October 2011
17 posts
SOS
Gloria’s dead. I don’t know how or what, but it sure looked like an animal. Maybe they just wanted it to look like an animal. Either way, I’m sure I’m next. I’m gonna take the box to the newspaper. If you don’t see anything in the media, they got to me first. Please, make copies of what I’ve posted here, before they pull it down. Someone needs to drag them into the light of day. I’m so sorry.
WatchEither it’s real or I’m losing my mind. Caught this video outside my house. If it’s real, does that mean the cult is real?
Field Trip
The symbol in Torelseth’s bible looked familiar to me; I think I’ve seen it on the ceiling of the Saint Paul library. I went back today with a friend’s camera and looked for it, but there are kind of a lot of crazy symbols in that building. Does anyone know what they are? Then, way in the back of the music collection, I found a picture of Elisbet Pool. One of the journals describes her as...
The Church Grim
I suspected this when I read the notes from Mikael Cook’s interrogation. She referred to the Black Dog as a “grim,” which probably meant “church grim.” It’s a particularly ugly branch of Black Dog lore, so I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but now I’ve got confirmation. There was this early Christian tradition, probably borrowed from pre-existing pagan beliefs, where people would bury a dog...
The Wicked Father
I finally figured out what this old bible is about. It belonged to a priest named Edvard Torelseth who was assigned to the Norwegian church around 1849. His brash rhetoric fanned ethnic tensions already set ablaze by a massive influx of new immigrants. Perhaps consequently, there were all these wild rumors about him: Most of them involved sexual affairs with his female parishioners. Some claimed...
WatchA buddy helped me transfer this video over the weekend. The Mentos thing happened in 2006 and it looks like autumn in the park. I know they have picnic tables like that in Battle Creek. I’ll try to track down any missing persons or animal attacks from that time. Exciting!
The Girl Who Growled
Did I ever find a good one :) In the dead of winter, 1853, a young woman named Elisbet Pool began prowling the night in her bedclothes. On all fours. No shoes. She’d climb around on people’s roofs, growl at anyone who crossed her path, catch vermin with her bare hands and eat them raw. Naturally, people thought she was possessed, but the members of her own church (the Norwegian one) refused to do...
The Gypsy Pew
These aren’t Black Dog photos, but they’re part of an interesting urban legend with a tie to its story. There’s supposed to be an old church pew somewhere in Battle Creek park; they say it’s never in the same place twice. If you can find it, and if you can get a girl to sit in it with you, you’re guaranteed to get lucky. At least, that’s the version I heard in high school. In another version,...
The Great Gale
In August of 1904, domestic animals went missing in record numbers. No remains were ever found, but dozens of pet owners reported seeing a large, black dog prowling around their properties shortly before or after their animals disappeared. At 7:17 am on August 21st, a woman named Viola Gee came told police that her child had been carried away by a black dog. (Years later years, from the inside of...
The Highwood Horror
There is one reference to a Black Dog conspiracy that pre-dates 1967, but it also comes from Gloria’s box of crazy. The newspaper clipping and police reports look legitimate, but I can’t find any corroborating stories online or at the library. As always, take this with a mountain of salt. July 4th weekend, 1942, a married couple in the Highwood Hills neighborhood watched their neighbor, a man...
Sno-a-Go-Go
Mikaela Cook stumbled out of the woods during the 1967 Winter Carnival; she was a middle-aged woman dressed in rags and severely snow-bitten. Carnival patrons took her for a homeless woman, and maybe she was, but this is what she said to the first police officer she encountered: “Mother is dead. Will you take care of me?” The police took her to a hospital for treatment, where Mikaela told them...
The Laity
Let’s begin this story where it all began for me: with Gloria and her conspiracy theory. Someone close to Gloria, maybe a husband or a brother, works in law enforcement. A few months ago, he was recruited by a group that calls itself “The Laity.” The stories they tell about themselves are beyond belief. First and foremost, they claim to control all of Saint Paul. They trace their origin back to...
Welcome to my Halloween Lark
Some of you already know me from various cryptozoology message boards. Feel free to comment, but please don’t use my real name or other handles. Nobody needs to be known as “The Sasquatch Guy” at work. If you’re new to all this, welcome! Normally, I like to stick to the science and not indulge in a lot of mythology and urban legend, but this is a special case. Hence, I’m starting a special blog....
