Specter of the Incubus
The incubus, in Christian mythology of yore, was a demon that raped chaste or virtuous women as they slept. Sometimes this resulted in pregnancy, with the little devils (so to speak) produced by this...
View ArticleHell Jolted Loose
The not-so-secret cabal of Wilmington, NC city fathers had put much work into guaranteeing the results of election held Tuesday, 8 November 1898. Their Red Shirt minions had already threatened violence...
View ArticleLegends, Hoaxes, and the Big Lie: Zero-Sum
You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings…You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves...
View ArticleHere We Go, One and All, Into the Storm
On 28 November 2017, an anonymous user posted an item on the /pol/ board of 4chan claiming to have top-level Q-clearance. In a thread titled “The Calm before the Storm,” he, she or they claimed that...
View ArticleAn Ode to Miss Information: A Series Revisited
In July 2006, I posted a seven-part series chronicling an incident in my weird past. It was about a friend, referred to as Miss Texas, who mysteriously vanished amid a haze of intrigue involving the...
View ArticleHopefully, There's No Time Like the Present.
I'm a bit delayed in posting the next real item here due to meatspace circumstances. We're dealing with the illness of a close family member, and it's something that has literally kept me up all...
View ArticleLike Watching a Film in Slow Motion
Below is the recollection of JFK assassination witness Linda Willis, interviewed in 1991 and posted by Encyclopedia Britannica.
View ArticleMeatloaf Again?
By now, it's become a bit of cliche: everyone seems to remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when learning of the JFK assassination.Everyone includes a guy named Michael Aday, a...
View ArticleDing, Dong! Mafia Calling (with April Flowers)
[Bobby] needs some solid legal experience and this job should provide it. --President John F. Kennedy joking to Department of Justice official Ronald Goldfarb about why he appointed his brother US...
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