Things that like to go boom

I can't get spontaneous combustion out of my head. Those black and white photos of people, lying in fireplaces, boots, devoid of humans, small piles of ashes. What happened, wha happen? That instantaneous and unexplained transformation from bellied, flesh wielding humanoid to flaming HOT HOT piles. I think there's some beautiful simplicity in there, what was happening in the lives of those people before they seemingly blew up in their living rooms? Did they manage to feed the cat? Did they pay their gas bills? What caused the heat? Wha? Wha? Wha happen? And more importantly, as someone writing a backing track to accompany the subject, what would it sound like. All I can say is that I'm trying to secure the services of a flute and a banjo to convey the sonic impression. Good luck all.

The first MYSTERIES OF THE UNEXPLAINED subject has been chosen. Kelly Hoglund of Milwaukee has snagged herself the task of composing music for the American Sasquatch aka Bigfoot! Good luck Kelly.

The Weirdness Flows Between Us...

Welcome to IML album #5 MYSTERIES OF THE UNEXPLAINED. On this album we're going to explore strange and paranormal phenomena. For obvious reasons, please refrain from writing about human 'freaks', and in the interests of preserving future subject matter, avoid classical mythology and conspiracy theories (other than Alien of course!)

These are some of the main subject areas:

• CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Yeti/Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Chupacabra. DeLoy's Ape, Giant Lizards/Snakes, Prehistoric Survivors/Loch Ness Monster, Sea Monsters, Mysterious Big Cats, Giant Elephants, Civil-War Thunderbird, Cottington Fairies
• MYSTERIOUS STONES: Stonehenge/Stone Circles, Avesbury, Prehistoric Temples/Pyramids, Giant Stone Spheres/Sculptures
• NATURAL PHENOMENA: Ball Lightning, Freak Weather, Raining Frogs/Fish, Astmospheric/Astronomical Phenomena, Auras, Kirlian Aura Photography, Forteana
• ESP/PARANORMAL POWERS: Psychotelekinesis/Uri Geller, Clairvoyance, Prophecy/Nostradamus, Water Divining, Pyrokinesis, Human Magnetism, Out-Of-Body Experiences, Tarot, Levitation, Astral Projection
• ALIENS: UFOs, Adbuction, Area 51, Roswell, Face On Mars, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilation, Ancient Alien-Human Interaction (see Erich Von Daniken)
• GEOGRAPHICAL PHENOMENA: Ancient Geoglyphs, Nazca Lines, White Horses, Burial Mounds, Bermuda Triangle, The Great Siberian Explosion, Atlantis/Lost Civilizations, Death-Valley Stones
• GHOSTS: Apparitions, Hauntings, Doppelgangers, Poltergeists, Ghost Orbs/Ghost Photography, Haunted Houses/Places, Ghost Ships/Phantom Trains, Electronic Voice/Video Phenomena, Ouija Boards, Ectoplasm
• SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION: (in a class of its own!)
• FAITH-RELATED PHENOMENA: Stigmata, Reincarnation, Bleeding Statues, Religious Apparitions, Demonic Possession/Exorcism, Inexplicable Images of Saints/Christ/Allah
• ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY: Crystal Skulls, Pyramids, Ancient Computers/Antikythera Mechanism, Baghdad Battery, Vitrified Forts, Ancient Astronomy

And here are some online resources:

Unexplained Mysteries
Profiling The Unexplained
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World
Unexplained
Fortean Times