Welcome to my humble website, I'm Pokey. I take a lot of photos and sometimes write articles about various topics including history, architecture, old tech, the paranormal, and more.
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Lake Wales is a pocket of suburbia in southeast Polk County, still relatively isolated from the mega sprawl consuming the rest of the county around Lakeland and Winter Haven. For me, getting here involves a 60-mile rural drive along Florida's Route 60, with the biggest…
Continue reading...Originally published on September 3rd, 2024 on Cohost (RIP) For our next drone-related tale, we’ll sail across the Atlantic to the US, and trek over to western Nebraska and across the state line to northeastern Colorado, where for at least 2 months locals reported swarms…
Continue reading...Originally published on April 27th, 2024 on Cohost (RIP) Drones are well-tread ground in the world of the paranormal- since the earliest, crudest remote control systems were strapped to a set of wings, they became simple explanations for a litany of unidentified flying objects. As…
Continue reading...Originally published October 16th, 2023 on Cohost (RIP) Doveland, Wisconsin is the purported name of a small town in Wisconsin- where in Wisconsin? Uh, we're not sure- "the heart of the state", is the best you'll get. And don't check maps either, because it's gone.
Continue reading...Originally published September 14th, 2023 on Cohost (RIP) Bermeja Island was a small, completely unremarkable island off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. An uninhabited spec, north of Scorpion Reef, with only one small wrinkle- it doesn't exist. Bermeja (or Bermejo, or Vermeja, or Bermesa,…
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