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  • WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19 2007 12:00 PM

Unknowable Space Horror Is Coming, Look Busy!

Submitted by Flux

Edited by erin_broadley

Tags: Lovecraft, Cthulhu, meteorite, horror, deep sea



As I have long suspected, Howard Phillips Lovecraft's tales of eldritch horrors beyond mortal ken were seeded with the grains of truth.

Ten years ago now, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association recorded an ultra-low frequency sound around 50º S 100º W in the Pacific Ocean. This sound matches the audio profile of a living creature. However, the frequency of the sound implies a creature much larger than even the world's largest known creature, the blue whale. This mysterious sound has come to be known as the Bloop.

I have come to believe that the sound's origin was from just a short distance away, 47.9º S, 126.43º W, which you and I both know as the coordinates of the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh. Brave scientists at BloopWatch.org share this hypothesis, and we tremble in dread, for great Cthulhu is waking. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Please eat me last.

Or so I worried, but now it looks like we'll be driven ill and insane first. As prophesied in "The Colour Out of Space", death and terror is raining down on us from the sky. This weekend, in Puno, Peru, a meteorite fell to earth. Of course, it brought the unknowable and horrifying along for the ride.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odour," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being taken to hospital, Mr Lopez said.



Ahem:

Winter came early, and was very cold. Ammi saw Nahum less often than usual, and observed that he had begun to look worried. The rest of his family too, seemed to have grown taciturn; and were far from steady in their church-going or their attendance at the various social events of the countryside. For this reserve or melancholy no cause could be found, though all the household confessed now and then to poorer health and a feeling of vague disquiet. Nahum himself gave the most definite statement of anyone when he said he was disturbed about certain footprints in the snow.



You will, of course, agree in the face of the evidence presented that we are dealing with the same non-humanoid, mutagenic, extraterrestrial "colour." Try not to buy any Peruvian skunk-cabbage this autumn, beloved readers.

Regardless, we're all going to die.

Flux has got her Mi-Go brain cylinder prepared for her exit from this doomed planet. How about you?

 

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Bill_the_Cat

Bill_the_Cat

North Vancouver, BC
May 2005

SEP 21, 2007 06:27 PM

*puts on "The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets", awaits the inevitable.*

WildAutumn

WildAutumn

United Kingdom
November 2005

SEP 22, 2007 11:59 AM

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."

- The Call of Cthulhu


Colinism

Colinism

Atlanta, GA
July 2005

SEP 22, 2007 12:44 PM

Already contacted the great race of yith to have them transfer my brain into the future and inhabit one of the insectoids.

SilverSurfer

SilverSurfer

Chicago, IL
June 2003

SEP 22, 2007 02:01 PM

AceT

AceT

Portland, OR
April 2004

SEP 22, 2007 04:32 PM

Haha, when I first read this story (I forget which site) I was like, "Wow, this is so Lovecraftian, Flux would love this!"

UnderTaker13

UnderTaker13

United Kingdom
May 2007

SEP 23, 2007 06:01 PM

Personally, I'm not worried. As the Dead Man (note the way it's spelled, for the wrestler it's one word!) there's not a lot they can do to me, however, I would recommend to those concerned the works of August Derleth - most specifically those cncerned with Ihtaqua the Wind-Walker as a possible means of escape in the physical form. if it isn't Great Cthulhu of course, it could always be Ghatanathoa, one of his sons. On second thoughts, where did I leave my Elder Sign amulet, best not look into any mirrors either - if I remember my stories right. skull

cmjfoxfyre

cmjfoxfyre

Cupertino, CA
February 2006

SEP 24, 2007 11:35 PM

in my circle of friends, we train the young ones to revere the Elder Gods, as soon as possible. smile
Mal's fave toy

dreamergirl

dreamergirl

Houston, TX
September 2007

SEP 27, 2007 09:04 PM

I have some friends in Peru that are missionaries. I think that meterorite fell very close to them. I need to find out the scoop. Also, Flux this is good info you gave. Have you ever read The Secret of Wormwood Planet -X? It is a very interesting and I have started reading it again for the second time.

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