Zane Grey - Shark

The Author, the Angler, the Dentist, and the Megalodon

Just 1 week left to reconquer dark fantasy and reap the sweet rewards. So back my epic adventure novel Lord of Fate on Kickstarter. Among the many tales of high strangeness we've chronicled on this blog, the tale of the author, the angler, the dentist, and the megalodon was one I'd…
September 18, 20245 Comments
Serpent and the Rainbow

Curse of the Serpent and the Rainbow

Cherished readers: Help reconquer dark fantasy. Back my brutal adventure novel Lord of Fate, now funding on Kickstarter. The spooky season is right around the corner. What better time to dredge the depths of the web for an alleged true legend of high strangeness? Today's chilling tale comes to us from…
September 13, 20249 Comments
TV Devil Box

Talking With the Devil Box

A common criticism leveled at Baby Boomers by members of younger generations is that trying to change Boomers' minds with dialectical reason is like hitting your head against the wall. This intellectual stubbornness is summed up in the meme "When you're arguing with a Boomer, you're really arguing with the…
August 28, 20249 Comments
Bob Gymlan Joe Rogan

Bob Gymlan on The Joe Rogan Experience

It's been a minute since we featured a tale or two of high strangeness on this blog. The work of bigfoot expert Bob Gymlan has been featured here before. As far as YouTubers go, Gymlan is refreshing for keeping an open mind and doing his homework. So I was delighted…
August 12, 20245 Comments
Presidential Alien Debate

Presidential Alien Debate?

Some people want the major parties' presidential candidates to debate aliens now. It's par for the course here on Planet Clown. The next president of the United States should be asked if he will release UFO-related documents, the New Paradigm Institute says. A once-taboo subject that essentially forced whistleblowers like…
June 20, 202411 Comments
Vampire of the Amaszon

The Vampire of the Amazon

When most people think of vampires, they imagine insular Eastern European villages huddled in remote valleys at the wooded feet of craggy peaks. Or beautiful monsters haunting the inner rooms of gaslit salons. What almost nobody thinks of is the Amazon. Yet in the late 19th century, this Old World…
June 14, 2024
Vietnam Doll Head

The Curse of the Vietnam Doll

No stranger to high strangeness himself, Catholic Answers head apologist Jimmy Akin shares a spooky occurrence that his college friends experienced. From the archives of Jimmy Akin's Mystgerious World, please enjoy "The Curse of the Vietnam Doll". ... [D]olls exist in the uncanny valley. As people will be aware, the…
May 21, 2024
Croglin Grange Low Hall

The Vampire of Croglin Grange

Readers have been flocking to posts about vampires lately. So here's an old favorite: The Vampire of Croglin Grange. Back in Cromwell's day, the Fisher family left their ancestral home in Cumberland and moved south to more spacious accommodations. Loath to sell their old farmhouse called Croglin Grange, they leased…
April 11, 20244 Comments
Medvegia Vampire

Arnold Paole: The Vampire of Medvegia

It's been a minute since our last foray into the weird domain of high strangeness. Here's a historic account backed by official documentation that helped lay the foundation of modern vampire lore. From The Land of Thieves and Ghosts: Arnold Paole (otherwise known as Arnold Paul) was the subject of…
March 26, 20246 Comments
Philip Aylesford

Fabricating Philip Aylesford

As we've discussed before, the original Ghostbusters movie owes no small amount of its iconic status to how low-key based it is. One underappreciated aspect of the film is its subtle takedown of parapsychology. In case you didn't know, parapsychology is a pseudoscientific field for nerds who feel a deep…
February 26, 202412 Comments