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How come reading tea leaves is seen as this sophisticated, witchy thing but if I slam dunk an open can of Chef Boyardee ravioli onto the pavement in the gas station parking lot to see what kind of soda the old ones think I should buy, foodstuff divination suddenly isn’t cool anymore?

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The Jackalope actually has not only one, but two pseudo-scientific names. Lepus temperamentalus is what it is commonly known by, but the specific breed from Wyoming is called Lepus antilocapra wyomingensis.

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(via Collections | The Public Domain Review)

The Public Domain Review has a whole bunch of books from the height of spiritulism!

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Have you ever had experiences like this?

Okay so I was telling Alafiya some ghost stories the other night and she was so spooked by the stories I told her I thought I’d share this because, hey when are ghost stories not entertaining? I’ve known this story ever since I was a kid. It wasn’t specifically meant for me, since it’s not a bedtime story, lol. I learned about this because my dad loved evening chats whilst playing cards with his siblings, and I liked to eavesdrop. This one account like. Is still vivid in my adult mind, because?? What the fuck happened??

My dad is a very fun-loving guy. I know I already mentioned this, but dad is obsessed with the paranormal. But he’s also a big scaredy-cat. He lived in a small island in the northeast Philippines. You know the Philippines, we were a colony, and the country has plantations scattered everywhere, known locally as Haciendas.

Well. Dad grew up a lower-middle class kid with his other 12 siblings (yes, THAT many, haha.)

So, in order to earn some extra cash, dad offered to clean up some haciendas that were uninhabited. Rich folk lived in the city, in Manila, and not in some big old plantation on some lonely island. I think dad was with his brother, and they were joking around, when suddenly?? They heard really, heavy footsteps?? Like giant feet bound with cuffs and chains??

And mind you, they were in a hacienda, which means the floor wasn’t creaky or anything. They were polished granite tiles. At first, dad thought it was his imagination and they went on cleaning and waxing the floors, when they heard it again, but this time closer. This time, you best believe dad and my uncle ran like the devil himself was on their heels, and dad?? He looked back because of god knows what, and he saw behind him a very crooked figure of something that looked like a hobbled old lady, despite the bent back, she was still unnaturally.. large? And she had a face like a leper’s, or something. It’s just so? Weird?? I still ask dad about it but he won’t elaborate for me. I don’t know what dad did after that, or if they ever went back to the plantation. Or if the owners ever offered an explanation. Who knows.

#Ghost story #phillipines

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Living by an airport means I’ll never see something and think “it’s a UFO!”

It could literally be a flying saucer in the middle of the day and I’d just think, “I guess O'Hare got new planes.”

#Ufo #probs should've just posted this here instead of my main #oh well

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Cryptozoology skeptics: Mothman was a Sandhill Crane, the Jersey Devil was a Sandhill Crane, Nessie was a Sandhill Crane and Bigfoot is a bunch of hairy Sandhill Cranes tied together with rope.

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Mothman

A cryptid from North America folklore said to live around Point Pleasant, a city in West Virginia. According to reports, the creature first appeared to five men in November of 1966. The men had gathered at a cemetery to dig a grave when they were startled during their work by a brown human sized being that flew out from some nearby trees.

A few days later, a white creature with glowing red eyes followed two young couples as they took their cars to Point Pleasant. Even more sightings followed including terrorizing a building contractor and his dog, when it appeared after the strange buzzing of his television. It appeared yet again to a young woman and her child, who described it’s unearthly screech like a woman’s wailing.

After the mysterious collapse of the Silver Bridge, the Mothman sightings dispersed entirely, leading to the belief that the two were connected. Many theories have been created to explain the Mothman sightings, including extraterrestrial interference or people simply misidentifying large owls.

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Mothman is where my love of cryptids and jrpgs meet. (I really like the smt mothman design, and am so psyched when he shows up.)

#Cryptid #mothman #shin megami tensai

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squeezing in another mermaid before the clock runs out. this darling creature is actually a design for my goblin story Small Guide. they’re called grasping sharks.

grasping sharks aren’t technically mermaids in the Small Guide setting. They’re more like sirens. they hunt near the surface of tropical waters, waving or thrashing their long hand-like tentacles just above the water to attract prey. sometimes the prey is a curious bird, other times its a doomed good samaritan. they drown their prey mere feet or even inches from the surface (its always drowning, blood attracts other predators), holding onto them with the numerous arms it stores in the toothy pockets of it’s body. these arms are trophies from past hunts kept strangely alive and mobile for quite some time due to the grasping shark’s venom. they rarely take bodies deeper than they have to until the prey is completely dead since breaking their grip is very difficult and rescuers who aren’t careful get easily dragged down themselves.

their intelligence and life cycle is unknown due to the fact that they’re very reclusive and leave few survivors. attempts to study them usually end in tragedy. it has been observed that they don’t seem to eat other sea creatures and favor large sentient prey.

they’re very common around Cashmere’s homeland.

#mermaids #monsters #creepy