The board wasn't letting me turn normal text into a link, I had to past the raw URL

 

Anyway...

 

Mass animal deaths continue in horrific, mysterious trend

 

 

 

Quote:

 EDIT: This was a comment on HUFFPO:

 

 

 

 

 

Without getting paranoid, I remember reading years ago that despite all the misdirection in our politics, the Pentagon long ago understood that climate change was real and was going to be a disaster. That the long term strategic plans of this nation are being formulated around a worst case climate scenario that is incredibly dire. Wars for water, the complete breakdown of civilization. There have been times where I can't help but wonder if Obama and the rest are content to ignore their campaign pledges because they secretly know something much worse is right around the corner, and that our current problems will seem trivial in comparison. The death of the biosphere could happen rapidly, and it wouldn't be long before we're living on THE ROAD

 

Shhh! You'll spoil it.

Going to Washington state for a trip in early March. Will be in Seattle for the weekend, but plan on going on a Bigfoot hunt near Mt St Helens (weather-permitting) that Monday after. If I don't come back to post about it... Squatch got me. In the event... and since Peter Graves is dead, someone be sure to call Leonard Nimoy. And form an "In Search of" party.

 

Alright, way back in Post 731 of this thread I listed a couple of dreams I had which predicted two different events in my friend's lives. Here's an excerpt from the post, in which I exhibit a strange obsession with the word happen:

 

 

 

Now I think I had my third predictive dream. I harbor a lot of doubt about it because it is not a happy dream that I want to be true. Still, I can't deny that it has left me with the same feeling as the previous two dreams. I dreamt my Roommate received the news that his father died. No details on how he died, I was just listening to one side of a phone conversation. The only other detail I remember is mentioning that it was freaky that his father died on the same day my own Father passed away, February 18th.

 

I don't want to freak out my roommate so I'm not going to tell him. That is why I'm typing this down here, I wanted to record the dream in a way that would put some sort of time stamp on it. I hope in eight months time I am not reminded of this post.

 

And yeah, I know this is really fucked up.

Took lots of pics in Washington state from Seattle to near Mt St Helens (couldn't get too close to actual volcano due to the snow and closed roads). Went to Northern Calif a month later (from San Fran to Klamath and back). Visited Willow Creek (Bigfoot capital of CA) and some other amazing spots, including the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose (fascinating) and the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz (hokey). Had a creepy and life-threatening encounter or 2 on amazingly-scary and isolated route 101 while heading North in the middle of the night...

 

 

 

How did you enjoy the Winchester Mystery House? (Some people are disappointed because all the rooms are pretty small and don't fit their view of a what supposedly haunted mansion looks like.)

 

I've done it three times in my life and I always think it would be cool the live there, as long as all the doors leading to 2 and 3 story drops were kept locked.

The Winchester Mystery House has always been something I've wanted to see.

I highly recommend.

 

Totally fascinating and very educational (our guides were on point and gorgeous). Went through 110 of 150 rooms ... a mile long tour in house and then behind-the-scenes tour through grounds, surrounding buildings, and basement. Rooms would range from incomplete shambles (earthquake damage that was never repaired) to exquisitely ornate. Wish I could have taken pics inside, but it was well worth the side trip. Mrs. Winchester also had an orchard where she raised and sold fruits and nuts. Very appropriate, considering her mental state. "Mystery House" is indeed a good name for it. It feels more like a puzzle than haunted house. When the tour guide notified us that none of the furniture there was original (all original stuff had been auctioned off) but was donated and period-accurate, including the pipe organ, I asked "So it was an organ transplant?" I got a few chuckles.

El Chupacabra actually a badger:

 

http://io9.com/5828505/chupacabra+like-roadkill-flummoxes-minnesota-town

 

http://gizmodo.com/5828951/mysterious-minnesota-roadkill-identified

 

"Mythical Chupacabra". I hope those disrespectful anchors get their goat/s sucked.
 

 

Shit, just reading this thread gives me chills. I feel like I'm inviting evil shit into my home just by looking at these words. Time to get black-out drunk and forget this scary nonsense!

It's too late now, Blacky. The BEKs are at your door.

Quote:

Further investigation reveals...

 

 

And unfortunately...

 

 

 

I get strong cases of Deja Vu about three times a week, is that bad?

The explanations range from stress to a short circuiting of the hippocampus in the brain. From what I can find experts say that it should lessen as I get older, if anything the instances have increased in the last seven years.

My most recent instance happened when I was watching 12 Monkeys while preparing dinner. I can honestly say I've never experienced the feeling of someone "walking over my grave" until now. I went fucking cold, I don't know how to describe it other than pure dread (about what was going to happen next) poured into me for no apparent reason. I tried to trace the emotion in my memory to see how a case of deja vu about watching a movie and cooking could bring such a heart stopping feeling.

Like most of these instances I had a vague memory that it originated from a piece of an almost forgotten dream, but this time the dream I was remembering was one in which I died.

Anyway I put down the knife, turned off the movie and watched Jeopardy till the feeling passed.

Such is the mindfuck of my life. I really need to start going back to a psychiatrist.

Over on GUY.com I founded the GUY.com THREAD OF THE UNEXPLAINED, and one of the first news items I shared was about reports of a Yeti Science Conference in Siberia.

 

 

 

 

It seems the investigation may be bearing fruit:

 

Scientists '95 Percent' Certain They've Found Elusive Siberian Yeti

 

 

 

 

I remain skeptical, but, you know, it would be neat if it were true

Mysterious happenings in Egypt as authorities race to prevent secret mysticism 

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/egypt-pyramid-11-11-11_n_1087823.html?ref=homepage)

 

So the other night I sat in bed iPadding, cozy under my covers, watching live the funeral of Lil Kim in NK, and thinking how dreadful it must be to be forced to stand in the freezing snow for hours on end for no reason other than you had the misfortune to be born in North Korea

 

What I never would have thought to look for though, was this:

 

 

 

 

The mysterious Giant of North Korea is tall, even by regular human standards. Quite a feat, given that the average resident of NK is six inches shorter than their SK counterpart

 

What do you guys make of this? What is going on in this photo?

I think, and I may be completely off the reservation here, but I think, that there may be a tall Korean guy.

 

 

That is really rather unusually tall even by normal human standards

 

And, 

 

Many other photos of the event show signs of manipulation, figures being removed or added, as did live footage (there were odd washed out white patches that tried to look like snowstorm, but obviously were crude on the fly image manipulation to hide unsightly structures - you could see allllllll the way down a giant street, but not 15 feet across the street)

 

So some wonder if this is propaganda to intimidate the south (NK famously picks tall soldiers and gives them more food for those assigned to guard the border), or if this might perhaps be a example of genetic engineering, or what have you

No wonder we've never captured Bigfoot! The sly devil has been in disguise as a North Korean official the whole time!

That guy appears to be twice as tall as everyone else around him. If we assume that those people around him are 5 feet tall (obviously that is a lowball figure), then the giant is 10 feet tall, making him the tallest person on the planet today 

 

Surely we'd have heard of this before now? 

Because aliens.

I love me some Occham's Razor. When you hear hoof-beats assume horses, not undead, unicorn Pegasi.

 

If 'Pegasus' is Greek, not Latin and is not pluarized with "i"...that's okay. I will sleep like a baby tonight.

If I am looking at photos that are known to be image manipulated, and I see a 10-12 foot tall North Korean, I would not automatically assume that such a person existed

 

With that said, I got kinda bored this afternoon, and came up with these:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried to do these to scale based upon my analysis of the photo

You're all being rather glib about the very real, terrifying possibility that the world's least stable nuclear regime may have attained the knowledge necessary to put one guy on another's shoulders in an oversized coat.  The implications are sobering, to say the least.

.

 

 

?

 

I am assuming Zach Braff sold them the technology.  It couldn't be Donald Faison, because we know what happens when we put the black doctor uptop.
 

Oh, I can't believe I fell for the Muppet Man! 

I had a lot of fun with my giant of north Korea art this afternoon, but I could tell my coworkers didn't know what to make of it. Oh well, gotta be true to yourself

So there is the Space Jockey actor from the PROMETHEUS trailer.

It looks like my scale drawings were startlingly prescient. New York Daily News is reporting that whoever/whatever it is, the North Korean giant most likely exists:

 

 

 

Looks like South Korea is going to have to train an elite squad of cockpunchers.

 

You'd think with all this bother to manipulate other things they'd just pretend the dear leader never died at all,  use a double or something.  Really square the circle on that "1984 was actually a nation building manual" thing they've got going on.  I guess Jong's ego probably wouldn't stand for that sort of thing.

 

(sorry, nothing to add on the subject of obvious basketball players)

Another Saturday, another day for arts and crafts:

 

I don't even understand what that's supposed to be.

 

He is just a very lonely, depressed giant. Being twice as tall as everyone else in the country, it's tough for him to relate to people. He has fanciful day dreams that are not encouraged in buttoned down North Korean society. He is a simple soul, and has no real political opinions, but he does long for something more out of life

 

That is how I've chosen to depict him at least, but it's pure speculation

Edited by Princess Kate - 1/7/12 at 12:52pm

This is some Tim and Eric level shit, Kate. I LOVE IT. 

And thus we travel further down into the depths of the truly unexplainable.

Wow, is that from David  Lynch's next project?

Kate, you must take this and turn it into a children's storybook.

The last few posts in here have made me bust a gut laughing, I thank you.....

I used to love this thread, not so much anymore.

Quote:

I guess I'm ready to tell the story now about what happened to me last year in Cali...

 

After a comic con in SF, I was in Northern California on a roadtrip. Driving on route 101 in the middle of nowhere ("Garberville"), I found a redwood carving shop alongside the road at 2am. It was called "The Legend of Bigfoot". I pulled over, got out of my rental car, and proceeded to take pictures of the redwood statues. There were carvings of bears, a Shrek & Donkey, and of course a giant Bigfoot in the center of it all. The place was obviously closed but I was parked in the shoulder and not trespassing. I only took pics of what I could see from the outside. Over the fence I saw a huge garden gnome carved from a redwood. Must have been 8 feet tall. I stood up on a railroad tie and leaned toward the pitch black woods and started taking more pics. Suddenly I heard a low, loud and deep rumbling growl/moan. Scared to death, I turned and ran to the car, but not before falling down off the railroad tie, twisting my leg, landing in a puddle and dropping my cellphone. I picked my things and myself up off the ground (the car headlights were the only source of light), jumped in and drove off. My heart was pounding in my throat. An hour later, I got to a part further North (near Eureka) in this rural area where the road had been closed due to a landslide, 100s of miles from anyone I knew. Luckily, the road was just about to be opened after being closed 5 days. I was told a detour would have taken hours into dangerous areas where pot-farmers were know to shoot you in the face if you wandered onto their property. That was scary in and of itself, but I couldn't shake that noise I heard earlier that night. The growl was too deep to be a dog, cougars are ambush predators and wouldn't warn you, and wild pigs would have charged. My theory... it was either a bear or Bigfoot. Applying the "Ockham's LASER" principle (most AWESOME explanation is probably true), I determined that it was indeed Sasquatch.
 

 

Edited by DARKMITE8 - 2/16/12 at 8:04am

Nice. There are a lot of cool/creepy night driving stops like that along the 101 (and the 1) up north. Only the redwoods know what really goes on out there, they see everything. But they ain't telling.

 

As for Winchester Mystery House, you should try their "flashlight only" tours at Halloween.

I've only recently become obsessed with the whole Slender Man concept, as fake as it is, it's still interesting.

I love this article on Russia's Black Ops space program, and Lost Cosmonauts:

 

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1302/lost_in_space.html

 

It's probably bunk, but it has just enough plausibility to be intriguing.

Is this a UFO or an elaborate marketing campaign for Transformers 4?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wxgi3qMN6c

 

I must say it looks kind of like some kind of Jet when it turns sideways around the two minute mark.