Gathering Breadcrumbs has undergone a bit of a site refresh!

You may notice brighter colors, “friendlier” art, and a format for archival entries that is easier to quickly peruse.

In large part, I wish to thank my best friend, Dex, for being the inspiration for this, for encouraging me to give people the same sense of wonder and joy when encountering the strange and the supernatural that I had growing up. As such, I’ve worked to give the site a more liminal, Y2K-inspired vibe.

I would also like to thank the folks at Rusty Quill for reminding me that things that are scary can be fun. They can inspire you, make you more empathetic towards people who are “othered” and often treated as less than human simply because they look different or have different abilities.

In addition, both Dex and the folks at Rusty Quill have inspired me to return to school. I’ve just been accepted back into university to finish my undergrad, and my hope is to follow this up with entry into a program to obtain my masters in library sciences, and then (if I’m very lucky) onwards towards the pursuit of a Ph.D. in folklore.

I’ve largely been working on updating the site, but we have a newsletter you can now subscribe to (you’ll note the pop up invitation when you visited the site, and you’ll want to check your spam folder in your email to confirm your sign up), several new archive case files, and…our first living person added to the archives with a case file all their own!

We at Gathering Breadcrumbs would like to extend special thanks to Cadmus V. Creely, who, after posting some interesting occurrences which greatly resemble necromantic practices involving insects, was gracious enough to consent to an interview. As such, he has the distinction of being the first living person to enjoy their own archive case file, which you can read here. As a reminder, Gathering Breadcrumbs is a living site (which means frequent updates as we become aware of things) that strives to bring stories to its supporters. We are not in the business of proving or disproving things (unless there is an obvious hoax or scam afoot), but rather, of sharing stories and asking what these stories convey. We observed the videos and photographs Mr. Creely posted to his Tumblr account and felt the story moving enough that we wanted to share it with all of you, and we invite you to keep the story growing by contributing to one of the Breadcrumbs we’ve posted a call for near the end of the archive entry.

Welcome to our digital campfire, my little crows. May you find and share many glittering, wonderful stories in this strange world of ours with your fellows here.