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I love(like) how a certain someone on the forum likes anything of mine only when its in someone else's reply
Well I'm rule myself out of that one.
I love(like) how a certain someone on the forum likes anything of mine only when its in someone else's reply
black hat man appears to me to be an archetypal messenger and possibly originates in our own psyche.
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I choose to believe that black hat man, or in my perception, Ridgerider, skirts the interzone which could be purgatory, as a guardian angel searching out injustice to the weak of mind, setting the balance and providing hope to those who have heard of or witnessed his Great work. Not unlike Clint Eastwood in those old spaghetti westerns.
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http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2008/07/23Hollis also talked about the "Hat Man," a being that she originally had thought was another incarnation of the Shadow People, but was overwhelmed with letters from people insisting that it was solid. She described the creature as having "a Zorro-type hat. He wears a three piece suit and a cape or a long trench coat." Other attributes ascribed to the "Hat Man" included occasionally wearing a watch that dangled from his hip, having either a goatee or being clean shaven, and possessing glowing red or solid black eyes.
Based on her correspondence with witnesses to the "Hat Man," Hollis speculated that the being is the Devil. She recounted a story from a soldier, stationed at a haunted base in Germany, who saw the "Hat Man" in his mirror. The soldier asked who he was and it responded, "I am Scratch." Hollis explained that "Scratch" was an old term used for the Devil. She also told the story of a man who had attempted suicide and woke up in the hospital to find the "Hat Man" sitting at his bedside. The being then said, "I almost had you" and disappeared.
These beings are in my opinion are Djinn, a race of beings who were defeated by humans in far antiquity and banished to a parallel dimension from which they try and get revenge by haunting and deceiving us. They know we don't remember them because we lost our ancient knowledge of self and without that knowledge we are children to their boogeyman. I suspect they have great fun with us.
I find it very interesting that the meeting place of The Shriners, in the city where I grew up was called " Al Quoran Mosque"Just wondering what you base this opinion on, Elsupremo? re: Shadow people = Djinn. I mean, it's a new slant on these things but it's pretty much, once again, explaining one mystery by invoking another. It kind-of means nothing. Actually, that's not fair of me. I'd genuinely be interested in your opinion
The Dark Watchers are described as tall, sometimes giant-sized featureless dark silhouettes often adorned with brimmed hats
I agree that could sometimes be a factor .. Poltergeist The Movie was one of the first films to tell us clowns were scary then Poltergeist 2 told us weird men in hats were scary .. God is in. His Holy temple etc ...An urban legendish thing, seemingly influenced by cultural factors.. a pop cultural concept... even a mention or two of a claw.... a hat and a coat..
and no one yet's compared him to--
I know, I know, maybe it's insulting (and inapplicable to a lot of the stuff herein) but it fascinates me that out of all the "scary high-strangeness man with a hat, maybe a coat, maybe a claw" nobody's mentioned a certain occasionally tuplalike brainchild of Wes Craven (especially as of New Nightmare)
In all seriousness, in the sense of pop culture reflecting high strangeness things, Fred's sort of on point?
You probably already know this and I can only repeat it from memory but ...Even the other way around, I hope-- as an example of "people see these things, so they show up in pop culture". (Also because that privately amuses the hell out of me; but Wes would have been happy if he'd somehow indirectly affected things people genuinely perceive, too, I guess.)
There are funky old horror movies from the 1930s that feature sinister men in hats. One I found on YouTube years ago had a master criminal whose spine was bent and crooked, and he wore a hat and covered his face, and one of his hands was a claw. I think he was called "The Claw." I'd post a link but I can't find it. It was a lousy, blurry copy, but it had a great scene of "Apache dancing"—a kind of ritualized domestic violence disguised as entertainment—in a little waterside dive bar.An urban legendish thing, seemingly influenced by cultural factors.. a pop cultural concept... even a mention or two of a claw.... a hat and a coat..
and no one yet's compared him to--
I know, I know, maybe it's insulting (and inapplicable to a lot of the stuff herein) but it fascinates me that out of all the "scary high-strangeness man with a hat, maybe a coat, maybe a claw" nobody's mentioned a certain occasionally tuplalike brainchild of Wes Craven (especially as of New Nightmare)
In all seriousness, in the sense of pop culture reflecting high strangeness things, Fred's sort of on point?
I'm pretty sure you're referring to Blake of Scotland Yard (a movie serial; later edited into a single feature film), and the master criminal was known as The Scorpion.There are funky old horror movies from the 1930s that feature sinister men in hats. One I found on YouTube years ago had a master criminal whose spine was bent and crooked, and he wore a hat and covered his face, and one of his hands was a claw. I think he was called "The Claw." I'd post a link but I can't find it. It was a lousy, blurry copy, but it had a great scene of "Apache dancing"—a kind of ritualized domestic violence disguised as entertainment—in a little waterside dive bar.
SOURCE: http://mjsimpson-films.blogspot.com/2013/01/blake-of-scotland-yard.html... The Scorpion in this version is a hunched figure who hides his face behind a rubber mask, then hides that rubber mask under a floppy-brimmed hat, then holds his cape up in front, in true ‘Hooded Claw’ fashion, just to make sure that nobody knows who he is.
He also has a deformed hand which is like a crab’s claw, hence his name of, ah, the Scorpion. Well, I suppose it’s a bit like a scorpion’s claw too. Not that it is a deformed hand, it’s just another rubber appendage. Good for disguise, not so clever for operating equipment. Fortunately the Scorpion has a whole squad of goons based in Limehouse to do his dirty work for him.
I saw his 'Body Worlds' exhibition in Brick Lane years ago, really enjoyed it.Let’s not forget this fine hatted fellow.
He is certainly a unique fellow. I understand that he is in poor health these days, sadly, suffering from Parkinson’s disease.I saw his 'Body Worlds' exhibition in Brick Lane years ago, really enjoyed it.