Check out our amazing interview by Marv from Pods Like Us Podcast HERE

...or follow his podcast at marvsmooth.podbean.com

Support Marv by following him on Instagram @podslikeus or on twitter @podslikeus

If you wish to follow Marv through his daily podcast listening, check his Blog Marv’s Midlife Meanderings at marvsmidlifemeanderings.blogspot.com

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On Tracing Owls, we will be covering cryptids, aliens, paranormal phenomena, high strangeness, anomalies, obscurities, natural curiosities and general weirdness, as we attempt to catalogue the overlooked, spotlight the disregarded, and remind that the cosmic expanse is much greater than our understanding of it!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for creating this amazing podcast artwork! The idea was to have a barn owl cast the shadows of Braxie and Mothman... with its wings! Thus the outline of a mundane little cutey animal is traced onto monstrously eerie silhouettes... which are open to further interpretation 😀

I cannot thank Christina enough for this wonderful artwork which conveys all my ideas of unity between high strangeness and the natural world, so I highly encourage you to check out her work!

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with a very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies (jackalopes), all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

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A mysterious cardboard box arrives at the doorstep of an aspiring web sleuth, who soon finds himself entangled in the unexpected absurdity of another dimension. A dimension not only of...sound, it's a podcast, but of (unsound) mind. A journey into an abhorrent wasteland whose boundaries are that of... well... there are no boundaries, pretty bottom of the barrel here...

His next stop, the Darwinverse!

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This cinematic masterpiece was written, recorded, edited... and scripted, acted, produced... and directed by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Investigator

No fruit was harmed during the making of this scene (cuz I murdered it beforehand)

Check out their podcast, creatively named Autopsy. HERE

Check out their website as well at www.autopsypod.com (yes, they are semi-professional)

If you can't get enough of their logo and wish to help pay off my bill to this incredible indie podcast, check out their SWAG HERE

...or, If you are, like me, ashamed of exposing your disturbing podcast preferences to the public, then head on over to Patreon and give them some support! 

Support independent niche creators, because who else is going to provide detailed, objective medical information on the condition of a victim's remains, other than random "true crime" podcasters investigating from the comfort of their own home? 

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Collaboration scene from Episode 19. Vampire Watermelons, with a Side of Garlic Bread LISTEN TO IT HERE

Episode Art was created using Microsoft Paint. You can obtain it for free, by installing a Windows OS on any cheap ass PC. You don't even need to be a graphic designer 😱

Death, Decay, Murder, Blood, Vampires...and other keywords which will make this episode more visible to the edgelords of the internet! Today we appease the Cosmic Joker and bring you a morbidly absurd April Fools experience! Yes, watermelons can be vampires too, and no, we are not pranking you. No siree. It's a real thing, just look at the sources below. I'm not making this stuff up. No really...it is a genuine traditional belief...as is killing the elderly with bread! No wait! I can explain! Damn, just listen to the episode... unless you're vegan! Or an old person. Or Serbian. Or a representative of the vampire pumpkin majority! Or... sane, in any sort of way :P

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Autopsy. Podcast for falling victim to our April Fools pranks!..and relieving us of the dreadful curse!

Check out their podcast, creatively named Autopsy. HERE

Check out their website as well at www.autopsypod.com (yes, they are semi-professional)

Also, if you can't get enough of their logo and wish to help pay off my bill to this incredible indie podcast, check out their SWAG HERE

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Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com

Intro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com

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

(Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast)

SOURCES:

Wikipedia: Vampire pumpkins and watermelons

Talk Page for above article

Wikipedia: Petar Blagojević

Wikipedia: Lapot

Wikipedia: Sin-eater

The vampire ground fruit of the Balkans

Will a watermelon left out at night turn into a vampire?

Vampire tourism: Kisiljevo in Serbia is where vampire Petar Blagojevich ‘lived’

Reddit: Is the Serbian tradition of “Lapot” myth or reality?

Sinful suppers: Sin-eating in England and Wales

The Worst Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater

Bojan Jovanović (1997), Ritual of Killing Elders as a Scientific Myth

Wilson, Damon (2004). The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries. New York: Barnes and Noble Books

We have finally reached 1,500 plays!!! As a special treat for achievingly achieving this achievement, we have decided to gracefully make you cringe by doing our very first non-scripted, non-acted episode! I talk about why I have been a lazy bum the past month, expand upon my concepts and theories of the Cosmic Joker and Hierarchies of Nature and Reality... and talk some more nonsense about high strangeness, abstract realities, the Flatwoods Monster (Braxie), mythology and my own awkwardness!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for inspiring this whole conversation, and for letting us feature her magnificent Braxie artwork!!! This awesome art piece may be purchased HERE

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with the very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies, all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

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For more on the Hierarchies of Nature and Reality, check our Episode 12. Volvox: Corporate Unification of Systematic Multicellularity

For more on the Cosmic Joker, otherworldly entities and the psycho-social aspects of the paranormal, check our Episode 18. Extradimensional Psychological Entities

For more info on the book I mentioned, titled "Quest for the Unknown: Bizarre Phenomena" check it out on Amazon

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Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com

Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror)  3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com

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

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FURTHER READING:

Cosmic Joker

Trickster

Psychosocial hypothesis

HighStrangeness (Subreddit)

Charles Fort

Forteana

Anomalous Weather

Entombed animal

Flatwoods monster

Mothman

Fresno Nightcrawler

Indrid Cold

Gray Barker

Flatwoods Monster Solved!

What happens when 2 podcasting loudmouths stumble upon each other in hyperspace? Hilarity (and absurdity) ensues!

The battle between the ancient and the millennial! The cynical wisdom vs the batshit insanity! The unsuspecting friendly collaborator vs the jackass host who did not disclose his plans to screw him over! This is.... Aaron vs Darwin!

(Spoiler: I win!)

(My show = my rules)

(OK there's no winner, but I'm getting all the plays for both episodes so...nya nyaaa)

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Aaron for allowing me to mooch off his scenes once more!... and for being a great collaborator I guess, yeah, OK.

Check out his podcast "I HAD to Say It" HERE

Check out his website as well at ihadtosayitpodcast.com

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Collaboration scenes from Episode 18. Extradimensional Psychological Entities LISTEN TO IT HERE

The Outer Space, Hyperspace and Inner Space collide!!!...as we attempt to redefine reality, searching for the aliens of our own psyche! The cosmos is as vast as the variety of its interpretations! We are all material constituents of the universal clockwork, yet psychological instigators of infinite abstract realities! 

Want more pseudo-philosophical nonsense? Hit the Play button! We get very meta and introspective, so much that we find ourselves lost in our own mind... multiple times! Literally! Aliens, UFOs, dreams, hallucinations, hypnosis, psychedelics, even extra-dimensional lifeforms... we talk about it all, yet say nothing! What does any of this even mean? I don't know! I'm pulling stuff out of my ass! It is too large, and the alien probes needed some company :)

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Aaron for helping bring our absurd nonsense to fruition, and playing the coolest character thus far!

Check out his podcast "I HAD to Say It" HERE

Check out his website as well at ihadtosayitpodcast.com

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Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com

Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror)  3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com

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

Image Credit: Pavel Souviron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast)

SOURCES:

Check out this amazing website: AnomalyInfo.com

AnomalyInfo: 1977, January 26: Slabs and Blocks

Wikipedia: Narrative of the abduction phenomenon

Wikipedia: John E. Mack

Wikipedia: N,N-Dimethyltryptamine

Wikipedia: Past life regression

Wikipedia: Psychosocial hypothesis

Wiktionary: Cosmic Joker

ObscUrban Legend Wikia: Prospect Monoliths

Psychology Wiki: Dimethyltryptamine

Non-Alien Creatures Wiki: Machine Elf

People Seeing Strange Entities When Taking DMT Could Be The Source Of "Alien Abductions"

10 Bizarre Encounters With The Craziest Aliens Ever

Huyghe, Patrick (1996). The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials. New York City: Avon Books. pp. 20–21 & 60–61. ISBN 978-0380781287

"Kentucky Close Encounter" by Carla L. Rueckert, article in the Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, October 1977. Pgs. 15-16, 19.