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Jetto Jagga posted:Some classic Bigfoot history here with Roger Patterson's ABSM Club of America: Holy poo poo I'd love to have one of those official membership certificates, I'd frame it and hang it on my wall. Printing a copy off the internet wouldn't cut it, I want the real deal signed by Roger. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Holy poo poo I'd love to have one of those official membership certificates, I'd frame it and hang it on my wall. I wonder if any of them still exist. Or if he even sent any out!
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Captain Hygiene posted:Friendly reminder to not sign Death oaths when you get a job, it's never worth it I dunno, I signed a Death Oath when I worked at Cracker Barrell and it really wasn't that big of a deal. Now the blood rituals on the other hand, those were a pain in the rear end because you have to do them every week.
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Jetto Jagga posted:I wonder if any of them still exist. Or if he even sent any out! I just did a google search to see if Patterson has a website where he sells stuff like that so I could order one, doesn't look like he does. As far as I know he still does appearances at Bigfoot conventions around the country every year, I'm sure he'd have a
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I just did a google search to see if Patterson has a website where he sells stuff like that so I could order one, doesn't look like he does. Ah, Patterson died in 1972, Bob Gimlin is the one who's still alive and kickin doing conventions. Gilmin has always maintained that he wasn't part of a hoax but that maybe Roger tricked him! I'm sure he's got merch of his own but nothing that could be as gold as what we'd get if Patterson was still around.
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Ah dammit, I can never remember which PG dude was which
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I believe Gimlin sells plaster casts of the footprints from the "incident," though. I definitely considered buying one at one point.
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How many conspiracy theories is this marketing for Sweet Tooth going to birth: https://twitter.com/grahamorama/status/1401625039431258115 It's like Batboy, but on the cover of USA Today.
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A four eyed Serow antelope has been spotted near a temple in Japan. The head monk believes it's a messenger from the gods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWo-v8nEhk From the description of the video: We talked to an expert. Tohoku Wildlife Conservation and Management Center Representative Soharu Uno: "This is not the eye, the lower part is the'subocular gland'. There is a gland under the eye that produces secretions for territory. It was visible. I think" [...] Experts analyze that the reason why the eyes seemed to be four was that the glands of the eye were greatly developed and that the photo was taken at an angle that reflects light by chance. ..
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Wasnt there another one of these?
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I didn't go through the whole thread, so this may have been posted, but here goes: I heard a great podcast interview with a guy who runs a guiding outfitter in South Carolina. (Link and transcript below) The Sasquatch of Pumpkintown It's under 13 min, and really worth the listen. Anyway, so this guide and a friend make up a set of Bigfoot feet in order to mess with a kid who had been giving another guide a hard time out in the bush. Bigfoot Faker posted:So we drive out to - up the mountain. And we drive nine miles in the motor boat out to where they're camped. And we get out there. It's pretty late. And all the kids are asleep, but my staff's still up. And he's like, man, this kid's just been giving me a hard time. Goes on this story. And I go, don't worry about it. We got an idea. And so we take the feet, and we make these marks all around the kids tent. And then Brett gets the bag he threw in the truck and it's filled with dog poo poo. And he pours it out right where the kid's head is on the outside of the tent. And then, we camped out. A friend of the Faker runs a camping equipment store that hadn't been doing very well. After the footprint / poop incident, the camper's dad came into the store, and bought a ton of expensive gear to track this Bigfoot. Bigfoot Faker posted:And I get this call from Brett later that night. And he goes, did you send some guy here to me for the Bigfoot thing? I go, yeah, it's the kid's dad. The guy spent $1,200 on gear. He bought GPS systems. He bought the most powerful scope I have. And I was like, great sale. Awesome. Cool. I come over for dinner. He takes me back down into his shop. And he has all these pelts and skins out. His wife Susanna's sewing machine with this huge needle on it. And he goes, we're making a Bigfoot costume. He goes, you, me, and Susanna know about this. No one else. So she helps us out, 'cause she's actually quite the seamstress. And we make this thing and it took us about eight hours - all night. Tons of coffee. It had cigar burns on it. It had tobacco juice on it. It was disgusting. And it was tailor-made to me. Up close, it was pretty bad. The Faker and store owner end up running a bit of a Bigfoot con job, which has a funny end to it.
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I saw the Hulu Sasquatch documentary. Bigfoot is not interesting, but tweaked-out illegal weed farmers on a hair trigger, that's interesting.
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The UFO thread has been discussing William Corliss, "an American physicist and writer who was known[2] for his interest in collecting data regarding anomalous phenomena. Arthur C. Clarke described him as "Fort's latter-day - and much more scientific - successor."[3]" and the Science Frontiers website which sells copies of his anomalous sourcebooks. I picked up Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies and Jim the website owner threw in a free copy of Scientific Anomalies and other Provocative Phenomena: Which seems like a great resource for this thread. It's already paying off:  Bonus map from Corliss' classic paperback The Unexplained: 
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Corliss did some fascinating work. I recall that he rated phenomena according to how likely they were to be true and how much they would cause science to change. There were a few very likely and very impactful examples ...
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If anyone in this thread wants an adorable Mothman bag now's your chance to back the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studioeggface/mothman-crossbody-mini-backpack-ita-bag
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https://twitter.com/_Rewhan/status/1404873218373033987  Does a mysterious machine count as a cryptid?
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It counts and it rules. Would love a cryptid like that in my neighborhood.
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Jun 17, 2021 03:36
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I wish I could go out and buy a mystery discontinued soda right now 
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Captain Hygiene posted:https://twitter.com/_Rewhan/status/1404873218373033987 Here's a* 2002 article about it from one of Seattle's weekly papers https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/coke-machine-near-corner-of-john--broadway/Content?oid=12375 *very silly When I moved here it only had the one "mystery" button, some time after it got a little press it changed to All Mystery also, I've seen a pic of it being restocked a kitten has a new favorite as of 04:05 on Jun 17, 2021 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:https://twitter.com/_Rewhan/status/1404873218373033987 There has to be an SCP based on that.
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twistedmentat posted:There has to be an SCP based on that. http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-261 ?
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Yea I was thinking about that one, while close not to what I was thinking.
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Captain Hygiene posted:https://twitter.com/_Rewhan/status/1404873218373033987 This rules. I like to think there's a lot of weird little things like this spread around the world, that usually only some locals know about.
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https://twitter.com/grescoe/status/1406625093535555599 This is more on the conspiracies/junk science side of the thread, but it's fun to watch that statue. It looks like it's enjoying itself a nice walk!
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Captain Hygiene posted:https://twitter.com/grescoe/status/1406625093535555599 They've been doing this for ages, which makes it even more pathetic that Ancient Aliens people keep going "we don't know how they did it!!!". But then EvonD thinks plateaus are actually mountains smoothed down for landing strips. Though something else always remember about AA people is they're stuck in the 1960s, drink ever time they refer to something in the language of the Apollo or Mercery programs. They always say Space Capsule rather than space ship
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I'm laughing out loud at the idea that aliens traveled light years to get here, but their spaceships needed a runway.
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twistedmentat posted:They've been doing this for ages, which makes it even more pathetic that Ancient Aliens people keep going "we don't know how they did it!!!". But then EvonD thinks plateaus are actually mountains smoothed down for landing strips. Though something else always remember about AA people is they're stuck in the 1960s, drink ever time they refer to something in the language of the Apollo or Mercery programs. They always say Space Capsule rather than space ship It's so funny that every 'ancient aliens' thing is just 'well colonists came and didn't understand it, so a native explained it maybe using slightly poetic/un-elegant language, and then the colonists just went 'eh that sounds fake' to the natives who did it'. Like, wasn't the story for Easter Island that the natives said the heads 'walked', meaning they were talking about that exact method in the video where someone on each side pulls the statue one at a time, and the people they told that to were all 'ha ha silly savages, statues don't walk'?
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm laughing out loud at the idea that aliens traveled light years to get here, but their spaceships needed a runway. And for some reason it needed to look like a monkey, spider or birb. One of my favorite theories AA presents is that the stone at a I think Machu Pichu are meant to of been melted down and then cast so they'd fit perfectly, when if you look at them, all the stones fit perfectly yes, but they're all different shapes and sizes. That's somehow more believable than people just working stone so they fit really well. Like litearlly in the episode the guy goes "keep it simple stupid!" and the simple answer is they melted granite 
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UFO over Shanghai yesterday: https://twitter.com/Today__China/status/1407163717230358540
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Looks a whole lot like a shadow of a building to me, personally. On Reddit there were all sorts of people showing videos with timecodes and going "See? It CAN'T be a shadow!" and it still looked like a shadow. Still, neat!
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An interesting video but yes, after looking at it for a while you stop seeing the triangle as in front of the clouds and instead see the clouds in front of whatever, you think of looking horizontally, not up ... and it start to look a lot like clouds parting in front of a building. Shanghai has really bad pollution, right?
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The_Doctor posted:UFO over Shanghai yesterday: Reminds me of Galactus from that Fantastic 4 movie.
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The view is so obscured and disorienting I can't even get a good sense of it in my mind to think of what it might be. If aliens are real, they're taking cues from the best movie CGI directors in terms of keeping things understated and mysterious.
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Captain Hygiene posted:The view is so obscured and disorienting I can't even get a good sense of it in my mind to think of what it might be. If aliens are real, they're taking cues from the best movie CGI directors in terms of keeping things understated and mysterious. Which puts me in mind of the infamous alien autopsy film: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_autopsy For those who haven't seen it, it's a long (17 minutes) video, supposedly showing two military doctors examining a classic Grey alien. No crude fake, someone went to a lot of effort here. There's a special (inevitably hosted by Jonathan Frakes) where experts including pathologists, military, biologists go backwards and forwards arguing about the details of the autopsy, clothing, down to whether a light switch is period-appropriate. But the really striking commentary was from a horror movie director. He praised the film for being "a really good fake but definitely a fake" as you kept thinking that you saw more than you actually did. Everytime you were just about to get a closeup of the alien, or look inside it, etc. something would get in the way, the doctors would be interrupted and so on. It was put together like a horror film. More info on the wiki page, inclined the films eventual fate, but there's an important lesson here about perception and presentation.
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That poor lady has to settle for a bigfoot with male pattern baldness, what bad luck Did anyone else watch Expedition Bigfoot on the Travel Channel? It just wrapped up season two, but they proudly proclaimed they were able to return with definite proof of bigfoot: A plaster cast of a footprint.
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Knormal posted:Did anyone else watch Expedition Bigfoot on the Travel Channel? It just wrapped up season two, but they proudly proclaimed they were able to return with definite proof of bigfoot: A plaster cast of a footprint. Maybe they're going the 'technical truth by obfuscation' route I cleverly thought I could get away with as a child: "We finally have it, definitive proof of [quickly whispers a as quietly as possible] big foot"
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