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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
This time around, the show gets pretty X-Files-ish with my colleague, AP Strange -- a writer, researcher, investigator, and collector of Forteana. Strange gives us a brief history of Charles Fort and the ideas of "Fortean" investigation and phenomena, which essentially encompasses anything unexplainable with some shades of specificity that we'll get into. You can listen to the episode right here! Â Armed with an impressive Fortean library, AP Strange […]
This week's episode will be more personal than usual, as I talk about why the culture of the conspiracy theory has been on the strong rise over the last several years. For 3 years, around 2014 to 2017, I was one of the three main writers behind the non-partisan news website The Last American Vagabond, where I immersed myself in so many conspiracy theories in an attempt to find what […]
Welcome to the first episode of Black Hoodie Alchemy, airing Monday evenings 6pm PST on the Fringe.FM! I am your host, Anthony Tyler, researcher of esoterica and forteana (comparative religion and unexplainable phenomena in less specific terms.) I've written two books and been on some prominent indie talkshows like "Where Did the Road Go?", "Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio", "Lighting the Void", et cetera, and I have a fascination with the […]
I had a great time chatting live today with Keats Ross, host of the Pragmagick podcast. We dived into the muddled disarray of astrology, the archetypal shadow, and Hermeticism for a Pisces celebration-- and of course we talked about my latest release Hunt Manual. Keats read the book himself and had some very kind things to say about it! Â Thanks to everyone for checking it out and chiming up […]
In November, I was invited onto Seriah Azkath's long-running radio show, Where Did the Road Go? Known for his deep interests in the paranormal, unexplainable and psychological, Seriah and his guest-host Taylor Bell (host of The Green Lion) were kind enough to read my latest book Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana, and they had great things to say about it. Â Their reads of the book made for […]
This time around I join my friends Mike and Maurice again on their podcast 'Mind Escape'. Their particular interest having to do with ancient history, psychedelics, and UFOs (not always all at once, and with a very diligent and empirical mindset), our conversation is certainly geared in that general direction with much more! We talk a little bit about objectivity vs subjectivity in the discussions of good and evil, the […]
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