In the vein of Oddities (Discovery Channel), Observatory kicks off The Midnight Archive with more in-depth look at the strange stories and alternative lifestyles and beliefs that make up the city of New York. Check out their first two episodes, “Modern Mummies” and “Occult New York,” online now.

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As mentioned in this previous post, The Midnight Archive is a new web-based documentary series “centered around the esoteric and always exotic personalities that spring from Observatory,” the Brooklyn-based event/gallery space I founded a few years ago. The series is created and directed by film-maker Ronni Thomas, who has plans to upload approximately one new episode per week to the new Midnight Archive website.

Episode two of The Midnight Archive–entitled Occult New York Part 1, and featuring the ever fascinating and many-time Observatory presenter Mitch Horowitz–has just been uploaded is now available for viewing! You can view it above or on The Midnight Archive website.

For more on the series, to see former episodes, or to sign up for the mailing list so as to be alerted to future uploads, visit The Midnight Archive website by clicking here. You can also “like” it on Facebook–and thus be alerted–by clicking here.