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FreudianSlippers posted:A whole YouTube channel's worth Link in case anyone hasn't already subbed: https://www.youtube.com/@BritishCryptids E: here's the latest ghost hunting vid from that Australian ex-kickboxer I posted earlier. This time they're exploring an abandoned TB asylum and they have an app on their phone which apparently lets ghosts answer 'yes or no' questions and they keep asking the ghosts to use the app. 1930s ghosts don't know what apps are, you loving idiots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2BL8wN1rQ Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 12:29 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 12:12
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Good point. All those ghosts know how to do is be heterosexual, eat hot dripping and die.
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Mar 30, 2023 12:35
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NGL if that guy was local to me I'd be tempted to volunteer as a cameraman on these ghost hunting expeditions
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Mar 30, 2023 13:01
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Tree Bucket posted:There are British cryptids? Yeah, you have large house cats with names like the Boggy Bottom Tiger, or the Snodsbury Panther.
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Mar 30, 2023 13:42
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What about Black Shuck, the big ghost dog.... thing. It even has a rock song about it! ...But yeah, most British cryptids are just... slightly larger than usual cats or dogs, found near various marshes and the like
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Mar 30, 2023 13:48
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Nessie! The mother of all the lake monsters! …and Black Shuck only has one giant cyclopic eye! But yeah, our cryptids are mostly big cats and dogs. We don’t need cryptids anyway, we’re awash in ghosts.
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Mar 30, 2023 13:59
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Oh yeah, right - Nessie!  (I mean, isn't that basically just a bunch of worn/old tractor tires and some rubber tubing someone tossed in there a while ago, that drifts to the surface now and again?  )
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Mar 30, 2023 14:03
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Then what did St Columba see in 565AD then, HMMM?
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Mar 30, 2023 14:10
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The UK even has bigfoot sightings now, it's open slather
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Mar 30, 2023 14:15
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The uk got me hooked on nessie but the rest of their cryptic taxa is like "normal animal found in an uncommon place" or a dog that made a deal with satan
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Mar 30, 2023 14:22
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endocriminologist posted:The uk got me hooked on nessie but the rest of their cryptic taxa is like "normal animal found in an uncommon place" or a dog that made a deal with satan The mythical Non-Good Boy
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Mar 30, 2023 14:30
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The_Doctor posted:Then what did St Columba see in 565AD then, HMMM? Oh, it was probably just a lost elephant, going for a dip! 
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Mar 30, 2023 14:31
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Other non-Nessie UK cryptids include Owlman (first sighted 1976), the Ratman of Southend, the Pig-Man of Cannock Chase and Spring-Heeled Jack The Terror Of London (first sighted in 1837).    
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Mar 30, 2023 14:34
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Oh, interesting! So that's where TES4 Oblivion pinched Springheel Jack from. Since you can get his boots in that game, which give you amazing jumping ability
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Mar 30, 2023 14:36
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St Columba found and destroyed sea monsters in every body of water he crossed. Nessie's appearance corresponds to the first Scottish showing of the Lost World film which ends with this scene of a dinosaur swimming
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Mar 30, 2023 14:43
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endocriminologist posted:or a dog that made a deal with satan That feels far more like a cat thing.
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Mar 30, 2023 14:47
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Cats don't need "Make a deal with Satan" DLC, it comes pre-bundled
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Mar 30, 2023 14:58
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Other non-Nessie UK cryptids include Owlman (first sighted 1976), the Ratman of Southend, the Pig-Man of Cannock Chase and Spring-Heeled Jack The Terror Of London (first sighted in 1837). Spring-Heeled Jack appears to just be a guy wearing a skeleton shirt, he's probably just a member of Spinal Tap
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Other non-Nessie UK cryptids include Owlman (first sighted 1976), the Ratman of Southend, the Pig-Man of Cannock Chase and Spring-Heeled Jack The Terror Of London (first sighted in 1837). That's just Time-Travelling Batman, that's not so weird
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Asterite34 posted:The mythical Non-Good Boy A famous supernatural dog in England is Boy (Sometimes "Boye"). Boy was owned by Prince Rupert of the Rhine a commander in the royalist cavalry during the English Civil War. Rupert, a German prince who was basically the Platonic Ideal of a royalist cavalier, was notorious for the fiery sacking of Birmingham and was often depicted by parliamentary propaganda as a devil worshipper engaged in witchcraft with Boy, who followed his master into battle, as his familiar. It was said that Boy was either some sort of demon or a shapeshifting Sami witch (or "Lapland Lady") and he was thought to have the power to sniff out treasure and catch bullets aimed at his owners in his mouth.  Boy died in the Battle of Marston Moor in June of 1644. Boy was a poodle by the way. An allegedly demonic poodle. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 15:24 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 15:22
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I always liked Spring-Heeled Jack. Just seems like such a great example of a urban legend. The_Doctor posted:Nessie! The mother of all the lake monsters! I have to stand up for the local hero - Champ, and New England sea serpents in general, predate Nessie by decades!
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Mar 30, 2023 16:48
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Chairman Capone posted:I always liked Spring-Heeled Jack. Just seems like such a great example of a urban legend. I like the way Spring-Heeled Jack evolved from an rear end in a top hat urban legend, who set people on fire* or pushed them into sewers, into a penny dreadful hero who threw villainous monks off cliffs.
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Mar 30, 2023 19:47
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I've always liked the ghost chicken. http://www.haunted-london.com/pond-square-ghost.html It was on tv when I was a little kid & scared the poo poo out of me. (I think it was a halloween episode of blue peter)
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Trainee PornStar posted:I've always liked the ghost chicken. https://youtu.be/E28WrhpTzQA
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Mar 30, 2023 21:55
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Tree Bucket posted:There are British cryptids? A Brit with good teeth.
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Mar 30, 2023 23:03
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Ghost of good politics
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Bigfoot on Google Maps https://goo.gl/maps/2zp7mpsieLEUP4yK6  
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Other non-Nessie UK cryptids include Owlman (first sighted 1976), the Ratman of Southend, the Pig-Man of Cannock Chase and Spring-Heeled Jack The Terror Of London (first sighted in 1837). He's just having the time of his life. The_Doctor posted:Nessie! The mother of all the lake monsters!
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Hey Cryptid/Conspiracy/Paranormal thread. Just a quick request for recommendations. I'm re-listening to some of the older episodes of the In Research Of... podcast and they mention that In Search Of... rarely if ever gets into "mainstream science is lying to you" territory, instead keeping to a hopeful, speculative tone. I was wondering if anyone here had any good recommendations for more recent (let's say anything since about the year 2000) non-skeptical TV shows/youtube videos/podcasts/etc. that deals with these kinds of topics without getting into that kind of dark, conspiratorial side of things. To be clear, I'm not a believer, but I think these topics are interesting and fun to think about. Skeptical material can be good in small doses but I like to binge watch/listen to this kind of thing while doing other stuff and it gets a bit exhausting to hear "it's all nonsense" for the 50th time in a row, even if it clearly is. Also, obviously a lot of these topics are inherently conspiratorial, but I think there's a substantial difference in tone between "maybe there are a few secrets that we don't know about" and "all mainstream governmental, media, and academic sources are lying to you!" The former, more speculative tone can be fun to entertain, the latter is just infuriating in the era of Trump and QAnon, and I think even topics that aren't inherently political like ghosts and bigfoot have a tendency these days to get poisoned by that tone. So yeah, I'm basically looking for sources of fun CONTEMPORARY weird stories/speculation/investigation that neither dismiss weird interpretations out-of-hand nor fall into the grand conspiracy rabbit hole. If you're looking for a fictional analogy, think monster-of-the-week episodes of the X-Files or Buffy rather than overarching plot episodes, except "true" for a given value of true.
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stereobreadsticks posted:Hey Cryptid/Conspiracy/Paranormal thread. Just a quick request for recommendations. I'm re-listening to some of the older episodes of the In Research Of... podcast and they mention that In Search Of... rarely if ever gets into "mainstream science is lying to you" territory, instead keeping to a hopeful, speculative tone. I was wondering if anyone here had any good recommendations for more recent (let's say anything since about the year 2000) non-skeptical TV shows/youtube videos/podcasts/etc. that deals with these kinds of topics without getting into that kind of dark, conspiratorial side of things. The Small Town Monsters series has what I feel is a pretty fair coverage of the various cryptids and ufo sightings they've made docs about (though it's super obvious that the animator for the Mothman reenactments is solidly on team 'it was a big barn owl').
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8one6 posted:The Small Town Monsters series has what I feel is a pretty fair coverage of the various cryptids and ufo sightings they've made docs about (though it's super obvious that the animator for the Mothman reenactments is solidly on team 'it was a big barn owl'). Weirdly enough the UK equivalent of Mothman was called Owlman and the first few sightings probably weren't owls, given that its origin was via interviews conducted by Tony 'Doc' Shiels, a noted hoaxer. (Sightings in later years might possibly have been large owls) Here's some of the original eyewitness sketches, it's extremely Mothman-like  This 2001 article about Shiels makes an interesting point about the reported sightings of the Cornish sea monster Morgawr: quote:Altogether there were about twenty two known sightings of Morgawr. It would be tedious to list them all here, but it is worth noting there was a definite pattern to them: the witnesses were either Doc Shiels, or friends of Doc Shiels, or relatives of Doc Shiels, or reported their sightings to Doc Shiels (and to no one else), or else wrote letters describing what they had seen to newspapers and were never interviewed by anyone. Since a letter to a paper might in reality have been written by someone other than the ostensible sender (say, by Doc Shiels), all of this proves either the existence of an acausal connecting principle, or the centrality of Doc Shiels to the saga.
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stereobreadsticks posted:Hey Cryptid/Conspiracy/Paranormal thread. Just a quick request for recommendations. I'm re-listening to some of the older episodes of the In Research Of... podcast and they mention that In Search Of... rarely if ever gets into "mainstream science is lying to you" territory, instead keeping to a hopeful, speculative tone. I was wondering if anyone here had any good recommendations for more recent (let's say anything since about the year 2000) non-skeptical TV shows/youtube videos/podcasts/etc. that deals with these kinds of topics without getting into that kind of dark, conspiratorial side of things.
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Rascar Capac posted:The Cryptid Factor, hosted by Rhys Darby from Flight of the Concords etc, is probably what you're after. Oh nice, Dan Schrieber's involved too? I love No Such Thing As a Fish. Thanks. 8one6 posted:The Small Town Monsters series has what I feel is a pretty fair coverage of the various cryptids and ufo sightings they've made docs about (though it's super obvious that the animator for the Mothman reenactments is solidly on team 'it was a big barn owl'). Thanks for this one too, I think I've seen it mentioned in this thread in the past but haven't checked it out yet. I appreciate it.
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I am a big fan of small town monsters, the beast of bray road one is a classic
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Snooze Cruise posted:I am a big fan of small town monsters, the beast of bray road one is a classic Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNP9b0qjQws You can rent it for $4 via YouTube Movies & TV
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That the dumb Wisconsin werewolf from my teen home Yeah it's super nothing out there
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Snooze Cruise posted:I am a big fan of small town monsters, A lot of them are just reliving their glory days. I ran into the Boggy Creek monster in line at the bank the other day and he was buzzed at 2 in the afternoon, just kept telling me he could have gone pro. No wonder Momo and Mothman never looked back after leaving.
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:A lot of them are just reliving their glory days. I ran into the Boggy Creek monster in line at the bank the other day and he was buzzed at 2 in the afternoon, just kept telling me he could have gone pro. No wonder Momo and Mothman never looked back after leaving. I think they all still have one last ride in them :')
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