The Strange Space

Hello fellow stranger, As one who stranges professionally, I can tell that you are a stranger who takes their work very seriously. Gosh I can hardly tell a thing about you. Anyhow, around here is where I keep the weird, the horrifying, and the generally unsavory. All items have been tagged to the best of my ability (though some do squirm too much), so please, enjoy your stay.

[shiftythrifting]

[nocterm]

this is so good

[viralthings]

The more you look at this picture, the more anxious it becomes.

[wilburwhateley]

Blue Plate Special by JeffLeeJohnson

[best-blurst-of-times]

Deep Frog

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

do you think this is what lovecraft meant whenever he described something as being beyond description

[naidje-deactivated]

“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”

— H. P. Lovecraft,

At the Mountains of Madness

[space-lord-joe-kewl]

This.. actually makes a fine reference to what a lovecraftian eldritch abomination SHOULD BE. not just.. tentacles and darkness. Perpetually changing, not cemented in form, with an otherworldly feel to it. Completely unrecognizable by most human descriptions, and only able to be viable perceived by those fine enough to be an adept wordsmith.

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like great now ive seen a video of a frog made of a millllllllion faces that morphed into a schoolbus

[frogmp3]

this gave me an aural migraine

[airframeextender]

this is the big monster they dont show you all the way in the mist (2007)

[morbidology]

A mutant frog whose eyes have grown in it’s mouth.

[pics-that-make-you-go-hmm]

[rouxfully]

JOIN ME IN THE HORROR THAT IS THIS HOUSE LISTING

[goldkat-g0negrey-deactivated201]

Was someone murdered in the kitchen?

[witchymoonhag-deactivated201801]

“Unique one of a kind finishing completed by a professional!”

Unique is one way to put it. Cursed is probably more accurate.

[laughterkey]

WHAT EVEN IS THIS??

[halfhardtorock]

I can’t even see some of these rooms. I literally can’t see them.

[afro-elf]

if anyone’s scouting for locations for a new horror film, i found you a place

[thebigblackwolfe]

What has me screaming is the leasing history, someone actually tried to sell this place for $1.4 million dollars.

[lesbian-moon-gf]

this looks like the set to some film set in the moulin rouge era

[khealywu]

Burn it to the fucking ground.

[estradoll]

“Completed by a professional” a professional what???

[deliciouskaek]

i’m scared

[kokonutwata]

nigga i wouldn’t eem live here for FREE

[pro-possum]

Tbh it looks like they painted shiny copper paint all over the place?? in no particular pattern??

@duskenpath

[duskenpath]

How the fuck did anyone live here!!!!

CURSED IMAGE CURSED IMAGE

[badpsychicadvice]

Want to incorporate magical defense into your home decor in a unique and subtle way? Buy 1,000 of those tiny bottles of copper puff paint meant for shirts and draw warding sigils directly onto the wood finish. Then do it everywhere. Paint everything. Let nothing stop you, not even the armies of God. Anyone who looks upon the interior of home won’t even notice the sigils because they’ll be weeping in despair. Then just go ahead and wrap your stair railings in fabric because you are the king of your own self-fashioned Hell now and no one can tell you no because they’re too afraid of your house to even step inside. You are now safe!

[naamahdarling]

HOLY FUCK this is worse than I ever thought.

[madegeeky]

In case no one has added pictures yet for when this listing gets taken down (because, ohmygod, does this need to live forever) here are a few of my favorites:

[elodieunderglass]

“SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY PLEASE! This is a fascinating home. “

[1980sspaceman]

@belfura

[morbidology]

Created by Efisio Marini, an Italian naturalist doctor, this table is made completely out of human remains, including petrified brain, blood, liver, bile, lung, and glands. On the top of the table sits a foot, four ears, and a cut vertebrae. It is housed as the Museum of the History of Medicine, located in Paris, France.

[thepatchydragon]

@routavirta ?

[zooophagous]

I wanna have brunch on it

[morbidology]

Created by Efisio Marini, an Italian naturalist doctor, this table is made completely out of human remains, including petrified brain, blood, liver, bile, lung, and glands. On the top of the table sits a foot, four ears, and a cut vertebrae. It is housed as the Museum of the History of Medicine, located in Paris, France.

[thepatchydragon]

@routavirta ?

[zooophagous]

I wanna have brunch on it

[skepticaloccultist]

A Folk Witch Library

Hidden like Viking gold under the landscape there is a rich body of nearly lost folkwitch tradition hiding in plain sight on the internet. Particularly in the 18th and 19th century antiquarians, folklorists and ethnologists documented the rural and occasionally urban folk beliefs of practically all of the UK and much of Europe. Organizations like the Folklore Society, founded in 1878, were created to help catalog and publish this body of collected ethnological data. A vast repository of a spectrum of witch and cunning craft practices.

Below are a list of links to various sources on the internet. The non Abramhamic roots of British folk traditions date from an era of Celtic settlers, and thus much of the spirit tradition concerns beings we now collectively call “fairies”, though their origins and nature differ greatly.

Books Available Online for free:

Folklore Society/Folk-Lore Journal:

Over 100 publications made by the Folk-Lore Society can be found on Archive.org. Unfortunately these are mostly unsorted, although they represent a massive amount of folkwitch information. Particularly in the realm of curses, hexes, salves, second sight, and boundary magic.

I will be launching a separate blog dedicated to delving into the contents of the Folklore Society’s publications in the next few weeks. In the meantime - Happy digging: Link to archive of FOLKLORE JOURNAL

Books whose content focuses on first-hand accounts of folk traditions, alpha by author. (* denotes particularly important titles)

Richard Blakeborough - Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1898)

J G Campbell - Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1902) - Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Collected entirely from Oral Sources (1900)*

Edward Clodd - Tom Tit Tot - an essay on savage philosophy in folk-tale (1898)

Oswald Cockayne - Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England (1864)

Thomas Crofton Croker - Fairies Tales and Legends of the South of Ireland (1834)*

John Graham Dalyell - The Darker Superstitions of Scotland (1834)*

Walter Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)

Richard Folkard - Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics (1892)

W. Gregor - Notes on the Folklore of the North East of Scotland (1881)

Lady Gregory - Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920)*

William Henderson - Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders (1866)*

Thomas Keightley - The Fairy Mythology (1828)

Robert Kirk - The Secret Commonwealth (1893, written 1691)*

Fiona Macleod (William Sharp) - Where the Forest Murmurs (Nature Essays) 1906

James Napier - Folk Lore - Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within this Century (1879)*

Sir Walter Scot - Letters on Witchcraft and Demonology (1884) - The Existence of Evil Spirits Proved (1843)

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - A Historical Account of the belief in Witchcraft in Scotland (1884)

Wirt Sikes - British Goblins Welsh Folklore fairy mythology legends and traditions (1880)

Eve Simpson - Folklore in Lowland Scotland (1908)

Benjamin Thorpe -Northern Mythology, Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Lady Wilde - Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland * Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Thomas Wilkie - Old Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Southern Counties of Scotland (1916) (History Of The Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club Vol 23 1916-18, pages 50-145)

Suggested books that are unfortunately in copyright or otherwise not currently available online:

(Links to goodreads and worldcat.org)

Katharine Briggs - The Anatomy of Puck (1959)* - Pale Hecate’s Team (1962)* - Fairies in English Tradition and Literature (1967)

Thomas Davidson - Rowan Tree and Red Thread (1949)

George Ewart Evans - The Pattern Under the Plow (1971)* - Ask the Fellow Who Cuts the Hay (1965) - The Crooked Scythe

Harold Hansen - The Witch’s Garden (1978)

DA Mac Manus -The Middle Kingdom (1959)*

Emma Wilby - Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (2005)* - The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (2010)

C. L. Zalewski - Herbs in Magic and Alchemy: Techniques From Ancient Herbal Lore (1990)

Misc Short articles:

Frederika Bain - The Binding of the Fairies: Four Spells (2012)

Thomas Forbes - Witch’s Milk and Witches’ Marks (link to pdf)* (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, XXII 1950)

Fae Honeybell - Cunning Folk and Wizards In Early Modern England (2010) (link to pdf)

Canon J. A. Macculloch - The Mingling of Fairy and Witch Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland (Folk-Lore/Volume 32/1921)

[jasper-rolls]

today in “youtube’s recommendation algorithm completely misunderstands what i’m interested in”: i am recommended a channel consisting entirely of livestreams of a creepy dude sitting in a corner and just staring at the camera for 4 hours, 3 times a week

[hotvampireadjacent]

a robber broke into his house and he didn’t stop recording and the robber got so creeped out he left. the video is on his YouTube somewhere

[every1one]

https://youtu.be/tmrXakd_r6I?t=9391 here

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

“This episode of Sitting and Smiling features a very special guest. About 2.5 hours into the webcast, I hear someone come into the house, which is odd, because my only housemate is at work, and we aren’t expecting anyone. I realize I didn’t check to see if the doors were locked before starting the webcast. I hear the person stealthily moving around the house, and then I hear them stealthily climbing the stairs, towards my room. My door opens, and I hear an unfamiliar male voice say “Hello?”. Then, after presumably seeing me sitting still and smiling in front of a camera, lit from beneath by a florescent bulb, he promptly descends the stairs and exits the house.

You can see this happen at 2:36:30

As it turns out, the doors were locked, and he had broken one open. We found nothing missing, as there is not really anything of value in the house other than the laptop I was using to webcast.“

I’m howling

[glitterghoul]

did you know theres a whole database just for carnival photots??

[gothcommie-blog]

[yankees]

[powerburial]

idk whats going on i havent watched baseball in a while but i think these two nearly identical men in blue are mediators between men and god telling him his time is up and that he has to return to the source now

[yuzupool]

i just imagined the hotel mario music as they walked up to him

[1i73-deactivated20221021]

[thetwomeatmeal]

I’m TAing an intro to proofs and set theory class, and the instructor just sent this kids’ book about infinity out to the class. It’s pure MS Paint Lovecraftian nighmare fuel: https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/farm.pdf

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@metagorgon

[regexkind]

what the absolute fuck

[drethelin]

holy shit

[sisterofsilence]

*opens mouth*

*closest mouth*

*frowns*

[hollowedskin]

I feel like this is answers to questions I never wanted to ask.

[roane72]

I don’t want to go to the infinite farm. I’m scared of the infinite farm.

[prettyarb]

Well.

[notcuddles]

Y'all are weak, this is great

[unexplained-events]

Ed and Lorraine Warrens Occult Museum

Houses over 50 years of haunted objects. The most famous of which is, Annabelle the Raggedy Ann Doll.

[horrorfixxx]

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.

The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.

One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format – this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.

You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.