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'Dark Watchers' have been spooking California hikers for centuries. What are they?
livescience.com ^ | Brandon Specktor

Posted on 03/15/2021 5:30:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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41 posted on 03/15/2021 7:22:57 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: RummyChick

Potoo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b59ZM7fXOSs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo


42 posted on 03/15/2021 7:23:24 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: P8riot
"I through hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 1975, most of which is in California, and never experienced this."

I remember that. We were watching. :)

43 posted on 03/15/2021 7:23:44 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Gotta squint some .... :-)


44 posted on 03/15/2021 7:26:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Phillyred

Hmmm


45 posted on 03/15/2021 7:27:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SkyDancer

Like reading a teleprompter...


46 posted on 03/15/2021 7:29:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: campaignPete R-CT

That's fascinating.

(I can't pass up this opportunity to post this old song link.)

"Alley Oop" The Hollywood Argyles

("...He don't eat nothin' but a bear cat stew...")

47 posted on 03/15/2021 7:33:32 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: PROCON

Moody Blues ping


48 posted on 03/15/2021 7:59:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: BenLurkin

When I was 12 living in rural Wisconsin, I saw a dark figure (silhouette) standing at the crest of a hill on corn field just after harvest. Wearing a wide brim hat and cloak. I was shocked by the sight and gasped. My 11 yr old brother said to me, you see it too? He thought it was his imagination. 30 years later, listening to Art Bell he spoke about shadow people. I looked it up online and sent a pic of them to my brother. He immediately responded to the cornfield incident. Very strange. I still remember the sensation in my gut, knees, and the top of my head when I saw it. Haven’t seen it since. It was dusk and a clear sky behind the ridge from our viewpoint. Standing straight up and appeared to be looking at us (we both thought). We ran to the garage and pulled out our baseball bats.


49 posted on 03/15/2021 8:16:49 PM PDT by linedrive
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To: Chode

Brocken Spectre.


50 posted on 03/15/2021 9:16:40 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: linedrive

Yikes.


51 posted on 03/15/2021 9:25:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: PGalt

No he’s not

.....,he’s outside looking in

Everyone knows that

Come on man


52 posted on 03/15/2021 9:27:19 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG )
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To: Jamestown1630

Read Mark Carlotto’s “The Cydonia Controversy”.

Carlotto is a PhD scientist who specializes in image processing.


53 posted on 03/15/2021 9:27:30 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: RummyChick

That bird looks like a cross between the creature from the black lagoon and an owl!


54 posted on 03/15/2021 9:30:46 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Neyah ah ah! Whittishhh


55 posted on 03/15/2021 9:35:54 PM PDT by going hot
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To: KamperKen

PhD, by itself, means nothing to me - anybody with a hard enough ass can get one, especially in the last 20-30 years.

I can’t find anything about this Carlotto guy except claims of his experience - with no mention of institutions or Universities where he has done research or taught.

This appears to be one of his websites:

http://beforeAtlantis.com

I’m as great a fan of Art Bell, Coast-to-Coast, etc., as anyone - but I take it as sheer entertainment. I need substantive information about a person’s credentials and achievements to give them any credence beyond their entertainment value.


56 posted on 03/15/2021 9:43:21 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Carlotto has a PhD in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon, serious STEM credentials. There, I did your research for you. Took me 10 seconds.

The plateau the ‘face’ resides on is highly symmetric, i.e., not fractal like natural features. The plateau is in the shape of a shield and there is a straight line that joins the the points of intersection where sides of the shield meet the arc at the top. This is not a matter of pareidolia but discernible features visible at different angles and lighting conditions.

The symmetry is strongly suggestive that this feature is artificial. Not proof of course but suggestive. While you’re at it take a look at the hexagon feature on the south pole of Saturn.


57 posted on 03/15/2021 10:00:58 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: RoosterRedux
I would like to purchase a sinister hat and cape myself.

Is Sinister a brand name? :-)

58 posted on 03/15/2021 10:11:53 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: KamperKen

He advertises the fact that he has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon all over the place - including on his Amazon page, and in the ‘about’ portion of the link that I previously furnished. And as I wrote, I don’t think that much of a mere PhD.

What research has he done in any institution, where has he taught, how many papers has he published in peer-reviewed scientific journals?

I’m sure you’ll do more research for me.


59 posted on 03/15/2021 10:19:20 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Leaning Right
Here’s a picture of a creature I came across while hiking in the woods last summer.

It appears to be a woman walking in the woods. What creature are you seeing?

60 posted on 03/15/2021 10:32:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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