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Cover has a real choose your own adventure vibe, I think both the art and choice of font/style. Really adds to the vibe for me. Will human beings be the next victims? You decide!
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Charles Ford posted:Cover has a real choose your own adventure vibe, I think both the art and choice of font/style. the hilarious thing is that the answer is a resounding no and the book's argument is that the whole thing is a con job by grifters and fanatics but the publisher still had to push that angle
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cattle mutilation stories always seem a bit "humans surprised by behavior of scavengers" to me the organs have been removed, you say? the soft delicious parts?
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:cattle mutilation stories always seem a bit "humans surprised by behavior of scavengers" to me Lmao right? All the damage was concentrated around the face and anal+genital reasons? Freaky, spooky! Until you learn that orifices are the easiest way into the body so scavengers get into them first. What gets me is the absolute refusal to learn fairly well understood and easy to find out facts about the natural world.
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SURGICAL PRECISION.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:cattle mutilation stories always seem a bit "humans surprised by behavior of scavengers" to me Yeah, cattle mutilations were ~99% just cattle dropping dead and getting their bits et by scavengers and maybe ~1% degenerate weirdos killing stuff to get off.
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But what if those degenerates....were aliens 
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one time a cow's butthole just did that
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:one time a cow's butthole just did that I have a feeling many farmers wouldn't rule out anything a cow's butthole might do.
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Today’s movie recommendation is Endangered Species (1982) - easily the best cattle-mutilation-centric conspiracy thriller. If you wish, double-feature it with the scrappy schlock-horror Mutilations (1986).
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:one time a cow's butthole just did that 
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Cattle mutilations are done by Lee Harvey Oswald. He didn't have anything to do with Kennedy though that was a psychic attack.
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Zelia Edgar is cool and has been making videos for ages with no love and deserves it. https://www.youtube.com/@JustAnotherTinFoilHat/videos
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Here's a trailer for an upcoming movie about a famous cryptozoological case, Gef the Talking Mongoose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUa8R9oRu0
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Ok that looks terrible, but a bunch of fun. Simon Pegg doing his best Christophe Waltz impression! Christopher Lloyd! Neil Gaiman?! Gef the talking mongoose is such an odd case, because on the face of it, it’s clearly a fraud. But people seemed so willing to believe in it despite all the obvious to the contrary. I remember reading about it as a kid and even then I was “how did people fall for this??”
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The_Doctor posted:Ok that looks terrible, but a bunch of fun. Simon Pegg doing his best Christophe Waltz impression! Christopher Lloyd! Neil Gaiman?! The same way people fall for anything else: gaslighting themselves into believing there is wonder/intrigue in the world as an escapist fantasy from the brutal hell of a banal, pointless existence.
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SkeletonHero posted:The same way people fall for anything else: gaslighting themselves into believing there is wonder/intrigue in the world as an escapist fantasy from the brutal hell of a banal, pointless existence. And the void has stared back at me.
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The_Doctor posted:Ok that looks terrible, but a bunch of fun. Simon Pegg doing his best Christophe Waltz impression! Christopher Lloyd! Neil Gaiman?! Hell, I prefer this fraud to another movie lionizing the loving Warrens at least.
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mycatscrimes posted:Hell, I prefer this fraud to another movie lionizing the loving Warrens at least.
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ABC (Alien Big Cat) spotted in Germany https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1681899247803703296 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66254908 None of the local zoos or circuses are missing a lion, it could just turn out to be a large, tan-colored dog 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:ABC (Alien Big Cat) spotted in Germany I was just thinking of trying to track this story down to post here. I'm definitely not wanting to claim what it is or isn't, but its head looks way more like a lion at the end of that video than I would've expected. I wonder if there's any chance some rich large animal owner could've lost one somehow, hopefully they'll actually find it to have some closure.
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quote:Police spokesperson Daniel Keip told RBB that "in the summer you often hear reports of crocodiles in swimming lakes and then it turns out all it was, was a big duck."
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Strange how it cuts off on the exact frame before you'd be able to identify it 
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I mean it's not like pet lions are unheard of, especially unreported ones.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I mean it's not like pet lions are unheard of, especially unreported ones. One of my dad's friend lived in a trailer with a 10 foot backyard fence they kept a full grown lion in. I wish I had a copy of their epic family photo of a large redneck family in denim with a bigass lion laid out in front of them.
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Cryptids & Conspiracies: turns out all it was, was a big duck
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Captain Hygiene posted:Cryptids & Conspiracies: turns out all it was, was a big duck No wonder it's so big, eating all those tourists and what not.
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At least in the American south there are a huge number of legally and illegally cages pet lions. Not sure about Germany.
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There's also a slight chance it could be a CG hoax, there's a computer animation college in Canada where one of the course projects is to create a fake viral video such as the video of a golden eagle snatching a baby in a park from a few years back
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yeah i was going to say it does look off to me but i am not really a CG person so i dunno if I am just reading into things.
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2 cops have seen it, too, according to the news yesterday. It's definitely a lioness The Berlin suburbs are literally in lockdown
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Amphigory posted:2 cops have seen it, too, according to the news yesterday. It's definitely a lioness oh yikes lol.
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The_Doctor posted:Ok that looks terrible, but a bunch of fun. Simon Pegg doing his best Christophe Waltz impression! Christopher Lloyd! Neil Gaiman?! Exactly. It's such a lazy, low energy fraud. And it's not like Gef had any inspirational or clever message to impart, had a dramatic story, or aligned with any appealling beliefs. It's an unconvincing mongoose that talks rubbish. Why this case embedded itself in forteana is a mystery.
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Amphigory posted:2 cops have seen it, too, according to the news yesterday. It's definitely a lioness Don't forget that the good ol' Loveland Frog was originally sighted & reported by a police officer, it turned out to be an iguana with a missing tail There's also been several instances in the UK where the police have mobilized dozens of officers and helicopters in response to a report of a tiger on the loose only for them to discover it was a stuffed toy or a lifesize garden ornament Of course sometimes they actually turned out to be a big cat that someone had secretly been keeping as a pet which escaped Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 09:38 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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That video is the perfect cryptid video. Dark, partially covered by vegetation, just vague enough that it could be a lion or any animal of similar size. I'm pretty sceptical, the tail of the critter in the video looks too short. I know some cops said they saw it, but cops aren't renowned for their animal identification skills. I don't have a good guess for what it could be, though. Maybe a big calf based on the tail?? So many people armed with so many cameras should have turned up something at this point. Winklebottom has a new favorite as of 10:05 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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nonathlon posted:Exactly. It's such a lazy, low energy fraud. And it's not like Gef had any inspirational or clever message to impart, had a dramatic story, or aligned with any appealling beliefs. It's an unconvincing mongoose that talks rubbish. Why this case embedded itself in forteana is a mystery. It's because gef owns
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nonathlon posted:Exactly. It's such a lazy, low energy fraud. And it's not like Gef had any inspirational or clever message to impart, had a dramatic story, or aligned with any appealling beliefs. It's an unconvincing mongoose that talks rubbish. Why this case embedded itself in forteana is a mystery. I'm gonna tell Gef you said this, and he'll kick your rear end.
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Boring news, I’m afraid. They’ve called off the lion search. They haven’t found anything but suspect it is a boar based on the tail and curve of the back.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Don't forget that the good ol' Loveland Frog was originally sighted & reported by a police officer, it turned out to be an iguana with a missing tail I believe in the Loveland Frog wizards, they obviously cast disguise self to look like iguanas!
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Don't take the Berlin Lioness away from me! Boooo!
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