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you tell that to the gremlin who sits on my shoulder
and give me all sorts of mischief
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 2, 2006 at 2:10 PM
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I'll have to post about the Lizard man.
It was pretty classic, and essentially originated from a sheriff's deputy who was getting a little on the side out in the country in his car. Touched off a craze that still is simmering. Funny stuff.
posted by
strat
on October 2, 2006 at 8:17 AM
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strat - we had a sasquatch type of critter running around a nearby town
back when I was a little kid.
There were numerous sightings of the "monster" and it drew a lot of attention from the press. It also drew people from far and wide to hunt for this monster. The little one horse village where the sightings orginated was overrun with people searching for this supposed missing link. The local general store did business it had never dreamed of before. The few houses in town began renting rooms for big city hotel room prices, it was a major business boom for the little village for an entire summer. Then one evening a local police officer saw the monster, drew his pistol and wounded the creature. No one was really surprised to find out that the monster was the general store owner in a costume. Seems this guy picked up the derelict little store real cheap and had some good ideas on how to make it a real gold mine. The funny thing is that no one held it against him, the store business did level off but still remained much more than it was, as people drove into town to shake his hand and laugh about the hoax.
posted by
gomedome
on October 2, 2006 at 7:43 AM
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Dang! You mean the Bishopville Lizard Man isn't real?
Oh well. Guess I'll go feed my Chupacabra...
That's a very cool article on that link you posted.
posted by
strat
on October 2, 2006 at 7:19 AM
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Interesting article. Very believable to me. But not enough to knock out
the existence of real experiences. Basically, all it's saying is that we live in a kind of matrix where real and unreal are hard, if not impossible, to separate. I do believe that, but I also believe that there is a power that holds the universe together. I think it has something to do with those kinds of energy waves. I just don't know what it is yet.
posted by
Schatz
on October 1, 2006 at 9:56 AM
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food4thought - I think that the ever elusive Sasquatch is in the same vein
A myth that has had some questionable corroboration and proliferates itself by feeding off of people's willingness to accept the diciest of proof as if not fact, certainly enough to keep their minds open on the subject. This willingness despite the fact that it is very unlikely that there is any species as large as the Sasquatch that could have remained undetected, alive or dead, for so long. UFO's on the other hand have 2 things going for them, group hysteria propigated by some very real sightings of unidentified flying objects and the rational that there must be life on other planets. Where we are coming to understand that we have discovered most species on this planet, save what is at the depths of the oceans or small enough and remote enough to escape scrutiny, .....space is quite a different matter.
posted by
gomedome
on September 30, 2006 at 11:19 PM
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Does that include...
UFOs? Those and the Sasquatch seem to be big in our area. But what I really want to find is that pesky Leprechaun's pot of gold.
posted by
food4thought
on September 30, 2006 at 10:51 PM
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