Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Halloween Horrors: The Dark Watchers

Friday, October 28th, 2022

It’s not often hear of legendary American creature previously unknown to me, but I hadn’t heard of The Dark Watchers before I stumbled across this

The Dark Watchers are described as tall, sometimes giant-sized featureless dark silhouettes often adorned with brimmed hats or walking sticks. They are most often reported to be seen in the hours around twilight and dawn. They are said to motionlessly watch travelers from the horizon along the Santa Lucia Mountain Range. According to legend, no one has seen one up close and if someone were to approach them, they disappear.”

Here’s a page of firsthand accounts.

Halloween Horrors: Underground Car Graveyard

Thursday, October 27th, 2022

Less scary than weird and curious, here’s some people exploring a water-filled “Cavern of Lost Souls” with “1000” (probably an exaggeration) old cars mysteriously dumped there. But there are an awful lot there, and it looks like a genuinely dangerous exploration.

This is evidently in north Wales.

Halloween Horrors: The Book of Cosmic Horror

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

If you like some Hieronymus Bosch, maybe you’ll enjoy this freaky medieval book of prophecy.

With a nod to H. P. Lovecraft.

Halloween Horrors: Wasparama

Sunday, October 16th, 2022

Keeping the creepy crawly theme from yesterday going, here’s a video of a wasp and hornet expert removing a yellow-jacket nest from a wall in a woman’s basement.

A really, really, really big nest.

If that doesn’t freak you out enough, this guy has dozens more nest removal videos on his channel…

Halloween Horrors: House of Scorpions

Saturday, October 15th, 2022

We haven’t done any creepy crawly horror yet this holiday season, so “enjoy” this abandoned house absolutely filled with scorpions.

Sweet dreams…

Halloween Horrors: Welcome To AI Hell

Friday, October 14th, 2022

Man tells an AI to generate visions of Hell. Here are the results:

Of course, AI Hell is different from Robot Hell. For one thing, there’s less singing:

Halloween Horrors: National Museum of Funeral History in Houston

Wednesday, October 12th, 2022

This should be a Halloween non-horror, as this actually looks like a pretty cool place to visit:

The museum is open seven days a week at 415 Barren Springs Dr, Houston, TX 77090.

Halloween Horrors: Caving Gone Wrong

Saturday, October 1st, 2022

What can go wrong when exploring the deepest cave on earth?

Plenty.

This is a really gripping scary story, and somebody should make it into a movie.

Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Sleep” Live

Sunday, September 25th, 2022

Slowdive’s “Sleep” was one of those Souvlaki outtakes that showed up on numerous bootleg demo compilations but never had an official release.

This version, recorded live at Komedia, Bath in the UK on May 18th this year, is evidently the first time they ever played it live.

In The Court of the Crimson King With AI Generated Art

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

There’s been a lot of talk lately about AI-generated art. Someone inputted the lyrics to King Crimson’s prog-rock classic “In the Court of the Crimson King” into Midjourney and the results are a lot better than I expected.

Sureal, nameless abominations are the sort of area I would expect AI art to excel in. Skilled painterly depictions of human faces? Not so much.

Not that it won’t try. Beware the Loab.