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Campfire Ghost Stories

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Just call me Alice. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole and have scared the living daylights out of myself.

The latest scary story comes from Timothy Alberino about the “face-peelers”. He sat in a comfy chair talking to podcaster Shawn Ryan, looking like a newer younger and more handsome Indiana Jones. He held an unlit cigar that he didn’t bring up to his Muskateer-moustached mouth.

He wove a tale, perfect for a campfire ghost story, set in remote Peru, where these “face-peelers” terrorized the people of a small village. Of course, Timothy speaks the local dialect, allowing him to speak directly with the traumatized victims.

This is the latest video I’ve watched on YouTube about strange anomalies, and I realise I need to stop this as it is giving me the heebie-jeebies.

Combine this with watching The Handmaid’s Tale on TV and I feel like I’ve got PTSD. The first time I tried to watch this dystopian story, I couldn’t. I found the repression of women too disturbing and too real. But of late I have watched the whole series, and it is truly traumatizing. What the heck is going on in Margaret Atwood’s brain?! She really is a sick person. Anyway, I’m glad that is behind me.

So, on the topic of UFO, UAP, NHI, and other unexplained phenomena, here is an unordered list of some of the podcasters I’ve been watching on YouTube (some are better quality and more credible than others):

I do find these stories perplexing and like many, I want answers. The Bob Lazar story is especially compelling. Jeremy Corbell’s account narrated in the gravelly voice of Mickey Rourke is excellent.

But this hobby can become obsessive and it sits on my psyche in a negative way. I think it is similar to the conspiracy theories that drew in many people during the COVID pandemic. Not the same content, but the same effect.

So, I really do need to escape from this rabbit hole. How did Alice get out? Oh, she woke up.

TV viewing is so bad nowadays, and the news media is truly awful. AFL has been hijacked by woke causes. And the only truly great sports viewing is the cycling in Europe. I love Le Tour. There is a wider variety of content on YouTube.

So, for a ray of sunshine and some more positive upbeat stories, I need to stick to art, music, books, travel, cooking, animal stories, etc. Here are some that I do watch and enjoy:

Any recommendations that I can investigate?

To blog or not to blog?

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Creative writing brings me joy. I love to have pen in hand, a blank page, and to freewheel across the page. Later I transfer this into digital format.

I’ve been blogging since 2008 and journalling since about 1996 when I applied myself to writing Morning Pages as prescribed by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way. I ditch most of the journals because they are full of whingey personal crap where I sort out the problems of my mind.

But when I look back over the blog archive, I think it is a personal account rich in images, metaphor, questions, ideas, and experiences.

But the online landscape has changed and over these recent years it has been overrun with scammers, hackers, criminals, loud opinionators, and stupid promotions and ads for companies and organisations. No, I don’t want to buy your idiotic product or join your ”woke” cause!

Fortunately, there are still some authentic, peaceful souls brave enough to continue to post beautiful pieces: Rich Roll, Isabel Paige, Valerie Lin, Rip Esselstyn, and others.

Lately I’ve been considering closing down this blog. I want to minimize the risk imposed by hackers and scammers. I loathe the barrage of fake emails, clickbait articles, catastrophized news, and petty advertising. I don’t want to feed the hungry phantom of the negative online world, or AI for that matter.

So maybe this is it? What do you think? See you on the outside?

Where do I go for news now?

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Twitter was once an excellent social media platform until it was transformed into X by you-know-who. You could really tailor it to your own areas of interest, as well as learn about what was going on in the world very quickly. It was relevant. With regret I got off that platform once it went over to the dark side.

FaceBook is awful and has been for a long time now. Once it was a useful way to keep in touch with family and friends. Now it just pushes irrelevant detritus your way: ads, groups, and causes.

Instragram is still okay, but the Meta folk are intent on filling it with ads and awful influencers. I like it for the beautiful images, not for someone bleating at my face about who-knows-what.

After Twitter died, I regretfully returned to mainstream news such as the ABCTV. But it seems they don’t teach proper journalism and reporting anymore. Or at least these people aren’t chosen as news presenters. I’m not interested in your random opinion, or worse still, woke government sanctioned opinion. I just want the news of the world. Especially not horoscopes and animal stories, or idiot dances on TikTok, and more than just localised events. What is actually going on in South America, or Africa, or France? The world is bigger than just China and the USA. Our national ABC Morning News in Australia is an embarrassment of trivial giggling trash. I find that SBS News is a much more interesting and professional media service, and it does include news from all over the world.

I tried Threads by Meta and liked it. It seemed to be kind and positive. Lots of booklovers are on there. But with Meta swamping out the ads again I hopped off as quickly as I hopped on. I realise the necessity for sponsorship, but they go overboard making it difficult to sort through the feed to find the things you really want to see and read about.

I heard about Bluesky and I am currently on there to see what it’s like. It seems very USA-centric at the moment. I wonder if that will change as more people become aware of it.

Maybe I need to stream a news service via YouTube. Where do you think is the best place for daily factual unbiased world news? Suggestions needed.