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Strange Claims Adjuster | Spooky Geologist Weird news, strange animals, and anomalous natural phenomena
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New feature: The Myth of the Black Bird of Chernobyl (opens the original)
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Mothman has cultural influence as a omen of disaster. Sources on the Internet have used the Mothman framing of sighting a weird thing before a tragedy to spread stories about events worldwide including a manufactured story about a black bird seen before the Chernobyl meltdown.Long after the Mothman incident died down in the public consciousness, and the Silver Bridge deadly collapse was physically explained, Mothman rose again. People started seeing it in new places. In a call-back to John Keel’
Spooky Geology: Curse of the Souvenir Rock (opens the original)
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As a geologist and a fan of weird, paranormal lore, I collect and discuss the intersection of these two subjects in a subsection of my website called Spooky Geology. Since it’s nearly October, I’m sharing some of my favorite articles. To start, here’s one about cursed rocks.Popular lore warns that if you take a rock or object from a sacred land, a curse will fall upon you until you return the object. What is the origin of the curse legends and are they real?The most popular locations for stories
New discovery is not news for cryptozoology (opens the original)
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I’ve been known to lurk in the online forums and supply facts and POVs from my 35+ year history of studying cryptozoology. It does not typically go well. Here, I’m going to reiterate one of the bad arguments I see over and over on these platforms. New animal discoveries are not bolstering cryptozoology. It’s not a sound argument, as scientific as it may feel, to say that a new discovery is good news for finding cryptids.The iconic cryptids - Bigfoot/Yeti, lake monsters, creatures outside of norm
Hoaxes in Bigfootery (opens the original)
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Cryptozoology is plagued with hoaxes in a way that scientific zoology isn’t. There are many reasons for that but the main one is that cryptozoology isn’t a scientific field and has no institutional structure. To dig a bit deeper, the lack of structure and disconnect with science results in continual “evidence” that is too poor to take seriously. Low quality evidence is presented by believers as impressive because it’s all they have. This situation means that they can be played by hoaxers out for
Proof that cryptids are for 13 yr old girls? (opens the original)
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My 13 yr old self would have killed for this amazing new Halloween release from Breyer. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="994" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NsoM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
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