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http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/p ... u=102032++ Sounds pretty creepy from all reviews. I'd like to see it.

Some one might help me remember the haunting where poltergeist-like activity was preceded by the recently neutered cat blurting racial insults(dirty Greek, nasty Frenchman, or something such). That always creeped me out really bad for some reason.

I've seen that a few times and can't help but wonder if the first boy to encounter the ghost man in the embalming room had recently seen any of the Phantasm series films. Tall man in a suit in a friggin' funeral home. Could just be archetypal, but I'll bet there were some flying-knify-orbness...

I went to school in a converted Baptist church. Our auditorium was a stripped central cathedral and the schoolmaster gave announcements from what used to be a pulpit in front of a baptismal. Now, having gone to a coed boarding school, I wouldn't say that auditorium was all that consecrated...

Bizarre, random civillian shooting by state trooper From the Shelby County Reporter. "Alabaster man shot by trooper By Fred Guarino/Reporter Staff Writer A fatal Friday night shooting south of Alabaster(Alabama) on U.S. Highway 31 involving a State Trooper and a Saginaw resident, who...

Ever seen/read "The Raft?" :eek!!!!: I wonder if it's just the release of bacterial/fungal/protesean gunk that was formerly locked under water.

A bit of Halloweenery. I searched for this topic, with spelling variations(Gaelic!), and was surprized to find it unmentioned in total. I was reminded of this because of the "Samhain Death God" notion discussed in the Halloween thread. Crom Cruach was supposedly a fearsome deity...

The glowing-bugeyed cannibal mutant type CHUD or the spoof-sequel poodle-eating zombie type? It's the former you got to look out for...unless you're a poodle. ;)

This goes in my file of favorite creepy isolated reports. These interest me because the involved always seem so shaken and serious about what they've seen and there's little to no cultural deritus imprinted on their descriptions. Maybe when I collect enough, I'll make them fight: Toronto's...

Trust me...Americans allow almost any flavor of chips; love them all dearly in fact. Joking aside, one thing that struck me as odd about the original comment here is that, of all the "exotic" flavoring agents, the most dangerous materials in chips would be their very starting materials...

Maybe the Tennesseean Melungeons fit here; putative Portuguese and/or Arabs-Turks in the American Southeast. I've seen them and they're definitely not English-Scottish settlers, nor do they resemble the natives. They look, well, Portuguese.

Do a search on the boards; there's at least one extensive thread about them. Personally, I'm intrigued.

Re: Lack of fantasy/reality understanding How does your dad explain Michael Jackson now? :D

Unverified assumption here, but it seems plausible that the phrase refers to the fury of the torrent. Like cats and dogs in a skirmish.

"Oll korrect" is mostly likely, um, all correct. As cited, it was a sort of self-parody on the part of American newspapers in the 1800's. One can't count out other possibilities, such as multiple origins. It's possible even that "OK" caught on because of its similarity to so many other...

These kind of reports have a charm made out of combining the utterly surreal with the somehow-sympathetic and believable. But one thing that gets me is how they happen to people at random, unexpected (as though you'd expect!) times. I mean, I LOOK, and as I've posted about before, I haven't seen...

There are many drugs, some illegal, with far wider usage profiles than prozac, or even all the SSRI's combined. If any amount in the water were to have an effect, then so would tons of other crap, like caffeine as some one joked, or tylenol, or...viagra. It IS only a matter of time before...

Genes get moved around so much (it's the very nature of genes), that I find it difficult to see how they can pinpoint the whole man in such a way. Almost all American blacks will have east African descent, but even then, those tribes intermarried, and there's even bound to be some European blood...

Genes get moved around so much (it's the very nature of genes), that I find it difficult to see how they can pinpoint the whole man in such a way. Almost all American blacks will have east African descent, but even then, those tribes intermarried, and there's even bound to be some European blood...

He's not a convincing linguist, to judge by his sole effort in the field. It takes ALOT more than one language or several very closely related languages to prove genetic encoding for certain structural outcomes.

IN coffee?! You know, that might be a hit at Starbucks (till the raids begin or the kitchen blows up). Bloodbath orgy? Yes, but remember that it always seems to be our Canadian friends who get the proverbial shaft in that case. More Canadians get killed by American stray-fire than by frost...

The hippy terrorist angle is a natural-born UL. Lots of psychoactives DO mix with water and are cheaper in bulk than LSD. If it were going to happen, I bet it would have by now. Or maybe it has....and that's where mothman came from. :blah: Then again, terrorists in general seem inefficient...

I guess I don't have to tell you that was a bad idea. How the hell much did you take any way? I take a amphetamine-based preparation (perscription, of course) for occasional excessive sleepiness and the dose just goes up and up and it barely works after a while. I can't imagine it keeping me...

Mama seems to appear less altered across languages than papa/baba which alternates with "dah dah/daddy" type terms. Some languages even use a mama-like word for father! But it's still coincident on human vocal development and not genetic relations between world language families. The article...

I wonder why they never mention methcathinone in these reports. It's more common, cheaper, and immensely easier to make than methamphetamine. And, clinically, it's more dangerous. Maybe they don't want people looking up the recipie and putting the overcomplicated amphetamine process out there...

Looks like a dancing pygmy bursting into flames. Or at least one COULD see it that way.... However, a good spritzing with Tilex should do away with the phenomenon.

Which is just more evidence that the papa/mama thing says nothing about protolanguages. If the languages were really descendants from a common (traceable)source, then the formal words would be expected to line up sometimes too. That mama/papa occur again and again only seems to suggest that...

I can see why governments would "test" amphetamines on pilots and ground troops, but what reason could they have for using acid? How does this help win a war? If anything, I would think they'd be spraying the enemy front with the stuff. What next, X? "Aww, come on, man, let's just be...

You know, I decided to look at the Lord's Prayer in a bunch of languages to see how the "Father" part worked out, and the words aren't nearly as similar as you'd expect given the mama/papa debate above. Even among related languages/words, there's disparity e.g. Athair in Gaelic and Pater in...

I've taken Provigil for months at a time. So far as I can tell, it doesn't "work." It certainly doesn't feel at all dangerous. Amphetamines sure work, for a little while, but even those are overrated. When you need sleep badly enough, your body stops giving a damn what you put in your mouth.

I might also have an exaggerated "weirdness scale." Perhaps I've become desensitized!

Absence of Strange Experiences Looking at these boards, IHTM in particular, reminds me that, whenever I'm asked about past strange experiences, I come up empty. It seems like everyone has some old yarn about at least one odd encounter, but I don't have anyhting in memory that can't be done away...

Historical linguistics is my thing. "proto-world" and all the other pre-proto-language theories are highly contested. It's impossible to trace any given language feature back indefinitely, ESPECIALLY without writing. The closest we get is when we can reconstruct a proto-language based on...

I just got back today and am tired from flying and dragging luggage with less-than-compliant(overcompliant?) joint tissue. I will say that I now have an idea where some clasical notions of elven folk might have come from. A few severely afflicted people had elf ears and extreme short...

I'm going to a five-day research conference on this this week. Lots of people who can pick their noses with their feet in one town. I've already met a few people from the foundation that organizes this and a couple could easily equal Gary Stretch in the skin area if they wanted to. Maybe to...

That's bizarre. The Times Square Globster... Sounds conflated, however. Does make you wonder what oddness stalks about in less noticed places.

Diamorphine was perhaps the most effective oral analgesic on the market. And followed in close second by coca alkaloids no less. Both seem pretty harmless as OTC preps in small amounts. And from the look of long term users and mortality comparisons, heroin addiction is no where near as nasty...

Yep. 'The War of Drugs' does serve an important place in society; power vehicle and illicit revenue generator for the oh-so conservative American government. And "the children" get hooked on junk as a function laregly of social class and lack of education (specifically about drugs! Thank you...

This interesting. Chance has it, I've been working on the problem lately (See closet monster thread for gemination). The assumption that "God is bald/a body builder/Japanese" is ungrammatical lies in a false analysis of "God." In Wierzbicka's Human Universals, a few necessary criteria...

I never got the Wormwood-Chernobyl thing. Chernobyl doesn't even mean "wormwood." What's more, nothing fell on the place to make it blow up. How did they sell this as anything but one monumental design failure?

People always make such sweeping assumptions based on cultural narratives. I wonder whether it's that people aren't built to see beyond cultural narrative without training or if it's just too hard for most people to conclude that bad, and sometimes horrific, things happen because they're...

Oh! Bad choice of words with all those counterintuitive plush Chthulhus out there. So, does Nyarlethotep keep the toddler tickler at bay? If I were a toddler tickler, I wouldn't...well, I'd just find a new gig.

After thinking harder, I'm not even sure if I had a monster concept before movies. Makes me wonder how much "monsters" are only outgrowths of the concept "danger," given form later by a culture's story tellers and glyph carvers (Romero, Stephen King, etc.). Isn't it an old addage that "the...

With all the obfuscation and humanoidness going on in here, is it any wonder lollopping stickmen so much fan mail. OK, the concept of "monster" seems defined pretty much by its vagueness and presumed malevolence or repulsiveness. Dr. Wierzbicka presents: 1. It is a thing 2. It is a...

A. Religion was never written up to make sense. B. It wouldn't be God-testing to handle snakes, but simply following prophecy and scripture. "They will..."

As an amorphous malevolence, I wonder how much the concept of "monster" is informed by the fact of darkness or lost visibility or mobility. The ocean or deep water in general might be a kindred generator of danger and fear, since the advanced ground monkeys we are are comparatively poor...

Biblical literalism. The faithful shall "drink poisonous things and take up venomous serpents, but shall remain unharmed." Some of these places complete the prophecy with gulps of insecticide or other oral toxin. Really, in a twisted way, it's the mainstream Christians who are perplexing and...

At least a whole block, maybe 30 houses. Lots of loose dogs.

Uh...That sure is weird. Any way, last night is was a picture of a "domesticated" South American centipede eating a rather brutalized rat. Said centipede species reaches nearly a ft. in length.

Probably Ancient American http://www.ancientamerican.com/ To be taken with a grain of ancient Phoenecian salt.