M-A-C (20): ‘Alcaboozit’

Category: doohickey

Collection Date: March 11^th, 1968

Collection Location: (REDACTED), Alabama

Collection Report: This MAC was technically collected well before the existence of the catalog, sometime during prohibition. It consists of a man-sized dented copper still connected to various tangled lengths of hosing. Taken before modern evidence preservation standards, it sat abandoned in a basement for decades.

Harmless unless used, the moonshine produced by the still conjures up a specific repeatable hallucination entity that refers to itself as ‘Alcaboozit’: a lanky emaciated man in full star-patterned pajamas with ‘too wide a grin too full of too yellow teeth’. He is reported to ‘drift like a bubble and pop in your ear’.

The entity encourages the drinker, cheerfully yet forcefully, to engage in all manner of mischief from defacing public property to assaulting police offers with, very specifically, bowling pins. The more intoxicated the drinker the more present and convincing Alcaboozit becomes.

An impromptu team of collectors recognized a rumor regarding a recent bowling pin attack, and infiltrated a former police officer’s home, where they found M-A-C (20) and a 7-10 split with an arcane symbol drawn on the ground between the pins, reproduced in (REDACTED).

Unlike the seemingly-fictitious movie star Harthrup Templeton associated with M-A-C (4), Alcaboozit demonstrates a strong awareness of events surrounding it and will act upon its own plans and in self-defense, thus gaining the classification of doohickey over whatsit.

Current Collector: Garth Millman (they/them), senior rank

Notes from Collector: “Never met the man; I’m more of a coffee drinker.”

Current Status: active

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