The Secret Society of Journalists Known as the Order of the Occult Hand

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How did this all start? According to two of its founding fathers, Joseph Flanders and R.C. Smith, in the fall of 1965, a group of Charlotte News reporters, while purportedly enjoying a few alcoholic beverages, began to critique a recent piece written by their colleague, the aforementioned Joseph Flanders. Into a “complicated story of evil-doing,” Flanders had placed the phrase “It was as if an occult hand had reached down from above and moved the players like pawns upon some giant chessboard.”
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@TodayIFoundOut 6 лет назад

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@JohnSmith-vy4lh 3 года назад

I thought there wasn't any journalists left, there all just repeaters.

@monkeyman522 7 лет назад

So, it's the journalist version of how many times you can say "meow".

@amdreallyfast 8 лет назад

Secret societies just for fun...Sounds like an adult level complication of a kid's game. I approve :)

@amdreallyfast 2 года назад

@Donvillian Killuminati And knowing that some people react in all seriousness with a comment like that, some adults will do it anyway simply for the enjoyment of seeing others flip out :)

@battlebear7214 8 лет назад

I haven't heard about this before. great job yet again on finding an interesting topic!

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 8 лет назад

excellent video and information. i keep laughing. i think that this were a old form of trolling before world wide web.

@dildodickgollum 6 лет назад

Alejandro Rodolfo Mendez keep believing that

@LukeWarm05 6 лет назад

The Wilhelm scream of the printed word...

@yeekasoose 7 лет назад

So "occult hand" is the Wilhelm Scream of newspapers. And like the Wilhelm, it evolved from inside joke to annoying distraction.

@fuzzydunlop7928 7 лет назад

An early proto-meme. Back when people put more effort into their memeage than just liking and sharing a hastily cobbled-together picture with a misspelled caption.

@MrEricSir 6 лет назад

Sounds like what we'd call an "Easter egg" in video games and other software today.

@CorkySchillinger 8 лет назад

Fascinating! Journalists obviously get bored, too. There's probably one for the people who double type words in two different lines (the/the, for example). If not, there should be. :)

@swingbram 6 лет назад

I really like your channel, however, why do you always have that music loop softly in the background? The drum tracks are especially distracting because they interfere with the consonants in your comments like 't' and 's'. You are definitely interesting enough so why do you think that back ground track (loop) is even necessary? I am a musician so even if you want something playing in the back ground, maybe it can be a nice piece of baroque music? just a suggestion. Anyway, I will keep watching because your topics are great...

@martianbunny 8 лет назад

That's hilarious! I would so want to do that if I were a reporter!

@JWMCMLXXX 7 лет назад

Meow that's what I call prose.

@calamusgladiofortior2814 6 лет назад

After watching this I had to search my newspaper's archives for the phrase. No hits... yet ;)

@stevengeorges9046 7 лет назад

So, is Simon Whistler now a member of the Occult Hand? Since I'm a journalist, (photojournalist) am I a member too?

@wellesradio 7 лет назад

Steven Georges I don't know if Simon is a member, but you need to rewatch the video to answer that last question. I think you missed the point entirely.

@BrianH1313 8 лет назад

I guess they are not so secret now.

@robertt9342 5 лет назад

Do you think you would get extra credit from journalist professors if you snuck it in to assignments and they didn't notice? The extra credit is achieved by informing them afterwards.

@Wib0 2 года назад

Cool story, bro.

@StefanTravis 8 лет назад

Hmm. Maybe there _is_ no new phrase - they're just telling us there is one so we'll look for it.

@johnhans2929 7 лет назад

Very entertaining.

@kevinlind4640 7 лет назад

Ohh, how I wish I knew about this when I worked with journalism

@Derkiboi 7 лет назад

Kevin Lind haha

@Silkendrum 8 лет назад

Stuff like this tickles me!

@NotAWomble 6 лет назад

Simon Whistleblower ;)

@tylercooper1551 5 лет назад

Was that Nick Wright in the picture with the sports journalist guy?

@ZerqTM 6 лет назад

ah this is like over 9000 before 4chan

@jellygood8552 3 года назад

Just get out of that secret hand sign club

@Thighweaver 2 года назад

Damn the difference a beard makes. Don't even look like the same person.

@fleeb 7 лет назад

I think this beats "Have More Sex", as snuck into The Patriot in Ft. Stewart, Ga. a few decades ago, as it's far more artful.

@trumpocalypsenow4654 7 лет назад

Considerimg that the only people that read mainstream newspapers anymore are other journalists, inside jokes like these have become rather sad.

@loverlei79 7 лет назад

Yeah sure. "Don't worry. We're just having a bit of a laugh. No harm." Uh huh.

@hankw5086 5 лет назад

sounds like fun

@8cspohn 6 лет назад

oh, you should do the one occult that is part of the Asian toaist practices in china. I forget there dang name you might have already made one.

@bushyconn 6 лет назад

A uniquely US Secret Sam sort of prank. But it serried only to flourish in the US, thank God!!

@solank7620 7 лет назад

It's pronounced "expozay", not "expoze" like the Montreal Expos.

@stud105 3 года назад

We get our information from these 'kids'

@theblackdragon7321 7 лет назад

well it's not a secret anymore xD lol

@BethAnnMayberry 8 лет назад

Gravity Falls, anyone? Anyone? No, just me? Oh. *slinks off to that corner where disgraced adult cartoon lovers hide and make fan edits*

@DaidriveCJ 8 лет назад

I get it!

@LeoStorm007 6 лет назад

now that you got it into your video.....will you be joining this secret society 😋?

@captainobvious5016 6 лет назад

Journalism memes. I guess the Order of the Occult Hand found da wey.

@loosegoose1975 2 года назад

Great, can't even read the paper

@atomicsmith 5 лет назад

Can we please get English people to stop saying "Loss Angie Lees." It just sounds ridiculous.

@billyvonderburg7351 5 лет назад

Sounds like how Tennessee people say it

@p0llenp0ny 4 года назад

You probably say it wrong too, white boy. 😂

@atomicsmith 4 года назад

@@p0llenp0ny I'm sure all your pronunciation is impeccable, dim wit.

@paulinapayment9760 6 лет назад

So you're left scrounging for weird published phrasing, using said gathered phrasing over and over again just hoping you get it right, try after try...that's the only way to figure it out? Unless a connection leaks it, as was the original phrase. Maybe some whiz kid could make an algorithm, otherwise, I'm left disappointed I can't join a redundant secret society just for shits and giggles.