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Found 20 posts tagged ‘unknown’

Old News – June 16, 2029

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"Watch out for the 'unknown' ones." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.

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#unknown #vintage headline #advice #headline

Old News – May 2, 2026

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"3 generations of an Eldorado family are fascinated with the unknown." Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.

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#unknown #vintage headline #headline

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 29, 2023

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"The unknown was plucked from his burrow." From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #unknown #caveman

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – December 4, 2022

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We've been buying the unknown for years. Now they tell us we've been trusting to luck. From Blue Book, 1936.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #luck #unknown #1930s #ad

Old News – November 1, 2022

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"The answers of the Unknown." From Medical College of Virginia's 1977 yearbook.

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – January 19, 2022

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"The mysery of unknown forces that seek to possess us." From Dark Shadows episode 690.

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – December 11, 2021

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"A journey into the unknown." From Dark Shadows episode 822.

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 4, 2021

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"I think I shall feel quite at home in the unknown." From Dark Shadows episode 840.

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#occult #unknown #dark shadows

Old News – September 9, 2021

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"Eerie tales from the night skies ... In contact with the unknown." From UFO Newsclipping, Service, 1990.

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#ufo #unknown #vintage headline #headline

Yearbook Weirdness – January 31, 2021

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From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #unknown #1930s #faceless #no face #anonymous

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – July 23, 2020

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“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.” —Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost

Our illustration is from Dark Shadows episode 857. "Anything is possible beyond the I-Ching door."

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Precursors – November 3, 2019

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Nearly two decades before Philip K. Dick's VALIS, there was a book called VAIS, on similar themes. From Flying Saucer News, 1963.

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Old News – August 4, 2019

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"Unknown man is 'unknown.'" From the Florida Flambeau, 1959.

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Uncharted Territories – July 26, 2019

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"There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder." —Ransom Riggs [via DevilDuck]

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#mystery #blank map #unknown #wonderment

Yearbook Weirdness – January 23, 2019

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The caption admits, "We don't know what it is." From Presbyterian College's 1961 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #unknown

This May Surprise You – March 5, 2018

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The unknown is uncentered. (Note how the word "the" is an entire letter's width too far to the right.) From The Unknown by Francis Lathom, 1826.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – July 15, 2017

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In Search of the Unknown by Robert William Chambers, 1904.

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#vintage book cover #blindfold #book cover #vintage book #book #unknown #old book

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 21, 2016

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"With an unearthly yell the unknown sprang upon Lion Limb," from Lion Limb, the Boy King of the South Sea Islands, 1867.

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#vintage illustration #skeletons #treasure #unknown #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 28, 2015

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We mustn't merely face the unknown, but escort it was well. "Escorting the unknown in question," from The Bachelor's Christmas by Robert Grant, 1895.

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