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FBI Records: Bigfoot (1976)
- tj-teej 7y agoObligatory Mitch Hedberg Joke: I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here.
- dberg 7y agoman do i miss Mitch Hedberg. The Pringles joke is still one of my favorites of his of all time.
- dontbenebby 7y agoIt's not really surprising the FBI would look into it. (Especially since spreading rumors of a monster in the woods would be a great way to scare people away from your illegal drug operation)
- buildzr 7y ago> Especially since spreading rumors of a monster in the woods would be a great way to scare people away from your illegal drug operation Straight out of Scooby Doo, wonder if there are any real occurrences of this kind of thing.
- totalthrowaway 7y agoSort of? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-man-fined-6-000-for-feeding-pot-bears-1.1153288 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-man-fine...
- dontbenebby 7y agoBears with mange walking upright are actually a common source of Bigfoot reports. They look weird
- jdminhbg 7y agoSeems to me like spreading rumors of a monster in the woods would be more of a great way to get hundreds of people with cameras to show up looking through your illegal drug operation.
- nscalf 7y agoTLDR: Cochran sent a hair sample which was deemed to be "from the deer family".
- idlewords 7y agoTwist: the deer was adopted.
- delinka 7y agoSummary: FBI accepted a sample of tissue and hair, agreed to analyze it (within FBI policy- that they not only support criminal investigations and other law enforcement agencies, but also, at their discretion, may perform analyses for other organizations), and ultimately determined the sample was related to deer.
- devoply 7y agoSo you're saying it's a deer hominid hybrid?
- levesque 7y agoThis changes everything.
- nkozyra 7y agoBighoof
- pcmaffey 7y agoPan is playing with us.
- ryanmercer 7y agoOh, it's worse than that, some of them are fanged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_deer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_deer
- 13415 7y agoStrangely, I found reading the letters very entertaining, even though everybody was serious and they contained neither jokes nor irony.
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- asveikau 7y agoAlso note they only analyzed the sample after it had been erroneously reported in the press that FBI had analyzed it and concluded it was not comparable to any known creature.
- sneak 7y agoThis makes me miss watching the X-Files during its first run. Was TV better then, or was I just younger and less jaded toward mass media?
- bildung 7y agoThe latter. I really liked the series as a teenager, but recently rewatched the first episode out of interest and found it awful...
- miobrien 7y agoThe first seasons are rough. It gets way better (and then eventually gets way worse).
- ascagnel_ 7y agoThe earliest episodes are hit-and-miss; the writers got it figured out around halfway through the first season, and most of s2-s3 is good. I think The X-Files also really only worked because of it's context and time in history -- there was a right-wing fringe that was terrifyingly paranoid of a Democrat in office after more than a decade of Reagan & Bush (the first movie aped some of that imagery, in a somewhat tone-deaf manner), and the idea of conspiracy hadn't yet morphed from Soviets and aliens into birthers and truthers.
- Lich 7y agoI bought the X-Files mythology collection (main storyline episodes only). The monster of the week episodes are quite average, but if you watch the mythology episodes in order it's a pretty good show IMO, especially if you're into the aliens and government conspiracy theme.
- ssully 7y agoI was going to post the opposite. I think the show is good/great up to season 5 or 6, but the mythology episodes get bad much sooner. I think by season 3 or 4 the mythology stuff is more often bad then good.
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- IvyMike 7y agoOf all the conspiracy theories out there, the one I want to be true the most is Bigfoot. My hopes pretty much hang on this: https://youtu.be/Fr2RIJ1gCac https://youtu.be/Fr2RIJ1gCac
- IvyMike 7y agoRevise that: my actual number one hope is the "Jeff Mangum built some kind of time machine and saved Anne Frank" theory is right, but that's admittedly harder to believe.
- matthoiland 7y agoI like to believe that he succeeded and that Anne is now a little boy in Spain.
- brianpgordon 7y agoPlaying pianos filled with flames sounds like a rather significant fire hazard though. Doesn't sound like a very pleasant existence.
- behringer 7y agoBigfoot's been found: https://www.youtube.com/user/readyourDogstaff/search?query=bigfoot https://www.youtube.com/user/readyourDogstaff/search?query=b...
- smudgymcscmudge 7y agoI was thinking about that the other day. The conspiracy theory I most want to be true is "global warming is a hoax". Nothing but upside there.
- ohaideredevs 7y agoI am really curious if you work for an ABC, and get high enough - do you get to learn about some "cool" things, or it's all just tedious politics/cartels. It does seem to me that the number of conspiracy theories went way down lately (which is surprising, giving the proliferation of tech), whereas there is clearly stuff that's being kept a secret well, e.g. we never heard about the stealth Blackhawks until the raid in Pakistan, and only because it failed badly. Or nobody talks about plasma weapons, yet they got an effective prototype a decade ago iirc, and the project stopped reporting any news (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER).
- intuitionist 7y agoIf you get high enough, you can learn about some “cool” things just by watching YouTube. You probably don’t want to tell your government employer about it, though.
- colechristensen 7y ago"cool things" which wouldn't surprise me * Always more stealth planes, likely large drones today * Whatever that little Air Force space shuttle was doing * Hypersonic planes/drones/missiles * Disturbingly "smart" missiles/weapons/drones * Small fusion reactors already exist in production * Quantum computing already exists in production * RSA can be cracked on demand * Spy satellites can see way more than would make you comfortable * Power armor * Novel propulsion methods
- ohaideredevs 7y ago* RSA can be cracked on demand The funny thing is that this is the most disturbing one by far if true. Some of those are almost a given to me - classified stealth planes, hypersonic missiles, sats having incredible resolution, power armor, "smart"-er than known missiles.
- ryanmercer 7y agoJust going to leave this Bigfoot political campaign commercial here, I got a good laugh out of it when I found it last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iU_8wSvSW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iU_8wSvSW4
- nydel 7y agoThis may be the best political advertisement I've seen. Or the only good one?/s Yeah it's really funny. But beyond that, there's nothing mean or of substance in it. Most political ads cannot claim the former and try to hide the latter, I think ^_^ Thanks for sharing!
- chiefalchemist 7y agoNot to get too serious too quickly, but I'm not sure why the idea of (so-called) Bigfoot falls under conspiracy theory. Long to short, homo sapiens co-existed with other human-esque species. The idea that primitive HSs were somehow able to entirely extermination these other species feels like a pretty high expectation to me. Any survivors - and certainly there would be some - would have been able to do so because the ability to hide, run, not be found, etc. Today's Bigfoots could be offspring of the survivers. Unlikely. But certainly, in theory, possible.
- evandev 7y agoI think it falls under conspiracy theory because some people might think that the government has covered up any knowledge of Bigfoot similar to aliens.
- chiefalchemist 7y agoAliens I can understand. That would unmind quite a few things (e.g., religion). But bigfoot seems pretty harmless. Unless of course homo sapiens would finally be forced to admin how fond we are of violence, killing, etc.
- JKCalhoun 7y agoWhere is the bigfoot skeleton? Physical evidence is king when someone proposes something seemingly fantastic. With (almost) everyone carrying a camera in their pocket these days one would expect to see new Bigfoot recordings posted weekly. We have found that indeed blacks do get shot more often in police confrontations than whites. But UFOs? Bigfoot? Not so much.
- 40four 7y agoWe have found the skeletons, and we call them Gigantopithecus, not Bigfoot :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus So we know for sure really huge apes, possibly as tall as 3 meters for sure used to exist. I'm not saying they still do, they probably don't. But it's not as big of mental hurdle dor me to clear, to consider if they have lasted, than for example, to believe in flying saucers from other solar systems.
- nydel 7y agoMy bigfoot dowsing rods keep drawing out the words "idiomotor" and "apophenia" but I'm not sure which of the myriad languages these concepts could possibly be a part; must be my subconscious connecting to the bigsfoot and deciphering their language.
- aphextim 7y agoI think Bigfoot just moved to Upper Michigan so he could race Outhouses down a snow covered road. https://www.trenaryouthouseclassic.com/ https://www.trenaryouthouseclassic.com/ When someone asks, "What do people do where you live?" I reply, "In the winter they take outhouses and race them down the street while drinking an exorbitant amount of alcohol." The response is always golden.
- doctor_dubious 7y agoSo... just asking but... How is Bigfoot a conspiracy, when there's no incentive to conspire for or against whether Bigfoot is real? Seems to me that paranormal happenings and cryptozoology aren't conspiratorial, even if 99.99999% likely apocryphal. No one is pushing an agenda regarding Bigfoot. It's just kinda cool and weird, but suffers from lack of credibility.