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Post by Djjinja on Nov 21, 2020 21:45:19 GMT
I've always been into historical supernatural stuff as well, especially in regards to folklore. Stories of the tuatha de danann, the fae, and anything else has always captivated me. I don't even rememeber a specific story getting me into the subject either
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Post by seth on Dec 7, 2020 23:24:11 GMT
This song popped up on my playlist the other day, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner:
If you search Youtube, there are versions set to brutal and graphic footage of mercenaries fighting in Africa during this timeframe.
One interesting though is that soldiers have reported seeing Roland in many conflicts since then including the war in Iraq. Going through the Youtube comments there are such reports. Impossible to verify of course.
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Post by treeslicer on Dec 7, 2020 23:51:58 GMT
One interesting though is that soldiers have reported seeing Roland in many conflicts since then including the war in Iraq. Going through the Youtube comments there are such reports. Impossible to verify of course. I wouldn't believe any of those claims. Zevon made the whole thing up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Headless_Thompson_Gunner |
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Post by seth on Dec 8, 2020 17:18:09 GMT
One interesting though is that soldiers have reported seeing Roland in many conflicts since then including the war in Iraq. Going through the Youtube comments there are such reports. Impossible to verify of course. I wouldn't believe any of those claims. Zevon made the whole thing up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Headless_Thompson_Gunner“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.” ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried |
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Post by warriorpoet on Dec 17, 2020 15:25:18 GMT
History (and present) is full of awesome events.
Beast of gevaudan probably wet my whistle for it at the tender age of 9. A wolf thing the size of a donkey, only killed by silver bullets? Plenty of historical documentation that the event happened. I don't buy the hyena explanation personally.
Dogman is super interesting. I used to listen to vic cundiffs dogman encounters on you tube while at work. Helped pass the time. Some accounts are pure nonsense, but some are pretty believable.
The Kentucky greenmen thing a few decades back was interesting. Kentucky seems chock full of weirdness. My theory is it's the caves. Mammoth is the largest in the world and they still haven't charted it all. Ancient humans lived there for thousands of years, and then ten thousand years ago just suddenly abandoned it and never lived there again. Makes you wonder why!
Medieval high weirdness is also cool. Checked out the green children? Lots of UFOs in paintings and such as well. Brother Nate did a good write up on the wildman from that time.
There was also an insurance where bipedal beast creatures wiped out a whole town, I'm blanking but I'll be back and update this.
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Post by warriorpoet on Dec 17, 2020 15:30:15 GMT
My search fu is failing me. I read a historical tale of an entire middle eastern city being destroyed by essentially bipedal wolf like creatures that seemed impervious to harm from sword, arrow or spear.
I'll keep digging, if anyone has heard of this let me know!
I've got some stories I can share later if interested. My dad was stationed in edzell Scotland and I grow up in a cottage that was built in the 1300s. Pretty wild stuff.
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Post by Brother Nathaniel on Dec 17, 2020 15:57:36 GMT
I am absolutely interested in hearing those stories!
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Post by Tiers1 on Dec 24, 2020 3:59:39 GMT
Wow didn't know the thread was still going. The town wiped out by bipedal creatures sounds very interesting...I have never come across such an account in all of my reading. I do recall tales of a steel clawed monkey man in India relatively recently.
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Post by warriorpoet on Dec 27, 2020 6:25:05 GMT
Assyrian Monster invasion -774 AD.
(by job, I've finally found it)
The Chronicon of Denys of Tell-Mahre
Here’s the text:
Moreover, frightful and dreadful animals appeared after this pestilence. They did not fear anything, nor did they run away from or were scared of people, but killed a countless number of them. They looked somehow like wolves, although they were a bit different from wolves in that the muzzle of each one of them was narrow and long. They had big ears, like those of a horse, and the hair, long and raised skyward, that covered their dorsal ridge looked like pig’s hair.[3] They caused great harm to the people in Tur-‘Abdin. People said that they devoured more than one hundred men in one village, and in many others, twenty men in some, forty or fifty in others.
People were not able to hurt any of them, /p.369/ nor did these flee from people. And if there were people who chased one of them with weapons, they were unable to do any harm to it. Nor did it run away from them but returned against them; and as their hands let loose their weapons, it jumped on them and tore them into pieces. They used to break into houses and courtyards, snatching children and leaving, and there was no one to oppose them. Some of them climbed up high roofs during the night, snatching children from their houses, and then came down, and there was no one to oppose them. Not even dogs barked at any one of them! Because of this, this region suffered a more cruel and harsh calamity than all the ones which it had experienced before. Two or three persons were not able to walk together. Nor were cattle seen anywhere, because they were devoured by one of the animals; for if one of them went among goats or sheep, it snatched some of them.
How can we explain this cruel scourge except to say that these animals were sent against us by God? It became clear to everyone that they received this power from God, because neither dogs nor people were able to do any of them any harm. It is said: I will gather evils against them. Behold the punishments of the merciless tribute and the flight from one place to another! Behold famine, pestilence and various diseases! Behold the rapine and plundering of each other and of one district by its neighbour! Not only did all the cattle of the country perish during this year, but the birds of prey tore apart the unburied human corpses everywhere. In addition to this, behold the rapacious animals! These animals crossed over to the land of Arzanene and caused great harm /p.370/ in one village, as well as in the region of Maipharqat and in the Sahia mountain. The damage in Amida was small
Original source is
p.312-3 of Amir Harrak’s translation of the “Chronicle of Zuqnin, parts III and IV (A.D. 488-775)”. Series: “Mediaeval sources in translation ; 36”. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies(1999). (ISBN 0-88844-286-6)
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Post by Brother Nathaniel on Dec 27, 2020 6:35:17 GMT
Super interesting! Definitely reminded me of this for sure. ![]()  BUT Wouldn't they have been familiar with them in that area already? They are certainly native to the area. |
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Post by warriorpoet on Dec 27, 2020 16:20:51 GMT
That was my first thought as well, but a few notes make me scratch my head (dogs not barking at them, climbing onto roof, and of course... Weapons not harming them /being unable to kill lol).
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Post by Brother Nathaniel on Dec 27, 2020 17:43:51 GMT
That was my first thought as well, but a few notes make me scratch my head (dogs not barking at them, climbing onto roof, and of course... Weapons not harming them /being unable to kill lol). Yes, yes for sure. I did read an interesting historical account in one of my books though of dogs being afraid of barking or sounding off when approached by what they perceive as certain predators. Although I can't remember exactly who the tribe was but a certain tribe in the middle east would smear cheetah fat onto their clothing/gear and this would allow them to stealthily approach an enemy position more quietly. |
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Post by warriorpoet on Dec 29, 2020 15:36:22 GMT
That's interesting about the cheetah fat!
I love weird historical events. Who can know the truth of the akkadian beast invasion at this point!
Another favorite of mine is a bit closer to home and slightly more recent!
The Van Meter monster in Iowa. In 1903, this small mining town awoke something in the deep. Large, bat-like, and apparently equipped with fricking laser beams (??). A nice honking slice of weird. Also supposedly impervious to gunfire.
The townsfolk were finally able to dynamite the mine and trap it when it returned to its home.
Pretty fun rabbit hole to look into!
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Post by Tiers1 on Dec 31, 2020 22:18:55 GMT
That account of the town...the creatures sound a fair bit like the Beast of Gevaudan. I found a book about the latter that actually explores the account in great depth from original texts and quite frankly it sounded like a combination of very large and lucky hyenas (or dog/wolf hybrids) that somehow made it to the region, and mass hysteria.
Oh and the bat monster sounds like one particular account I read about a long time ago where a flying bat monster was circling a church or town hall, but haven't been able to find since.
Interesting...
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But, hey....you've got a strong wife and healthy girls. Let THEM do the paddling. 
Watch out for the forest Elves and Gnomes. 
