Theo Paijmans
@memizon.bsky.social
They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
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Theo Paijmans
@memizon.bsky.social
· Mar 29
A warm welcome to my new followers! I post images of weird, supernatural, ghostly and science fiction books from Victorian times to the early 20th century. If it’s strange, it’s probably on one of my shelves.
About two decades ago, I researched Spring-heeled Jack in America. I just found my 64-page catalog of cases from 1881 to 1975 that I wrote at the time. These are the sources for one of the cases; I note how many librarians and historians I contacted. Not everything is digitized.
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
About two decades ago, I researched Spring-heeled Jack in America. I just found my 64-page catalog of cases from 1881 to 1975 that I wrote at the time. These are the sources for one of the cases; I note how many librarians and historians I contacted. Not everything is digitized.
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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Mysterious Russian Aeroplane
February 1, 1913 — Lvov, Ukraine
1/Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine.
Today in UFO History - Mysterious Russian Aeroplane
February 1, 1913 — Lvov, Ukraine
1/Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine.
February 1, 2026 at 5:18 AM
#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Mysterious Russian Aeroplane
February 1, 1913 — Lvov, Ukraine
1/Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine.
Today in UFO History - Mysterious Russian Aeroplane
February 1, 1913 — Lvov, Ukraine
1/Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine.
From my library: 'The Legends of Alsace' (1892) mentions the story of the terrible Doggele, a creature that sits on the chests of children in the midst of night (old hag syndrome?): "It's a kind of nightmare or vampire, looking like undetermined, pasted together animal shapes."
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
From my library: 'The Legends of Alsace' (1892) mentions the story of the terrible Doggele, a creature that sits on the chests of children in the midst of night (old hag syndrome?): "It's a kind of nightmare or vampire, looking like undetermined, pasted together animal shapes."
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The book I am most looking forward to this year.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746822...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746822...
The Co-Creation by Olivia Judson: 9780593831045 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A daring and visionary new narrative of the emergence of life, one that refocuses our attention on the beautiful and mysterious tango between life and Earth itself, from Olivia Judson, the bestselling...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The book I am most looking forward to this year.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746822...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746822...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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According to a Flemish folktale, a woman was followed by a ghost while she walked home late at night. The ghost had a skull instead of a head and a white beard. Overnight, a huge tree grew in front of her door. It had to be cut down because nobody could enter or leave.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
January 30, 2026 at 10:53 AM
According to a Flemish folktale, a woman was followed by a ghost while she walked home late at night. The ghost had a skull instead of a head and a white beard. Overnight, a huge tree grew in front of her door. It had to be cut down because nobody could enter or leave.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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It's Friday! And there's a brand new Conspirinormal podcast featuring Robert Guffey!
cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/holl...
cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/holl...
HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD on... CONSPIRINORMAL!
I'm delighted to report that CONSPIRINORMAL is up and running again on a regular schedule, and I've just appeared on the latest episode with...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
It's Friday! And there's a brand new Conspirinormal podcast featuring Robert Guffey!
cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/holl...
cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/holl...
This arrived today, published in 1880. So if you don’t hear from me the coming days, you know where I am…
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
This arrived today, published in 1880. So if you don’t hear from me the coming days, you know where I am…
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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Man Fires 0.22 At Hovering Object
January 29, 1953 — Conway, SC
1/11:15 p.m. A farmer named Lloyd C. Booth just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of animals, grabs his .22 revolver,
Today in UFO History - Man Fires 0.22 At Hovering Object
January 29, 1953 — Conway, SC
1/11:15 p.m. A farmer named Lloyd C. Booth just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of animals, grabs his .22 revolver,
January 29, 2026 at 3:03 AM
#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Man Fires 0.22 At Hovering Object
January 29, 1953 — Conway, SC
1/11:15 p.m. A farmer named Lloyd C. Booth just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of animals, grabs his .22 revolver,
Today in UFO History - Man Fires 0.22 At Hovering Object
January 29, 1953 — Conway, SC
1/11:15 p.m. A farmer named Lloyd C. Booth just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of animals, grabs his .22 revolver,
A nocturnal shelfie. Which book would you read?
January 27, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A nocturnal shelfie. Which book would you read?
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Melancholy-2025
January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Melancholy-2025
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Ice Age art!
A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago!
Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me.
#Archaeology
A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago!
Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me.
#Archaeology
January 20, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Ice Age art!
A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago!
Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me.
#Archaeology
A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago!
Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me.
#Archaeology
Colonial Denmark treated the Inuit, the indigenous Greenlanders, with a genocidal, racist Joseph Mengele program of forced sterilizations (subjects could be girls as young as 12 or 13 years) and abductions of Inuit children, well into the 1970s. That's the country we're supposed to help?
January 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Colonial Denmark treated the Inuit, the indigenous Greenlanders, with a genocidal, racist Joseph Mengele program of forced sterilizations (subjects could be girls as young as 12 or 13 years) and abductions of Inuit children, well into the 1970s. That's the country we're supposed to help?
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More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality:
www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
January 18, 2026 at 4:32 AM
More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality:
www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
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"Fight the Power" is the definitive political anthem by Public Enemy, originally commissioned by director Spike Lee for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential songs in music history, recently ranked #2 on Rolling Stone's 2025
January 18, 2026 at 4:03 AM
"Fight the Power" is the definitive political anthem by Public Enemy, originally commissioned by director Spike Lee for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential songs in music history, recently ranked #2 on Rolling Stone's 2025
That time when I found an original letter written by Charles Fort, pasted in a first edition of his 'Lo!' (1931):
January 7, 2026 at 6:02 AM
That time when I found an original letter written by Charles Fort, pasted in a first edition of his 'Lo!' (1931):
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"By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards."
Umberto Eco,
January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016
Umberto Eco,
January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016
January 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
"By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards."
Umberto Eco,
January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016
Umberto Eco,
January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016
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Ben geen groot liefhebber van fantasy, maar ik vind dit een heerlijk boek. Over een meisje dat 's nachts brieven bezorgt aan dierbare overledenen in het dodenrijk. Ook daar werkt de post niet altijd goed. 😀
'De middernachtloper' (Leopold, 15+) van Maren Stoffels.
jaapleest.nl/de-middernac...
'De middernachtloper' (Leopold, 15+) van Maren Stoffels.
jaapleest.nl/de-middernac...
January 5, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Ben geen groot liefhebber van fantasy, maar ik vind dit een heerlijk boek. Over een meisje dat 's nachts brieven bezorgt aan dierbare overledenen in het dodenrijk. Ook daar werkt de post niet altijd goed. 😀
'De middernachtloper' (Leopold, 15+) van Maren Stoffels.
jaapleest.nl/de-middernac...
'De middernachtloper' (Leopold, 15+) van Maren Stoffels.
jaapleest.nl/de-middernac...
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Interested in a spooky and strange story? Join me as I tell the tale of the time Aleister Crowley tried to reanimate a human skeleton.
youtu.be/yjJwTSgg3JA?...
#thelema #AleisterCrowley #magick
youtu.be/yjJwTSgg3JA?...
#thelema #AleisterCrowley #magick
Aleister Crowley and his pet skeleton
YouTube video by Maevius Lynn
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Interested in a spooky and strange story? Join me as I tell the tale of the time Aleister Crowley tried to reanimate a human skeleton.
youtu.be/yjJwTSgg3JA?...
#thelema #AleisterCrowley #magick
youtu.be/yjJwTSgg3JA?...
#thelema #AleisterCrowley #magick
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What was your favorite occult book of 2025? Here’s a list of nearly 300 (😮) to vote on & you can vote for more than one!
Voting ends in a few hours. I’m honored to see my new books Mind Over Magick & Crowley’s The Sword of Song included, but *dang* a lot of other great books came out this year!
Voting ends in a few hours. I’m honored to see my new books Mind Over Magick & Crowley’s The Sword of Song included, but *dang* a lot of other great books came out this year!
Vote your favorite occult books of 2025 [promoted by Timeless Occult Literature] - Occult-Study
This poll has been done in order for you, the users, the readers, the public to vote on your favorite books of the year, instead of me picking up my favorites. These are all the books that have been p...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
What was your favorite occult book of 2025? Here’s a list of nearly 300 (😮) to vote on & you can vote for more than one!
Voting ends in a few hours. I’m honored to see my new books Mind Over Magick & Crowley’s The Sword of Song included, but *dang* a lot of other great books came out this year!
Voting ends in a few hours. I’m honored to see my new books Mind Over Magick & Crowley’s The Sword of Song included, but *dang* a lot of other great books came out this year!
A row of books I currently don’t know where to place, shelf space is at a premium here. They were published between 1902 and 1909, reincarnation, astral travel, Atlantis, interplanetary visitors, ghosts and hauntings and Marian apparitions. All written and recorded by women, except the red book.
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 AM
A row of books I currently don’t know where to place, shelf space is at a premium here. They were published between 1902 and 1909, reincarnation, astral travel, Atlantis, interplanetary visitors, ghosts and hauntings and Marian apparitions. All written and recorded by women, except the red book.
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#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Mystery at Mindalore
January 4, 1979 — Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
1/Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa.
Today in UFO History - Mystery at Mindalore
January 4, 1979 — Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
1/Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa.
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM
#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Mystery at Mindalore
January 4, 1979 — Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
1/Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa.
Today in UFO History - Mystery at Mindalore
January 4, 1979 — Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
1/Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa.
Tell that to Stauffenberg.
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 4, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Tell that to Stauffenberg.