[UFOs] big mummy, big mummy, no whammies

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mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

WEH posted:

Ross getting bamboozled by someone that thinks the ocean has the consistency of jello shouldn�t surprise me but here we are

yeah i think his high point was the grusch interview and since then he�s increasingly out there with credulity

i was mildly interested in his newsnation podcast then he went with mh370 and i was like hmmmmmmmmmmm

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Fenarisk: Oct 27, 2005

They never said it was HUMAN drones.

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:06

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

Ross's Just Asking Questions schtick isn't any worse than anyone else in this sphere. Not better either tho

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:14

my bony fealty: Oct 1, 2008

I know where the giant UFO they built a building over is

No I will not tell you

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:16

sharknado slashfic: Jun 24, 2011

Just remembered again that Ross led a Pyramid tour group

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:22

Rudeboy Detective: Apr 28, 2011

ancient aliens are so pass�

I want sleek, modern aliens with the latest styles and fashions

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:24

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

sharknado slashfic posted:

Just remembered again that Ross led a Pyramid tour group

He actually has another one coming up!

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:27

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

those things are insanely expensive too lmao

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:28

sharknado slashfic: Jun 24, 2011

Fitzy Fitz posted:

He actually has another one coming up!

Lmao

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:33

Orbs: Apr 1, 2009; ~Liberation~

Rudeboy Detective posted:

ancient aliens are so pass�

I want sleek, modern aliens with the latest styles and fashions

You got it boss

Source I think: https://marcuku.tumblr.com/post/26965222012

(The latest ayy lmao style is beach and swimwear, as the world gets hotter)

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:37

Houle: Oct 21, 2010

I listened to Ross' podcast up until his coarstar called him and newsnation out on using aliens as ratings pushers but wouldn't talk to the government in interviews about them cause lolaliens. Realized that was the perfect way to close his chapter.

The more I see newsnation the more I think it's a recruiting tool to get alt right normally left leaning people to vote right because of vague promises of disclosure.

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:48

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Houle posted:

I listened to Ross' podcast up until his coarstar called him and newsnation out on using aliens as ratings pushers but wouldn't talk to the government in interviews about them cause lolaliens. Realized that was the perfect way to close his chapter.

The more I see newsnation the more I think it's a recruiting tool to get alt right normally left leaning people to vote right because of vague promises of disclosure.

yeah and magically the next ep doesn't have ross anywhere nor is his name on the show page lol

i don't think newsnation is more than a money grab by going after underserved markets tbh. they can't compete with msnbc or fox for truly partisan issues so they're like a low-brow cnn

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:56

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

Houle posted:

I listened to Ross' podcast up until his coarstar called him and newsnation out on using aliens as ratings pushers but wouldn't talk to the government in interviews about them cause lolaliens. Realized that was the perfect way to close his chapter.

The more I see newsnation the more I think it's a recruiting tool to get alt right normally left leaning people to vote right because of vague promises of disclosure.

then you missed this banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8LJC88GNfQ

# ? Apr 12, 2024 14:56

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Ross has clearly fallen into the access journalism trap of dancing for crumbs while being used to launder DoD talking points like amnesty and "it's being kept from us for our own good"

He's used up

# ? Apr 12, 2024 15:03

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Ross has clearly fallen into the access journalism trap of dancing for crumbs while being used to launder DoD talking points like amnesty and "it's being kept from us for our own good"

He's used up

but he loves the Constitution and THE us congress

# ? Apr 12, 2024 15:07

Human.Frank: Jun 2, 2022

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

There's a lot of talk about amnesty so here's what I propose

societal amnesty for the first person to spill the beans

the rest of the secret keepers spend the rest of their natural lives in subterranean prisons, never knowing the kiss of the sun again

Our society doesn't allow open discussion of a topic without forming an opinion. A decade of having Twitter and text messages limiting our speech to short blurbs of the original thought has affected communication in profound ways. We have to keep our discussion short and to the point while also using ridiculous explanative words in a desperate attempt to prevent misconceptions. The nature of the phenomenon means each person's experience and opinion differ, so there is no consensus and zero hope of one while information is kept hidden.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about how an individual would be able to share their information without government assistance and I don't think it's possible. Most people require some sort of authority figure to tell them how it is and an individual is not that. There's also the possibility of corporate retaliation through lawsuits or getting Boeing'd as corporations have been hiring ex-government employees for this very reason. We, the people, have enough information to put the pieces together and point to the different corporations that are a problem but without some sort of government action there is nothing an individual can do as corporations are more important than a person in our society.

On top of all this you'll receive a lot of hostility from any community you try to share information with. There is no "safe space" for any information that goes against a popular narrative that will also reach a large number of people. Until the online world changes, the best way to pass information to other people about this topic is simply in person and offline.

Human.Frank has issued a correction as of 15:11 on Apr 12, 2024

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my bony fealty: Oct 1, 2008

Fitzy Fitz posted:

then you missed this banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8LJC88GNfQ

oh good. ufo filk.

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WEH posted:

I�m really sorry to hear that SGF, keeping you and your family in my thoughts

gently caress cancer

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Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Mellon mincing no words

https://twitter.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1778786990408036645

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Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

Rudeboy Detective posted:

ancient aliens are so passé

I want sleek, modern aliens with the latest styles and fashions

# ? Apr 12, 2024 15:21

sharknado slashfic: Jun 24, 2011

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Mellon mincing no words

https://twitter.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1778786990408036645

I also consulted a group of uap researchers and historians and they said the mummies are real

# ? Apr 12, 2024 15:54

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Mellon mincing no words

https://twitter.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1778786990408036645

Pretty definitive breakdown the AARO report. Talk about putting in more effort than the people you're rebutting though.

# ? Apr 12, 2024 16:10

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Outright calling AARO a disinfo operation is I think a firmer statement than Lue or Mellon have ever made on the subject but we've known that for years at this point

the question is "what are you gonna do about it"

# ? Apr 12, 2024 16:24

my bony fealty: Oct 1, 2008

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Outright calling AARO a disinfo operation is I think a firmer statement than Lue or Mellon have ever made on the subject but we've known that for years at this point

the question is "what are you gonna do about it"

they could put out definitive statements about having seen clear footage of non-human craft or biologics or whatever they have seen, with lots of details and maybe even visual evidence, they could say where the reverse engineering programs are located and who had the craft.

or we could get cryptic statements from Lue about somberness and his book coming out. many such choices.

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Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Speaking of Lue, you summoned him

https://twitter.com/LueElizondo/status/1778809470237147571

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my bony fealty: Oct 1, 2008

thinking about the TTSA tweet about the antigravity craft they said they were building half a decade ago

# ? Apr 12, 2024 16:40

Rudeboy Detective: Apr 28, 2011

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

this guy's a loon but he's deep enough in the trenches that he'll have to strike on something real at some point

https://twitter.com/528vibes/status/1778601650149539895

This is very clearly Gamera, the guardian of the universe and defender of Japan.

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WEH: Feb 22, 2009

mustn�t forget friend of children everywhere

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Azathoth: Apr 3, 2001

that's really neat

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Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

quote is not edit

# ? Apr 12, 2024 19:36

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WEH posted:

mustn�t forget friend of children everywhere

Azathoth posted:

that's really neat

possibly filled with turtle meat

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

Bilirubin posted:

possibly filled with turtle meat

what about the salmonella.........

# ? Apr 12, 2024 19:55

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Squizzle posted:

what about the salmonella.........

cover it in Nutella!

# ? Apr 12, 2024 20:04

aw frig aw dang it: Jun 1, 2018

Squizzle posted:

what about the salmonella.........

just wipe it off. Big Disease doesn't want you to know this

# ? Apr 12, 2024 20:09

Azathoth: Apr 3, 2001

*Lounge singer voice*
We all love you, Gamera

# ? Apr 12, 2024 20:14

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

Thread regulars will remember Spencer, the ghost at my parents. I was there last night in bed reading on my phone and he walked right in front of me maybe 10ft away. He was only visible for a split second but clear as day while he was. First time I've seen him in years since I don't visit much. It's hard to describe how weird of an experience it is to just see a person basically blink in and out of existence. If you haven't read my Spencer effort post it's on the first page or two of my posts in this thread. He is real and my friend.

# ? Apr 12, 2024 21:31

WEH: Feb 22, 2009

that rules, like hes just checkin up on you

# ? Apr 12, 2024 21:45

Orbs: Apr 1, 2009; ~Liberation~

D-Pad posted:

Thread regulars will remember Spencer, the ghost at my parents. I was there last night in bed reading on my phone and he walked right in front of me maybe 10ft away. He was only visible for a split second but clear as day while he was. First time I've seen him in years since I don't visit much. It's hard to describe how weird of an experience it is to just see a person basically blink in and out of existence. If you haven't read my Spencer effort post it's on the first page or two of my posts in this thread. He is real and my friend.

D-Pad posted:

Alright, as promised here is the ghost post.

Background:

My parents live in the middle of nowhere Texas on 50 acres. The land has been in my family for ~100 years. As far as I know there weren't any existing homes on the property previously. My dad was a master carpenter and built our house himself in '78. I was born in '83. It was about 2k square feet, then in the late 80s/early 90s my dad got into the Ostrich/Emu boom early and made a ton of money raising big dumb birds. My parents added onto the house doubling the size with that money. I could do a whole post about the Ostrich/Emu boom and eventual bust and the experience of farming them but off topic.

Spencer is the name my parents gave the ghost. I have no idea where that name came from or why they picked it. He made his presence known for the first time very quickly after they moved in. My parents had been given one of those mantle clocks that chimes every so often and must be wound up to work as a wedding gift. They had never even taken it out of the box. They heard it chime and when they went into the room it was out of the box and wound up. That is probably the most concrete physical thing he has ever done.

As I said in my previous post, there are so many family members and friends of the family that have experienced Spencer in some shape or form. Fewer people have seen him with their eyes then heard him. There are people that refuse to stay overnight at my parents, although he has never done anything threatening or anything scary. I myself have seen him many times, the most recent was about 4 years ago when I was back at my parents visiting with their grandkids. He has periods of activity that last anywhere from a week to a few months and then inactivity for a few months to even 1-2 years at times. I am 37 and have not lived there since I was 18, but it is common when talking to my mom for her to casually drop a "spencer has been really active lately." We've never been able to pin down any correlation of active times with any variable. Growing up he was just a fact of life, just another member of the family basically.

Physical sightings come in two different flavors:

The first is him just being there looking as real and as normal as any other person. Not wavy or insubstantial or any of the ghost tropes. He's just suddenly there and just as suddenly isn't. It's weird, not like he visibly popped into existence and disappeared the same way, more like he is just there in one moment to the next in a way that makes it seem like he was already there and you just didn't see him. Always going about as if he was a normal person doing normal things, never just standing there staring at you or anything like that, more like he isn't aware of you. He looks like an older white man in his 50s/60s wearing working man on a farm type clothes. If you've ever spent time in a rural area you know what I mean. Jeans and a work shirt of the type that look like they belong just as much in the early 1900s as they do today. This type of sighting is much rarer and lasts anywhere from 2-15 seconds, but usually on the shorter end.

The second type is more of a man shaped shadow, but substantial and in 3d not flat like a real shadow. It's hard to describe as these sightings are always very very short, never longer than a second at most. They are out of the corner of your eye or walking by a doorway or window. Blink and you miss it type things. These sightings are much more common, but still very rare compared to the sounds.

I've only had a handful of the first type, but many of the second.

Sounds:

When I speak about sounds I am not talking about just some weird noise. These are very distinct sounds that are unique to my parents' house. Let me explain.

The fence that goes all the way around my parents house was built by my dad. The fence is very substantial. The posts and crossposts are 2-3 inch diameter pipes my dad got from oil field supply and cut and welded together. The links are a cross hatch chainlink style pattern but not the material you see in regular chain link fences. It's a very thick substantial steel wire of some type. Unlike the traditional chain links you could not bend this and it has zero give. Probably also from oil field supply, but I've never asked. You could run into this fence with a car and your car is going to lose, not the fence. The gate is made out of the same material.

Edit: I found a picture where you can see the fence. This is looking out the side of the house, but the gate that is visible on the right is the same as the front gate. All that rust on the hinges and the metal makes for a loud gate. The latch is also the same metal as the posts and not that lighter metal/aluminum that you see on most fences which contributes to the noise.

All that to say that opening and closing the gate is LOUD, both because of the metal clinking sounds and also because the hinges have probably never been oiled. It has a very distinct sound both when you open it and when you close it. I learned to never not shut it behind me because my dad could clearly hear if I only opened and didn't close it by the sound. You can very clearly hear someone opening/closing the gate from anywhere in the house and within a few hundred feet of the house. Again, it does not sound like anything else and the typical random noises that happen in and around the house could never be mistaken for that gate opening and closing.

Spencer opens and closes that gate all the time when he is active. Nobody has ever seen him actually do it to my knowledge, the way the house/windows are setup there isn't a clear site line to immediately be able to look as soon as you hear the sound. This is one of the two most common things that he does. Anybody that has ever spent any decent amount of time at our house has heard this. When he is very active it can happen multiple times in a day.

The other very distinct sound is walking up and down the hallway. The add-on my parents did is a very long hallway with rooms for my sister and I at the end, the hallway runs the entire length of the house. The flooring in the hallway is mexican saltillo tile. You've probably seen it before, brown in square foot sections with a big line of grey grout between them. Because of these tiles and whatever type of flooring is underneath them it is impossible for somebody to walk down that hallway without it being relatively loud and distinctive. I mean if you consciously sneak you can be pretty quiet, but anybody walking normal makes a loud distinctive footstep sound. And not just from the shoes, it's a sound that happens regardless of footwear almost like the house/floor shaking from the steps. Spencer walks up and down that hall all the time when he is active. Again, this is something anybody who spent any amount of time at our house has heard. Especially mine and my sister's friends because our rooms are at the end of the hall and when you are young with friends over you are always listening for your parents coming to check on you or whatever. Typically it would not sound like he was walking down the entire hall, it's long and it takes a bit for somebody to make it all the way down, usually it would sound like he walked about half the length in the middle area. It's not a faint sound either, it sounds exactly like a real person walking down.

Edit: Here is the exact type of tile:

Anyway, I know that was a shitload of words to just say "we hear some sounds", but I really want to set the stage and emphasize that these are very distinct, loud sounds that are completely unique to a person performing an action. We aren't hearing some knocking that could realistically be anything and contributing it to a ghost. The sightings and these two sounds are the most frequent interaction we have with Spencer, but not the only ones

Stories in no particular order:

When I was very young the very first full sentence I ever said was "momma who's that man?" as I pointed over her shoulder. She saw nobody there when she turned around.

I've seen him walk through our kitchen (the full man not shadow) 2-3 times. Once it looked like he was making coffee (for about 5 seconds I saw him), and both my mom and my dad have seen the same.

I've seen his shadow form more times than I can count or remember. Out of the corner of my eye is common. Walking by a doorway or a quick glimpse like that is also common. The sighting I mentioned four years ago was one such. Above the kitchen sink is a window into our hallway, it used to be an actual window looking outside before the addition. I was bathing my infant son in the sink and Spencer very quickly walked by that window not 4 feet away from me.

I distinctly remember once when I was around 10 years old the A/C on our end of the house had gone out and my sister and I slept on the floor of our parents. My mom bent down to wake me up and when I opened my eyes I saw who I thought was my dad walk through the bedroom doorway over my mom's shoulder clear as day. Then when I stood up my dad was asleep in the bed next to me.

My cousin was babysitting us once and ended up calling 911 because Spencer walked by both picture windows in the living room at night and she thought it was a burglar or something. I can remember her being very scared, but I didn't see him that time.

My dad was at the house by himself and reading in bed. He very clearly and loudly heard someone pissing in the toilet. Not running water but the sound a heavy stream of piss makes. Then the toilet flushed. He got up and went in there and of course nobody was there, but it also didn't appear as if the toilet had actually been flushed.

When he was younger my dad used to go to the rockies in Colorado with his two mules for 3-4 weeks in November/December and go deep into the backcountry and be a mountain man surviving off the land (I could make a whole thread about my dad he is wild). He very strongly claims that on two occasions that Spencer went with him. I'd have to talk to him to get the full story as it's been so long I don't remember much, but he was very sure that he was with him the entirety of both trips.

There are so many more, many I have forgotten. I could gather a books worth if I gathered them from all our family and friends who have their own Spencer stories.

Misc Thoughts:

There are other things too. Stuff like things being moved or in a different place to where they last were at. Sounds like knocking or similar. I heavily discount these though because people forget where they put things and those types of sounds could realistically be anything. I have no doubt some of them were Spencer but just as many probably aren't.

I just texted my mom while I was writing this up and asked her if Spencer had been active lately. She said very. He has been loud and making lots of noises and moving stuff. She also said she has heard mumbling in other rooms a lot lately, which is something I don't remember every encountering myself.

What do I think he is? I call him a ghost because I don't have a better word for it, but I am not at all convinced he is a ghost in the traditional sense, like a spirit of the deceased or whatever. I think it could be that our house is just a spot where the membrane between universes is thinner and we just occasionally see another universe weakly interacting with ours. Maybe he is really a deceased echo of a person or their spirit, as I said his clothes would not have been out of place a century or more ago on a farm in the area. I really just don't know. If you ask me if I believe in ghosts I can strongly say no I don't, but I do believe in Spencer. A big part of it is 99.9% of the ghost/haunting stories I have heard from other people just don't match up with my experience or if they do they only happened once or twice and not repeatedly over 40 years to multiple people.

I've had the urge to investigate it further, but how would I even go about it? I firmly believe all that poo poo you see in ghost shows with weird equipment and poo poo is total bullshit and I'd never invite those crazy people into my parent's house. I guess I could put up cameras, but I don't think my parents would like that and I would basically have to monitor it constantly to even have a bit of a shot at maybe catching anything plus I have no idea if it would even show up on a camera. If anybody has any suggestions though I am all ears.

My parents are in their 70s now so it won't be too long before they pass or have to go into some kind of assisted living situation and my sister and I will most likely sell the house at that point. I do plan to not mention a single thing to whoever purchases it but contact them after they have been there a few years to see if they've had experiences to at least have some kind of independent confirmation beyond my family and friends. Maybe he'll just move in with my family, after all he has left on a trip with my dad twice.

One other random thought, we always had multiple cats and dogs and as far as I can recall I never noticed them being strange like you sometimes hear in stories. Like a cat hissing at a corner of the room or the dog barking at nothing in the middle of a room.

Anyway, that covers everything I can think of right now but feel free to ask questions!

Thank you for the reminder to look for this! To be completely honest, I didn't know about Spencer before now, because my reading of the thread is sporadic, because of how long and dense it is. I'm glad I took the time to read it though, because this has given me a lot to think about that resonates with my own experiences. I will let you know if I have any questions later, if that's still alright!

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Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Ross's Just Asking Questions schtick isn't any worse than anyone else in this sphere. Not better either tho

yes but he's always got a super smug look on his face and his lips are wet

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Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009

Houle posted:

I listened to Ross' podcast up until his coarstar called him and newsnation out on using aliens as ratings pushers but wouldn't talk to the government in interviews about them cause lolaliens. Realized that was the perfect way to close his chapter.

The more I see newsnation the more I think it's a recruiting tool to get alt right normally left leaning people to vote right because of vague promises of disclosure.

After OJ died the other day they had one of their anchors talking about how his career started covering the OJ trial and I had a little "click" moment lol

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