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Tonight, Monday on FADE to BLACK: Join Chris Ramsay for a mind-bending conversation where magic meets the unknown. From illusion and perception to UFOs, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Remote Viewing, we explore how curiosity can open doors to deeper realities. Plus, don’t miss details on the upcoming tour bringing these ideas to life.
Chris Ramsay is a renowned magician, puzzle expert, and digital creator known for blending sleight of hand with curiosity-driven storytelling. Through his widely popular YouTube channel, he explores puzzles, mysteries, and the limits of perception—inviting millions to question what’s real and think beyond the obvious.
Jimmy Church Thread
Jimmy Church was fired from C2CAM for not being boring enough. This will be a fade to black thread.Most recent (last evening)
Tonight, Monday on FADE to BLACK: Join Chris Ramsay for a mind-bending conversation where magic meets the unknown. From illusion and perception to UFOs, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Remote Viewing, we explore how curiosity can open doors to deeper realities. Plus, don’t miss details on the upcoming tour bringing these ideas to life.
Chris Ramsay is a renowned magician, puzzle expert, and digital creator known for blending sleight of hand with curiosity-driven storytelling. Through his widely popular YouTube channel, he explores puzzles, mysteries, and the limits of perception—inviting millions to question what’s real and think beyond the obvious.
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include me in the /spookkey/ history book,,,,,.,.,.,
include me in the /spookkey/ history book,,,,,.,.,.,
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This spook vid is macabre :DDD
This spook vid is macabre :DDD
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The Allagash Abductees
The Allagash Abductees
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Lost Media is mysterious. That's what makes documenting and attempting to find lost media exceptionally compelling.
It's the fear of the unknown.
The idea that no one really knows what you're about to see and anything can happen. You might wind up seeing a forgotten masterpiece, a horrifying exploitation film or a weird sincerely crafted mess with a few "WTF??" moments sprinkled in.
It evokes the feeling of being alone. You may physically be in your house but mentally you're off experiencing no man's land. Your eyes are watching something no one has seen in years or decades, few will ever know what youve experienced or care.
The thing that's the spookiest about Lost Media to me is how we know it once existed in some capacity and we know people saw/heard/played it, but it got buried in the sands of time due to poor archival.
And I think the other big thing is the fact that SOMEONE in the world is likely to have said media and may be the only one who does, or nobody would have it at all besides the creator.
Really lost media like this gives you a sensation of emptiness, like "we need to get it to find some closure", even if you know the chances of that are really slim, but you keep trying or hoping someday the media will surface.
Lost Media 2.0: An explanation of why Lost Media
I find Lost Media to be truly Haunting, in the sense that it's lost because no one wants to look at it, or consume it. There is something exciting about searching and playing something society has collectively decided to ignore or forget. You ask yourself why? And often the answer is quite exciting.Lost Media is mysterious. That's what makes documenting and attempting to find lost media exceptionally compelling.
It's the fear of the unknown.
The idea that no one really knows what you're about to see and anything can happen. You might wind up seeing a forgotten masterpiece, a horrifying exploitation film or a weird sincerely crafted mess with a few "WTF??" moments sprinkled in.
It evokes the feeling of being alone. You may physically be in your house but mentally you're off experiencing no man's land. Your eyes are watching something no one has seen in years or decades, few will ever know what youve experienced or care.
The thing that's the spookiest about Lost Media to me is how we know it once existed in some capacity and we know people saw/heard/played it, but it got buried in the sands of time due to poor archival.
And I think the other big thing is the fact that SOMEONE in the world is likely to have said media and may be the only one who does, or nobody would have it at all besides the creator.
Really lost media like this gives you a sensation of emptiness, like "we need to get it to find some closure", even if you know the chances of that are really slim, but you keep trying or hoping someday the media will surface.
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>Urban legends are a genre of modern folklore, consisting of stories about rare and exceptional events, just plausible enough to be believed. In our view, while urban legends represent a form of “sticky” deceptive text, they are marked by a tension between the credible and incredible.
>They should be credible like a news article and incredible like a fairy tale.
>In particular we will focus on the idea that urban legends should mimic the details of news (who, where, when) to be credible, while they should be emotional and readable like a fairy tale to be catchy and memorable.
The term “urban legend” has been popular since the 1980s, when Jan Harold Brunvand published his collection of urban legends and their meanings. When discussing the story of the vanishing hitchhiker, Harold wrote that the legend had evolved from older European stories about travelers riding horseback. With time, the story adopted more variations. With changes in the narrative, scenery and characters, the story has traveled far and wide, spreading by word of mouth to ears all around.
>Urban legends typically grow popular through storytelling. The speaker usually claims that such things happened to “a friend of a friend,” making the story something we want to believe. Because why would a friend lie? The peculiarities and suspense of an urban legend are what makes them spread.
>The more shocking yet realistic the story, the more we want to share it. Sometimes, urban legends are told to extend caution and sometimes, most times, they are simply good stories. Nowadays, instant communication has made it easier for urban legends to spread. For a long time, urban legend email chains were popular, and now such tales are told on social media with a few clicks.
>The continuous pattern of misinformation circulating on social media has made it easier for such stories to be shared, as many people take what they read and hear on the internet at face value, never second-guessing their feeds.
>What makes urban legends so captivating is that they contain elements from everyday life, such as walking through the woods, driving down a long road, looking into a mirror — the list is endless.
>There is something so haunting about the possibility that ordinary things could expose us to the terrors these legends speak of. As time passes, urban legends shift, retelling a modernized version of the story to newer audiences, making urban legends everlasting.
>Most people have been impacted by urban legends in one way or another, whether that be hearing a story and sharing it with a friend or stumbling upon a Creepypasta and not being able to sleep in the dark for days. Urban legends are not typical scary stories; they are spread with the notion that they are true and that they are something we should beware of. Urban legends must be spread with warning, as they can unravel more than we know
Urban Legends: Gore, Ghost and the Macabre is part of our daily life
Previous thread: staffas.org/bs/res/1923.html>Urban legends are a genre of modern folklore, consisting of stories about rare and exceptional events, just plausible enough to be believed. In our view, while urban legends represent a form of “sticky” deceptive text, they are marked by a tension between the credible and incredible.
>They should be credible like a news article and incredible like a fairy tale.
>In particular we will focus on the idea that urban legends should mimic the details of news (who, where, when) to be credible, while they should be emotional and readable like a fairy tale to be catchy and memorable.
The term “urban legend” has been popular since the 1980s, when Jan Harold Brunvand published his collection of urban legends and their meanings. When discussing the story of the vanishing hitchhiker, Harold wrote that the legend had evolved from older European stories about travelers riding horseback. With time, the story adopted more variations. With changes in the narrative, scenery and characters, the story has traveled far and wide, spreading by word of mouth to ears all around.
>Urban legends typically grow popular through storytelling. The speaker usually claims that such things happened to “a friend of a friend,” making the story something we want to believe. Because why would a friend lie? The peculiarities and suspense of an urban legend are what makes them spread.
>The more shocking yet realistic the story, the more we want to share it. Sometimes, urban legends are told to extend caution and sometimes, most times, they are simply good stories. Nowadays, instant communication has made it easier for urban legends to spread. For a long time, urban legend email chains were popular, and now such tales are told on social media with a few clicks.
>The continuous pattern of misinformation circulating on social media has made it easier for such stories to be shared, as many people take what they read and hear on the internet at face value, never second-guessing their feeds.
>What makes urban legends so captivating is that they contain elements from everyday life, such as walking through the woods, driving down a long road, looking into a mirror — the list is endless.
>There is something so haunting about the possibility that ordinary things could expose us to the terrors these legends speak of. As time passes, urban legends shift, retelling a modernized version of the story to newer audiences, making urban legends everlasting.
>Most people have been impacted by urban legends in one way or another, whether that be hearing a story and sharing it with a friend or stumbling upon a Creepypasta and not being able to sleep in the dark for days. Urban legends are not typical scary stories; they are spread with the notion that they are true and that they are something we should beware of. Urban legends must be spread with warning, as they can unravel more than we know