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Lol!!! Is that what he calls it?

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Walpurgis Night. Europe’s annual reminder that people will absolutely throw a party at the edge of the unknown. Beltaine, or Beltane, Bealtaine, spell it however you want. It marks the shift from spring to summer and is expressed through fire festivals, maypoles, and sex.

One of the clearest date‑specific UFO cases for April 29 is a lunar‑adjacent sighting by an Italian amateur astronomer, Alberto Mayer. While the Coyne Incident itself occurred in 1973, a detailed retrospective that helped keep the case in public consciousness.

Reports of the Dover Demon surfaced in 1977. Big eyes, spindly limbs, gone before anyone could agree on what they saw. Fucking legend.

Ancient Aliens premiered in 2009, ushering in years of junk science and speculative history. The show has been hosted by Giorgio Tsoukalos and his gravity-defying haircut.

The Chernobyl disaster cracked the earth open and left behind a landscape people now swear is haunted, mutated, or both. Radiation doesn’t care about folklore, but folklore moved in anyway.

Robigalia was observed to ward off crop blight. The ancients had a whole ritual day for keeping rust and mildew off the grain. The holiday is to appease Robiga, who drew the short straw on deity powers day and had to be the God of Mildew.

Jakob Böhme was born in 1575. Christian mystic, visionary shoemaker, and author of the infamous Aurora, a book condemned and reviled by the Lutheran church.

Vinalia Urbana, the Roman wine festival. Get drunk. It’s OK today. Also the birthday of Marjorie Cameron in 1922. Wine, inspiration, sex magic, cinema, Jack Parsons’ widow. That’s a packed little date.

Happy Earth Day! Rolling Hills Asylum in New York lists a “Winter Private Quarantined Ghost Hunt” on April 22, 2026, from 7–10 pm, marketed as a private paranormal investigation experience. rollinghillsasylum.com/calendar

Parilia, the feast of Pales, guardian of shepherds and flocks. A purification rite for fields and animals, which is another way of saying the ancients knew land has moods.

Bram Stoker died in 1912. Not an occultist proper, but Dracula cast a longer ritual shadow than half the ceremonial manuals gathering dust on shelves.

Today marks the tail end of Cerealia, and also the death date of Arnold Krumm-Heller in 1949: German doctor, occultist, Rosicrucian, and founder of Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, a Hermetic order in Brazil. .

London Fortean Society “Strange Central – Mysteries, Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs”: A full‑day event on 18 April 2026 at Conway Hall, with talks on ghost hunting, sea monsters, Sasquatch, and the infamous Calvine UFO photograph as a case study in hoax, conspiracy, and new folklore.

In 1935, de Naglowska presented a speech at the Club de Faubourg, where they billed her as the "High Priestess of Love of the Temple of the Third Era." She spoke on the topic of, "Magic and Sexuality: What is Magic Coitus? What is the Symbolic Serpent?" She was a trip, for sure.

A fireball over Mexico City, LSD discovered, and a French ship explodes, destroying a town in Texas. What a day!

@otokyo__ E, but D and E suck because of C’s actions.

@EmilySm43 Cause women like men with big … lens caps.

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Forcidia is one of Rome’s older agricultural festivals, observed two days after the Ides of April. The name comes from Latin forda or fordis, so “Fordicidia” essentially means “the slaughter of pregnant cows.”