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01/13/2023

Happy Friday the 13th! You can read back issues of The Thirteen Club zine at https://www.haint.blue/the-thirteen-club

Morituri te Salutamus!

12/15/2022

Fifty-five years ago today - at 4:58pm on December 15, 1967, while full of rush-hour traffic - the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsed. Forty-six people died in what remains the deadliest bridge disaster in American history.

Read more about the disaster, it’s surprising musical history, and it’s link to a dark moth-monster entity:

https://www.haint.blue/post/disaster-ditties-demonic-demolition-the-silver-bridge-disaster-memorial-album

11/28/2022

Ninety-four years ago tonight, on the night of November 27, 1928, a troubled trio - who believed they had been hexed by local powwow/folk magic doctor Nelson Rehmeyer - bound, beat, and murdered the man in his home in an attempt to remove the witch curse.

https://www.haint.blue/post/a-long-lost-friend-murder-and-magic-at-southern-pennsylvania-s-hex-house

11/26/2022

Christmas tree of Cryptid Ornaments by our own . Catch him 11/26 at Bazaart at American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD.

11/23/2022

Marlin Perkins of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” fame describes his search for the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, in the Himalayas with Sir Edmund Hillary…as they got sidetracked while working on a new feline distemper vaccine.

Read and listen on Haint.Blue at https://www.haint.blue/post/we-got-the-beast-marlin-perkins-cures-cats-and-searches-for-snowmen

10/20/2022

Fifty-five year’s ago today, on October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin rode into Bluff Creek on horseback and allegedly filmed an adult female Sasquatch as she fled toward the woods. This bag contains sand/gravel/dirt collected from that site.

10/09/2022

Albatwitch festival 2022 was a blast! Mark your calendars October 14th 2023!

08/09/2022

Flying Dutchman

Albert Pinkham Ryder, Flying Dutchman, completed by 1887, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.95

“Records of the Royal Navy tell of mutineers being terrified by a real ghost ship after rigging their ship to appear as the Flying “

Ghost Hunter, Fortean explorer, and noted author Rick Fisher shares some tales of famous ghost ships.

Read more at:

https://www.haint.blue/post/ghost-ships-doomed-to-prowl-the-high-seas-or-will-they-someday-find-eternal-rest

08/07/2022

The Hanging Tree, Saints Delight Road, Georgetown County, SC

This stately cypress once possessed a branch that hung out over the road and was home to many hangings. This tree dates back well over two hundred fifty years and was used to hang not only red coats but torries responsible for aiding and swearing loyalty to the crown.

It’s menacing appearance discouraged many from passing near it after dark. Sadly in the past century a passing semi truck struck and broke off the hanging branch.

Written about and discussed in books on local lore and legends of the Grand Strand, it provided to be a bit more difficult to hunt down vs an Internet address or gps coordinates.

07/14/2022

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, Elmore’s Butterbean Shed, Lee County SC-July 14, 1988

Christopher Davis on his way home from his late night shift at McDonald’s was waylaid by a flat tire near the location of Elmore’s Butter Bean Shed on Browntown Road.

In the words of Mr. Davis:

“The Moonlight was out and I saw a red-eyed devil”

“I had finished fixing the tire and was putting things in the trunk. I turned around and saw a red-eyed Devil. He was about 30 yards from me, in the field. It had real long arms. When he would run his arms would swing. I ran to the driver’s side and got in. When I was sitting in the car I saw him from the neck down. I pulled off, and after about two yards he jumped on the roof. I could see the creatures three fingered hand through the windshield. I saw hands, rough looking, black finger nailed hands. After he fell off the car he grunted. A deep grunt. He grunted one time. The creature fell off.

Subsequent sightings, damages to other vehicles, police investigations, and some foot prints would be uncovered.

Fortunately the foot prints, the sign from the butter bean shed and actual beans collected from the location are on display at the South Carolina Cotton Museum. For a few dollars you can purchase a bag with some of the beans.

07/08/2022

75th anniversary of the news of a reported crashed saucer near Roswell, NM. In the next few days a correction was issued stating that it was a crashed weather balloon. Whatever it was it became one of the most famous headlines in terms high strangeness.

07/07/2022

The State of Georgia Bureau of Investigations has demolished what was left of the Georgia Guidestones after a bombing on July 6th. While the guidestones caused controversy in some circles we are sad to see this enigmatic roadside monolith gone from the roadside. Luckily Dutchy is still nearby.

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