For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #142
We awake out there?
How goes it out there?
Out to everyone was Justin’s latest and greatest: Coal Conjuring: Summoning Earth’s Demons. Every ghost story begins somewhere. Sometimes it begins with grief; some begin with folklore. And sometimes it begins with a fire burning beneath your feet for sixty years. This piece traces the connections between some unexpected phenomena: haunted houses, environmental science, coal mining, climate change, and AI.
In paid inboxes was a comms lesson with Kennedy, Explaining Isn’t Listening. The instinct to explain is powerful one, especially when you know you're right. But closeness has a way of creating blind spots. This piece explores another overlap between investigations and communications, why facts don’t always change minds, and good responses don’t prioritize correcting the narrative but ensuring the audience feels understood.
What Justin Recommends
In Search of Darkness
If you’ve not yet had the pure pleasure of over 14 hours of 1980s horror history that is In Search Of Darkness, now is the time. With the extended 1990s editions, and my personal new favourite addition: Terrorbytes, an amazing, in-depth documentary series on the horror video game genre. Quite fitting for my romp through Silent Hill in this week's post. The digital editions are affordable, contain tens of hours of watching pleasure, the soundtracks and digital booklets. This is allI am doing this weekend and you should too.
Now, go enjoy your weekend.
And that’s an order.
Love,
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew