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Lunatic Sledge posted:I've got such a weird question I don't even know if this is where to ask it, but here goes: I'm looking for cryptids, legendary creatures, mythical monsters, things of that sort which mostly function(ed) as cautionary tales. There's a theory that the hulder started as a cautionary tale. According to the theory the hulder often appears when young people are partying and hulder stories was told to get them to go to sleep instead. According to the theory the hulder tales was also a way of making people share mountains pastures, because if one person were staying too long and refusing to share the hulder would also appear.
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Lunatic Sledge posted:I've got such a weird question I don't even know if this is where to ask it, but here goes: I'm looking for cryptids, legendary creatures, mythical monsters, things of that sort which mostly function(ed) as cautionary tales. . Krampus is a great one, it's pretty much an anti-Santa Claus demon who punishes children on Christmas Eve if they've been naughty during the year and in some tellings even kidnaps them, dragging them away to hell or eating them alive 
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Oct 11, 2021 19:54
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The Sausages posted:80's animatronic bunyip nightmare fuel: i saw this in real life when i was a kid, about four or five. it would have been in 1989. my parents stopped for dinner in murray bridge, then afterwards, just after sundown, we went and obliterated by childhood sense of wellbeing by watching an insane melting monster emerge behind a cage next to a river.
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Oct 11, 2021 22:15
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I saw it around the same time at around the same age. After sundown was probably the worst time to experience it, the terrible lighting added to the horror. I don't remember having nightmares but I do remember not being able to go to sleep that night.
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Oct 11, 2021 23:19
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Krampus is a great one, it's pretty much an anti-Santa Claus demon who punishes children on Christmas Eve if they've been naughty during the year and in some tellings even kidnaps them, dragging them away to hell or eating them alive What kind of kinky christmas spirit is that? Well, it is Germanic Also Krampus got soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeNKuLjgVrI
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Oct 12, 2021 06:33
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How about vampire fruit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_pumpkins_and_watermelons
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BattyKiara posted:How about vampire fruit? Bunnicula was a great book series. “The Celery Stalks At Midnight” is a great book title too.
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Oct 13, 2021 03:52
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Robobot posted:“The Celery Stalks At Midnight” is a great book title too. It took me way too long to get that joke as a kid
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Oct 13, 2021 18:40
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Oct 14, 2021 03:10
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David Hollis uploaded some security camera footage last week of a cloaked bigfoot running across his neighbour's yard in broad daylight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pnwDgqYmA4 It's a bug running across the camera's lens
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Oct 15, 2021 20:28
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Oct 15, 2021 20:32
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's a bug running across the camera's lens no wonder they're so elusive... they can change their size@!!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Krampus is a great one, it's pretty much an anti-Santa Claus demon who punishes children on Christmas Eve if they've been naughty during the year and in some tellings even kidnaps them, dragging them away to hell or eating them alive As a Krampus survivor, I can tell you that your parents inviting a demon to your house which may or may not take you to hell, is loving terrifying for a child.
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Captain Jesus posted:As a Krampus survivor, I can tell you that your parents inviting a demon to your house which may or may not take you to hell, is loving terrifying for a child. if you think about it, this is technically satanic ritual abuse
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Oct 16, 2021 15:24
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Where I come we have the much more tame and child friendly Grýla. An ogress who eats all naughty children on Christmas. Her cat, The Yule Cat, also eats anyone, child or adult, who doesn't get any new clothes for Christmas. The oldest mention of Grýla as some sort of bogeyman, though not Yule related, is from Saga of the Sturlungs, which was compiled circa 1300 from slightly older texts concerning the civil war of 1220-1262, where before riding into battle a character compares his army to Grýla.     
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Oct 16, 2021 15:45
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Man, whichever adult invented a character that eats you if you don't get boring but practical christmas presents was a genius.
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Oct 16, 2021 18:52
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Krampus is a great one, it's pretty much an anti-Santa Claus demon who punishes children on Christmas Eve if they've been naughty during the year and in some tellings even kidnaps them, dragging them away to hell or eating them alive That's not Christmas Krampus, that's just čert (the devil, as stated on the postcard) who visits children on December 5 along with the Angel and St. Nicholas. The devil and angel plead for the children to be found naughty or good by listing their sins and good deeds, and St. Nick is the final arbiter to whom the children answer and from whom they receive their reward or punishment. Traditionally, even to this day, actors / volunteers actually dress up as the trio and go around town / neighborhood traumatizing children. 
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Oct 16, 2021 21:11
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I feel like more people would be willing to take up seasonal Mall Santa jobs if after a few shifts of putting up with snot-nosed brats you could serve a shift or two as a Mall Demon and blow off steam by threatening children with eternal torment, Good Cop Bad Cop style.
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Oct 17, 2021 21:07
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Oct 17, 2021 21:16
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Just read this, it's an excerpt from a new Penguin Classics anthology about dragons that presumably also includes legendary and explicitly fictional material, but it has two very interesting late-19th century newspaper reports about flying reptiles in the American West. I don't know why but I always love reading old newspaper reports of things that were clearly made up but presented with the veneer of respectability. Classic Charles Fort style nonsense is always fun. https://lithub.com/its-eyes-were-as-large-as-a-dinner-plate-encounters-with-dragons-in-early-america/
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Oct 19, 2021 04:26
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The_Doctor posted:Recent Idaho Bigfoot video! An update on this one, the ParaBreakdown channel did a video about this a few weeks ago which I missed. It turns out that the footage was originally uploaded back in 2014 by a guy called Mark Anders who got his hands on a bigfoot costume and filmed a handful of really short videos out in the woods and then uploaded each of the clips dozens and dozens of times with lovely podcast 'banter' recorded over the top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xgNAdK5-c0 Here's Mark Anders' channel, I don't recommend watching any of his videos because they're all poo poo but if you just scroll through the thumbnails you'll get the gist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnTGN1vz0kVI_sLxiDFiapA/videos
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Oct 20, 2021 03:04
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I was watching the TV show Evil and they did an episode with not only the Elevator game but also Teke Teke and it was a lot of fun.    I was already on board when it was just the elevator game but was over the moon when they name drop Teke Teke. And she even gets used in one of the show's most effective scares.
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Oct 21, 2021 17:32
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https://twitter.com/JustinD_tweets/status/1453401465125494793?t=o4_BtbgN8-ov1sZR3DbD1Q&s=19
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Rascar Capac posted:https://twitter.com/JustinD_tweets/status/1453401465125494793?t=o4_BtbgN8-ov1sZR3DbD1Q&s=19 That tweet thread goes into a lot more detail about the Marxist basis for trying to find the missing link (ie: relict Neanderthals, ie: bigfoots) and cites a bunch of sources if anyone's curious about Marxist cryptozoology https://twitter.com/JustinD_tweets/status/1453407015565410310
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Oct 29, 2021 06:17
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New British Cryptids video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QOMBySVKkU
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Oct 31, 2021 04:13
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I'm making a cryptid documentary on blob monsters. That channel makes me want to throw out everything I've done over the past 6 months and just copy its style.
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Oct 31, 2021 04:42
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It infuriates me that the British Cryptids channel doesn’t get more views. It’s incredibly well done. I’m sure they’ll blow up sooner or later though!
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Oct 31, 2021 07:00
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Have a mothman video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_BHcMTBQY
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Cooked Auto posted:Have a mothman video: Snipe and Wib are s tier youtubers. The bit at the end with the horny messages to mothman made me spit out the water I was drinking it was so funny.
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PringleCreamEgg posted:It infuriates me that the British Cryptids channel doesn’t get more views. It’s incredibly well done. I’m sure they’ll blow up sooner or later though! My biggest fuzzy happy memories of spooky cryptid/ghost stuff as a kid was coming home from school and watching episodes of In Search of... on TV. I can't remember if it was Sci-Fi or the The History Channel. I rewatch it every now and then. It felt (and was) already old when I saw it as a kid. I think part of my nostalgia for it is the degraded video/audio quality. That youtube channel captures that magic just right. That is the exact fidelity at which I want to watch unexplained things happen.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:My biggest fuzzy happy memories of spooky cryptid/ghost stuff as a kid was coming home from school and watching episodes of In Search of... on TV. I can't remember if it was Sci-Fi or the The History Channel. I'm absolutely there with you. When you watch something like that it feels like you're getting some secret, arcane knowledge. HD cameras and modern technology just don't cut it.
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There was an old In Search Of episode that terrified me as a kid, that seemed to suggest there was something like Frankenstein's monster roving around out there. It featured a reenactment where a girl was watching TV alone at night and the monster just suddenly crashes through the windows to menace her. You have to admire how ISO was just so catholic in their choice of stories: the Loch Ness monster, aliens, Frankenstein.
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nonathlon posted:There was an old In Search Of episode that terrified me as a kid, that seemed to suggest there was something like Frankenstein's monster roving around out there. It featured a reenactment where a girl was watching TV alone at night and the monster just suddenly crashes through the windows to menace her. Blake Smith of Monstertalk, which is a great Cryptid pod, and Jeb Card, archaeologist, do a side project pod called In Research Of, which is an episode by episode review and discuss show about in Search of. Its really good and I recommend it.
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remusclaw posted:Blake Smith of Monstertalk, which is a great Cryptid pod, and Jeb Card, archaeologist, do a side project pod called In Research Of, which is an episode by episode review and discuss show about in Search of. Its really good and I recommend it. Wait I have not heard of this before. Subbed. And yea MonsterTalk is a great pod.
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remusclaw posted:Blake Smith of Monstertalk, which is a great Cryptid pod, and Jeb Card, archaeologist, do a side project pod called In Research Of, which is an episode by episode review and discuss show about in Search of. Its really good and I recommend it. I'm looking forward to dipping in and trying out some episodes. They're only five away from Animal ESP!
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Nov 3, 2021 11:54
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Related to the Bunyip (insomuch as it's a cryptid from when a large continent was mostly unexplored and likely was just a result of bad translations/descriptions of real animals and also wormed its way into D&D) , I always was a fan of the Catoblepas. quote:It is said to resemble a cape buffalo, with its head always pointing downwards due to its great weight. Its stare or breath could either turn people into stone, or kill them. The catoblepas is often thought to be based on real-life encounters with wildebeest, such that some dictionaries say that the word is synonymous with "gnu". It is also known as an African version of a Gorgon.[1] Though for some reason the D&D version looks more like a furry brontosaurus with a warthog's head:  
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Is ‘In Search of..’ not streaming anywhere? I’m not against ordering a box set if that’s the only way to see it, if not.
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PringleCreamEgg posted:Is ‘In Search of..’ not streaming anywhere? I’m not against ordering a box set if that’s the only way to see it, if not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxA-TIlq8Hw&list=PL6rj1b7vga5XM-bNJwSmTHrn1Tk69CpvD Here you go
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