The Creepy & The Strange

[AsimButtHitsASix]

4 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

So, the sherpas in Nepal, the native tribes in Canada and America the Aborigines in Australia, everybody is gibbering shite?

Not shite but they're mythological beliefs. People on the Isle of Man still talk about faeries living under bridges. Native tribes in the Americas still talk about shape shifters and vampires and Aboriginal mythology is taken from dreamtime stories. Is there a possibility that these tribes are passing on oral histories that have been distorted over the last ten thousand years from encounters with other early hominds or other large mammals? Quite possibly. If you are using oral histories to be evidence of ape-men then you have to equal weight to vampires, werewolves and thunderbirds. How's that going?

Is it possible that a species of primate migrated to Australia when it still had a land bridge/shallow seas between itself and south east asia and survived in a hostile desert for millennia leaving absolutely no trace of its existence to anyone? Of course not. Is it possible they've mutated stories about extinct Australia megafauna? Yes

The word "Yeti" comes from the Nepalese from "Rock bear". Have you considered that Sherpas were just talking about the Himalayan brown bear and some Western explorers got excited at the prospect of an animal unknown to science? Orangutan comes from the Malay for "Forest man" and folk spent decades looking for this elusive hominid before they realised they just meant the big orange monkey. Australian aborigines descriptions of the Bunyip, Yowie and other mythological animals differ hugely, very few even resemble a primate, but people overlook that to cherry pick their oral history.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

Just now, The Moonster said:

This?

Don't you see how silly the argument is if that's the best footage we have of animals you contest are still living?

Never been debunked in over 50 years.

[Highland Capital]

 

[invergowrie arab]

23 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

What's the point? You would just say it's a man in a suit.

Do you believe in fairys? 

Up until the 1920s it was a pretty mainstream belief in highland culture. We have dozens of stories of fairy encounters, a huge amount of folk practice of leaving out offerings and not doing things to upset them and dozens of place names named after them.

[hearthammer]

2 hours ago, Highland Capital said:

Finding Bigfoot is hilarious.  It's been on the go for ten years and still no luck!

Daily Mail begs to differ

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

No need for the abuse, just find the topic really interesting, especially the individual accounts usually from hunters in the middle of fucking nowhere.

Thank you.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

1 hour ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Not shite but they're mythological beliefs. People on the Isle of Man still talk about faeries living under bridges. Native tribes in the Americas still talk about shape shifters and vampires and Aboriginal mythology is taken from dreamtime stories. Is there a possibility that these tribes are passing on oral histories that have been distorted over the last ten thousand years from encounters with other early hominds or other large mammals? Quite possibly. If you are using oral histories to be evidence of ape-men then you have to equal weight to vampires, werewolves and thunderbirds. How's that going?

Is it possible that a species of primate migrated to Australia when it still had a land bridge/shallow seas between itself and south east asia and survived in a hostile desert for millennia leaving absolutely no trace of its existence to anyone? Of course not. Is it possible they've mutated stories about extinct Australia megafauna? Yes

The word "Yeti" comes from the Nepalese from "Rock bear". Have you considered that Sherpas were just talking about the Himalayan brown bear and some Western explorers got excited at the prospect of an animal unknown to science? Orangutan comes from the Malay for "Forest man" and folk spent decades looking for this elusive hominid before they realised they just meant the big orange monkey. Australian aborigines descriptions of the Bunyip, Yowie and other mythological animals differ hugely, very few even resemble a primate, but people overlook that to cherry pick their oral history.

What about the foot prints on Everest, the famous picture with the ice axe beside them?

[Forest_Fifer]

There's a Scottish guy, cannae mind his name, and he spent a total of 18 months, alone, in the Sikhote-Alin mountains for the BBC to get about 30 seconds of footage of an Amur Leopard in the wild over a decade ago. Since then the BBC, and other wildlife filmmakers, have used remote sensor cameras to get hours of footage of them. There's less than 100 of them left but we still have footage of them rearing cubs, hunting, eating, marking their territory, etc.

Yet, in the last 60 years, thousands of big foot hunters, with the same tech, in an area that is far less remote, have yet to get a single verifiable image of any kind of unknown primate or hominid in North America. There's no fossils or remains of these animals nor is there anything in the fossil record that shows any species they could be descended from in that part of the world. There's no tracks, no droppings, no fur, no signs of territorial markings or anything that comes close to proof of their existence.

The mind boggles that folk can look at all that and go "Aye. Bigfoot exists" Pretty sure we're being trolled

This.
If they existed, we'd find remains at the very least. The idea that there's a breeding population of a large primate in an environment, and there has never been any actual physical evidence of their existence, just bad photos and videos, is just bonkers. The same applies to stuff like Nessie, a population large enough to breed and survive for any length of time couldn't remain hidden.

Although I have seen a video stating that they are in league with the aliens, and the reason we never find any remains is that the aliens take any dead ones away...

[AsimButtHitsASix]

7 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

What about the foot prints on Everest, the famous picture with the ice axe beside them?

I've got a photo of an igloo in ma back garden me and ma maw made when I was 8

It doesn't prove the existence of eskimos in Greenock

[The Moonster]

5 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

What about the foot prints on Everest, the famous picture with the ice axe beside them?

Regular bear footprint:

Your Yeti footprint:

Seem fairly similar to me.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

1 minute ago, The Moonster said:

Regular bear footprint:

Your Yeti footprint:

Seem fairly similar to me.

Only problem is the everest tracks were bipedal.

[Jacksgranda]

1 hour ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

So, the sherpas in Nepal, the native tribes in Canada and America the Aborigines in Australia, everybody is gibbering shite?

 

They maybe know a white man mug when they meet one.

[Jacksgranda]

1 hour ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Not shite but they're mythological beliefs. People on the Isle of Man still talk about faeries living under bridges. Native tribes in the Americas still talk about shape shifters and vampires and Aboriginal mythology is taken from dreamtime stories. Is there a possibility that these tribes are passing on oral histories that have been distorted over the last ten thousand years from encounters with other early hominds or other large mammals? Quite possibly. If you are using oral histories to be evidence of ape-men then you have to equal weight to vampires, werewolves and thunderbirds. How's that going?

Is it possible that a species of primate migrated to Australia when it still had a land bridge/shallow seas between itself and south east asia and survived in a hostile desert for millennia leaving absolutely no trace of its existence to anyone? Of course not. Is it possible they've mutated stories about extinct Australia megafauna? Yes

The word "Yeti" comes from the Nepalese from "Rock bear". Have you considered that Sherpas were just talking about the Himalayan brown bear and some Western explorers got excited at the prospect of an animal unknown to science? Orangutan comes from the Malay for "Forest man" and folk spent decades looking for this elusive hominid before they realised they just meant the big orange monkey. Australian aborigines descriptions of the Bunyip, Yowie and other mythological animals differ hugely, very few even resemble a primate, but people overlook that to cherry pick their oral history.

Trump's from Malaya?

[The Moonster]

10 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

Only problem is the everest tracks were bipedal.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

5 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

Bears don't cover that length of ground on two legs.

[Venti]

5 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

Bears don't cover that length of ground on two legs.

They do when they're leaving early for the subway.

Edited May 19, 2020 by Slenderman

[MONKMAN]

Well this has developed better than one could possibly ever have expected.

[tamthebam]

2 hours ago, The Moonster said:

I now have "The bare necessities of life" playing in my head.

[Venti]

To get the thread back OT, has anyone ever been to a place that gives you heebie jeebies?

Went to the places near the Somme on a history school trip when I was younger & it felt eerie AF.

Been to the Gettysburg area too which was creepy.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

1 hour ago, MONKMAN said:

Well this has developed better than one could possibly ever have expected.

You're easily pleased.

Muppet.