Welcome back! After a hiatus of over a month, Black Hoodie Alchemy resumes -- and I've got a bone to pick with the notion of enlightenment. While I don't discount that enlightenment is an attainable state of consciousness, and I don't discount that there are altruistic people alive today that claim enlightenment, I've got a real hard time with the idea of enlightenment for several reasons. You can listen to […]
Most of us know at least one example of mass hysteria: the Salem witch trials (1692). In modern times, some say the Roswell Incident (1947) neatly falls under the hysteria header. How - and why - do these group freakouts happen? Forming the Egregore Most animals have a signature distress signal to warn the herd; humans are no different. Hysteria serves an essential survival purpose against actual threats. For imagined […]
The Youtube Algorithm Gods have been serving up deliciously obscure music recommendations since we wiped our history. Ready for some weekend Random Fringe ear candy - or just want to shake up your algorithm? Enjoy our Fringe.FM auditory buffet: 70's Japanese Funk & Soul Ryo Kawasaki My Analog Journal - turns sassy at 51:22 Progressive & Math Rock Polyphia Dream Theater Africa Redux DJ Shinski Miriam Makeba Dreams of […]
Hold on to your tinfoil hats, folks. Researcher Caroline Swiger data-crunched decades of sightings into multiple charts with extensive background citations. It is staggering - and the most impactful UFO-related data summary and analysis we may have seen to date: Unidentified: 30 Years of UFO Sightings Here's a legendary, real-time eyewitness expose of Area 51 - was it a prank, or a frightening, real experience? You decide: Do you have […]
Santa, it seems, can be kinda scary. * The happiest time of the year isn't happy for everyone. Holiday Shakes If enough people fear a thing, we invent a word to describe it. Christmas has its own laundry list: Christougenniatikophobia: fear of Christmas Syngenesophobia: fear of family / family gatherings Heortophobia: fear of celebrating events Ghabhphobia: fear of receiving gifts Pediophobia: fear of lifelike dolls or toys (Annabelle, anyone?) Selaphobia: […]
‘Tis the season for tons of articles and recommendations about “the perfect gift.” We gathered up a bunch of Santa's DMT Elves from the corners of the Fringe offices and asked them for recommendations. The Facebook elves beat us to the punch this week. One of my clean-living family members was surprised when a vibrating cock ring showed up in his Facebook feed. I didn’t believe him until I saw […]
For the final episode of 2022, I am pleased to announce that both Joe Rupe and Tippy Patson are back! If you missed Tippy's last appearance on Episode #14 of Black Hoodie Alchemy, he's a strange yet affable redneck from Defuniak Springs, Florida that is absolutely and totally a real person. You can listen to Episode #30 right here! He and his cohorts (a group of rednecks that […]
Fellow researcher and field-investigator, Chaz of the Dead joins me to talk about some of his strange expeditions across the world, investigation the unexplainable, the psychedelic, and the horrific -- oftentimes all at once. Firstly we discuss Chaz's ground-rules of paranormal investigation, with considerations of Carl Jung, chaos magick, and classical paranormal ghost hunting but without the crosses and holy water. After this, we get into some real wild stories. […]
The Fringe.FM News Desk comes across weird, unique, and interesting stories every single day. Most end up in our virtual "junk drawer," rattling around until we either use them or go all konmari on the mess. Some are too good for the dustbin, though - so welcome to the 1st edition of "Random Fringe!" This Week's Grab Bag of Completely Unrelated Randomness: Biopiracy: How companies are buying up nature […]
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