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GHOST STORIES, COME GET YOUR GHOST STORIES!! 👻😱

Can you hear the whispers of the people in the walls? As an invisible force infiltrates their home, Greg and Dana go into hiding, sharing some of their most terrifying true ghost stories to pass the time.

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balancetarot

I was rewatching the Haunted Objects Podcast, the episode with the Dark Mirror in particular, and they were talking about John Dee's scrying mirror... and I had a sudden memory of the time I made a scrying mirror.

I think it was, maybe late 90's, early 00's? I dunno, time is an illusion, the past is fluid, whatever, back then I got a little round bit of glass and painted one side of it black.

It looks a lot like John Dee's scrying mirror, tbh.

The British Museum Collection, John Dee's scrying mirror.

My mirror, in which I discover that taking a picture of a reflective surface is a pain in the ass.

bonus fun, reflective surface plus reflection off my glasses equals a real trippy pic of your dear author. yikes.

jess-the-reckless

Hype time. I have an e-book free at the moment to get people in the mood for the one I’m currently working on, which is a sequel to this peculiar little baby of mine. Well, I say little, but it’s a 100k+ chonker, which is hefty for me. I usually aim for about 80k to get the thing done, but I was having so much fun with Ghosted that it ran long. It gave me the opportunity to tell some ghost stories, and I love, love, love telling ghost stories.

Writing Good Omens made me thirsty for more supernatural silliness, so I cooked this up to satisfy that need. It was also a reaction to a really, really bad book that will remain nameless, because while I loved its premise (romance about paranormal investigators hooking up) it sucked so lamentably that I felt the need to take the premise and do it my way. I think there’s still a line in Ghosted that references one of my objections, which is that the paranormal investigators all went to bed at 11pm. You don’t need to be an expert in the paranormal to know that this is not remotely how ghosts work. They work nights. They keep long, unsociable hours that leave investigators sitting up – usually bored out of their brains while waiting for something spooky to happen. Plenty of time on those tedious ghost vigils to have deep, probing conversations, and maybe contemplate sucking each other’s dicks.

The book starts out in the ghost-factory of a city that is New Orleans, but swiftly gets roadtrippy due to my desire to include the things about Supernatural that I liked. I make no apologies for my workaday exorcist Jason Kent being extremely Dean Winchester coded. He’s got the shitty father, the trunk full of esoteric weapons, the haunted sibling, and all of the attendant angst that goes along with that. I really loved the whole all-in-a-day’s work vibe of Supernatural, where you rattle from one crappy motel to another doing paranormal grunt work, although (full-disclosure) I dropped out somewhere in S6 because everything after the apocalypse felt like an anti-climax to me. The only episode I really remember from S6 was Weekend at Bobby’s, which was a masterpiece on a par with the one with the haunted lucky rabbit’s foot.

I did enjoy the angel, though, which is why he gets a shoutout in the name of the other lead – Ange. His name is French for angel, and short for Desanges – of the angels. It seemed an appropriately no-we’re-totally-Catholic-honest handle for a Haitian-American baby boy born on the second of October, the official Catholic feast day of the Guardian Angels. Although it doesn’t come up that much in Ghosted it did give me the opportunity to fold in some of that delicious voudou research I did for Code Noir, and close readers might spot a connecting thread there between Ange and Gabrielle from the latter book. I’m way too fascinated by syncretic religions, and the second book will dip into Ange’s palo inheritance on his Puerto Rican mother’s side.

But that’s to come. The big deal with Ange in Ghosted is that he’s my favourite kind of character to write – a fast-talking grifter whose head is permanently a-swivel for the next big opportunity. He’s Oda Mae Browning it up in an influencer’s haunted mansion in New Orleans when he meets Jason, who is there to exorcise a kitchen-centric ghost who is really shitting on the owner’s dreams of launching a cookbook. It’s lust at first sight on Ange’s part, but because Jason is a lonely weirdo who prefers anonymous sex at truck stops he ghosts Ange afterwards.

And that’s when Ange finds out he’s been ghosted in more ways than one. That exorcism in New Orleans? Yeah. It didn’t take. The ghost just…relocated, and now Ange really needs the services of an exorcist. I had an absurd amount of fun with this book. It’s stupid, spooky, and full of lots and lots of creepy little things that got my blood pumping as a storyteller, like the twin aunts who turned into Collyer Brothers-level hoarders in their New Orleans mansion, or the nuclear scientist obsessed with Glenn Miller. And then there’s Melissa, the most Californian ghost of all time, who started out as a plot point and a pair of rainbow sneakers, and then morphed into a character so fun that she’s absolutely coming back for the sequel. Same with cat-lady researcher Celine, who I plan to bring back for book three. And oh yes, there’s going to be a book three. No need to stop when you’re enjoying yourself, right?

Ghosted - Kindle edition by Whitecroft, Jess. Paranormal Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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scoriarose

A baby rattle snake following its mommy ❤️

Definitions of parental behavior differ, but Shine points out that mother snakes seem to go to some trouble for their offspring. For instance, python moms will often stay coiled around their pile of eggs for about 2 months, even though they haven’t had anything to eat for 6 or 7 months. At first glance, it might seem hopeless for a cold-blooded animal to try to incubate its eggs. When the temperature drops sufficiently, though, the python shivers, thereby warming the clutch with heat derived from muscle activity. Many rattlesnakes and their pit viper cousins don’t lay eggs but instead give birth to ready-to-wriggle offspring. Back in the Chiricahua foothills of Arizona, the black-tailed rattler mother that so excited Hardy and Greene stayed near her youngsters and the sheltering rocks of the birth site for more than 9 days. The scenes that the researchers described in 2002 might apply as well to a mother dog and her pups. On day 4 after the birth, Hardy observed superfemale 21 near the birth site as five of her newborns crawled around. They had worked their way out of the shelter’s entrance, over the mother’s body, and a little way into the surrounding grass. An hour later, several youngsters had piled on top of her. When one wriggled over her head, she tolerantly rearranged her coils. Thus, the days went by with the family basking just outside its rocky den. About 9 days after birth, the little snakes shed their skins as their mother watched from a few inches away. The youngsters then disappeared, presumably crawling off on their own. Greene and Hardy’s detailed monitoring of black-tailed rattler life had convinced them that the females typically don’t eat during winter hibernation or the spring pregnancies that follow. Greene paints a heroic picture of the mother, who further delays her return to hunting. “She hasn’t eaten for about 10 months, but she stays around for 10 more days,” he says. He and Hardy have since observed similar behavior in several females.

Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/social-lives-snakes

slushyseals

I had to share this because so many people seem to believe snakes are cold heartless animals that abandon their young immediately without a second thought. But that's not true at all! Mothers of many species look after their young, and the babies and mothers will seek out each other when separated. Siblings have also been found cuddling together when pregnant or brumating too!

Here's another video of a mother protecting her little one as the baby goes to her for protection.

That little baby knows their mom would give her life to keep them safe, like any good mother would.

cleolinda

“You know they go crazy when I say ‘the late great Hannibal Lecter.’ They say, ‘Why would he mention Hannibal Lecter, he must be cognitively in trouble.’ No. These are real stories. Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lamb.”

Donald Trump’s latest campaign rally was studded with gaffes.

Wh… why is he so stuck on this. The best theory I’ve heard is that he’s conflating “mental asylum” and “political asylum”? What? Help? Hannibal Lecter is not dead? He is not real? There was more than one lamb? That was 1991? You’re ten years late even to the tv show fandom, what is happening.

cleolinda

DEADLINE: I have to mention your one of your greatest characters, Hannibal Lecter …

HOPKINS: Why?

DEADLINE: Because he’s come up a lot during this election campaign here in America with Donald Trump speaking about him at his rallies as if he’s a real person.

HOPKINS: As if he is real?

DEADLINE: Yes.

HOPKINS: [Laughs] I didn’t know that. [Laughs again.] Hannibal, that’s a long time ago that movie. God, that was over 30 years ago. I’m shocked and appalled what you’ve told me about Trump.

DEADLINE: Sorry about that.

From Deadline.com, via @tamaro606, after I told her I REALLY hoped someone would ask Anthony Hopkins about it.

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classichorrorblog

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

nemfrog

Hymenoptera. Sketches of British insects. 1877.

Internet Archive

uesp

Bethesda Game Studios has unionized.

montereybayaquarium

Meet Senior Aquarist Dalton!

He's part of a team of Aquarium biologists responsible for caring for our elephant fish, Callorhinchus milii, in the Whalefall exhibit in Into the Deep/En lo Profundo.

Ensuring the well-being of these unique deep-sea dwellers is Dalton’s top priority.

Dive a little deeper into a day in the life of Dalton on YouTube:

Learn more about caring for elephant fish at the Aquarium.

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corporationsarepeople

Fascism will always be a threat in a corporate capitalist state. Or in any state for that matter, but especially one as jingoistic as ours. Guard against it no matter who is in power, but guard against it and vote like it matters. Because it does.

moonbean117

liberalsarecool

Nailed it.

Trump appeals to uncurious mediocre people who think their consumer identity is patriotism.

These people think being the whitest person in an unintegrated racist community is Christ-like.

The construct of whiteness is their religion.

nightingveilxo

objectspod

Welcome, weirdos!

The Haunted Objects Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast that joins full-time weirdos Greg and Dana Newkirk as they dive into the history, folklore, and paranormal activity of the haunted objects collected in their museum.

Anything weird goes! We got ghosts, aliens, auras, spoon-bending, remote viewing, thorough research, a surprising number of poop jokes, and anything else your creepy heart desires.

We're currently on hiatus but watch/listen to the first season of 19 episodes now!

Where to listen:

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