Mastodawn

One of the strangest moral panics to affect North America was the 'cattle mutilation' craze that spread across the US Great Plains and parts of Canada from the 1960s to 1980s. Ranchers found dead cows that appeared to have been drained of blood and to have had certain body parts removed in a 'surgical' manner: ears, eyeballs, teats, and - especially - sex organs. These mutilations became a media sensation and various theories were put forward to explain the phenomenon. Some argued UFOs were responsible, with aliens perhaps wishing to clone the animals or conduct scientific research. Others suggested the mutilations may have been part of a secret government programme, with mysterious black helicopters having been spotted, or carried out by a vampire-like cryptid known as the chupacabras. Another explanation blamed Pagan or Satanic cults, who were harvesting the body parts - and especially the sex organs - to use in fertility rituals. An especially far-fetched claim had a group of wealthy Satanists using a truck with a telescoping lift that would extend a man out to the cow to carry out the mutilations, explaining why there were often no tracks found around the affected animals. Most veterinaries and scientists who investigated the phenomenon found the mutilations were due to the normal effects of decomposition and the actions of insects and scavengers like cayotes, foxes and vultures. #folklore #history #mythology #gothic #weird #paranormal

Mx. Sky Barnes

9h ago

lore dump time!

my internal monologue needs an audience

like, I think in the form of talking to someone

and I know most people use religion for that

like, your god or gods are who you talk to internally

but for some reason that's never worked for me

mine needs to be an actual person I know

it's generally been like my best friends or partners

but I wish I just had someone else in my head with me

I need a co-pilot for this flesh mech

idk, maybe I'm just being weird and overly introspective

maybe I should try just using "chat" lol

because having it be an actual separate person leads to the problem that I'll forget whether I actually said something to them or just said to them in my head

#loredump #skylore #headspace #introspecting #weird #autism #adhd #audhd

DecksDark 11h ago

One good thing about discover-drawing is that it's low friction.

You just start drawing some lines, follow the shapes, add shading here and there and eventually you may end up with something you like, or worst-case scenario, a page full pretty nothing.

One bad thing about discover-drawing is that, at times it can be hard to answer the question "What did you draw?"

#drawing #doodling #doodles #DiscoverDrawing #PenDrawing #InkDrawing #PencilDrawing #TraditionalArt #weird

AZugM 15h ago

#Caturday

"Katzenjammer (Metallkatze)"

by Annelieses Zerstörung unter gefrorenen Monden (AZugM)

is a song about a dead tomcat, including the sound of him biting into the edge of his food bowl.

inspired by:
#GarfieldMinusGarfield
#Gorefield
I'm sorry, Jon
Lasagna Cat

Genres:
#HarshNoise
#DungeonSynth
#DepressiveSuicidalBlackMetal (vocals)

Lyrics:
"Max minus Max
I'm sorry, Max"

#Noise #BlackMetal #DSBM #Garfield #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediMusicians #FanArt #Music #Audio #Art #weird #Horror

Sea of approval 15h ago

Verzeihung, das da habe ich letztens verzweifelt, in einer in Zeitlupe rollenden #SBahnHamburg ohne Klimaanlage, mit schwitzigem Zeigefinger aufs Fairtelefon-Display "gemalt"!
#sorrynotreallysorry #weird #dino #sketch

RagnarTeee 20h ago

#weird #strange #different #nicepics #bizarre

FunHouse Radio 1d ago

“You get this little vial with these teeny, tiny little maggots on a piece of gauze.... I stuck the maggots in, and by golly, they did their thing.”
#weird #weirdnews #cringe #gross #medical #medicine #animals #wtf #insects #irl #nasty #barf #omg
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/got-maggots-doctors-are-bringing-bugs-practice-purpose-rcna345161

Got maggots? These doctors are bringing the bugs into their practice on purpose

The lowly maggot gets a bad rap, mostly known for feeding on corpses and rotting meat.

NBC News

Andrea Bonazzi 1d ago

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, early 1900s." Video version, digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian bas-reliefs. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird
https://youtube.com/video/IEkVxYqlbl0