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Posted: 17-05-2012 01:15 Post subject:

Awww, thanks Omni!

The IHTM board is by far my favorite on this site. Dig through, and you are sure to find some of the creepiest, most fascinating stuff you've ever read.

Posted: 24-05-2012 20:47 Post subject:

Has anyone mentioned the Swedish Twins? Not an IHTM, but truly, entirely weeeird!

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Posted: 24-05-2012 22:45 Post subject:

Not teflon...graphene.

Posted: 24-05-2012 23:04 Post subject:

Or the same stuff Saga Noren is made out of. Shot twice, and walks from hospital within hours! (Sorry if thats a spoiler. Very sorry if you have no idea who she is.)

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Posted: 05-10-2013 10:28 Post subject:

Strangeness! We need more strangeness! We are reduced to discussing mainstream news which varies from the depressing to the idiotic.

We need more dog headed men or huge orange balls or disappearing petrol stations or whatever.

Posted: 05-10-2013 12:33 Post subject:

I agree. More weirdness please!

All this normal everyday stuff is doing my head in. Sad

Posted: 05-10-2013 20:29 Post subject:

The only thing I've heard of recently has been that light from the sky that supposedly scorched the ground in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-03/mysterious-light-ignites-fire-in-tasmania/4550142

And honestly, that could've just been a flare.

Haven't heard anything else about it since, or anything else good and weird. So tired of Bigfoot, UFO's, etc. Rolling Eyes

Posted: 05-10-2013 21:05 Post subject:

I'm afraid the truth is that extreme weirdness stories which once could fascinate us for years or decades until more accurate information threw them into doubt are pretty much instantly traced to their source and deemed dubious now.

Historic cases, often reprinted without much in the way of sources, in old anthologies of piffle, turn out to have originated with Madame Blavatsky or an unsigned article in a Victorian periodical.

The nouveau-credulous are satifisfied with orbs and evp tapes that would make a cat laugh, while ghosts have been trodden into the dust by screamers on television fake-shows.

We need more extreme weirdness to preserve our insanity, I agree. But I'm sure we don't want to be put in a flap about every purported spook on Youtube. There are sites online where FT is condemned as a grist mill of scepticism; fringe stuff can certainly generate more traffic but so much of it is dismaying.

Just every now and then I get to hear a narrative that has the ring of authenticity about it and I am reassured that strange things can still stimulate my imagination.

edit: Minor changes to wording and punctuation.

edit2: rogue b in "certainly" zapped.

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Posted: 06-10-2013 10:39 Post subject:

True. I really don't want to hear about any more orbs, for example. Or poltergeists, even.

However, if one trawls back through the topics on here there are some that, while they may of course be hallucination or have other mundane explanations, are truly unexpected. And certainly are not rehashing of old folk tales.

Having personally experienced some genuine - if relatively minor - strangeness I'm perhaps more likely to believe that the tales related are true - that of course is not the same as an accurate scientific explanation of the occurrence. But what I mean is that the subjects are not making it up - they are honestly relating what they perceived at the time.