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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 4h

sometimes Slow Horses is kind of like if Looney Tunes made a live-action adaptation of a John le Carre novel, (complimentary) (obviously)

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 3h

If you see this, QTP with a sword. ⚔️

Conan the Barbarian (1982). Conan’s mother defends her son, and her husband’s steel sword masterpiece, from Thulsa Doom and his raiders.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

While most of Western Europe had witch trials, in the German provinces and Switzerland they instead had werewolf trials: men and women were accused of courting Satan for the power to transform into wolves and devour their victims. These lasted into the 1700s #LegendaryWednesday

A woodblock cut of a man half-transformed into a werewolf as German peasants look on horrified. His upper half is that of a raving wolf, tongue out, while his lower half is the tunic and pants and shoes of a peasant; his arms are still human arms, as if asking "What the fuck, knock before you enter" but the werewolf is transforming in the middle of a wheat wield, so that's kind of his fault.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

Among the Creole families or Trinidad and Tobago, a magic is passed down that can transform a soul into a Lagahoo, a kind of werewolf descended from the loup-garou. To kill this person you must beat them with an anointed stick until they are black mists. #LegendaryWednesday

Art by Kong, who does great Caribbean folklore art, showing a wiry figure in a loin cloth with stringy hair, a skeletal dog-like face, pointed ears, gnarly clawed hands and feet, and the posing skills of a 90s parkour expert, ready to strike from a tree, staring at the viewer.

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 4h

I’m all for anything that makes history come alive and speak with immediacy to the student.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

You know what's really fun, in a classroom, as someone who started as a theatre major? Delivering an eighteenth century sermon as a performance piece to a colonial American history class.

John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 4h

I’m a huge Monster Talk Fan! I’ll buy the book as soon as the Feds cut me a paycheck. 😳
MT is an influence on my new podcast, but my true believer partner won’t let me be hard-line skeptic. Oh, well. Every show needs to find its own personality.

Karen Stollznow @karenstollznow.bsky.social · 5h

Exciting news! By popular demand, Haunting America is now available in paperback! 👻 Get your copy here: a.co/d/hGaOoLU

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 1d

This Friday, October 17 at 4pm EDT, Into the Unknown with Mike and John, episode 6: the 1952 DC UFO Flap sets the stage for flying saucer hijinks for the next 70+ years.
On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or iHeart Radio. Rate and review on your podcast service!
And visit the website: ITUpodcast.com

Two Air Force jet fighters intercept a classic flying saucer 🛸 somewhere over Washington DC!

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Matthew Spicer @matthewspicer.bsky.social · 3d

I drew THEM! while watching THEM! on Svengoolie.

#art #sketch #sketchbook #doodle #them #Svengoolie #bigants @svengoolieofficial.bsky.social

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 2d

The Wolf Man (1941, dir. Georges Waggner) stars Lon Chaney Jr as Larry Talbot, returned to his family estate after nearly two decades away. It doesn't take Larry long to fall in love or get bitten by a werewolf. Chaney really goes for it, matching the film as it gets increasingly daft, wild and fun.

Larry Talbot's new cane, with a silver wolf's head and a pentagram on its handle

Talbot's eyes, as he imagines the death of the woman he loves, Gwen. Her face is centre to the image, with a pentagram in a circle imposed over it.

Talbot's feet, newly wolf-like and hairy, with his trousers seen just above, his shoes to the right of frame

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · Sep 13

Our award-winning short documentary, “Filming Under Fire: John Ford's OSS Field Photo Branch,” was selected by the DaVinci International Film Festival. Steven Spielberg thanked The OSS Society “for preserving this history and keeping it our conversations 80 years later.”
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Filming Under Fire: John Ford's OSS Field Photo Branch [trailer]

World War II was fought on many fronts. One of them was film. Filming Under Fire: John Ford’s OSS Field Photo Branch tells the story of how Hollywood’s…

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 2d

Relevant to my “Black Helicopters” podcast episode, which is really more about Catoctin Area B and references the John Ford films.

The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 3d

Our award-winning short documentary is being shown tomorrow at the DaVinci International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg thanked The OSS Society for “preserving this history and keeping it our conversations 80 years later.”

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Richard Hatem @richardhatem.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, we’re up for a Listener’s Choice Award in @signalawards! You can support Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf by giving us a vote before Thursday, October 9th!

vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... #SignalAward

The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

vote.signalaward.com

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 2d

You had me at “Steinbeck Werewolf.” I need this in my life.

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 5d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 2d

For the first time in over 25 years, I have managed to wash my clothes and get dye-bleed… 😢

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d

Simon Magus was a magician and healer in conflict with the Apostle Peter, healing people for money and doing great shows of magic, bragging that he was stronger than Peter's God. He flew in the air and Peter prayed for God to take his flight away: he fell. #FolkloreSunday

Simon Magus' descent from the skies, showing devils allowing him to fly but angels coming from Heaven and killing the demons, thus forcing Simon to fall to his death. Peter is dressed as a 13th century cardinal in a rather small hat.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d

The vast majority of British magic practitioners until the 20th century were cunning folk, hedge magicians who used folk magic and low magic via devices, often amulets, elixirs, and craft taken from grimoires, to help or harm with angels, demons, or fairies. #FolkloreSunday

A model of a 19th century magician showing her using cartomancy via Tarot to divine the future for someone. She is a simple older woman with a black hat and gray cloak, a heart statue on her desk, and behind her a cabinet of elixirs, two mortars and pestles, and some pots and containers for liquids. Hanging is herbs and dolls. In her hand is a blackened crystal ball.

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 3d

Time again for Sunday morning coffee and conversation with friends! Join Into the Unknown with Mike and John, Episode 5: Black Helicopters. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio. Check out the website: ITUpodcast.com.

And remember your training in Catoctin Area B!

An OSS trainee enjoys a hot cuppa joe after successfully completing the House of Horrors course of training.

John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 4d

Into the Unknown with Mike and John, Episode 5: Black Helicopters. The House of Horrors! Kill or be killed! The Timetable of Death! All in a day’s work… Join the guys on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart Radio. Links at ITUpodcast.com!

A GI trains in the OSS House of Horrors somewhere in Catoctin Area B.

John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 4d

My MilSF starter pack as a kid.

Two obvious, two not so obvious…

SHADO UFO Interceptors stationed at the moon base.

Four Imperial AT-ATs assault the Rebel Base on Hoth.

The rebuilt, refit Space Battleship Yamato makes a desperate run for the salvation of a war-ravaged planet earth.

Two colonial vipers on combat patrol from the Battlestar Galactica.

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 4d

Any love here?

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 4d

Into the Unknown with Mike and John, Episode 5: Black Helicopters is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart Radio. Links available on ITUpodcast.com. The episode takes. Bit of a turn from the typical subject matter, but continues to uncover hidden history.

An OSS/SOE Jedburgh Team in World War II.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 5d

Another of my ghost books is ‘Ghost and Witches of the Cotswolds’ by JA Brooks. Contains some Warwickshire material as the Cotswolds extend into the county. Plus, the cover kind of reminds me of the creepy preacherman from ‘Poltergeist II’. 🧵
#PhantomsFriday

Cover of the book depicting a scarecrow with the face and neck of a skeleton wearing a black broad--brimmed hat and natty cravat. It also has blood round it's mouth

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 5d

20/10… c’mon.

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John Fitzpatrick @johnfitzpatrick3.bsky.social · 5d

Into the Unknown with Mike and John, episode 5: Black Helicopters drops on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart Radio tomorrow at 4pm EDT. Will this be the episode that gets the Illuminati made at the guys? Will there be an episode 6!? Find out!

A Black Hawk helicopter flies over a college dormitory at night.

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