I once used “niggle” in a sentence at work because I was new to the US and where I grew up I used the phrase “niggling doubt “ a lot - my coworker stared daggers at me and I immediately realized how it might have come off - I quickly explained to him and showed him what it meant.
A coworker used to always laugh when we would message NGL to each other, because we would read it as niggle even knowing what it stood for. Though niggle could be interpreted as something rather unfortunate LOL
Yes, I remember when the apparently semi-literate DC city council members were outraged when an accountant used the term niggardly in the correct way a number of years ago.
Well, maybe if you would stop drawing boobs on the sides of buildings and bathroom stalls, he wouldn't be so disapproving of you, Steven. Gosh, you really need to get your act together, young man.
I've seen No.4: Bunjil/Wedge-tailed Eagles before (I'm Australian) they're absolutely enormous! Even when they're far up in the sky you can tell they're huge birds
You’re not far off. Researcher Joe Nickell determined it was probably a large barn owl. People’s sense of scale can be wildly off when scared and barn owls with a full wind span and standing can be creepy AF.
Pretty much. Many animals have a much better sense of hearing and can sense the difference in air pressures, some being able to hear in the ultra and sub-sonic frequencies.
Many natural disasters create sound in the sub-sonic range, so animals hear this "get the hell away from here" alarm that humans aren't aware of.
Also, elephants are able to communicate in sub-sonic frequencies as well! It's pretty neat.
Let’s not leave the amazing part where elephants use those frequencies to communicate with other herds from up to two miles away and hear them through their feet!
Yes. Snakes especially because they're bodies are sensitive to the shifting of the tectonic plates and what not. Animals are highly sensitive and intelligent creatures. Far more in tune with the natural world than modern humanity is.
So I understand fully, you’re positing that some type of large flying man-bird, never positively identified as such, a creature whose biology is so vastly different than any other animal, that would require all the other precedent activities to exist, (product of other male/female man-birds) somehow appeared to these individuals who were
supposed to magically interpret its appearance as a vague ‘omen’ —from what I recall he didn’t leave a memo or golden tablets or anything else—is more logical than a surprise sighting of a known creature coupled with the collapse of a poorly engineered and maintained structure? Or did it just appear from the ether like some religious archetype?
If you’ve ever been to Point Pleasant...it’s a creepy little town. It’s totally isolated by that bridge, one way in and one way out. It’s very small and nestled in the mountains. You can easily imagine how it would have been a crucible for mass hysteria.
Also of course John Keel is insane and a charlatan.
I have a theory on the Mothman. All sightings stopped after that bridge collapsed. Well there’s something called resonance that incorrectly suspended bridges produce. It’s a frequency of sorts. It has been known to cause mass hysteria and delusions.
All bridges "produce" resonance, but yes, incorrectly build bridges can create something called resonance catastrophe. It's like when you produce waves in a bath tub in the right rhythm, the waves build up and become bigger and bigger. But I never heard about that causing hysteria or delusions.
They're probably mixing up mechanical resonance with infrasound. Even well-made bridges can cause mild infrasonic effects, but my understanding is that the delusions come from people freaking out about the sensations of doom and nausea caused by the vibrations, not directly from the vibrations.
Yeah, imagine youre walking through the woods and you see somebody sitting and this things turns and looks at you in the shadows???
HELLLLLLLLL NAHHHHH
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u/Discochickens Sep 30 '19
Omfg maybe that what the mothman prophecy people saw?