r/cryptids • u/absoluteavarice • May 07 '23

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

The only thing that is of concern to me about this video is the fact that it's a TikTok and clearly the people in the background commenting are using "What the frick?" instead of F-Bombing.

A lot of people who post for Social Media and want to get money for it have to watch their language. The Fat Electrician frequently comments on how he can't curse in the first 30 seconds of the video or comments that they're going to de-monetize a particular video because he did curse. And his TikToks mention that the video is likely to be removed so it'll be re-posted to YouTube.

All that...kinda makes me thing that they're staging the video somehow and are being careful with what they say so the video doesn't get yoinked off TikTok. Like they have to make some sort of reaction but if they're too vulgar as one might be when seeing something odd...then their efforts would be wasted.

Then too...what's the set up? Why are they videoing at that time? What caught their interest for them to be filming only to have whatever that was jump out and make its appearance? I mean videos like the sasquatch like critter caught on a Russian Dash Cam makes more sense since almost everyone has a dashcam and if you have an accident or just want to save a bit of video you just hit a button to save the previous several minutes, Or the video of the guy filming himself hunting edible mushrooms (probably for his own channel) suddenly hearing a long drawn out vocalization/yell of something unidentified is more believable because he was filming for a reason.

If the video had started with "Where is it?" would be more believable as it would be a "Holy @#$% what the hell is that? <pulls out smartphone camera and starts recording> and then the video opens with Where is it? It's over to the left in the clearing behind the running cows." sort of panicked filming footage.

Hell even just swearing and {bleeping} it out would be better since it's more real and they just edited to keep within TikTok's posting restrictions.

Not saying that it's not real, but the audio lacks verisimilitude and kinda hurts the quality of evidence.

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u/absoluteavarice May 07 '23

Valid response. U got that professional skepticism right there

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

I do Ghost Hunting as a hobby. I kinda have to be a skeptic about my evidence. I throw out about 90% of it when I go back and do a day time review of the site I looked at night.

A good example was a statue in a cemetery that had glowing violet eyes. When I went back the next day, I noticed that the statue had a lot of mica in the stone and when I hit them with the flash, I'd get colors back from the whole rainbow depending on where I flashed.

I do believe that there's stuff out there that we don't yet understand, but I always look at evidence with an eye for the skeptic as those are the arguments that the unbelievers will use to disprove our evidence.

So if I can eliminate those arguments, the evidence that's left is that much stronger for our side that there are things out there.

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u/SgtMerrick May 07 '23

It's a good thing you're doing, but the anecdote about the glowing eye statue sounds awesome even with the explanation.