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THE BORROWED BOOGEYMAN: Men in Black, Papa Doc's Tonton Makout, and the Possible Weaponization of an American Nightmare

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  Two different faces of terror. One stubborn bastard who refuses to be intimidated. THE MAN IN BLACK WHO WASN'T HIDING Historical source note: UFO researcher Allen H. Greenfield recounted an encounter with a mysterious individual at the June 1969 National UFO Conference in Charleston, West Virginia. Greenfield reported photographing the man and hearing him describe himself as a "man in black in training." The account was revisited in Alternate Perceptions Magazine , May 2022, in the article "Reality Checking," which also discusses a possible identification of the individual and the suggestion that the encounter may have been staged. Source: Alternate Perceptions Magazine , "Reality Checking," May 2022. https://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?Itemid=53&id=1829&option=com_content&view=article Photograph attribution: Attributed to Allen H. Greenfield, Charleston, West Virginia, June 1969. Original negative, publication history, and reproduct...

SHIPGOO001 The Black Goo Living Inside a Great Lakes Research Ship

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Kevin Wikse investigates ShipGoo001 through the lens of black-goo folklore and Stephen King’s “The Raft,” adapted for Creepshow 2. Original Wikseverse artwork depicts Wikse overlooking a mysterious black slick surrounding an abandoned lake raft. I have a rule concerning mysterious black goo. Probably don’t touch it. I don't care if you're a scientist, cryptozoologist, occultist, government contractor, college kid swimming in an isolated lake, or the expendable NPC, whose sole purpose is demonstrating what the monster does before the opening credits. If you encounter an unidentified black substance somewhere it clearly should not be, perhaps leave it alone. Scientists aboard the research vessel R/V Blue Heron, however, did not follow this rule. Maybe that was a good thing, and maybe not.  Because what they discovered is one of the strangest legitimate biological stories I have encountered in a while. It has been given the wonderfully ominous designation: ShipGoo001. And yes, ap...