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Sounds like a stag or a very large deer viewed from a distance at an odd angle.Your brother works with wildlife professionally. He knows what a stag looks like.
Trevor Y. in Sightings & Reports 11 months ago thumb_up 4
Sounds like a stag or a very large deer viewed from a distance at an odd angle. The human brain is brilliant at pareidolia, especially when you're alone and slightly on edge in remote forests.
Hollow Phantom in Sightings & Reports 11 months ago thumb_up 4
The 1889 Craven reports are interesting but that's also the period when sheep-worrying was a massive issue and there was genuine panic about large predators.
AbyssalWendigo in Cryptozoology General 11 months ago thumb_up 5
One thing people forget: there were simultaneously UFO sightings across northern Europe that same week. If Rendlesham was genuinely extraterrestrial, why multiple locations?
I'm not saying it was a hoax - but I also don't think we should accept the 'alien visitors' explanation uncritically just because the witnesses were military.This is the problem with the...
Honest answer: most budget EMF meters don't distinguish between ambient electromagnetic fields and actual anomalies. A K-II will go mental near your laptop, phone charger, or microwave.
Sofia Hughes in Ghost Hunting Techniques 11 months ago thumb_up 5
The way I've made peace with it is by focusing on the actual mysteries rather than proving them to other people. Like, why ARE there consistent reports of large cats in the UK?
Not AGolem in General Chat 11 months ago thumb_up 2
Should we be crowdsourcing historical newspaper analysis?Absolutely. I've got access to some microfilm archives through my university library and I'd be up for systematically going through...
FakeMothman in Cryptozoology General 11 months ago thumb_up 4
Right, I've been ghost hunting as a hobby for about 18 months now and I've spent a fortune on equipment that's either broken or utterly useless.
The physical evidence - the ground impressions - have never been properly analyzed by independent scientists. That's the real smoking gun if it's genuine.
The Highlands have a long history of 'large man-like' sightings. Most Sasquatch researchers don't focus on Scotland because they assume it's all bears and misidentifications, but the frequency of...
Quiet Crow in Sightings & Reports 11 months ago thumb_up 2
Finally someone asking the right questions. The radiation readings are interesting but not definitively 'alien' - they could indicate various military equipment or natural radioactive materials in...
The problem with historical records is verifying them. A journalist in 1889 had no obligation to fact-check anything. They could just print whatever story came their way.
wobbly_badger in Cryptozoology General 11 months ago thumb_up 4
There's no amount of evidence that actually shifts the dial for most people.You've hit on the real problem. It's not about evidence quantity or quality - it's about burden of proof.
James R. in General Chat 11 months ago thumb_up 4
This happened to my older brother in early September, and he's finally agreed to let me post about it (he's usually embarrassed about stuff like this).
I've been reading various accounts of the Rendlesham Forest incident (December 1980) and I'm genuinely torn. On one hand, the official military testimonies and radar data seem credible.
This is genuinely brilliant and I'm surprised more people aren't doing this. The historical records approach removes a lot of the modern bias and media sensationalism.
Chuck P. in Cryptozoology General 11 months ago thumb_up 3
I've been spending quite a lot of time in the British Newspaper Archive (the one with the free access through some libraries) and I've stumbled across loads of cryptozoological reports from the...
This is actually healthy though. The moment you stop trying to prove something to everyone else is when you can actually enjoy researching it.
Jonesy19 in General Chat 11 months ago thumb_up 1
Spring-heeled Jack had the right idea - just move so fast the Victorians couldn't focus their cameras on you. That's the key. Our modern cryptids are too slow. Evolution innit.
Maureen L. in Humour & Memes 11 months ago thumb_up 4