Yes, 100%. Been noticing this for years with my recordings up in Newcastle. There's almost always a burst of white noise or a kind of crackling static about 2-3 seconds before anything coherent...
Yeah this has caught my attention too. There's a fair bit of old Victorian railway infrastructure near me in the northeast and I've been mapping out reported encounters against old OS maps for...
I've done side-by-side testing and honestly it depends on the phone and the app. Newer phones with more sensitive magnetometers can actually give decent relative readings.
This is exactly the kind of thing worth pursuing systematically. Network with local naturalist groups and wildlife photographers - they often have trail camera footage and expertise.
ScientificSamantha: Sleep paralysis is well-understood now: it's REM atonia - your brain's preventing you from acting out dreams.
Had a mate recommend me a new paranormal podcast and it was absolutely dreadful - more interested in sensationalism than actual investigation.
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.
Not paranormal exactly but «Strange Maps» is fascinating and peripherally related. It's about weird locations and geography which often connects to paranormal activity.
But I'm absolutely certain they weren't on the platform at my station - I watched people exit, and they weren't among them. This detail is actually significant.
The Ministry of Defence released their official report in 2010 saying they investigated it thoroughly and found nothing extraordinary. You can literally read it.
The folklore angle is interesting though. A lot of aggressive lake monster myths come from genuinely dangerous situations - deep water, cold temperatures, unknown depth - that people rationalise...
This could easily be a large dog with an unusual gait, or even a misidentified wildcat. The UK does have feral populations of wildcats in Scotland especially.
My uncle (retired RAF pilot, so not prone to imagination) said he'd never seen aircraft move like that. Even experienced observers misidentify phenomena when they're viewing unusual circumstances.
Upload it to the analysis board and I'll take a look. I do this professionally (video production) so I can do a proper technical breakdown - checking for compression artifacts, light sources,...
That said, simulation theory does predict we'd see glitches in shared reality databases. If consciousness is basically running on a massive server, there would be moments where the rendering...
