Dark Thoughts: Men in Dark Suits
A look at the paranormal with a professional amateur.
Not What You Expect
Since Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones turned them into heroes the Men in Black have been front and center in popular culture. Their origins date back to the mid-1950’s and ufologist Albert K. Bender. They appeared and threatened Bender to stop his “saucer work” several times, usually appearing out of thin air and leaving as suddenly. He claimed they told him the truth about the UFO phenomenon. What Bender learned frightened him so badly that he abandoned his research and never spoke of it again.
Bender suffered from medical conditions that could easily explain what he saw. What it can’t explain is what continues to happen, to this day.
The Typical Experience
The Men in Black continue. They appear in small, inconsequential UFO incidents. MIB’s appear out of nowhere and ask to be invited in. They seem to suppress the will of the people they are talking to. Vague threats are made to not discuss what they’ve seen and to stop all research into the subject. These phantoms dress in a fashion that seems out of time. Their vehicles, if any, are classic era cars in brand new condition. After their bizarre visit, they will typically vanish and are gone.
Most stories of the MIB sound ridiculous when you read them. However, consider the nightmare of waking up with a clown at the foot of your bed though. It sounds silly, but it’s far from it when it happens to you.
What Are They
We have a phenomenon involving well dressed people with seemingly supernatural powers. Traditional explanations only cover a part of the incidents reported. Maybe there’s another explanation. Something beyond even the world of UFO’s. What if they’re tulpas? Something created by the mind of humans and given physical form. Perhaps they sustain themselves by feeding on fear and negative emotions? What if the reason they stick to smaller UFO cases is to be the focus of the sighting? What if, in the end, we brought these phantoms on ourselves?
Further Reading:
Nick Redfern’s Website – Prolific Author on the subject
Nick Redfern on Amazon – His Author Page on Amazon
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel – An amazing number of Men in Black encounters
Albert K. Bender – Wikipedia article on the man who started the nonsense
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So here is our last installment of our AI journey exploring the idea of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad wolf being one and the same. All of these are based upon the AI generated art and prompts using NightCafe and then created as posters in Canva. Feel free to check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this exploration if you missed them.
A non sequitur I know, but I couldn’t resist. If you picked up where we left off you’ll get it.
Seriously?! Again with the cropped off head cop out…
Finally! That was a journey. And not even worth the result, in my opinion.
Anyway, here is a bonus montage I made out of a bunch of additional Red Riding Hood prompts for an article that never happened…
Prompts for Montage:
1.) What if Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf were one and the same being?
2.) Her wolf face peering out of her red cloak, fangs dripping with the blood of another victim, lost in the forest and never found.
3.) Little Red Riding Hood closes in for the kill, lunging from her red cloak, her wolf fangs dripping with blood.
4.) I am Little Red Riding Hood. I am the Big Bad Wolf. I am coming for you.
5.) Howling within, the rage sears forth from the red cloak, discarded in the deep woods. Red Riding Hood succumbs to the lycanthropy.
6.) Heaving breaths. Dripping blood. Red Riding Hood is not what she appears. She is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
7.) Her red cloak masks the fangs hidden below the surface.
8.) It starts with a long sighing breath. Waiting. The wolf within stirs.
9.) Red Riding Hood trembles. She succumbs to the lycanthropy.
10.) The wolf bursts forth from within. It takes over Little Red Riding Hood’s mind, her body, her being.
11.) Red Riding Hood howls. She is ravenous with hunger for blood. The wolf within has taken over. Mind, spirit, body. She feasts on the blood of the moon.
12.) Big Bad Wolf Red Riding Hood ravenous blood moon feast
13.) Blood moon beckons. I. Little Red Big Bad Riding Hood Wolf. Freedom howling night curse.
14.) Beware. Bewolf. BeRedRidingHood. Betwixt. Beyond.
15.) I pad quietly as the forest dissolves around me. Red Riding Hood and Wolf, one and the same.
16.) Wolf within howling dark recesses of the mind, Red Riding Hood lost
17.) Red Riding Hood HOWL wolf bane true existence polymorph within-and-without.
18.) Red howl Riding Wolf dark existence brooding within
So thank you for joining us on another AI art journey. You can still catch the last AI art journey on Haunted MTL here. To see more such devolutions into AI generated art, check out the Will the Real Jennifer Weigel Please Stand Up? blog.
Continuing our AI journey from last time exploring Little Red Riding Hood herself as the Big Bad Wolf… All of these are based upon the AI generated art and prompts using NightCafe and then created as posters in Canva.
How very… Phantom of the Opera predatory… this is definitely not what I had in mind. Maybe something more cutesy?
Ugh. Maybe not.
Wow, that seems like such a cop out, cropping off the head so you don’t have to depict it. And I don’t want to lose the Little Red Riding Hood reference completely.
So no surprise there, I knew that was too many references to work.
And we continued to devolve, join us again next week for the final installment to see how this ended… And again, if you want to catch the last AI art journey, you can find it on Haunted MTL here. To see more such devolutions into AI generated art, check out the Will the Real Jennifer Weigel Please Stand Up? blog.
And as promised in Big Bad Poetry, we shall embark on our next AI journey, this time looking at Little Red Riding Hood. I had wanted to depict her as the Big Bad Wolf one and the same, although maybe not so big nor bad. But it just wasn’t happening quite as planned. All of these are based upon the AI generated art and prompts using NightCafe and then created as posters in Canva.
So I actually like this even better than my original vision, it is playful and even a bit serene (especially given the Sinister style). The wolf is just being a wolf. It’s quite lovely, really. But it wasn’t what I had in mind, so I revisited the idea later to see if I could get that result…
Well, that’s not quite right…
Yeah more of the same…
And as you can see this is starting to devolve quickly. Join us again next week to see how this continued to develop… And if you want to catch the last AI art journey, you can find it on Haunted MTL here. To see more such devolutions into AI generated art, check out the Will the Real Jennifer Weigel Please Stand Up? blog.
