Fictonauts
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:03 pm
At this point your probably wondering what a Fictonaut is. Don't feel bad, I didn't know either until about a week ago. My compatriot Psi Phi took the term from a comic book.
A Fictonaut is someone or something that manages to come into our reality through a piece of fiction, or someone from our reality that manages to travel into a world of fiction.
If your confused think of the movie "New Nightmare" where Freddie Kruegar tries to come into the real world via the movies made about him. Also think of the various odd reports about people who claim to have seen things from books and movies. In American and European Asylums alone there are 12 girls who claim to have visited "Wonderland" and 15 who claim to have visited "Oz". All of whom have broken down from the experience.
There is also a famous horror story about an author who visits a fictional town he created in one of his books. It's called "In The Mouth Of Madness" and apparently John Carpenter made a movie out of it which I've never seen.
Now before some of you guys wonder what this has to do with anything, you might notice I've been gone for a while. My plate has been unusually full here in Florida, but a good friend convinced me to drop everything and come look into a situation with his Neice in Oregon who happens to have just become the latest babbling visitor to Oz. I put together a team and headed down there to ask some questions, along the way I got lost and wound up driving through all these back roads. By what might be a massive coincidence I happened to find myself in a town called "Rock And Roll Heaven".
The clincher is that it was populated by the demonic spirits of dead rock stars, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and bloody Kurt Cobain. It had it's own time distortion, and a bunch of terrified people being held prisoner and forced to listen to their music forever.
I didn't recognize half these guys, and honestly would have thought it was just odd coincidence that turned into a psychic battle and a ton of fancy gunplay if some of the people with me didn't recognize them. I don't know much about American pop culture, especially the old stuff I'm afraid.
After killing everyone, burning the place down, and watching the remaints vanish in your typical temporal/transdimensional vortex I finally got on with the visit I was supposed to make in Oregon. While telling my friend what had kept us busy, he was shocked, and probably wouldn't have believed me if it wasn't for the testimony of my companions (of course I wouldn't have mentioned the names and made it so unbelievable except for them). Apparently the whole situation we ran into was almost taken verbatim from an obscure Steven King short story entitled "You Know They Have A Hell of a Band" or something like that.
At any rate I'm curious what my fellow occult investigators think of this, and if they had run into anything else that was similar, other than running into the old Oz/Wonderland referances.
I also wanted to ensure any of my odder colleagues that Elvis, Buddy Holly, and their ilk are indeed dead. Elvis died on the can, I know because I was holding his face down in a toilet when I put a .50 slug into the back of his head.
I'm going to be heading to Miami to see if I can find Hisvit, the fact that the "Rat" story still persists has be wondering if she might have relocated.
Also there are some rumors that there have been a rash of child disappearances there, many of the children disappearing after telling their parents they were going to "Diagon Alley". Something that was ignored due to the fact that it's from some popular children's book about wizards or whatever. In the context of everything else it warrents some looking into.
A Fictonaut is someone or something that manages to come into our reality through a piece of fiction, or someone from our reality that manages to travel into a world of fiction.
If your confused think of the movie "New Nightmare" where Freddie Kruegar tries to come into the real world via the movies made about him. Also think of the various odd reports about people who claim to have seen things from books and movies. In American and European Asylums alone there are 12 girls who claim to have visited "Wonderland" and 15 who claim to have visited "Oz". All of whom have broken down from the experience.
There is also a famous horror story about an author who visits a fictional town he created in one of his books. It's called "In The Mouth Of Madness" and apparently John Carpenter made a movie out of it which I've never seen.
Now before some of you guys wonder what this has to do with anything, you might notice I've been gone for a while. My plate has been unusually full here in Florida, but a good friend convinced me to drop everything and come look into a situation with his Neice in Oregon who happens to have just become the latest babbling visitor to Oz. I put together a team and headed down there to ask some questions, along the way I got lost and wound up driving through all these back roads. By what might be a massive coincidence I happened to find myself in a town called "Rock And Roll Heaven".
The clincher is that it was populated by the demonic spirits of dead rock stars, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and bloody Kurt Cobain. It had it's own time distortion, and a bunch of terrified people being held prisoner and forced to listen to their music forever.
I didn't recognize half these guys, and honestly would have thought it was just odd coincidence that turned into a psychic battle and a ton of fancy gunplay if some of the people with me didn't recognize them. I don't know much about American pop culture, especially the old stuff I'm afraid.
After killing everyone, burning the place down, and watching the remaints vanish in your typical temporal/transdimensional vortex I finally got on with the visit I was supposed to make in Oregon. While telling my friend what had kept us busy, he was shocked, and probably wouldn't have believed me if it wasn't for the testimony of my companions (of course I wouldn't have mentioned the names and made it so unbelievable except for them). Apparently the whole situation we ran into was almost taken verbatim from an obscure Steven King short story entitled "You Know They Have A Hell of a Band" or something like that.
At any rate I'm curious what my fellow occult investigators think of this, and if they had run into anything else that was similar, other than running into the old Oz/Wonderland referances.
I also wanted to ensure any of my odder colleagues that Elvis, Buddy Holly, and their ilk are indeed dead. Elvis died on the can, I know because I was holding his face down in a toilet when I put a .50 slug into the back of his head.
I'm going to be heading to Miami to see if I can find Hisvit, the fact that the "Rat" story still persists has be wondering if she might have relocated.
Also there are some rumors that there have been a rash of child disappearances there, many of the children disappearing after telling their parents they were going to "Diagon Alley". Something that was ignored due to the fact that it's from some popular children's book about wizards or whatever. In the context of everything else it warrents some looking into.
