The Seance Hood

[jack_babalon]

Recently unclassified documents reveal that in the closing days of World War One, the United States MIS (Military Intelligence Section) experimented with contacting the dead for the purpose of intelligence gathering. MIS command - whose ranks did not want for the company of ardent spiritualists, Freemasons or amateur occultists - believed that valuable information could be gleamed from the spirits of recently deceased enemy officers. One result of these endeavors was the MK-IV Necrotransmission (NT) Helmet, better known amongst the 'volunteers' who field tested it as the 'Seance Hood'. Designed to amplify latent psychic abilities within those who wore it, the Seance Hood operated off the then emerging field of Vril technology to allow rudimentary communication with the dead. However it soon became apparent that even briefly donning the helmet led to extreme mental duress. Symptoms of paranoia, uncontrollable weeping, 'possession' and visions of what was described as 'The Great Old Ones' were reported amongst the volunteers after each use. When it became apparent that those few enemy spirits successfully contacted were in a state best described as shell shocked and as such were in no position to offer any pertinent information, the project was quickly abandoned.

Though each of these helmets were believed to have been destroyed by MIS, one did resurface some twenty years later in 1938. The Chicago based vigilante, Johnny Nocturnal, appeared and was evidently in possession of the last Seance Hood. It was believed that he wore this device in order to communicate with the restless spirits of the wrongfully slain. These spirits were purported to have identified their murderers in order that Johnny Nocturnal could avenge them which allowed them to pass from their confinement to our world. However Johnny Nocturnal disappeared in the Summer of '47 and the helmet along with it. It has been rumored that one of the ghosts had lied to the vigilante, manipulating him into the killing of an innocent man. I must stress however that this is no more than an urban myth and currently the final fate of Johnny Nocturnal and the last Seance Hood remain a mystery.

Comments

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Our tax dollars at work.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

All necessary to check the threat of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his dreaded Steamnauts!

[ammutbite.livejournal.com]

apparently this is an inventin of australians, who must have stolen aborigine technology of "Seance Hoods" alonng with dijeridoos and bulltoarers

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

Ned Kelly FTW Australia's foremost bushranger, irish rebel, and spiritualist medium.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Yay, Australia's first masked vigilante!

I would love to own a replica of Kelly's helmet or failing that get my hands on one of these little numbers:

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

Have you heard of ''necro-pants''

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

No, but I really would love to!

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

http://spookyparadigm.blogspot.com/2006/12/necropants-wear-your-dead-friends-skin.html

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

so creepy and so cool...
i would love to hear more of this story. i really would.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Glad you thought so.

Unfortunately I was just 'messing around' with the idea (after seeing the picture I immediately thought 'Seance Hood' and just started jotting stuff down as it came to me) and as such don't really have any other ideas for it. Who knows though, maybe I'll chronicle the adventures of Johnny Nocturnal and the last Seance Hood sometime.

[entropic-om.livejournal.com]

So...you know about the Shakti helmet?

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

No I haven't but damn that looks like a lot of fun! I can easily see Shakti Helmets becoming de rigueur for raves and the must have fashion accessory for the hallucinogen party set.