Off Topic, But....

The Mother Ship Connection

What about UFO's, Ghosts and other so called paranormal stuff? I read a lot of this the other day and it got me to thinking. I've had a ghost UFO and even a big foot experience. What the hell were they? Perhaps an over active imagination, airplanes or just a drunk tall lanky dude. Not so sure I buy into other worldly explanations. Being a practicing Buddhist Agnostic kinda puts the kibosh on such notions. That said, I still dig ghost shows and well done UFO documentaries. Ghost shows are way too easy to fake. It would be cool to see a real Grave Encounters. Don't watch this movie alone after dark. It was pretty damn freaky. It was only just a movie but still man! The Show Ghost Adventures is a little on the flaky side, and easy to fake. But, I still learn some pretty cool history from it. No, it does not make me a believer. Out of the Blue is a pretty good UFO documentary. Still, it does not "prove" anything. The questions it raises are more about us than ET's -n- shit. All of these can be seen on Netflix. I'm unaware of a really good big foot documentary. Again, way too easy to fake. Not impossible, but still I'm unaware of any objective scientific proof. That is not to say there never will be. Have we all had at least one unexplained experience? I bet the answer is yes. Here are a few of mine.

movie ghost

I grew up in a really old house (circa 1910??). It had all the fun stuff we associate with ghosts, cold spots, unexplained noises and even apparitions. All the locals thought it was a haunted house. They said it was the guy who built the house, but I never heard why he would come back as a ghost. He was harmless. He never did more than make old house noises, produce cool spots and show himself from time to time. I saw him too well one night. For some reason I was sleeping in a room down stairs on a very bright moonlit and cold winter night. Mom and Dad were still up in the next room. I felt something was looking at me, and I rolled over towards a closet with a sliding door that was open. Yup, there he was looking at me. He wore a white robe and his face was the same color. Tow dark circles were his eyes and he had a grin full of teeth. I was scared but I didn’t scream. He never hurt anyone before, and I figured he was not going to now. I just rolled back over away from him feeling wide awake. Some time passed and I decided to see if he was still there. He was not. I went on to sleep undisturbed for the rest of the night. The next strange thing I saw was outside.

Bigfoot looking for a still or taking a leak?

It was at dusk. My sister and I were out walking down the gravel road headed back to the same house. We both saw an outline of a tall human-like figure walking towards us around an eighth of a mile further down the road. In the fading light, he was all inky black. We could only see his clear outline. Suddenly, he / it turned and strode into some deep woods. There were a few bike trails but otherwise those were the thickest and deepest woods around. It creeped us out pretty good, but did not really scare us. Looking back, I highly doubt it was a Bigfoot. Most likely, it was some dude looking for a place to get high or take a leak. But he did look awful strange. It was an interesting and eye-opening place I grew up.

I had a friend that had crazy shit happen around his house all of the time. The things there were meaner but no physical harm came to anyone that I know of. I swear that dude could write a book. I may write more on that at a later time. Paranormal search teams could make a career there. But that’s another person’s story. Here’s my UFO story. 

Pretty close to what we saw but further away.

John and I were going to a bar early on a warm summer night. Dollar 20 oz drafts, need I say more? Now, I know what you’re thinking. “This one is not getting off to a good start.” Work with me. We got our beers and decided to head out to the back deck. It was early by bar standards, around 8pm. I don’t know who saw it first, but there was a very bright white light moving across the sky. It looked like a very bright star. There was no trail and it traveled in a large curve. The other odd thing was, there was not any noise. It disappeared behind the side of the building.

“What the hell was that?” I asked.

“UFO, man. I don’t know. That was weird.”

“Too fast to be a plane.”

“I know man, but nobody is gonna ever believe us. ---you were at a bar and… Yeah, right.”

We drank our fill and went on home. That was a strange sight. I’m not saying it was ET, but neither of us knew what it was. The last I checked, (yesterday) beer is not a Hallucinogen. It was not the cheap beer. I don't know what it was. That was many, many years ago. 

So does this all make me some kinda promoter of the paranormal? Am I a believer, a conspiracy nut, a ghost or Bigfoot hunter? No. I just saw and heard stuff that I could not explain.  That does not mean it was unexplainable. There are solid possibilities for all three, over active imagination, tall drunk dude or some kind of airplane. Here is a possible explanation for a lot of so called paranormal stuff. Look to James Randi as well. But man, I still cannot help but wonder if someday we'll have a more complete explanation for these different things. Bigfoot? I doubt it. Ghosts and UFO's I think we'll fully understand as things of our own minds making one day.