Episode 69: The Greatest Hits of High Strangeness with Zelia Edgar

“The Greatest Hits of High Strangeness.” Mixed media collage, by Barbara Fisher. Yes, that is real aluminum on Zelia’s head there. I made sure that even in art, her brain is protected from the cosmic rays sent by The Other to confound and confuse Fortean thinkers and authors.

How would you describe the phenomena of “High Strangeness.?”

In the introduction to her newly published book, Just Another Tin Foil Hat Presents, Zelia Edgar describes it as a metaphoric place of paradox:

”We are in the boondocks of the Twilight Zone, a place where half-formed concepts cavort with full-fledged nightmares, There are no clear boundaries here. Occurrences and appearances bleed through the tidy, self-contained categories that convention dictates should stand. Patterns exist between all anomalies, whether they be cryptid encounters, hauntings, UFO sightings, poltergeist phenomena, religious apparitions, folkloric beliefs or demonic manifestations. The evidence at once points in two separate ways — to physical occurrences that can’t abide by physical laws. Objective events that revel in subjective appearances. Simply put, the evidence points to something paradoxical.”

I like to think of this book as “The Greatest Hits of High Strangeness.” It’s like one of those compilation albums they sold on TV in the 1970’s, except instead of songs, it’s monsters, UFO’s and apparitions, oh, my!

Sit back and enjoy Zelia, Barbara and Morganna as they talk about the book, the cases therein, patterns that emerge in high strangeness cases and what the heck is it about feet in these strange happenings.

The book is fun, a frolic, and would make a great introduction into the realm of high strangeness for a newbie, though, there is plenty here for all of us old Forteans as well. Theories, thoughts and ideas abound, wrapped in a delightful package of fresh writing.