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Anechoic chambers are the quietest places on Earth and have background noises measured in negative decibels. After a few minutes in chambers, you can hear your heartbeat and blood circulating in your ears and may experience troubles with orienting yourself or even standing.                           

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Oldest Mask

The oldest mask in the world, around 9000 years old.

KANEGON KANEGON KANEGON !!!

Today, 18 of November of 2020, is a special day in the Ultra series, because Kanegon, THE Kanegon, will appear in an Ultraman  episode! Ultraman Z episode 13! 

But who is Kanegon, anyway? He’s a monster with a head shaped like a purse and a zipper-mouth who eats coins like we eat food.

Also, he just happens to be one of the most iconic characters in all of Tsuburaya’s filmography alongside Ultraman himself. He actually debuted before Ultraman, in the black-and-white kind-of-anthology series Ultra Q, in what may be its most iconic episode. Kanegon also appered in… very little else.

That’s one of the most interesting things about Kanegon. When you look at all the stuff that comes from Tsuburaya, Kanegon is both everywhere and barely anywhere. He’s very present in publicity and merchandise, especially alongside the Ultraman monster Pigmon as the default kid-friendliest duo, but he barely appears in actual stories, and even when it does it seems to be mostly as a nod to its one Ultra Q episode.

But what is that episode about, anyway? It begins with some kids playing/making easy money on a construction site, and being bullied by two construction workers on a bulldozer. One particularly greedy kid gets turned into the monster Kanegon by a magical cocoon-thingy, and has to eat coins regularly or else he will die! His friends aren’t afraid of him, and try to help him, first by making money for him, but eventually by consulting a mystic. She tells them that to revert the curse they have to… make the construction worker bullies turn upside-down?

It’s a very bizarre episode, to say the least, especially because the series’ main characters aren’t even in it. It feels like some kind of modern fairy-tale, or a short movie. It definetly feels special even if one hasn’t watched the rest of the series. 

Kanegon would actually reappear shortly after in the “first” episode of Ultraman, but not the one featuring the monster I have as my avatar, no. Before the series proper there was a televised play known as “Birth of Ultraman”, in wich the hero debuted alongside some of his future foes… and Kanegon. Despite not appearing in the show proper, Kanegon’s silhouette would be present in Ultraman’s opening.

Kanegon’s audiovisual appearences are few and far-between afterwards. An alien robot version appeared in Ultraman Zearth 2… wich is a parody movie from the 90s. There was a female version in the sequel series Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy from 2004. He also made one single appearence in Redman that was nonetheless very memorable… for the wrong reasons…

He probably has the biggest bulk of appearences in recent years through a series of animated shorts alongside Pigmon and Alien Dada called Kaiju Step Wandabada:

It really says something about Kanegon’s staying power that it has become so iconic regardless. It all comes back to the monster himself and the episode he debuted in waaaay back in the 60s (a black-and-white episode without fights at that). I gotta say I really love his design. The combination of coin purse and seashell for a head, the snail eyes. it’s rustic bag-like body, it all comes together very nicely and charmingly.

It’s very bold of Ultraman Z to finally bring Kanegon to an Ultraman episode. Since the hero gets his powers from medals, Kanegon will naturally want to eat them. I’m both exited and nervous.

The locations of every cryptid or “monster” across America                           

Fruit Gushers but they’re ticks

This is an absolute religious experience that I was not prepared for

I really don’t

Because it seems to shock someone every time I say it and I love seeing people awed, horrified and delighted by new information let’s appreciate again that this animal is a predator. These are the various ways starfish kill things:

Many stars just eat anything slower than they are, including many that will feed on plant matter, algae or carrion. When it comes to live food, some species prey only on mussels, some only on corals or sponges, and others are opportunists that will even consume fish that they often catch asleep! The grip of their sucker-tipped tube feet is incredibly strong and in the second it takes a sleepy fish to wake up it can already be too late to wriggle free.

To feed, a star protrudes its stomach outside of its body, enveloping the food in a sticky, gelatinous sac that slowly digests it over the course of many hours or even days.

Some stars have “pedicellariae” on their surface, which are like extremely tiny sets of “jaws.” These form the “fur” on this Labidiaster star. Pedicellariae are usually used for defense, but this and other species will consume tiny creatures that get caught on the velcro-like carpet of microjaws, and will spend many hours just holding their arms up in the water as a trap.

Finally there are the “ambush stars,” like Stegnaster inflatus. It’s likely many sea stars hunt this way from time to time and there may be many we just never observe doing so, but a few species are particularly devoted to it. These just stand up on their arms for long periods of time to form what small animals mistake for a safe shelter, and then you can guess what happens!

Throckmorton

Whatever you do, do NOT fucking listen!

Wikileaks rejected a State Department document and demanded that I destroy it.

My uncle worked for the State Department. He died a couple weeks ago. As per State Department policy, whenever one of their higher-ranking employees dies, the Department sends a small team to the home of the deceased to ensure they had no sensitive documents in their possession. It’s not that they distrust their dead colleague – they just don’t trust his family.

The Department team came to my uncle’s house one morning, spent a few hours rifling through his closets and drawers, and left with a small pile of papers. They expressed their condolences for my loss, then left. I never saw them again. Not even at the funeral.

On the night I visited and found him on the floor, dying of a heart attack, he told me something. It’s something I would’ve preferred to have never heard; something that made me wish I’d gotten to his house 20 minutes later to find him dead.

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GNARLED HAG is a terrifying little 2D pixel art stealth horror game where a young girl attempts to escape gnarled old witch.

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Just because you can put five vegetables in one can, doesn’t mean you should.

INDESCRIBABLE 

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When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.

In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.

Gnarled tree root sculptures by UK-based artist, Tach Pollard.

I'm researching the people who owned the land around this house we're going to be investigating, and this story that happened in Wooster (not the same town but same county) had me cracking up! They REALLY hated that building so much they came after it like the Ku Klux Klan! 🤣🤣🤣

I'm researching the people who owned the land around this house we're going to be investigating, and this story that happened in Wooster (not the same town but same county) had me cracking up! They REALLY hated that building so much they came after it like the Ku Klux Klan! 🤣🤣🤣

Forgive me.

Just so you guys know:

I accidentally typed “cummy vitamins” into my amazon search.

This is a 5 foot tall gingerbread castle. It was made by artist Christine McConnell. It took her one month with 10 to 15 hour days. Just absolutely amazing!