BEHOLD!!! THE GUFFEY LIBRARY (2025)

Depicted below is the ever-expanding GUFFEY LIBRARY (with more volumes to come in 2026)!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

 

NYMPHO SHARK FUCK FRENZY

My fellow Wonderland Book Award-winner, Christine Morgan, recently sent me a shark-infused care package I'd like to share with all of you on the final day of the year. If you have no particular resolutions lined up for 2026, why not kick off the new year by reading Christine Morgan & Susan Snyder's NYMPHO SHARK FUCK FRENZY, which took home the Wonderland Award for Best Novel at BizarroCon 2025? Why not, indeed!

And if you're interested in delving further into Morgan's oeuvre, I recommend checking out my 9-10-25 Cryptoscatology review of Morgan's superlative Lovecraftian short story collection, AROUND ELDRITCH CORNERS (published by WordHorde in 2024). To read the review, click HERE!

Jacques Vallee on "Communication with Extra-terrestrial Entities"

From THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL'S 12-24-25 article entitled "UFO Expert Makes Startling Revelation About Interaction with Aliens": 

The UFO researcher Jacques Vallée has recently made startling remarks regarding the communication with extra-terrestrial entities in a recent interview.

While talking in the podcast titled Weaponized hosted by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, Vallée shared the details of a classified US program in which officials interacted with non-human entities 20 years ago.

The government was capable of establishing “direct, structured communications” with a non-human intelligence through a “very sophisticated process,” conducted on an ongoing basis under controlled laboratory conditions at a secure facility he had never heard publicly referenced, he added [...].

“Yes, yes, it is factual based on the people I met with,” he added. At the same time, he also noted uncertainty over whether the entity was real or simulated...

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

Cryptoscatology Cold Case Files: "Trump Will Solve JonBenet Murder!"

According to inside sources close to the Bavarian Illuminati, even Bat Boy of WEEKLY WORLD NEWS fame has expressed considerable skepticism of this headline and is imploring the Boulder Police Department to investigate the whereabouts of Donald J. Trump on the night of December 25, 1996. Cryptoscatology correspondents embedded in the BPD have reached out to Boulder's new police chief, Stephen Redfearn, for comments but as yet have received no response. During a Christmas Day press conference at Mar-a-lago, President Trump refused to deny Bat Boy's allegations, telling a Newsmax reporter, "Why are you listening to a creep and a loser like this Bat Boy? Why are we even still talking about this moron when the economy is through the roof?" Cryptoscatology.com will keep you updated as further information is made available. In other news, the ghost of Lyndon Baines Johnson has reportedly solved the cold case murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy from 1963...

Guffey in Print (2025)

Here are my 2025 print publications at a glance (plus, my short story "Initiation" was reprinted by StarShipSofa as a podcast and "The Secret History: Introduction to Hollywood Haunts the World" was published by Film International earlier this month)... yet another highly strange and eclectic mixture of fiction and nonfiction...

• Order HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMA OF OCCULTED TABOOS directly from the publisher (Headpress) or from Amazon!

 

• PARANOIA, the new Spanish edition of CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY (translated by Elías Ortigosa Román), is available for purchase courtesy of Yonki Books.

 

• BECOMING NOSFERATU (a fiction anthology edited by Gary D. Rhodes and Matthew Sorrento) includes my novelette "The Land of Thieves and Phantoms," a vampire-themed tale inspired by disturbing current events as filtered through the lens of Expressionist cinema. You can buy a copy HERE.

• THE UPSIDE DOWN MAGICIAN is the first issue of an ongoing comic book series created in collaboration with Nadim, a supernaturally talented artist based in Canada. (You can visit Nadim's website by clicking HERE.) THE UPSIDE DOWN MAGICIAN is about ultraterrestrial paintings, sentient houses, Hieronymus Bosch, government agents, secret societies, and many other concepts that are currently beyond human comprehension. Though it won't be "officially" released until 2026, preview copies were indeed sold at Expozine 2025, the 24th annual edition of Montreal's international independent publishing festival. Check back in the near future for information about how to order issue #1! 

Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller on the Meaning of Christmas and New Year's

Exactly two years ago today, Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller (author of GNOSTICISM: NEW LIGHT ON THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF INNER KNOWING and many other esoteric books) delivered the following lecture at the Ecclesia Gnostica in Los Angeles...

Christmas, the Birthday of the Divine and the New Year, Dec. 29th 2023, by Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller:

HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD on RavenStar's Witching Hour!

 

On November 8, 2025, Solaris BlueRaven interviewed me on her podcast, Ravenstar's Witching Hour. You can hear the entire show at the bottom of this post. Solaris and I perform a deep dive into the history of esoteric cinema in the form of a two-hour long discussion about my latest nonfiction book, HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMA OF OCCULTED TABOOS (published by Headpress). 

By my count, this marks the tenth time Solaris has interviewed me (either on Ravenstar's Witching Hour or Hyperspace). I miss appearing on the late, lamented Hyperspace mainly because the private discussions that occurred between each commercial break with KCOR Radio founder Tina Marie were often far more intriguing and salacious than whatever the hell I was talking about at the time! Perhaps one of these days KCOR will rise again from the ashes of the Nevada desert. In the meantime, you can listen to my previous appearance on Ravenstar's Witching Hour by clicking HERE... and for my latest appearance on the show, simply scroll to the bottom of the screen...

(FYI: You can order HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD HERE or HERE!)

PRAISE FOR HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: 

"In HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD, Robert Guffey takes his readers for a trip behind the magic curtain to reveal the true Wizards at work - those behind the lenses, making magic and moving the secret levers. To this end, Guffey plays the role of Toto, tearing the curtain aside to reveal these flesh and bone Wizards of the military-industrial-entertainment complex, and the occult role they play in influencing our inner dreams and everyday realities."

--Adam Gorightly,  

author of SAUCERS, SPOOKS, AND KOOKS
and THE SHADOW OVER SANTA SUSANA: BLACK MAGIC, MIND CONTROL, AND THE MANSON FAMILY MYTHOS

"Hollywood has truly haunted the world. So too should this book, one of the best ever written on American cinema."

--Gary D. Rhodes,

author of THE PERILS OF MOVIEGOING IN AMERICA and TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA, 

from his Foreword

RAVENSTAR'S WITCHING HOUR (11-8-25):

UNBOXING HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD!

 

"I Dreamed Unhappy Things!"

And Once Again... Manly P. Hall on the Winter Solstice

 

Here's a rare opportunity to sit in the front row of the lecture hall at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles while Manly P. Hall, the twentieth century's foremost expert in the occult (and author of such comprehensive masterpieces as THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES and THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA), delivers an illuminating lecture about the esoteric symbolism of the Winter Solstice. 

Click HERE to listen to Part One.

Click HERE to listen to Part Two. 

Nuclear Fusion Synchronicity

1) From Tim Nazzaro's 12-19-25 WCVB report entitled "What We Know About MIT Nuclear Physicist Nuno FG Loureiro":

Community members and friends alike remain stunned days after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a nuclear physicist, was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.

Loureiro, 47, was shot at his home on Gibbs Street around 9 p.m. Monday night and died the morning after.

Neves Valente was found dead inside a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire on Thursday night following an extensive manhunt. An autopsy from the Chief Medical Examiner's Office determined he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and may have died on Tuesday [...].

Loureiro was a faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, according to an MIT spokesperson. He joined the prestigious institution in 2016.

A theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, Loureiro was appointed to lead the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024. It's one of MIT's largest labs, with more than 250 full-time researchers, staff members, and students.

He is recognized for advancements in plasma behavior, according to the institute. These include turbulence and the physics of solar flares, along with other astronomical phenomena. Loureiro also had a focus in the fusion domain, where his work enabled the design of devices that can more efficiently control and harness energy.

Loureiro, who was married, grew up in Viseu, in central Portugal, and studied in Lisbon before earning a doctorate in London, according to MIT. He was a researcher at an institute for nuclear fusion in Lisbon before joining MIT, it said [...].

"It’s not hyperbole to say MIT is where you go to find solutions to humanity’s biggest problems," Loureiro said when he was named to lead the plasma science lab last year. "Fusion energy will change the course of human history." 

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

2) From Reuters' 12-19-25 news report entitled "Trump Media Merger with Nuclear Fusion Firm Raises Questions":

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump's social media company announced an unusual $6 billion merger with TAE Technologies, a Google-backed nuclear fusion firm.

The news that Trump Media, which operates Truth Social, was getting into the nuclear energy business...

...came just days after fusion industry leaders met with representatives of the U.S. Energy Department asking for more federal funding.

And that rings some alarm bells says Peter Loge - a professor who heads up the Project on Ethics in Political Communication at The George Washington University.

"Any time the president's name is on a commercial enterprise, it raises ethical questions. Any time a member of the president's family's name is on a commercial enterprise, it raises ethical questions. Are people buying the thing because the president's name is on it? Are people buying Trump branded products because they think it'll help him get close to the president or that the president will like them more?"

The growing electricity needs of the technology industry have revived interest in nuclear power.

However, despite decades of efforts, nuclear fusion, often seen as a potentially cleaner and more reliable energy source, has yet to produce a commercially viable reactor.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

Dr. Future Returns to CONSPIRINORMAL

I recommend checking out the 501st episode of the CONSPIRINORMAL podcast, featuring Adam Sayne's latest interview with J. Michael Bennett (AKA Dr. Future), author of TWO MASTERS AND TWO GOSPELS (2020), an in-depth historical analysis of the extreme cognitive dissonance that has afflicted the evangelical community during the past several years. The book shines a spotlight on such strange disparate characters as Rev. James Fifield Jr. ("The Apostle to Millionaires"), Gerald R. Heard (author of IS ANOTHER WORLD WATCHING?: RIDDLE OF THE FLYING SAUCERS and many other books), William C. Mullendore (president of Southern California Edison Company), Leonard Read (founder of the Foundation for Economic Freedom), and Gerald L. K. Smith (founder of the Christian Nationalist Party). The political intrigue extends from the secluded woods of Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California to the evangelical hamlet of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, home of the 340-ton "Christ of the Ozarks." It's an eye-opening read packed full of essential details laying out exactly how Christians have allowed themselves to be led astray from their own beliefs thanks to the twin temptations of greed and political expediency. 

You can listen to my previous appearances on CONSPIRINORMAL alongside Dr. Future by clicking HERE and HERE.

Happy Winter Solstice! 

Conspirinormal 501- Dr Future 16- 2025: A Strange Year Ends:

Lovecraft's "The Festival" (Redux)

Click HERE to listen to a reading of H.P. Lovecraft's 1925 winter-solstice-themed short story, "The Festival" (originally published in the January 1925 issue of WEIRD TALES).

 

"Efficiunt daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamen quasi sint,
conspicienda hominibus exhibeant."—Lactantius.

I WAS far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In
the twilight I heard it pounding on the rocks, and I knew it lay just
over the hill where the twisting willows writhed against the clearing
sky and the first stars of evening. And because my fathers had called
me to the old town beyond, I pushed on through the shallow, new-fallen
snow along the road that soared lonely up to where Aldebaran twinkled
among the trees; on toward the very ancient town I had never seen but
often dreamed of.

It was the Yuletide, which men call Christmas, though they know in
their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than
Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to
the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in
the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had
commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the
memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten. Mine were an old
people, old even when this land was settled three hundred years
before. And they were strange, because they had come as dark, furtive
folk from opiate southern gardens of orchids, and spoken another
tongue before they learnt the tongue of the blue-eyed fishers. And now
they were scattered, and shared only the rituals of mysteries that
none living could understand. I was the only one who came back that
night to the old fishing town as legend bade, for only the poor and
the lonely remember....

David Brooks & The Jeffrey Epstein Experience

From Jeremy Barr's 12-18-25 GUARDIAN article entitled "New York Times Columnist David Brooks Appears in Latest Epstein Photos":

The New York Times columnist David Brooks appeared in multiple photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Thursday by the House committee on oversight and government reform [...].

The timing of the release is notable. Last month Brooks published a column in the Times saying that he was not interested in the long-unfolding Epstein scandal.

“Why is Epstein the top issue in American life right now?” Brooks wrote. “Well, in an age in which more and more people get their news from short videos, if you’re in politics, the media or online it pays to focus on topics that are salacious, are easy to understand and allow you to offer self-confident opinions with no actual knowledge.”

He also likened the fascination with the Epstein story to the QAnon conspiracy theory, arguing that Americans were irrationally convinced that a cabal of elites was scheming and doing horrible things behind the scenes.

The photos released on Thursday raise questions about why Brooks did not disclose his attendance at an Epstein-attended event when writing about his lack of interest in the case.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

UFOs Over Wyoming

From Jack Toledo's 12-18-25 DAILY MAIL article entitled "Mystery as Flock of UFOs Seen Hovering Above Power Station for More Than a Year":

A small town sheriff has admitted he is perplexed by a series of mysterious flying objects which have been bewildering locals in his Wyoming community for more than a year.

Unidentified flying objects [UFOs] have been regularly spotted for 13 months above the Jim Bridger Power Plant and Sweetwater County's Red Desert.

John Grossnickle, the Sheriff of Sweetwater County, saw lit-up, drone-like objects as recently as December 13, his spokesman Jason Mower told Cowboy State Daily.

Mower said they've worked with everyone they can possibly think of to try and solve the mystery in the sky.

'We've done everything we can to figure out what they are, and nobody wants to give us any answers,' he said.

Locals are now so accustomed to the strange sightings that the Sheriff's office has stopped receiving calls about them, the spokesman told the outlet.

'It's like the new normal,' Mower said.

He also noted that the objects are thousands of feet above the earth, making them too high to shoot from the ground.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

"When Lolita Met Xenu": Scientology's Surveillance and Harassment Techniques

Here's an illuminating excerpt from Chris Owen's 9-15-25 Underground Bunker article entitled "When Lolita Met Xenu: How Scientology Targeted Nabokov’s Publisher," which details the complex surveillance and harassment campaign the Church of Scientology mounted against Maurice Girodias, the publisher of Robert Kaufman's 1972 book, Inside Scientology:

[A]ccording to [L. Ron] Hubbard’s estranged son L. Ron Hubbard Jr – better known as Nibs – [Maurice] Girodias had only bought the rights to the book [Inside Scientology] because he had heard that “Scientology had a great deal of money and they didn’t like anything published about them.” Nibs claimed in a September 1972 letter to the US Internal Revenue Service that the publisher saw the books as leverage to obtain money from the church that would resolve his financial difficulties in the UK and US.

According to Nibs, Scientology learned of the book – likely from Girodias himself – and it offered him $25,000 to delete particular passages or not publish it at all. This was too low for Girodias, who made an unsuccessful counter-offer of $200,000. He went ahead and published the book, though “only… as a last resort,” in Nibs' account.

The decision to publish Inside Scientology proved catastrophic for Girodias and Olympia. Although Girodias had plenty of experience in dealing with outraged moralists, unpaid authors, and censorious authorities, he had never faced – and almost certainly never anticipated – dealing with a self-styled intelligence agency that pursued its enemies with relentless malice and flagrant disregard for the law. He had numerous vulnerabilities in his business and personal affairs that the GO [Guardian's Office] ruthlessly exploited, ranging from his indebtedness to the controversial nature of his business and his shaky immigration status in the US.

When the forthcoming publication was trailed in a publishers’ trade newspaper, Kaufman found himself confronted by James Meisler, a New York GO staffer, who demanded a copy of his manuscript so that Scientology could make ‘corrections.’ Kaufman refused, whereupon Meisler told him: “It’s your neck. We’ve got you covered on all fronts.” Kaufman soon found out what Meisler meant. Soon afterwards, Girodias informed him that proofs of the book had been stolen from Olympia’s printer in Connecticut. A man posing as an Olympia editor from New York had bluffed his way past the night watchman and took the proofs with him. The GO did not attempt to hide its involvement. Soon afterwards, copies of the stolen pages were sent back to Olympia from Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters, annotated with ‘corrections.’

Girodias’s own office was also infiltrated. Visiting the company’s New York offices, [Robert] Kaufman was startled to recognise a new receptionist as a young female Scientologist whom he had previously met. Girodias was insouciant, telling Kaufman that “any self-respecting place of business has to have at least one Scientology spy,” but soon afterwards the receptionist disappeared along with Girodias’ file on Kaufman’s book and several hundred dust jackets. Soon afterwards, the US State Department received an anonymous letter from “A Patriot” tipping them off about Girodias’s plans to publish a satirical work of erotica caricaturing Henry Kissinger [...].

Olympia’s printers, Oxley Press Ltd, were convinced that their offices in Soho were regularly being broken into. Girodias issued a statement saying, “Someone or something is trying to force Olympia into bankruptcy. The persons responsible for this unprecedented conspiracy are powerful and well organised. They have gained access to our files, they are out to destroy us, and they have plenty of money to achieve that result.” Suspicion naturally fell on Scientology, which denied any involvement. The GO’s head of PR, David Gaiman, claimed that Olympia’s troubles were merely “the greatest publicity stunt for a non-selling book this century.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

If you have any interest in this subject at all, I highly recommend reading my 2019 short story "The Detective with the Glass Gun" (originally published in BLACK DANDY #3) which you can find in my debut short story collection entitled CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES... signed copies of which are now on sale directly from Cryptoscatology.com!!!

 

THE HILL on Dan Bongino's Sudden Resignation

From Brett Samuels and Rebecca Beitsch's 12-17-25 THE HILL article entitled "Trump on Bongino Leaving FBI: ‘I Think He Wants to Go Back to His Show’":

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday he will step down from his role at the bureau in January, departing less than a year after he took the job [...].

Before joining the bureau, Bongino used his platform [as the host of a conservative radio show and podcast] to praise Trump and echo conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Bongino has reportedly had misgivings about the job since at least July, when he clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files. Bongino reportedly weighed quitting at the time amid frustration with the lack of transparency in the case.

Talk of Bongino’s exit picked up again in August when then-Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was brought into the FBI to serve as co-deputy director.

A longtime critic of the FBI during his years as a commentator, Bongino also at turns seemed deflated by information he learned once inside the bureau.

As deputy director, he backed away from some conspiracy theories he previously pushed, including that Epstein didn’t kill himself.

“The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that it was, in fact, a suicide,” Bongino said in June.

“There’s nothing there in the file at all that indicates anything other than in fact a suicide.”

And in previous musings, he had suggested the FBI’s inability to catch the suspect who planted pipe bombs in D.C. was due to a “massive cover-up” that could be concealing an “inside job.”

Bongino backtracked while indicating “one day” he could go back to his role as commentator.

“Listen I was paid in the past, Sean, for my opinions,” Bongino said during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity earlier this month. “That’s clear. And one day I will be back in that space, but that’s not what I’m paid for now. I’m paid to be your deputy director, and we base investigations on facts.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

The Turtle Island Liberation Front

1) From a 12-15-25 ABC7.com report entitled "4 Charged with Plotting New Year's Eve Attacks in Southern California, Prosecutors Say":

Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page, Dante Gaffield and Tina Lai, all described as members of the anti-capitalist and anti-government group known as the "Turtle Island Liberation Front," face charges of conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device in connection with the alleged plot.

They were taken into custody last week in Lucerne Valley, near the desert city of Twentynine Palms, California, home to a Marine Corps base. 

 

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

2) From Erin Lowrey's 12-18-25 WDSU.com report entitled "Border Patrol Attack Revealed in Messages Sent by Person Arrested in Louisiana, Records Show":

 

A person arrested in Louisiana who was tied to a terrorist group behind a thwarted New Year's Eve bombing attack had plans to attack Border Patrol agents in New Orleans, according to new court documents.

The person arrested by the FBI New Orleans Office in New Iberia was identified as Micah James Legnon.

Legnon, who is a former Marine with military combat experience, went by the alias "Black Witch" in a group chat with four others connected with the failed bombing attack planned for businesses across California.

According to the court documents, Legnon was a member of the terror group called The Turtle Island Liberation Front. Legnon was also part of a more extreme group within that organization called The Black Lotus.

Legnon indicated in a social media post that they "wanted to recreate Waco" on Border Patrol agents.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

3) From Noah Hurowitz and Trevor Aaronson's 12-16-25 THE INTERCEPT article entitled "Longtime Paid FBI Informant Was Instrumental in Terror Case Against 'Turtle Island Liberation Front'":

An FBI investigation into an alleged terror plot in Southern California bears the familiar hallmarks of the bureau’s long-running use of informants and undercover agents to advance plots that might not otherwise have materialized, court documents show.

News of the plot surfaced Monday morning in a Fox News report that ran ahead of court filings or official statements. Within minutes, FBI officials amplified the story on social media.

“PROTECT THE HOMELAND and CRUSH VIOLENT CRIME,” wrote FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a former podcaster. “These words are not slogans, they’re the investigative pillars of this FBI.”

What followed, however, painted a more complicated picture.

The limited details available suggest an investigation that leaned heavily on a paid informant and at least one undercover FBI agent, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. The informant and the undercover agent were involved in nearly every stage of the case, including discussions of operational security and transporting members of the group to the site in the Mojave Desert where federal agents ultimately made the arrests.

The informant, who has worked other cases on the FBI’s payroll since 2021, had been in contact with the group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front since at least late November, just two months after President Donald Trump designated “antifa” a domestic terrorism organization.

On the morning of December 15, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrests, calling the plot “a credible, imminent terrorist threat.”

Yet the case had the familiar markings of FBI terrorism stings that stretch back more than two decades — hundreds of cases that have disproportionately targeted left-wing activists and Muslims, and, less often, right-wing actors.

Since the September 11 attacks, the FBI has relied on informants to identify and build terrorism cases. The structure has created perverse incentives for potential informants. Their cooperation can get them out of criminal cases of their own and lead to handsome monetary compensation. The FBI’s call is simple: Bring cases, get paid.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

BOB BURNS, R.I.P. (1935-2025)

Legendary "Monster Kid" Bob Burns passed away on Friday, December 16th at the age of ninety. Burns was the co-author of two books: IT CAME FROM BOB'S BASEMENT (2000) and MONSTER KID MEMORIES (2005/2013). He was the subject of at least two documentaries: Lindsey Keith Jackson's HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN (2009) and Frank Dietz and Trish Geiger's BEAST WISHES (2012). HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN is a fascinating film that focuses on the impressively elaborate haunted houses Burns and his wife constructed every October in Burbank, California for several decades. The first eighteen minutes of the film can be seen HERE. (Unfortunately, the remaining six parts don't appear to be available for the time being.)

Back in the early 1990s, Burns was also responsible for co-creating (with Donald F. Glut) a wonderfully weird documentary about the history of cinematic apes entitled HOLLWOOD GOES APE! You can see Parts One and Two directly below...

Hollywood Goes Ape! (1994) - Tape 1 | COMPLETE VHS:

Hollywood Goes Ape! (1994) - Tape 2 | COMPLETE VHS:

Bob Burns Collection: Halloween Home Invasion DVD Promo:

Rest In Peace, Bob Burns! 

 

HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD on... WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?

I recently returned to Seriah Azkath's WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? to discuss my latest book, HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMA OF OCCULTED TABOOS. Such films as THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921), MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932), IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953), CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955), THE GAMMA PEOPLE (1956), THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962), WINTER KILLS (1979), THEY LIVE (1988), JFK (1991), and POSSESSOR (2020) are all placed under the microscope as I analyze how cinema has wrestled with cultural taboos for the past one hundred years or more. You can listen to the entire interview on YouTube...

Hollywood Haunts the World with Robert Guffey - Nov 15, 2025:

And you can order HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD HERE or HERE!

PRAISE FOR HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: 

"In HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD, Robert Guffey takes his readers for a trip behind the magic curtain to reveal the true Wizards at work - those behind the lenses, making magic and moving the secret levers. To this end, Guffey plays the role of Toto, tearing the curtain aside to reveal these flesh and bone Wizards of the military-industrial-entertainment complex, and the occult role they play in influencing our inner dreams and everyday realities."

--Adam Gorightly,  

author of SAUCERS, SPOOKS, AND KOOKS
and THE SHADOW OVER SANTA SUSANA: BLACK MAGIC, MIND CONTROL, AND THE MANSON FAMILY MYTHOS

"Hollywood has truly haunted the world. So too should this book, one of the best ever written on American cinema."

--Gary D. Rhodes,

author of THE PERILS OF MOVIEGOING IN AMERICA and TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA, 

from his Foreword

 

Synchro-necrosis: Synchronicities & School Shootings

From Ashifa Kassam's 12-14-25 GUARDIAN article entitled "Two Survivors of Brown University Attack Escaped Other School Shootings":

As the deadly attack unfolded at Brown University, leaving students hiding under desks and reeling as gunshots rang out, the scene was eerily familiar for at least two students.

Years earlier, Mia Tretta, 21, and Zoe Weissman, 20, had both survived school shootings. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.

Two people were killed and nine others wounded on Saturday after a man dressed in black opened fire during final exams at one of America’s most prestigious colleges. Hundreds of police spent the night scouring the campus and nearby neighbourhoods as the suspect remained at large [...].

On Saturday, Tretta and Weissman said they had assumed they would never have to live through another shooting.

“The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,” said Weissman. “And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that any more.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

For more information regarding equally odd synchronicities, check out Loren Coleman's 11-14-18 TWILIGHT LANGUAGE blog post entitled “Survived a Mass Shooting, Killed at Another,” in which Coleman analyzes the peculiar pattern of mass shooting survivors dying not long afterwards under equally tragic circumstances: “It is like a bad script from a horror movie," Coleman writes. "You find yourself at a mass shooting, survive that tragic event, and then die in another one. Sounds like urban folklore. But it has happened. And it has occurred again.”