Hello! My name is Molly. I am an artist and costumier from Northern Vermont. I am also a lifelong aficionado of most things perverse, bizarre, and grotesque. Am I an expert? No, but I sincerely don’t believe it is even possible to be achieve mastery in a field as vast, diverse, and mercurial as human deviancy. I studied cultural anthropology, and I try to approach all topics with the relativism and open curiosity inherent to that branch of the social sciences. When I use words like “weird” or “strange” it’s usually with wonder, not derision.

You may remember me from my old Contrarian gig, the Peculiar Planet Picayune. The Picayune was a linkdump of stories about global oddities. That’s nice and all, but I was starting to feel too limited and wanted to be able to branch out into other areas of esoterica. Today I am excited to announce my new weekly feature, The Sex & Mayhem Report! Here is what you can expect in every S&M Report:

• Serial Killer of the Week. Everyone knows about Dahmer, Bundy and Gacy, but there have been hundreds of serial killers throughout the ages who are just as fascinating but have been largely ignored by popular culture. Let me be perfectly clear: I don’t think serial killers are admirable, laudable or awesome. However, I do think that they are very interesting. They are human and relatable in myriad ways, yet with this terrifying psychological deviation that drives them to do things prohibited by every human value. What causes their aberration? Nobody has definitive answers, but the quest for those answers certainly leads down many fascinating paths.
• Fetish of the Week. You are probably aware of a number of unusual fetishes, but hear me now and believe me later: tip of the motherfucking iceberg. The internet has provided an important tool for people with rare fetishes to connect with each other, and to inform interested voyeurs like me. I think it’s lovely. Before online communities, many people would feel freakish and feared they were mentally ill believing that they surely must be the only weirdo who was aroused by (for example) women farting while sitting on cakes. Now instead of wallowing alone in shame and self-loathing they can connect with others who share their predilections in a safe, anonymous online environment and discover that they are not alone. I am 100 percent cool with all fringe fetishes so long as nobody gets unwillingly hurt.
• Obscure Religion of the Week. As with the prior two weekly subjects, you probably have a decent knowledge base to begin with. However, there have been thousands of religions throughout human history and I am always interested in exploring them. I’ll just get this bias right out on the table: I am an atheist and view religions as human inventions and spiritual experiences as being wholly explainable by psychology and neurology. Don’t think that means I’m disrespectful of the beliefs of others, though. As the old secular humanist saying goes, I take religion seriously but not literally.
• Links. This is the part that will be like the Picayune and will probably be the most variable. There were times when I felt like I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel with the links I was providing, so instead of relying on the global weirdness reporting for the bulk of my content I’ll give you at least the Killer, Fetish, and Religion of the week and then only the crème de la crème web weirdness. Strange websites, news items, videos, or new books being published about my areas of interest are all examples of links I’ll post. Things relating to: sex; death; occult and paranormal matters; conspiracy theories; strange antiquities; freaky archeological finds; cryptozoology; cults; serial killers; and unusual artistic endeavors like creative taxidermy.

Sound good? Good! See you next Monday for the first installment.

Miss Molly

Hi! I brought you some sex, death, and mayhem.

• Sasquatch: The Vermont Project
• Susan’s Custom Creepy Dolls (not to be confused with Vermont’s own beautiful Strange Dolls)
• Finally, a lingerie store of which Jesus would approve.
• Top Ten Weirdest Rock and Roll Deaths
• In related news: 30 Ways to Die of Electrocution
• Poop on a Bus
• Introduction to the Metal Umlaut
• Harry Potter and the Crystal Toilet
• You know about sporks, but what about sporfs?
• The mysterious recurring prop newspaper.
• The Secret Museum of Mankind

Here’s a recipe that is for the Fourth of July, but I think it could be lovely for fall festivities, too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6vJYyYrRps

That’s all for now! I love you!

Molly

Hi! Hi! It’s me!

• Warning: prostitutes crossing
• El Chupacabra?
• Association pushing for the rights of the living dead (no, really).
• This group is trying to get “Confederate Southern American” declared as a recognized race on the U.S. census form.

• Don’t list people in your phone using words that describe your murderous intentions.
• Fetish of the day!
• What better way to honor the resurrection of Christ than a mad, violent riot scene of greed featuring terrified children?
• Why don’t my neighbors ever do interesting things like this?
• Register and book your plane tickets now for your chance to talk to Harry Houdini or Jack the Ripper!

• Meet the patron saint of chubbies.
• “Top Ten Oddball Jesus Sightings“
• I think this is a very sensible and economical alternative to all those crazy expensive “scientific” conception methods.
• Do you know anyone whose middle name is Wayne?
• Are you looking to produce the next Battlefield Earth?
• That whole lime thing is apparently a myth. You should really find something else to throw over the bodies in your crawl space.

That’s all I’ve got. Bye bye for now, lovebugs!

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly

• Have you ever heard the urban legend about someone finding a dead body under a bed? Well, it turns out it happens quite a bit.
• “Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots”
• Vampire lit conference.
• Secret Nazi weapons! Tonight!
• “Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich”

• Speaking of Nazis, I’m pretty sure Indiana Jones would not have allowed this to happen.
• Zucchini + anus = ???
• FOR SALE: antique dildos
• I’m sure this is not at all funny for people who live here, but… this town’s safety is being threatened by giant poop bubbles.

• This just in: humans are still sadistic fuckers.
• Slightly NSFW photo of a naked man trying to life a taxi
• Welcome to Blood Falls! Probably not at all what you’re thinking, but still wicked cool.
• Who would Jesus spank?
• Michael Jackson video game?
• Question: how do you safely deliver an imaginary baby?
• Seen a creepy van recently? Get a photo and send it to SuspiciousVans.com
• I was just a gigolo, but now I ain’t no mo’.

That’s all I got, my little nibblers!

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly

I think those skeletons are Petite Petes! I like it even better thinking that they are both male. This picture gives me an idea for what to do with the hideous chandelier in the dining room here. I’ll make it into a tiny skeletal Cirque du Soleil vignette! Like if a bunch of calaveras decided to become acrobats and aerialists.

• Giant flying condom!

• “Auto” erotica. Get it? I don’t know what that guy’s deal was, but there is an identified car fetish: mechaniphilia.
• Who wants a man rub?
• You are invited to the penis puppet party. No, not those penis puppets.
• This sucks. (Get it?) Growing up in rural Vermont I’d often hear rumors about men using the milking machines for sexual gratification.
• Better machines than this.
• More music industry conspiracy creativity.
• Caution: do not fall into the cauldron. P.S. Good Christians don’t hunt ghosts.
• “Bananas-for-sex cult leader on the run“
• Strange ailments: latah and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
• WTF? Is there a sideshow crime spree going on in Wisconsin? (I didn’t find that on a novelty page, it was a serendipitous find during a non-Picayune related forensics search.)
• Roosten? Henock?
• How many Facebook pages does a dead serial killer/cannibal really need?

That’s all I got, kiddles.

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly

Hi! Sorry it’s been so long. We were traveling, first to St. Augustine, Florida then Ottawa, Ontario. If you tried to guess which one I like better you might be surprised. Ottawa is pretty and has lots of great restaurants, but the city counsel has worked very hard to keep the city sanitized and free of character. They’ve forced out most of the good stuff: vintage/consignment clothing stores, sex shops, junk/antique stores, bodegas, used book stores, LGBT book stores, and artists who do anything but clean, pretty, mild, interior decoration art. As one Ottawan I spoke to put it, (the owner of this frickin’ amazing vintage shop) “It’s a city without a heart.” St. Augustine was awesome, though! Plenty of weird crap to keep me happy and the weather stayed mercifully cloudy and cool the whole time we were there.

• Did anyone observe Mahashivratri? Learn more about this beautiful Hindu holiday here.
• Witchcraft interferes with Romanian presidential election.
• Parents: Six Ways to Protect your Child from Demons
• Metal as religion? Honestly, I don’t see why not.
• Fear of werewolves adds to misery in Haitian refugee camps. This article mentions the familiar French word “loup-garou” but in many readings about Haitian werewolves you might also find references to “je-rouge” or “Ezili-je-rouge”. I think I would have to find a French language Haitian book on mythology to figure this out properly, but as far as I can tell the je-rouge is an angry, demonic aspect of the deity (lwa) Erzulie who snatches children, not really a werewolf or human shapeshifter at all. Do any of you guys know?
• Awesome! U.S. Air Force academy in Colorado is adding a Pagan worship space to their chapel. A lot of the comments are just as horrifically fucktarded as you might expect, but there are tons more like this from David in Georgia:

“I am a southern Baptist by faith and serving in the military. I believe that if anyone no matter what faith they are wants to practice then they should with freedon be able to practice that faith. It states in the first ammendment that we have freedom of religion. I am proud to be able to serve in the same military with someone that practices what we all fight for. With that being said i believe that everyone should not hold their ignorance upon someone that has the stones to openly practice a faith. Same for someone who is Gay and wants to serve their country. If anyone has any objections to that i tell them to go to Arlington Cemetery and tell the thousands of men there that they cant”

• Jewish-Voodoo dialogue.

• Want. Want now!
• Fortean run down of the Illuminati-controlled celebrities
• On the anniversary of his death, Psychology Today passively mocks Dr. Ian Stephenson.
• Did you catch the add for Satan’s video game during the Superbowl?

I love you (especially you David in Georgia). Please be good to each other.

Molly

So sad about Haiti today. If I believed in curses I would be convinced that that poor country has been under the dark cloud of a whopper for a very long time. Exploitation, occupation, slavery, massacres, plagues, flooding, numerous hurricanes, bloody revolutions, pirates, mudslides, brutal dictators, death squads, deforestation and resulting desertification, profound poverty, and now this earthquake. I don’t know how they have the heart to keep picking themselves up and starting over.

• Slaying/mutilation possibly occult motivated
• Book about an alien visitation/occult phenomena crossover location
• More UFO/paranormal crossover
• But don’t try to ask creationists and Biblical/UFO crossover
• Toddler impaled with dozens of needles (possibly occult related)
• Eyes Wide Shut vs. Ninth Gate: comparing and contrasting these Stanley Kubric and Roman Polansky works
• Newly discovered document regarding ancient Jewish occult practices
• Masons dying out – or are they just pretending?!?
• Hail Grimm! Satanists or Percy Carey fans?
• Attention millionaires: you could have bought Ira Levin‘s old apartment
• I don’t have much of a reason to link to this - I just love that it’s tagged “suggestive milking sequences”
• Beyonce and Lady Gaga are bloodthirsty demonic misandrists
• Twilight is making abstinence cool?
• Oh for crying out loud. Icky in so many ways.

That’s all!

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly

• New class!
• Evil, evil, evil.
• Creepy animal mutilation story
• Is this nutso murder story finally ending?
• Visits from angels, demons, and Samsquantch.
• Zomia: a “…counter-history of the evolution of human civilization.”
• As one UFO commission ends…
• … another begins?
• Thank goodness because there’s doings afoot.
• Oops, I didn’t post this ghost box announcement in time.
• Occult news? I guess.
• Nazi twin farm?!

That’s all for this week!

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly

Oh, hi! Sorry it’s been so long. I’ve been either busy or sick for the past few weeks. Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for AR-15s, corsets, horror movies, the internet, and birth control.

• Dartmouth forensic computer genius dude declares famous Lee Harvey Oswald photo non-phony
• Guy discovers Charles Manson is his biological father
• I’m still not certain how much of this human fat trade story is real and how much is folk legend inflammation
• Where did I leave that jar of miscellaneous astronomer bits?
• Is yoga a religion?
• Day of the Skulls (who wear hats)
• Mystical London
• Many knew him as the Equalizer, but to me Edward Woodward will always be the handsome but uptight, repressed, virtuous, virginal (and therefore totally hot) Sargent Howie from The Wicker Man. The following video is unfortunately censored due to YouTube’s priggish No Boobies policy:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4

• Some secret societies getting all loosey-goosey liberated
• More about the plight of albinos in Africa
• Christians can’t seem to get a united front up on any entertainment news these days.
• Roman Catholics excepted.
• Handcuffed Buddhist statuary mystery
• Which of these things is not like the others: Wiccans, Satanists, Juggalos

That’s all for this week little ham-hams! Have a great Thanksgiving weekend!

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly

A sweetly smiling Catrina in honor of El Dia de los Muertos. Last night we went to a beautiful Day of the Dead dinner where we ate and drank and remembered. Take a moment to remember and say ‘hello’ to your departed friends, family, and pets.

• Who amongst us hasn’t considered making his or her own orgone device?
• No skulls for you!
• Well, duh.
• Hard times for Scientology.
• Podcast interview with Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: The Secret History of how Mysticism Shaped our Nation.
• Podcast interview with Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears.
• Danger! Throw out that leftover Halloween candy right now!
• The occult in Judaism
• Exorcism tales from the Phillipines
• Kevin Jackson‘s “Top Ten Vampire Novels“. Seem like pretty solid choices to me.
• The music of the spheres….
• El chupacabra?
• Very sad: Tanzanians born with albinism being hunted for their bones.

That’s all for this week!

I love you. Please be good to each other.

Molly