The Devil Of Kansas

04/30/2026

My name is Michael and I used to have an unhealthy addiction to waffle house. There is hope.

04/18/2026

The Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City... is an 8.5-foot-tall bronze monument that has become one of the most famous urban legends in the Midwest. While it was originally a bright, golden bronze when erected in 1912, it has since oxidized into a dark, eerie greenish-black, fueling a century of supernatural theories.

​The lore regarding kissing or touching the statue is varied and often ominous:

​The Kiss of Death: The most common legend states that anyone who kisses the Black Angel will die instantly. A variation suggests that if a girl kisses the statue—or even kisses a partner in its shadow—under a full moon, she will die within six months.

​The Seven-Year Curse: Touching the angel at the stroke of midnight on Halloween is said to result in death within seven years.

​The Virgin's Redemption: One of the few "positive" myths claims that if a virgin is kissed in front of the statue, the curse will be broken and the angel will return to its original bronze color.

​Physical Affliction: Legend warns that staring directly into the angel's eyes or touching it will cause you to be struck by a mysterious, incurable disease.

​Vandalism and Bad Luck: The statue is missing several fingers, reportedly sawn off by vandals over the years. Local lore suggests those who defiled the statue met gruesome ends; one story tells of a man who cut off a thumb, went insane, and was later found dead in the Chicago River with a black thumbprint on his body.

​Origins of the "Cursed" Color
​While science attributes the color to the natural oxidation of bronze (the same process that turned the Statue of Liberty green), the local myths offer more dramatic explanations:

​Infidelity and Sin: Some say the statue turned black because the woman who commissioned it, Teresa Dolezal Feldevert, was unfaithful to her husband or was secretly a witch.

​Divine Displeasure: Another story claims the angel was struck by lightning on the night of Teresa’s funeral as a sign of God’s displeasure with her life.

​The Murdered Son: A darker version suggests the statue turned black because a father—sometimes described as a preacher—murdered his own son and buried him beneath the monument.

​In reality, the statue was commissioned by Teresa Feldevert, a Czech-Bohemian immigrant and midwife, to mark the graves of her son Eddie (who died of meningitis) and her second husband Nicholas. Her own ashes were placed in the base of the monument after her death in 1924.

04/09/2026

Not to brag, but we're a two gargoyle house these days. They need names.

02/24/2026

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01/20/2026

God damn I know I said I'd quit, but I just can't help loving that hurt. When it's all said and done, my bad habits are still wearing my shirt...

01/18/2026

I sit in a lot of local activist community chats... And it can be frustrating. You don't have to have secret messaging, you don't have to have a grand plan, you don't have to have a specialized knowledge base... All you need to do is have the backbone to do something. You already know where the battleground is. Stop making excuses and waiting for the moment to align perfectly. Fight! Fight hard! Fight relentlessly! And never stop fighting!

Hail Satan 🌻🤘

01/17/2026

Neutrality or Liability: The Audit is Here.

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01/16/2026

You wake up praying for peace... I wake up praying to ruin it. 🌻🤘

01/15/2026

Time to do the devil's work, stay tuned for new episode of Hailing Satan and legislatin.

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