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  1. ElliO

    Life/Stress/Covid Support thread

    Does anyone else here use VR or have a VR rig? We have PS4 VR and Oculus in our house. Oculus has a great mountain climbing adventure that lets you climb K2 and others, and PS4 VR has a flight simulator that lets you fly into different airports. We don't feel quite so trapped when we can go take...
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    Dashcam Bigfoot

    Looked like a boulder with snow on top to me.... Would have been nice to get a second-day pan shot exactly like the first one for comparison.
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    COVID-19 Information updates

    We're on mandatory Shelter In Place starting tonight at midnight. Doesn't really hurt us- S. was already work-from-home, and his company is assuring everyone that they have the resources to continue this way for the remainder of 2020. I work from home and freelance, and was already seeing a dip...
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    Skinwalker Ranch TV Show on History

    Yes, the area has been known as part of the Path of the Skinwalker to the local Ute people because they believe that the Piute, after a dispute over territory, sent Skinwalkers to torment them. The Path goes through what would later become the Sherman Ranch. Frankly, I have no hope whatsoever...
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    COVID-19 Information updates

    Why is Fox News and the Daily Mail are the only ones reporting on the London newborn with Coronavirus, and the only citations either has is for the other? hmmm....
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    Ancient Aliens or Ancient Ancestors

    I think climate change is cyclical, but also that it is being aggravated currently by the damage man has done to the earth and its atmosphere. Yes, the numbers show cycles, but they also show an insane increase in speed that corresponds to the growing use of fossil fuels by our civilization...
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    COVID-19 Information updates

    One of my guilty pleasures is true-crime shows, like Forensic Files, etc. A lot of the times, they use the killer's purchases of cleaning supplies to prove they cleaned up after a murder. I was in Target the other day, looking at the carts of the people around me full of bleach, Clorox wipes...
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    Hidden Villa experience

    Awesome story, even if it was terrifying for you at the time. Bay Laurel is a symbol of protection, as Debi said. Whether it was angels, or fairies, or just a considerate nearby resident who left the sprig on your doorstep, I'd be grateful that they did! :)
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    Man upset with Ghost Adventures portrayal

    Like most of the paranormal shows out there, Ghost Adventures is pure bunk. :( Everyone connected to it has lost all credibility in my eyes. The producers don't care if things are true or if they're presenting an honest factual account- they only care how much they can sensationalize to get...
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    Odd knocking in middle of the night

    All kinds of stories like this around here! Quick question- When you noticed the security cam was following you, why did you unplug it and take it downstairs? Is it not a motion-detector camera? Did you check the security cam footage to see if there was anything odd on it?
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    How old...

    13. County fair. Behind the hay bales behind the cow stalls. Dustin. Right after fair, his parents divorced and he moved away with his mom. Wonder whatever happened to him.
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    When I Grow Up......

    Being a Mounty would be awesome, Lynne!
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    When I Grow Up......

    I hear you, Steve! I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and love it, but I hate LA. I've optioned a few screenplays that required meetings in LA and negotiations with LA show peeps. All promises and big talk and lies. blech! I always wanted to be writer, but I was always told that you can't...
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    Bone walls found in church

    True, Lynne! And I sincerely apologize if I offended or hurt anyone with my statements.
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    The Search for Giant's bones in NZ

    Oh, sure! Book 1 of my cozy mystery series, "Ghost in the Surf", from Camel Press, is currently available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Just search for E.L. Oakes Ghost in the Surf and it should come right up. Book 2 should be coming out in June or July. I'm doing final proof edits on that...
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    Anomoly outside of home on video

    These security cam things are always so iffy. This is probably one of the best looking I've seen for being something paranormal, but until I can get it on my good computer, zoom it, and slow it down and run frame-by-frame, it's so hard to tell if it is, as suggested, a manifestation, or just a...
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    The Search for Giant's bones in NZ

    Nah. Turns out pretty much the only things you can do with an anthro degree are drive schoolbus or manage a bookstore. I worked in the book industry for the next twenty years, and now I'm a freelance editor writing novels on the side. :)
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    The Search for Giant's bones in NZ

    Moa were large flightless birds endemic to New Zealand- they are all extinct now. I studied archeology and anthropology at Western Oregon University (back when it was Western Oregon State College). I did work-study to help pay my tuition, and for an entire semester, I got to help put old...
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    The Search for Giant's bones in NZ

    Just the fact that they're trying to pass of a moa bone as a human femur annoys me. While I don't agree that archeologists are always on the up and up and absolutely academically honest, I do believe that if there were evidence of a pre-maori civilization in NZ, we would have found it already.
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    UFO in CA?

    It looks orange? Most sounding balloons are white, but my best guess is still a large balloon- probably a signal marker for some kind of party. My neighbors in San Leandro do it all the time, they even have one that looks like a little blimp that says "Happy Birthday" on it.