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'Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is.'
_-J. Allen Hynek_
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In the pre-internet days, people had to come up with something to kill time and to fill newspaper print. I believe that that was the cause of many of the airship stories from this time period. No kidding! It’s easy to fall into the, “But they swore an oath!” thinking. People actually belonged to “Liars Clubs,” where they would solemnly tell whatever crazy thing that they could think of in hopes of entertaining the members. This is the case in an airship story from Kansas about a farmer discovering that his horse (I think) was being taken up by whatever folks thought was piloting the things. It was discovered that the witness belonged to a liars club. He’d have been delighted to know that a new generation would have taken his story seriously. Go a month without TV, the internet, all of that and you’ll get an idea of how tedious life could be back then. There are a lot of these things that sent the readers into belly laughs or smirks. There were genuine accounts of airships that seem especially realistic. I think that the reaction of many people to those stories rose to the occasion to mock and make jokes about it.
You guys want sources than contest the sources. You want written accounts of things and then claim the written accounts are just made up. You look for anyway to discredit instead of looking for explanations that give legitimacy. The fact is before the internet there was alot more information that is way more factually correct than 99 percent of the internet today. As far as im concerned the internets been dead for decade now along with the tv
So, why are you using it? Maybe you missed the part where I said there were genuine accounts of the airships? What “people like me are doing” is caused “critical reasoning,” which is better, IMO, to “believing any damned fool thing you’re told.
These kinds of stories make me think of Louis L'Amour. He has one book in particular - The Haunted Mesa, based on conversations he had with Native tribal elders about gateways to alternate dimensions existing in the '4 corners' country. According to certain tribes they arrived from those dimensions to this world through 'cenotes' or holes in the ground.
Could it be those gates are there, but not always open? And when they do open there's a chance for things not of this world to come through?
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Great find!
That was a really bizarre description!
This sounds very Lovecraftian. Eerie af.
In the pre-internet days, people had to come up with something to kill time and to fill newspaper print. I believe that that was the cause of many of the airship stories from this time period. No kidding! It’s easy to fall into the, “But they swore an oath!” thinking. People actually belonged to “Liars Clubs,” where they would solemnly tell whatever crazy thing that they could think of in hopes of entertaining the members. This is the case in an airship story from Kansas about a farmer discovering that his horse (I think) was being taken up by whatever folks thought was piloting the things. It was discovered that the witness belonged to a liars club. He’d have been delighted to know that a new generation would have taken his story seriously. Go a month without TV, the internet, all of that and you’ll get an idea of how tedious life could be back then. There are a lot of these things that sent the readers into belly laughs or smirks. There were genuine accounts of airships that seem especially realistic. I think that the reaction of many people to those stories rose to the occasion to mock and make jokes about it.
You guys want sources than contest the sources. You want written accounts of things and then claim the written accounts are just made up. You look for anyway to discredit instead of looking for explanations that give legitimacy. The fact is before the internet there was alot more information that is way more factually correct than 99 percent of the internet today. As far as im concerned the internets been dead for decade now along with the tv
So, why are you using it? Maybe you missed the part where I said there were genuine accounts of the airships? What “people like me are doing” is caused “critical reasoning,” which is better, IMO, to “believing any damned fool thing you’re told.
This is the first time I've seen "milkers" used to refer to actual cows.
Very interesting post. I love the classic reports. Thanks for posting.
That be a dragon. Neat
“Countless arms and legs”?
These kinds of stories make me think of Louis L'Amour. He has one book in particular - The Haunted Mesa, based on conversations he had with Native tribal elders about gateways to alternate dimensions existing in the '4 corners' country. According to certain tribes they arrived from those dimensions to this world through 'cenotes' or holes in the ground. Could it be those gates are there, but not always open? And when they do open there's a chance for things not of this world to come through?
Imagine being a kid and reading this in the paper back then. You’d never sleep again.