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  • Christopher Lee: Heavy Metal, Horror, Wizardry; The Occult?

    When Christopher Lee died recently at the age of 93, the memorials and biographical news segments came pouring.

    We learned that Christopher Lee was in the British Special Forces We learned that Lee was not only in a James Bond film, he was related to Ian Fleming by marriage.

    While Lee was famous for his later life roles, such as Saruman in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series, as well as Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels, he had a large body of work prior to those. Many did not know that Christopher Lee had an entire career in horror films long before his Saruman days.

    Lee starred in a long series of horror films in the 1950s and ’60s for Hammer Film Productions.

    These “Hammer Horror” films are cult classics to this day. In the Hammer Horror films Lee played Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, Sir Henry Baskerville, Rasputin, and many other roles.

    Then there was the heavy metal music that Christopher Lee jumped into when he was already in his 80s. Not “in the 80s,” in HIS 80s.

    Lee had sung on albums before, particularly opera and musicals. But he got into heavy metal in 2004 on an album by metal band Rhapsody. Lee released his own album in 2006 called Revelation. After that came Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, and Charlemagne: The Omens of Death in 2013.

    Christopher Lee also did two heavy metal Christmas albums, followed by the EP Metal Knight.

    Lee said he got a kick out of giving his metal fans some fun with the Christmas albums.

    “It’s light-hearted, joyful and fun… At my age, the most important thing for me is to keep active by doing things that I truly enjoy. I do not know how long I am going to be around, so every day is a celebration and I want to share it with my fans.”

    He did horror films and heavy metal music, but was Christopher Lee involved in the occult?

    There were many long-standing rumors that Christopher Lee was a big proponent of the occult. Some claimed that Lee had a library of over 20,000 books on the occult.

    Lee dismissed these rumors as ridiculous.

    “Somebody wrote I have 20,000 books. I’d have to live in a bath! I have maybe four or five [occult books].”

    In fact, Christopher Lee was very wary of occult involvement, telling students, “I warn all of you: never, never, never. You will not only lose your mind, you’ll lose your soul.”

  • Evil Stick, The Demonic Dollar Store Toy

    Evil Stick, The Demonic Dollar Store Toy

    There’s nothing like a wonderful stroll to your daily dollar store and picking up some economy class toys for your loved ones. So who would have thought that among the libraries of cheap molds and Chloe knock off Barbies that evil was afoot? It was.

    In Dayton, Ohio, a mother out purchasing a toy wand called ‘EVIL STICK’ for her daughter this week was shocked to find a secret image.

    Hidden behind the quality foil of the wand was a picture of something truly disturbing: a black lipped, sharped tooth, dead-like, MS painted eyed demonic girl cutting her wrist with a kitchen knife as it drips in a pool of blood.

    “It’s a picture of a girl slitting her wrists. I’m outraged over it,” mother Nicole Allen, who purchased the toy wand for her two-year-old daughter, told WHIO.

    Shake the wand and a noise box emits cackling laughter; though odd (but permissible) if the wand was devoid of the image, becomes frightening when paired with it.

    “I want to know how they think that that is suitable for a child. There was Barbie dolls on one side and baby toys on the other side, and these were right in the middle.”

    The elegant cursive lettering, pink decorated background, swirl designs, and cute anime character suggested the princess wand was kid friendly. However, with a name like ‘EVIL STICK’, it’s questionable over what the product’s message entails (despite being in the toy section of the store.)

    The owner of the dollar store (literally called ‘$.100 store’), Amar Moustafa, said that Allen should have read the toy’s label before buying it.

    “The name on it, it says “Evil Stick”,’ Moustafa said.

    “So from the name, if I was buying it for my kid, I would inspect it before I gave it to them.”

    Moustsafa added that he felt the toy would be better “for a five, sex, seven, 10-year-old, I mean they see that on TV everyday.”

    ‘EVIL STICK’ still remains on sale at the store.

  • Stonhenge Function May Have Been Discovered

    The mysteries surrounding Stonehenge have baffled scientists for a very long time. Who built them? Why were they built? How did they even manage to get the stones to the spot? Aliens? Druid priests? All of these questions have been burning holes into peoples brains for centuries.

    Teams of archaeologists from the universities of Sheffield, Manchester, Southampton, Bournemouth and University College London have all been working on the project for well over 10 years now. They used a combination of the Stonehenge site itself and their extensive knowledge of the time period in general to piece together a hypothesis.

    “When Stonehenge was built, there was a growing island-wide culture – the same styles of houses, pottery and other material forms were used from Orkney to the south coast. This was very different to the regionalism of previous centuries,” Prof Mike Parker Pearson from Sheffield University explained to the Register.

    The stones, according to researchers, were put in place by communities as a gesture of the unification of farming communities who decided to lay down their arms and make peace.

    The undertaking wasn’t an easy one though. As Prof Pearson explained, “Stonehenge itself was a massive undertaking, requiring the labour of thousands to move stones from as far away as west Wales, shaping them and erecting them. Just the work itself, requiring everyone literally to pull together, would have been an act of unification.”

    They also have answers as to why the stones are arranged the way they are. The researches believe that the eight stones stand for different groups of Britain’s earliest farming communities. And that the area that they decided to build Stonehenge wasn’t a mistake either. “The solstice-aligned avenue sits on a series of natural landforms that, by chance, form an axis between the directions of midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset.”

    The place already had some sort of significance to the farmers, “this might explain why there are eight monuments in the Stonehenge area with solstitial alignments, a number unmatched anywhere else. Perhaps they saw this place as the centre of the world,” Prof Pearson wondered.

    How they got the monolithic stones to the site is another story though. This has been pondered upon for a while. The stones are thousands of pounds and some are believed to have been moved from as far away as west Wales. The same issue has come up at Easter Island and they may have solved the problem by “walking” the stones. Here is the video: