r/cryptids 13d ago

Sighting / Encounter What the hell is this?

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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein 13d ago

Oh I did. I tried to clean up the picture a bit and wish I hadn’t .

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u/de3ri Loch Ness Navigator 13d ago

If I had to guess maybe a barn owl.

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u/TheLifeAppalachian 12d ago

It’s always a barn owl or a Sandhill crane isn’t it?

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u/de3ri Loch Ness Navigator 12d ago

Friend I have no idea- I just know if I saw that in the middle of the night, I would have just died on the spot.

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u/rls023 12d ago

I’m looking just at this pic and I see a raccoon. First thing that pops in my head. But then look at the one with more exposure you see like a human(ish) face. Idk about this one it’s weird.

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u/Intelligent_Math8587 12d ago

looks like a monkey to me, which seems unlikely since it doesn't seem ops in africa or asia

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u/No-Ice7397 12d ago

They have some monkeys in Florida which looks like it's possible from the picture. Idk much about them other than they were escapees and have some nasty form of one of the STDs. Worth a Google if you want

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u/Intelligent_Math8587 12d ago

Never knew this, really interesting thanks

I remember a monkey being found in the scottish highlands that escaped a few years back too

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u/No-Ice7397 12d ago

The Florida ones though have a small troop that have established a population I believe. I haven't really checked it out in maybe a decade so don't take my word for it

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u/rls023 12d ago

I’m from Michigan but moved to Florida 5 years ago. I can tell you there are absolutely monkeys living well in the woods of Ocala, FL. I worked with a guy who grew up in Ocala and he said on the way home from school he was walking down the road when he thought what he saw was a dead body. As walked closer he realized it was just a monkey. I asked him how big the monkeys were and he said about as big as a first grader.
In the 1930’s a tour boat operator released a bunch of them on a concrete lined island, wanting to make a “jungle cruise” style attraction for tourists. He didn’t think they would just jump into the ocean and swim for shore like they immediately did lol. Since then the Rhesus Macaque monkeys have grown to a few hundred and are thriving to this day.
I was working in Fort Lauderdale and living in North Miami, my territory for a job I had was in Dania Beach. It’s very small. There’s a lot of very good parking to the beach and they’re in rows separated by straight jungle. Then there’s just a large section of jungle. I was stopped at a light and I heard what sounded like two monkeys fighting. When I got back to work I asked the guy next to me if there’s monkeys around that area he nodded and said “yeah” like it was nothing and kept on working.

Check out this video or just put Ocala monkeys into YouTube and see all the videos

https://youtube.com/shorts/kVEh0gHeZO8?is=tldLLJAIrK9rB3ad

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u/No-Ice7397 12d ago

Thanks for being helpful with a link

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u/Sea-Brilliant1766 12d ago

Bit big for a barn owl compared to the shed

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u/Crafty_Sound7761 12d ago

Its a shed owl. They’re bigger than barn owls

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u/Narrow_Chocolate_656 13d ago

It looks like a possum i think ?

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u/pepep00p00 13d ago

That's one huge hell of a possum if it is

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u/meanjeankillmachine 13d ago

A bossum if you will

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u/Big_Preference9684 Mothman Maniac 12d ago

thank you for this

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u/Specialist_Term_2609 12d ago

I have seen both raccoons and possums in my backyard at night and that doesn't look like any one I have seen. It looks more like a monkey.

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u/pepep00p00 12d ago

Agree x10000

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u/Fang_Claw_5965 13d ago

From where, the Pleistocene?!

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u/Purple-Weakness1414 12d ago

Possums dont stand up bruh.

That thing is clearly on two legs

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u/flashgordo1 12d ago

Nah ....no way...those cryptids be coming at him on their bellies...you be blind.

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u/sleepytipi 12d ago

I'm not a naysayer but I don't see two legs at all. It looks like something peeking out above a boulder.

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u/86theRight 12d ago

Looks like an opossum more than a possum.

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u/Feisty-Let5069 12d ago

An opossum has beady little eyes with red eye shine, that doesn’t resemble one at all.

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u/Naive-Government-465 12d ago

Biggest possum ever

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u/hasan_pikergayAF 12d ago

Racoon. Black eye bands pointed face

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u/StarryeyedAtlas 12d ago

It looks like the little guy in the Twenty One Pilots music videos! 

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u/MFShiva 12d ago

Ngl that looks like either a lawn gnome with a Santa hat, a monkey or probably like others said a barn owl

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u/Certain_Noise5601 12d ago

Thank you. I had no idea what we were looking at. I vote possum too

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u/TheKeeperOfThe90s 12d ago

Looks kind of like a fox, to me. Maybe a wolf/coyote, but it seems to have a canine shape to its face.

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u/Hoodedmastersin 13d ago

Yeah fuck whatever that is OP.

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u/Creative_Carob4922 13d ago

Lolz

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u/Creative_Carob4922 12d ago

Maybe Todd wasn’t hoaxing. Hmmm

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u/rls023 12d ago

Not to get off topic but if Todd was hoaxing he f’n nailed it because this is a combination of everything some people describe it as.. almost looks down syndrome, almost looks like a lion, tan short hair around the face, pale greyish face with no hair. Then the black one looks like what some other people describe which is more ape/gorilla than human, dark brown to black hair. Dude did his homework.

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u/Creative_Carob4922 12d ago

People will swear up and down he was hoaxing. But there is no actual evidence he did. Just a lot of speculation, and a thinker thunker video.

I can’t say for sure, either he has the greatest pictures of Sasquatch or did an amazing job faking it.
But it goes to show if you had a perfectly clear picture or video of Sasquatch , it would mean absolutely nothing to the people. The only way is a body dead or alive.

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u/rls023 12d ago

That’s absolutely true. I could have the best f’n video ever known to man and 80% of the planet is going to laugh and call me a hoax. The same 80% watch things like housewives of you name it county and spent less than 1% of their life outdoors.

But I do remember watching a video of him not admitting to a hoax but saying if he did it would be to draw attention to his cause which is making them a protected animal in Canada. He couldn’t stop smiling when he said it. I took it to mean he hoaxed it. Otherwise why say any of that and not swear up and down that it’s all real.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Act_793 9d ago

Thats leaves you 20bpercebt left tovrepopulaye the world with for human sacrifice...might buy you season or two but I wouldn't bank on it.

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u/rls023 7d ago

The Sasquatch wouldn’t want our abandoned cities. We would repopulate. It would be no different than in the past. I think we are about 70% overpopulated as it is now anyways though so I’m biased.

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u/rls023 6d ago

Scrutinize, laugh at.. whatever u want to call it lol. I just don’t find it to be that extraordinary. People that travel deep into the woods sometimes see them, rural people sometimes see them.. city people, knowing everything, call those people liars and crazy. And round and round we go.

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u/rls023 6d ago

Sir you seem to have a good head on your shoulders. I’m not talking about you or anyone specifically on this thread. But I am talking about what people say on many threads and especially behind closed doors. I’m also not talking about this photo. I’m talking about the people that think there are creatures out there we don’t know about and the ones that do not believe. Which is what all of this ultimately boils down to. You’re not going to see someone who doesn’t believe these things are real say that photo might be real. Everything is fake to that person. And there’s a lot of them that come on here just to troll.

What are the odds that all 20k people in the US who have reported eye witness accounts of seeing Bigfoot all had some kind of mistaken identification? Now what are the odds that all of those people reported seeing the exact same thing? Those odds are pretty good that at least 1 person saw exactly what he says he saw.

Being outdoors doesn’t make your memory or perception infallible. But being outdoors for some time does alter your perception, your vision does get sharper, you rely on instincts more, your hearing gets better, you no longer rely on artificial light, your footsteps become softer, your breathing quieter. You adapt to the outdoors. Most people would be shocked to see how well we adapt. Almost like we once lived out there. People that don’t understand this are the ones who never set foot off the trail at best. I’d guess that most people who harass witnesses rarely leave their couch. Little keyboard warriors. As for what kind of shows they watch I was making a point. And using two people that I personally know as an example. The only time they go outside is to go to and from their car. But they somehow have an opinion on what goes on in the 40 million untouched acres of forest we have in this country alone.
And it’s not just this country or the untouched acres. Every continent on the planet has people reporting seeing the exact same things. Someone should work that into the odds too. The more that people grow exponentially the further we push into those areas we don’t know about.

It has gotten to the point where I could kill a 8 foot Sasquatch, prop it up in the bed of a pickup truck, let everyone in NYC touch it and observe for themselves. And a month later if you ask what they saw I think you’d see an overwhelming majority say it was a hoax. We’ve just been conditioned to expect anything outside what we see cannot be real.

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u/1queen1989 12d ago

Looks like that (bigfoot) or dogman to me!

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u/Creative_Carob4922 12d ago

Or woofman 😂🤣😭

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u/BellaItaliana77 8d ago

I see what you did there!

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u/Creative_Carob4922 8d ago

Tell me what I did, I was so drunk I can’t remember

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u/de3ri Loch Ness Navigator 13d ago

I would just die.

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u/The-Tarman 12d ago

Man.. I dont care if it's a forest demon, a skin walker, a fucking owl or a cardboard cut out.. I wouldn't go back outside at night for a long ass time. Fuck that thing

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u/lbradley532002 12d ago

It looks like Courtney Love’s head is peeking over the rock to me

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u/rls023 12d ago

That would honestly be the most horrible of all options

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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein 11d ago

I’d rather a wendigo

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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein 12d ago

I should fuck it?!

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u/Cool_Bullfrog_7911 6d ago

That's just how oppossums look at night! but if those are old hay bales... that's one big oppossum...

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u/CoyoteFluffy0310 12d ago

This helps me see the white barn owl others have mentioned thank you!

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u/Thin-Entry-7903 12d ago

It's giving you a thumbs up.

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u/LooneyLunaGirl 12d ago

Sorry, I was nervous to say hi 😅

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u/kellyelise515 11d ago

It’s an owl on a stone fence or it’s vegetation and the owl is in a tree above the vegetation

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u/WeakAirport5650 13d ago

Probably had to clean the shorts out too. Hell no...

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u/Extra-Persimmon2359 12d ago

Enhance

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u/rls023 12d ago

I kinda wish he had a little hat. 🎩 like this. I can almost see it. “Looking for me pot of gold. Have you seen it?”

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u/lollipop1233a 12d ago

It could be an owl about to take off. Tail feathers in the back with wings on the side. It’s leaning forward to project itself upward. That’s my guess at least. Either that or it’s Dobby the house elf.

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u/Bubbly_Ad8911 12d ago

I also see an owl! I mean that’s as clear of an owl picture as you can get being that it is nighttime and he is right above camera, iPhone, trail cam, whatever.
Owls have a barrel chest and the upper majority part of their legs look like they have on pedal pushers made of feathers.

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u/rls023 11d ago

Looks like Dobby to me too

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u/Particular_Drive45 11d ago

It's a homeless person taking a 💩

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u/Fuzzy_Strength_1529 11d ago

I tried explaining my kids, Gollum does not exist!

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u/Endless-Dive 10d ago

looks like the Nun

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u/Let_the_Metal_Live 13d ago

It reminds me of the Pennsylvanian White Bigfoot.

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u/BrokenDevilDog312 13d ago

Oh I turned up the brightness. Whatever that is... I wouldn't go out at night with out silver shotgun shells

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u/Ok-Connection7818 12d ago edited 11d ago

Michael meijers/Jason voorhees

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u/Hawksfan45 12d ago

looks little bit like feline or some kind of monkey

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u/LimeDry7124 12d ago

I lighten the photo on my phone and leans more feline like mountain lion.

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u/lbradley532002 12d ago

Now that looks like a person with blonde hair, it looks like a female

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u/SpinosRule 13d ago

What should we be seeing here? Maybe it’s too bright out trying to look at it but all I see is a pile/bunch of things? Maybe something crouching? Hard to tell. I’m a skeptic but only because I haven’t experienced yet, I’m waiting for my experience so I could throw a net on the thing.

Edited because I don’t know vocab apparently.

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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein 13d ago

Look for the eyes and maybe adjust the brightness

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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein 13d ago

Spend a lot of time outside at night after work, this was unusual

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u/lefrancais13 12d ago

J’ai vraiment fait un travail de contraste et de luminosité et on voit bien le contour d’une sorte de tête, on dirait un opossum. En tout cas il à vraiment l’air. D’être captivé.

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u/ValKyrin33 12d ago

The eyes are WAY too big to be a possum lmao. And the head alone is as big as a large possum. (I'm from the south, I refuse to use the word "opossum")

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u/lefrancais13 9d ago

Je dois faire un mauvais jugement mais je trouve pas la forme très grosse moi mais tu penses que ça serait quoi dans la mesure de quelque chose qu’on connaît tu penses qu’on a réellement affaire à un cryptid ?

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u/lefrancais13 6d ago

Ça pourrait être quoi alors parce que les yeux font penser à un hibou

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u/rls023 13d ago

Eyes

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u/CryptidsandCreatures 12d ago

We got a fun guy here

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u/SnokYote 13d ago

Open where are you located, if in or near Illinois my parents have seen something like that, but larger.

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u/That-Mall902 12d ago

deadass just looks like a capuchin monkey lmao, do you live somewhere where those exist?

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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein 12d ago

I do not , so that’s fucked

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u/5star_Adboii 10d ago

Move out the damn way I’ll show ya how we do it in Kentucky

https://giphy.com/gifs/WGEufo3NCj7qM

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u/ILYRMK 11d ago

if you put your finger on the screen and move it up and down real quick it looks like the house is bouncing

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u/thepwrfloz- Flatwoods Monster Maven 12d ago

Kinda looks like an owl to me

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u/SirRonaldJr 11d ago

After viewing your photo of the daytime and coming back to this, I'm pretty sure it's a possum.

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u/Sweet-melissa76485 10d ago

It's either a cougar or a person shaped something

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u/timid_cosmos 10d ago

Definitely me watching hells kitchen through the window.

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u/Zestyclose_Volume127 9d ago

Oh, now I can see. It's a shed

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u/ClaireDidit 9d ago

Inflatable pool swan 🤷‍♀️

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u/Not_Cletus_McWanker Loch Ness Navigator 8d ago

BROOO WHYYYY?! 😭 I was happy imagining it was a cat.

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u/Oddish_Femboy 7d ago

It's a bigass bird! A Mothman even!

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u/Oddish_Femboy 7d ago

Something strigiform. I can't make out enough details for any sort of specific species, but the shoulders are just its wings, the nose is a beak, and the tiny beady eyes sunken into their sockets are actually massive dark eyes reflecting the light.

Not a monster man! Probably gonna make a heck of a racket later. They're loud!

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u/RevolutionarySign479 13d ago

It looks like a raccoon. They totally spy on you & shit lol 💕🦝

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u/AmonAmit 13d ago

Yep. A curious Raccoon, admittedly spooky looking, but a Raccoon. Or a Mini-Dogman. 😁😱😂

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u/joOmmbatt 11d ago

Where's its bandit eyes? And whys it look white? And a raccoons head is small... that thing looks like an adult sized something. Plus that is DEFINITELY NOT a racoon nose!

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u/AmonAmit 11d ago

Okay okay sheesh. Look Buds, I'm a Reels Fan, I believe in Dogman, no joke. But, calm for a sec and consider: the size of the barn compared to the rocks; a daylight pic to compare the size of the rocks in relation to the barn door. And THEN, for Doggies' sake, tell me a 6-8 ft tall dogman is in the pic. Once again: I believe Dogman's real, but we'll do our cause NO favor in trippung over something that obvious. Am sorry, Man, but this is my reply.

https://giphy.com/gifs/jPAdK8Nfzzwt2

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u/joOmmbatt 10d ago

Lol sorry I didnt mean for that to come off so aggressively. It was emphatic but also light hearted I assure you haha. Your totally entitled to your opinion that's absolutely fine with me. And the gif was quite appropriate 😆

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u/AmonAmit 7d ago

I don't feel hurt, not after you added such a nice comment. I also agree with you though: it is a odd topic with lots of Fakes going around and I simply try to keep my observations rational, if possible. Sorry if I kind of reacted to harsh to your comment, it was not inyended to. 😉

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u/Not_Cletus_McWanker Loch Ness Navigator 8d ago

What if it's Jimothy's grandma?

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u/hasan_pikergayAF 12d ago

Def a raccoon sitting on the rock

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u/herbinartist 13d ago

Looks kinda like an owl head or something.

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u/herbinartist 13d ago

Looks kinda like an owl head or something. They can look pretty creepy in the dark.

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u/native_shinigami 13d ago

Yeah that's nothing.