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5/12/2024 11:51:09 PM
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Yep, just like Mothman.
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Mothman legit has far more evidence to support its existence.
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Does it though? Okay, how about the urban legend of the 'Palm Licker?'
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That one I'm not familiar with, but Mothman... weird -blam!- definitely happened in point pleasant. "Something" or someone tried to warn them about the collapse of the Silver Bridge. Still unexplained to this day.
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The 'Palm Licker' is a legend about a psycho that would break into a house and hide under a person's bed. When they would fall asleep and their hand would hang over the side of the bed, he'd lick their hand and they would mistakenly believe it was their dog. In the morning when they woke up, they would find the remains of the dog in their closet with a note that said, "People can lick too." Very disturbing to even consider. Anyway, the Mothman; I find it as believable as the Blair Witch, due in part to the fact that I'm........let's just say, "familiar" with the area.
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Bearbeitet von Part Timer: 5/13/2024 12:17:35 AMThe events of Point pleasant actually happened though. They were documented in the paper, and in books. The bridge did actually collapse and people who weren't there said they were warned off. The event still isn't explained, to this day. A lot more would have died, without those warnings.
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The bridge collapsed, that's true. But it was due to it being a 40-year-old suspension bridge and its collapse was attributed to a cracked eye-bar.
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Right, but many people were documented saying they would have been on that bridge, if they hadn't been warned away from it. There's a reason that mythology has persisted in PP and why they built a statue as a monument to the events of the Silver bridge.
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Yes there is, and that reason would be tourism.
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no, to the people of Point Pleasant during that era, it was all real. An investigative journalist documented a good chunk of it, and has weird experiences himself. Including a strange phone call from a friend of his who had been dead for months prior.
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Of course it was real to the people who were there, it was an incredibly traumatic experience. As for the investigative journalist, what could be a more expedient way to make a name for yourself than to "report" on the theory that a supernatural being was involved in such a horrific event?
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Thing is it didn't lead to anything much at the time. He simply documented what happened and had some terrifying experiences himself. But those people definitely believe that whatever happened, happened. I have no reason to believe they're lying. They said they're alive purely thanks to those warnings that appeared to come from the future.
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I don't believe they were lying either, merely suggesting that when something catastrophic happens and tensions are high, things can take on attributes that defy reason simply as a coping mechanism. Bear in mind, I'm not outright stating that things people believe in are complete hokum; I'm not claiming I'm so smart I know everything but I'm smart enough to say with absolute certainty that I don't. Was/is Mothman real? Maybe, but I'm definitely skeptical.
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all I know is they believe it was real, and several unexplainable things happened during that period in the area. Especially when you realize Point pleasant sits on top of the same tunnel system where hundred of people have just gone missing, within the Mammoth system.
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Yes, but people disappear in tunnel systems for reasons other than the supernatural; at least, as far as I know. Could there be blind, subterranean humanoids living underneath rural/suburban/urban areas around the world? Sure. It's also possible that people got turned around and lost, never to find their way out again too.
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Bearbeitet von jhermannITJ: 5/13/2024 2:00:11 AMMy problem with the legend... is why that, why then? Why haven't they intervened before or after? What's unique about that instance? It's like Bigfoot... someone would have found a corpse or shot one by now. However, you never know nowadays. The Kraken... thought to be a myth, probably a mega squid when they could survive in shallower water. Seriously look up Mega Squid... they have claws. Then the Men in Black... that program was outed by that NASA whistleblower. Not saying it was like the movies... but there was apparently a black ops program where the dudes were referred to as the Men in Black. The only weird thing I ever saw where I can't explain what happened is when I was young and lost in the woods. An owl guided me out... 🙃. You don't see owls during the day... I don't know why I started following it. I still think 🤔 about that owl.... Who... whooo was it 😋? [spoiler]Did I get yah? Lol. Lame joke. [/spoiler] But no, I've seen some **** in my life. But nothing I couldn't explain.
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I wasn't going to say anything, honest. 😂 Life itself is one mystery among many and once we solve them all, well, that would just be boring. 😞
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along this system though, there's a lot of weirdness surrounding these areas, even to this day.
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There's plenty of places that have an air of "weirdness" about them around the world. Look up the Aokigahara Forest in Japan or the Dyatlov Pass in Russia. Even Route 66, probably one of the most famous stretches of road in the US, is supposedly haunted.
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Dyatlov still also has never been explained either. The Ozark range is also known for some weird -blam!- happening, and the locals are aware of it.
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The thing to take note of is how isolation can play a role in some of these instances. Things can happen in places like that, and the human mind isn't above filling in blanks with the fantastical. Still, life would be dull as dishwater without a mystery and that's why people have the stories we do and a need to find a reason to explain things. People used to believe the sun was pulled across the sky by a horse-drawn chariot until we learned differently. Maybe someday the mysteries we have today will be explained and we'll have new ones to solve.
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In the case of dyatlov though, they still can't explain the level of background radiation, no matter how much else can be explained of it through hypothermia..
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Maybe it was nuclear testing and the hikers stumbled onto something they shouldn't have seen. It's not as though Russia would openly admit to exterminating a group of hikers that found a nuclear testing facility during the Cold War. The point is a lot of these places have little more than speculation for explanation as to why what happens there does and for the time being, we can only enjoy spinning yarns about what [i]we think happened[/i].
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that's the most likely speculation, or some sort of weapon. we'll likely never know though.
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I don't know that I'd say [i]never[/i] but even still, that's part of what makes it so interesting; the mystery of it.
