event

Web of Mystery - The Curse of the Yeti. (Wrightson)
cryptozoology

Numbers of the Beast: Sasquatch Distribution Modelling

2025-07-21 moth 0

The third OII Halloween Lecture sinks bodily into the tortured mass of data concerning cryptozoological sightings in North America. Drawing on over a century of shadow-haunted sightings documenting the curiously repellant presence of the North America Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, we aim to identify the factors associated with its presence, delineate the confounding presence of other dread manifestations, and cast our minds globally for a faded glimpse of its remote and scarcely-conceived brethren. […]

Cartoon header image -- "I bet they have some old books I'd be interested in".
beyond the veil

Readings from the Book

2024-01-28 moth 0

Once again, the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford — through madness, or through omission brought on by horrified incredulity — saw fit to expose its students to the nightmarish patterns that descend, fractal-like, endlessly below the surface of mundane reality. This second OII Halloween Lecture drew on the twisted meanderings we travellers have taken through the cryptic verbiage of the Voynich Manuscript. […]