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rynner said:I read that as 'trees on a hill': surely there are no swamps on a hill?
Minor Drag said:Hi, Dragoncharmer, and welcome.
Minor Drag said:I grew up in Yancey County, in the mountains of North Carolina, and have seen the Brown Mountain Lights myself. They were different colors, and arced, bobbed and weaved in and amongst the trees.
Amarok2 said:There is one detail about Brandon's Orion-force missing from the story of Grandpa's farm: an extreme antipathy between "It" and the common dog. "[T]ime and again the 'thing' has the final word, and ends up killing or badly frightening one or more dogs." (p. 233) Or did something happen to local canines?
Amarok2 said:Another detail missing from the Fortean world in general are reports of giant "turkey tracks." Bigfoot tracks -- even three-toed ones -- are not birdlike; and there are plenty of hoofed thingies (Jersey Devil, England's Devil's Hoofmarks), and even panther and big dog pawprints, but few super-bird tracks.
Thanks for the links, but they don't really tell me much more than I know already - that swamps produce methane (and other stuff).Redhead said:
It is, however, flammable. It's not inconcievable that small pockets of methane might briefly burst into flame.rynner said:Redhead said:But methane doesn't glow (be fun if it did - think of all the farts produced by people and animals every day!)
Dragoncharmer said:Was it a long-term thing or did they stop appearing after a short-time?
Min Bannister said:I've thought about sending the report to one of the local big foot hunters... they were the tracks of some pretty big feet afterall. It would be interesting if something similar had ever been reported elsewhere.
Or a paleantologist? Perhaps they could have been dinosaur tracks, fossilised ones of course! Unless they were in fresh mud or something, then they couldn't have been. Still wouldn't explain the blue lights though. This story has a touch of the Skinwalker Ranch about it! :shock:
Skinwalker Ranch? What's that, sounds like Lucas produced porno movie?!
kathl33n35 said:Dragoncharmer, I understand the fear you felt as a child seeing the giant turkey footprints.. I unfortunantly have experienced the wrath of an angry tom when I was a kid lol and am with you in hoping i NEVER see a turkey that big! :shock:
Amarok2~ said:"Jim Brandon" is a pseudonym hiding the identity of an American journalist/science writer...
Brandon seems to think that an energy/ force/ intelligence ("Pan") is welling out of the earth, creating Fortean phenomena where the earth is disturbed. For example, the surprisingly violent Bigfoot sightings near the Enrico Fermi Power Plant near Monroe, Michigan in the 1960s might be "A sort of semifocused protest by the unconscious biosphere at humanity's increasing disruptions of the harmonious life of all," as he says in Weird America (p. 114).
All of which has nothing to do with giant turkeys. However, his diggings through Ancient Lore, Myth, and Legend lead him to suggest that there are extraterrestrial influences on our world as well. A malevolent force seems to be associated with the constellation Orion in several mythologies...
...Personally, I think the Space Turkeys of Orion are here to wage war on the Dog-Headed Men. Whoever wins . . . We -- Still won't have a clue as to what's going on.
"Jim Brandon" is a pseudonym hiding the identity of an American journalist/science writer. He is best known for his book Weird America. In his Rebirth of Pan (1983), he collects more archaeological weirdness and monster tales and tries to work out a theory.
Brandon seems to think that an energy/ force/ intelligence ("Pan") is welling out of the earth, creating Fortean phenomena where the earth is disturbed. For example, the surprisingly violent Bigfoot sightings near the Enrico Fermi Power Plant near Monroe, Michigan in the 1960s might be "A sort of semifocused protest by the unconscious biosphere at humanity's increasing disruptions of the harmonious life of all," as he says in Weird America (p. 114).
All of which has nothing to do with giant turkeys. However, his diggings through Ancient Lore, Myth, and Legend lead him to suggest that there are extraterrestrial influences on our world as well. A malevolent force seems to be associated with the constellation Orion in several mythologies.
"Richard Hinkley Allen, the star lore expert, notes that Orion was often known in earlier times as 'the Cock's Foot' or the 'Foot Turning Wanderer.' The cock's foot, or 'turkey track,' is practically a universal glyph in American rock art." (Rebirth, p. 233) "One can only wonder at the relevance of the fact that one of the most persistant glyphs appearing on native rock art, anomalous inscribed objects, and even as a centerpiece in the great mounds complex at Newark, Ohio is the three-toed bird-track symbol. A ridiculously associative mind might even ponder a link with the many three-toed 'Bigfoot' tracks widely found." (p. 222)
There is one detail about Brandon's Orion-force missing from the story of Grandpa's farm: an extreme antipathy between "It" and the common dog. "[T]ime and again the 'thing' has the final word, and ends up killing or badly frightening one or more dogs." (p. 233) Or did something happen to local canines?
Another detail missing from the Fortean world in general are reports of giant "turkey tracks." Bigfoot tracks -- even three-toed ones -- are not birdlike; and there are plenty of hoofed thingies (Jersey Devil, England's Devil's Hoofmarks), and even panther and big dog pawprints, but few super-bird tracks.
Unless their hayday was 4000 or 5000 years ago. According to Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black and Anthony Green (1992), any spirit or supernatural being was represented in Mesopotamian art as having bird talons for feet. This included not only demons (like Pazuzu, the demon from the Exorcist books and movies), but "they are shared by beneficent and magically protective figures."
(Gods, p. 44)
Personally, I think the Space Turkeys of Orion are here to wage war on the Dog-Headed Men. Whoever wins . . . We --
Still won't have a clue as to what's going on.