Background
Tonnies grew up in Independence, Missouri, and attended William Chrisman High School and Ottawa University.
Tonnies grew up in Independence, Missouri, and attended William Chrisman High School and Ottawa University.
He lived in Kansas City, Missouri. Tonnies had an active online presence and a "small, but devoted" readership, but supported himself by working at Starbucks and other nine-to-five jobs. In 2009 he died of cardiac arrhythmia at the age of 34.
In 2007 the play Doing Time, which he co-wrote with Canadian filmmaker Paul Kimball (who was working on a documentary about Tonnies), premiered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He also appeared in the documentary Best Evidence: Top 10 unidentified flying object Sightings, and an episode of the Canadian television series Supernatural Investigator. His blog, "Posthuman blues" was described by The Pitch as "one of Kansas City"s best blogs, filled with well-written, intelligent takes on offbeat news items and humorous rants from a left-leaning political perspective."
He appeared on Coast to Coast Department of Administration and Management in September 2009., and was a frequent guest on The Paracast.
The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis was developed in Tonnies"s blog, and later published posthumously. lieutenant proposes that extraterrestrial beings are actually mysterious and secretive races of earthly origin.
These races have existed upon Earth for at least as long as humanity, and present themselves as extraterrestrials or occult beings.
Some have suggested that this is an extension of the ideas of Richard Shaver.