Sometimes the more mainstream fair of cryptozoology has been so ingrained in believer and pop culture it's hard to discern genuine curiosities from nonsense and hoaxers so perhaps a fresher look at some lesser known cryptids in more remote localities will help give us some perspective. For what we see in the lore of different regions isn't so much the promise of new or unseen curiosities, but similar patterns or biological memes that could lend credence to the hypothetical existence of said creatures or just outright dismiss them as possibly a constant of the human imagination.
To start us off, cryptids of Hawaii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4-XsoKxGh0
Starting your link with an image from the humor site"Worth1000words" kind of undermines your thread OP. Just sayin'
>>17680773
Yeah, I couldn't find a good image.
The cliche is that I say that I can't write and that I've never been on /x/. Those aren't true. I do visit /x/ from time to time and I can write okay. Not great, but well enough to get through a BA in English, so here goes (also not green-texting because that sucks; I know how to, but I also know why not to):
To keep it as brief as possible, I was visiting family in a place called Beaver, Ohio. Chuckle if you are under 13 and then fuck off because this is an 18+ site.
I went to my favorite nearby nature getaway, Lake Katherine. Now Lake Katherine is many things, but it's not spooky. I like to take pictures there with my DSLR and relax in a few hidden off-trail areas.
I went to such one off-trail area last week, below the main waterfall, and there was a girl, all alone. Now this is in a county called Jackson Ohio, which, like most backwoods county has two things going against young girls: first, if you look up sex offenders on the web, the site lights up like a Roman Christmas tree. Second: while this is a fact, people around ignore this fact and let their kids run around like it's 1953 and Sheriff Griffith is making his rounds to check on all the young'ens.
I am aware of this proclivity among my people, and as a very NON pedo in a very big-man body, am both concerned with kids being safe, and afraid of spooking kids and adults if I inquire too much into the state of said kids.
So at first I said nothing when this kid, alone, is sitting in one of my favorite spots in the world, "Indian-style," where few people know they can get to off-trail, and when I've seen maybe three other people all day.
Cont.
I admire the sights and go about my business, pretending as though she doesn't exist. She's about eight or so and wearing good clothes for this time of year: a flannel and hiking boots.
As I get ready to leave, I feel the need to make sure she has some kind of awareness about her. Young girls in that area, though they are often the target of abuse, are for some reason, rarely aware of it. So I said, "You okay?" or something of the sort.
She looks up at me and says, "My foot's broke or sprained."
I asked if her parents were around and she said they had gone home. While in most parts of the world this may seem weird, again, in this part of the world, it's typical. So I asked if she needed help. I almost turned to go because in that neck of the woods, no one ever says "yes I need help" unless they are really sore off.
But she just said "please." So after a lot of looking over my shoulder, and seeing that we are alone, I had a decision to make: appear to be a creep, or leave a kid in need and actually be a deadbeat idiot. I figured I can live with myself if everyone in the world thinks I'm the worst kind or person, as long as I know in my heart I'm the good guy.
To whit: I'm 6'2", and muscular with a beer-belly. I'm not a model by any means, but I'm the kind of guy most people feel they can approach, but no one messes with. I'm not trained in anything, I am just big and look scary. Big fish, small pond most likely.
Anyway, after looking at this kid's foot and seeing that it does indeed look raw and nasty, I hoist her onto my back.
cont.
and to make a long story short, we make for the head of the trail. The trail ends, or begins, depending on how you look at it, in a clearing with a few poster-boards with your typical wildlife information on it (such as the wildlife you might see, fauna and flora, etc.) that is a mess in the summer and fall, mostly overgrown, and rife with pests. This time of year, however, it's much nicer, as the wheat/etc. has fallowed and the ticks haven't come to their own in force yet. So it's not kept, but it's nice.
So imagine my surprise when after piggybacking this kid over a quarter-mile of a pretty steep climb, after setting her down from said climb, after talking to her about SpongeBob and Pokemon, the only things I could think to relate to her with, I put her down, look toward the parking lot to see only my car, hear her say, "Thanks, Anon. I'll be sure to repay the favor," imagine my surprise when I look down to her, about to ask if she wanted me to call the police to get her to the lousy hospital in the area called "Holzer" (where medical talent goes to die a slow and overly dramatic death), that she wasn't there.
Imagine my surprise when I thought back hard, and still am, and cannot remember giving her my name. Imagine my surprise when little what's-her-name new my name and I didn't know hers. Imagine my surprise when an 8-year-old or so uses the phrase, "I'll be sure to repay the favor" when such a phrase is beyond most teachers of her grade in that area.
And she's gone. I mean, there's no where for her to have run, and on that foot, she'd not have gotten far.
cont.
So while I'm not the first to shout "ghost," I'm also not the last. I am here, after all. But I need your help.
1) What was this girl?
2) Am I in danger?
3) Did I do the right thing? (should I have left here there in a well-enough alone sort of way)?
I know the difference between the 1% of people who are versed in the arcane and can give me valuable info and the 99% of shitposters etc. on here, so thank you, 1% for any info you can provide here.
Any of you out there ever hear fucked up shit on the other end of one of these? Share your stories.
Crying baby, fuck, anon I want no part of that. 66spoopy6me.
Bump for interest tho.
>>17679759
Too spooky indeed, more spooky if you don't have a child and it's crying on the other end. Sometimes I get feedback, not gonna jump on the ghost/demon bandwagon for that. But the moment I hear a dead language in an unnatural voice maybe some growling too, then I will entertain the idea and baby can sleep in our room and i will upgrade to video monitoring.
>>17679857
But who was....... baby monitor?
When me and my buddy were 13 we went out at night to vandalize random shit like signs and flags and walls because were 13 and shit, we ended up looking through a trash can and saw a suitcase with a bag poking out of it. I opened it and inside of the bag was dark red and fleshy colors, looked like a pig that got cut to pieces. Right as we were looking at this the home owner pulled into his drive way. We immediately ran like little girls spooked out of our goddamn minds and we never told anyone about it. What are the odds that a trash bag with fleshy colors inside of a suitcase inside of a trash can was a human body? Now that I think back on it, it seems so likely. It makes it hard to sleep really. We were just way too scared by the guy pulling into the driveway to do anything but forget about the whole thing.
I guess it could depend what type of area you live in, I wouldn't be surprised though. I was hiking in the desert yesterday, and I found a bucket filled with what looked like liquefied stuff and blood. I can post the pic if you guys wanna see and help me figure out what it is
>>17679279
I wonder if you could go through missing persons cases from back then and see if anything lines up.
>>17679306
That would be a lot of work, if I had more knowledge on how to do that I might try though. I remember the neighborhood and could probably remember within 3 houses of it.
Polytheism thread? Polytheism thread.
The topic for this thread is:
What is the best proof/evidence you have for the existence of multiple deities?
>What is the best proof
"Prove [ topic ] is real" threads are troll threads made to cause pointless unending arguments and nothing more.
>>17679212
>oh look its this meme again
No trolling here. Seriously looking for best proofs/evidence. Polytheism has a bad reputation for lacking serious intellectual/philosophical rigor, at least as far as I know.
If there is a robust defense of polytheism I want to know about it.
>>17679206
That's a really awkward way to have your penis on.
continuing Gyo from
>>17678255
welcome one and all
>>17678770
finally, her true nature will begin to show
hey, everybody
it's manga op back again, this time with a trip
this time, i'm going to start off with a one-shot before moving into a full feature
so here's junji ito's snow white
>>17678256
after this, i'm going to post the first volume of Gyo
so please stay tuned
>>17678257
and when that's done, i'll be back either friday or saturday with the second half
Hey X, give me everything you've got on teleportation.
https://youtu.be/KhKR8YuFFoo
Watched this so many fuking times, still have no clue of how ...
>>17677466
Can someone give insights on how that kid does it? Or whatever its fake or not.
>>17677481
There is no affective (wtf? why does my computer think that this isn't a word?) explanation if the last 2 are real. But most likely they are just amateur movie maker CG stuff.
So what do you think /x/, just some teenagers being dumb or does someone actually doing a little ritual?
Last post was supposed to say "does someone actually think they're doing a little ritual?"
Backstory: it was beautiful yesterday and I remembered seeing these abandoned buildings on google maps so I went to check them out.
The buildings were actually on the property of some chemical company. Most buildings had crumbled into themselves. The ones that didn't had lots of packing materials and other bulk materials for whatever it is they did there. It looks like they halted operations overnight. Maybe there were chemicals contaminating the land.
I'm sure there's other anons out there that experience this.
Whether it be in an altered state of consciousness or not. Lately its been happening to me in waking life.
Ill try describe it as best I can with words.
>You get a moment in which you remember or recall what everything is, its an overwhelming feeling. When you go to explain it to someone it seems to slip your mind immediately. You can dwell on it but when you try to explain it, it fades.
To me it feels though as if, I did recall it reality would shatter, like when you take psychedelics.
I'm not saying it would shatter, I'm just saying it feels like it would.
Or do any of you anons get the dreams where you refelct on this life, just as you sit here and reflect on dreams, in dreams that you're having that are not this life?
>>17675574
nigga what
>>17675574
I do. I did for the first time just last week and life shattered and I saw everything.
>>17675685
But then you can't explain it right. Not using language, even if you could remember.
Or perhaps it was that there was nothing to remember in the first place.
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Previously on /div/: >>17669172
General reading please.
>>17675045
Will do 5 readings tonight.
Today, I will restrict myself to anwser only self-knowing and introspective queries. May take a long time to deliver.
>name/initials/pseudonym
>age
>think of a dinner table. How is the table organized?What is it made of? What is the decoration. Is there any food? How does the food tastes like?
>>17675038
Interesting. Glad it helped.
>>17674992
A bit busy right now and not in the mood for love queries, sorry.
Hey /x/, I already posted this on /lit/ but I don't know if I get an answer there.
I'm looking for novels/films/games/any media that can best be described as "horror drama", where there is more emphasis on the drama part than the horror part.
I'm a fan of the Silent Hill games, not because of the horror aspects but much more because of the characters backgrounds, dealing with loss of a loved one, depression, all that kind of stuff tied together with horror elements. Basically the characters have to fight their own demons who have come to life. I hope you understand what I'm trying to explain.
Any recomendations?
From Wikipedia: "Horror drama – A film that focuses on imperiled characters dealing with realistic emotional struggles, often involving dysfunctional family relations, in a horror setting. The film's horror elements often serve as a backdrop to an unraveling dramatic plot."
>>17671540
Bump.
I think a lot of jrpg horror games, especially indie titles fit in this category. A couple of these would be The Witches House, re:Kinder, and Mermaid Swamp.
>>17671540
Crimson Peak
How can I go about selling my soul to Satan?
>>17668429
You already did.
>>17668434
would a leather belt work for this? im actually going to fucking do it
Alright, guys, I have a question and I have nowhere else to turn to ask it. I know for a fact that there are covens of witches all around the world. However, I know almost nothing about them, and I would like to know whatever anyone call tell me. Does anyone have experiences with them? What specifically do these covens do? What are their beliefs? Are they all part of a larger group with lower level sects or are they independent? Things of that nature. Just whatever anyone knows, please share, so that we may all be a little more enlightened.
>>17668293
Modern witches don't look like that. They're fat blue-haired lesbians.
>>17668293
Witches practice magick. There are countless types of witchs; pagan, green witches, sea witches, swamp witches, etc. Very few worship satan. Wicca is different from witchcraft. Men can be witches. Witches used to be cool but now they're just the SJWs of the magick world
There are all kinds of witches. I'll give you one kind. Wiccans are hippie witches basically.. they don't hurt people or anything, they revere nature and peace, etc. They're the most common you might hear about. Their beliefs haven't been around for that long, though some are under the misconception that wicca is thousands of years old
God-like creatures/beings thread.
>>17667895
>>17667956
All hail God-King Birb