Yuggoth One Blasts Off!

Yuggoth_oneThe first space probe to visit the planet Yuggoth (a.k.a. "Pluto") has just blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

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The planet will not arrive until 2015, so we have at least nine years of safety before the Yuggoth-spawn, the dreaded "Mi-Go," are contacted by the space ship, risking an interplanetary and even interstellar incident that may threaten the sanity and survival of the human race!

Here is what NASA will find when its optimistically named "New Horizons" mission reaches Pluto:

There are mighty cities on Yuggoth – great tiers of terraced towers built of black stone like the specimen I tried to send you. That came from Yuggoth. The sun shines there no brighter than a star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses, and put no windows in their great houses and temples. Light even hurts and hampers and confuses them, for it does not exist at all in the black cosmos outside time and space where they came from originally. To visit Yuggoth would drive any weak man mad – yet I am going there. The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges – things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids – ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen.

But remember – that dark world of fungoid gardens and windowless cities isn’t really terrible. It is only to us that it would seem so. Probably this world seemed just as terrible to the beings when they first explored it in the primal age. You know they were here long before the fabulous epoch of Cthulhu was over, and remember all about sunken R’lyeh when it was above the waters.

The Yuggoth spawn may already be aware of the New Horizons mission, for they may have directed their thought-currents toward Earth to induce our scientists to mount the mission in the first place, in hopes of making contact with mankind–on their own turf and on their own terms!

Indeed, it was through such a directed thought experiment that they first caused our scientists to discover their sinister planet!

Their main immediate abode is a still undiscovered and almost lightless planet at the very edge of our solar system – beyond Neptune, and the ninth in distance from the sun. It is, as we have inferred, the object mystically hinted at as "Yuggoth" in certain ancient and forbidden writings; and it will soon be the scene of a strange focussing of thought upon our world in an effort to facilitate mental rapport. I would not be surprised if astronomers become sufficiently sensitive to these thought-currents to discover Yuggoth when the Outer Ones wish them to do so.

It is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar system – unknown to earthly astronomers as yet. But I must have written you about this. At the proper time, you know, the beings there will direct thought-currents toward us and cause it to be discovered – or perhaps let one of their human allies give the scientists a hint.

Indeed, their thought-currents may have also induced H. P. Lovecraft to write his story "The Whisperer In Darkness," from which the above quotes are taken–for he was working on the story at the time that Pluto was discovered and he immediately realized it was the dark Yuggoth that had inspired his literary creation:

Those wild [Vermont] hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race – as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed. Astronomers, with a hideous appropriateness they little suspect, have named this thing "Pluto." I feel, beyond question, that it is nothing less than nighted Yuggoth – and I shiver when I try to figure out the real reason why its monstrous denizens wish it to be known in this way at this especial time. I vainly try to assure myself that these daemoniac creatures are not gradually leading up to some new policy hurtful to the earth and its normal inhabitants.

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What new policy do the Yuggoth spawn have in store for mankind?

We’ll find out in 2015!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

13 thoughts on “Yuggoth One Blasts Off!”

  1. I’ve been thinking a lot about that eerie world of Pluto.
    I’ve been trying to understand the conditions on its surface by comparing them against those on Earth.
    For instance, while the solar energy flux that gets to Earth’s surface is 1000W/m2, on Pluto it’s a measly 0.7W/m2. It’s a cold, cold place.
    Another instance, given that Pluto is in average 40 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the luminosity on the surface of Pluto at noon is about the same as that of street-lights in the evening. It’s a dark, dark place.
    Come to think of it, it kind of matches Dante’s description of hell. 🙂

  2. The Mi-Go come here to mine a special stone that cannot be found on any other world. With these stones they plan to build a grand palace on Earth, the first of a chain of fast-food stores known as MigYuggoth’s (home of the Big-Mig, the burger so big that it drives men mad when they think of it). Their theme song: “Mi-Go to MigYuggoth’s. You-Go to MigYuggoth’s. We-Go to MigYuggoth’s . . . ”
    I can see how that might get old real fast.
    I know all this because I had a dream about Yuggoth once. Not such a bad place if I remember. But I seem to have lost the key to the gate of dreams, *again*, and thus cannot return there.

  3. I thought they were coming to destroy the earth so that we wouldn’t use our stupid, primitive minds to explode sunlight, causing the destruction of the whole universe.
    Before they kill us all, though, they have to bring a bunch of us back from the dead for some reason.

  4. Jimmy;
    Obviously THEY have already gotten to you. We will find NOTHING. THEY have already made subtle alterations to the instruments through the minds of the human scientists and the equipment simply won’t be able to see or detect anything. Our silly equipment is no match for THEIR mastery of science and superscience.
    By the way, have you ever noticed the similarity of the canisters the Mi-Go place the brains for transporting and the head jars from Futurama? Just a coincidence? I think not!

  5. It’s reassuring to know that I’m not the only one who has dreamt of Yuggoth and the Mi-Go once.
    …
    Wait…that’s not reassuring at all..

  7. They have other subtler senses, and put no windows in their great houses and temples. Light even hurts and hampers and confuses them, for it does not exist at all in the black cosmos outside time and space where they came from originally. To visit Yuggoth would drive any weak man mad – yet I am going there.
    So thats where Cardinal Mahony got the inzpireation for the Taj Mahony.

  8. Mr Carter —
    After St. Anthony gets your key back, please consider getting one of those fake rocks to keep the key to the gate of dreams in. Otherwise, bury it right outside the gate. That way, we can all use it.
    PS: How are the cats?

  9. I think Randolph Carter should keep the key to the gate of dreams on a nail by his bed.
    Years ago I used to have the most trouble misplacing my keys, so I finally drove a nail in next to my door and forced myself into the habit of hanging up my keys whenever I came in, so I never lost it.
    If Randolph would just put a nail by his bed and hang the key on it whenever he wakes up then he wouldn’t have this problem.
    It really does seem to be chronic with him. I mean, first he lost the key to the gate of dreams when he was thirty and then, when he went to the Snake Den he left the manuscript for how to use the key in his car and look at all the trouble THAT caused! He didn’t even take notes on how to get back using the key when Yog-Sothoth was about to send him to the planet Yaddith.
    Sheesh!

  10. This whole losing-the-Key-to-the-Gate-of-Dreams mess could have been avoided if I’d simply had a backup copy made. But no, I can’t do that; the Key to the Gate of Dreams is engraved with ancient runes whose meaning roughly translates to: “do not make copies of this key”. Even I am powerless against such potent elder magicks.

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