Interview with The Aither

 

I recently had the enormous privileged and pleasure to have a virtual sit down with Josh Griffiths from the underground art and culture magazine The Aither. Click here to head directly to the interview.

Travelers defence kit

Doct'r R Blacks Travelers Defence Supplies Kit

Travelers Defence Supplies for the protection from Vampir' & other foul creatures of the night. Produced by Black's Spiritual Science & Apothecary of London. Photographed and documented by The Museum of Cryptozoology and Occult Science Melbourne. This particular example is now in a private collection.

Doct'r R Blacks Travelers Defence Supplies Kit

Doct'r R Blacks Travelers Defence Supplies Kit

Doct'r R Blacks Travelers Defence Supplies Kit

Doct'r R Blacks Travelers Defence Supplies Kit

Dybbuk Box. Entrapped lesser demon

Dybbuk Box on display at MOCAOS

History of the Dybbuk box

On the 19th April 1934 members of the Thule Society conducted one of a series of black magic rituals in the hopes of making contact with demonic forces and gaining their favor. Thankfully the ritual was incomplete but a small rift into the darkness of the universe was created and this unidentified lesser-demon managed to cross over into our dimension.

Dybbuk Box on display at MOCAOS

The creature cause isolated trouble for the good folk of Stuttgart over the next few months, starting fires, damage to buildings, worrying livestock and occasional violent assaults. Eventually word of it's existence reached back to the mysterious Thule Society. These rumors not only feed the desires of the Thule's hierarchy but spured them into action, attempting to capture the beast. Their political arm seized power on June 30 1934 and began house to house searches, kidnapping and interrogations in the hunt for the creature.

Dybbuk Box on display at MOCAOS

Local holy men knew all to well the risks if this beast fell into the hands of this vicious organization and using a now lost combination of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism and ancient Christian magic managed to track, capture and force the creature into a state of suspended animation.

Dybbuk Box on display at MOCAOS

By this stage the Nazi regime had taken hold and rumors of the rituals, the demon and it's heroic captors were spreading. The Nazi machine spread throughout Europe as the Jewish and Christian communities banded together and barely a few steps ahead, slowly smuggling the foul artefact across border after border waiting for their chance to send the Demonic beast as far away from the Nazi's as possible. After making it's way to the west coast of France, the joint forces of NATO and the French resistance managed to pass the Dybbuk Box to the British coast guard on the 2nd of June 1940 and it was taken to the UK and hidden away until just 10 years ago.

Dybbuk Box on display at MOCAOS

What Do We Really Know? Richard Dolan on Extraterrestrials.

More from Richard Dolan here.

The Baghdad Battery, Parthian Battery

Baghdad Battery and cut-away. Courtesy of MOCAOS

The Baghdad Battery or Parthian Battery is a set of three artifacts which were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in modern Khujut Rabu, Iraq, close to the metropolis of Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is considered to date from either of these periods. 

Baghdad Battery and cut-away. Courtesy of MOCAOS

Its origin and purpose remain unclear, and further evidence is needed to explain its purpose. It was hypothesized by some researchers that the object functioned as a galvanic cell, possibly used for electroplating, or some kind of electrotherapy, but there is no electrogilded object known from this period. An alternative explanation is that it functioned as a storage vessel for sacred scrolls. 

Baghdad Battery and cut-away. Courtesy of MOCAOS

Precolumbain Flying Machines

Precolumbain Flying Machines, MOCAOS collection

These gold trinkets were found in an area covering Central America and coastal areas of South America. Estimates have them belonging to a period between 500 and 800 CE, but since they are made from gold, accurate dating is impossible and based essentially on stratigraphy which may be deceptive. However, we can safely say that these bizarre gold flying machines could be as much as 2000 years old. They are thought to depict the vehicles of Astronauts or Alien beings who visited Earth centuries ago.

Beast of Bodmin Moor

Plaster cast of a large Cat print found in the Moors.
MOCAOS

The Beast of Bodmin, also known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor (Cornish: Best Goon Brenn) is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged panther-like cats of the same region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.

In general, scientists reject such claims because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population and because climate and food supply issues would make such purported creatures' survival in reported habitats unlikely

Investigation

A long held hypothesis suggests the possibility that alien big cats at large in the United Kingdom could have been imported as part of private collections or zoos, later escaped or set free. An escaped big cat would not be reported to the authorities due to the illegality of owning and importing the animals.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food conducted an official investigation in 1995. The study found that there was 'no verifiable evidence' of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species. The report stated that 'the investigation could not prove that a "big cat" is not present.'

Skull

Less than a week after the government report, a boy was walking by the River Fowey when he discovered a large cat skull. Measuring about 4 inches (10 cm) long by 7 inches (18 cm) wide, the skull was lacking its lower jaw but possessed two sharp, prominent canines that suggested that it might have been a leopard. The story hit the national press at about the same time of the official denial of alien big cat evidence on Bodmin Moor.

The skull was sent to the Natural History Museum in London for verification. They determined that it was a genuine skull from a young male leopard, but also found that the cat had not died in Britain and that the skull had been imported as part of a leopard-skin rug. The back of the skull was cleanly cut off in a way that is commonly used to mount the head on a rug. There was an egg case inside the skull that had been laid by a tropical cockroach that could not possibly be found in Britain. There were also cut marks on the skull indicating the flesh had been scraped off with a knife, and the skull had begun to decompose only after a recent submersion in water.

- wikipedia