January 2010
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December 2009
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OMG THE CRAZY SHATNER EP. OF TWILIGHT ZONE IS ON...
Turn!!! TURN NOW!!!!
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What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter... →
Prepare to have your mind seriously blown. Quote from the article:
These people had small, childlike faces. Physical anthropologists use the term pedomorphosis to describe the retention of juvenile features into adulthood. This phenomenon is sometimes used to explain rapid evolutionary changes. For example, certain amphibians retain fishlike gills even when fully mature and past their...
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This prediction hit home with me...
A guy talking with Art Bell just now on Coast to Coast predicted a twister outbreak in late spring, 2010 that will eclipse the Super Outbreak of April 3/4 1974 - which I lived through. It affects me to this very day.
Very plausible prediction. One I hope is very wrong.
That was prediction 17.
Prediction 18 was for a Mumbai-style terrorist attack on American soil - several assailants armed...
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Art Bell is nothing if not blunt with his...
There is something perversely entertaining in hearing him note all the missed predictions made on New Year’s Eve ‘08 for this year. A crapload of ‘em missed by a mile.
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Prediction 12 on Coast to Coast AM...
Lady says there will be a mass awakening of people towards the paranormal. She cites all the ghost hunting shows on TV now as evidence that this will come true.
Now would-be psychic for prediction 13 is sounding teary and claiming there will be a massive tsunami that inundates THE ENTIRE WEST COAST.
Prediction 14: Obama announces the existence of aliens on national TV. An alien then fucking...
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Predictions Night with Art Bell on C2C...
PREDICTION 10: More Somali pirate attacks.
Dude. That’s a gimme. Might as well predict the Republicans will oppose some new program from the Obama Administration.
PREDICTION 11: More massive financial failure, possibly at its worst in California, possibly due to a natural disaster.
Predictions for the coming year with Art Bell rarely take an optimistic tack.
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More C2C Predictions Night 1, With Art Bell...
PREDICTION 8 FOR 2010: Andy from Elkhart, IL tells Art Bell that he had a vision. Never had one before.
Andy took a nap and in a dream saw the ground opening up and geysers of dirt shooting out.
Sounds like Andy’s seeing the New Madrid fault finally start to kick ass and take lives.
Speaking as someone parked on the outer edge of the zone affected by that most dangerous of faults, I just...
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Predictions, Night 1, on Coast to Coast AM II...
Prediction - Caller from North Carolina who predicts (naturally, look at where he’s calling from) that Obama will implement Nat’l Security Directive 51, giving himself dictatorial powers.
Art Bell, to his credit, drops that as a prediction because of its clear political bias.
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Predictions, Night 1, on Coast to Coast AM...
Art Bell hosting from the Philippines!
So far? Lots of terrorist bombing predictions. Prediction #3 is a very eager-sounding guy from Cali who is talking about atomic and hydrogen bombs (two very different things, destructively-speaking) destroying Paris.
Art sounds suitably skeptical.
So cheery, this show.
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If'n y'all ever want to submit a...
You may either go here: http://occultist.tumblr.com/submit - or e-mail your submission: occultist[AT]tumblr.com.
* Stories need to be for real or at least sound convincing. UFO sightings, Bigfoot love-ins, ghost tales, all are good (though I’m particularly fond of folks’ personal or family ghost stories). If you make me just laugh my ass off I’ll probably post it, real or not.
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Annual Predictions Show, Part 1 | Coast to Coast... →
A reminder: hosted by Art Mahfackin’ Bell, y’all (The Occultist is an old school C2C listener - started listening to Art in 1996). I will listen to this shit from beginning to end and am considering blogging some of the more intriguing predictions.
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“It will be an expression of mine that there is a godness in this idiocy. But, no...”
– Lo! Part I, by Charles Fort
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“I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity—such as deviations...”
– Wild Talents, by Charles Fort
Me and you both, Charles. Me and you both.
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Charles Fort's Books Are Online →
FUCKYEAHCHARLESFORT.
If Charles Fort were alive today and blogging, he’d be using Tumblr.
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‘White lights’ sightings in the festive night... →
From the article linked:
On December 27, at 11.10pm in Harwood, Thomas and Lynne reported “about six or seven lights dancing and chasing each other visible on clouds as if projected from the ground but no beam of light was visible. It may have been a light show.”
Later at 1.20am, they said four V-shaped objects “outlined in redy-orange coloured lights travelled across the sky...
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Photos of the Year, 2009: The Weird Version
Pictures of the year 2009: crop circles, UFO sightings, ghosts and unexplained phenomena
Crop Circles are probably faker than me laughing at a Jeff Dunham routine while watching TV with extended family, but they’re still dope-ass paranormal shit. If I love one thing about UK and Aussie papers, it is how they have no qualms about covering crazy stuff.
Submitted by the lovely Mabel!
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Search for extraterrestrial life gains momentum... →
Quote from the article:
“This is legitimate science, and there’s a great deal of public interest in it,” said Alan Stern, a former assistant administrator at NASA who, in 2007, decided that proposals for extraterrestrial search programs should not be banned from the agency, as they had been since the early 1990s. The National Science Foundation had come to a similar decision a...
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BEKs
Black Eyed Kids are a pretty new member of the dark pantheon of paranormal creatures. And make no mistake, BEKs are, in spite of their human appearance, treated as “creatures” by those who speak of them.
Thing is, BEKs were probably made up by a guy named Brian Bethel in 1998. Bethel told of meeting two older boys (a direct quote from Bethel’s original account: “Both...
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MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Guys are on Coast to...
Host tonight is George Knapp, who is perhaps one of my favorite substitute hosts on this show, in part because he’s an old-school broadcaster and I’m a fan of old-school radio style: a certain tone, approach, a facility with words, etc.
The MUFON guys are discussing a sighting that took place near McGill NV this year when a family of 3 spotted something strange in the sky. I’ve...
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Formspring for The Occultist is intended more to allow people to share stories anonymously if they wish. This is an experiment and will be removed if it gets too annoying.
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Tis NOT the Season...
Evidence of animal sacrifice, Satanism found in Feltonville
Quote from the article linked above:
The animals are believed to have been sacrificed as part of satanic worship and Santeria rituals, investigators said. Pentagrams were also seen in the house.
The remains included bones of a variety of animals, including sheep, goats, and chickens, police said. Authorities also removed the...
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Occasionally....
I’m going to use The Occultist to write about some weird subjects I’ve been obsessed with for years. Those posts will be on the long side but hopefully worth it. I have to do something with all the crazy books I have laying around.
I’ll insert a break whenever I post one of these so Tumblr users’ dashboards aren’t overwhelmed.
This will be done as I get to it...
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The Occultist Now Has Comments
I can be a strict moderator, but as long as you’re reasonably civil, no problem.
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I shall scream for days. →
I think this quote is pretty much all you need to understand my headline for this link:
Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, explained: “While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and...
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P.S. I know some Occultist posts are going to go...
As skeptical as I am, on the whole, I love this subject matter and am having a lot of fun posting stuff here. Just wanted to acknowledge reality, though.