#skeptics

[leasthaunted]

Episode 101: The Flatwoods Monster

Original sketch of The Flatwoods Monster from 1952.

Least Haunted Artist's Recreation.

Red-Faced Great Horned Owl in defensive posture. Looks sort of "spade-shaped" Doesn't it?

Another example.

Unsuro-Bune, The Hollow Boat. Early 19th century tale from Japan. Unfortunate castaway? Or alien?

Tumblepop! 1991 Japanese arcade game featuring "The Three Meters Alien" as a final boss.

"Ghosts" from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000).

Mitsuko Hiramori, aka, The Three Meters Alien, aka Miss Three Meters from You-Gi-Oh.

A video about Planarians.

Penis Fencing Flatworms.

#leasthaunted #podcast #skeptics #Youtube

[tinfoil-hat-brigade]

I happened to run across a Twitter conversation last night about Harry and Meghan that just about made me vomit because it was exactly the same shit that’s been said by the haters about Benedict and Sophie over the last 9 years. It’s like they have templates where haters just swap out names. Meghan faked both pregnancies, Archie and Lillibet are rented children, they’re analyzing photos pixel by pixel to prove that they’ve been photoshopped, blah blah blah. 

The one tihng mentioned in the conversation that I saw before I just had to bail because it was so putrid is that Harry and Meghan bought a somewhat pricey bicycle for Archie from a local bike shop in Montecito. The shop’s owner spoke very positively about both of them, and apparently he’s now getting death threats. (Correction: The bike was actually a gift from the shop owner, which actually makes the fact that he’s getting death threats even more shitty, as if that were possible.)

Lunatic haters are everywhere. And their MO is always the same, driven by nothing more than jealousy, bitterness, erotomania, and in some prominent cases, mental illness.

I just want to add this: I live an hour north of Montecito, and I’ve heard or read absolutely nothing negative about Harry and Meghan. Not a single thing. Their privacy is respected, as it should be. Sorry if that busts the haters’ bubbles, but it’s the absolute truth.

#skeptics #haters #they're everywhere #they're like a virus #and they're just jealous bitches #and some of them are simply out of touch with reality

[bandcampsnoop]

11/1/23.

John Halvorsen (Vorsen) was not part of the recent Bailter Space tour (Micah went to the SF show and said it was fantastic). But "A World On Fire" represents material from the early 1990s to the present. It definitely sounds like it was spawned from the sound of his three bands - The Gordons, Bailter Space and Skeptics. I would throw in Snapper as well.

But this really has an early to mid 1980s alternative sound too - think of The Chameleons UK, or early U2.

Leather Jacket Records is quickly earning a reputation as a label that brings us old New Zealand acts through reissues or new music. Halvorsen is from Wellington, New Zealand.

#John Halvorsen #Vorsen #Wellington #New Zealand #Skeptics #The Gordons #Bailter Space #U2 #The Chameleons UK #Leather Jacket Records #Bandcamp

[lifeasatargetedindividual]

Just because you haven't seen the existence/use of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. How many T.I.'s have personally seen the use of Remote Neural Monitoring in relation to their own targeting experience? We've never seen it with our own two eyes yet we know it exists and that those involved against us can monitor our thoughts and emotions, even perps. And they can use their very phones to do so. I used to tell people, "If you want to know if someone around you is mind probing you, just conjure up the ugliest, vicious thoughts about them that you can. Mentally insult everything about them and I guarantee if they are monitoring your thoughts, you will spot an instant change in their demeanor." It's been implied to me in the past, perps have an app on their phone linked to RNM. I've tested this "theory" many many many times and always got results. Not good ones, but perps almost always make it sooo obvious, falling for the mental bait, too slow to realize its only a test. I've never seen the app, the devices, but I know it exists. I've never personally seen DEW's either, but I know without a doubt they exist and are being used on me. You don't have to see it to know it exists. People who aren't involved in organized harassment in any way, shape or form can't see that we are being targeted, yet we KNOW this cointelpro and mk ultra program exists and we are the guinea pigs of it. That's my point.

#gangstalking #organized stalking #targetedindividual #organized harassment #persecution #harassment #gangstalkers #organized crime #skeptics #government corruption #cointelpro #mk ultra

[blogparanormal]

https://ufostalker.com/

DOES 200,000+ UFO SIGHTINGS PROVE SKEPTICS WRONG?

211,873 allegedly seen so far world-wide have been reported. It appears most UFO sightings here are reporting what they have observed. There are very few obvious spoofers trolling making stuff up. There are also some very detailed UFO reports here too.

#ufo stalker #stalker #ufo #aliens #government #data #ufos #alien #drone #drones #uap #blogparanormal #skeptics #skepticism #believe #supernatural #spirituality #paranormal #spirit #ghost #cryptid #ghosts #spirits

[pineapplerightsideupcake]

I feel like people that believe in ghosts/cryptids/supernatural stuff need to familiarize themselves with basic nature and science because a basic understanding of just about anything disproves this junk.

“I saw a huge furry create on two legs! It must have been Bigfoot!”

You saw a bear. It was a bear. The reason people all claim that Bigfoot stinks is because bears smell terrible. Bears often stand on their hind legs. Their footprints look vaguely humanoid. Bigfoot is just bears.

“I saw a creature that looked like some kind of emaciated and sickly deer with glowing eyes!!”

Your flashlight/headlights caught a sick deers eyes. You didn’t see a monster like a sick deer you just saw a sick deer.

“I heard screams of the undead from that field!”

Please google what animal sounds are in your area. Rabbits and foxes just to name a few make sounds that could easily be mistaken for human cries.

“My doors and windows shut by themselves! Wood creaks and I hear knocking/footsteps!”

You need to understand that houses shift and make sounds. Friction and moisture and air currents all change constantly. A window that stays shut when it’s humid may contract when it’s cooler and slam shut. AC vents may blow a door open. You’re hearing footsteps/knocking from impossible places because human ears are absolutely horrible at localizing sound.

“I saw something/a ghost/a demon in the shadows!”

Look up pareidolia.

“I saw a monster/ghost/demon right after I woke up!”

You experienced sleep paralysis

Like I am begging people to just learn about the world around them.

#skeptics #cryptid

[bad-artist-non-historian]

don't get me wrong, I love Hellenistic philosophy and learning about it, but learning about a seemingly century-long debate (read: verbal brawl) between the stoics and the skeptics is exhausting, and reminds me of the free-for-all debates (read: arguments fueled entirely by feeling and yelling and not at all like fact) of Junior High & High School

#canadian #greek history #philosophy #history #arguments #gdi #hellenic philosophy #stoicism #skeptics #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra #help me #studying for finals #I normally don't complain but #its 10 past 6pm and I'm dying #its so hot #and so exhausting #welp it is what it is #going back to work now #wish me luck #idk

[digiacom]

I know it's been pointed out a million times before me, but my gosh does it bear repeating.

REM pods, spirit boxes, and all the other tools and techniques for collecting ghost evidence are methods of manufacturing coincidences.

These tools (never used with controls of any kind, of course) are designed to create random-seeming phenomena (noises, phrases, and other "evidence"). Keep asking questions to set up the phenomena as a response, especially in a creepy spot with a story, and no matter what happens meaning can (and will!) be read into it. Bam, synchronicity galore.

My doodle dedicated to all the watchers out there - watching Ghost Files right now, which is enormously entertaining, in part because watching Shane put up with all the coincidence manufacture is fun as hell. Good work ghoul boys!

#watcher #ghost files #ghosts #skeptics #ghoul boys #shane madej #ryan bergara #shaniac

[miroslawmagola]

Science fiction isn't fiction any more.

Psychokinesis or telekinesis is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction.

Prof. dr. Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer invited Miroslaw Magola to the Biochemical Institute of the Max Planck Institute in Martinsried to take a closer look at the abilities and phenomena Mirosław Magola exhibits in broadcasts and TV shows. This video was filmed at the Max Planck Institute and you can see what Magola showed interested scientists and skeptics.

Prof. dr. Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer a German biochemist and physician. He was a professor of experimental medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In addition, Ruhenstroth-Bauer was a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and from 1962 until his retirement in 1981 director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried.

#youtube #science #telekinesis #psychokinesis #skeptics #scientists #ability #phenomenon

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Bernhardt J. Hurwood (editor) - Strange Talents - Ace - 1967

#witches #occult #vintage #true stories #285 #gifted with #rare and unusual #talents #skeptics #bernhardt j. hurwood #strange talents #ace books #1967

[leasthaunted]

Check out our newest episode to find out if we make contact with a time traveler! (Available wherever you get your podcasts)

#leasthaunted #podcast #funny #skeptics #paranormal #podcasts

[jonnyom]

#James Randi #skeptics #skeptic society #magician

[tinfoil-hat-brigade]

So I just saw the news about Benedict and Sophie’s home being broken into by a disturbed man with a knife....

First thought was oh thank god they’re all safe and no one was hurt.

Second thought was are Gator and Aeltri claiming it was a false flag in order to gain sympathy and are they also having a shit fit because the article mentioned that Benedict and Sophie have 3 children?

And fuck the haters for causing me to have that second thought.

#skeptics #haters #benedict cumberbatch #sophie hunter #the cumberbatch family #thank god they're all okay #fuck the haters

[odinsblog]

Istg, if I ever get rabies because some dumb ass antivaxxer refused to vaccinate their dog, I’ll probably be doing the rest of my blogging from prison because I promise you, Imma curbstomp the shit out of the owner

#politics #republicans #antivaxxers #rabies #dogs #vaccine skepticism #vaccine hesitancy #animal abuse #pets

[paranormaltheory]

Is Seeing Believing?

YouTube is flooded with videos of hauntings with smartphones, CCTV cameras, or vehicle cameras. But are the ghosts and paranormal activity real? I often wonder about the level of extremes some people take to become YouTube and TikTok sensations in paranormal investigating. I’ve watched a lot of ghost hunt and CCTV videos and I’ve looked at ghosts captured in photographs that the sleuth within emerges to analyze and classify as real or faked. Lately, I’ve determined a lot of what I’ve seen are fake.

Oddly convenient that dash cams capture paranormal activity on a dark isolated road. we’re A solid white ghost appears walking across a road and it enters the woods through a small opening instead of passing through bushes, but it doesn’t vanish entirely. Its silhouette is visible to the eye as the car halts to a stop and speedily passes the apparition.

Home security cameras record doors moving and kitchen drawers opening when the house is unoccupied. Doors move seemingly in one direction. Drawers open slowly as objects fly out at a questionable distance off camera in a perfectly straight line. Objects move in the direction closest to the edge of a kitchen counter.

A group of teenage boys are recording themselves in a field shooting fireworks when an inhuman screech is heard in the distance. The boys investigate when a human-shaped being with a motionless face chases them. The boys run away in a panicked state, but the boy recording the incident conveniently holds the phone on the creature, but in the clip you can see the creature pause and adjust the mask on its face.

There are teams that go to a haunted location with ghost detecting gear. They always talk, pan the camera to areas where they “see” a shadow or hear a bang. There’s always a hush moment: “shh, did you hear that?” “Yeah, it came from over there.” “I heard it, footsteps or shuffling.” “Yeah.” Out of the blue they run screaming like they’ve seen a boogeyman. They stop in another room where they have their hands on their chests doubled over and out of breath. Oddly, one of the guys will stand up and challenge whatever it was that made them nearly soil their pants.

A single lady goes to places fellow ghost hunters advise she not go to alone, but she does. She’s affected by a presence that resides in the place she’s “investigating” and becomes affected by the environment. She later does a dousing tool, a pendant on a chain, and asks spirits to confirm if her ghost hunting as helping the living and the dead. The direction the pendant moves is always a yes. I ask, then, how the hell is she “helping” anything or anyone? All that she does is taunt the spirit to throw something or move an object.

There are multiple channels that show digital photographic evidence and always the owners of the photos say the extra person wasn’t present when the photo was taken. The captured ghosts are solid figures or in direct light that makes the figure seem hazy like anything is when in direct light. Can ghosts appear in solid form?

What astounds me are the people ghost hunting for thrills and believe they serve a purpose or believe they are helping spirits. Explain to me exactly how taunting and invading is helpful. It’s apparently helpful for algorithms and subscribers to a YouTube or TikTok channel for free products and sponsors. There are a few hunters that have admitted that ghost hunting is a thrill and that’s why they do what they do. If a ghost exists and doesn’t bother anyone, why invade their “home” for a rise? Skeptics go to haunted locations to debunk activity which is respectable compared to thrill seekers. I’ve determined there are three kinds of teams: one determined to prove the dead exists alongside the living, one determined to disprove paranormal activity, and one for only thrills and social media popularity.

The most respectful and reputable paranormal team is Ed and Lorraine Warren. They never charged for their services and they always helped families suffering with hauntings in their homes. They are the pioneers of paranormal investigating because Ed used equipment to capture evidence. Not all cases they investigated were hauntings, however. They would find logical reasons to explain knocks and creaky floors, but mostly, they made it their mission to educate people about the paranormal.

Today, like the Warrens, many paranormal investigators are on missions to help families fearing their home is haunted. These investigators include a researcher that is open to possibilities, a skeptic, a tech specialist, and a psychic. Extensive research about the property is done to get an idea of who maybe haunting. During the night investigating, the team will attempt to contact a spirit and find logical reasons for what goes bump in the night. If sufficient evidence is found to prove the home is haunted, the team helps remove the entity. All this is done on camera with a TV crew and staged interviews.

As evidence goes, believers have pre-conditioned their psyche to believe hauntings and ghosts are real and anything captured on video or in photos prove it. Skeptics are criticized for being non-religious and often critical to anyone otherwise. I’ve encountered skeptics who are quick to insult anyone believing in ghosts and when they’re asked to prove their theory, they can’t or won’t. Instead, the only argument is they know ghosts aren’t real - boo-yah. Seriously, a good argument from either side, is important because you want data to support your claim. It’s also good to be open-minded and appreciate opinions and facts from both sides and to understand that there are phenomenons in this world that can or can’t be explained. I’ve seen photos and videos that left me baffled and I’ve seen some that I’ve debunked. I’ve been asked why I hold fascination with the paranormal. Frankly, I’m fascinated with possibilities of truth from both sides of the spectrum and my goal is to educate people to possibilities they’ve never considered. Overall it’s your choice whether to believe or not; there’s no right or wrong regarding the paranormal. If ghosts do exist, it’s bothersome on a moral level knowing people disrespect spirits for personal fame and financial gain. If ghosts don’t exist, well, kudos for social media success and earning financial abundance toying with people’s fear.

Until next time… thanks for tuning in.

Photos: *ABC News, Indie Wire, Weekly Entertainment, CNN

#ghost #paranormal #spirits #paranormal investigation #paranormal investigators extraordinaire #supernatural #ghost hunting #ghost stories #facts #skeptic believer #skeptics #skeptical #ghost hunter #paranormal evidence #paranormal events #ghost and hauntings #haunted #do you believe

[benthejrporter]

Houdini's Secret

New HPANWO Voice article: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/02/houdinis-secret.html

#paranormal #skeptics