Bigfoot

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Anyone believe in this?

Because everyone has their phone glued to their hands now so if you didn’t catch it on camera - it didn’t happen

Could it have been sleep paralysis?

Can you draw at all? Have you tried to draw what you saw?

Someone assuming that you're posting bc you've got nothing better to do if you're not doing the school run. It's quite sexist and patronising if you think about it.

Same with aliens, grimm dogs and ghosts. Strangely they all stopped being a thing when people started carrying phone cameras everywhere with them. If they existed we'd have a good picture by now.

There are decent pictures out there though.................

Funnily enough I was trying to find a picture online that might look vaguely similar so I could post it on this thread. But I couldn't find anything. Lots of pixies, gobblins and monkey type creatures but none of them were a good fit at all. Unfortunately I am absolutely hopeless at drawing. I mean, seriously awful.

Genuinely Interested to know more about your later experience if not too triggering to share. I have always felt there is ‘more to this heaven and earth than meets the eye’ :)

I watch these as well! And I subscribe to Fortean Times; lots of weird stuff in there! 😁

My later experience is honestly something that I really don't want to share. I know that sounds like a cop out but it truly isn't. It's not exactly about being triggered as such, it's more about the questions it raises on everything we think is true. It was something that cannot be rationalised. It actually shook and terrified me more than anything I've ever known.

I’ve never heard of anyone not liking David Attenborough!

I saw things that can't be rationalised. It's a head fuck but still better discussed.
Ime.
I saw a Man Of God perform medical procedures on wide awake people in an audience abroad...
If only I had had a mobile phone then.

some might say that discussing scary things brings them into the open so they can’t hold that fear over us of keeping them to ourselves.
as for the medical procedures, could he have used hypnosis?

Especially with trail cams you fix to a tree and leave in the forest.

Definitely a hoax.

I’m inclined to agree but remain open minded. Perhaps interdimensional beings can avoid detection on cameras somehow?

I don’t believe in any of it but I am friends with one of the bigger names in the world of Sasquatch who is friends with Bob Gimlin. I’m regularly sent “evidence” of sasquatch. None of it holds up imo and the lengths that they go to, to insist that it does are extraordinary. They have regular sightings. You’d be tripping over sasquatch if they genuinely saw them as often as they claim to. I know a few other people in the sasquatch world and though I’m a skeptic I’m almost tempted to go along to their meet-ups just to see exactly what goes on.

Your story made me think of "Five Children and It" (E. Nesbitt) - here's a cover with a Quentin Blake illustration 😊

No need for a phone. “Psychic surgery” is a well known and debunked con. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychicsurgery

I think xkcd has got the answer

https://xkcd.com/1235/

the trail cams or hikers would catch something if it was there. And a breeding population needs to be big.

Thanks. I've never actually heard of this book but it sounds fitting!

Psychic surgery has been thoroughly debunked. It was quite the thing for a while.

My very rational, IT consultant friend, who doesn't like anything remotely woo is adamant she encountered a supernatural being as a child. It chased her and scared her terribly, apparently.

I remember reading a story in a magazine - I think it might have been Readers Digest. It was written in a “it happened to me” way rather than as fiction. A man said he’d gone to stay with a friend who lived in Devon or Cornwall… anyway the friend told him if he fancied getting up early he’d show him something amazing. So they duly got up early and went for a walk in a nearby wood. As they approached a stream, the friend motioned him to be quiet and they crept through the bushes til they could see the stream. They peered through the undergrowth and there sitting on a rock was a little man about 18 inches high, washing his socks.

It was presented as a real experience. It was absolute years ago but I’ve never forgotten it.

Didn't you investigate the hole the little man disappeared into? Try to go back and find him again? Tell anyone? Get a camera and try to hide and get some pictures of him coming out? Try to get footprints?

How interesting. Has she ever described what she saw?