Phone

Grandma’s Phone

Here at the end of the internet, 4chan stands as the great archive of a vanishing culture built online. Its various boards are the true successors of the Neolithic campfires around which hunter-gatherers shared tribal lore. Spend any length of time browsing /x/ or /k/, and you'll soon discern a…
November 29, 202113 Comments
Coal Mine House

The Coal Miner’s House

Stay in the writing game long enough, and you learn that a good story could come from anywhere, anytime. I was reminded why every writer does well to keep a pocket notebook on him during a recent visit to the barbershop. While waiting for a trim, one of the other…
November 23, 20213 Comments
Gilgamesh Nephilim

Gilgamesh and the Nephilim

The spooky season continues with a highly strange story from last year that somehow escaped my notice. A shocking discovery in the FOIA release of State Department emails confirms ... [a]n email ... “Requesting documents pertaining to the resurrection chamber of Gilgamesh, the location of his body and the location…
November 15, 20218 Comments
Bender House

Another Little House

Spend any length of time doing editing work, and you'll soon conclude that most material excised from a book is cut for good reason. But sometimes, scenes deleted because they didn't fit a book's theme or mood make for fascinating tales in their own right. Every self-respecting bibliophile should be…
November 10, 202124 Comments
CIA

A CIA Internal Matter

The popular perception of Millennials as culturally bankrupt philistines incapable of making anything useful doesn't give them a fair shake. Braving the dank bowels of the web reveals that the extremely online generation has pioneered a new art form: the sharing of spook stories through formularized posts. This medium has…
October 27, 202116 Comments
Demon Face

It Showed Itself

A comment occasioned by a recent post offers us a twofold tale of high strangeness and spiritual warfare. I have seen demons myself. One night, after a series of bizarre dreams, I woke up to the faint sound of my mother calling for help. My mother lives far across town…
September 17, 20214 Comments
Attic Hatch

It Came Through the Attic

A Kairos OG brings us the return of high strangeness in what may be the installment most likely to elicit a cautionary glance over your shoulder.  Just before the 2016 election, I moved into a house split into two separate apartments. Well, mostly separate, as you'll see later. The neighborhood…
July 30, 20213 Comments
Mulder Aliens

I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm no hard-nosed skeptic. That said, Charles Fort himself warned against being so open-minded that one's brains spilled out. The sudden candidness about UFOs on the part of the military, Congress, and the media raises ample reason for caution, if only because…
May 27, 202120 Comments

Cursed Consoles

Despite their bleeding edge trappings, video games have come into their own as a mature technology. The video game industry is now older than most of the people reading this post. Like theater and movies, video gaming has amassed its own body of insider lore. This secret history runs the…
May 20, 2021
Top Tic Tac

Top Tic Tac

The following report of high strangeness comes courtesy of a respected reader of this blog, whose identity will remain anonymous. You'll soon understand why. So we've got a lot of government UFO stuff coming out of late, with the testimony before Congress that unidentified things keep buzzing our bases and…
March 26, 2021