The Occultist's New Robes

The UFOs could've been floating lanterns; the falling object is more interesting.

PLOS ONE: Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis

This is knotty stuff, but the basics are this: the Voynich Manuscript, one of the most fascinating coded documents in existence, has often been dismissed as a nonsensical artistic hoax. However new research indicates (as you read in the quote above) that the Voynich may contain some kind of true information, after all. 

VANISHED! A VIDEO SEANCE (by Conrad Weiskrantz)

This story is true in that Gef was alleged to be real and a minor news sensation at the time. 

(via Digital Minot: An On-Line Museum of Local History | Mystery Images : Mystery Images)

This is a fascinating random find. From Digital Minot, an online museum of history run by North Dakota's Minot State University:

The photographs were printed from film negatives found during work on a Minot home after the 2011 flood, and forwarded to the Digital Minot Project by a Minot resident, Mark Hildahl. The address of the flooded home is 314 9th Street NW.

The photographs in the collection appear to be of some sort of ceremonial and/or community event that included games and races. A few images include farming equipment and automobiles. There are representations of at least three cultures: Native Americans, Norwegians, and Scots. The photographs were probably taken during the early part of the twentieth century.

Of course, it's purely my brain being sick, but I kept looking through this collection--particularly the photos made at night--and imagining some kind of terrible thing happening just off-camera, for often the subjects of the shots seem to be looking in that direction. Something involving the opening of Yog-Sothoth or the sacrifice of some hapless community member, a la Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

"THE OTHER" (1972) (by svetac gabo)

Oh my God, it's the whole damned movie.

If you don't mind the Spanish subtitles, you should watch this, a delightfully creepy 70s film titled The Other, based on a novel by that name. The IMDB synopsis: "In the summer of 1935, 9-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry live with their family on a Connecticut farm. Their loving grandmother Ada has taught them something called 'the game.' A number of accidents begin happening, and it seems to Niles that Holland is responsible. It is Ada who begins to see the truth, and she is the only one who can stop this macabre game of murder."

BREAKING!!! UFO ALIEN DISCLOSURE By Canadian Minister of Defence MAY 2013 (by DisclosureTeam)

Either Paul Hellyer, this Minister of Defense in Canada, has broken the biggest news in history or Canada has some crrrrrrrraaaaaaazy politicians in office. 

This is almost 10 minutes long and Mr. Hellyer refers to flotillas of UFOs as well as "four species" of alien that have been visiting our planet for "thousands of years."

Well, this is fun.

Asteroid 2013 LR6 will pass within 70,000 miles of Earth tonight, making its closest approach over Tasmania at 9:42 Pacific Time. The asteroid is 30 feet in diameter and NASA says it has no chance of striking our planet. What is a matter for concern, though, is that it was just discovered two days ago, on June 6.

(via Twitter / thetimebank: Hey @forteantimes ....check ...)

WHO chief says novel coronavirus 'poses a threat to the entire world' - BNO News

No, seriously. Japan Times suggests that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe hasn't moved in to the prime minister's official residence because there are rumors it may be haunted. 

A Haunting is an allegedly "true" paranormal documentary series that airs on Destination America, a basic cable channel. The selection airing as a I write is "The Wheatsheaf Horror," about an English pub haunted by a young girl who was killed there. In the show, the staff tries to contact the young girl.

Creepy Old Rapture Brainwashing Video (by logicked)

"Housework will be left undone because Christian maids have been promoted to higher realms!"

A 1941 film about The Rapture--one of the more unintentionally creepy things I've seen lately. The juxtaposition of the eschatological dialogue with the classic 1940s newsreel announcer's style. As if it was made in an alternate universe, somehow.