Tag: cryptids
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Hulu’s “Sasquatch” — A Stark Warning to the Occult Cryptid Community
For the past few months I’ve railed against the connections between the fringe right, militant anarchists, paramilitary racists, and the belief in cryptids and aliens. The idiocy of the the Hellier pseudo-docuseries has fused with the Nashville bombing and even the Capitol insurrection in my blog to the point that some doubt my assertion that…
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“But it’s not the same thing!” The Goblin-Crowley-ship comes a-callin’…
I was targeted with a message the other day demanding I reconsider my position on Hellier. I was told that my linking occult-cryptozoology to far-right ideology wasn’t justified and (this is what gets me) that I needed to apologize for daring to imply that “spiritual” people were somehow in it for the money. I laughed…
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There is Obvious Danger in Believing Bullshit…
“In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality…
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Hellier: Feeding a Dangerous Subculture
Perhaps the thing that most people don’t seem to understand about the Hellier investigators is how they feed a dangerous and violent subculture in American society. While it’s all fun and games for the “researchers,” it’s deadly serious to a growing population of unhinged conspiracy theorists that are willing to act on their beliefs. On…
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Whence the Cryptids
When I was about 24 or so, after spending five years pursuing the hogwash degrees of the Ordo Templi Orientis up to the Royal Arch and its subdegree of Perfect Initiate, I elected to go back to college and pursue a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. I began my studies in the summer in order to…
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Hellier: Season Two’s End
This is the third part of a short series. The first part may be viewed here, and the second part, here. What good can I say of Allen H. Greenfield? I no longer think he actually initiated this or manipulated this from the start. I do, however, know that Allen has built a large network…
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The Problematic Nature of Amazon’s Hellier
Amazon’s docuseries, Hellier, details an investigation by three apparently terribly ignorant “paranormal researchers” into the presence of small “goblins” living in a mineshaft near the moribund mining town of Hellier, Kentucky. Despite being rife with pseudoscience and obvious bad actors (as in agents, not hired thespians), the show emphasizes the growing and alarming disparity between…