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[Ivan Denisovich]

Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar is being ‘transvestigated’ by bigots because… she has a larynx

Pink News

Transvestigated? Even the world itself sounds dumb. So how stupid must be people doing "transvestigation"?

[Silver]

Altitude difference in Utah will make you gay

[Fake Messiah]

Tonight at 9 on the Discovery Channel, Josh Gates previews his newest series, Expedition Files, which will cover ... wait for it ... the unexplained. The first episode will explore two debunked "mysteries," Havana Syndrome and Travis Walton's abduction, plus the Lindbergh baby.

[Fake Messiah]

Luis Elizondo recently displayed a photo of a chandelier to the public claiming it was an alien mothership because a guy told him so, and in almost two years, Elizondo, the "alleged head of a government UFO investigation", did not question, research, or analyze it? The UFO spook crew is self-deluded and yet still have Congress's ear.

An ex-Pentagon official, who gained fame for blowing the lid off a $22-million, secretive government UFO program, has revealed an image of a UFO 'mothership.'

Monday night in Philadelphia at a private UFO event, Elizondo dropped what he described as a craft 'looking like the mothership from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind,"' referring to the 1977 Steven Spielberg film.

'Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022? By the way, the US Embassy,' as Elizondo told attendees at the paid event, gesturing to the photo: 'That.'

He went on to describe it as a 'huge mini city floating in the sky.'

But the UFO, which resembles a gleaming disc-shaped craft, has already drawn withering critiques from skeptics, believers and even military UFO witnesses alike, who claim to have traced the photo to, not to the US Embassy, but a Facebook page.

The higher resolution image of this apparent 'mothership,' which looks at first glance to be piercing clouds with its beatific shafts of light, appears more likely to have originated as the reflection of an indoor chandelier lamp reflected in window glass.

The placement of Romania's coal-fired Arad Power Station indicates the image was not taken from the US Embassy, but a building near the Mureș River a few miles away.

By midday Wednesday, Elizondo was publicly attributing the error to 'a friend in Government' who provided him with the photo 'a couple of years ago.'

Retired USAF Staff Sergeant McGowan, however, told DailyMail.com that Elizondo's error was far from a one-off mistake.

'I've been on the receiving end where Lue has pulled out his cell phone and shown me what he described as highly classified video,' McGowan told DailyMail.com.

'For him to think I would believe he would simply carry classified info on an unsecure civilian cell phone is just insulting,' he added. 'And it wasn't just me, multiple podcast hosts were shown video Lue attributed to things they were not.'

For the past two years, McGowan has been notably public about this instance in which Elizondo showed him what he claimed was, in McGowan's words, 'a highly secret video smuggled out of Russia' taken by a Soviet Union probe near Mars.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...eveal.html

[Fake Messiah]

The Small Towns That Bet Big on Monsters—and Won

Bigfoot, Mothman, and other unique local cryptids are fueling a mini tourism boom across America.

Every September, tens of thousands of tourists descend on Point Pleasant for its annual Mothman Festival, a three-day event that celebrates the town’s resident cryptid. They come for the costume contests and the chilling eyewitness panels; they stay to caress the statue’s formidable chrome buttocks, curving pert and precious beneath a pair of intricately carved moth wings. They also spend their hard-earned dollars up and down Point Pleasant’s quaint main drag.

Meanwhile, in Fouke, Arkansas, road trippers venture hours out of their way to visit the Fouke Monster Mart and roadside pizza joint. Burlington, Vermont, profits off of its apocryphal lake monster with extensive collegiate baseball merch. Churubusco, Indiana is the alleged birthplace of a monstrous turtle known as the Beast of Busco; lacking the infrastructure for a giant turtle museum, Churubusco celebrates its past via the annual Miss Turtle Days pageant. As population loss accelerates in rural America, these towns are all tapping into a lucrative truth: People love a good scare—especially one they can wear on a T-shirt.

Denny Bellamy, a lifelong Point Pleasant resident, is the longtime tourism director for Mason County, where Point Pleasant is located. He says the Mothman Festival costs the town up to $50,000 in overtime staffing, which is pocket change compared to the weekend’s profits. “It’s still a multi-million dollar event,” he says. “It’s like Christmas in Point Pleasant.”

Morrison’s social marketing strategy is simple. She doesn’t rely on a large budget or influencer endorsements; she just provides information about an undeniably fascinating figure. “Honestly, I think [our success] is a lucky mix of things, such as finding ways to relate to people who naturally flock to cryptids and connecting with them in ways that are both authentic and a little weird,” Morrison says. “And you can't go wrong with making and sharing a good meme or two.”

Venture south to the tiny town of Fouke, Arkansas, for another glimpse into the power of monster merch. With a population of just 826, Fouke has become an unlikely global tourist destination, all thanks to Monster Mart, a souvenir outpost and pizza joint dedicated to Fouke’s own cryptid: a Bigfoot-like creature that inspired Charles Pierce’s 1972 cult horror classic, The Legend of Boggy Creek. Today, fans of the film see Fouke as a pilgrimage site of sorts.

Ironside explains that monster tourism, or “legend tripping,” can also have a uniquely spiritual appeal, even for non-believers. “We've moved away from established traditional religions being the only sort of belief systems available to us,” she says.

Of course, monster tourism has its flaws. Every year, Point Pleasant deals with the same infrastructure issues that occur when a town’s population jumps from 4,000 to 45,000 overnight.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/...an-bigfoot

[zebo-the-fat]

A fool and his money....

[Fake Messiah]

MUFON conferences are today and tomorrow. Notice it has a presentation on Hitler by John Ventre, the one-time MUFON official who had a racism scandal in 2017 when he claimed "F'ing blacks" lacked culture until white people gave it to them. Remember: MUFON spends $100K+ per year lobbying Congress.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

MUFON conferences are today and tomorrow. Notice it has a presentation on Hitler by John Ventre, the one-time MUFON official who had a racism scandal in 2017 when he claimed "F'ing blacks" lacked culture until white people gave it to them. Remember: MUFON spends $100K+ per year lobbying Congress.

I'm guessing that the talk on 'Horrifying Bedroom Entity Encounters' isn't nearly as interesting as I imagine.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left

It took just minutes for the conspiracy theories about the 2024 US presidential election to flood Elon Musk’s X platform after Donald Trump was announced as the winner in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The number of posts casting doubt on the election results and calling for a recount exploded on Wednesday morning, according to data from research company PeakMetrics.

The posts calling for a recount used a variety of hashtags including #donotconcedekamala and phrases like “math ain’t mathing.” Many of them contained vague claims that “something is very off.” The one specific claim being made by many of these accounts suggests that there are 20 million “missing votes.”

While at publication time the Associated Press’ vote count was indeed 16 million votes lower than that for the 2020 election, the explanation is trivially simple: The entirety of the vote hasn’t been tabulated yet.

Unlike the election denial movement in 2020, which was inspired by Trump’s refusal to accept the results, these conspiracy theories haven’t received any support from the candidate. On Wednesday, Harris urged her supporters to accept the results and assured them her team “will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”

https://www.wired.com/story/election-den...-blueanon/

[The Grand Nudger]

Transition of power to fascists must be peaceful, transition of power from fascists need not be.