The scents of Star Trek!

https://www.perfume.com/star-trek/star-trek-pon-farr/women-perfume

https://www.perfume.com/star-trek/star-trek-sulu/men-cologne

https://www.perfume.com/star-trek/star-trek-tiberius/men-cologne

https://www.perfume.com/star-trek/star-trek-red-shirt/men-cologne

A map of the weird and strange

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjvpy/this-crowdsourced-map-documents-ufo-sightings-cryptids-and-the-supernatural

Happy National Brandy Alexander Day!

https://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/brandy-alexander-day

Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

https://sealedair.com/bubble-wrap-appreciation-day

The Gorbals Vampire!

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/08/the-strange-tale-of-the-gorbals-vampire-of-glasgow/

Dems

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/19/centrist-democrats-target-freshman-representative/?fbclid=IwAR0ihC5OH0gsbgUlqgeDQegTvHfA3xHXyrXUI3q4LgSaoKPqlOV69MMoMIA

Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention

https://www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com/

Horrifying images of 1950's food!

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Gross+Vintage+Recipes+1950s+Food&FORM=IDINTS

(Thanks for the link, John!)

A nice documentary about the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAOJ8MurGZE&feature=share

One of my faves. 

True..

Amazing hermetic and occult library now online!

http://hautemacabre.com/2019/08/bury-us-beneath-occult-books-the-ritman-library-digitized/

Nice article about Halloween shopping

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/16/20808621/halloween-stores-summer-retail?fbclid=IwAR2qki9PWpzN1zah6ocUe_nTWYM4PAH1VCrqjOSemC58vzzVsCMMs_RyQfE

The Irish try Route 11 Potato Chips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkG2u1Zua-Q&fbclid=IwAR0tWjHk4_2jR_6DONYRMVueW2-T23wiRoCuXlZ4Pl0-vXEkONyBVtvpcLU

My favorite chips!   https://www.rt11.com/

Gormenghast coming to TV?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/neil-gaimans-take-on-mervyn-peakes-gormenghast-fantasy-1837276019?fbclid=IwAR3e29fMwuqH4iPM5vzSypQ0hN6-sGnPXpJ-u8Hg9Zh1PvpLbSUSmdrSCac


I agree that it's a pretty interesting trilogy - with quite a few interesting and original ideas to it.  But I'm not sure I see it as film.  It'll be interesting to see if they succeed.

Happy Sturgeon Moon!

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/sturgeon.html

A nice article about Fortean researcher John Keel

https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2019/08/john-keel-manthe-myths-and-ongoing.html

Strange disappearances

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/08/strange-cases-of-people-who-vanished-into-thin-air-in-the-wilderness/

The Woodstock Tapes

https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/recording/woodstock-50-back-to-the-tapes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMavvhlQe4&feature=youtu.be

Fascinating bit of pop history.

(Thanks for the links, Perry!)

Strippers VS Area 51

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/08/storm-area-51-update-exotic-dancers/

The haunted dildo

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/irish-twitter-crowdfunds-auction-bid-victorian-dildo/

A nice article about the Marx Brothers

http://blog.dvd.netflix.com/new-dvd-releases/spotlight-on-the-marx-brothers?fbclid=IwAR2zbItl3PWSuCA5-ldrx8Y8gT-ksb9DNL65hNsEaPZtOFgaePwFjhf3Juw

40 years ago - Rock'N'Roll High School!

One of my fave movies.

http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/rock-n-roll-high-school-40-the-ramones/?fbclid=IwAR3mhkiqSoMW3quKzGeMtmy-TAGtg3oEgY6FiTUww9TCzNWEdtKD2V9oCw8

Vampire Body Analyzed

https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190731/vampire-remains-found-about-30-years-ago-now-dna-is-telling-his-story


The article implies that such practices stopped about 180-200 years ago.  But there's evidence in the more isolated areas of Rhode Island that they continued up to the 1890's....