Oddities of an Unkempt Mind

Rubies draw from her

A monsoon of ecstasy

The perfect anesthetic

To leave her numb

A tremor erupts

As the paper wets

A vision of madness

To all looking in

The goat has touched her

With astral fingers of fire

A macabre purification

Of a corrupt and wandering soul

In 2007, doom/noise metal band Stalaggh released Projekt Misanthropia. The band (whose members have yet to reveal their identities) attempted to create the most grief-stricken, horribly desperate, unlistenable album ever to grace the underground metal scene. This was the result of said attempt.

So how was it created? If you dare subject yourself to the 35-minute long cacophony, you’ll hear many, many terrifying screams amidst the band’s instruments. These screams are real. They were provided by criminally insane patients from a psychiatric ward.

In an interview, one of them stated: “One of our members works in a mental institution in Holland, so this is how we got access and permission to record. All patients who have worked with us gave their full written permission. One of the patients who suffers from schizophrenia even made the cover drawing of the Pure Misanthropia CD.”

Allegedly, one of said patients heard amidst the noise was said to have been in the asylum for having stabbed his mother 30 times when he was only 16 and in another occasion, one of the bandmates was attacked by another patient with uncontrollable homicidal tendencies, which was also recorded.

Stalaggh (which, in case, you’re not aware was a Nazi POW camp) have since rebranded themselves as Gulaggh (the Soviet prison camps of the Cold War) and released another album in 2008, Vorkuta (one such markedly notorious soviet camp). In an interview it was stated the extra “g” and “h” at the end of each of their names stands for “Global Holocaust”.

Reach down into the very depths of human suffering.

Double is the eye

Of the one looking through

Him with faculties askew

More so, if he is I

Experiencing something surreal

Mirrors of flesh and blood

Keeping him afloat in the mud

How awkward it makes him feel

Eventually, reality returns

The strange haze lingering

Like scraps of kindling

As his mind slowly burns

There’s something inherently more horrific about a monster we have no way of understanding, and no knowledge of how to confront. Fate has chosen us to suffer, and all we can do is hope death is as painless, merciful and swift as it can be.

Recently, I had a semi-lucid dream.

I was walking around this huge house with all these rooms which had shelves all over them packed to the brim with stuff I enjoyed in my waking life.

At one point, I met this girl and we left the house with some people who, for some reason, I knew were friends of mine at another point in my life and are no longer present.

Here, I turned to the girl and said:

“I don’t want to wake up. I know this is a dream. This house... it’s like a physical manifestation of my mind.”

In that moment, I was aware the dream was finite, and I wanted to preserve it somehow, so I turned around and faced the house, pulled out my phone and took a picture of it to sort of imprint it on my memories. I noticed then it looked similar to a place next to where I live.

At this point, everyone was starting to annoy me and I was close to my own house so the girl and I broke off from the group and went back to my place. It was different; some things were changed and even the balcony stretched around the corner showing the night sky; it was beautiful even if how the balcony looked was impossible in real life considering where I live.

So, at this point, I knew I was gonna get with this girl and she told me:

“I’m just gonna go take a shower, I’ll be right back.”

I said “Ok.” and sat on my bed, but that’s when I knew...

I silently said to myself:

“Fuck. It’s gonna happen.”

That’s when I woke up.

The Wyoming Incident (or The Wyoming Hijacking) is a lesser known case of television broadcast hijacking/hacking. A hacker managed to interrupt broadcasts from a local programming channel (believed to serve several smaller communities in the county of Niobrara) and aired his/her own video. The video contained numerous clips of disembodied, human heads showing various emotions and "poses." The camera position changed often (usually every ten-to-fifteen seconds) and the video was frequently interrupted by a "SPECIAL PRESENTATION" announcement.

The video is mostly locally well-known, and would probably not even be that popular if it were not for the effects it had on the few residents who watched it for an extended period of time. Complaints included vomiting, hallucinations, headaches, etc. While some believed it was paranormal, specialists have determined that the cause of these afflictions were frequencies played regularly throughout the broadcast (somewhere between 17 and 19 hz). This range of frequency, when played for long periods of time, causes the eyes to subtly vibrate, sometimes inducing visual hallucinations.

The video is significant in that it is one of the most recent television hijackings. Such actions were rare even in the '80s (search for Chicago’s Max Headroom Incident) and are even rarer today. The hacker has not yet been caught, and all attempts to trace the video have proven futile.