Blather: Paranormal
Blather.net's Map of the Weird
Posted by damien at 10:33 AM on March 28, 2008
View Larger Map For the last eleven years (yes, that's eleven) we here at Blather have been keeping track of every lake monster, UFO sighting, satanist, pornographer, ghost, exorcism, banshee attack, ABC sighting, religious quack, police state action, alien abduction and friendly neighbourhood Kangaroo that we can scribble down in this here site. But the truth is, there's such an abundance of these bloody things that keeping track of them has become somewhat problematic. Until now. So allow us reader dear, to present 'Blather.net's Map of the Weird', a first public presentation of what will become an ever-growing, all-encompassing cartographic apocalypse of filth, depravity, smut and forteana.
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Posted by damien at 10:33 AM on March 28, 2008
View Larger Map For the last eleven years (yes, that's eleven) we here at Blather have been keeping track of every lake monster, UFO sighting, satanist, pornographer, ghost, exorcism, banshee attack, ABC sighting, religious quack, police state action, alien abduction and friendly neighbourhood Kangaroo that we can scribble down in this here site. But the truth is, there's such an abundance of these bloody things that keeping track of them has become somewhat problematic. Until now. So allow us reader dear, to present 'Blather.net's Map of the Weird', a first public presentation of what will become an ever-growing, all-encompassing cartographic apocalypse of filth, depravity, smut and forteana.
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The Haunting (part 3)
Posted by sue at 9:15 AM on March 14, 2005
Blather correspondent Lyra concludes her chilling tale...
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Posted by sue at 9:15 AM on March 14, 2005
Blather correspondent Lyra concludes her chilling tale...
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Superstitions of Christmas
Posted by sue at 12:41 AM on December 29, 2004
Better late than never: The Blather guide to surviving Christmas....
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Posted by sue at 12:41 AM on December 29, 2004
Better late than never: The Blather guide to surviving Christmas....
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The Haunting (part 2)
Posted by damien at 12:06 PM on November 7, 2004
Blather correspondent Lyra updates us on more weird stuff in her house
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Posted by damien at 12:06 PM on November 7, 2004
Blather correspondent Lyra updates us on more weird stuff in her house
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The Haunting
Posted by daev at 5:11 PM on September 28, 2004
Blather correspondent Lyra is living in a haunted house. No, really. Read and post comments... tell us what YOU think!
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Posted by daev at 5:11 PM on September 28, 2004
Blather correspondent Lyra is living in a haunted house. No, really. Read and post comments... tell us what YOU think!
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Ghost Hunt 2003: Adventures in the Dublin Mountains
Posted by daev at 11:56 PM on December 28, 2003
On December 28th, the Blather Editorial Committee and friends launched an expedition into the remote reaches of the Dublin mountains...
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Posted by daev at 11:56 PM on December 28, 2003
On December 28th, the Blather Editorial Committee and friends launched an expedition into the remote reaches of the Dublin mountains...
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Lucy Dell
Posted by at 10:53 AM on December 16, 2003
Guest blatherer Oliver Bayliss goes down to the dell to find something rotten...Read the comments, for recently discovered notes
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Posted by at 10:53 AM on December 16, 2003
Guest blatherer Oliver Bayliss goes down to the dell to find something rotten...Read the comments, for recently discovered notes
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Paranormal Activity In Trinity College, Dublin?
Posted by daev at 1:01 PM on December 14, 2003
An urgent request, as found on a messageboard in Trinity College Dublin by Blather's intrepid 'Agent F'.
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Posted by daev at 1:01 PM on December 14, 2003
An urgent request, as found on a messageboard in Trinity College Dublin by Blather's intrepid 'Agent F'.
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The Blather Moving Statues Xmas Appeal
Posted by damien at 11:07 AM on December 9, 2003
We need your help. No, honestly...
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Posted by damien at 11:07 AM on December 9, 2003
We need your help. No, honestly...
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Bleedin' Statues!
Posted by daev at 12:15 AM on December 5, 2003
Padre Pio statue weeping blood. Apparently...
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Posted by daev at 12:15 AM on December 5, 2003
Padre Pio statue weeping blood. Apparently...
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Fish Fall in Ireland's West
Posted by daev at 8:50 PM on September 25, 2003
While I was busy chasing fish in Greece, here's one that got away...
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Posted by daev at 8:50 PM on September 25, 2003
While I was busy chasing fish in Greece, here's one that got away...
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UFO Crash in Kerry?
Posted by daev at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2003
Jesus Christ, there's a lot of mad news on the go at the 'mo.
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Posted by daev at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2003
Jesus Christ, there's a lot of mad news on the go at the 'mo.
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For Sale: Portal to Hollow Earth
Posted by daev at 11:14 PM on July 21, 2003
Richard Shaver's studio is for sale! No bids yet, but they're looking for US $2,799.00
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Posted by daev at 11:14 PM on July 21, 2003
Richard Shaver's studio is for sale! No bids yet, but they're looking for US $2,799.00
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1924: UFOs in Co. Wexford?
Posted by daev at 5:45 PM on June 13, 2003
daev's neck of the woods...
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Posted by daev at 5:45 PM on June 13, 2003
daev's neck of the woods...
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Bleddy beasties and mad hoors
Posted by daev at 12:11 PM on June 12, 2003
Nessie back in the news... [sigh]...
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Posted by daev at 12:11 PM on June 12, 2003
Nessie back in the news... [sigh]...
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Mothman Curse Continues?
Posted by daev at 11:26 AM on June 11, 2003
Richard Gere better watch out. Apparently.
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Posted by daev at 11:26 AM on June 11, 2003
Richard Gere better watch out. Apparently.
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Ghost in a Jar?
Posted by daev at 2:54 PM on June 4, 2003
Weird shite for sale on Ebay
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Posted by daev at 2:54 PM on June 4, 2003
Weird shite for sale on Ebay
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"Who ye gonna call boi?"
Posted by damien at 11:12 AM on May 21, 2003
Oddly enough, trying to put together a list of suitably haunted houses/breweries is proving to be quite doggedly difficult.
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Posted by damien at 11:12 AM on May 21, 2003
Oddly enough, trying to put together a list of suitably haunted houses/breweries is proving to be quite doggedly difficult.
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Blather Paranormal Investigators Inc.
Posted by damien at 4:51 PM on May 20, 2003
Is your PC possessed by a malevolent imp? Is your kettle making vile, satanic suggestions to you? Do you just get the feeling that you?re not alone?
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Posted by damien at 4:51 PM on May 20, 2003
Is your PC possessed by a malevolent imp? Is your kettle making vile, satanic suggestions to you? Do you just get the feeling that you?re not alone?
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Let's Get Spiritual, Spiritual: Spirits in the material world
Posted by damien at 4:25 PM on January 21, 2003
At about 6 PM on a cold January Sunday, I hastened past the remains of the recently collapsed Brighton Pier, and wound my way past the Pavilion. On past the D.K. Rosen clothes shop (where, as legend has it, one can find the real 'Suits you' shopkeeper), and towards the bohemian Kemp Town section of Brighton, where I had an appointment to commune with the dead... The 'Brighton National Spiritual Church' is located on Edward Street, near the American Express building (a sure contender for the vilest structure in south England) and opposite Devonshire Place. An unimposing building, it didn't prove too difficult to find, even in the foggy haze that blanketed this seaside town. I had managed to strong-arm a friend of mine (we'll call him Injun Bob) into accompanying me.
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Posted by damien at 4:25 PM on January 21, 2003
At about 6 PM on a cold January Sunday, I hastened past the remains of the recently collapsed Brighton Pier, and wound my way past the Pavilion. On past the D.K. Rosen clothes shop (where, as legend has it, one can find the real 'Suits you' shopkeeper), and towards the bohemian Kemp Town section of Brighton, where I had an appointment to commune with the dead... The 'Brighton National Spiritual Church' is located on Edward Street, near the American Express building (a sure contender for the vilest structure in south England) and opposite Devonshire Place. An unimposing building, it didn't prove too difficult to find, even in the foggy haze that blanketed this seaside town. I had managed to strong-arm a friend of mine (we'll call him Injun Bob) into accompanying me.
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Tarot Junkies - Dublin Tarot Readers
Posted by daev at 6:30 PM on October 1, 2001
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Posted by daev at 6:30 PM on October 1, 2001
Life getting you down? Feeling a bit out of control? How do you cope with the curve balls life throws you? Annmarie O'Connor gets personal with a pack of tarot cards.
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Dublin Tarot Readers and Raelians in Ireland
Posted by daev at 6:20 PM on October 1, 2001
A cornucopia - Rael on TV in Ireland, and and guest writer Annmarie O'Connor gets up close and personal with Dublin Tarot readers.
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Posted by daev at 6:20 PM on October 1, 2001
A cornucopia - Rael on TV in Ireland, and and guest writer Annmarie O'Connor gets up close and personal with Dublin Tarot readers.
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Paranormal Ireland - Where has all the weirdness gone?
Posted by daev at 5:41 PM on July 3, 2001
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Posted by daev at 5:41 PM on July 3, 2001
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"There are two ways to slide easily through life:
to believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking."
- Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
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QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Some time ago, we grew weary of writing about the paranormal. It was a pathetic state of affairs - the bizarre became, for us, the mundane. So, we shut up, and stopped writing about it. Now, without for one minute claiming that we somehow caused a fugue in the Hibernian gestalt or a committed grievous quantum act, for some reason people in Ireland stopped sending us weird shit. We miss it, in some twisted way.
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Out of the Marvellous - Black Masses, Lord Dunsany and Falling Fish
Posted by daev at 8:11 PM on February 13, 2000
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Posted by daev at 8:11 PM on February 13, 2000
TEMPIS FUGIT
Time does fly - yet another chasm gapes between the previous issue and
this one. Its been a quiet couple of months, with very little in the
way of Irish paranormal tales coming our way - but we've not been not
been idle (the devil found work for us). On the Blather website can be
found a fledgling, or worse still, skeleton bookstore, where we hope
to start reviewing and recommending books.
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The Dublin Ghost Bus Tour
Posted by daev at 3:33 PM on June 18, 1999
At 19:30 hours on the 25th of May, this Blatherskite ended a headlong bicycle sprint across Dublin's humid inner city, arriving at O'Connell St. with barely enough time to leap aboard the Dublin Ghost Bus and wave his credentials, before the spectral vehicle lurched away into the evening.
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Posted by daev at 3:33 PM on June 18, 1999
At 19:30 hours on the 25th of May, this Blatherskite ended a headlong bicycle sprint across Dublin's humid inner city, arriving at O'Connell St. with barely enough time to leap aboard the Dublin Ghost Bus and wave his credentials, before the spectral vehicle lurched away into the evening.
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Super Sargasso Surfin'
Posted by daev at 2:43 PM on October 8, 1998
After spending any reasonable amount of time recording and cataloguing the odder aspects of daily life on this planet, certain conclusions almost beg to be arrived at, such as "people are generally speaking, nuts," or that perhaps half the population really are more intelligent than the average person. But from these studies, one starts to get a grasp on the "bigger picture" that Charles Fort and hundreds of others have devoted so much time, in some cases even their lifetimes, examining. In the last year, while researching my weekly email newsletter, Blather [1], several events and a few tenuous mental tangents brought me to consider Fort's humorous hypothesis on the "Super-Sargasso Sea," an aerial ocean from which eels migrate back to old mother earth, aided by the wonderful force of gravity. But when rather out-of-date military projectiles and then--saints preserve us--people starting falling out of the sky, questions arise about the connections between "Magonia"--the possible home of historical "aerial sailing ships"--and the "Super-Sargasso."
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Posted by daev at 2:43 PM on October 8, 1998
After spending any reasonable amount of time recording and cataloguing the odder aspects of daily life on this planet, certain conclusions almost beg to be arrived at, such as "people are generally speaking, nuts," or that perhaps half the population really are more intelligent than the average person. But from these studies, one starts to get a grasp on the "bigger picture" that Charles Fort and hundreds of others have devoted so much time, in some cases even their lifetimes, examining. In the last year, while researching my weekly email newsletter, Blather [1], several events and a few tenuous mental tangents brought me to consider Fort's humorous hypothesis on the "Super-Sargasso Sea," an aerial ocean from which eels migrate back to old mother earth, aided by the wonderful force of gravity. But when rather out-of-date military projectiles and then--saints preserve us--people starting falling out of the sky, questions arise about the connections between "Magonia"--the possible home of historical "aerial sailing ships"--and the "Super-Sargasso."
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The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel: A Retrospective
Posted by daev at 10:24 AM on June 12, 1998
Having finally read previously neglected copy of John Keel's 1975 fortean classic The Mothman Prophecies, Blather would care to share with you a smidgen of its worth.
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Posted by daev at 10:24 AM on June 12, 1998
Having finally read previously neglected copy of John Keel's 1975 fortean classic The Mothman Prophecies, Blather would care to share with you a smidgen of its worth.
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Weird Achill Island
Posted by blather at 3:12 PM on June 10, 1998
Previously on Blather, in *Baaaaah-Humbug*, and *Rocks from Irish Skies* , we mentioned the ongoing debacle at the Achill Island House of Prayer.
Alleged stigmatic Mrs. Christina Gallagher and what appears to be a cult following of sorts have been claiming minor miracles there. Back before Christmas 1997, the Archbishop of Tuam held an inquiry, concluding that there was no evidence that "supernatural phenomena of whatever kind" was taking place at The House of Prayer.
(Irish Times, December 17th 1997)
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Posted by blather at 3:12 PM on June 10, 1998
Previously on Blather, in *Baaaaah-Humbug*, and *Rocks from Irish Skies* , we mentioned the ongoing debacle at the Achill Island House of Prayer.
Alleged stigmatic Mrs. Christina Gallagher and what appears to be a cult following of sorts have been claiming minor miracles there. Back before Christmas 1997, the Archbishop of Tuam held an inquiry, concluding that there was no evidence that "supernatural phenomena of whatever kind" was taking place at The House of Prayer.
(Irish Times, December 17th 1997)
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Poltergeists Down Under
Posted by blather at 9:10 PM on April 23, 1998
This week's haphazard Blather delivers a report on Australian poltergeists, along with a smidgen more calendric controversy. Post-apocalypse Reader Brian Miller asks Blather: 'Isn't the whole 2000-2001 question further muddled by the fact that our modern calender was set back by plus or minus 4 years at some point in the middle ages? So that in actuality, the second "millennium" passed sometime in 1996, if you're going by strict "1,000 year periods," and it's technically right now about 2,002 years since the birth of Christ'. Well, yes, and no. In 1650, James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland slogged his way back through the Bible to reach the conclusion that the world was created in 4004 BC. A few years later, Dr. John Lightfoot, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 'worked out' that the world was created on 23 October, 4004 BC.
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Posted by blather at 9:10 PM on April 23, 1998
This week's haphazard Blather delivers a report on Australian poltergeists, along with a smidgen more calendric controversy. Post-apocalypse Reader Brian Miller asks Blather: 'Isn't the whole 2000-2001 question further muddled by the fact that our modern calender was set back by plus or minus 4 years at some point in the middle ages? So that in actuality, the second "millennium" passed sometime in 1996, if you're going by strict "1,000 year periods," and it's technically right now about 2,002 years since the birth of Christ'. Well, yes, and no. In 1650, James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland slogged his way back through the Bible to reach the conclusion that the world was created in 4004 BC. A few years later, Dr. John Lightfoot, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 'worked out' that the world was created on 23 October, 4004 BC.
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It's the end of the Millennium as we know it
Posted by blather at 5:49 PM on March 11, 1998
Blather has been idly comparing the news of these past few days to our hypothetical dramatisation (adapted for the 'net) of the Book of Revelations. On March 8th, traffic on 200 mile stretch of North Californian highway slowed to a near halt as it was illuminated by flaming objects falling from the sky, convincing many that an aircraft had crashed. According to Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, it was a large meteor shower (The Associated Press, Via Nando News, and the San Francisco Examiner on March 10th). This was preceded by a disclosure concerning a 32-year-old Chinese farmer who had just been divested of two of his three tongues (Agence France-Presse March 9th, Reuters March 8th), and a Canadian cow which gave birth to four calves, a rather rare and momentous occurrence (The Associated Press, via Nando March 8th).
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Posted by blather at 5:49 PM on March 11, 1998
Blather has been idly comparing the news of these past few days to our hypothetical dramatisation (adapted for the 'net) of the Book of Revelations. On March 8th, traffic on 200 mile stretch of North Californian highway slowed to a near halt as it was illuminated by flaming objects falling from the sky, convincing many that an aircraft had crashed. According to Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, it was a large meteor shower (The Associated Press, Via Nando News, and the San Francisco Examiner on March 10th). This was preceded by a disclosure concerning a 32-year-old Chinese farmer who had just been divested of two of his three tongues (Agence France-Presse March 9th, Reuters March 8th), and a Canadian cow which gave birth to four calves, a rather rare and momentous occurrence (The Associated Press, via Nando March 8th).
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Bram Stoker: Stoking the Bonfire
Posted by daev at 9:05 PM on October 31, 1997
Welcome, once again, to the literary crime sometimes referred to as 'Blather'. It has come to my attention, and of course, to the attention of many others, that a certain backlash has erupted against the works of Bram Stoker, author of 'Dracula', and the traditional celebration of Halloween, or 'Samhain'.
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Posted by daev at 9:05 PM on October 31, 1997
Welcome, once again, to the literary crime sometimes referred to as 'Blather'. It has come to my attention, and of course, to the attention of many others, that a certain backlash has erupted against the works of Bram Stoker, author of 'Dracula', and the traditional celebration of Halloween, or 'Samhain'.
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Clones, Ashes, Exorcism and Drunk Cows
Posted by damien at 2:48 PM on July 12, 1997
Greetings and welcome to another thrilling indoctrination of Blather, brought to you by Dublin's premier cloning facility.
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Posted by damien at 2:48 PM on July 12, 1997
Greetings and welcome to another thrilling indoctrination of Blather, brought to you by Dublin's premier cloning facility.
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