Once upon a time, there was a great little web series called Making Fiends that turned into a swell TV series. Both versions told about the dynamic between Vendetta, an evil little girl that makes fiends, and Charlotte, who thinks Vendetta is her best friend despite the latter loathing her.
Here’s a video of the Halloween episode.
Alas, Nickelodeon cancelled the TV show after only one season. I’m glad I bough the DVD when it was available, as its now out of print and people are asking ridiculous amounts for it…
Daily Dose of Internet does video compilations, and here are some of the most cursed. These are less straight horror than just weird, unsettling and creepy.
Come for the electric guacamole, stay for the airport flooding with green slime.
(You know, Electric Guacamole would be a good name for a rock band…)
For those unfamiliar with A. J. Gentile, he’s the guy behind The Why Files, where he and sidekick Hecklefish examine various paranormal subjects, spooky stories, legends, fringe science theories, etc. A bunch of stuff that could have been covered by Art Bell or Fortean Times. I used him as fodder for previous Halloween posts here and here.
Turns out that Joe Rogan is a fan, too, and he did a nearly three hour interview with him:
Topics covered include UFOs, aliens, floods, the weirdness of the moon, military technology (that might have come from aliens), etc.
Remember: Alternate reality theories are for entertainment purposes only…
People find all sorts of interesting things in Google Earth, some of which are more unsettling than others.
These include:
A glitch that made everything in New Baltimore, New York look weird, distorted and ghostly.
A car that showed up submerged in a suburban Florida retention. Turned out there was dead guy in it that had gone missing 22 years before.
A plane deep in the Cambodian jungle that might be flight MH370. (You would think someone would have investigated the site by now, even if only with a drone. And the intact wing shape seems unlikely in a jungle crash situation.)
A gathering of people in clown masks that might have been members of a drug cartel.
This video about the five levels of dreams shouldn’t be horror…except it is.
Between the loud, jarring section starts to the disturbing visuals to the eerie use of liminal spaces, the video seems designed more to induce nightmares than explain them.
Some of this jibes what what I experience when dreaming, and some of it doesn’t. Your mileage may vary.
Rocko’s Basilisk is a thought experiment that would be terribly frightening if it weren’t so fundamentally stupid.
To quote Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge: “Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment which states that there could be an artificial superintelligence in the future that, while otherwise benevolent, would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize that advancement.”
The really crazy part is that those who actually believe in the theory think Rocko’s Basilisk would become so all-powerful that it can retroactively punish those in the past, including subjecting them to eternal torment for failing to help the basilisk, while rewarding those who do. So instead of an interesting thought experiment, it’s just a funhouse inversion of Christian theology on salvation and damnation.
“I hit the MTC/those self transforming elves/they’re just AI entities/future versions of ourselves.”
“Reality is a construct, and your mind’s all you need.”
“We’re beautiful and mentally stable creatures/Living in a world with perfect features/No more therapy, no more meds/Cuz the future’s dancing in our heads.”
Shades of Philip K. Dick!
But surely no one is foolish enough to be fooled that this half-assed through experiment actually reflects reality, right? Wrong. “In the 2020s, the philosophy of the Zizians was heavily influenced by the Roko’s basilisk thought experiment. Ziz LaSota, the leader of the cult, believes the basilisk to be real and wrote on her* blog: “Eventually I came to believe that if I persisted in trying to save the world, I would be tortured until the end of the universe by a coalition of all unfriendly A.I.s.” If you haven’t heard of the Zizians, they’re a radical vegan transgender cult that’s also anti-AI. At least six people have died due to their actions…
