lordmongrove
Justified & Ancient
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What do we make of these cases that seem so weird that they don't fit comfortably into any category?
It's got everything. Feature film soon?The Bempton Phenomenon, a high strangeness case with a giant baboon, ufos, animal mutilation and men in black. Crikey!
A full length documentory called Elusive features some of it including an interview with me about why i think there can be no flesh and blood bigfoot in the UK.It's got everything. Feature film soon?
A full length documentory called Elusive features some of it including an interview with me about why i think there can be no flesh and blood bigfoot in the UK.
Does anyone seriously think there is? What would it eat? How would it stay undetected in a country this small?
I'll never forget my first view of a flying fox (bloody enormous bat), when visiting Sydney.
This huge *thing* flew overhead, with me freaking out below going 'what the hell was that?' whilst nobody else reacted at all. Eventually my daughter (who lives in Oz and who I was visiting) looked up and said, in a bored voice 'oh, it's just a bat'.
It was a weird experience - finding something that was completely everyday to most people present, out of place and almost paranormal to me.
Gave me a brief feeling of what High Strangeness must be like.
Sadly, yes there are many voiciferous 'researchers' who 100% think there is a poipulation of 7-8 foot hominins living undiscovered in the UK.Does anyone seriously think there is? What would it eat? How would it stay undetected in a country this small?
Sadly, yes there are many voiciferous 'researchers' who 100% think there is a poipulation of 7-8 foot hominins living undiscovered in the UK.
As a young child in junior school I once mentioned the Flying Fox bat in class, having read about them in our encyclopaedia at home, and was thoroughly humiliated by Mrs Bosworth for making things up. A flying fox! Foxes can't fly!
A cockier kid might've taken the book into school the next day to prove my point; but I'd've then collected two extra beatings, one from home for taking the book out and another from school for continuing the argument and of course for being right. So I preferred to draw a veil over the incident.
I'm still angry though, 50-odd years later.
Take along a book which proves you to be right, open it at the right page and leave it there!!!Go dance on that "teacher's" grave!
Agreed, I have a hard time eblieving that one exist in the vast American west. Someclaim they exist in nearly all te lower 50.I despair. I love mysteries, I'm no skeptic, and even in science I think at any time we may make new discoveries that could change everything. But there cannot possibly be an undiscovered large hominid living in the UK . I wouldn't totally dismiss that people have seen something supernatural, however unlikely. but a real live 7ft hominid? Off you go with the flat earthers.
Considering Britians (present) asmepheric - climatic conditions this is really not possible. Giant dragonfly type insects such as Meganeura from the Carboniferous period became extint nearly 300 million years ago. The earths oxegen content exceeded 20% during the late tropical palozoic era.Several stories of high strangeness including a giant woodpecker and a monster dragonfly. I actually know two people who claimed to have seen huge dragonflies the size of remote control planes. One was in Wales the other near Lytham Saint Annes. Both said they were reddish and had wingspans of about a meter.
I went to a school like that.As a young child in junior school I once mentioned the Flying Fox bat in class, having read about them in our encyclopaedia at home, and was thoroughly humiliated by Mrs Bosworth for making things up. A flying fox! Foxes can't fly!
A cockier kid might've taken the book into school the next day to prove my point; but I'd've then collected two extra beatings, one from home for taking the book out and another from school for continuing the argument and of course for being right. So I preferred to draw a veil over the incident.
I'm still angry though, 50-odd years later.
I know that, giant insects can't exist outside of b-moves these days but both these witnesses described exactly the same thing. I wonder if they were seeing remote control models but the chances of that seem slim.Considering Britians (present) asmepheric - climatic conditions this is really not possible. Giant dragonfly type insects such as Meganeura from the Carboniferous period became extint nearly 300 million years ago. The earths oxegen content exceeded 20% during the late tropical palozoic era.
As a young child in junior school I once mentioned the Flying Fox bat in class, having read about them in our encyclopaedia at home, and was thoroughly humiliated by Mrs Bosworth for making things up. A flying fox! Foxes can't fly!
I'm still angry though, 50-odd years later.
Iirc the restriction on giant insects is in how they breathe. A thin enough insect could be any arbitrary size as long as the exoskeleton could support it without breaking during movement.I know that, giant insects can't exist outside of b-moves these days but both these witnesses described exactly the same thing. I wonder if they were seeing remote control models but the chances of that seem slim.
I once worked with a guy who was over 7 feet tall. He did not have giantism, he was just was really tall.Sadly, yes there are many voiciferous 'researchers' who 100% think there is a population of 7-8 foot hominins living undiscovered in the UK.
Yes. I like Germans but they are often unreasonably tall.I was also once caught in a crowd of German university students where many of them were (seemed) over 7 feet tall. They were really tall. Really tall.
I have read somewhere that statistically speaking, the Dutch are the tallest people in Europe.Yes. I like Germans but they are often unreasonably tall.
I have read somewhere that statistically speaking, the Dutch are the tallest people in Europe.
It might be a survival thing, bearing in mind that the Netherlands has been flooded for much of its history.