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Eric Smearman
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I don't believe in Bigfoot, Nessie or hauntings, but I LOVE good stories.
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Eric Sofer
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Are we actually ready to discover the Abominable Snowman?
Not yeti. Not yeti...
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Joe Smith
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| Posted: 23 August 2017 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | 3
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The idea that this 'species' is out there to be found must be some
romantic fantasy for some kind of pseudo-Freudian logic. I, too, am
bored to tears with the overwrought drama of a populace afraid to see
the forest for the trees when it comes to the many issues that it faces.
Overpopulation, pollution, debt, intimacy.....(and that's just ME! Lol.)
The friend who runs the Group said the picture holding the sign board
was "too cuddly", and that the one holding the tree was "him"!!
I told him that, if it IS "him", I hope he NEVER "finds" him!!!!!!
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Robbie Parry
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The idea that this 'species' is out there to be found must be some
romantic fantasy for some kind of pseudo-Freudian logic.
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Hey, enjoy the ride. ;-)
Even as an adult, when I'm out hiking, I'm thinking of fantasy and magic. I play along if there are young folk with me, i.e. "Let's see if we can find buried treasure and dragons." All good fun!
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Joe Smith
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| Posted: 23 August 2017 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | 5
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I used to dream about mermaids until JB ruined that for me!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 23 August 2017 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | 6
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My job here is done!
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Mario Ribeiro
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For those interested, a good movie on Nessie and such searches is INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS, with Werner Herzog.
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Jeffrey Rice
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I saw a video once of a brown bear that was walking on its hind legs for quite some time. Not circus bear hopping, but an awkward slow walk. Have a grizzly do the same and there is your Sasquatch.
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Joe Zhang
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Out of curiosity I've been doing a "deep dive" into paranormal literature. All I can say is that it's a subject that not only attracts people who kind of fit the stereotype (spacey, New-Agey) but serious, conservative-looking folks as well. They're all pursuing riddles that have no answers and are deeply affected by it. In other words, the stuff drives people nuts.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 24 August 2017 at 1:56am
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Craig Bogart
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A while ago I watched a movie called "Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie". It followed a couple guys who were active in Bigfoot-hunting circles and showed a bunch of their hunting methods and wild assumptions. You start out in the earliest parts of the movie jeering at these guys and their associates for how ridiculous they're acting.
Later in the movie, the pair are being interviewed on some paranormal-believer's radio show, and one of them makes a mistake, misstates a date he experienced something or somesuch-- and the host pounces, calling him out and declaring him a fraud. Apparently this community polices itself pretty harshly in order to aspire to some semblance of credibility, and they won't suffer "frauds" in their midst.
So the guy, because he made a verbal slip on a radio interview, has his and his partner's reputations within this society that is really about the only thing that gives their lives meaning, destroyed. Their friendship shatters because of it and the movie ends (iirc) with the guys trying to continue their investigations in solitude.
It's a remarkable journey, mocking the pair at the beginning of the movie then feeling horrible for them by the end.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 August 2017 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | 11
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Seekers after the paranormal -- which includes religious devotees -- tend to be quick to scoff at those who do not adhere to their own narrow precepts of what is and what isn't. They genuinely do not seem to understand that searching for fairies at the bottom of the garden is empirically no different from searching for aquatic dinosaurs or forest/mountain apes.Nonsense is nonsense, no matter how we finely slice it.
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Bill Collins
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I am mystified by the success of those ghost hunter
shows,how people can derive entertainment from a bunch
of idiots and a `Medium` filmed in night vision,jumping
at the slightest noise,yet never a glimpse of a ghost
after all those episodes!
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