The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)

Angel or Alien?

A customized search engine to shed light on which manner of cosmological visitor.

Drawing on various Judaic, Christian and Muslim primary sources as well as fan wikias, message boards, Dante, X-File script archives, various Spielberg scripts, Neon Genesis Evangelion scripts, Scientology, The Chariots of the Gods, Guardian Angel and Alien Abduction testimonials, Sacred Texts dot org and the Folk Texts site.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episodes 1-26

In full.

Scripts (in English)
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 1
Neon Genesis Evangelionepisode 2
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 3
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 4
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 5
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 6
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 7
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 8
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 9
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 10
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 11
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 12
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 13
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 14
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 15
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 16
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 17
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 18
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 19
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 20
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 21
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 22
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 23
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 24
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 25
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 26

Stories of the Baal Shem Tov

Source.

Also: Chassid Stories Archive.

The Baal Shem Tov and the Doctor
The Baal Shem Tov and the Werewolf
The Baal Shem Tov Reveals Himself
The Blood Brothers
The Forgotten Story
How Do We Know?
The Last Temptation of a Kabbalist
Prayers That Were Sung in the Fields
Rabbi Gershon's Dream
A Small Miracle
The Son of Rabbi Adam: A Tale of the Baal Shem Tov
The Three Laughs
The Trials of Eliezer
Winedrops on the Eyelashes
A Matter of Mesirus Nefesh
All Yisroel Together
The Faith of the Ba'al Shem Tov
The Soul of the Ba'al Shem Tov
The Service of the Ba'al Shem Tov
To Pray or Not to Pray

The Little Flowers of St. Francis in English Translation

Source.

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by "Aunt Naomi" (Gertrude Landa) (1919)

The Palace of the Eagles
The Giant of the Flood
The Fairy Princess of Ergetz
The Higgledy-Piggledy Palace
The Red Slipper
The Star-Child
Abi Fressah's Feast
The Beggar King
The Quarrel of the Cat and Dog
The Water-Babe
Sinbad of the Talmud
The Outcast Prince
The Story of Bostanai
From Shepherd-Boy to King
The Magic Palace
The Sleep of One Hundred Years
King for Three Days
The Palace in the Clouds
The Pope's Game of Chess
The Slave's Fortune
The Paradise in the Sea
The Rabbi's Bogey-Man
The Fairy Frog
The Princess of the Tower

King Alexander's Adventures

I. The Vision of Victory
II. The Land of Darkness and the Gate of Paradise
III. The Wonders of the World

Pulp Magazine and Paperback Covers on Filkr

Pulp magazines
Old Paperbacks
Pulp

Cose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

A catalog of contemporary uncanny environmental, ambient effects for modern suburban settings.

Source.

Script part 1.
Script part 2.

Han Christian Anderson Stories

"WHEN MERMAIDS DIE they turn to sea foam and cease to exist, while humans have an eternal soul that lives on in Heaven."

1835 The Tinder Box 1835 Little Claus and Big Claus 1835 The Princess and the Pea 1835 Little Ida’s Flowers 1835 Little Tiny or Thumbelina 1835 The Saucy Boy 1835 The Travelling Companion 1836 The Little Mermaid 1837 The Emperor’s New Suit 1838 The Goloshes of Fortune 1838 The Daisy 1838 The Brave Tin Soldier 1838 The Wild Swans 1838 The Garden of Paradise 1838 The Flying Trunk 1838 The Storks N1839 The Elf of the Rose 1840 What the Moon Saw 1840 The Wicked Prince 1842 The Metal Pig 1842 Shepherd’s Story  1842 A Rose from Homer’s Grave 1842 The Buckwheat 1842 Ole-Luk Oie, the Dream God 1842 The Swineherd 1844 The Angel 1844 The Nightingale 1844 The Ugly Duckling 1844 The Top and Ball 1845 The Fir Tree 1845 The Snow Queen 1845 The Little Elder Tree Mother 1845 The Elfin Hill 1845 The Red Shoes 1845 The Jumper 1845 The Shepherdess and the Sweep 1845 Holger Danske 1845 The Bell 1845 Grandmother 1846 The Darning Needle 1846 The Little Match Seller 1847 The Sunbeam and the Captive 1847 By the Almshouse Window 1847 The Old Street Lamp 1847 The Neighbouring Families 1847 Little Tuk 1847 The Shadow 1848 The Old House 1848 The Drop of Water 1848 The Happy Family 1848 The Story of a Mother 1848 The Shirt Collar

1849 The Flax 1850 The Phoenix Bird 1851 A Story 1851 The Puppet Show Man 1851 The Dumb Book 1852 The Old Grave Stone 1852 The Conceited Apple Branch 1852 The Loveliest Rose in the World 1852 In a Thousand Years 1852 The Swan’s Nest 1852 The Story of the Year 1852 There Is No Doubt About It 1852 A Cheerful Temper 1853 A Great Grief 1853 Everything in the Right Place 1853 The Goblin and the Huckster 1853 Under the Willow Tree 1853 The Pea Blossom 1853 She Was Good for Nothing 1854 The Last Pearl 1854 Two Maidens 1855 Uttermost Parts of the Sea 1855 The Money Box 1855 A Leaf from Heaven 1855 Jack the Dullard 1855 Ib and Little Christina 1856 The Thorny Road of Honor 1856 The Jewish Maiden 1857 The Bell Deep 1858 The Bottle Neck 1858 Soup from a Sausage Skewer 1858 The Old Bachelor’s Nightcap 1858 Something 1858 Last Dream of the Old Oak 1858 The Marsh King’s Daughter 1858 The Races 1859 The Philosopher’s Stone 1859 The Story of the Wind 1859 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf 1859 Ole the Tower Keeper 1859 Anne Lisbeth 1859 Children’s Prattle 1859 The Child in the Grave 1859 Two Brothers 1860 The Pen and the Inkstand 1860 The Farm Yard Cock  1860 Beauty of Form Beauty of Mind 1860 A Story from the Sand Hills 1860 Moving Day 1861 The Butterfly 1861 Bishop of Borglum 1861 The Mail Coach Passengers 1861 Beetle Who Went on Travels 1861 What the Old Man Does 1861 The Snow Man 1861 The Portuguese Duck 1861 The Ice Maiden 1861 The Psyche 1861 The Snail and the Rose Tree 1861 The Old Church Bell 1862 The Silver Shilling 1863 The Snowdrop 1865 The Bird of Popular Song 1865 The Will-o-the Wisp 1865 The Windmill 1865 In the Nursery 1865 The Golden Treasure 1865 The Storm Shakes the Shield 1866 Delaying Is Not Forgetting 1866 The Porter’s Son 1866 Our Aunt 1866 The Toad 1868 The Goblin and the Woman 1868 The Dryad 1869 The Court Cards 1869 Luck May Lie in a Pin 1869 Sunshine Stories 1869 What One Can Invent 1869 The Thistle’s Experiences 1869 Poultry Meg’s Family 1870 The Candles 1870 The Most Incredible Thing 1870 Danish Popular Legends 1871 The Great Sea Serpent 1871 The Gardener and the Manor 1872 The Cripple 1873 The Flea and the Professor

Floria Sigismondi

Site.

H. R. Geiger

• Source.
• Behind-the-scenes photographs from the set of ‘Alien’ (1979)
• 253 Behind-The-Scenes Images Show How Alien Came To Life

• A tonne of props, ephemera, early conceptual drawings, etc., for the film Alien is located on this blog.
• Homemade Alien costume
• The Movie That H.R. Giger Spent Decades Trying To Make
• Google images.

c/f Sci-Fi Hotel (with an H.R. Giger-Designed Bar) Headed to the United States! FEARnet

Space Invaders (1978)

Play! 

Download at Abandonia.

"Backed by a thudding bass beat, dozens of invaders from another world descended on our planet in 1978. Within months, Space Invaders was one of the hottest fads on the globe, helping propel the video arcade into a multi-billion dollar industry.


The invasion began in Japan. Programmer Toshihiro Nishikado took the classic sci-fi riff of alien invasion and transported it to the video screen. The otherworlders, arranged in a tight row and column formation, marched left and right across the screen, dropping down one level each time they hit the side. You controlled a lone laser base, defending the planet by firing back at the hostile armies. You could also move left and right, using four convenient shields to play a dangerous game of fire and retreat as the aliens unleashed their own laser assault.


As the invaders were knocked out one by one, their march grew faster and faster, until a lone invader sped across the screen. If you managed to hit them all, a new wave of invaders would take to the sky. But if the baddies hit ground zero, it was game over for you and for the Earth.


When Taito released Space Invaders in Nishikado’s homeland, the game caused a national furor. Hundreds of thousands of Space Invaders machines were produced, and the game’s popularity caused a shortage of 100-Yen coins. When restaurants complained that customers were playing instead of eating, Taito simply supplied them with sit-down cocktail cabinets, further fueling the Space Invaders hysteria." Source.

• For a history: Wikipedia.
• A history of the Taito corporation.
• Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Space Invaders.
• About the original arcade game consul.
• This Youtube video details how to exploit game glitches to win.
• Invader, the artist
• Human Performance of Space Invaders.
• World Trade Towers Space Invaders Installation.
• Some history of the hilariously paranoid + understandably paranoid reception of the game: Space Invaders: The Untold Story.

The Fifth Element (1997)

Luc Bresson script, here.

Luc Bresson interview.

Sight and Sound article.

About Gautier's Fashion design:
EW

A compendium of images from the film.

Sculpture for the Fifth element sets.

5th Element props. Police sidearm. Element stones.

Police Helmet.

Fantastic Planet

La Planète Sauvage (1973) from Chaivalla on Vimeo.

Goethe's Faust - Part 1

Introductory Note
Dedication
Prologue for the Theatre
Prologue in Heaven
Part I. Night
Auerbach's Cellar in Leipzig
The Neighbour's House
Night. Street Before Margaret's Door
Walpurgis-Night
Walpurgis-Night's Dream
A Gloomy Day. A Plain
Night. Open Country
Dungeon

Other Faust Folklore, Literature and Materials

• THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS  from The Quarto of 1604 by Christoper Marlowe
• Faust Legends at Folk Text
• The Devil's Charter (1607) - Among its sources, Marlow's Faust, this is Barnabe Barnes take on Pope Alexander VI reign, the papal reign described as a pact with the devil for worldly gain.

Urban Myths, Creepy Pasta, Fakelore and Legends: A Selection

Custom Urban Legends Search

A staple of even better online sites devoted to urban myths is how simple--sloppy, even--in all, both prose and storytelling are.

Yet still, in their un-self-consciousness, these clunky nail-biters often turn out more imaginatively in unearthing the terms of the symbolic than your most daringly reaching of contemporary artist.  

In cadence, language often resembles children retelling their own dreams. Tonally (but rarely thematically, or in a direct way), one hears the recurrent cry of powerlessness in regards to the institutions that be: corporate, detentionary, medical, scientific. 

Now and again, the stories grapple with subjects that, if laid out plainly, even the more saber-rattling of radicals would shrink from (i.e. the urban myth of the kindly terrorist, sparing judiciously potential victims on moral grounds).

Of course, this is hardly radical fair. Mostly these are small moral plays, if that. Sometimes, they are no more than gross-out pot-boilers, cringe fair of bodily embarrassment or bodily excoriation and excruciation. 

Different from pre-modern folklore, where cunning peasant heroes regularly outwit the horrors of myth, urban myths stand in awe before myth's boundlessness. Indeed, characters are sacrificed routinely to mythic forces in the most violent, troubling and inventive of ways.

We are in a subterranean (often suburban) realm, in the sway of a brutal and child-like Fate, trembling before the exaggerated imperium of the daily authorities. 

Video Footage of a UFO in Texas

The storyteller's typical first move is to paint a sheen of wonder (or terror) over the drab palette of what's conventionally possible, allowing her or him to narrate freely from the strict observations of naturalist constraint. The rules apprehended darkly from authoritative spheres--the complex specialties of doctors, scientists, government--are cast aside. But to limit the drift of wild imaginations, these spooky hobbyists instinctively parody the vocabulary of speacialization. Plot points are often science-y-sounding or reportage-oriented, attributed to untraceable but mundane sources (a friend of a friend, a TV show, an unattributed snapshot, a pamphlet). Dread substitutes for where since diapers we're trained to respect cause and effect. 

Midwestern Jackalope

All this whispers of a reality behind reality haunted by the uncanny, unlucky signs, coincidence and deja vu. Yet, strangely, consistently modern in framing, rarely does a god appear from a machine. Everything that comes has been exhaustively prepared for beforehand with props and sensory clues, then, post-reveal of their "shocking" conclusions, provided with a rationale, however weak. Significantly, despite the frequent interpolation of supernatural agents, terrible ends often derive from banal, contemporary objects. We are speaking of a world of human equipment, mundane experience and consumer products that has become mythologized.

Sometimes refinement in storytelling is a luxury not only of hindsight but also pretension or ambition. By contrast, this type of naive storytelling is very connected with motivations and improvisations that one imagines were present in even the first of story tellers: the boast, one-up-man-ship in regards to other entries in a genre, cheap dramatic thrills, liberal borrowing from other sources, base creep outs ingratiating base fears.

One must admire that they often do the work of entire horror films in a sentence or few.

Certainly one intuits the ongoing mutual exchange between urban legend and genre horror.

Photo with Tape Measure Helpfully Illustrating 
the Existence of Fairy Fossils

Economical in expression, free-wheeling exercises in letting the world have meaning, these invented memories take life via the fixation on a fear as it passes through half-recalled replays of the everyday. The situations each construction sets up unfold like sprung contraptions inside a fun house. They make as their allure the ionized thrilling of the blood, a lizard brain automatism applied to a world of facts and prosaic happenstance, and miraculously made legible.


The stories mostly resolve themselves around one surprise turn in narrative. I feel it is fair to judge them on their success not in terms of the virulence or speed of their being repeated as stories (often, now, these start their life as Internet hoaxes or tongue-in-cheek rumours), but how truly surprising that single surprise turn is. Therein lies the art.

Misdirection is the usual tactic. But there is an elegance, even a classicism or dream-like quality, to the story that motors, chockablock with dread, exactly to what terrible ends it presages from the start. 


Occasionally the stories resolve themselves around conventions familiar from clowning (jokes that take as their punchline too literal interpretations of language or mistakenly plain readings of how the world works) or truly imbecilic misrecognitions, something macabre and deadly mistaken for something common and benign. 


A prolific subgenre, Christian urban legends, serve by route of contemporary news items and modern props to illustrate the literal truth of a bible passage, particularly for those tenets which find no ally or correspondence in science, history, experience or nature.

The most sophisticated narrative trick that I observed in my brief survey of this material (and one that's possibly a happy accident) is the teller locating the original source of  her or his admitted urban legend (a cannibalism yarn) as the scarcity climate and moral zero hour of post-war Germany. This seemingly innocuous, single detail is as unverifiable as the story itself. Each such layered blurring of a frame invites the reader to slip a little more comfortably into the suspension of the-world-as-is.

This is an advanced technological society at its most primitive, its newly minted demons sparsely sinewy and brutal, its priests indifferent to both tradition and specialized knowledge alike. Yet these amateur shamans, sans religion or a grand tradition, are intent on having recourse to the grandest, most unknowable of themes.

Some Settings

A catalog of settings in urban myths goes a ways in explaining what our shrines are, our haunted or sacred woods, our temples. These are locations which we believe to be pregnant with enchantment, where magic perennially tips through, moving from the mundane into the mythic.

convenience store, mall, "secure facilities" (often shadowy), McDonald's, a drug store, a school, a gas station, an International House of Pancakes, lover's lane, inside a car (listening to radio), a woman in a car in a grocery store's (or shopping center's) parking lot,  a country house, under the bed, showers, dangerous and/or significant rod intersections (i.e. where a small town's main road crosses with highway), bus ride home, crowd, Berlin, babysat house, Las Vegas, Tjiana (border town), border check points, veterinary clinics, homes, transatlantic flight, airport, service counters, at a party of friends of a friend, death bed visitations, NASA, archeology digs, mountains of Ararat (the supposed site of the ruins of Noah's ark), Liz Clayborn, Southern California, Home for the dying in Calcutta, societies construed as exotically pre-modern (hence pre-civilized), inkwell, Halloween, boats, collapsing chapel, stairway, Kentucky, equinox, college dorm, Canada, a lake,a house under construction,

Monsters

I am being broad with my definition. I include not just the grotesques and perversions of creation, but threats to one's body and being, and "enchanted folk" also. As well, as in the Christian variant of urban legend, those proud sinners of science, the skeptics and conceited materialists who repent disbelief and disavow factual mastery when confronted with an event that illustrates beyond a doubt the literal accuracy of (usually) an eccentric interpretation of The Bible.

Cottingley Fairies

murderers ("sex maniacs," "the insane"), those armed with cruel and eccentric weapons (hook for hand),  the incarcerated, people missing body parts, benign objects of convenience ( lid of a pressurized dough can), stranger posing as the family dog, dead daughter, corpses mistaken for the living, blind man with envelope, obscene phone callers, man dressed as old woman, rat mistaken for dog, dead baby embalmed and filled with) drugs for smuggling, Darwin, NASA astronomers, Janet Reno, underground screams of agony,  bat-winged creature, Russian text "I have conquered,"scientists, archaeologists, Proctor and Gamble, Satanists, Coca Cola, Japanese business managers, doubting theologians, porn industry, abusive father, exotic cannibals, Satan as living force, Popes, money, world government, world economy, asteroid, secular power grabs, a three story computer in Belgium called The Beast, whales, gays victimizing and murdering hets, collapsing chapel, atheist activists, students, stupidity, the Holy of Holies, Harry Potter, professor, landowner, Mormons, Advanced sub-dermal implantable device, Canadian radio transmitter spy coins, a nest of snakes in water, snakes,

Instruments of Fate

Often a prop or more specific setting-within-the-setting serves to preface or propel the turn in narrative, and clutch, reveal or surprise. Examples:

passenger side or back seat of a car, blood, blood writing, kind terrorists, the radio, dogs, medical surgery, doctors, a note, envelope, the Internet, mirror, computer programs (especially ones that calculate), legislation, ornithology ("reports of a massive build up of vultures in the valley of armageddon"), pamphlets, microphone, sky writing, radio carbon testing, corporate logos, complex mathematical symbolism, talk show, department store displays, women whom one is attracted to, a "dark-sinned" preacher, George W. Bush, porn films, a devout foster family, prophetic announcements in demotic bible-speak, riddles, hitchhikers, a beautiful soft light, Moth Theresa, cameras, ink, apples, money, the mark of the beast, sworn allegiances, the Bible, dinosaur footprints, blow up sex dolls, man dressed as Jesus, bottles thrown against wall that will not break, rain rolling off broken roof down walls as if roof still in place, an early-stage foetus living outside the womb, therapy (especially "cure" therapy), fillings turning to gold, men unschooled in religion walking on water, improvised enema with compressed air hose, angels as tough guys, rope, the canceling of (particularly christian) network programming, Einstein, scientific study, tornado, science experiments, revelations, a mark on the skin, backma.sing on recordings,

Tricky Territory Navigated

A topmost level of meaning in these stories is a conventional situation, not conventionally addressed in normal conversation, occurrences sometimes taboo or even only mildly embarrassing. If the story arc provided is severe, outre or melodramatic, nonetheless, the stories often hone in on all the begging contemporary questions, if through an indirect route. 

how to act on a date, whether governments can do wrong, is it ok for women to be alone, how to trust doctors when one does not understand medical science, how to experience a social bond with strangers, what is evil, is it possible for enemies to do good, where does Truth reside, do specialists make mistakes, the difference between appearance and reality, 

A Few Representative Sites and Sources

• The portal page at the Open Directory Project is a good stepping off point for the most giddily amateur, most mission positive and cavalier of these sites, maintained with waning or swelling enthusiasm.

Totemistically, many of these sites are the way urban myth sites should look, if form is to compliment content: tonnes of backgrounds, ads, terrible fonts, indefensible graphics, no oasis of negative space--perfect. Magical shrines, generally syncretic, find their modern aesthetic in gaudiness.

• Urban Legend Zeitgeist is a store house for urban legends, with the advantage of having an index searchable by key word, although at present there is not much here.
• Snopses dedicates its site two retelling and debunking of urban myths, as well as Internet rumors, email hoaxes, doctored jpegs, and so on.
• The Museum of Hoaxes. Similar to the above.
• Religious Tolerance - a small island quixotically devoted to spiritual rationalism in an otherwise very perturbed sea. Many Christian urban legends retold here, but in a debunking fiat.

At the Memory Palace:

• episode 21 (a gas gas gas)

 a gas gas gas [5:46m].

A podcast about the Mad Gasser of Mattoon: "In 1944, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois was terrorized by a creepy black-clad prowler who sprayed anesthetic gas in his victims' faces. Or maybe it was all a case of mass hysteria based mostly on myth."

Some other Mad Gasser context from Boing Boing:

• Mad Gasser of Mattoon

Drugs

• Urban legends about drugs and drug use. Wikipedia's entry.

City Like Lizard (1934)

Source. "Did strange people live under site of Los Angeles 5000 years ago?" the article asks, supplying a bizarre treasure map through the city's undersides in the process.

c/f Ancient "Lizard People" Underground in LA?

Texts, Histories and Pre-Modern Sources

• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1852).
• Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

Other Wikipedia Entries on Urban Myths:

• Main
• The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs
• Bloody Mary (folklore)
• Chase Vault
• Choking Doberman
• The Hook
• Jersey Devil
• Killer in the backseat
• The Licked Hand
• Paul is dead
• Sewer alligator
• Spring Heeled Jack
• c/f Spring Heeled Jack by Anonymous
• c/f The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
• c/f Spring Heeled Jack Page
• Vanishing hitchhiker 

Miscellaneous

• Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria. From Dark Roast.
• LibraryGhost - 24/7 livefeed of the supposedly haunted Willard Library, in Evansville Indiana
• Prof. Chuck Holliday's Jackalope Page
• Nov. 2009 NY Times story about the book behind the "alligators in sewers" legend
• "The most ridiculous urban legends." Houston Chronicle. 
• Ramsland, Katherine. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on a real case the crime library — Other Speculations — Crime Library on truTV.com". Turner Broadcasting System Inc.. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/texas_chainsaw_massa/5.html. 
• David Emery (5 August 2010). "Deadly Rat Urine on Soda Cans - Urban Legends". The New York Times Company. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/39382/. 
• Gross, Dave. "The "Blue Star" LSD Tattoo Urban Legend Page". the Lycaeum Drug Archives . http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs/other/tattoo/. 
• Elissa Michele Zacher (18 July 2010). "Urban legends: Modern morality tales". The Epoch Times. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/39382/. 
• Pink Tentacle: Japanese urban legends, through a pop culture lens.

Other Urban Folklore

Folklore and the unintentionally or sensationally parodic anthropological disciple of the "paranormal" I include here, though structurally these are often less stories than brief vignettes relating one or several *witnessings.* Common with urban folklore however is their stock characters and intuition for setting and logic, their rationalizing while speculating on fate, unanswerable questions (what happens after Death being chief among them) and the ineffable. Whereas the pre-modern tradition of the occult often pursued more obscure and tendentious lines of truths as presented by canonical or traditional-but-apocryphal texts by digging deeper (both philosophy and religion are filled with such extravagant and even semi-blasphemous departures), the paranormal takes its narrative cues from the chronicler of natural phenomenon, the reporter and the tourist and the researcher. Photographs or video footage with blemishes play a large part in establishing an air of veracity. Transcripts become a novel mode of telling.


Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Possessions 

• Haunted Houses
• Haunted Schools
• Real Haunted Schools on Squidoo
• USA Today: Readers Share Stories of Haunted Hotels
• Emily Rose Transcript (the internet's most famous Catholic exorcism)
• Cornish Ghost Stories
• Google Video Search for "Real Ghost."

 

"Real" poltergeist footage.

Angels and Fairies

• I Believe in Angels 
• The Case of the Cottingley Fairies
• The Coming of The Fairies (1922) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was famously taken in by the fair hoax of two young women.

UFOS

• Alien Abduction, Experience and Research 
• Google Video Search for "real UFO sightings."