Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

twistedmentat posted:

I like how there's all pictures of assorted crackpots and grifters, and then Garrett Wang is there.

Phy posted:

I don't know enough about the guy to really crack jokes, but this:

and that it's a signed publicity photo do make a certain kind of suggestion

Though I have heard that his podcast where he shoots the poo poo with with Robert Duncan "Tom Paris" McNeill about Voyager is pretty good

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

Knormal posted:

So I know this thread is more for cryptids than ghost stuff, but I was tuning into a channel early before a bigfoot show and caught the end of a Ghost Adventures, so that's my tenuous link. Mostly I just wanted to share this because I've never seen such convincing evidence of a vicious paranormal attack.

https://i.imgur.com/CPJx8bj.mp4

McGavin posted:

poo poo like that is why I love Ghost Adventures.

Knormal posted:

So I know this thread is more for cryptids than ghost stuff, but I was tuning into a channel early before a bigfoot show and caught the end of a Ghost Adventures, so that's my tenuous link. Mostly I just wanted to share this because I've never seen such convincing evidence of a vicious paranormal attack.

https://i.imgur.com/CPJx8bj.mp4

twistedmentat posted:

That ghost is a jerk! Rubbing that poor guys head like it will grant him luck.

Knormal posted:

So I know this thread is more for cryptids than ghost stuff, but I was tuning into a channel early before a bigfoot show and caught the end of a Ghost Adventures, so that's my tenuous link. Mostly I just wanted to share this because I've never seen such convincing evidence of a vicious paranormal attack.

https://i.imgur.com/CPJx8bj.mp4

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So many video clips of Thylacine's have been getting around for so many years now that I thought it was time for me to put the best of them all together in one clip. Two of the clips in this video have never been released on You Tube EVER before. You might be forgiven for thinking that some of this footage is worth big bucks, but there is no pot of gold in trying to film a Thylacine, contrary to popular belief. In late 2017/early2018, Forest Galante's Production company offered me $100 for the use of 4 of these clips. Naturally I declined their scabby offer. Even after they dug real deep a few months later and made another counter offer to me of $2000 for the use of only 2 of our video clips, (to be used in Forests now cancelled "program" Extinct or alive), now officially extinct, I still declined and said no to their offer. A man has to have some principles in life. As a result, when Forests show on the Thylacine went to air, he had zero visuals to work with and never really gained much traction. Since then he has made all sorts of outrageous claims to try and stay relevant and look useful. Hopefully Forest raises the money he needs to fund his trip to New Guinea so he can go and mix with the locals over there and maybe find Jesus instead. Recently he made the ridiculous claim that Nick Mooney told him that Nick had seen 2 Thylacine's from a tent once... Claims which Nick has now categorically denied...Anyway, I'm sure that fate will show its hand sooner or later and Forest will actually prove something other than his teeth are really shiny.... and that he needs $5,000,000 to fund his next "program". The best of luck to you Forest !!

Knormal posted:

After talking about how unexplainable the shadow was for all that time they went back to the room and recreated the photo and the exact same shadow turned up again, I forget what the cause was but it was something like the camera flash reflecting off something at a weird angle. They all acknowledged this was the cause, case closed.

Then they just carried on ghost hunting with absolutely no self-reflection on what just happened.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Here's the key moment in the recent Expedition Bigfoot episode where a 'cloaked' invisible bigfoot runs from right to left immediately in front of them and casts a shadow on the cliff face behind it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P96NfnW17g

They freaked the gently caress out about this and couldn't sleep that night and just wouldn't stop talking about it and they spent a large chunk of the next episode talking about it as well. They did all the usual reality TV things of slowing down the footage and zooming in and 'enhancing' and they kept saying stuff like "I can't prove it but instinctually I know that was the shadow of a bigfoot!!!" and "As a scientist I just can't explain what I saw!!!"

It's the shadow of the tiny reed immediately in front of them in the bottom left corner of the screen, projected onto the canyon wall so it's the size of a tall figure. Someone to the left of camera is shining a really strong light on the reed and when they moved to the right it made the shadow jump to the left, and when the woman in the shot shines her torch on the same spot the shadow 'disappears' because the light from her torch washes it out.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

He also slags off TV cryptid hunter Forrest Galante in the video description, lol

Knormal posted:

No jaw-dropping discoveries or anything, but they rediscovered some lost subspecies and had some other interesting finds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_or_Alive

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No confirmed live tortoises nor remains were found on Fernandina until an expedition in February 2019 discovered a potential endling, an elderly female. The tortoise was transferred to a breeding center on nearby Santa Cruz Island, for the purpose of conservation and genetic tests. There are efforts being made to find a suitable male breeding mate for the female.

The 2019 expedition was undertaken by the Galapagos National Park Directorate and Galapagos Conservancy and was led by Washington Tapia-Aguilera— Director of Conservation at the Galapagos Conservancy and director of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative — and included four rangers: Jeffreys Málaga, Eduardo Vilema, Roberto Ballesteros, and Simon Villamar. The search and discovery were shown in Forrest Galante's television show, Extinct or Alive (season 2, episode 1). While some accounts have credited Galante with the discovery, this is disputed by Tapia-Aguilera who has highlighted that "Ecuadorian park ranger Jeffreys Málaga was the one that knew the land, tracked the tortoise, and ultimately made the discovery before calling over the rest of the team."

Galante himself wrote in his 2021 memoir that Málaga spotted the tortoise, prompting Galante to race toward it and lift it up. He continued to accuse Tapia-Aguilera of erasing Galante’s own involvement in the discovery to bolster his career, and said he’d have been glad to give the local biologists the lead and share credit with them had they asked. The Galapagos Conservancy has reportedly launched further expeditions to Fernandina Island searching for a male tortoise, rebuffing Galante’s attempts to collaborate again.

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In 2018, a leopard was recorded on Unguja Island by a camera trap set during filming of the Animal Planet series Extinct or Alive. Some authorities do not consider this video to be reliable evidence due to the exact locality of the video being unknown, and few reliable sources have picked up on it. However, its author (Forrest Galante) has defended its authenticity. Although the footage definitely shows a leopard, the exact pattern of rosettes remains unclear, and it could be a feral African leopard introduced to Zanzibar. DNA evidence may be the only way to verify this video.

Knormal posted:

Somewhere early in the chupacabra mythos this got posted as a photo of a chupacabra despite looking more like a Boglin:

I always figured it helped serve as as halfway point between the vaguely humanoid original chupacabra and the mangy dogs that usually get associated with it now. If you accept this as the "true" look of the creature I can see how you could justify to yourself how the original witness misinterpreted a quick view of this as the grey-alien-with-spikes thing as they have a few features in common (big almond-shaped eyes, flat nose, three-fingered hands), but also find commonalities with a decaying dog corpse.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I've been trying to look into it and the earliest internet copies of that image I can find are from 2008, although that's not conclusive. Curiously, one of the very earliest images I could find seemed to be from a Japanese magazine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070920195100/http://ryou.blog2.petitmall.jp/blog-date-200703.html

..... which looks like it had the caption チュパカブラ which google translate says is Japanese for "chupacabra" so that doesn't help much!

But I did also find this 1996 webpage about chupacabras which is an amazing internet time capsule: http://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html
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Charles Ford posted:

I'm not convinced as to the quality of this infographic, since I know there's been a few bigfoot sightings in the Bay Area (e.g. Mt. Diablo, Santa Cruz Mountains, and maybe Daly City but I may be misremembering a werewolf report for that one) and yet they have the Giants in the 0 section there.

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“Robert Oechsler, a man whose motives in the field are at best mercenary. He has at one point or another involved himself in virtually every aspect of ufology. Mr. Oechsler has been variously described as a clown, a fraud and even a con-man - in 1991 he attempted to involve several of his then friends in the UFO field in some sort of bizarre pyramid scheme in which participants were to send him money via Federal Express (so as to avoid federal laws governing mail fraud – telling at least one associate that he intended to make several hundred thousand dollars . . . Mr. Oechsler has also made a series of fantastic claims concerning his alleged discoveries of various secret government UFO related projects including an operational anti-gravity chamber, sophisticated anti-alien defence installations, a wide-ranging program to educate the general public as to the reality of the UFO phenomenon and others too tedious to detail here . . . It is virtually certain that most if not all of Mr. Oechsler's claims are fraudulent and he has intimated to Walt Andrus, International Director of the Mutual UFO Network, that he fabricated at least some of the material.”

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1) The Labaneks, Bobby Charlebois, Pavel Farfara and possibly others were involved in creating a Hoax video and distributing it as a recording of a 'UFO landing'.
2) That Susan Gill's story was used to pad the Carp event, even though her 'event' occurred (if at all) at a different time.
3) Oechsler used his manipulative ability to build a story even though he knew of the circumstances and exactly what was going on and together with Bruce Maccabee, intentionally misled the public, the media and ufology using unethical means, and bad judgement in order to benefit financially and personally.
4) That the Guardian video of a 'UFO landing' has, after analysis, proved inconclusive and likely is either a pick-up truck or (according to the RCMP investigation) a helicopter.