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schmunk

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Jan 19, 2018
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Talking of fishing I was fishing a lake years ago near Horsham is was just staring to get dark and my float shot under the water and by Christ there was something huge on the line.
Years of fishing and I’ve never hooked something like that It took off to the middle of the lake and I just couldn’t get it off the bottom.
Didn’t feel like a carp or a pike it just wouldn’t tire what ever it was. Lost is eventually I was gutted I couldn’t get it to the surface to see what it was.
Big Bad Barry?
 




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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
Has anyone else fallen down the incredible aliens / wormholes / killer creatures rabbit hole that is Skinwalker Ranch?

Basically an old ranch in Utah where strange things have apparently happened for centuries. Now filled with blokes with PhD after their names firing rockets with GPS trackers on and digging in to a macer to prove it has a space ship / worm hole in it.

But there have always been cattle mutilations and they took samples of the teeth marks from the latest one that an actual forensic biologist reckoned could only be from a Dire Wolf - which has been supposedly extinct for a very long time.

It’s the only programme to come close to making me believe some of this stuff. UAPs captured on camera, inexplicable instrument readings and the military taking an unhealthy interest in it all. If it is a hoax it’s a bloody good one.
I may have to slap you hard in the face next time I see you ???

:lolol:

One of my most favourite, most delicious things was (and still is a bit) pondering the mysterious world of the paranormal. One of my favourite writers is Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The idea of spaces between the spaces, colours never before seen, windows into other universes, is all so moreish to me.

I am not sure I ever even wanted to believe any of it. I just liked the feel of it. The weft. And as someone who can only hear what is said literally, and cannot read between lines (neurodiversity) it all has the potential to be quite frightening. Perhaps I see the fear as a challenge (which is why I make myself do things I don't enjoy), something to be overcome.

But it is all bollocks though.

I can sum up the revelations of the paranormal in terms of their truth and value in one word.

James Randi.
 
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Guinness Boy

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Jul 23, 2003
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I may have to slap you hard in the face next time I see you ???

:lolol:

One of my most favourite, most delicious things was (and still is a bit) pondering the mysterious world of the paranormal. One of my favourite writers is Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The idea of spaces between the spaces, colours never before seen, windows into other universes, is all so moreish to me.

I am not sure I ever even wanted to believe any of it. I just liked the feel of it. The weft. And as someone who can only hear what is said literally, and cannot read between lines (neurodiversity) it all has the potential to be quite frightening. Perhaps I see the fear as a challenge (which is why I make myself do things I don't enjoy), something to be overcome.

But it is all bollocks though.

I can sum up the revelations of the paranormal in terms of their truth and value in one word.

James Randi.
It's great entertainment though.

But the thing isn't so much that the explanation for a lot of it is aliens / dire wolves / wormholes. It's, as @Commander says, that there is no rational explanation for repeatable anomalous data. You'd dig in to that in your lab, wouldn't you (especially if the History Channel paid you enough to retire to the Bahamas on)?
 


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It's great entertainment though.

But the thing isn't so much that the explanation for a lot of it is aliens / dire wolves / wormholes. It's, as @Commander says, that there is no rational explanation for repeatable anomalous data. You'd dig in to that in your lab, wouldn't you (especially if the History Channel paid you enough to retire to the Bahamas on)?
Perhaps I should give it a watch :thumbsup:
 


Guinness Boy

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Perhaps I should give it a watch :thumbsup:
Go with the later series. Early on I think they were trying to stretch it out a lot with (as AZ said) some pseudo science bolleaux like Indian chants and cave drawings. But the rocket propelled GPS anomalies (consistently repeatable) and enormous f**k off drill bit experiments are great fun. The lead investigator is a PhD Astro Physicist and former sceptic. It won't be turning me full Swanny but I reckon a scientist would enjoy trying to explain or debunk it.
 




Blue3

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Jan 27, 2014
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Lancing
I along with a car full and loads of other cars all ground to a halt on the M3 when a very big cat black with huge tail walked across the motorway this was pre camera phones it was early morning and it stopped traffic in both directions probably the size of an Alsatian
 








Justice

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Jun 21, 2012
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It's great entertainment though.

But the thing isn't so much that the explanation for a lot of it is aliens / dire wolves / wormholes. It's, as @Commander says, that there is no rational explanation for repeatable anomalous data. You'd dig in to that in your lab, wouldn't you (especially if the History Channel paid you enough to retire to the Bahamas on)?
I watched a couple of seasons you will never get any real answers and will never know if it’s a hoax either as you say it’s reasonable entertainment.
 


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