAugmented Hand Series
Want to experience polydactylightenment without surgery, mutagens, or psychotropics? There's an art installation for that: The "Augmented Hand Series" (by Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue, and Kyle McDonald,...
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Gregory Chausovsky: Technotronic Psychotechnologist
Technotronic psychotechnologic kaleidoscopic-trance for self-correction of mental and emotional state (more info). Dr. Gregory Chausovsky (Григорий Чаусовский) is a senior researcher of Psychological...
View ArticleFollow Me On Twitter?
I'm now on Twitter, for some reason. Actually the reason was solely to make a reference to this tweet by the WWF. Ever since I added how to write "tree octopus" in emojian to the languages section of...
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Alexander Belyaev's The Lord of the World
Would-be global mind-controller Stirner, in anti-mind-control mesh-suit, confronts his Russian nemesis Kaczynski, seated. This illustration is for the 1926 Russian novel The Lord of the World...
View ArticleRichmond Against Mind Control
Last month the City Council of Richmond, CA (about 50 miles southeast of Bohemian Grove) passed Resolution 51-15 in support of the Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty (PDF of...
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Julian Huxley's "The Tissue-Culture King"
Hascombe shows off his incredible animal monstrosities. "The Tissue-Culture King" is a short story by Julian Huxley first published in The Yale Review in Apr. 1926, and later in Amazing Stories, Aug....
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Tinfoil Wrapping Hats
The above is from Popular Mechanics, Oct., 1927. As per my previous post, Julian Huxley is believed to be the first to depict "tinfoil hats" in fiction, however he did not invent them. Paranoids have...
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Prof. E. L. Scharf's Negative Gravity
Will levitation be a public utility like electricity? Will flying battleships patrol the skies, or sea-borne ones be forced aloft by submarine subterfuge? Will city planners move skyscrapers around...
View ArticleIndian Teleportation Accident, Circa 1878
Was the plot of the original The Fly ripped from the headlines... of 80 years previously? In 1878 a report from Bombay reached Australia describing an amazing and terrible new invention (reprint from...
View ArticleCongolese Brain-Sucking Octopus
In 1902, English language newspapers brought word from the Congo, via a rather dubious source, that an unknown freshwater cryptopus with a hankerin' for human thought-meat was prowling the Uele river...
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The Folly Of The Aircraft Carrier Bridge
Once again, people around the world are transfixed by an absurd new idea from the myopic overseers of Puget Sound transportation. This time it's a plan to build a bridge out of aircraft carriers -- a...
View ArticleRussian Psychic Espionage
Is the Russian government basing its national policies on intel gathered using mind-reading? Of course it is. Oleg Kashin, in an article for the Russian Free Press (translated to English in The...
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