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Paulides' police career seems to have consisted of entrapping gay men into solicitation in adult bookshops, committing brutality against black people, and getting fired for scamming celebrities out of autographs using official police stationary. I guess committing crimes should help you recognise them.
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Upsidads posted:All these people went missing ON EARTH Whoa whoa whoa, now hold on there a sec. We talking about mole people here, or the giant underground network beneath the US that our secret extraterrestrial overlords use to hide technology and experiment on people?
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Rascar Capac posted:Paulides' police career seems to have consisted of entrapping gay men into solicitation in adult bookshops, committing brutality against black people, and getting fired for scamming celebrities out of autographs using official police stationary. I was running here to say this, thank you. Paulides leans on his law enforcement background as why he's trustworthy and a hard nosed investigator when of course he's a lying scam artist who was so dirty as a cop he actually got fired, quite the accomplishment. His previous books were all about Bigfoot but now he plays coy with Missing 411 because he wants to cast as wide a net as he can for conspiracists. Captain Hygiene posted:Whoa whoa whoa, now hold on there a sec. We talking about mole people here, or the giant underground network beneath the US that our secret extraterrestrial overlords use to hide technology and experiment on people? Detrimental Robots
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There's a great old book called In Pursuit of Satan, written by a cop and about why cops are so bad at investigating satanic panic stuff, nice time capsule of the late 80s when scammer cops were making names for themselves on the conference circuit charging $$$ for classes on how to track cult killers and so on, all complete bullshit.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Of course since then they figured it all out and the images depicted are actually pretty standard Mayan iconography THE ANCIENT MAYANS KNEW THEN COVERED IT UP BY DRAWING ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME!!!!!
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It does look like it could be an ancient spacecraft with a pilot, if it were designed by Mr. Garrison.
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Upsidads posted:All these people went missing ON EARTH QAnoners love making up conspiracies about hidden underground paedo dungeons and even giant underground systems of tunnels so paedos can move children around the country undetected
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Someone put together a video compilation of crazy-rear end moments from Mountain Monsters if anyone is curious and wants a taste So like, Bigfoot can apparently teleport, probably also astral travel, I'd be surprised if he didn't also have Gate 1/day and grants you a Limited Wish if you catch him, but when did Bigfoot turn from "big ape man, he spooky but maybe also good?" into a wizard and occasional sex partner in cryptid lore? Like is there a starting point, a patient zero that popularized that stuff? Or did it just occur organically in a lot of places when the ol' Bigfoot mythos needed a spitshine to compete with UFO's? PurpleXVI has a new favorite as of 10:37 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Is it true, thatif you find Bigfoots pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that it'll take your children to the seeley council in exchange for a singular twisted wish?
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There's always been an element of pseudoscience and bigfoots, but I think in the past they used to be way outnumbered and suppressed by the "legitimate" bigfoot researchers. Like you'd be blacklisted from bigfoot conferences if you said they were spirit beings or whatever. I remember reading accounts of bigfoots disappearing into UFOs or the mist, or forcing themselves on hunters, back in the 90's books. I think the pseudoscience reports are coming more to prominence now as it becomes harder and harder to explain how a physical being would keep avoiding camera traps, DNA surveys, and all the other things that should have found any by now. Even the top bigfoot researchers are starting to say things like they can see infrared to avoid camera trigger beams and use infrasound to subconsciously drive people away, because they need to find some way to account for them still hiding. The sex stuff is pretty much just because there's always been perverts, trolls, or pervert trolls though.
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Knormal posted:There's always been an element of pseudoscience and bigfoots, but I think in the past they used to be way outnumbered and suppressed by the "legitimate" bigfoot researchers. Like you'd be blacklisted from bigfoot conferences if you said they were spirit beings or whatever. I remember reading accounts of bigfoots disappearing into UFOs or the mist, or forcing themselves on hunters, back in the 90's books. I think the pseudoscience reports are coming more to prominence now as it becomes harder and harder to explain how a physical being would keep avoiding camera traps, DNA surveys, and all the other things that should have found any by now. Even the top bigfoot researchers are starting to say things like they can see infrared to avoid camera trigger beams and use infrasound to subconsciously drive people away, because they need to find some way to account for them still hiding. Yeah I recall the Midwestern "hairy biped" sightings of the 70s which had high strangeness attributes like invisibility, invincibility, levitation, UFO proximity, and weird footprints (four/three/two toed prints). Loren Coleman wrote about them back in the day but has since renounced them as not being "real" bigfoot, that is to say, the "scientific" Giganto idea.
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Knormal posted:Even the top bigfoot researchers are starting to say things like they can see infrared to avoid camera trigger beams I've seen this one a few times, and it makes me laugh since the P in "PIR motion sensor" like on a trail camera is "passive", e.g. it merely watches (and thus is much lower power than something actively scanning). Combined with CPU sleep states and metal cases, there will be very little emissions from a completely normal trail camera. I mention the CPU states as I have heard people also suggest bigfoot can "sense" the electronics running, I guess as well as infrared vision he also has a built-in ghost detector.
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Bigfoot's just an omnipresent transdimensional being at this point, it was there when you placed the camera and it knows to avoid being in frame.
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PurpleXVI posted:when did Bigfoot turn from "big ape man, he spooky but maybe also good?" into a wizard and occasional sex partner in cryptid lore? The whole "sasquatch stole our women!" thing has been around for almost a century (at the least) but if you count old legends such as European woodwoses and wild men it goes back thousands of years. Bigfoots love abducting people. I posted earlier about the whole yeti deal becoming a media phenomena int he early 1920s: Snowglobe of Doom posted:If anyone was wondering how the abominable snowman craze came about in the 1920s and 30s this page has a good collection of the original newspaper reports that kicked it all off: https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Yeti ..... and in the late 1920s some school teacher named J. W. Burns up in Canada just so happened upon a whole lot of stories from local First Nations people about run ins with giant hairy forest people called sasquatches. In the early stories they were pretty much somewhat taller than average humans with very dark skin and either very long hair or a covering of hair and sometimes they were silent or made screeching noises but they also spoke occasionally. Here's his first article from the April 1 1929 edition of Maclean's Magazine where he infodumps a whole lot of unlikely stories: https://archive.org/details/Macleans-Magazine-1929-04-01/page/n5/mode/2up April 1, huh?  Apparently sometime that year he also published a story about a First Nations woman called Seraphine Long who was abducted by a sasquatch and kept captive for a year and eventually bore it a child, although it died soon after birth. The story has been reposted all over the internet but I haven't been able to lock down the original source. In Burns' story it sealed her eyes shut with tree sap before it carried it away and there's been at least one other story which used that same detail
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The whole "sasquatch stole our women!" thing has been around for almost a century (at the least) but if you count old legends such as European woodwoses and wild men it goes back thousands of years. Bigfoots love abducting people. Nice post! There's a bunch of midcentury tall tales by guys like Ivan T. Sanderson and Frank Edwards which were then recycled by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith into the 70s, about Red Army/PLA troops killing or capturing yeti/almasti. There's a story of a "Mouth Man" (jungle bigfoot/rockape) in SE Asia that scares a sentry on night watch - Steiger wrote it up in 1969's The Abominable Snowmen, Smith borrowed it for his own Strange Abominable Snowmen in 1970 and changed the ending to the poor sentry getting killed by the monster, but then recycled it for a second time in its original form in his 1977 volume The Secret Origins of Bigfoot. Capsule reviews of those 3 books at my blog: https://paperbackgods.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-abominable-snowmen-by-eric-norman.html https://paperbackgods.blogspot.com/2020/08/strange-abominable-snowmen-by-warren.html https://paperbackgods.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-secret-origins-of-bigfoot-by-warren.html Names and dates are included but of course lead nowhere.
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My friends and I have been very slowly making our way through Mountain Monsters because of this thread. We just started Season 4. Season 3 was batshit insane. If it ramps up from here until the end, I am ecstatic.
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Aardvark Barber posted:My friends and I have been very slowly making our way through Mountain Monsters because of this thread. We just started Season 4. Season 3 was batshit insane. If it ramps up from here until the end, I am ecstatic. It ramps up soooo much you won't be able to tell reality from fiction anymore. You'll be so engrossed by the 100 story lines and events that the place that You'll walk away a changed person
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A GBS poster posted a new globster:Polish posted:Friend found this on a beach in California. Anyone know what it is? It's a dead stingray
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New Face on Mars just dropped. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/29/1152350488/nasa-mars-bear-crater
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love reading old bigfoot scuttlebutt  from a 1994 edition of the skeptical inquirer: https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/03/Issue-05.pdf
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Yeah it's a really common occurrence that bigfoot researchers will scour the 'evidence' for indications that it might be genuine and quietly overlook indications that it might be fake. I did a post earlier in the thread about recent examples:Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's another example from the famed BFRO website (run by Matt Moneymaker, the lead guy from Finding Bigfoot) which allegedly show a set of massive "bipedal tracks" which were found not far from a spot where there'd earlier been a reported bigfoot sighting. There's a set of human footprints besides them for comparison: The infamous 1951 Shipton yeti footprint photo which turbocharged the whole yeti/bigfoot craze is another obvious example of this. Here's the iconic image which got reprinted thousands and thousands of times in books and articles and TV shows which we're all super familiar with:  It's gigantic!! It's as big as the head of a pickaxe!! Here's the uncropped photo, plus a second photo with a hiking boot for comparison:   ...... okay, it's quite a bit smaller than I always assumed. Obviously that pickaxe was just a mountaineer's ice axe which has a much smaller head. Here's the rest of the photos which shows the tracks receding off into the distance:   ...... okay, obviously they look a LOT different from the famous photo and most of them seem to be in the shape of a cloven hoof rather than a footprint with toes, it's obvious that they selected the one which looked the most like a hominid footprint and didn't bother taking closeup photos of any that didn't. Also the footprints aren't regular and some of them are wider than others, a lot like a 4 legged animal mostly stepping in its own footprints but occasionally stepping slightly outside them. Also if you look at the rocks right next to the trackway you'll see that they have a clear ring of icemelt around them which just happens to be pretty much the exact depth of the footprints, so the footprints almost certainly grew wider as they melted under the sun and they were originally a fair bit smaller and no doubt a different shape. Of course that never stopped people taking the photo as the gospel truth of an accurate cast of a yeti's foot and creating lots and lots and LOTS of "reconstructions" of the 'foot' that the think made it:     There's also been recent examples of people being caught faking evidence but then given a second chance. Back in 2008 there was the notorious "bigfoot in a freezer' hoax by a guy called Rick Dyer which a lot of people bought into at the time and then ended up with egg on their faces when it turned out to just be a halloween costume stuffed with road kill. Dyer pulled pretty much the same hoax in 2012 and even ended up touring the country with the hilariously fake 'corpse' displayed in a perspex coffin and charging people $10 to view it and I remember when that story was just breaking there was a whole bunch of people going "Well let's hear him out, maybe he DID shoot and kill a real bigfoot this time, we have to give him the benefit of the doubt!" Those fukkin idiots 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Get Your Ursus To Mars! ...you've been waiting years to make that pun, haven't you
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Ambitious Spider posted:been reading Inhumanoids and stumbled across this goofy looking Kentucky gravedigger thing This is just the abominable snowman from SkiFree.
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Ambitious Spider posted:been reading Inhumanoids and stumbled across this goofy looking Kentucky gravedigger thing By the expression It seems to be of the opinion that humans are jerks, therefore definitely making it one of the smartest cryptids .
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This month’s Fortean Times goes to the Windy City!
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Man a forensic anth being a nighttime magician makes sense for how hosed that field is job wise.
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The_Doctor posted:This month’s Fortean Times goes to the Windy City! Wait, there's a Chicago Mothman too? How did I never hear about it, growing up in Illinois?
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Captain Hygiene posted:Wait, there's a Chicago Mothman too? How did I never hear about it, growing up in Illinois? It's only from the last 5 years, if that
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Ambitious Spider posted:It's only from the last 5 years, if that Ah, that makes sense. Nice to have something new in the urban cryptid market, then.
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Another awesome post. In that article I screen capped someone points out a major flaw in Krantz' work: he claims to be able to reconstruct unknown skeletal structures from footprint casts all the way up to the ankle, which is how he knows that the "cripple foot" from hoaxer Ivan Marx is actually legit, because no one could have as much knowledge as himself about anatomy to make such an "accurate" print of what a bigfoot with an injured foot would look like - later he says the same thing about the PGF because Patterson got bored listening to him yammer on about feet and Krantz concluded that Patterson was a rock stupid cowboy moron who couldn't possibly have made a bigfoot good enough to fool him. Amazing confirmation bias and arrogance. I wish there was a one stop shop for reading about all the classic bigfooters and their infighting, Dahinden especially had a reputation as biting.
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Amazing confirmation bias and arrogance. Dr Jeff Meldrum is another guy who dismisses "evidence" because it doesn't fit his pre-conceived notions of what bigfoot is supposed to look like, based on eyewitness reports and sketches Here's a 2022 interview where he critiques the lovely fake bigfoot corpse from Rick Dyer's 2012 hoax for getting the facial anatomy all wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiuFly2oKss&t=255s
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a Mothman for every major metropolis. this is my campaign promise to you.
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uber_stoat posted:a Mothman for every major metropolis. this is my campaign promise to you. A Mothman in every pot and a car (that runs on water instead of gasoline, the technology for which is suppressed by the oil companies) in every garage!
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But how will there be enough Mothmen for ever city where there is apparently only Mothman and no mothwoman!!!
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dr_rat posted:But how will there be enough Mothmen for ever city where there is apparently only Mothman and no mothwoman!!! It works a bit like Santa Claus
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