It ALL makes TOO MUCH SENSE! (And I'm not even on acid!) I think I need a lot of room for the sources so...

SOURCES:

- Pearlman, L. (2020). The Lindbergh Kidnapping: The Suspect No. 1 Theory. Createspace. (Judge Pearlman's work on the medical experiment/cover-up theory)

- Gardner, L.C. (2003). The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping.

- Fisher, J. (1999). The Lindbergh Case. (Comprehensive examination of Hauptmann trial/evidence problems)

- Kennedy, L. (1985). The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann. (Classic work on frame-up theory)

- Berg, A.S. (1998). Lindbergh. G.P. (The standard bio, covers his eugenics beliefs/Carrel friendship)

- Lindbergh, C.A. (1939). "Aviation, Geography, and Race." (Lindbergh's own words on racial purity)

- Friedman, D. (2007). The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever. (Details perfusion pump/shared ideology)

- Carrel, A. (1935). Man, the Unknown. (Carrel's own eugenics manifesto w/ euthanasia proposals)

- Malinin, T.I. (1979). Surgery and Life: The Extraordinary Career of Alexis Carrel.

- Reggiani, A.H. (2007). "Alexis Carrel's 'Immortal' Heart: The Scientific Context and Popular Reception of a Medical Experiment."

- Szasz, T. (2006). "The Theology of Medicine: Alexis Carrel's 'Man, the Unknown'."

- Carrel, A. (1950). The Voyage to Lourdes. (His account of the Marie Bailly case/miraculous healing)

- Grandin, G. (2009). Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.

- Collier, P., & Horowitz, D. (1987). The Fords: An American Epic.

- Lindbergh, C.A. (1937). "An Apparatus for the Culture of Whole Organs." (Original perfusion pump paper)

- Schlich, T. (2010). "The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930."

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OHHHHHHHHHH! MY ACHING HEAD! "That's no way to get ahead in life!" and other various head puns! ETC. ! Anyways, this episode, we examine the "Headless/Bornless One Ritual" as well as various other occult aspects of "headlessness" as well as a PLETHORA of some possible (some most definitely) occult decapitations. IT'S QUITE A HEADY MIX! (It's okay, I hate me too.) PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Hans Dieter Betz (Ed.): The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells (1986) – For PGM V. 96–172 (The Stele of Jeu/Headless Rite).

*S.L. MacGregor Mathers: The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1898)

*Aleister Crowley: Liber Samekh (1921) – Thelemic adaptation of Headless Ritual for Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.

*Pliny the Elder & Herodotus: Natural History & Histories – Classical sources on the Akephaloi/Blemmyae.

*The Chaldean Oracles: Late 2nd-century CE Neoplatonic text on "Paternal Intellect"/"unencased" perception.

*Jericho & Göbekli Tepe Excavation Reports: Archaeological documents on Neolithic ancestor skulls/skull-suspension groves.

*Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up Jericho (1957) – Archaeological study on the Neolithic skull cult.

*Michael Harner & Janet Siskind: Anthropology studies on Jivaroan ("Shuar") head-shrinking ("tsantsas") and soul-trapping ("muisak").

*The Mabinogion & Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda: Mythology sources for living oracular severed heads of Bran the Blessed/Mímir.

*The Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim): 11th-century Arabic manual of astral magic (Book III) describing head-divination rites.

*The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic/Grimorium Verum: Medieval grimoires using skulls as acoustic amplifiers for summoned spirits.

*Palo Mayombe Traditions: Operational frameworks for: "nganga", "kiyumba" (skull), and "nfumbe" (spirit).

*Cleveland Torso Murders (1935–1938)/Thames Torso Murders (1887–1889): Police files on unsolved serial decapitations/missing heads.

*San Francisco Police Department Files (1981): Case files on the ritual homicide of Leroy Carter Jr. and Officer Sandi Gallant’s Palo Mayombe prediction.

*Adolfo Constanzo / Matamoros Cult Case (1989): Law enforcement/court records on harvesting of human remains for "nganga" cauldron.

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOOOOOOO! This episode (and it's companion piece) are explorations of the mysteries contained within the Greek Magical Papyri...and man, does it get weird! Could the Judeo-Christian "God" be one and the same as the much dreaded ancient chaos monster "Set-Typhon"? PROBABLY!? YOU BE THE JUDGE! (Just don't be judgmental.) PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Hans Dieter Betz (Ed.): The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells (1986)

*Karl Preisendanz: Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri (1928–1931)

*Carl Schmidt & Violet MacDermot: The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex (1978)

*Plato: The Republic (Book II)

*Apollodorus: Bibliotheca (Library, Book I)

*Dr. Stephen Skinner & Jake Stratton-Kent: Modern academic and operational analyses connecting the pharaonic Opening of the Mouth to the Greco-Egyptian Akephalos/Bornless rites.

*Aleister Crowley: Liber Samekh (1921/Magick in Theory and Practice)

*Kenneth Grant: The Typhonian Trilogies (specifically The Magical Revival and Nightside of Eden)

*James Shelby Downard & William Grimstad: Sirius/Twilight Language studies

THE HORROR...THE HORROR! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES (for masochists and perverts):

- https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-centipede

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_gigantea

- https://www.newsweek.com/scolopendra-gigantea-giant-centipede-painful-venomous-bite-1711287

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/goliath-birdeater-tarantula-worlds-biggest-spider-science

- Britannica – "Giant huntsman spider" – 30cm leg span, cave-dwelling species: https://www.britannica.com/animal/giant-huntsman-spider

- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/animals/giant-huntsman-spider-the-11-8-inch-discovery-that-shocked-science/articleshow/130424493.cms

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/japanese-spider-crab

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Macrocheira_kaempferi/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16377374/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330675233_Ekbom's_Delusional_Parasitosis_A_Systematic_Review

- https://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/ekbom-syndrome-secondary-major-depressive-episode/

- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12420414/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163834305001490

- https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/4362

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125172321.htm

- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.335.6068.511-a

- https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/mystery-skin-disease-morgellons-has-no-clear-cause-cdc-study-1C6436053

- https://academic.oup.com/jme

- https://philippines.travel/destinations/siquijor

- https://www.aswangproject.com/mambabarang-insect-sorcery/

- https://pro11.pnp.gov.ph/

https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1903/dec1903/gr_1205_1903.html

https://www.chanrobles.com/cralaw/1966junedecisions.php?id=255

https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1981/oct1981/gr_49149_1981.html

https://www.chanrobles.com/cralaw/1981junedecisions.php?id=377

-https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mental-illness/in-depth/delusional-parasitosis/art-20044996

-Urogenital Myiasis & Fly Larvae: J. Travel Med. (2008, 15:363-366); Case Rep. Urol. (2020, 8816912).

-Formicophilia & Beetle Complications: Dewaraja & Money, J. Sex Marital Ther. (1986, 12:139-145); Spizzirri et al., J. Sex. Med. (2012, 9:s3); Am. J. Dermatopathol. (2018, 40:4).

- https://www.gaia.com/article/mantis-aliens

- https://hangar1publishing.com/blogs/ufos-uaps-and-aliens/mantis-beings

- https://medium.com/quantum-psychology-and-engineering/the-insectoid-alien-type-priest-scientists-of-the-abduction-phenomenon-2ffa01076ddd

- https://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2025/12/the-mantis-beings-guardians-overlords-or-earthly-teachers.html

- https://www.uapdigest.com/woo-wednesday-mantis-beings-insectoid-aliens/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formicophilia

- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-infested-mind/201506/paraphilia-insects-as-sources-of-sexual-arousal

- https://www.discovermagazine.com/flashback-friday-ant-fetish-yup-its-a-thing-6119

- https://grokipedia.com/page/Formicophilia

- https://drmarkgriffiths.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/ants-in-your-pants-a-beginners-guide-to-formicophilia/

- https://www.jezebel.com/what-it-s-like-to-be-sexually-aroused-by-insects-farts-1793854102

- https://gakuran.com/the-gruesome-art-of-daikichi-amano/

- Vice Documentary – "Genki and the Art of Eel Porn" – Daikichi Amano interview (referenced in multiple sources; originally at VBS.tv, now archived)

- https://horrornews.net/114535/film-review-genki-genki-18/

- http://jadedviewer.blogspot.com/2010/12/things-i-learned-researching-japanese.html

- https://themadcanvas.org/daikichi-amano1/

- https://drmarkgriffiths.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/the-worm-that-turned-on-a-beginners-guide-to-vermiphilia/

- https://clotmag.com/oped/obscene-performing-machines-of-wenzhe-lis-mental-eelness-by-piotr-bockowski

This one's got worms, wyrms, demonic parasites, slime gurus, super freaky fungi, and so much more! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- "Behavioral Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii: Does Brain Residence Matter?" ScienceDirect, 2020.

- "Brain parasite may strip away rodents' fear of predators—not just of cats." Science, AAAS.

- "Mind-control' parasite Toxoplasma hides from the immune system with 2 key genes." Live Science, 2024.

- "The role of parasite-produced dopamine in Toxoplasma gondii-altered host behavior." Nature Communications, 2025.

- "Absurd Creature of the Week: The Parasitic Worm That Turns Crickets Into Suicidal Maniacs." Wired, 2014.

- "Grasshoppers brainwashed into suicide by a worm." New Scientist, 2005.

- "Behavioral manipulation in a grasshopper harboring hairworm: a proteomics approach." PMC, 2005.

- "The brain worm that turns ants into zombies." Natural History Museum, London, 2018.

- "Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk." Phys.org, 2023.

- "3D virtual histology at the host/parasite interface: visualization of the master manipulator, Dicrocoelium dendriticum." Scientific Reports, 2018.

- "How *Ophiocordyceps unilateralis* turns ants into 'zombies.'" National Geographic.

- "The Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants' Bodies to Control Their Minds." The Atlantic, 2017.

- "Zombie ant brains left intact by fungal parasite." Penn State University, PNAS.

- "Minakata Kumagusu and the Tale of the Mountain God." Library of Congress, 2018.

- "The Multispecies Intellectual History of the Kumano Kodō: Minakata Kumagusu, Slime Moulds, and Shrine Merger, 1906–1914." Environment & Society Portal.

- "Japan's Wild Scientific Genius: Minakata Kumagusu." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

- "Science Heroes: Minakata Kumagusu." The Ethogram, 2021.

- "Minakata Kumagusu: The Meiji Polymath Who Broke the Mold." Nippon.com.

- "Minakata Kumagusu: The first Japanese environmentalist." History of Education Quarterly, Taylor & Francis.

- "Attuning to the webs of en: Ontography, Japanese spirit worlds, and the 'tact' of Minakata Kumagusu." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, University of Chicago Press.

- "How brainless slime molds redefine intelligence." Nature, 2012.

- "Collective behavior and swarm intelligence in slime moulds." FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Oxford Academic.

- "Hyphal and mycelial consciousness: the concept of the fungal mind." ScienceDirect, 2021.

- "Thinking while Brainless: Slime Mold Gives Insight into the Intelligence of Neuron-Less Organisms." NJIT News.

- "Paramecium Learning: New Insights and Modifications." bioRxiv

- "Integrative Neuroscience of Paramecium, a 'Swimming Neuron.'" eNeuro & PMC

- "Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination." Vice

- "'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough." Live Science, 2025.

- "'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans." BBC Future, 2026.

- "Hallucinogenic bolete mushroom." Wikipedia

- "This Is Awkward: Mushrooms That Cause 'Tiny Human' Hallucinations Don't Contain Psychedelics." ScienceAlert

- "A Mushroom Is Sending Hundreds of People to the Hospital. They're All Sharing the Same Bizarre Hallucination." Popular Mechanics, 2025.

- "Little people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin Domnauer." The Microdose, Substack.

- "Edible mushroom in China causes consistent hallucinations of tiny marching figures." OregonLive, 2026.

- "The parasite's long arm: a tapeworm parasite induces behavioral changes in uninfected group members of its social host." PMC, 2015.

- "Tapeworm infection affects sleep-like behavior in three-spined sticklebacks." Scientific Reports, 2024.

There's more but this is all I can fit. Boo.

SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! While I'm still on the mend from being beat with the shitty stick, please accept this introductory examination of one CHARLES HOY FORT! The original high strangeness investigator, or as I like to call him, "THE ANOMALIST!" Check it out and put it in yo' brains baby! ALSO! Stay tuned to the very end so that YOU! Yes, YOU! THE LISTENER! will have a chance to vote for which topic is covered in the next episode(s)! We be gettin' interactive up in the maw! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Fort, Charles. The Complete Books of Charles Fort (Includes complete, unabridged texts of "The Book of the Damned," "New Lands," "Lo!", and "Wild Talents.")

The International Fortean Organization (INFO) / Resologist Archives: Online public-domain transcripts of Fort's original four books (available via Project Gutenberg and sacred-texts.com).

Knight, Damon. Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained, 1970.

Sconce, Jeffrey. Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, 2000.

Steinmeyer, Jim. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural

Fortean Times Magazine (forteantimes.com): Founded in 1973

Skeptical Inquirer / CSICOP Archives (csicop.org)

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Here's a mini-episode on the Copenhagen "Hypnosis Murders"! I feel like runover dogshit right now, so this is it, as far as show notes goes.

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SOURCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_hypnosis_murders

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