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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Crazy Forteana event caught on film, a huge flock of blackbirds drops out of the sky and smashes into the ground leaving dozens of them dead or stunned I saw the video for that in some other thread. It's way more abrupt and active than I would've guessed, it really does look more like an intentional change in flight (with unintended consequences) than the vague "birds falling out of the sky" I initially expected.
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Captain Hygiene posted:One that sounds interesting but I haven't watched yet is MOMO: The Missouri Monster. Apparently it's a split between a modern documentary* and a faux 1970s-style recreation of whatever cryptid events allegedly went on back then. FYI I watched this and it was pretty fun. Definitely on the straightfaced campy side, especially for the faux 70s stuff (which turned out to be a fictional film adaptation of the incident discussed by the modern 'documentary' segments). Anyways it was a fun weekend watch. Snooze Cruise posted:That one is done by small town monsters, which imo if ya post in this thread you should check out their stuff I hadn't heard of them before, but I'll definitely be following up.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:E: the Animal Planet show 'Extinct or Alive' went looking for giant lemurs not too long ago but didn't find any That guy has a new series out called "Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante" where he travels around to areas where there's been reports of a specific cryptid and tries to track it down and prove what it is one way or the other. I just watched episode 2 where he goes to hunt down to Ozark Howler and without giving too much away it's not your typical cryptid hunting show. A few people have uploaded the episode to Youtube if you don't have a subscription to the relevant streaming services https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD9ItKTO_yY I won't spoil the ending but although I'm pretty sure his previous show was mostly real and only somewhat scripted/faked for the camera, but I'm leaning hard in the other direction on this one
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Wanna watch a dude who looks like a real life wizard search for fairies? Heck yes you do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhypaOgXuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OfyqFr3lo4&t=1114s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAK2eR7bcqE Erwin Saunders is a delight, I demand everyone in this thread subscribe to his channel.
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BrownPepper posted:LOL at the end of the day it always comes back to "whatever pays the bills". Yeah, even as a self-righteous reductionist and skeptic if I were to stumble into a cryptozoological gravy train, I'd go all in. it beats working.
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Cry Wilderness is the best Bigfoot movie. He likes coke and rock music!
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twistedmentat posted:Cry Wilderness is the best Bigfoot movie. drat, he sounds like a party animal!
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:Yeah, even as a self-righteous reductionist and skeptic if I were to stumble into a cryptozoological gravy train, I'd go all in. it beats working. There's a ghost hunting channel that years ago accidentally uploaded a video where they left in a blooper - guy off screen pushed open a door as the "ghost" too early and the guy behind the camera chided him. I went and checked out the channel a few months back and they were still getting great views.
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I hope this wasn't posted ITT yet but this is a great takedown of Bob Lazar. It falls along the same lines as the discussion above - the very human reasons behind doubling down on a grift. (To quote the article, "It's about saving his rear end.") https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/looking-at-the-bob-lazar-story-from-the-perspective-of-2018/ I sometimes wonder about John A. Keel and other writers like him. I'll use a similar, made-up person because I don't know his exact career trajectory: John A. Peele is a 20-year-old kid and wants to be a journalist. By chance, he gets to do a story on a weird local phenomenon. This gets the attention of an editor at Fortean Magazine, who hires Peele. Pleased that he has a steady income, Peele taps into something big when he starts doing UFO reports. Bigger paychecks come in. He sort of knows most of this stuff is nonsense. Does he ruin his unusual career path by announcing that to the public? Well, imagine an established "paranormal journalist" trying to reset his life... Peele goes on to write some best-selling UFO/cryptid books! Even decades later, movie producers contact him for the rights to one of his books. The money never stopped.
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:Yeah, even as a self-righteous reductionist and skeptic if I were to stumble into a cryptozoological gravy train, I'd go all in. it beats working. Hell yeah, me too. And you'd being doing a lot less harm than a lot of "real" jobs. Groovelord Neato posted:There's a ghost hunting channel that years ago accidentally uploaded a video where they left in a blooper - guy off screen pushed open a door as the "ghost" too early and the guy behind the camera chided him. I went and checked out the channel a few months back and they were still getting great views. I think this goes back to the "reality" of these shows being another level of artifice for viewers. I'm sure some people are still watching this stuff out of genuine belief in whatever ghosts or monsters but a lot of people just want a spooky show and pretending it's real makes it scarier. Then once you realize its super cheap to film grainy footage in abandoned school or whatever the industry takes it from there. Most of these new shows are more like disposable youtube content (sometimes very entertaining!) than the more serious minded documentary style shows (which are also goofy to be clear- I just have an aesthetic preference for them). Edit: worse grammar errors than the ones i left uncorrected BrownPepper has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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I used to love the ghost hunters live specials on Halloween because it revealed just how much they had to edit down to get an actual episode of the show not to be boring or super obvious that it was all hokum.
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:I hope this wasn't posted ITT yet but this is a great takedown of Bob Lazar. It falls along the same lines as the discussion above - the very human reasons behind doubling down on a grift. (To quote the article, "It's about saving his rear end.") The list of reasons to believe Lazar is what I saw touted recently with people suggesting that maybe he is telling the truth. It was weird because all of that is either circumstantial or reported by Lazar himself. The only real evidence he had was that pay stub, which as this guy says, probably is from when he was just a computer toucher for the base. I do like how its possible the UFO story comes from him trying to stay out of jail for bringing his friends to watch super secret weapon tests.
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It's finally time for another excursion into the world of British Cryptids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-lAdhxX7U
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On the conspiracy front, Netflix recently An Unlikely Murderer, a drama about the supposedly assassin of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. It's a well put together, well acted show ... that I ultimately can't recommend because even the story told within the show is thin and implausible. The Swedish police have essentially said "this is the guy, case closed" to an outcry of disbelief. Which leaves us with the unpalatable idea that someone killed a head of state in plain sight, got away and we still don't know who they are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_Engstr%C3%B6m_(suspected_murderer)
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Napoleon Nelson posted:It's finally time for another excursion into the world of British Cryptids: I love how true to the 1970s documentary aesthetic these things are and I'm really looking forward to the inevitable day that one of his videos goes viral and people become convinced that these entirely made up cryptids not only exist but have decades or centuries of lore behind them. The fake Wordsworth quote at the beginning of this video is so great, it almost reminds me of a Borges short story.
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Based on how flimsy most cryptid origins are, I can definitely see them catching on and just becoming real folklore.
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I saw the Stagmen one a while ago, and I honestly believed that it was a genuine bit of British folklore, and I’m from here.
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Me too. I had recently read The Gallows Pole a pretty good historical novel about 18th century coin clippers and one main character has frequent visions of Stagmen. So I just assumed they were some obscure piece of northern folklore
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Wait, are they completely inventing the cryptids? I assumed they were just highlighting real legends.
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And thus we have all just learned a very valuable lesson in verifying information using multiple sources 
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The_Doctor posted:I saw the Stagmen one a while ago, and I honestly believed that it was a genuine bit of British folklore, and I’m from here. The Stagmen one is their masterpiece.
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Rascar Capac posted:The Stagmen one is their masterpiece. lol this is great. I don't know how I've never watched one of their videos before, everyone on the fence get off and watch em right now.
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Napoleon Nelson posted:It's finally time for another excursion into the world of British Cryptids: Coincidentally enough the latest episode of Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante features a pretty similar story, where he 'proves' that the Lake Chelan Dragon was actually just some big ol' sturgeons that had been living there after the lake was dammed in the 1930s but had since died out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXOITep866E By extraordinary coincidence he just happens to go diving in the exact right spot in the 50 mile long lake to discover sturgeon scutes that had been sitting there for decades waiting for him to stumble over them, what amazing luck! I'm sure he didn't buy them off eBay for this stunt or anything
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So this is about 30 years old Tic Tac UFO much? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnofCyaWhI0
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Crossposting from the UFO thread of all places: https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1500482391395254276
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a woman with multiple fox tails has arrived at my door. she says she is a traveling saleswoman but this tweet has me suspicious.
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Snooze Cruise posted:a woman with multiple fox tails has arrived at my door. she says she is a traveling saleswoman but this tweet has me suspicious. Wife her up immediately
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Everyone knows foxes are the most trustworthy of all Japanese spirits, so I say trust her
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Honestly, I feel like gambling on whatever hellworld surprise Tamamo-no-Mae had in mind is a pretty safe bet at this point
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"Hahaha! At last, after a thousand years, I am free to destroy the wor- oh. Oh poo poo. I, uh, guess you folks are already beating me to it."
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Alpha, Tamamo-no-Mae's escaped. Assemble a team of geologists with attitude.
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a kitten posted:Everyone knows foxes are the most trustworthy of all Japanese spirits, so I say trust her I liked how in Ghost of Tsushima you could pet them.
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twistedmentat posted:I liked how in Ghost of Tsushima you could pet them.  https://twitter.com/canyoupetthedog/status/1433804195279278085 
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1stGear posted:"Hahaha! At last, after a thousand years, I am free to destroy the wor- oh. Oh poo poo. I, uh, guess you folks are already beating me to it." Never shoulda touched the black sarcophagus
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So I just finished rereading The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, which compiles a selection of fantastical creatures from literature, mythology, and folklore, and I was reminded of the existence of the rather silly creatures from Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox. Animals such as the Axehandle Hound, a dog shaped like an axe that subsists on axehandles; the Goofus Bird, which flies backwards because it's more interested in where it came from than where it's going; and the Gumberoo, a massive, fat, hairless bear whose skin is almost indestructible but which catastrophically explodes when exposed to fire. Now, I could go on and on about these things and other similar legends but I was just kind of curious about what the thread's favorite silly cryptids and legenary creatures are. Although I'm not personally a huge fan I'd like to throw in a shout out to the Fresno nightcrawler for being from my hometown and just being a walking pair of pants, it doesn't get much sillier than that.
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I actually don't know about too many particularly silly ones, although I'm on board with the Gumberoo now. And yeah, the Fresno Nightcrawler makes me laugh every time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URBxJvwSzZw
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This swaggy motherfucker: Thirding the Fresno Nightcrawler as well.
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I love Fresno Nightcrawlers, but I also love Kansas' cryptid, Sinkhole Sam. A huge worm some dudes saw in the 20s near Inman. Just a big earthworm the size of a tire, hanging out in a sinkhole and never seen again.
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