US Tries To Take Hormuz Or Trump Takes Pickaxe Mountain Off Ramp (The Duran)

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Axios report on Trump's coming massive strike
00:00:56 Why Trump's "massive strikes" rarely match the hype
00:03:15 13 days of strikes, all centered on the Strait of Hormuz
00:04:52 Iran's leverage: holding onto Hormuz
00:07:01 Pickaxe Mountain as Trump's off ramp
00:09:54 What happens to Hormuz after Pickaxe Mountain
00:11:03 Why round four means ground troops
00:12:51 Iran's need for closer ties with China and Russia
00:13:16 Midterms timing and the three month buffer
00:15:08 Trump's campaign strategy heading into midterms

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

Black Sea Now Russian Lake, West's Grain Gamble Backfired (The Duran)

Time Stamps:

00:00 Odessa blockade confirmed
00:51 All Black Sea ports shut down
01:49 The trigger behind the blockade
04:25 Disaster for Ukraine's economy
07:58 The collective West's master plan
09:32 Did they not expect retaliation
11:57 Grain war backfires on Europe
13:30 Wildberries warehouses targeted
18:25 The 2022 UN grain deal unravels
24:11 Andy Burnham's first call to Zelensky

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

Andrew Bridgen in Budapest: Reiner Fuellmich Update, Nuremberg II Plans & Big Pharma’s Next Moves (Liz Gunn)

In this wide-ranging interview from Budapest, Andrew Bridgen updates listeners on his authorised call with imprisoned lawyer Reiner Fuellmich, which was mysteriously cut off as Reiner described his criminal abduction from Mexico by German authorities.

Bridgen shares that Reiner remains resilient after nearly three years in prison and is planning a global “Nuremberg II” process - one major hearing with top expert witnesses whose evidence can then be used by every country to indict their own leaders.

Bridgen also discusses his meeting with Hungarian biochemist Professor Laszlo (formerly of UCLA), who has been advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and believes a six-month clock is now ticking on mandatory double-blind saline placebo trials for COVID and other vaccines.

The conversation covers threats facing RFK Jr., the role of adjuvants and modified mRNA, the recent attack on Anne Widdecombe, Tommy Robinson’s treatment, the ongoing case of journalist Alex Belfield, and the systematic use of lawfare against those who challenge official narratives.

A candid discussion on the state of free speech, justice, and accountability across the West.



Bridgen talks about collecting expert evidence for a new Nuremberg trial, but the test to prosecute people in authority is VERY SIMPLE. All that needs to be established is whether the person coerced or tricked someone into taking an experimental medicine. Also, RFK jr's life is under threat which is why he is struggling to make any positive changes.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

Jeffrey Epstein’s Former “Model Recruiter” Dies Mysteriously In Paris! (The Jimmy Dore Show)

Guest host Russell Dobular reports on the death of Daniel Siad, a French model scout and Jeffrey Epstein associate whose name appears over 2,000 times in the Epstein files and who was under investigation for human trafficking at the time of his death. Russell highlights suspicious patterns about the case — Siad is the second Epstein-connected model scout found dead, following Jean-Luc Brunel's 2022 suicide, and notes that Siad had continued sending photos of young women to Epstein even after Epstein's conviction.



A cover-up of the intelligence blackmailing network.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

This Was A Desperate Distraction (Paz49)

Two tier justice. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

You Need to Wake Up Fast, America (Sargon)

Sentenced with disorderly conduct for using a bad word. An appeal has been lodged. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

House prices continue to fall as investor demand evaporates (Leithvo)

This week's Macro & the Mortgage Podcast with Catherine Cashmore from Landcycle Investor breaks down the latest housing-related data from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. We also respond to viewer questions.



Time stamps:

0:00 Introduction
4:39 This week's housing data
23:10 This rise in listings, fall in turnover
37:38 The rise in mortgage stress
41:50 Canada's housing crash
48:35 House price tipping point?
54:30 Will the government buy social homes?
56:00 Australia's poor productivity growth
1:06:15 Pushback on Singapore

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

Oldest Amber Ever Found Rewrites What We Know About Plant Evolution (Anton Petrov)

Plant resin developed a lot earlier than previously thought, which is what Amber comes from. One thing you should note from this video is that Anton mentions we know what the atmosphere was like hundreds of millions of years ago from trapped bubbles of air inside the Amber. He reports that the CO2 level in the samples discussed was double what it is today. Climate change propagandists claim that high CO2 levels will cause the oceans to become slightly acidic and kill sea life, and yet the fossil record shows no sign of this during these eras. The ocean acidification claim is a transparent lie, and is not based on anything real. Its purpose is to get people to agree to whatever the globalists want - to turn you into an impoverished slave in order to 'save the planet'. 

Time Stamps:

1:10 What is amber and how does it form?
4:00 Why was this ability evolved?
4:50 New discovery from Devonian
6:10 What happened on Earth back then?
8:05 Amber era that lasted 54 million years
10:40 Why amber is important for science
11:55 Conclusions and implications

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 26, 2026.]

ARE THEY INSANE? Now War With CHINA and RUSSIA?? (Kim Iversen)

Kim thought the Iran war was reckless enough — now she sees the machine turning toward Russia and China. The tell: Laura Loomer, fresh off a Kyiv trip, flipping from "make a deal with Russia" to full-throated Ukraine support — and Nikki Haley asking who's feeding Iran the satellite imagery that hit US bases, answering her own question: China and Russia. Kim lays out the coalition math of building a world war: Europe won't fight Iran but will fight Russia, Japan and Taiwan line up against China, and suddenly everyone's interests point at the same fight. She breaks down the WSJ report that China and Russia likely gave Iran targeting support for the deadly Jordan strike, then takes apart Trump's declassified bombshell — China allegedly stealing 220 million voter files in "the largest compromise of election data in history" — by asking the obvious question: what exactly did they steal, when voter rolls, party registration, and donation records are already public? She calls out the whiplash hypocrisy (Russiagate was a conspiracy theory, but Chinagate is gospel?), unpacks the coming Chinese AI ban and why "they're stealing our tech" is decades out of date, and lands on the conclusion she didn't want to reach: historians may one day say World War III began in 2014, or 2022, or 2026 — because we're already in it. Her advice? Hunker down.



While the neocons want to see China and Russia, and also Europe, diminished - so they can be free to do whatever they want in the Middle East - the end result will simply be a split in the world between the West, that is mired in debt, high energy costs and mass migration, and the BRICS nations. The neocon project against Russia and China, although damaging, will fail, although Europe seems doomed.

However, the rise of global tensions, and a hard economic/political split, might actually bring about the end of the globalists (technocrats) who have bitten off more than they can chew at every turn. They want to bring about an oppressive system of control but they'll end up stuck in the middle of a worldwide economic calamity and kicked out of power. For both neocons and globalists, what they are doing is folly. Everyone can see what they're doing and they are not operating from a position of strength compared to their opposition. Money printing and propaganda can only go so far. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

COL. Douglas Macgregor : US Abandons Its Gulf Allies (Judging Freedom)

The US doesn't have much choice but to abandon their Gulf State allies. They've painted themselves into a corner. They simply cannot escape attacks from Iranian drones and ballistic missiles.

It's important to note that Iran does not attack other countries, except in retaliation, or if Israel tries to ethnically cleanse people in Gaza or Lebanon. The war we see today has been an attempt by Israel to destroy Iran, something they may still push at the expense of US military forces. The chance of success is extremely low. 

The video also covers the war in Ukraine, where Russia is close to overrunning the last fortress positions in the East. An overall escalation is on the way. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

Iran's Ballistic Missiles Hit Jordan Base: Here's What The US Won't Tell You (Judging Freedom)

The general population of the Middle East doesn't want the US occupying their countries. Max rightly points out that Jordan is simply a buffer zone for Israel against other Arab states. Iran's missiles, with Russian targeting, are making US bases in the region uninhabitable. The writing is on the wall for expelling US forces from the region, having them withdraw to bases within Israel, which can still be targeted.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

Israelis Continue To Show Just How Psychotic They Are (Kim Iversen)

West Bank stories getting almost no Western coverage. First, testimony from an American doctor, interviewed by Katie Halper, recounting what he says he witnessed at a mass grave in Gaza — including two children buried alive by soldiers with a bulldozer. Then the footage: dozens of masked settlers descending on a village in Masafer Yatta in the middle of the night — smashing the mosque's windows and trying to burn it, torching cars, hurling gasoline through a window where a child slept, stoning a pregnant woman, destroying the village's only yogurt factory (its main employer of women) — and spraying "revenge" on the wall on their way out. A villager describes watching it unfold, certain he'd be next. Finally, Kim reads a settler's own viral manifesto: leaving his "luxurious penthouse," obtaining weapons licenses, and moving his family onto an isolated farm beside a Palestinian village for one stated purpose — to make a Palestinian state impossible — vowing to "live by the sword." Kim's response: flip it around. If armed foreign squatters seized empty land in Texas claiming historic rights, they'd be jailed or deported — so why does Washington fund it here? Her conclusion: this is what the money is buying, and Americans deserve to see it.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

New white fibrous clots publication (John Campbell)

Self-Reported Observations of Unusual White Fibrous
Structures in Embalmed Corpses: Multi-Year Survey
Results from Embalmers in Five Countries, 2022–2025



One fifth to one quarter of the dead had these clots, for those reporting them. They are undoubtedly related to the mRNA jabs, and are likely causing a rise in excess mortality. The importance of this information is that it's a warning to take action to combat this syndrome. Presently nothing is being done. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

Neil Oliver Interviews The Duran ‘…they’re trying to BREAK us!’

‘…they’re very skilled at crushing people…’ The Duran are Alexander Mercouris & Alex Christoforou.



The video points out that the concocted war against Russia is a vehicle used to crush ordinary people, to redo elections, to have a surveillance state, to basically do anything in support of the neocon and globalist agenda. The big hope is that a mass of young people, who are connected to the Internet, will reject what the megalomaniacs in power have planned. You can only push people so far before there is a revolt. And if an economic crisis occurs, via oil shortages, then change will come sooner rather than later.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

Alasdair Macleod: China Ends Retail Paper Gold & Opens the Floodgates (Mining Network)

Alasdair Macleod, economist and leading voice on sound money, returns to Mining Network to break down China’s rapidly accelerating gold strategy and what it means for Western paper markets, the dollar, and global monetary order.

Earlier this month Hong Kong launched its new gold central clearing and settlement system. This week several major Chinese banks (including ICBC) will end retail paper gold trading on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. At the same time, Beijing is easing long-standing restrictions on gold exports between the mainland and Hong Kong. Macleod argues these moves are not isolated — they form part of a deliberate, decades-long plan to secure the yuan against the eventual failure of the Western fiat system.



Both China and Russia hold a lot of gold. Alasdair warns that Western countries are up to their eyeballs in debt and are set for a big fall when Bond rates go up. He thinks that the wars in Ukraine and Iran will help push the West into a corner in terms of their economic positions. This would likely be due to a shortage of oil. The US cannot win against Iran, and Russia is winning in Ukraine where gas supplies to Europe are shut off. Western countries are going backwards economically as their levels of debt balloon.   

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

The Odyssey: Shattering the Media Myth | Is It REALLY As Successful as The Shills CLAIM? (Doomcock)

The critics and the mainstream media have built a myth around The Odyssey, a myth that it's a massive success, a myth designed to forward their desperate narrative...but is it REALLY as successful as they claim? Analysis following the opening weekend suggest that not everything is as it seems when it comes to The Odyssey...



The reason why rejecting woke films is important is because they are propaganda vehicles for the DEI agenda that's tied into globalism. Going woke is about breaking down people's identity, crushing their spirit, and generally diminishing/disrespecting men, and also rational thought, and is aimed at destroying the family. It's an attack on Western values and civilisation.

If Western values, of individualism, reason, and effort, are erased then the world will be plunged into a dystopian collectivist future.  

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 25, 2026.]

AMERICA LAST: Congress Surrenders Our Military to Israel (Kim Iversen)

This is what treason looks like, and it shows how the US is a controlled country. Pretty much all of the Republicans voted for this bill, and the Dems that voted against it did so for other reasons, not because they were against handing the US military over to the Israelis. Kim correctly states that the military is what keeps countries sovereign. Is this even constitutional? The politicians who have done this should be arrested.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

STOP THE NDAA: Congress Is Giving Away America’s Sovereignty (Marjorie Taylor Greene)

Here’s how the NDAA could have been stopped in the House to stop the merger of our U.S. military’s intelligence and supply chain with a foreign country, which is a destruction of our sovereignty.

I’m calling on VP JD Vance, who is President of the Senate, to stop this betrayal.



The Senate can actually strike out the part of the bill that hands over military and intelligence agency sovereignty to Israel.  

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

Iran's REAL Strategy Will Change the Middle East Forever (Lotus Eaters)

Very good short video covering Iran's strategy in the war, where it can take out the economic viability of the surrounding States in the region, to drive off the US, along with destroying their military bases. While these countries would economically collapse, so would the rest of the world due to oil shortages. The situation might also throw a spanner in the works when it comes to globalism in general.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

Russia Strikes Odessa 24/7 Reaches Kramatorsk; Zelensky Panics Sacks Syrsky; EU Short Of Winter Gas (Alexander Mercouris)

This is what happens when you play games with energy in Europe, through war and Net Zero policies - you face a winter that can potentially kill many thousands of people. 

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Intro: recap of Fedorov vs Syrsky power struggle
00:02:25 Zelensky sacks Syrsky and appoints General Drapatyi
00:05:16 Why the sackings suggest the war is going badly
00:06:02 Ukraine's drone offensive on the Novorossiya highway fades
00:06:46 Refinery strikes stall as Russia repairs and defends
00:12:15 Drone attacks shift to Wildberries warehouses
00:20:12 Questioning Ukraine's claimed battlefield successes
00:22:17 Kursk offensive branded a disaster, not a victory
00:29:42 Analysis of General Drapatyi's real track record
00:36:05 Russia's relentless around the clock strikes on Odessa
00:44:37 Russian advances near Orekhov and Kramatorsk
00:47:39 Russians closing in on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk
00:56:24 Middle East war and US strategy problems
01:01:36 Talk of possible US ground troops against Iran
01:04:10 Europe's natural gas reserves dangerously low
01:05:07 Financial Times warns of Iran war level gas prices
01:07:44 Germany and Europe falling short of winter storage targets

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

The Jab Didn't Work, Ivermectin & Hydroxichloroquine Did & THEY KNEW ALL ALONG! w/ Jessica Rose PhD (Viva Frei)

The clip looks at a military document from August 2021 that fully describes the fact that Covid was a laboratory created virus and Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were effective against it. The authorities knew key facts about the virus, the existing treatments, and the inherent problems with the mRNA shots but ran a lie-based counter narrative. Dr Rose points out that the jabs only had a narrow window of operation - against the spike protein (that morphed) - while being highly dangerous. Both the mRNA and the lipids were harmful. Those in command authority positions, that pushed the dangerous experimental jabs on the public, are guilty of crimes against humanity. They need to be prosecuted and sent to prison. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

"Being Stupid Feels Safe!" - News Update (AwakenWithJP)

In this episode of We Lie to You News, you learn about the top three breaking stories to help you be a dumber American, because that’s the only way our country can function. Stories like how Israeli officials that have infiltrated our government have discovered that Cuba has infiltrated our government, President Trump’s peace deal has an escalating death toll, and Trump pretends he won the world cup.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

We’re in So Much Trouble (Lotus Eaters)

Dan, Beau, and Connor discuss the Hope Not Hate activists in Andy Burnham’s government.



Andy Burnham has recently been associating with a number international globalists. Burnham's new appointments consist of these sorts of individuals, including people close to Epstein associate Peter Mandelson. Their upcoming plans include the widening censorship laws, to stop dissent, while they engage in the early release thousands of criminals. They're emptying the jails so they can lock up people who have the wrong opinion. The General election cannot come soon enough.   

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

El Salvador jailed 2% of its men. Here's what happened.(Ken LaCorte)

"A few years ago, it was the murder capital of the world. Today, your chances of getting murdered in El Salvador are lower than anywhere in North or South America. Was the solution worth the cost?" – Ken



Bukele engaged in a scorched earth policy and it worked. While some innocent people were caught up in the mass arrests it ended the gangs that had been terrorising the country. One could liken this to waging war - where innocent civilians are killed in the process of achieving victory to protect the interests of the State and the people. It's ugly, but in desperate times desperate measures are often taken. The alternative is a continuing cycle of murder. For hardened gangs, group therapy is not going to work. The problem now is the loss of checks and balances for those in office, since they used sweeping powers to repair the country, plus general corruption by those running the institutions. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

The Bond Market Is Breaking... And Gold Knows It First.(maneco64)

The establishment is always seeking to rig markets against gold because they want to keep the debt based fiat monetary system afloat. However, no matter what they do gold still remains an important part of the global financial system. It's rise and continued strength helps to expose what's really going on. This clip reminds the viewer that the Bond markets also provides a signal that troubling times are ahead. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

The Chuds BTFO'd by Nolan's Odyssey (Sargon)

Normies will watch potentially average films if there is enough hype but the question is, will The Odyssey have any staying power? Will ticket sales drop off and the film be remembered as a very average production that pandered to woke sensibilities? The culture war continues ... the war for Western civilisation. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

14,500-Year-Old HUGE, Decorated Prehistoric Building + Major Natufian Settlement! (Ancient Architects)

Karahan Tepe is one of the most mind-blowing sites of the ancient world, with origins dating back to around 11,400 years ago.

The size and scale of the settlement is impressive, but the architectural feats are what really excite the imagination. They are incredible – intricate, carefully planned and well-made. They were built by people who knew exactly what they were doing.

But how did they know how to do it?

It looks like they had a well-planned, well-developed, tried and tested method of construction, and obviously it worked, because we know the building was in use for many generations, and the key structural elements still survive today, thousands of years later.

Some claim the enclosures appeared almost as if by magic, with the people of ancient Anatolia transitioning from primitive hunter-gatherers to gifted engineers and builders, almost overnight. It like more advanced people came to teach the primitive people how to do it.

But as I’ve showed over the past few years on this channel, there was no giant leap in knowledge, and there are many pre-cursor sites all over the Fertile Crescent and beyond.

Wadi Hammeh 27 is one such site. It dates back to 14,500 years ago, meaning it's 3,000 years older than Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe. Experts believed it was a kind of base camp to the ancient Natufian people, a forerunner of the sedentary settlements we find in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

In this video, I'm going to take a look at Structure 2 in Wadi Hammeh 27, and compare it to Structure AD of Karahan Tepe, to hopefully show how people already had the skills, technology and knowhow to build complex structures, thousands of years before Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.



It's likely that the development of human civilisation was lopsided, with some cultures leaping ahead of other groups, and then disappearing. In relation to Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe, it does look like there were at least two major phases of building, or occupation, with the pillars coming first followed by the rough stone wall phase. This channel is correct to point out that there were many precursor settlements to Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe. Which ones made great leaps forward when it came to creating megalithic structures? They had thousands of years to do so.   

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 24, 2026.]

America's Own Words Coming Back to Haunt Them /Prof Seyed Marandi (Daniel Davis)

While the US claims to have destroyed Iranian military capabilities the Iranians continue to strike back. Key Iranian military infrastructure is underground. Missiles, drones, aircraft, attack boats, and other equipment is stored underground. The simple fact of the matter is that the Iranians will be able to keep fighting longer than there are oil reserves. When the oil starts to run out, due to the sea blockades, they'll be an economic crisis that may end the war. 

Marandi points out that the MOU could have ended the fighting but it was violated. Trump has now threatened to destroy power plants and bridges. If the US attacks this infrastructure then Iran will destroy power stations throughout the region. This will guarantee an economic calamity.  

The end result of a global economic depression may be the end of the globalised world. Things are already on the brink when it comes to the globalist agenda with 'far right' parties now being the most popular in the West. An economic disaster will hopefully end both the war and the globalist world order. 

Note: The main thing to consider is the economic calamity on the way. Plenty of warnings have now been issued. Fuel rationing and financial market chaos is coming fairly soon.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 23, 2026.]

Russia Destroys Odessa Ships Brushes Off Protests; Russia Fuel Situation Stabilises; Syrsky Survives (Alexander Mercouris)

Following the publication of this video Syrsky was fired by Zelensky.

Time Stamps:

01:10 Russian strike kills four Indian sailors near Odessa
03:55 Russia defiantly rejects India's protest
06:10 Why India has no real choice but Russian oil
07:40 Odessa hammered at unprecedented intensity
10:49 Why Russia may eventually target Odessa itself
17:21 The real fight between Syrsky and Fedorov
20:37 Russia's fuel crisis begins to stabilize
25:31 Duma speaker warns against politicizing fuel
33:03 Burnham's VAT cut versus the real energy fix
36:19 Who actually started the shadow fleet war
40:27 Ukraine's drone campaign on the Crimea highway fails
51:21 Russian advances toward Sumy
53:53 Kharkov region under growing threat
57:29 Ukrainian troops risk encirclement in Donbass
1:00:36 Ukraine's economy heads toward hyperinflation
1:03:53 IMF keeps funding Ukraine despite bankruptcy
1:10:43 Houthis threaten to close the Red Sea

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 23, 2026.]

Secret Russia-Germany Meeting. West Weighs Taurus Missiles and Seizing Russian Assets (The Duran)

The actions of the Europeans, to prolong the war, and damage Russia, look designed to escalate the conflict and drag their countries directly into the fighting. The Russians know to avoid any escalation beyond the fighting in Ukraine. If they do escalate then it needs to be within the existing conflict zone so they can take control of the entire country. 

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Introduction: Project Ukraine overview
00:01:24 Fake Ukraine euphoria starts to crack
00:03:29 Captured Ukrainian troops expose failed flag stunt
00:04:20 Massive Russian missile barrage hits Kiev
00:05:25 EU sanctions package hits Greek objections
00:06:45 Lindsey Graham sanctions bill stalls
00:09:31 Hardliners push for war with Russia by 2030
00:10:56 Drones now hitting Russian soft targets
00:11:19 Ukraine's catastrophic Patriot missile shortage
00:12:26 Odessa sea blockade escalates with missile strikes
00:13:26 Hardliners demand escalation as Ukraine falters
00:14:44 Taurus missiles and no fly zone debate
00:17:14 EU's 70 billion euro yearly commitment
00:19:52 Anchorage summit funding claims explained
00:22:01 Confiscating Russian assets as an escalation tool
00:24:26 Why Russia has shown restraint until now
00:27:30 Odessa blockade echoes 2022 grain deal fight
00:33:39 Putin's deterrence dilemma explained
00:39:33 Secret Baku talks between Russian and EU business figures
00:50:37 Final thoughts: the coming escalation spiral

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 23, 2026.]