Suppressed Transmission

by Kenneth Hite
"You know about the suppressed transmission, of course."
-- Been On The Moon Since The Fifties, Slacker
* collected in Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast
** collected in Suppressed Transmission: The Second Broadcast
ST 1* - April 3, 1998
ST 2* - April 17, 1998 (Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon)
ST 3* - May 1, 1998 (Justinian and Arthur: Historical High
Fantasy)
ST 4 - May 15, 1998 (Urban Legends: Adventuring in the City)
ST 5* - May 29, 1998 (Using Alternate History in Any Campaign)
ST 6* - June 12, 1998 (Top Ten Books for High Weirdness in Your
Campaign)
ST 7* - June 26, 1998 (There's More to Faeries Than Their
Glamour)
ST 8* - July 10, 1998 (Digging Up Weirdness: Use Archaeology to
Uncover Hidden Adventure Ideas)
ST 9* - July 23, 1998 (Two-World Minimum: Bisociation And The
Art Of High Weirdness)
ST 10* - August 7, 1998 (The Slightly Alternate History
Campaign)
ST 11* - August 21, 1998 (Chess)
ST 12* - August 28, 1998 (Le Comte de Saint-Germain)
ST 13* - September 4, 1998 (Five More Magical Revolutions)
ST 14* - September 11, 1998 (Up Up And Away)
ST 15* - September 18, 1998 (The Sky Is Falling)
ST 16 - September 25, 1998 (Secrets Of The Elvis Invisibility Diet
And Miracle Scenario Generator)
ST 17 - October 2, 1998 (Make Your Game A Disaster Area)
ST 18* - October 9, 1998 (Mirror, rorriM)
ST 19* - October 16, 1998 (Hollow History)
ST 20* - October 23, 1998 (On the Whole, I'd Rather Be
Invisible: The Philadelphia Experiment)
ST 21* - October 30, 1998 (Clio's Nightmares)

ST 22* - November 6, 1998 (Antarctic Space Nazis)

ST 23* - November 13, 1998 (A Conspiratorial Alphabet)
ST 24* - November 20, 1998 (Stalking The Wild Manticore)
ST 25 - November 27, 1998 (Giving Thanks For History)
ST 26 - December 4, 1998 (Suppressed Timeline: Alternate
Falkenstein)
ST 27* - December 11, 1998 (Hite's Handy Field Guide To
Ultraterrestrials)
ST 28* - December 18, 1998 (Jack Be Nimble: Spring-Heeled
Jack)
ST 29* - December 24, 1998 (Surfing Bohemia: What's Behind
The Winter's Tale?)
ST 30 - January 1, 1999 (Yes, We Have Nostradamus)
ST 31 - January 8, 1999 (Going Nova: Big Newness In Your
Campaign)
ST 32* - January 15, 1999 (Below the Snow: Antarctica)
ST 33* - January 22, 1999 (Ancient Astronaut Texas Steel Cage
Death Match)
ST 34* - January 29, 1999 (Emperor of the Air: Norton I)
ST 35* - February 5, 1999 (Travelin' Man: Sir John Mandeville)
ST 36* - February 12, 1999 (Metro Section Baghdad)
ST 37* - February 19, 1999 (Croatoan or Bust: Finding The Lost
Colony)
ST 38* - February 26, 1999 (A Swiftly Tilting Planet: The Great
Pole Shift)
ST 39* - March 5, 1999 (Illumination in Theory and Practice)
Week after week, you've gotten amazing little details that will
Illuminate just about any roleplaying campaign. But now it's time
to step back and take a look at the big picture: Just how do you
put all
these details into a cohesive whole? It's easier than you'd think . .
.
ST 40* - March 12, 1999 (Six Flags over Roswell)
Add just one weird event to Real History and, depending on the
timing, everything can change. Want proof? Here are six
examples.
ST 41* - March 19, 1999 (Red, White and Real: Coca-Cola)
It's the most famous, most popular drink ever. Think that

happened by accident?
ST 42 - March 26, 1999 (Facili Decensis Averno: Going
Underground)
What lies beneath our feet? All sorts of things, according to the
many sources of High Weirdness. And they tie together in all sorts
of odd ways.
ST 43** - April 2, 1999 (Fooling Around)
OK, so it's technically a day late for this subject. Consider it the
ultimate April Fools joke.
ST 44** - April 9, 1999 (Nine Is Not Enough)
Vulcan, Nemesis, Planet X, the Counter-Earth, even Yuggoth -the solar system seems to be full of other planets that modern
science says just aren't there . . . but who trusts modern science?
ST 45** - April 16, 1999 (A Night To Embroider: Who Sank The
Titanic?)
Insurance fraud? A mummy's curse? A plot against business
rivals? A snack for Great Cthulhu? An Illuminated plot to make
James Cameron rich 85 years later? When conspiracy theorists
get hold of
a mystery, anything can happen.
ST 46 - April 23, 1999 (America's Online Goblin Market)
The shop where anything can be had -- for a price -- is a
mainstay of weird fiction. And where else would that shop be
today, but online?
ST 47** - April 30, 1999 (Devil's Prom Night: Walpurgisnacht
Fun)
It's April 30, the day before May Day, often known as
Walpurgisnacht. What does it mean? Lots of things, and some of
them are true . . .
ST 48** - May 7, 1999 (Shades of Black: Alternate Black Ops)
Just because GURPS Black Ops is set in the modern day, that
doesn't mean you have to play it that way . . .
ST 49** - May 14, 1999 (Plumb Weird: Sacred Geometry)
Sacred angles, dimensions with kabbalistic significance . . . it's
not just what you put in a building, it's how you build it.
ST 50 - May 21, 1999 (Light or Dark? Bad Feelings and Phantom
Menaces)
No, it's not really about the movie (don't worry, no spoilers) . . .

it's about who made the movie, and why. And at Whose
bidding . . .
ST 51** - May 28, 1999 (Glozel Est Magnifique!)
Archaeological find, elaborate hoax, or Weird Science? How about
all three?
ST 52 - June 4, 1999 (Spectral Forces: The BANQUO Dossier)
Does the U.S. Military have a squad of ghosts on the payroll?
ST 53** - June 11, 1999 (Be True To Your Skull)
Oracles, talismans, hoaxes? A crystal skull can be anything you
want it to be.
ST 54** - June 18, 1999 (Crypto *** Icon: The Voynich
Manuscript)
Currently residing in the Yale library, the Voynich Manuscript may
be the indecipherable explanation of the secrets of the
universe . . . but do we really want to know?
ST 55 - June 25, 1999 (A Secret-Historical Alphabet)
The ABCs of putting together an Illuminated campaign, from A
(for Archaeological Site) to Z (for Zealots).
ST 56** - July 2, 1999 (Fractal Valley)
Even Ken was surprised at the sheer amount of weirdness going
on in the San Luis Valley of New Mexico and Colorado -- and
that's saying something
ST 57 - July 9, 1999 (The Toynbee Not Taken)
The Irish beat the Romans, instead of the other way around . . .
and everything changes. An Alternate Earth for your
consideration.
ST 58** - July 16, 1999 (One Giant Leap After Another: Lunatic
Theories)
It's been 30 years since man visited the Moon . . . or has it?
ST 59** - July 23, 1999 (Into the Woods With Robin Hood)
Fact or fiction? Outlaw or Hero? Human or demon? Like any good
gaming source, you get to take your pick . . .
ST 60** - July 30, 1999 (City In Dust: Many-Columned Irem)
Anyplace mentioned in both the Koran and Call of Cthulhu has got
to be worth checking out, don't you think?
ST 61** - August 6, 1999 (The Extra ''H'' Is For ''Homicidal'':
H.H. Holmes)
A real-life house of horrors from 19th-century Chicago, and the

man who ran it.

ST 62** - August 13, 1999 (Crisis on Alternate Earths)
Why are most superhero stories set in our familiar, modern-day
world? It doesn't have to be that way, not in the strange universe
of Suppressed Transmission, anyway . . .
ST 63** - August 20, 1999 (The Shadows Over Lovecraft)
Happy Birthday, HPL!
ST 64 - August 27, 1999 (I Need An Article About Trepanation
Like I Need A Hole In My Head)
Spiritual Enlightenment, and fun with power tools!
ST 65 - September 3, 1999 (The Suppressed Transmission Tarot)
The weirdness multiplies, as previous Suppressed Transmission
columns become the basis for a whole new Tarot. Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
ST 66** - September 10, 1999 (Who Killed Kit Marlowe?)
That Christopher Marlowe was killed by a knife on May 30, 1593,
is not in doubt. (Well, not much in doubt . . .) But the whys and
wherefores make for the kind of speculation that roleplayers
positively thrive upon.
ST 67** - September 17, 1999 (Who Ya Gonna Caul? The
Benandanti)
The Inquisition was looking for witches; the last thing they
expected was werewolf dream-warriors taking on the forces of
Hell.
ST 68** - September 24, 1999 (Altered Spaces)
In celebration of the new edition of GURPS Space, here are five
campaign ideas combining classic science-fiction (of one kind or
another) with weirdness from elsewhere.
ST 69** - October 1, 1999 (Jacks Wild: Six Stabs At The Ripper)
111 years later, we still don't know who Jack the Ripper was. And
the theories get stranger and stranger . . .
ST 70** - October 8, 1999 (Libertatia or Death)
Libertatia, the legendary pirate community of equality for all . . .
Propaganda? Fact? Weirdness? All of the above?
ST 71 - October 15, 1999 (Doing Urban Fantasy Right)
Familiar settings, with magical twists. Urban fantasy done right,
as explained by the master.
ST 72 - October 22, 1999 (The Suppressed Transmission Tarot II:

The Suit of Forks)

By popular demand, the Suppressed Transmission Tarot
continues. Collect them all!
ST 73** - October 29, 1999 (Return of Clio's Nightmares)
Happy Halloween! Here are four more horrific supernatural
alternate-history campaign ideas. Trick or treat . . .
ST 74 - November 5, 1999 (HAARP of Darkness)
HAARP is a U.S. military program to heat a small portion of the
Earth's ionosphere with powerful radio transmissions. Why? Here
are a few theories.
ST 75** - November 12, 1999 (Paul Bunyan, All-American)
Give your mythic roleplaying a decidedly American twist.
ST 76** - November 19, 1999 (The Maiden and the Monster:
Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais)
Before he turned to murder and witchcraft, the man who became
known as Bluebeard was the hand-picked guardian of the saintly
Joan of Arc. Coincidence? Not in the world of Suppressed
Transmissions . .
ST 77 - November 25, 1999 (The Top 23 Illuminati of the
Millennium)
Two for each INWO group, plus two for the Knights Templar, plus
one for good luck.
ST 78** - December 3, 1999 (Trail of the Black Dragon)
It is the most powerful of Japan's secrect societies, and that's no
surprise considering its strange mystical and otherworldly
connections.
ST 79 - December 10, 1999 (The Suppressed Transmission Tarot
III: The Suit of Knives)
Creepy and horrific, the Suit of Knives is not one you want to
draw with any frequency.
ST 80** - December 17, 1999 (Golden Cities, Far: The Greater El
Dorado Metropolitan Area)
They seek it here, they seek it there . . . a look at the Golden City
of El Dorado, and some of its cousins, wherever they may be.
ST 81** - December 24, 1999 (Illyrium Tremens: What Stirs On
Twelfth Night?)
A Christmas tradition continues, with the hidden truth within the
lines of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night revealed.

ST 82 - December 31, 1999 (The 23 Most Illuminated Events of

the Millennium)
The Truth Is In Here. Fnord.
ST 83 - January 7, 2000 (Why Three Kings?)
They came bearing gifts, and caused a massacre. Just who were
they? Let's just say the answers are a real epiphany . . .
ST 84** - January 14, 2000 (An Alternate-Historical Alphabet)
From Anachronism to Zeppelins, here's a handy 26-part guide to
building your own Alternate History campaign.
ST 85** - January 21, 2000 (Templar America: Red And White
Across The Blue)
Who discovered America? Who named it? And who were they
working for?
ST 86 - January 28, 2000 (The Maury The Merrier)
It was the event that kicked off modern UFOlogy -- but did it also
kill a President?
ST 87 - February 4, 2000 (The Suppressed Transmission Tarot IV:
The Suit of Cups)
The Suppressed Transmission Tarot takes flight again, this time
with the suit of secrets and magic.
ST 88** - February 11, 2000 (Things To Do In Gaming When
You're Dead)
Hey, just because your entire party bought the farm doesn't
mean you have to start over. The afterlife can be just as exciting
as what came before -- and it can definitely be weirder . . .
ST 89 - February 18, 2000 (Return to Metro Section Baghdad)
The newspaper beckons again, with its urban adventure ideas
begging to be used.
ST 90** - February 25, 2000 (Patterns In Amber)
Is amber actually the source of Jason's Golden Fleece? Electricity?
UFO sightings? Or something really odd?
ST 91** - March 3, 2000 (History on the Rocks: Alternate Ice
Ages)
Some say the world will end in ice. But alternate worlds can begin
that way, too. . .
ST 92** - March 10, 2000 (Frankenstein Family Album)
Mary Shelly's 1816 dream has roots that dig back much, much
further. . .

ST 93** - March 17, 2000 (Deus ex Machina Tempus)

Let's do the Time Warp again. . . Suppressed Transmission style.
ST 94 - March 24, 2000 (Ether-Gods of Mars! The SYRTIS
Dossier)
One day it's astral-etheric interplanetary travel, the next it's
covert warfare with the spirits of Mars.
ST 95 - March 31, 2000 (Mysteries of the Obvious -- Explained!)
All is proof yet nothing is proven in this Illuminated examination
of the age-old question: "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?"
ST 96 - April 7, 2000 (It Came From the Camcorder)
You see them out of the corner of your eyes. But just what are
these seemingly omnipresent Rods?
ST 97 - April 14, 2000 (War of Future Past: Reality Futura)
Adventure! Science! Dystopia! There's enough action -- and
exclamation points -- in the future for everyone!!!
ST 98 - April 21, 2000 (The Suppressed Transmission Tarot V:
The Suit of Saucers)
The Suppressed Transmission Tarot concludes, as our gazes turn
skyward.
ST 99 - April 28, 2000 (Sieg Howl! - Werewolves of Deutschland)
This week we look at the link between lycanthropes and Nazis.
Und sein Haar war vollkommen.
ST 100 - May 5, 2000 (Worlds In Collusion)
Today may be the first day of the end of the world. . . but
probably not.
ST 101 - May 12, 2000 (That Sinking Feeling: Atlantis Lost and
Found)
Under the sea, under the sea! Atlantis was fascist, now they are
ashes under the sea!
ST 102 - May 19, 2000 (Four Years Of The Comet)
As a planet we passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910.
Here's four possibilities for what might have been.
ST 103 - May 26, 2000 (Immortal Airship Masters of the Andes!)
Conspiracies! Secret gasses! Jules Verne! Kenneth provides us
with still more reasons to watch the skies!
ST 104 - June 2, 2000 (American Shangri-La: Mount Shasta)
Join us now as we visit the mountain that's just south of the
Oregon border, but steeped in riches and weirdness.

ST 105 - June 9, 2000 (The Atlantean Missile Crisis)

Just when you thought 1968 couldn't get any weirder, this
campaign idea sees the rising of Atlantis in that year.
ST 106 - June 16, 2000 (Who Wants To Live Forever?)
This time we follow the Wandering Jew, examining his origins,
evolution, and possible reasons for being.
ST 107 - June 23, 2000 (Of Copper Scrolls and Golden Troves)
No, it may not have the historical appeal of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
but the Copper Scroll has something else to offer: Loot.
ST 108 - June 30, 2000 (Drunken Secret Masters: The Cults of
Dionysos)
Join us as we look at a classic cult of yesteryear. . . perhaps best
understood with a cup of strong wine.
ST 109 - July 7, 2000 (The Hundredth Transmission: Designer's
Notes)
This week we look at how to work it all together, how to come up
with it on your own, and how to be . . . well, weird.
ST 110 - July 14, 2000 (Suppressed Glossary)
For those who came in late, we offer this handy glossary of
weirdness building blocks.
ST 111 - July 21, 2000 (Magic Comet Ride)
Halley's Comet again alters our world of 1910, bringing to it the
changes of magic.
ST 112 - July 28, 2000 (A Horrific Alphabet)
From Antiquarian to Zoophagy, here are twenty-six classic
ingredients for horror.
ST 113 - August 4, 2000 (It's Not Easy Being Green -- And Evil)
Who can escape the mysterious clutches of the Green Gloves?
And just what are the Green Gloves?
ST 114 - August 11, 2000 (Once And Future Kings: Alternate
Arthurs)
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for
a system of government, but it is a good basis for four alternate
Arthurian histories.
ST 115 - August 18, 2000 (Tanks For The Memories: Alternate
Ogres)
Ergo was I ere I saw Ogre in these alternate history campaigns
for GURPS Ogre.

ST 116 - August 25, 2000 (Can You Dig It? The Oak Island Money
Pit)
There might be buried treasure, or ghosts, or Atlanteans.
Regardless, there's Illuminated Weirdness aplenty on Oak Island.
ST 117 - September 1, 2000 (Comet Together: Thirteen Years of
the Comet)
Time isn't as spacious as it once was, in this wild campaign that's
all Halley's fault.
ST 118 - September 8, 2000 (For King And Chronology: The
Macaulay Dossier)
The Royal Cliographic Society helps to keep the timestream safe,
free, and . . . well . . . British.
ST 119 - September 15 (Kith of the Spider Woman)
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, as we seek to discover the
secret of the spider-cults . . .
ST 120 - September 22, 2000 (The Influencing Engine)
The Air-Loom has the power to mold men's minds . . . will the
early 1800's ever be the same?
ST 121 - September 29, 2000 (The Wildly Alternate History
Campaign)
When creating a wildly alternate history, you've got to think
BIG!!!
ST 122 - October 6, 2000 (Play Dirty)
For those times when high weirdness isn't enough, this week we
look at the dirty tricks Ken plays on his players . . .
ST 123 - October 13, 2000 (Unriddling the Sphinx)
In the desert there lurks an enigma almost as ancient as the sand
itself.
ST 124 - October 20, 2000 (The Strange Death of Mr. Edgar A.
Poe)
What really happened to the famed horror and suspense writer?
Not even the raven's talking . . .
ST 125 - October 27, 2000 (Revenge of Clio's Nightmares)
The horror returns for another All Hallows' Eve, with three
alternate histories. Be very afraid . . .
ST 126 - November 3, 2000 (I Shoot The Body Electric)
Kirlian photography isn't practical in our world, but in the world of
the strange it could be terribly useful.

ST 127 - November 10, 2000 (Secret Histories Constructed While

You Wait)
This somewhat askew Transmission works from the inside out to
give you ideas about building your own conspiracies.
ST 128 - November 17, 2000 (Secret Histories Completed While
You Wait)
This week we wrap up our out-in-the-open, built-while-you-wait
conspiratorial history of Secret Space Travel.
ST 129 - November 24, 2000 (Different Engines: Alternate
Steampunks)
This time we look at three alternate Ages of Steam. So the
question you have you ask yourself is: Do you feel lucky,
steampunk?
ST 130 - December 8, 2000 (High Weirdness Indeed: The Empire
State Building)
What once was the world's tallest building is still weird enough to
go ape over.
ST 131 - December 15, 2000 (Melts In Your Mind, Not On Your
Hands)
Mmmm . . . Chocolate.
ST 132 - December 22, 2000 (The Shadow Over Britain: King
Lear)
Our Shakespearean holiday tradition continues, as we ask: Was
the bard warning us of something to be leery of?
ST 133 - December 29, 2000 (A Noble Company of Conspirators)
How do you get the players involved with your Illuminated
doings? With weirdness, of course.
ST 134 - January 5, 2001 (2001: The Odysseys Not Taken)
My God, it's full of stars . . . or at least possibilities.
ST 135 - January 12, 2001 (An Evocation of Griffins)
Like the story behind so many fantasy avians, the truth may be
unbeakable . . .
ST 136 - January 19, 2001 (American Arcadia: The Big Rock
Candy Mountain)
Of course they would hide the Truth in a catchy song . . .
ST 137 - January 26, 2001 (Heart of Weirdness: The Congo)
There are mysterious places the world over, but some are darker
than others . . .

ST 138 - February 2, 2001 (Iron Weirdness)

What really goes on in Kitchen Stadium? This column doesn't
begin to answer that. But it is fun to think about . . .
ST 139 - February 9, 2001 (More Cunning to Be Strange:
Wherefore Art Thou Romeo and Juliet?)
Ken pays tribute to Valentine's Day . . . in a decidedly Illuminated
way.
ST 140 - February 23, 2001 (Worldbuilding With Extra Pulp)
We go to infinity -- and beyond! -- with this under-the-hood look
at building a pulp aerospace world.
ST 141 - March 2, 2001 (Untouchable: The Cleveland Torso Killer)
We could say this column is just a little armless fun . . . but that
would be in poor taste. So we won't.
ST 142 - March 9, 2001 (The Head That Wouldn't Die: The
Baffling Baphomet)
Who or what is Baphomet? Goat to the source . . .
ST 143 - March 16, 2001 (Enoch, Enoch, Who's There?)
The most interesting hidden lore is also often the oldest . . .
ST 144 - March 23, 2001 (The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack)
He's deadly, he's mysterious, and he's back.
ST 145 - March 30, 2001 (The Hunting of the Hunting of the
Snark: An Agonetta in Six Fitlets, With Apologies To The Reverend
Dodgson)
In honor of April Fool's, this column goes from mad to verse.
ST 146 - April 6, 2001 (Frog-Boiling For Fun And Profit: Adding
Conspiracy To Your Game)
This is the column They made Ken write . . . for reasons only
They can fathom.
ST 147 - April 20, 2001 (The Waste Land Is A Terrible Thing To
Waste)
Arguably T.S. Eliot's greatest work, The Waste Land can also
serve as the backbone or inspiration for weirdness.
ST 148 - April 27, 2001 (Who Was That Masked Man, He Asked
Ironically)
The nice thing about masks is that anything can be underneath . .
.
ST 149 - May 4, 2001 (Neither Hera Nor There: Hunting
Amazons)

If you do find them, be careful . . . they're tough!

ST 150 - May 11, 2001 (The Lindbergh Variations)
Can one man be at the center of so much weirdness? If it's the
right man, yes.
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ST 151 - May 18, 2001 (Islands in the Timestream: Alternate
Atlantises)
The lost continent is a lot more portable than you'd think . . .
ST 152 - June 1, 2001 (Scottish Terror: The Monster of Glamis)
How many has it kilt?
ST 153 - June 8, 2001 (The Peculiar Flight Of Rudolf Hess)
The theories of what happened to the Third Reich's Deputy Fhrer
range from the weird to the . . . well, they're all pretty weird.
ST 154 - June 15, 2001 (I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream
For Mandrakes)
You may not roam the produce section the same way again . . .
ST 155 - June 22, 2001 (All Shook Up: Reality Quakes)
Everything you knew about yesterday is wrong . . . starting now.
ST 156 - June 29, 2001 (Aftershocks: Reality Quakes, Redux)
Reality has a funny way of sneaking up on you . . .
ST 157 - July 13, 2001 (Four-World Pileup: Alternate Autoduels)
If life is a highway, then alternate realities might be the
offramps . . .
ST 158 - July 27, 2001 (The Hunt for Red Mercury)
Looking for contemporary illuminated plots? Seek out the
modern-day alchemists.
ST 159 - August 10, 2001 (Knock, Knock: The Ratcliffe Highway
Murders)
How many bowls of Jack the Ripper would you need to equal the
evil in this serial killer?
ST 160 - August 24, 2001 (After-Action Report: My Unknown
Armies Game)
Ever wonder what goes behind Kenneth Hite's GM screen? Watch,
and be amazed . . .
ST 161 - September 7, 2001 (Vast, Cool, and Alternate: Four
More Wars of the Worlds)
They came from outer space. What happened after that is open to

debate . . .
ST 162 - September 21, 2001 (It's All About the Benjamins)
He said, "A penny saved is a penny earned." But what Weird
purpose were all those pennies going towards?
ST 163 - October 5, 2001 (The Other Green Glass Grail)
Air speed of unladen swallows not required.
ST 164 - October 26, 2001 (The Curse of Clio's Nightmares)
It's a Halloween tradition . . . and if you're lucky, maybe you can
wake up from these horrific realities.
ST 165 - November 9, 2001 (Brendan the Bold)
Looking for someone sufficiently illuminated around the same
time as King Arthur? Try Brendan.
ST 166 - November 16, 2001 (All The Better To Bisociate You
With, My Dear: Little Red Riding Hood)
The truth is hiding in front of your eyes . . . which are awfully big,
now that we notice . . .
ST 167 - December 7, 2001 (Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Alternate
Pearl Harbors)
It was such a pivotal moment of history . . . and not just our own.
ST 168 - December 21, 2001 (Horror, Horror, Horror: Macbeth)
If it's the holiday season, then it's time for our annual
Shakespeare Transmission. In Macbeth, it's a bard knock life.
ST 169 - January 4, 2002 (A Firmament of Rocs)
These creatures of myth are fascinating and mysterious. And they
beat scissors . . .
ST 170 - January 11, 2002 (The Unexplored of the Rings)
Saturn -- A different kind of planet.
ST 171 - January 18, 2002 (Wanna Bte? The Beast of Gvaudan)
It's some kind of wolf, but from there, it's anyone's guess . . .
ST 172 - February 1, 2002 (Black Box Down)
And it's one, two, three, what're we fighting for? Maybe the Greys
...
ST 173 - February 8, 2002 (We Are For The Dark: Antony and
Cleopatra)
If it's Valentine's Day, it must be time for another illuminated
Shakespearean romance . . . Asp and ye shall receive.
ST 174 - February 22, 2002 (Yours Truly, Prester John)
He may not exist, but that hasn't stopped him from leading an

active life . . .
ST 175 - March 1, 2002 (Invoke/Retry/Summon?)
The Phaistos Disk may be the data disk of an ancient "computer,"
but what CD establishment was behind it?
ST 176 - March 8, 2002 (Hurled Into Eternity: The Gunfight At
The O.K. Corral)
Legendary events are seldom so recent in history . . .
ST 177 - March 15, 2002 (Transhuman Histories)
Enjoy our second helping of Transhuman-y Goodness this week,
with a peer at some other realities.
ST 178 - March 29, 2002 (The Secret of My Success)
You may be wondering how Ken does what he does. Soon you'll
be wondering how he does what he does when he tells us how he
does what he does.
ST 179 - April 5, 2002 (Ghosts From The Machine)
Well, if you've had a dose of a freaky ghost, baby, who ya gonna
call?
ST 180 - April 19, 2002 (If The Secretary of Defense Falls From
An Empty Room, Does It Make A Sound?)
He was the United States' first Secretary of Defense. He was also
the first Secretary of Defense to commit suicide . . .
ST 181 - May 10, 2002 (Robin's Laws Illuminated)
Robin Laws defined player types in his book Robin's Laws of Good
Game Mastering. Now Kenneth Hite looks at those types through
the lens of the Illuminati.
ST 182 - May 17, 2002 (Red Sphere Rising)
Do not taunt Giant Death Ball!
ST 183 - May 31, 2002 (The Thunder of Mighty Wings: The
Mothman Cometh)
It will take more than giant mothballs to deal with these
enigmas . . .
ST 184 - June 14, 2002 (Malfisance: Death And The Duchess of
Malfi)
Sorrow and vengeance: the Duchess has more than enough
threads tying her to weirdness . . .
ST 185 - July 5, 2002 (Four Lords of Mars)
Given all the alternate histories of Earth, isn't it only fair for our
neighbors to have fun, too?

ST 186 - July 19, 2002 (Know When To Say Wendigo)

It may not be friendly, but is it an ice creature?
ST 187 - August 2, 2002 (Uwaysi Days, Uwaysi Nights)
As every good weirdness scholar knows, there is power in dreams
ST 188 - August 23, 2002 (In The Blink Of An Eye: The Mystery
of Augustin Le Prince)
Those who seek to capture the power of persistence of vision may
disappear . . . in the blink of an eye.
ST 189 - September 13, 2002 (The Magickal History, or
Historickal Majesty, of Mister Punch)
Puppet violence is clear proof of hands' inhumanity to hands . . .
ST 190 - October 4, 2002 (Headpiece Filled With Straw: The
Scarecrow)
"Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves his
broomstick arms and does a parody of each unconscious thing
you do . . ."
ST 191 - October 25, 2002 (Bride of Clio's Nightmares)
It's Halloween, which means a return to worlds of horror . . . Ken
Hite style.
ST 192 - November 15, 2002 (A Little Bird Told Me: The
Language of the Birds)
Don't you know about the bird? Well, everybody knows that the
bird is the word!
ST 193 - December 6, 2002 (Judgment At Norumbega)
It's a lost city that can serve as the nexus for all kinds of
weirdness . . .
ST 194 - December 20, 2002 (This Dark Conspiracy: The Tragedy
of Richard II)
The holidays are here again, which means it's time to brush up on
your Shakespeare . . . and weirdness.
ST 195 - January 10, 2003 (Serpent in the Garden State: The
Jersey Devil)
That there's something sinister in New Jersey may come as no
surprise . . . but the nature of this evil may well be.
ST 196 - January 24, 2003 (Our Lady of Weirdness: The Queen of
Sheba)
From out of the Bible and into the realms of weirdness she comes
...

ST 197 - February 28, 2003 (Blood, Bathory, and Beyond)

Don't hate her because she's beautiful.
ST 198 - March 28, 2003 (The Agonies of Creation)
This week, Ken takes another, err, swing at an April Fool's
column.
ST 199 - April 18, 2003 (My Bloody Valentine)
Some say it with flowers. Some say it with bullets.
ST 200 - May 16, 2003 (Transmission 200, Part I)
What does Kenneth Hite have in store for his 200th installment of
weirdness? Something Big.
ST 201 - May 23, 2003 (Transmission 200, Part II)
Our mother of all timelines continues its temporal weirdness.
ST 202 - May 30, 2003 (Transmission 200, Part III)
Here ends our timeline . . . and almost a half-million years of
weirdness.
ST 203 - June 20, 2003 (Surface With A Smile: The Mona Lisa)
There must be 50 ways to leave your Louvre.
ST 204 - July 18, 2003 (Crisis On Alternate Apes!)
A column where apes evolved from games?! It's a madhouse . . .
a MADHOUSE!!!
ST 205 - August 29, 2003 (The Shadow Under Dunwich)
The truth of this town may be stranger than fiction.
ST 206 - September 19, 2003 (A Singularity of Unicorns)
Are they good or evil . . . and why are they always trying to horn
in on everything weird?
ST 207 - October 3, 2003 (American Anabasis: Bisociating Lewis
and Clark)
It's like a weird road trip, only without roads.
ST 208 - October 24, 2003 (Notes From The Gantenbrink
Passage)
At last, we reveal the secrets of how the transmissions are
suppressed!
ST 209 - October 31, 2003 (House of Clio's Nightmares)
The worst nightmares are the ones that come back, year after
year . . .
ST 210 - November 14, 14, 2003 (The Talented Mister Reilly)
Think of him as an early-20th-century Mr. Kiss-Kiss, Bang-Bang.
ST 211 - December 5, 2003 (Gin and Chthonic)

This gin doesn't grant three wishes . . .

ST 212 - December 26, 2003 (This Monstrous Apparition: Julius
Caesar)
It's time once again for the annual tradition of Shakespeare Yule
love.
ST 213 - January 16, 2004 (Digging Up Resurrection Mary)
This installment will go off as planned, but not without a hitch . . .
ST 214 - January 23, 2004 (Tomb 55, Who Are You?)
Who's behind door number one? Or two? . . .
ST 215 - February 13, 2004 (Put Out the Lights: Othello)
If it's Valentine's Day in the world of weirdness, it must be time
for a romantic Shakespearean tragedy.
ST 216 - February 27, 2004 (Ring of the Lords: Reality Alberich)
The place is familiar, and so are the themes . . . but never
together like this.
ST 217 - March 12, 2004 (Our Lady of Bisociation: The Snake
Goddess of Boston)
Is it possible that the subject is more serpentine than the tale?
ST 218 - March 26, 2004 (A-Hunting He Will Go: Herne the
Huntsman)
If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big
surprise . . .
ST 219 - April 9, 2004 (Magog and Glory)
Nothing you can say can tear me away from Magog . . .
ST 220 - April 23, 2004 (Infinite Opportunities For Alternate
Infinities!)
It's a big universe . . . but that's only half of it!
ST 221 - May 7, 2004 (A Suppressed Primer)
It's time to go back to school, with Professor Hite.
ST 222 - May 28, 2004 (Motes From The Underground: New
England's Vampire Spirits)
If you're feeling drained, there just might be a unique reason for
it.
ST 223 - June 11, 2004 (Armageddon Outta Here)
It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane. And
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
ST 224 - June 25, 2004 (The Man Who There Wasn't: Kaspar
Hauser)

Heir today, gone tomorrow.

ST 225 - July 9 (The Alternity Duel: Burr v. Hamilton v. History)
This time we take a shot in the dark at some a historical "What
if?"
ST 226 - July 23, 2004 (Heard On High: The Angels of Mons)
When you're following an angel, does it mean you have to throw
your body off a building?
ST 227 - August 6, 2004 (Like The Roaring Of Young Lions: Death
In Tsavo)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lions eat tonight . . .
ST 228 - August 20, 2004 (After-Action Report: My GURPS Cabal
Game)
Do the most horrifying events happen within a Ken Hite game, or
without?
ST 229 - September 10, 2004 (The Magnificent Seven: The
Voyages of Sinbad)
Sailing, sailing, over the weirdness main . . .
ST 230 - September 24, 2004 (American Leyline: Route 66)
It's like a road trip mixed with a very different kind of trip.
ST 231 - October 1, 2004 (American Leyline: Route 66, Part Two)
The mysticism and weirdness of the open highway continues!
ST 232 - October 15, 2004 (American Leyline: Route 66, Part
Three)
Life is a highway . . . which probably explains why it's so weird.
ST 233 - October 29, 2004 (Spawn of Clio's Nightmares)
When Clio in this world appears and breaks the minds of mortals
mere and frightens all who see or hear the cry goes up both far
and near for Kenneth Hite! Kenneth Hite!
ST 234 - November 12, 2004 (A Recursion of Phoenixes)
Ashes to ashes. Repeat.
ST 235 - December 10, 2004 (Romae Arcanae Alternae)
Roman, Roman, Roman. Though timesteams are foamin', keep
them on-the-go men, March ides!
ST 236 - December 24, 2004 (The Feast Is Ready: Titus
Andronicus)
It's the time of year again to brush the snow off your car and
brush up on your Shakespeare . . .
ST 237 - January 7, 2005 (Night's Move: The Chess-Playing Turk)

It's very sad to see the ancient and distinguished game that used
to be a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other
sport -- a battleground for rival oddities to slug it out with glee.
ST 238 - January 21, 2005 (Oh No He Didn't: Dick Whittington
And His Cat)
When the cat's away, the mice will play . . .
ST 239 - February 11, 2005 (Affections Dark As Erebus: The
Merchant of Venice)
What better way to say, "I love you" than with a gift of a pound of
flesh?
ST 240 - March 11, 2005 (A Flash and A Bang: Alternate
Gunpowders)
Guns from other dimensions don't kill people; people from other
dimensions kill people.
ST 241 - April 1, 2005 (A Transparent Plea for Forgiveness)
ST 242 - April 15, 2005 (George On My Mind)
This is the countryside. My name is St. George; I'm a knight.
Saturday, July 10th, 8:05 p.m. I was working out at the castle
out on the night watch when a call came in from the chief: A
dragon had
been devouring maidens. Homicide. My job: Slay 'em.
ST 243 - April 29, 2005 (A Stab of Fear: The London Monster)
London's killing in the faraway towns; now war is declared, and
weirdness comes down.
ST 244 - May 27, 2005 (Death Of A Lost Man: The Killing of
President Garfield)
Curiously, Odie had no alibi on the day in question . . .
ST 245 - June 24, 2005 (Loch A Rolling Stone: The Stone of
Destiny)
If you thought the Scots had stones before, wait 'til you read this.
ST 246 - July 15, 2005 (Enter the Dagon)
Dagon come and me want go home . . .
ST 247 - July 29, 2005 (After-Action Report: My (Second)
Unknown Armies Game)
Who weathers the weather men?
ST 248 - August 12, 2005 (The Wedding Crasher)
Waitaminute . . . you wanted Eros for your wedding, not Eris?!
Uh-oh; this could be bad.

ST 249 - September 30, 2005 (The Desert of No Return: The

Takla Makan)
Horse with no name not included.
ST 250 - October 14, 2005 (Crisis on Alternate Yrths: Alternate
Banestorms)
GURPS Banestorm has just arrived in stores, and with it comes
some glimpses of other might've-beens . . .
ST 251 - October 28, 2005 (Hand of Clio's Nightmares)
Let's all go to the lobby / Let's all go to the lobby / Let's all go to
the lobby / and have ourselves a fright . . .
ST 252 - November 4, 2005 (Remember, Remember!)
Penny not included.
ST 253 - December 2, 2005 (The King Of The Cats Is Dead)
More proof that cats are evil and creepy!
ST 254 - December 16, 2005 (A Polyphony of Mermaids)
There's something fishy about this tale.
ST 255 - December 30, 2005 (They Are But Shadows: A
Midsummer Night's Dream)
This holiday we look at a classic that will make you go, "What the
Puck?!"
ST 256 - January 13, 2006 (Absinthe and Sensibility)
Just remember: Absinthe of proof is never proof of absinthe.
ST 257 - February 3, 2006 (My Road Seem Dark As Night -Robert Johnson)
The devil may have horns, but there are other infernally inspired
musicians out there . . .
ST 258 - March 3, 2006 (Big Eyes, Archaic Smile: Reality
Thaumata)
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
ST 259 - March 31, 2006 (Cities In Fog: Well-Walled Troy)
If at first you don't succeed, Troy, Troy again.
ST 260 - April 21, 2006 (Hite's Handy Field Guide To Space
Drives)
You'll be boldly splitting infinitives like no one has before with
these options.
ST 261 - May 5, 2006 (Lamia: You've Got Me On My Knees)
When discussing the monsters that haunt us, this one is a nearmyth.

ST 262 - June 2, 2006 (Canterbury Tales of the Unexpected)

Keep watching the skies! Keep watching the skies!
ST 263 - June 23, 2006 (Root For The Underdog: John the
Conqueror)
Sometimes the patrons of weirdness can be folks you'd like to
have at your side.
ST 264 - July 7, 2006 (Shadows and Fogg, Part the First)
A journey around the world ends with you sitting right where you
are now.
ST 265 - July 21, 2006 (Shadows and Fogg, Part the Second)
We continue our journey where, if all goes according to plan, we'll
end up in the same spot as if we hadn't left at all.
ST 266 - August 11, 2006 (Shadows and Fogg, Part the Third)
The more the fog lifts, the less clear the Fogg becomes . . .
ST 267 - August 25, 2006 (Shadows and Fogg, Part the Fourth)
Our journey ends, back where it begins . .. but the journey can
be so, so enlightening.
ST 268 - September 15, 2006 (Treks Not Taken: Alternate
Voyages)
Space is not the final frontier.
ST 269 - October 6, 2006 (Just The Cutest Little Angels: The
Cherubim)
Angels we have heard on high; they look like babies but don't cry.
ST 270 - October 27, 2006 (Scream of Clio's Nightmares)
Her name is Clio and she dances on the sands of time . . .
ST 271 - November 10, 2006 (American Hercules: John Henry)
Rail, rail against the dying of the light.
ST 272 - November 24, 2006 (Gene Genies: Alternate Bio-Techs)
The future may seem scary, but it grows on you.
ST 273 - December 15, 2006 (In Search Of Suppressed Boston:
23 Questions Groping Toward Bisociation Darkly)
The weirdness that is Boston doesn't end with Click and Clack . . .
ST 274 - December 22, 2006 (O For A Muse of Fire: Henry V)
Which Shakespearean history are we visiting this holiday? We
plead the fifth.
ST 275 - January 12, 2007 (A Walk In The Alternate Woods)
Whether you see the forest, the trees, or both, there's sure to be
something interesting.

ST 276 - January 26, 2007 (After-Action Report: My HeroQuest

Game)
Please hold your HeroQuestions until the end of the report.
ST 277 - February 9, 2007 (The Circle of this Forest: As You Like
It)
If Shakespearean Suppressed Transmissions are as you like it,
then this As You Like It Suppressed installment should be as wellliked as it can be.
ST 278 - March 2, 2007 (Cities in Rust: Alternative Ultra-Tech)
We bring you alternate-tomorrow's technology alternate-today!
ST 279 - March 30, 2007 (The Secret of My Excess)
So a Masonic symbol is a square. And pie are square.
Coincidence, or something more?
ST 280 - April 13, 2007 (Your Own Electrical Jesus: John Murray
Spear And The Spark Of Life)
In John's case, the spirit was more than willing . . . although
willing to do what is open to interpretation.
ST 281 - May 18, 2007 (The Day After Ragnarok: Reality Urdha)
It's like playing "Snakes and Ladders" . . . only without any
ladders, and only one really big snake.
ST 282 - June 8, 2007 (A Thanatopsis Of Basilisks)
Everybody must get stoned . . .
ST 283 - July 6, 2007 (American Phathon: Casey Jones)
When following the path of weirdness this week, make sure your
train of thought isn't derailed . . .
ST 284 - July 20, 2007 (Little Hell On The Prairie: The Bloody
Benders)
Please . . . stay for dinner.
ST 285 - August 10, 2007 (A Certain Sinking Feeling)
In the land of submarines, we sailed up to the sun till we found
the sea of green, and we lived beneath the waves.
ST 286 - August 24, 2007 (Yippie Kiai AH! Alternate Martial Arts)
People have been kicking butt since there have existed feet and
butts.
ST 287 - September 14, 2007 (Grand Canyon Sweetness: The
Kinkaid Enigma (Part One))
When it's a "Part One," you know it's going to be a lot of
weirdness.

ST 288 - September 28, 2007 (Grand Canyon Sweetness: The

Kinkaid Enigma (Part Two))
"Oh, sure; and if all your weird friends jumped off the Grand
Canyon, would you follow?" "I don't know; are they Lemurians?"
ST 289 - October 26, 2007 (Tomb of Clio's Nightmares)
It's time for our annual tradition, with more horrors to lose sleep
over.
ST 290 - November 9, 2007 (Loch, Loch, Who's There?)
Here we present one of the bigger -- and more elusive -- bits of
weirdness.
ST 291 - November 30, 2007 (Go With the Phlogiston: Reality
Hekla)
How much can you capitalize "weird science"?
ST 292 - December 21, 2007 (Hell's Black Intelligencer: Richard
III)
What are the holidays without blood, death, and tragedy?
ST 293 - January 18, 2008 (The Maiden in the Water: The
Mystery of Mary Rogers)
When Poe is involved, you know it's going to be unsettling.
ST 294 - February 15, 2008 (Here's a Few Flowers: Cymbeline)
Our Valentine's Day tradition continues, with a card from the
Bard.
ST 295 - February 29, 2008 (The Mysteries of the Worm)
Forget the tequila; this worm is what's really interesting.
ST 296 - March 28, 2008 (American Dionysus: Johnny Appleseed)
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, it's amazing there's a
medical profession at all in America.
ST 297 - April 25, 2008 (A Stampede of Centaurs)
A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless . . .
ST 298 - May 23, 2008 (The Theory And Practice of the MacGuffin
-- Part One)
To quote a wise man, "Whatever is in there, it's the only thing
I've ever wanted!"
ST 299 - June13, 2008 (The Theory And Practice of the MacGuffin
-- Part Two)
Psst! If you encounter this column, there is something very
important you must know. The fate of the world depends on . . .
ST 300 - July 4, 2008 (The 300th Transmission)

If you follow all the links, you'll either have infinite understanding
of the universe, or you might be driven mad. Or maybe both.
ST 301 - November 7, 2008 (Our Revels Now Are Ended - The
Tempest)
Our master's long strange journey ends with one final play
onwards.
ST 302 - November 7, 2008 (So Long, and Thanks for All the
Mermaids)
Parting is such sweet sorrow . . .