Gonna create a battle jacket that has soooo much symbolism

Messy photo of my office for a big merch drop on Etsy tomorrow (12 noon PST.)

Etsy link: etsy.com/shop/kikidoodle

MYSTERY BOXES! Another mystery box drop after the first sold out so quickly.  Each will have 6 pins, and some stickers inside. $60 each.  The cone of shame boxes will all have a LARGE 3" vinyl sticker!

There will be a few wild cat and wild canine boxes as well!The 4 LE lion boxes are going back up! A customer's daughter got their card and ordered several items that I had to refund, so apologies if that's why you missed them last round. Also $60. These lion pins are otherwise offered blind box style on my Etsy for $20 each 

STICKERS!

Transparent cone of shame keychains and stickers!Have fun and get lots of laughs!

Stickers are $4 each or a pack of 5 for $15.

Keychains are $12.  Some limited items. Keychain baby jelly Purrs will NOT be remade. $10

The Coned Cryptozoology sticker sheets will be $10 each OR you can order the whole set with a big discount ($15). The unreleased Wopletinger, Hodag, and goat man are in the sticker sheet!

3" vinyl stickers for $5 each, 3 for $12. No plans to reprint the large stickers at this time. 

Also adding in COMBO collections to get 3 sticker sheets for $20.Wild dog series, and deep sea Purrmaid series. All sticker sheets are 5x7 high quality vinyl.

I have up to 4 LE glowing wolf pins that I thought were sold out. I think my cats stole the other 3...? If I can't find them I might only list this one and do a giveaway later. Last time they'll be on Etsy.

Coned Cryptozoology pin release!!All 10 pins + any remaining LE cactus cats.  There will be a combo collection as well, discount tbd.$15 for regular pins $20 for LE glowing cactus cat. 

Professional series Silly Sphynx pin release! The Patron pin of June! Made in honor of doctors, nurses and vets! $15

There will be a few other pin collections you can pick up with discounts. All tbd.

Finally: card sets! 5-10 cards and 10 envelopes, blank inside.Choose between Cephalopod Christmas and Spirit of the Hunt. Optional box addon.

$10 for 5 cards $15 for 10.

Hopefully by releasing SO many items at once the limited items will last longer buuut if there is a limited item you really want I recommend purchasing asap. If you make multiple purchases I will do my best to bundle items and send extra gifts.Mystery boxes will periodically restock, but whatever is listed tomorrow will be IT until at least mid to end of October. Not enough pins to do any Purrmaid boxes this round, but there will be some discount for multiples Purrmaids pin sets.

Cryptozoology and the Cthulhu Mythos are two of my main interests so of course I think about how the two might intersect. When a cryptid is seen, what Sothic truths might lurk behind it?

Just like with my Mothman page, the top row are some vaguely similar witness accounts while the bottom row is some mythos based speculation. This time we're looking at aliens and cryptids with some seemingly ghostly properties, best exemplified by the Flatwoods Monster.

Also hey West Virginia, what's up with your monsters? Why are they so cool?

The Flatwoods Encounter

The Phantom of Flatwoods. The Braxton County Monster. The Queen of the Cryptids.

One September night in 1952, three boys witness a bright object cross the sky before landing in a nearby farmer's land. Running home to get two of the boy's mother, Kathleen May, they formed a group with more boys and set out to look for the landed UFO. One member of this group was young National Guardsman, Gene Lemon, who brought along a flashlight and his dog. As they headed towards the farm Lemon's dog ran ahead only to bark furiously before running back to the group with it's tail between it's legs. Lemon saw a pair of glittering lights in the dark and turned his flashlight beam towards them. All the witnesses saw a bright red face, a hood shaped like the ace of spades and glowing orange-green eyes. Kathleen May also described it as having long clawed hands and green cloth-like folds. After a few seconds it hissed at them and then glided towards the group, at which point Lemon dropped the flashlight and they had to flee into the darkness. Afterwards several members of the group felt ill and vomited for hours. Lemon in particular had throat problems for weeks.

Investigators from the Civilian Saucer Investigation obtained a few other accounts of the monster in the area after the fact but none of them were as memorable as the Flatwoods encounter. In recent times there has been some disagreement over the appearance of the Phantom, with some ufologists pushing the idea that it was some form of alien robot, powered armor or even a small craft itself.

The Frametown Encounter

The same night of the Flatwoods encounter, George and Edith Snitowsky were traveling the road between Gassaway and Frametown when their car stalled and they caught a horrible stench. George got out to see what was going on and saw a violet orb moving back and forth across the road. As he moved towards it he felt a pins-and-needles sensation and a wave of sickness passed over him. As he staggered back to the car, Edith noticed something behind him. A towering figure with a big head, a bloated body and long spindly arms was hovering rapidly towards them. As they crouched inside their locked car, the being touched the windshield before retreating. The violet globe swayed back and forth as it rose above the trees and it shot off in a trail of light. The next day a gas station attendant pointed out a v-shaped burn on the hood of their car.

Mantis Man

Seen in the company of the alien Greys or hanging out in New Jersey rivers, these towering Mantisoid beings have been witnessed dozens of times. Although superficially similar to gigantic insects, they appear to be only partially exoskeletal with snake-like skin and a bipedal stance. They are able to cloak themselves; with one witness claiming that the creature was transparent, while another said it appeared solid at first but faded from sight after it noticed him. They might be telepathic as well, with several of the Hackettstown New Jersey encounters reporting that they felt sensations of surprise or aggression from the creatures.

Shadow Abductor

After seeing a low flying circular craft, Kelly Cahill and her husband got home with an hour of missing time. Kelly had a triangular burn near her navel and after weeks of stomach problems and a uterine infection Kelly began to remember what happened that night. She recalled leaving the car with her husband in what seemed to be a trance and walking towards the vast UFO as it hovered in a gully. As they walked towards the craft, they noticed tall, dark figures waiting for them. They were congregating in small groups and some were investigating another car parked at the side of the road. As they approached one of the figures floated towards them, covering a hundred yards in a moment. It was so black it was like an absence of matter and the only color came from its glowing red eyes. Kelly remembered feeling a certainty that it was evil before she blacked out. The encounter was even corroborated by the occupants of that other car, who told a similar tale. Further to her encounter Kelly would occasionally awaken in the night to find one of the shadowy aliens looming over her bed before vanishing.

Hopkinsville Goblins

Have we ever considered that the Flatwoods Monster might just be three Goblins in a trench coat?

In 1955 a group of seven people were terrorized by these small glowing creatures as they bumbled around the Sutton family farm. They arrived out of the woods after one of the men witnessed a UFO covered in rainbow lights. All through the night they wandered the property, peering through windows and grabbing at anyone who left the house even as they were shot at by the frightened witnesses. Any time they were struck by a bullet, they would make a sound like rattling metal before falling in slow motion and wandering away. They seemed to able to hover and glide and even when walking they moved in a strange swaying motion as though wading through the air. It was not clear how many of the beings were present, with estimates ranging from 2 to 12.

Fungi from Yuggoth

If it might be aliens, the fungi are probably the ones behind it.

There is a Fungi Tulu-metal mine in the Appalachian Mountains, perhaps a group of prospectors were moving through West Virginia that September night? This particular prospector is a Sleestak, the reptiloid allies of the fungi. The symbiotic fungi it is paired with grants it a number of useful abilities as it follows its crystal matrix probes to deposits of psychic metal.

Diana of the Black Goat

There is a belt of Shub-Niggurath worship stretching from Pennsylvania, down through Virginia and Kentucky and reaching all the way down to northern Texas. One sign of this worship are the numerous legends of goatmen stalking the backwoods or hiding under abandoned bridges. Where there are children of the Black Goat the Diana are sure to follow. The Diana are telepathic and extremely empathetic and understand human fear and that not all beings share the proclivities of the Black Goat and her worshipers. Perhaps the creature seen that night was simply trying to ward off those who would rather not witness the revels of the Gof'nn hupadgh.

Han

Dark Han is considered to be among the ranks of the "Great Old Ones". It is one of the three gods of divination along with Father Yig and serpent-bearded Byatis. It appears as a humanoid figure cloaked in tattered robes and freezing mists. As the cloak flaps its tatters slither away or flap into the air and those within its mists see nightmarish figures. Anyone who touches its skeletal hand will be plagued with nightmares that contain kernels of future events. As long as the nightmares last the victim will sicken as Han draws energy from the dream conduit.

Being from Shonhi

When Yaddith was consumed by Dholes, its people fled to the nearby worlds of Kath, Zaith and Ymar to take refuge. Their allies from Shonhi swarmed the orbitals over the newly formed Dhole hive tracing the transit residues of the Yaddithian light-envelopes to ensure all the survivors where accounted for. One light wake did not head to the muster point in the Xoth system but instead headed off towards some backwater arm of the galaxy. Further investigation revealed that the light-envelope in question belonged to the wizard Zkauba, one of the very people responsible for maintaining the Dhole chants and the barriers that kept them to the worldcore. Interviews with his acquaintances revealed he had been acting stranger than usual leading up to the fall of the barrier.

Now Shonhi sorcerers have followed the trail back to our humble planet, with awkward questions for the wayward Yaddithian wizard.

Xola Noxa

An ancient sorceress from an early human culture, Xola Noxa has been wandering North America since the days it was called Quy and the Muvians built their fabled cities of gold. She is now a towering figure of blistering heat and venom. She walks the secret roads of the world, seeking hidden knowledge and ever greater powers for no reason aside from the love of the hunt.

The blaze of light that crossed the sky remains a question as it resembles none of the spells or signs she is reputed to know. What force did she call down from the stars that night?

Archaeological Hoaxes, Cryptozoology, and GIANTS!? Pt. 1 The Cardiff Giant

On October 16, 1869, workers in Cardiff, New York, unearthed what appeared to be the body of an ancient 10-foot-tall petrified man. Over the next several months, people flocked to catch a glimpse of the so-called “Cardiff Giant,” and many hailed it as one of the most significant archeological discoveries of the 19th century.

The seed for what would become one of the 19th century’s most elaborate hoaxes first planted itself in George Hull’s mind in 1867. A cigar maker by trade, Hull was also a staunch atheist and skeptic, and during a business trip to Iowa, he became locked in a theological debate with a revivalist preacher. Hull later claimed he was flabbergasted by the preacher’s literalist reading of the Bible, in particular a passage from the Book of Genesis that states “there were giants in the earth in those days.” As he lay in bed later that night, Hull wondered if it might be possible to dupe the faithful by making a stone giant “and passing it off as a petrified man.” If done right, he mused, the scam would allow him to strike a blow against religion and make a pretty penny along the way.

Over the next two years, Hull spent nearly $3,000 bringing his phony giant to life. He began by traveling to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he secured a 5-ton block of gypsum by claiming it would be used for a statue of the late Abraham Lincoln. Hull then shipped the slab to a Chicago marble dealer who had agreed to help with the scheme in exchange for a piece of the profits. With Hull posing as a model, a pair of sculptors spent the late summer of 1868 fashioning the gypsum into an artificial anthropological wonder. The statue took the form of a naked man lying on his back with his right arm grasping at his stomach, one leg crossed over the other and a face with a mysterious half-smile. The workers doused the exterior with sulfuric acid to give an aged, eroded look, and Hull even drove pins into the body to replicate skin pores. When finished, the sham colossus stood more than 10 feet tall and weighed nearly 3,000 pounds. Hull needed a place to bury his giant, and he eventually settled on Cardiff, New York, a small valley town that also happened to be the home of a distant relative and farmer named William “Stub” Newell. After cutting Newell in on the deal and swearing him to secrecy, Hull shipped the giant to his property in an iron-sealed box. On a chilly night in November 1868, the men buried the behemoth near Newell’s barn, wedging it under roots to create the illusion that it had rested beneath the dirt for centuries. Hull then returned to his home in nearby Binghamton and busied himself with his cigar business. Nearly a year would pass before he finally wrote Newell and instructed him to resurrect the giant. On October 16, 1869, Newell put the plan into action by hiring a pair of unsuspecting workers to dig a well near his barn. The men didn’t have to dig far before their shovels hit what appeared to be a stone foot. In a matter of minutes, the stunned laborers had excavated the body of a massive, supine man. “I declare,” one of the men supposedly said. “Some old Indian has been buried here!”

While early examinations appeared to confirm this theory, a Syracuse-based science lecturer later declared the giant was not a man, but rather a statue possibly carved by French Jesuits centuries earlier. As the speculation mounted, Stub Newell played the part of the humble farmer with aplomb. He even vowed to re-bury the giant and forget about it until his neighbors “convinced” him that the discovery might have some historical value. Cardiff’s prehistoric man made a splash the likes of which had never been seen in rural New York. “A NEW WONDER,” read the headline in the Syracuse Daily Standard. Another paper hailed the find as “a singular discovery.” When the crowds continued to grow, Newell covered the giant with a white tent and began charging 50 cents for admission. Some 2,500 people came during the exhibition’s first week alone. Newell brushed off offers to buy the giant until George Hull arrived in Cardiff a few days later. After a brief powwow, the conspirators agreed it was time to cash in. When a syndicate of businessmen offered $30,000 for a three-fourths stake, Newell sold. Over the next few weeks, more experts converged on Cardiff to inspect the “new wonder.” New York State Geologist James Hall and Rochester University professor Henry Ward were among the many to throw their weight behind the statue theory, with Hall christening it, “the most remarkable object yet brought to light in our country.” Another camp still clung to the petrified man hypothesis, yet some were beginning to grow suspicious of the discovery’s authenticity. Locals remembered seeing George Hull transport a massive crate through Cardiff a year earlier, and reporters learned that Newell had transferred a large amount of cash to Hull immediately after selling the giant. Questions continued piling up that November, when the giant’s new owners took it on the road and exhibited it to thousands of spectators in Syracuse and Albany. A mining engineer caused a stir when he noted that gypsum would have deteriorated quickly in the soggy soil of Newell’s farm, and an even more crucial blow came courtesy of famed Yale paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, who only needed a passing glance at the giant to pronounce it “of very recent origin, and a most decided humbug” By early 1870, the Cardiff Giant had turned from a subject of fascination into one of ridicule. Some people still argued for its antiquity, but new exposés were cropping up all the time, and even George Hull began publically bragging about having engineered a hoax. The ruse finally crumbled that February, when newspapers printed confessions from the Chicago sculptors who had first chiseled the giant into being. The “American Goliath’s” proprietors continued exhibiting it for a few years to ever-decreasing crowds, but by 1880 it had been condemned to storage in a barn in Massachusetts. The giant eventually passed between various owners and toured the carnival circuit before being sold to the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, New York.