Weird News: Mysterious Orange Goo Lands in Alaska
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Alaska is once again home to uncanny strangeness. During the past week, a curious orange goo began washing ashore in a remote village. So far, the substance matches no known natural or man made records. As any H.P. Lovecraft fan knows, mysterious slime heaved up from the sea plays an important role in several tales. "Dagon," "The Call of Cthulhu," and others echo the Providence writer's distaste and horror at what lurks beneath the waves.
Alaska's unique place in weird-dom continues to generate horror. Not unlike its surrounding wastes bordering the Arctic and Pacific territories. It's easy to see why lingering terrors from the sea in the great north continue to populate works by the likes of Laird Barron and Simon Strantzas. We are forcibly reminded, just once in awhile, that far greater monstrosities may lurk in the depths - often out of site, but never out of mind. We look to putrid, untraceable goo and shudder, with nearly the same intensity experienced when reading books such as Occultation and Beneath the Surface.
Remote, unknown regions are certain to provoke unspeakable chills. The human mind is already capable of conjuring the most vivid nightmares based on speculation and blackness alone. Still, imagine the greater horrors that will result in the coming years, a product of an Alaskan village and its token orange gift from hidden quarters.
-Grim Blogger
