Snowglobe of Doom posted:

One recent one is the Indonesian bondegezou which cryptozoology sites used to list as a tiny 3' tall bigfoot-like creature with patchy black and white fur and was always included in lists of "Bigfoot creatures from other countries" alongside the yeti and the orang-pendek and the yeren and all the rest but in the mid 90s a scientist actually got hold of one and discovered it was a tree kangaroo.

Jetto Jagga posted:

From The Abominable Snowmen by Brad Steiger (as Eric Norman). Award Books, 1969.

Pastry of the Year posted:

This fun little page goes from "Paul somehow wouldn't 'get w/ the program,' wouldn't quit, & was eliminated" to "On October 9, 1979 Carter robotoid No. 18 was scheduled to hold a news conference" before you know it.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I should also mention that the show is diving deep into the woo this season with a whole bunch of kooky stuff

Jetto Jagga posted:

When someone else pointed out how some of his Beamships were built out of a specific brand of garbage can Meier said that the Pleiadans had attempted to transmit Beamship schematics to our primitive minds telepathically but the best we got was a garbled message that some industrial designers turned into garbage cans.

Treguna Mekoides posted:

If anyone actually has information about this creature, especially if you're Brazilian or Portuguese, please free me.

Log082 posted:

Let's talk about vaguely plausible sea monsters, then!

My personal favorite is the Lusca, a giant octopus said to live in the "blue hole" in the Bahamas, which are huge, flooded vertical caves that connect with each other and the ocean. The inland holes are typically freshwater on top and salt water on the bottom. People that go missing in blue holes are often attributed to the Lusca, and supposedly even strong swimmers vanish without blood or gore, ruling out drownings and shark attacks (if, of course, you believe the accounts claims about swimming prowess.) Sharks and other marine predators are also ruled out because many of these supposed attacks occur in the inland holes, which connect to the ocean only through caves far too narrow to admit anything - except, perhaps, a soft bodied octopus.

As with pretty much every cryptid, there are eyewitness accounts of varying believability, and even a reported body: https://web.archive.org/web/20110122221133/http://freeport.nassauguardian.net/national_local/76226686916908.php There was also a River Monsters episode on the cryptid, though I haven't seen it. Jeremy Wade was always more fun when he was tracking down some obscure species of arapaima, anyway, though I do appreciate the mix of skepticism and willingness to play along that he brought to the more out there episodes.

FreudianSlippers posted:

30 meters as long as the largest blue whales. Blue whales being he largest animal ever to exist. That thing would have to weight at least a 100 tons. I'm no kaiju biologist but I think it would be pretty difficult for something that large to walk around on just two legs

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's pretty evident that the whole "proving the skeptics wrong" aspect of cryptozoology is just as important (if not even more important) than the scientific discovery aspect for most of the people who by into it.

feedmyleg posted:

Yup. Here's the transcript of a secretly-taped conversation between captured top German nuclear physicists finding out about the atomic bomb for the first time. They talk candidly about how disorganized and barebones the Nazis were when it came to developing anything of massive scale during the war.

It's pretty fascinating to read through:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Bigfoots have been reported in every US state and East Texas is a real hot spot. They've been holding bigfoot conferences/conventions in Texas for several decades now

Brandfarlig posted:

It's also "interesting" that there's only one footprint when the surrounding ground is soft too.

PurpleXVI posted:

I recently stumbled on a new conspiracy theory which I guess is tangentially related to "hollow earth" stuff. The idea that there's a perpetual titanic underground war, which is supposed to explain things like unexpected earthquakes. It also seems to be connected to covid insanity somehow???

https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1667640020629323776?s=46

Complete with giant, elaborate maps of the UNDERGROUND ROUTES and UNDERGROUND BATTLE ZONES. Don't ask me why there's a grid of giant tunnels underneath Greenland in particular, though.

Anyone bumped into this one before?

Nenonen posted:

In Finland two twin brothers and one of theirs fiancee, all three who were candidates in this spring's parliamentary elections, are being suspected of treason. The reason for treason was that they believe Finland is being invaded through underground tunnels and to prove this they have been recording videos around army bases and depots and posting them online.




All of this is so marginal of marginal that it didn't make any headlines during the elections, only afterwards when they were indicted. Of course they are educated people, does not occur on normal idiots.
//conspiracychat

Telsa Cola posted:

I will take any allies in the battle against all those educational channels which decided to loving nuke the educational aspects of their programing and go with garbage poo poo.

I am still bitter and always will be.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

EDIT: oh boy, a lot of the articles I read repeat that line from Wikipedia that the earliest known mention of drop bears in print was from 1982, if someone with Wikipedia editing privileges could add a mention of the 1967 article that might help future "researchers"

AmiYumi posted:

And anyone else can edit it back, and there’s a certain type of “anyone else” that spends all day every day refreshing pages to watch for edits that don’t fit their agenda. They have more time and patience than you do.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The wikipedia page for drop bears is 'semi protected' because of past vandalism and only "established editors" can change it

nonathlon posted:

I've sometimes said that a particular event is a mystery but not mysterious. Roanoke? The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa? The death of Elisa Lam? The Flannan Isle lighthouse keepers? Mysteries - we don't know exactly what happened, but plausible explanations are possible that are probably correct.

There's far fewer cases that are really mysterious, where you struggle to make any sense or explanation. To pick an example, the Fausto disappearance.

nonathlon posted:

Right - if you subtracted him from the story, it would be easier to believe in some joint misadventure by the crew. They were drug smuggling, decided to run away to South America, etc. But he's there - so you instead have to ask what happened to them.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Here's a special one I just found in another thread: a cryptid which is also a conspiracy



Here's the entire fake article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210124151007/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilled_Antelope

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Here's a similar graphic, with dates & locations

quote:

An experienced female investigator on a BFRO expedition in the WA Cascades, along with her female friend, were in a tent around midnight when they both got zapped mildly.