Osborne Ink
Skeptic Spirit
Close Encounters of the Stupid Kind
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Close Encounters of the Stupid Kind

An audio confessional
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Recently, I recorded a Twitter/X space about the history of my interest in paranormal experiences as well as the history of my skepticism of those same experiences. My posts this year related to the topic are linked below. At the bottom is the not-kidding Top Secret Secure Compartmentalized Information facility in which I had two close encounters of the stupid kind. The songs I sampled are “Livestock Abduction” by the Pine Hill Haints and “Show and Hell” by Séance Fiction.

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Osborne Ink
Skeptic Spirit
Essays on the supernatural, especially the transition of Theosophy into flying saucer cults.