Mysterious Universe

Just a quick post to let you know that this week’s special episode will be released on Halloween.

That is if our interview with the Dibbuk box keeper, Jason Haxton, didn’t leave us cursed yet again. Aaron pointed out to me yesterday that as the interview started we experienced the heaviest October rainfall in Sydney in 20 years.

Did we anger the box?

The episode will feature two guests as we are interviewing Jason Offutt tomorrow, who you will know from from-the-shadows.blogspot.com. Jason’s work has been featured heavily on previous episodes and I’m super excited to finally be able to speak with him and discuss his new book, Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us.

If you have any questions for Jason on the Shadow People/Old Hag phenomenon please add them as comments to this post.

See you on Halloween.

The Chinese Communist Party often relies on the modern skylines of Beijing and Shanghai to show off their “progress” to the west. What they don’t show however are areas that lack some of the basic buildings essential to the community, schools for example.

In 1994, the residents of the Miao Village, in China’s Guizhou province, took matters into their own hands and constructed a school.

They certainly picked an interesting spot.

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This incredible gallery of images was blogged and re-blogged on plenty of sites last month. It’s a collection of insect macro photography from Igor Iwanowicz.

Seeing these creatures up close brings to mind the many reported encounters with “Mantis” like beings over the years. I’d take a reptilian over these guys every time.

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The recent succession of UFO sightings in California leads us off on this week’s huge episode. We also look at a UFO vortex reported in Russia, strange entities caught on film, and one of the most bizarre Cryptozoology reports you will ever hear.

Our second half has some incredible new claims from the world of Quantum mechanics, along with some dating advice from Aaron!

Read on for show notes, videos, and tunes.

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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau

Zombies are all the rage for some reason. A brain dead Principal Skinner recently wrecked havoc on The Simpson’s Springfield, and they’ve even had had their mindless, flesh-eating way with the Bennett girls from Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice .

If they haven’t shuffled their way into your neighborhood yet, don’t worry, because it turns out we’ve all got a little zombie in us, with the potential to walk around while our brain’s still dreaming.

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