When Kaiju Breeding Migrations, Instagrammers, and Kirby Suits Collide (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For the previous five centuries, the kaiju of Texas slept. They slept in the muds at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, slowly metabolizing leaking oil and the radioactive traces therein. They slept within massive caverns in the central Hill Country, breathing in carbon dioxide released as trickling rainwater eroded…
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St. Remedius Medical College: "All the Long-Leggedy Beasties"
How To Preserve and Monetize Cryptobeasties While Preserving Their Habitat (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A regular complaint from St. Remedius detractors and those who hope to negg their way into a new job, the Venn diagram of whom resembles an annular eclipse, involves the perception that the Medical College archived, hoarded, and sat on the mysteries it gathered during its various investigations. Somehow, if…
St. Remedius Medical College: Mission Statement
Why St. Remedius Is What It Is (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Contrary to expectations, St. Remedius Medical College wasn’t the only organization dedicated to exploring, documenting, chronicling, exterminating, or otherwise researching extranormal phenomena. It wasn’t the best-funded, nor the largest, or the oldest, or even the one with the best archives. Where St. Remedius succeeded was in name recognition. Members of top-secret government or…