Yokai, The Gotoku neko

 

Cats are often associated with superstitions especially black cats (thought to bring bad luck)  though they are just as sweet as any other cat.

Another superstition about cats is they cause fire .

For example, if you let a cat sleep near the fireplace, your house will burn down. An old belief is that the sparks from the fireplace would light the cat’s tail, and then the flaming cat would run around the house igniting everything it touched. Although Sekien does not mention it, the flames on gotoku neko’s tails might be a reference to this superstition.

This fire cat is a type of nekomata A large  yōkai cat or (monster cat) with two tails. They wear an upside-down iron  trivet on their heads like a hat and the tips of their twin tails burn like firey  torches.

This fiery feline enjoys it's time around the  fireplaces. It uses bamboo pipes to blow air on the fire and stoke the flames they also enjoy warming themselves by the  fireplace like any normal cats would.

The first literary reference to the Gotoku neko was by  Toriyama Sekien in his book Hyakki tsurezure bukuro (“An Idle Bag of One Hundred Vessels”). Its name comes from the gotoku–or trivet–that this yōkai wears like a hat. A gotoku is an iron ring with three or four legs used to hold a tea kettle or pot in a fireplace. It heats vessels while keeping them out of the ashes. Gotoku have occult connections of their own: a famous curse in Japan is known as the shrine visit at the hour of the ox , it requires wearing a gotoku upside-down on your head.

Gotoku also refers to the five virtues of Confucianism: benevolence, honesty, knowledge, integrity, and propriety. It is somewhat odd for a yōkai to be associated with virtues, but Sekien makes a joke of it by referring to a story from Tsurezure gusa (“Essays in Idleness”). 

There was once a nobleman named Shinano no Zenji Yukinaga, who was set to perform shichitoku no mai (“the dance of seven virtues”). Though, as he danced before the court, he forgot two of the virtues. As a result, he jokingly became known around the court for his dance of five virtues (gotoku). Sekien connects this wordplay to the yōkai by explaining that gotoku neko are often forgetful.

Next time you see a kitty all warm and cozy by the fireplace it may more then it seems.. 

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The NASA Gargoyle

 

..The NASA Gargoyle..

Frank Shaw - a NASA archivist at Houston's Johnson Space Center - claimed to have had a terrifying night time encounter with an ominous creature . 

 There is very little information available for this encounter, however Shaw's daughter, Desiree, would eventually reveal  details of her father's sighting  to author Nick Redfern in 2004. Desiree testified that she first realized that something was dreadfully wrong when her father returned home late one night after working at the space center. While neither Desiree, nor her mother, were particularly alarmed by Shaw's tardiness - as he often was required to work into the wee hours - they were both dismayed by his alarmingly apprehensive demeanor. The pair attempted to comfort Shaw, who was eventually able to compose himself enough to regale them with a terrifying tale of his brush with the unknown. ...

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The Interview..

April  9 2004..

Redfern interview with  Desiree Shaw, Frank’s daughter. According to Desiree, her father (who was an archivist, not an engineer), saw the gargoyle in 1986. Redfern described the encounter in his book based on Desiree’s recollections of her deceased father’s tale.

While walking to his car that night, he had seen, to his complete and utter horror; perched on a nearby building, a large man-like figure that was utterly black in color, and that seemed to have a large cape draped across its shoulders and back, with two huge wing-like appendages sticking out of the cape. Looking more bat-like than bird-like, the wings made a cracking noise as they slowly flapped in the strong howling wind. The creature . . . had clearly realized it had been seen. Not only that, Shaw gained the very distinct impression that the beast was actually relishing that it had been noticed, and was even seemingly deriving pleasure from the fact that it had struck terror into the heart of Shaw.

Thought not surprisingly NASA claims to know nothing about this sighting..

...Sorry, never heard of it, and I’ve been here 37 years (since 1986),” read the one-sentence reply from Kelly O. Humphries, Johnson Space Center News Chief....

As Frank crossed the parking lot on the way to his car when he happened to throw a glance at one of the nearby buildings. Sitting on top of the building was a monstrous creature which Shaw could only describe as resembling one of the gargoyles which adorn many churches and other buildings dating from Europe’s medieval period. Shaw quickly realised that the gargoyle was staring directly at him, and had the distinct impression that it was taking great pleasure in the terror that it had instilled in him.

After a few moments of staring at each other, the gargoyle began to slowly unfurl its large wings with a sound like dried paper; this act seemed to break the almost hypnotic state that Shaw had been in, and he ran to his car and fled the scean.

Although initially reluctant to report what he had seen to his superiors, the effect of this encounter on Shaw began to get the better of him, and he eventually told  his story to one of his supervisors. Though to his surprise, he  was informed that the gargoyle had been sighted by other employees at the Johnson facility, and was in fact believed to have been behind the brutal mutilation and exsanguination of a pair of the bases’ German Shepherd guard dogs. He was also told that a secret file had been opened on the entity, but if such a document exists it has never been made available to the public.

After making his report and moving on with his daily life,he believing this to be the end of his ordeal, So it came as a surprise when he was called  in for a Talk with "NASA security people flown in from somewhere in Arizona,” who proceeded to interrogate him intensively on his experience and make it very clear that he and his family would do well to keep the matter to themselves (see "Men in Black"). This may be the reason why this encounter has taken so long to come to public attention.

To this day, NASA have neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the creature sighted by Shaw and the other employees.

Paranormal Russia: The Kamchatka time traveler.

Kamchatka Paranormal event / Time Travel .

On November 8th 1997 a navel officer disappeared in Kamchatka, the last time he as seen was two hours before the end of his watch and he was listed as AWL with a weapon

The officer was found in the mountains two months later and was just a skeleton but there was no sighs of bite marks on the bone's from wild animals.. and the uniform

he was wearing just looked old but was not damaged or torn the remains were taken to Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky for an autopsy / examination....

Apparently Radio Carbon dating said the bone's and the uniform belonged to a 30 year old man but that he had died at least 160 years ago....

The case is still unsolved and unexplained, and is one of the more well know cases of possible Time Travel...

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..Yeti DNA..

There's a lot of Yeti sightings in Russia, and one famous possible attack took place in the 1950's called the Dyatlov Pass incident all the hiker's/ skiers

were found dead ...killed in a brutal fashion but no one knows what actually killed them..

In 2012 lab's in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Idaho analyzed DNA from a clump of fur that had been found in the Azass Cave in Mount Shoriya and confirmed that

the hair samples from the cave belonged an unknown spices neither ape or man. Possible Yeti dna...

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The Valley of Death on the western slope of Kikhpinych volcano in Kamchatka where the volcano releases carbon dioxide and cyanide.

There are a lot of UFO sightings in Russia, and the Siberian Explosion in 1916, (One of the largest explosions in history comparable to a nuclear blast )

and it's still unknown what cased it...

Also there are large tunnels in the Medveditskaya Ridge  and in Zhirnovsk District of Volgograd Region.

Another interesting place is Bolshoy Zayatski Island it has series of ancient Labyrinths that are believed to date back as far as 30,000 B.C. or roughly 32, 000 years ago the island is on the far North west region of Russian not too far from Scandinavia...

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Paranormal Law's..👻🚫

 

US, Paranormal law's.

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law #1

Vampires.🧛‍♀️🩸

Louisiana has a Long history with vampires...

Louisiana has a law that states that vampires cannot bite their victims without permission, and that they should "please ask before you bite.

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Law #2 

Necromancy🧟‍♀️🧟

In San Francisco, you can practice necromancy, or communicating with the dead by reanimating flesh, if you have a fortunetelling permit from the police department. California also has laws about becoming a licensed necromancer.

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Law #3

Selling haunted houses 👻🏚️

Most states follow a "buyer beware" approach and don't require sellers to disclose paranormal activity in their homes. However, some states do have laws that address this:

New York: The only state that requires some form of disclosure to prospective buyers. In the 1991 case of Stambovsky v. Ackley, a buyer sued the seller and realtor for not disclosing the house's ghostly reputation. The appeals court ruled that the house was haunted as a matter of law because of the widespread reports of its haunted status, and that the reputation would impair the property's value.

New Jersey: Sellers must truthfully tell a buyer if their property is haunted if asked.

Massachusetts and Minnesota: These states consider paranormal activity to be a "psychologically affected" attribute that doesn't need to be disclosed.

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Other states also have a supernatural “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” laws on the books. Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Maryland, and Georgia all say that a seller and/or his or her agent is not liable and doesn’t have to disclose a death on the property. It follows then, that they also have no obligation to disclose the presence of spirits.

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Law #4 

Voodoo 💀😈

In New Orleans, there are restrictions on the practice of Voodoo and the supernatural, including advertising for fortune telling to settle lovers' quarrels and bringing people together to effect marriages.

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Other Louisiana laws ..

 fortunetelling (chronology, phrenology, astrology, palmistry), telling or pretending to tell fortunes, either with cards, hands, water, letters or other methods is unlawful. But this doesn’t apply to medical science or to “any religious worship.” But Louisiana Voodoo is “a set of spiritual beliefs and practices developed from the traditions of the African diaspora in Louisiana.

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Law #5

Witchcraft 🧹🧙‍♀️

A Massachusetts law dating back to the early days of the state, and leading up to the  Salem witch trials.

The primary English law about witchcraft was the so-called Witchcraft Act of 1604, actually An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits.

The law makes witchcraft felony. A witch convicted of a minor offense could be imprisoned for a year; a witch found guilty twice was sentenced to death....

Massachusetts witch laws were based on the English Witchcraft Act of 1604, which made witchcraft a felony. The laws were also influenced by the Puritans' religious beliefs, which were central to their legal system. In 1641, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court established the Body of Liberties, the first legal code in New England, which included a law that made witchcraft the second capital crime in the colony. The law stated, "If any man or woman be a witch, that is, hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit, they shall be put to death". The law also included passages from the Bible, such as Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, and Deuteronomy 18:10-11. 

During the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, the accused could file defamation charges against their accusers, but they usually lost. Some accused people also admitted guilt to avoid execution, after being told they would receive mercy if they confessed. In 1693, the new Superior Court of Judicature began hearing the remaining witch trials, and the governor instructed the judges not to accept spectral evidence as proof of guilt. As a result, most of the remaining trials ended in acquittals, and the governor pardoned the rest

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Russian myth: The Lake Baikal Swimmers.

 

Did the Soviet Union discover strange lake monster .

Lake Baikal is the deepest rift lake in the world. It is located in southern Siberia, it's home to all I ngs of aquatic life thriving in it's chilly waters. 

But what else could possibly be lurking in the depth of the vast lake?

Lake Baikal is often called the “Galapagos of Russia,” and for a good reason. Thousands of species of animals and plants can only be found in this lake or the surrounding area.

The Swimmers...

According to the legend, in 1982 a team of Russian Navy divers set out to  explore Lake Baikal when, to their surprise and  amazement, they encounter large, humanoid beings possibly as tall as nine feet in hight.

They procided to  try and capture them with nets! This deadly ecounter would eventually be known as The  Swimmers of Lake Baikal.

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In 1982. During a regular military dive exercise and working at a depth of 50 meters (164 feet), the divers noticed something strange in the water with them.

The divers reported sightings of humanoid-shaped creatures that had bodies that stretched out 3 meters (9ft) in length..

The divers described these beings as having silver silhouettes, and some had transparent spheres on their heads. These spheres have also been described as looking like an open umbrella being held over the creatures’ heads.

Once the divers surfaced, they reported the sighting to a commander who ordered the men, back into the ice cold lake  and told them to catch one of these strange swimmers.

 Seven divers reentered the water and again encountered the Swimmers, which forcefully threw the soviet divers to the lake’s surface.

There were not enough  decompression chambers on the shore for all seven of the divers, and three unlucky divers were left to die from the caisson disease, aka decompression sickness or “the bends”. The attempt to contact the Lake Baikal Swimmers had turned deadly.

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First telling.. 

The story of the Swimmers first appeared in a book written by Soviet/Russian UFOlogist named Vladimir Azhazha. He has been studying UFOlogy for  decades but is also know for making alleged  false claims about aliens in Russia.

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Many people especially those in the government claim this story is nothing more then an urban legend.

The city of Severobaikalsky, near the port of Baikal, did have a special base where dives were conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

However managers of the base have all said the story of the swimmers is utter  nonsense and that there has never been a single death of a diver at the base, and the town of Severobaikalsky formally became a town in 1984, two years after the supposed navy exercise in the story occurred.

Though if the military had actually encountered otherworldly creatures at the bottom of the lake especially one's that killed some of their personal, do you really think they would admit it?

So what do you think, are the swimmers real or just a cool urban legend?

    

Fairy Lore, the will o the wisp.

 

Happy October 1st 🎃

The Will o the wisp .ignes fatui or ignis fatuus.

For centuries people have seen odd lights from the swamps or marsh. Though the name may very the most well known term is will o the wisp. Other names, for this phenomena including jack-o'-lantern, friar's lantern, and hinkypunk it is one of the more well know legends throughout Europe. Other names include the Paulding Light in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the Hessdalen light in Norway or the Spooklight in Southwestern Missouri and Northeastern Oklahoma, the Naga fireballs on the Mekong in Thailand, and St. Louis Light in Saskatchewa.

The  Bridgewater Triangle, a swampy area of Massachusetts has local folklore of ghostly orbs of light, and there have been modern observations of these ghost-lights in this area as well.

The fifollet (or feu-follet) of Louisiana derives from the French settler's according to legends the fifollet is a soul sent back from the dead to do God's penance, but instead attacks people for vengeance. While it mostly takes part in harmless mischievous acts, the fifollet sometimes sucked the blood of children. Some legends say that it was the soul of a child who died before baptism.

In Mexico they are believed to be witches that transformed into  lights. Another explanation refers to the lights as indicators to places where gold or hidden treasures are buried which can be found only with the help of children. This version is called luces del dinero (money lights) or luces del tesoro (treasure lights).

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The light of a will o the wisp is said to mislead travellers by resembling a flickering lamp or lantern.

In literature, will-o'-the-wisp metaphorically refers to a hope or goal that leads one on, but is impossible to reach, or something one finds strange or sinister.

For the most part the Wills-o'-the-wisp is a strange erie light usually seen around a forest, swamp, marsh or even  grave yards often witnessed by travelers.

The most common belief is that these lights are a type  of fairies, ghosts or elemental spirits. Modern explorations for  the light is that it's a natural phenomena most likely some kind of  bioluminescent swamp gas or possibly ball lightning.

Jeju City Sky phenomena. ✨

 

When we look up at night we often expect to see stars, meteor showers or the occasional commit passing by. But every now and then we witness a truly bizarre event occurring right before our eyes.

Strange crafts, (UFOS) or other odd sightings.

This seemed to be the case in South Korea in 2022...

On Halloween night in 2022 a strange phenomenon was spotted over the sky's of Jeju City.

Dozens of glowing pillars of light hanging over the city were photographed by citizens, many took to reddit to describe what they had seen.

One photo even received of 18,000 upvotes

Explanations ranged from UFO's or Ghosts to simply odd weather conditions.

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The official explanation..

The lights occur when tiny crystals of ice, averaging about 0.02 mm (0.0008 inch), form in the sky and remain suspended in the atmosphere, close to the Earth's surface.

The suspended ice crystals are great reflectors, beaming city lights back down to your eyes or camera lens," Usually, these are plate-shaped ice crystals, which form at temperatures of 14 to -40 Fahrenheit.

the weather needs to be cold. The ideal conditions for this to occur are on a frigid winter night–often subzero temperatures–with high humidity and little to no wind,

"It is not too common to see light pillars because the weather conditions must be just right."

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Whether this was a truly rare natural phenomena or something more supernatural, either way it would be very cool to see in person..