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Post by Tiers1 on Oct 31, 2020 15:16:41 GMT
I have met a number of wholly rational, even skeptical people, who have that one solitary story of the supernatural.
-A very regular girl I worked with who told me a story about her Grandfather, who lived near Roswell during the incident. He never spoke about it until very old age, when he told a story that on the day he went out to military trucks that were driving away from the site and asked what was going on; the serviceman plainly told him that an alien craft crashed and they were helping cart it away
-A Colombian gentleman I knew who in his childhood lived in a home that had been used by cartel in the past. This was the kind of guy that likes women, beer, and soccer, nothing else. He said one day in grade school he came home with a friend and saw a girl he had never seen before sitting on the couch. She promptly disappeared in front of their eyes and they hightailed it to the bedroom upstairs and hid there for 3 hours
-A friend who would not believe he had a nose if not for mirrors. He moved into a new house in Highschool and his friends noticed a presence that liked to hang out in a corner of the basement. One day, laying down near his girlfriend on a couch in that room, he felt like something was trying to possess him, and his girlfriend's shaking and yelling motivated him to fight back. He then saw something run down the hall. His vision was a purple tinge for a little while afterwards
-A coworker from a wealthy family, also a super matter of fact lady with standard interests, who plainly stated flat out that her house growing up was haunted- locked doors would simply open
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2020 7:30:29 GMT
Wanted to say that historical supernatural beliefs is what shapes my modern day cautions and symbolism. It's always what drew me to the forest where I grew up. We had tons of our own supernatural stuff going on, but European stuff always felt potentialy welcoming, unlike what I know. Growing up as a native american (well. Metis. Half and half).
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Post by Ouroboros on Nov 20, 2020 3:18:32 GMT
Besides swords, i have a small library of books from the 19th and 20th century. Many of them deal with the subject of the occult. For anyone interested i suggest reading Marcel Mauss A General Theory of Magic and studying its application towards 20th century mindset and religion as its evolved.
A background in anthropology, comparative religion and psychology have all left their impression on how to keep one foot on skeptical ground so....
My interest began in my childhood but a cryptid encounter in my teens cemented a lifelong interest in the hidden side of our magic universe. I'm a 100% believer in Sasquatch--the walker in the northern woods.
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Nov 20, 2020 5:22:21 GMT
Besides swords, i have a small library of books from the 19th and 20th century. Many of them deal with the subject of the occult. For anyone interested i suggest reading Marcel Mauss A General Theory of Magic and studying its application towards 20th century mindset and religion as its evolved. A background in anthropology, comparative religion and psychology have all left their impression on how to keep one foot on skeptical ground so.... My interest began in my childhood but a cryptid encounter in my teens cemented a lifelong interest in the hidden side of our magic universe. I'm a 100% believer in Sasquatch--the walker in the northern woods. Ouro, I bet you aren't the only one who has seen strange stuff. I have seen a few strange things but not cryptid related. If anyone is unwilling to talk about it here they can feel free to PM me because I am interested in hearing these experiences. In 1994, I was stationed at Fort Hood, TX. Some friends and I were hunting in Davey Crocket National Woods near Houston. We where driving in a pickup truck late at night to get back to our campsite, and ended up getting the truck buried in the mud of a washed out logging road. We could not get the truck out of the rut we were stuck in and too far to walk (at night) to the campground. We decided to sleep at the truck until morning and then walk it back into town to get a tow truck to pull us out. I slept in the cab of the truck and three of my friends were asleep in the bed of the truck. At first light, I woke up and got out of the truck to relieve myself. I walked to the edge of the road about 5o feet from the truck and began urinating. About 20 feet away from me, further up the road from the truck, a naked hairy man walked out of the woods and stopped in the road. He looked directly at me and I looked directly at him. I could see him perfectly. My mind was telling me "this isn't right. What is a naked man doing walking around the woods? Why is he so hairy? Why is he so big? Holy crud! I think I'm looking at Bigfoot"! Whatever it was, it stayed in the road looking at me for about 10 seconds and then just casually walked into the woods on the other side of the road. I finished what I was doing and sprinted down to the truck. I ended up running into the truck (hard) and woke everyone up. My friends were startled awake and I told them to get up because I just saw something really strange in the woods. We all walked up to were I had just been and looked around. We had all grabbed out rifles and had them with us. We didn't see anything. Zero traces. No foot prints, nothing to indicate what I had just encountered. My friends asked me "just what the hell did you see"? I told them "There was an 8' tall hairy man watching me take a leak". They started laughing their butts off. I said... "No really, I think I just saw a Bigfoot". We ended up walking the 4 miles back into town to get a tow truck. My friends asked me to describe what I saw at least a dozen times. They decided that they believed that I saw something. Who knows what, but I saw something in the woods that morning. I've only kept in touch with one of those guys over the years, but he still brings it up when we see each other. I've watch hundreds of Bigfoot shows on Youtube and TV. It turns out, Texas is a hotbed for cryptid sightings. I consider myself VERY fortunate to have seen what I did. I am 100% certain that there is something out in the woods of North America yet to be discovered.
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Nov 20, 2020 7:08:45 GMT
I would not describe it as "ape-like". Definitely "man-like". It stood upright like a man. It had hair covering it's body, but you could see through the hair to the skin. The skin under the hair looked almost sunburnt red. The hair was reddish/brown. It was bigger than the largest man I've ever seen. I am 6'1" and this being was at least a foot taller maybe two feet taller. It resembled the famous Patterson/Gimlin creature except for the hair. In the footage, it looks like fur. What I saw was not fur, it was hair. I could easily see the muscles beneath the hair and the skin (to include the genitals).
The strange thing was how clean it was. I did not smell the rotten eggs smell that lots of people describe. I did not smell anything peculiar at all.
The most distinctive thing, to me, was not it's appearance. It was how calm I felt and how calm it reacted to seeing me. I think we saw each other at the exact same time. We just stared at each other. Once my mind started making sense of what I was seeing, it was over. But, I almost felt like waving at it and saying "hi". I'm kind of surprised that I didn't. Maybe because I was literally standing there with my **** hanging in the breeze.
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Post by William Swiger on Nov 20, 2020 11:32:00 GMT
I would not describe it as "ape-like". Definitely "man-like". It stood upright like a man. It had hair covering it's body, but you could see through the hair to the skin. The skin under the hair looked almost sunburnt red. The hair was reddish/brown. It was bigger than the largest man I've ever seen. I am 6'1" and this being was at least a foot taller maybe two feet taller. It resembled the famous Patterson/Gimlin creature except for the hair. In the footage, it looks like fur. What I saw was not fur, it was hair. I could easily see the muscles beneath the hair and the skin (to include the genitals). The strange thing was how clean it was. I did not smell the rotten eggs smell that lots of people describe. I did not smell anything peculiar at all. The most distinctive thing, to me, was not it's appearance. It was how calm I felt and how calm it reacted to seeing me. I think we saw each other at the exact same time. We just stared at each other. Once my mind started making sense of what I was seeing, it was over. But, I almost felt like waving at it and saying "hi". I'm kind of surprised that I didn't. Maybe because I was literally standing there with my **** hanging in the breeze. We have a lot of big hairy naked men in the woods in WV..........
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Post by William Swiger on Nov 20, 2020 11:35:07 GMT
I have actually seen three full bodied apparitions in my life. Those were all when I was growing up in West Virginia.
Sometimes I get the full blown goosebumps and hairs standing up and figure "something" is around me.......
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Nov 20, 2020 14:24:56 GMT
I would not describe it as "ape-like". Definitely "man-like". It stood upright like a man. It had hair covering it's body, but you could see through the hair to the skin. The skin under the hair looked almost sunburnt red. The hair was reddish/brown. It was bigger than the largest man I've ever seen. I am 6'1" and this being was at least a foot taller maybe two feet taller. It resembled the famous Patterson/Gimlin creature except for the hair. In the footage, it looks like fur. What I saw was not fur, it was hair. I could easily see the muscles beneath the hair and the skin (to include the genitals). The strange thing was how clean it was. I did not smell the rotten eggs smell that lots of people describe. I did not smell anything peculiar at all. The most distinctive thing, to me, was not it's appearance. It was how calm I felt and how calm it reacted to seeing me. I think we saw each other at the exact same time. We just stared at each other. Once my mind started making sense of what I was seeing, it was over. But, I almost felt like waving at it and saying "hi". I'm kind of surprised that I didn't. Maybe because I was literally standing there with my **** hanging in the breeze. We have a lot of big hairy naked men in the woods in WV.......... Same here in Northern Illinois. Folks 'round here just call it a family reunion.
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Post by William Swiger on Nov 21, 2020 12:37:49 GMT
I have actually seen three full bodied apparitions in my life. Those were all when I was growing up in West Virginia. Sometimes I get the full blown goosebumps and hairs standing up and figure "something" is around me....... I wouldn't mind hearing those stories My parents bought a house built in 1899 that had an addition built on at one time in the past. This was in the early 70s when we moved in. It creeped me out from the start for some reason. They eventually started renovating the house and that was when activity started. My sister and I came home from school one time and most of the downstairs furniture was turned upside down. Another time, all the water was running. One evening a few kitchen cabinets opened on their own and dishes were flying out. Around that time, my mother and I were watching TV and both of us saw a full bodied female apparition glide across the kitchen. When I was in my early 20s, my Grandfather passed away at 83. We were very close and he lived down the street from us. Spent more time there than my parents house. Anyway, I had been staying there to help my Grandmother take care of him. A couple of nights after he passed, I woke up and he was standing in the doorway looking at me. He stood there for awhile and then vanished. Another one was in Germany. My wife had been buying all this antique wood English furniture. One morning I came downstairs and there was a man sitting at the the English bar table we used as a dining room table. I would guess his clothing and hat placed him from the 60s. He just looked at me and then vanished. Another time, we were renting a house in Germany and something pushed me out of the shower. I went flying out wrapped in the shower curtain and cut the crap out of my arm on the wooden door. I told it I would burn the damn house down if it did it again. Was doing some EVP in my sword room one time and asked if there was anything attached to any of the swords there and got a class one EVP saying yes.......lol I do have several antique military swords from Europe and American Civil War.
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Post by Deleted 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 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 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 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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