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Saturday, January 1, 2022

From Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus to the Alien Prometheus...

Frankenstein was first published in 1818 on January 1st.

Of course several monster stories are set in urban-areas, or on other worlds. Perhaps scary stories that are set in remote or desolate locations are the most frightening of all.

"the monster wanders through the+wilderness."  

"Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in the attic of his boarding house in Ingolstadt after discovering a scientific principle which allows him to create life from non-living matter. Frankenstein is disgusted by his creation, however, and flees from it in horror. Frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein's_monster#Shelley's_plot

"In Shelley's original work, Victor Frankenstein discovers a previously unknown but elemental principle of life, and that insight allows him to develop a method to imbue vitality into inanimate matter, though the exact nature of the process is left largely ambiguous. After a great deal of hesitation in exercising this power, Frankenstein spends two years painstakingly constructing the Creature's body (one anatomical feature at a time, from raw materials supplied by "the dissecting room and the slaughter-house"), which he then brings to life using his unspecified process." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#The_Creature

The Frankenstein monster was the quintessential composite Sci-Fi creature in the 1800s, that still resonates in popular culture over two centuries later. It was far from being like a Terminator robot and not simply an animated machine of body-parts. However, Frankenstein might be considered as a forerunner to the concept of the cybernetic_organism

https://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/novels/novels-d-g/frankenstein-unbound

https://custom-writing.org/blog/monsters-in-literature

"Recent incarnations of mythical cyborg characters are often dangerous or violent.  The replicants in BladeRunner and the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation are examples of cyborgs whose machine/computer half has gone awry.  As the cyborg creature is about supplementing human deficiencies, disguising disabilities, and improving flaws, the terror of a cyborg creation that develops its own flaws is the nightmare of cyborg science.  The fear of machines that control and destroy stands in opposition to the possibility of machines liberating consciousness from the human body and providing useful, powerful extensions to the body.

Various manifestations of machine-human symbiosis and hybridity have descended from the original Frankenstein monster.  But not all cyborg monsters are as destructive as Frankenstein or the Terminator." https://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/cyborg.htm From, Jessica Santone.


Reading the Cyborg in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

by Sarah Canfield Fuller https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308625


https://custom-writing.org/blog/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-themes


Of course the Prometheus movie is in some ways is a continuation of the Frankenstein theme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)#Plot

https://medicalfuturist.com/from-human-to-cyborg

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2018/07/30/biology-and-robotics-enter-into-an-unholy-union-to-bring-forth-creatures-from-hell/18564

https://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Cyborg.html

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/08/18/scientists-will-use-newly-discovered-cyborg-material-to-invade-our-brains-and-merge-with-our-thoughts-and-turn-us-all-into-mindless-zombie-robots-says-report/35328

While the movie Prometheus provides a subtle take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-Prometheus theme, Alien:_Covenant makes an obvious reference to Percy_B._Shelley.  

https://www.alien-covenant.com/topic/44302

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, 

The lone and level sands stretch far away." - Percy Shelley 1818 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-bxPsxpE0 , https://www.youtube.com/c/TechOnPC/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Publication_history 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley

Prometheus and Alien:_Covenant could have been much better movies, but they still provide interesting & essential elements to the overall Alien-Prometheus story-line. https://www.hrgiger.com/alien.htm

https://horrorobsessive.com/2018/08/15/the-art-of-literary-misinterpretation-in-alien-covenant

So Mary_Shelley arrived in Switzerland in 1816 and would eventually create the Frankenstein-Prometheus story. H._R._Giger was born in Switzerland and by the late 1970s was involved with the Alien movie. HRG lived long enough to see the Prometheus movie.

Prometheus - David in the Orrery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1EeYB8Aog0

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=Prometheus

Humans will become more augmented, but not everyone is interested in becoming something like Master_Chief or especially The_Borg


Interfacing the Brain & Machines: Another Step to a Cyborg Future

"Controlling robotic prostheses with one’s mind has been a hot topic in research, but making a prothesis ‘talk back’ has been a stumbling block. Researchers from Switzerland show progress in creating sensations from a bidirectional neuroprosthesis."

"Researchers from the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, are developing a new method to connect a prosthesis to neural activity in a bidirectional manner, which could solve some long-standing challenges of brain-machine interfaces. Published in Neuron, their early testing in mice models had promising results." https://www.labiotech.eu/more-news/university-genera-brain-machine

https://www.iris.ethz.ch , https://srl.ethz.ch


https://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/381303/Monsters-of-the-Wilderness-Oswalds-Curse


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=horror+movies

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=the+wilderness

Friday, September 6, 2024

The ALIEN intersection

Just because something might be from another world, that doesn't necessarily mean its a monster. However, in the ALIEN movie series, some large ET humanoids (The Engineers) created a substance that corrupts & mutates life forms into monsters. HR Giger imagined what an army of LARGE, biomechanical insectoids would be like. Even a bot named David wanted to do some genetic engineering of his own.

 https://monstercrawler.com/?qc=images&aid=a84eff6a-c210-4716-9c70-ab4a747a179d&ridx=1&search=ALIEN%2520movies

https://www.space.com/alien-movies-in-order For many, the AvP movies don't count. However, the universe might have various monstrous creatures and beings. https://www.ign.com/articles/alien-movies-in-order



https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=the+ALIEN+intersection

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies 

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters 

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=ET+Life+Forms

Saturday, January 1, 2022

The THING about ET and the Paranormal...

Is The_Thing an ET monster, or is it just a very adaptive life form? As The_Thing has been depicted in various movies, it is a very aggressive & dangerous organism that is a total predator and mimic. 

Several similar or parallel posts are at, TFZ and especially, TDL

The friendly Extra Terrestrial and the malevolent Alien have been depicted in so many ways. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alien

Panspermia is a fascinating concept as a natural way for the building-blocks of life to be distributed to a multitude of worlds. https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=ET , https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ET , https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=ET

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/panspermia

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019asbi.book..419K/abstract

Of course there have been several Sci-Fi stories about BIG and small things reaching the earth. Several of them are ET+monster stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World (1951)
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+THING

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers (1956)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(1971_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express (1972)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_(1978_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Worms, Eels and Sea Snakes, etc.

http://monstersandbeasts.blogspot.ca/2012/06/flat-worm-thing-prometheus.html,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHx5GI1KQE,
http://tech.ca.msn.com/animal-imposters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_moray Eel
Moray Eels Grab Prey With "Alien" Jaws
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070905-eel-jaw.html,
http://www.livescience.com/1834-eels-doom-prey-alien-jaws.html,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070905134523.htm,
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/04977/jaws-two

Engineered monsters that were never meant to be just kept in a lab.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/prometheus/creatures ,
http://screenrant.com/prometheus-deleted-scenes-blu-ray ,
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ridley-scott-prometheus-alien-324981 ,
http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/pages.php?id=5 ,
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Trilobite ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXvQNAkaNag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFEiT0erZIo ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophiinae ,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/9634277/Scientists-find-new-sea-snake-species-in-a-museum.html , 
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/20/the-deadliest-sea-snake-is-actually-two-look-alike-species

http://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.ca/2012/05/river-monsters.html
River monsters, monsters in space & on other worlds.
H.R.G. sure knows how to design some monstrous things.
https://giger.com/gigerframeset.phphttp://www.hrgigermuseum.com
Also see,
http://monsterfaces.weebly.com/creatures.html
for another perspective of monsters.

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

AI and Alien Intelligence

 AI's Most Promising Alien Hunters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAY0_wRjxA

Human initiated Quantum Computing AI is impressive enough, but what would Alien or ET-AI be like?

Sunday, August 28, 2022

The ALIEN ABDUCTION Phenomenon...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTzYfH7pfEU

Is the earth like someones farm, zoo or laboratory?

Or, is is all part of the devils playground?

A cosmic scale of various beings and entities might be at play for a very, very long time.

Alien Case Files: Fast Walkers | Alien and UFO Encounters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIDIgfUCoA "American history is riddled with mysterious objects in the sky. This episode will look into that past, the year 1972 and uncover secret truths about UFOs."


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=ET+Life+Forms

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Alien: Earth - The Wall Mystery

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_aLAA_mtgs

A world with animal and ET experiment, human and synthetic beings and a whole lot of potential for things to go wrong.  


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Alien-Earth

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Friday, March 5, 2021

El Chupacabra and other Monsters, ETc...

 https://groundzeromedia.org/3-5-21-el-chupacabra-brah-w-ken-gerhard

Is this something that was created in a lab or is it a monster from another world or dimension?

http://thegoblinuniverse.com/2020/04/23/el-chupacabra

wikipedia

According to various sightings, the Chupacabra appears to be a composite creature or a mutation. Therefore, most people would consider it to being a monster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra#Reputed_origin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_the_Chupacabra Of course without sufficient evidence the chupacabra is just another urban legend.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/LiloandStitchmovieposter.jpg

"Dr. Jumba Jookiba, an extraterrestrial mad scientist, is arrested by the Galactic Federation for illegal genetic experimentation, as evidenced by a small blue sentient alien named Experiment 626, who has unparalleled strength and intelligence but also a propensity to cause chaos." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilo_and_Stitch#Plot


https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2020/04/12/the-goblin-universe-ted-holiday , 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664124.The_Goblin_Universe

Is this a Goblin Universe or a Demon-Haunted_World?

The world could have all sorts of monsters and mutations, but without actual confirmation, it remains somewhere in between a mystery, myth and an urban legend.


The same can be said of the Jersey_Devil.

http://thegoblinuniverse.com/2020/04/13/new-jersey-devil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil#The_Leeds_Devil However, the JD also seems to be a composite creature with a monstrous appearance.


The Mothman was also seen by various people. This would be considered to be a monstrous creature or entity by many.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keel#The_Mothman_Prophecies

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mothman-statue

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12036

The Mothman_Prophecies 1975 Book , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keel#Rejection_of_Extraterrestrial_hypothesis

Was Mothman from the same realm as, Pazuzu?

wikipedia , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazuzu#In_modern_popular_culture At a certain point, a demon and a monstrous entity might be seen as the same thing.


Some investigators though that the Skinwalker_Ranch might have had some kind of a portal on it. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#Background

Perhaps an intersection point for demons and monsters.

https://inexplicata.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters

https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters

If this world is part of something like an interactive cosmic recording and projection of time and space, then even the demons and monsters are part of it. 

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Monsters

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters


Loren_Coleman has been investigating and researching various creatures and mysteries for several years. http://cryptomundo.com , https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171129

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Coleman#Cryptozoology

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/908003.Bigfoot_

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bigfoot!/Loren-Coleman/9780743469753

Although a Bigfoot or Sasquatch might be thought of as monstrous by some, they aren't as much monsters, as they would be just LARGE humanoids.  


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/2010/06/bigfoot-chewbacca-and-ewoks-etc.html

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Loren+Coleman 

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=the+ALIEN+intersection