In response:
1). you’ve apparently never read “Hunt for the Skinwalker” or have viewed the images in-between the cover. You’re a teacher, go on out to your local library, and check out a copy.
What would you say are the most impressive images that are convincing evidence of aranrmal activity - the ice ring?
2). I’ve provided a video clip, (above), in which John Alexander describes the vandalism of a remote surveillance camera while other properly functioning remote surveillance cameras record the event.
A very famous story indeed as retlold by Knapp on the Paracast. Why don't we get to see the video tape instead of just hearing about it? This is the perennial problem with the paranormal discussion - all we have are the stories, and hearsay, as in my own story.
This one sounds like a ghost story. It doesn't matter who retells/resells it these stories remain as stories. Is
The Hunt for the Skinwalker a scientific investigation or something that tries to sell an indigenous cultural story as a contemporary source behind malevolent spirits or a presence at work on a remote area of land? Sounds Keelian doesn't it? Why is it that so many of the other mutilation stories we have heard about are indicative of testing the animals, but at the ranch we are to believe that an evil demonic presence is maliciously destroying calves, turning dogs into grease, haunting the skies and creating portals for Lovecraftian creatures to come out? The entire narrative of
Hunt for the Skinwalker is about selling evil mythology and demons wrapped up in the pretense of NIDS' investigations. No, that does not sound suspiciously like a horror movie at all, well unless you are a fan of
The Prince of Darkness.
3-4). I’ll refer you back to post #63, with this quote below:
And again, why in this world would the government’s military want to go and conduct long term, continuous psychological torture on its own population, when they already have more than enough data to draw conclusions from? As in again, it’s illegal, needless, senseless, and a waste of money.
It's never stopped them before - why should it now? New data comes from new approaches. One decade it's LSD, another it's brainwashing, or convincing people that aliens exist. Possibilities are never a waste of money when there are new possibilities to discover. Psychological experimentation always affords new things to play with.
5). You should really go out there and get yourself a “Skinwalker-Tee” as postcards from the edge only go so far.
It's a good idea. But how many Skinwalker related movies are there? How many times has this story been told in various permutations? the Colorado Ranch, the Sherman Ranch, children who need exorcisms, Bigfoot getting controlled by aliens with remote control devices. What sounds more plausible - experimentation or a horror movie collage?
6). Yeah, I’m fully aware that the slashing orb narrative doesn’t have your signature on it. Take a close look at post #63, and you’ll most likely be able to figure it out.
Still the orbs seem to be the most oft repeated image reported as proof of paranormal activity. Yet again, no real significant evidence by way of video, photos of the orbs or of Bigfoot, or bulletproof wolf. I think I have trouble digesting the compilation of horror tropes that collide together with his ranch.
What still fascinates me is the calibre of people involved with no real confirmation of what is at the core. There is always a more complicated story at the heart of such bizarre and strange occurrences: Maury Island,
Project Beta, MKA Ultra are interesting examples of a human trickster at work, not the traditional one we stand back in a kind of awe.
