Friday Night Miscellany - Spooky Stuff!

Cue spooky music from ONE STEP BEYOND….. or, if you prefer, THE X-FILES. In honor of Halloween here’s some weird stuff, mostly reported at Daily Grail. First stop – did you know that there are inhuman creatures living in vast complexes underground, controlled by the military of various nations? Did you know that more than 8 million people have been given as FOOD to these inhuman creatures? No? Well, check this out darlings. Of course, there are no photographs or even a description of these inhuman creatures that eat people – and no explanation is given for the fact that no one seems to have noticed that 8 million people have gone missing. Hmmmm…. But it’s all part of a dastardly plot to reduce the world population by 80%. Hmmmm…. But if that many humans get killed, what will the underground dwelling inhuman creatures do for food??? Darlings, searching for information on "elite plot to reduce world population by 80%" opened up an entirely and heretofore completely unexpected world on the internet! OHMYGODDESS! I can only say that people must have a lot of spare time on their hands. Hey, all you guys out there worrying about "world elites" and all of their nefarious plots, we could use some help over at Goddesschess doing basic research. Years ago I read a book called "The Portent" and it scared the crap out of me! It was a story about nature gone amok, evidently in revenge for humans bringing ruin to the earth. In one particularly horrible sequence, a young couple out in the wilderness separate for awhile, she to go after some wild flowers, he to go explore a ghost town; later, Jess, the husband, goes looking for the wife, Claire. He searches and searches, and finds himself near a stand of trees; the sun was going down, the light was feeble, and his flashlight wasn’t much help: "Claire!" he shouted. "For God’s sake, where are you? Claire?" He hears a whisper of a voice "…ess" – "… ess, go ‘ack…" Jess trips over a tree root and falls, breaking a leg. … From this prostrate and weakened position he was on the verge of pulling himself forward when the faint eye of light (from the flashlight) seemed to turn and focus on the trunk of a large tree. Through eyes dimmed with pain, he saw a variation, a piece of worn blue denim blending with the brown mottled bark, saw a shoulder, the angle of a cheekbone, lips… … Slowly he lifted his head and tried to blink his eyes into focus. And saw it again. And knew enough to hold still. And knew enough not to cry out. Her features were still visible, though quickly disappearing, the imprisonment complete, her head held high, a brown scale moving liquidly over her mouth. "…ess…" Claire was "absorbed" somehow, by the tree. Jess never leaves the mountain; 30 years later, he still mourns the loss of Claire by the tree that took her and in a scene that part of the climax, one of the characters comes across the outline of Claire as preserved by the bark from 30 years ago. Well, darlings! According to this news report out of India on October 18th – there is a tree that tried to eat a COW! Holy Cow (pun pun). Here’s the link to the news report at Cryptomundo. Seems the villagers beat the tree sufficiently that it released the cow (evidently unharmed, although according to the news account the cow was "snatched up into the branches") – well, don’t take my word for it, read the report yourselves! I had no idea that it was really aliens in a spaceship that damaged Apollo 13. Geez – how dumb am I? I actually believe the accounts provided by the NASA and one of my favorite movies is "Apollo 13". But – a "Russian scientist" has written a book all about what REALLY happened. And there’s more – evidently Apollos 12 and 11 had contact with UFOs too – but everyone crossed their hearts and hoped to die and to this day have not revealed what REALLY happened "out there, in outer space"….