Shrimpless in Seattle - with Garrett Kelly of Liminal Earth

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03/16/23 • 58 min

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Garett shares his zany adventures sleuthing for, and ultimately embodying, a mysterious shrimp creature!

Garrett Kelly is the co-founder of Liminal Earth, a crowd-sourced online map of the weird and unusual. In his spare time he also enjoys investigating anomalous occurrences in and around the urban environments of Bremerton and Seattle... sometimes while dressed in a shrimp costume!

So what's the deal with the shrimp? Well... upon moving to Bremerton, WA, he learned of an old magazine article detailing a witness's terrifying encounter with a 5-foot tall shrimp creature lurking in her basement.

This case sent Garrett on a wild goose chase, encountering clues and synchronicities leading him to piles of peeled oranges, a mysterious goggled man, hidden shrimp-infested creeks, an abandoned dream park, child-stealing snail women, and a profound realization that such strange journeys help remind us of the innate magic hidden within our own cities!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Garrett Kelly of Liminal Earth for sharing these hilarious glimpses into the unknown and his efforts to reintroduce a bit of mystery in his urban community! ❤️

Visit Liminal Earth at liminal.earth and be sure to submit your own weird story too!

Support them via their Patreon

Follow Garrett on Mastodon @[email protected]

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Intro sampled from "Something strange lurks in the shadows" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez)

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Garett shares his zany adventures sleuthing for, and ultimately embodying, a mysterious shrimp creature!

======================

Huge THANK YOU!!! to Garrett Kelly of Liminal Earth for sharing these hilarious glimpses into the unknown and his efforts to reintroduce a bit of mystery in his urban community! ❤️

Visit Liminal Earth at liminal.earth and be sure to submit your own weird story too!

Support them via their Patreon

Follow Garrett on Mastodon @[email protected]

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Episode artwork by liminal.earth

Send us suggestions and comments to [email protected]

Check our Linktree: linktr.ee/tracingowls

Intro sampled from "Something strange lurks in the shadows" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez)

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

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Adventures in Fortean Zoology - with Richard Freeman

A full-time cryptozoologist shares stories of his expeditions around the world tracking the most elusive cryptids!

Richard Freeman is an author, former zookeeper, and the Zoological Director for the Centre for Fortean Zoology, who organize international expeditions in search of cryptids which very likely might exist: the Orang-Pendek of Sumatra, living specimens of the Tasmanian wolf, Giant anacondas of the Amazon, and even the Mongolian death worm!

Though Richard is a flesh-and-blood cryptozoologist, he is also a fellow Fortean, so along the way we also discuss paranormal activity, light phenomena, high strangeness, and the possibility that numerous cryptids might actually be otherworldly entities, and dare we even say... tulpas!

I highly recommend reading Richard's books "Adventures in Cryptozoology - Volumes I and II", which you may find on Amazon

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Richard Freeman for sitting down to speak with a huge fan of his work, and sharing that it is well worth keeping an open, and even paranormal, mind when researching cryptids ❤️

Contact Richard via e-mail at [email protected]

You can check out the The Centre for Fortean Zoology on their website cfz.org.uk

Grab a copy of Richard's books "Adventures in Cryptozoology - Volumes I and II" on Amazon

Also check out his earlier book "The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia" on Amazon

...and be on the lookout for his upcoming book "The Highest Strangeness" later this year!

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Intro sampled from "Something strange lurks in the shadows" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez)

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

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A Lineup of Perceptual Variations

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I go off on a solo rant discussing high strangeness as a catalyst for perceptual diversity!

After doing a whole roundtable with 3 artists about the Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins, I have been left pondering whether the cultural influence of these strange cases are a much more relevant subject of study than the reality of the event itself.

Whether they were alien, fairies or just a bunch of barn owls, the Kentucky goblins have transcended any possible physical existence from bygone days, persevering to this day through art, media, language and storytelling as a globalized cultural entity.

Check out my prior roundtable where we analyze this case through the perspectives of digital artists: Kentucky Goblin Fairy-Go-Round - with Todd Purse, Kris Galeano and TheCrescentHare

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Kris Galeano for providing his amazing artwork of the eyewitness sketches in a police lineup! ❤️

Follow him on Instagram @kris_galeano ...and check his Weird Wednesdays project by searching #weirdwednesdays

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Episode artwork by Kris Galeano @kris_galeano

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