Tunn11
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I’m really not sure where to put this Mods please “fling” it where you think best!
I’m wondering about the labelling of some Fortean phenomena particularly with regard to things being flung around.
First, where they are flung. If it is in or around a building it is attributed to a poltergeist, but not always. For instance, stones flung at a semi-detached in Neasden will be attributed to a polt but stones flung at a hut in Washington state will probably be attributed to a bigfoot. Fish flung around a field will be a fish fall and lumps of ice through a house roof probably aircraft. But why should this be unless there is other evidence (Phantom monks, smelly, hairy bipeds or errant fishmongers)?
Why shouldn’t a polt throw a load of sticklebacks across a field in Sussex or lob a rock at some hikers in California?
Second, what’s being flung? Fish falls seem to be fairly small creatures and aquatic whereas polts seem to be able to move people and sometimes cattle into barns etc. Bigfoot can lob some pretty hefty rocks but remarkedly, as with polts, never seems to do anyone serious harm. The overall biomass associated with fish falls might be quite large but not the individual creatures and IIRC they arrive unharmed. Why no small mammals, or are they just not noticed? Why no giant squid dropped on Surbiton?
I suppose that what I’m asking is whether there is a distinct phenomenon “Fortean flinging” which sometimes gets lumped with other phenomena because of where it occurs or what is being flung about and could this give an insight into the cause?
I’m wondering about the labelling of some Fortean phenomena particularly with regard to things being flung around.
First, where they are flung. If it is in or around a building it is attributed to a poltergeist, but not always. For instance, stones flung at a semi-detached in Neasden will be attributed to a polt but stones flung at a hut in Washington state will probably be attributed to a bigfoot. Fish flung around a field will be a fish fall and lumps of ice through a house roof probably aircraft. But why should this be unless there is other evidence (Phantom monks, smelly, hairy bipeds or errant fishmongers)?
Why shouldn’t a polt throw a load of sticklebacks across a field in Sussex or lob a rock at some hikers in California?
Second, what’s being flung? Fish falls seem to be fairly small creatures and aquatic whereas polts seem to be able to move people and sometimes cattle into barns etc. Bigfoot can lob some pretty hefty rocks but remarkedly, as with polts, never seems to do anyone serious harm. The overall biomass associated with fish falls might be quite large but not the individual creatures and IIRC they arrive unharmed. Why no small mammals, or are they just not noticed? Why no giant squid dropped on Surbiton?
I suppose that what I’m asking is whether there is a distinct phenomenon “Fortean flinging” which sometimes gets lumped with other phenomena because of where it occurs or what is being flung about and could this give an insight into the cause?