Darwin's Deviations The House of the Atmospheric Coelenterata

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On Tracing Owls, we will be covering cryptids, aliens, paranormal phenomena, high strangeness, anomalies, obscurities, natural curiosities and general weirdness, as we attempt to catalogue the overlooked, spotlight the disregarded, and remind that the cosmic expanse is much greater than our understanding of it!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for creating this amazing podcast artwork! The idea was to have a barn owl cast the shadows of Braxie and Mothman... with its wings! Thus the outline of a mundane little cutey animal is traced onto monstrously eerie silhouettes... which are open to further interpretation 😀

I cannot thank Christina enough for this wonderful artwork which conveys all my ideas of unity between high strangeness and the natural world, so I highly encourage you to check out her work!

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A mysterious cardboard box arrives at the doorstep of an aspiring web sleuth, who soon finds himself entangled in the unexpected absurdity of another dimension. A dimension not only of...sound, it's a podcast, but of (unsound) mind. A journey into an abhorrent wasteland whose boundaries are that of... well... there are no boundaries, pretty bottom of the barrel here...

His next stop, the Darwinverse!

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This cinematic masterpiece was written, recorded, edited... and scripted, acted, produced... and directed by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Investigator

No fruit was harmed during the making of this scene (cuz I murdered it beforehand)

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Collaboration scene from Episode 19. Vampire Watermelons, with a Side of Garlic Bread LISTEN TO IT HERE

Episode Art was created using Microsoft Paint. You can obtain it for free, by installing a Windows OS on any cheap ass PC. You don't even need to be a graphic designer 😱

Death, Decay, Murder, Blood, Vampires...and other keywords which will make this episode more visible to the edgelords of the internet! Today we appease the Cosmic Joker and bring you a morbidly absurd April Fools experience! Yes, watermelons can be vampires too, and no, we are not pranking you. No siree. It's a real thing, just look at the sources below. I'm not making this stuff up. No really...it is a genuine traditional belief...as is killing the elderly with bread! No wait! I can explain! Damn, just listen to the episode... unless you're vegan! Or an old person. Or Serbian. Or a representative of the vampire pumpkin majority! Or... sane, in any sort of way :P

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Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com

Intro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com

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(Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast)

SOURCES:

Wikipedia: Vampire pumpkins and watermelons

Talk Page for above article

Wikipedia: Petar Blagojević

Wikipedia: Lapot

Wikipedia: Sin-eater

The vampire ground fruit of the Balkans

Will a watermelon left out at night turn into a vampire?

Vampire tourism: Kisiljevo in Serbia is where vampire Petar Blagojevich ‘lived’

Reddit: Is the Serbian tradition of “Lapot” myth or reality?

Sinful suppers: Sin-eating in England and Wales

The Worst Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater

Bojan Jovanović (1997), Ritual of Killing Elders as a Scientific Myth

Wilson, Damon (2004). The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries. New York: Barnes and Noble Books

We have finally reached 1,500 plays!!! As a special treat for achievingly achieving this achievement, we have decided to gracefully make you cringe by doing our very first non-scripted, non-acted episode! I talk about why I have been a lazy bum the past month, expand upon my concepts and theories of the Cosmic Joker and Hierarchies of Nature and Reality... and talk some more nonsense about high strangeness, abstract realities, the Flatwoods Monster (Braxie), mythology and my own awkwardness!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for inspiring this whole conversation, and for letting us feature her magnificent Braxie artwork!!! This awesome art piece may be purchased HERE

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with the very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies, all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

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For more on the Hierarchies of Nature and Reality, check our Episode 12. Volvox: Corporate Unification of Systematic Multicellularity

For more on the Cosmic Joker, otherworldly entities and the psycho-social aspects of the paranormal, check our Episode 18. Extradimensional Psychological Entities

For more info on the book I mentioned, titled "Quest for the Unknown: Bizarre Phenomena" check it out on Amazon

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Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com

Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror)  3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com

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FURTHER READING:

Cosmic Joker

Trickster

Psychosocial hypothesis

HighStrangeness (Subreddit)

Charles Fort

Forteana

Anomalous Weather

Entombed animal

Flatwoods monster

Mothman

Fresno Nightcrawler

Indrid Cold

Gray Barker

Flatwoods Monster Solved!