Shiva´s tribe

 

The most crazy cryptid story I´ve ever heard? 

Listen, Skeptic!

 

 

Can we please stop talking about the flat earth? It´s 2025, fam. Or is every monetized midwit (a.k.a. Skeptic) on YouTube just going through the motions at this point? 

Maybe some Biden-appointed judge can issue an injunction and block all flat earth-related content on the accursed interwebs? 

Meanwhile, enjoy the ape-imitation content above.

Shiab operator

 

HA HA HA. Look what I just asked ChatGPT...

Should Greta Thunberg try to find a Waheela?

While that’s a fun idea on the surface, it’s not exactly in Greta Thunberg’s wheelhouse. Let’s unpack it a bit:

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🐺 What’s a Waheela?

The Waheela is a cryptid from Northern Canada and Alaska, particularly associated with the Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories. It's described as:

• A large, wolf-like creature

• Heavier and more muscular than modern wolves

• With unusually large feet, and sometimes said to have no tail

• Possibly a remnant prehistoric predator, like Amphicyon (a so-called “bear-dog”)

It’s sometimes linked in folklore to mysterious disappearances in the region, adding a supernatural or legendary aura.

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🌍 What’s Greta Thunberg Focused On?

Greta Thunberg is known worldwide as a climate activist, focusing on:

• Global climate policy

• Environmental justice

• Scientific consensus on climate change

• Mobilizing youth activism

She generally avoids mythological or fringe topics, especially those that could distract from the science-driven foundation of her advocacy.

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🧠 Would it Make Sense?

Unless it were part of:

• A campaign highlighting biodiversity loss

• Or a symbolic journey to protect endangered wilderness (and not actually looking for cryptids)

…then no, a Waheela hunt wouldn't align with her mission. In fact, being associated with cryptozoology might undermine her credibility in the eyes of scientific institutions and the climate movement.

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🧪 That Said…

If a creature like the Waheela were somehow real, and evidence emerged pointing to it being a surviving prehistoric species, then yes, environmentalists like Greta might have a reason to advocate for protecting its habitat.

But as it stands, the Waheela is a fascinating part of Northern folklore and cryptozoology, not a known species under threat.

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✅ Conclusion

Greta Thunberg searching for the Waheela would make a great satirical cartoon or metaphorical adventure, but in real life, it’s not aligned with her mission or strategy. Better leave cryptid-hunting to cryptozoologists — or sci-fi novelists!

Would you like a list of other northern cryptids or mythical creatures from Indigenous traditions in the Yukon and Alaska? 

Swamp thing

 

Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT a rather silly question, but actually got an answer. So I suppose this is today´s AI essay, LOL. 

Are there (alleged) reports of surviving dinosaurs from North America, i.e. cryptid reports interpreted as dinosaurs or similar prehistoric creatures by cryptozoology enthusiasts? 

Yes, there are a few alleged reports from North America that cryptozoologists and enthusiasts have interpreted as possible surviving dinosaurs or prehistoric reptiles. These are fringe claims and are not supported by mainstream science, but they have circulated in cryptozoological literature and popular culture.

Here are the most notable examples:

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🦖 1. Lake Monsters Interpreted as Plesiosaurs

🔹 Lake Champlain (Champ) — Vermont/New York/Quebec

• Sightings of a large, serpentine or humped creature in Lake Champlain.

• Some descriptions suggest a plesiosaur-like shape: long neck, flippers.

• Widely considered a modern myth or misidentification (e.g. sturgeon, logs, waves), but featured in cryptozoology circles since the 1800s.

🔹 Ogopogo — Lake Okanagan, British Columbia (Canada)

• Described similarly to Champ.

• Also interpreted by some cryptozoologists as a possible relict marine reptile, though more often described as serpentine.

These lake monsters are the most commonly linked to "prehistoric survivors", especially plesiosaurs, though no physical evidence exists.

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🐊 2. Bipedal Dinosaur-like Creatures

🔹 "River Dinosaurs" in the Southeastern U.S.

• Scattered reports in the 1940s–1970s, especially from rural Georgia and South Carolina, of large, upright lizard-like creatures.

• Sometimes described as being 5–7 feet tall, walking on two legs.

• Often interpreted in retrospect as hoaxes, folklore, or misidentified animals (e.g., large lizards, escaped pets, or alligators).

🔹 The "Dinosaur Swamp" legend — Louisiana

• Some local legends describe reptilian creatures in swampy areas, occasionally linked to cryptids or “living dinosaurs.”

• These often reflect tall tales, with little consistency or credibility.

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🧬 3. "Thunderbirds" as Pterosaurs

🔹 Pterosaur-like Sightings

• In states like Texas, New Mexico, and Illinois, there are scattered reports (19th century to 20th century) of giant flying creatures with leathery wings and no feathers.

• Sometimes described as having crests, long beaks, or bat-like wings.

• Occasionally interpreted as living pterosaurs by cryptozoologists.

Notable case:

• Tombstone, Arizona, 1890: A newspaper account told of cowboys shooting a huge bird with a wingspan of 160 feet. Some cryptozoologists argue this could have been a pterosaur, but the story is likely fabricated or exaggerated.

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📚 Cultural and Folk Influences

• Native American legends sometimes describe giant birds, serpent-like river creatures, or monstrous reptiles — which modern interpreters occasionally link (anachronistically) to dinosaurs or prehistoric beasts.

• These are more symbolic/mythic than cryptozoological, but occasionally repurposed in fringe literature as “evidence” of survival.

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🧪 Scientific Evaluation

• No physical or fossil evidence exists of non-avian dinosaurs or Mesozoic reptiles surviving past the Cretaceous.

• Many sightings are explained by:

  • Misidentified animals (e.g., sturgeons, birds, alligators, hoaxes)

  • Folklore and storytelling

  • Pareidolia and eyewitness error

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🧠 Why This Idea Persists

• Popular interest in dinosaurs and prehistoric life

• Influence of creationist pseudoscience (e.g., young earth creationists sometimes cite these reports as evidence against evolution)

• Cultural fascination with the idea of "lost worlds" or "living fossils"

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✅ Summary

Yes, there are alleged reports in North America of creatures interpreted as surviving dinosaurs or pterosaurs, especially:

• Lake monsters (Champ, Ogopogo) → interpreted as plesiosaurs

• Flying cryptids (Thunderbirds) → interpreted as pterosaurs

• Swamp creatures → occasionally likened to bipedal dinosaurs

But these are folkloric or anecdotal, and lack credible scientific backing. They remain part of cryptozoological lore rather than biological reality.

Would you like a list of books or articles from cryptozoology circles that promote these interpretations?

Can you tell me more about the "river dinosaurs" in Southeastern US?

Yes — the so-called "river dinosaurs" or dinosaur-like cryptids of the Southeastern U.S. are a little-known subset of American folklore and cryptozoological lore, often involving reports of large, bipedal, reptilian creatures near rivers or swamps. These reports are rare, scattered, and not well-documented in scientific literature, but they have circulated in fringe or local sources, especially in the 1940s–1970s.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s known (or claimed):

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🐊 1. "River Monster" Reports in Georgia and the Carolinas

🔹 Description (varies):

• Size: 5 to 8 feet tall

• Stance: Bipedal, walking upright

• Features: Lizard-like skin, long tail, small arms, glowing or reflective eyes

• Movement: Fast and agile; some reports say they moved “like a man,” others describe “lizard-like hops”

🔹 Locations:

• Altamaha River, Georgia (also known for the lake monster “Altamaha-ha” or “Altie”)

• Congaree Swamp, South Carolina

• Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia/Florida border

• Green Swamp, North Carolina

These areas are rich in wildlife and have long been settings for swamp monster stories, some dating back to Native American oral traditions and pioneer legends.

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👣 2. The Bishopville "Lizard Man" (South Carolina, 1988)

Although technically not a "dinosaur", this is the most famous modern case of a bipedal reptilian cryptid in the Southeast.

🔹 Reported by: 17-year-old Christopher Davis

• He claimed a scaly, green, man-sized reptilian creature attacked his car near Scape Ore Swamp.

• Had red eyes, clawed hands, stood 7 feet tall.

• Prompted a media frenzy and numerous follow-up sightings.

• Widely considered a hoax or misidentification, but still celebrated locally.

🔹 Cryptozoological Interpretation:

• Some cryptid enthusiasts speculated it could be a “relic dinosaur” (e.g., a theropod, like a small T. rex or raptor).

• Others believed it might be a mutant alligator or humanoid reptilian.

The Lizard Man became a local legend, spawning festivals, merchandise, and decades of debate.

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🦕 3. Young Earth Creationist (YEC) Influence

• Some creationist authors in the mid-20th century and beyond (e.g., John C. Whitcomb, Carl Baugh) promoted the idea that dinosaurs still exist.

• They occasionally cited Southeastern U.S. sightings (along with reports from Africa and Papua New Guinea) as evidence against evolution.

• The narrative was that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, and isolated populations may have survived the Flood.

While most cryptozoologists separate themselves from creationist agendas, there's significant overlap in dinosaur cryptid speculation.

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🧪 Scientific Perspective

Mainstream scientists consider these reports to be:

• Folkloric exaggeration

• Misidentified animals, especially:

  • Large monitor lizards seen on two legs or alligators

  • Escaped exotic pets (e.g., iguanas)

  • Bears or other large mammals glimpsed briefly

• Hoaxes or pranks

• Possibly even mass hysteria in rare cases

There is no physical evidence — no tracks, scat, remains, or credible photos — for any of these supposed creatures.

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🧠 Cultural Context

• The American South has a rich storytelling tradition, including monster legends tied to swamps, rivers, and backwoods.

• Some stories may stem from fear of the unknown, especially in isolated rural areas.

• Cryptozoological interest in the Loch Ness Monster and Mokele-mbembe (Central African "dinosaur") likely encouraged local reinterpretations of unexplained creatures as dinosaurs.

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📚 References & Sources

While not mainstream, some books and articles that discuss these creatures include:

• Loren Coleman, Cryptozoology A to Z (1999)

• Lyle Blackburn, Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster (2013)

• Regional folklore collections from the Carolinas and Georgia

• Cryptozoological websites (e.g., Cryptomundo, Mysterious Universe)

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✅ Summary

Yes, there have been scattered reports — mainly from the Southeastern U.S. — of bipedal, dinosaur-like creatures, especially near rivers and swamps. Most are folkloric or anecdotal and include:

• The Bishopville Lizard Man

• Rumors of “river dinosaurs” or reptilian bipeds in Georgia and the Carolinas

• Occasional interpretations by cryptozoologists or creationists as surviving dinosaurs

However, these remain unsubstantiated and are considered legend, hoax, or misidentification by mainstream science.

Would you like a map or timeline of these kinds of sightings across the U.S.?

Can you tell me about the Monster of Partridge Creek?

The Monster of Partridge Creek is a cryptozoological legend from the Yukon Territory in Canada, dating back to the early 20th century. It’s one of the more obscure “living dinosaur” stories and is often cited in fringe literature and cryptozoology discussions.

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📰 Origin of the Story

The tale originates from two main reports published in the French newspaper Le Journal in 1907 and 1908, written by a French writer and mining engineer named Georges Dupuy.

According to Dupuy, the creature was seen near Partridge Creek, close to Dawson City, during a gold prospecting expedition in the Yukon.

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🐲 Description of the Monster

According to Dupuy’s reports, the creature was:

• A reptilian, dinosaur-like animal

• Around 30 feet (9 meters) long

• Covered in scales, not fur

• With a serpentine neck and large tail

• Described as similar to a sauropod, like a Brontosaurus

Witnesses claimed the beast left large tracks in the snow and frightened both humans and sled dogs.

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🧔 Who Saw It?

Dupuy claimed he saw it himself, along with:

• Prospectors

• A local Indigenous guide named Tom, who reportedly said his people knew of such creatures

However, the only written source remains Dupuy’s articles, which appeared in Le Journal, a French popular newspaper of the time.

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❓ Is the Story Credible?

🟨 Problems:

• No independent corroboration of the event exists.

• No physical evidence (tracks, bones, photos) was ever collected.

• The story was published in a popular newspaper, not a scientific journal, and reads more like a piece of early science fiction or adventure journalism.

• The location (Yukon in winter) is ecologically and climatically implausible for a cold-blooded reptile or any large dinosaur to survive.

🟪 Some researchers believe:

• Dupuy may have fabricated the story or presented a fictionalized account as nonfiction.

• It could be a case of hoax, tall tale, or misidentification (e.g., a moose, bear, or even drifted snow around animal tracks creating odd illusions).

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🧪 In Cryptozoology

Despite the lack of evidence, the Monster of Partridge Creek is sometimes cited by:

• Young Earth Creationists seeking to discredit evolutionary timelines

• Living dinosaur enthusiasts

• Cryptozoologists interested in supposed relic populations of prehistoric creatures

It has appeared in books like:

• Mysterious Creatures by George Eberhart

• Searching for Hidden Animals by Roy Mackal

But even among cryptozoologists, it is treated as a fringe case with extremely low credibility.

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📚 Summary

• The Monster of Partridge Creek is a dinosaur-like creature reportedly seen in the Yukon in the early 1900s.

• Originated from reports by Georges Dupuy in Le Journal.

• Described as a sauropod-like reptile in a snowy, northern setting.

• Lacks any corroboration or physical evidence.

• Widely regarded as folklore, fiction, or hoax, though it continues to interest fringe theorists.

Would you like to see excerpts from Dupuy’s original articles, or how this story compares to other alleged "living dinosaur" tales like Mokele-mbembe?

Three men in a boat

 

So I re-watched “Jaws”. I never grokked this production the first couple of times I saw it. It hardly scared me and I found it boring! Today, I rather consider it very, very strange. Indeed, it comes across as two entirely different films. The first half is a rather (stereo)typical horror flick with all the usual ingredients. The monster attacks a wholesome all-American resort, munching on stoned hippies, children and stupid hillbillies. There is an idiot mayor, a scientific genius and a stable police officer just trying to do his job. OK, maybe it´s a *bit* original. Like the tiger shark who turns out to be a rare guest from Louisiana!

The second half is the real “Jaws”. The three main characters Brody, Hooper and Quint confront the super-sized shark in a boat that´s obviously too small and fragile (rather than calling the coast guard or navy). Quint turns out to be half-mad and personally obsessed with killing great white sharks. He is the “Captain Ahab” of the story. The whole thing makes zero sense, except as a bizarre male rite of passage. The shark is too large and too intelligent to be a normal animal. Indeed, it seems to be intrinsically *evil*.

Speculations about allegorical meaning are difficult to fend off. The three men on the worthless barge represent different kinds of Americans, perhaps different generations: the old and crazy war veteran Quint (who is presumably working class), the middle-aged and middle-class police officer, and the young well-educated scientist (implied to be upper class). Is this a vision of an America united against its external enemies? (“Jaws” was released in 1975.) Or is the shark a symbol of Nature showing its fangs? 

It´s intriguing to note that the irrational sailor Quint and the “rational” scientist Hooper turn out to be equally crazy (at least after a fashion). It´s also interesting that the person who eventually kills the shark is Brody, the stable White middle-class guy with an official police badge. He does so in the old fashioned way – with a rifle and some explosives – while Quint and Hooper tried various alternative techniques which completely failed. Order has been restored on Amity Island (note the 4^th July parade – Amity is of course a symbol for America and its proverbial way of life). At least it´s been temporarily restored until the sequels, but Steven Spielberg had nothing to do with those.

So I suppose “Jaws” is at least somewhat interesting…

Mindfulness is squatchy

 

Well, Bigfoot does live in California, right?

Farewell to Bigfoot?

 

Some Bigfoot-related stuff. The first video is skeptical, the second one is "true believer".  

Cryptid AI

 

Quite boring script, but it shows how good AI-generated content has become visually speaking...

Ghosts and UFOs

 

A free-standing sequel to the previous blog post...

Is there any evidence that women have paranormal experiences more often (or at least report them more often) than men?

Yes, there is consistent evidence across surveys, case studies, and psychological research that:

Women are more likely than men to report paranormal experiences—including ghosts, telepathy, premonitions, near-death experiences, and contact with spirits or other supernatural entities.

This doesn’t necessarily mean women have more paranormal experiences in some objective sense, but they are:

• More likely to report them

• More likely to believe in them

• More likely to be receptive to such experiences emotionally and cognitively

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📊 Survey and Study Data

✔️ Gallup and Pew Surveys (U.S.)

• Women consistently report higher belief in:

  • Ghosts and spirits

  • Astrology

  • Psychic phenomena

  • Communication with the dead

For example:

• In a 2005 Gallup poll, 41% of women said they believe in ghosts vs. 32% of men

• Belief in psychic powers: women 50% vs. men 35%

• Belief in communication with the dead: women 38% vs. men 26%

✔️ Parapsychological Studies

• Women are more likely to report:

  • ESP (extrasensory perception)

  • Apparitional experiences

  • Sleep-related anomalous events (e.g., hypnagogia)

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🧠 Psychological Explanations

1. Fantasy Proneness and Absorption

• Women, on average, score higher on:

  • Absorption (vivid engagement with internal experiences)

  • Fantasy-proneness

  • Emotional openness

• These traits correlate strongly with reports of paranormal experiences.

2. Greater Emotional Expressiveness

• Women may be more willing to talk about strange or emotionally charged events.

• Paranormal experiences are often subjective, subtle, or ambiguous—interpretation plays a big role.

3. Cultural Conditioning

• Women are more often socialized to:

  • Value intuition, feelings, and relationships (which are often themes in paranormal reports)

  • Engage in narrative, emotional, and symbolic thinking

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🕯️ Types of Paranormal Experiences More Often Reported by Women

Experience	More Commonly Reported By
Seeing or sensing ghosts/spirits	Women
Premonitions or intuitive dreams	Women
Psychic experiences	Women
Contact with deceased loved ones	Women
UFO sightings	Men (especially when linked to technology or conspiracy)
Near-death experiences (subjective)	Slightly more by women
Poltergeist or haunting cases	Often involve adolescent girls as “focus”

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🧬 Could Hormones Play a Role?

Some researchers suggest:

• Fluctuations in estrogen and other hormones may affect perception, memory, and emotional processing, potentially making certain kinds of experiences more vivid or unsettling.

• Sleep paralysis, often interpreted as supernatural, is more common among women.

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🔍 Summary

• Yes, women report more paranormal experiences than men.

• This is supported by surveys, lab studies, and clinical data.

• Reasons are likely psychological, cultural, and cognitive—not biological in any simple way.

• Some experiences (e.g., UFOs, conspiracy-style beliefs) skew male, showing that different types of paranormal belief appeal differently by gender.

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Would you like a deeper dive into fantasy proneness and gender, or a comparison to religious mystical experiences?

I´ve read somewhere that belief in Bigfoot is more common among women, despite most "Bigfoot hunters" or "Bigfoot researchers" being men.

Yes, you're touching on an intriguing and subtle distinction:

Belief in Bigfoot (as a general idea) appears to be relatively gender-balanced or slightly more common among women,
while active involvement in Bigfoot investigation, research, or expedition culture is overwhelmingly male.

Let’s break this down:

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🧠 Belief in Bigfoot: Slight Female Skew in Surveys

Some public opinion polls and cultural studies suggest:

• Women are at least as likely—and in some cases more likely—to believe in the existence of creatures like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.

• In a 2001 Gallup poll, 29% of women vs. 26% of men said they believed Bigfoot might be real.

• Belief in mystery creatures (like Chupacabra, Nessie, Yeti) often clusters with other paranormal or cryptozoological beliefs—fields where women report more belief overall.

This fits broader patterns:

• Women are more open to mystery, myth, and paranormal possibilities.

• These beliefs often tie into narrative-driven, intuitive worldviews.

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🥾 Bigfoot “Research” Culture: Strongly Male-Dominated

In contrast, when you look at:

• Field researchers

• Cryptozoologists

• Podcast hosts

• YouTube investigators

• DIY expeditions

…this space is heavily male—often with a rugged, survivalist or skeptical-adventurer flavor.

Why is that?

Factor	How It Skews Male
Outdoor exploration	Cultural links to masculinity, survivalism, “conquering wilderness”
Technical gear & evidence collecting	Emphasis on cameras, casts, audio—tied to “proof” and control
Skeptical curiosity or cryptoscience	Often appeals to male pattern of curiosity without belief
Pop-culture tropes	Bigfoot as primal challenge, lone male vs. wilderness (e.g., Expedition Bigfoot)

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👩‍🦱 Female Bigfoot Believers

Among women who do engage with Bigfoot, the framing often leans toward:

• Personal encounters

• Family lore

• Nature-connected spirituality

• Trauma + anomalous experiences

• Interest in folklore, myth, and archetypes

Bigfoot, in this context, can become a mystical being, a symbol of the unknown, or part of earth-based spiritual storytelling.

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📚 Academic/Cultural Commentary

• Joshua Blu Buhs (Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend) notes that Bigfoot belief has both scientific and mythic layers. The “monster hunting” side is male-coded, but the mythic-symbolic side has wider appeal.

• Carol Clover (in feminist horror theory) has shown how the "monster" is often a lens for social or gendered anxiety. Women might interpret cryptids like Bigfoot in less literal but more symbolic or intuitive terms.

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🧩 Summary

Aspect	Women	Men
General belief in Bigfoot	Fairly common; sometimes more than men	Fairly common
Active field research, expeditions	Rare	Very common
Framing	Symbolic, mystical, folklore-based	Empirical, challenge-based, “proof”-oriented
Related beliefs	Paranormal, psychic, spiritual	Cryptozoology, conspiracies, survivalism

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Would you like a comparison to UFO beliefs by gender, or how Bigfoot belief overlaps with spiritual or environmental values?

What does "narrative-driven" mean?

"Narrative-driven" means guided or shaped by storytelling, rather than by purely logical, analytical, or abstract reasoning. In psychology, religion, and even belief systems (like paranormal or spiritual beliefs), it describes a mindset that organizes the world in terms of stories, characters, meanings, and emotional arcs.

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🔍 In More Detail:

Narrative-driven thinking involves:

• Looking for coherent stories that explain events

• Using symbols and metaphors to find meaning

• Prioritizing subjective experience, emotion, and intuition

• Seeking personal or moral lessons in what happens

This is different from analytical or data-driven thinking, which emphasizes:

• Logical consistency

• Empirical evidence

• Cause and effect

• Abstraction and detachment

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📚 Examples of Narrative-Driven Thinking

Example	Explanation
"I saw a ghost and I think it was my grandmother watching over me."	Interprets a strange event in a story-like way with emotional significance
"Bigfoot lives in the forest because he represents nature's mystery."	Mythic-symbolic framing, not necessarily literal
"I had a dream about a plane crash, and then one happened—that can’t be coincidence!"	Weaving meaning into coincidence; connecting events into a meaningful arc

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🧠 Who Tends to Think Narratively?

• Most humans do, to some extent—narratives help us make sense of the world.

• But certain groups tend to rely more on narrative thinking:

  • Children and adolescents

  • Fantasy-prone individuals

  • People high in absorption or emotional sensitivity

  • Artists, religious mystics, and paranormal believers

  • People processing trauma or grief

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🧘‍♀️ Spiritual & Paranormal Belief Systems

Many spiritual and paranormal worldviews are narrative-rich:

• Ghost stories

• Near-death experiences

• Alien abduction tales

• Synchronicity and fate

• Prophetic dreams or visions

These stories often provide comfort, identity, or a sense of cosmic order.

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🎭 In Contrast: Analytical Thinking

A more analytic or skeptical person might hear the same ghost story and say:

• “That was probably sleep paralysis.”

• “You were grieving, so your brain produced a comforting hallucination.”

This isn't about one style being better—it’s about how people make meaning from unusual or ambiguous experiences.

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Would you like a chart comparing narrative-driven vs analytical thinking, or examples of how each influences belief in the paranormal or religion?

Do men observe, report and believe in UFOs and UFOlogy more than women?

Yes — in general, men are more likely than women to:

1. Believe in UFOs as extraterrestrial spacecraft

2. Report sightings of UFOs

3. Be involved in UFOlogy, including investigation, theorizing, and community leadership

This gender pattern is supported by surveys, academic studies, and sociological analyses of the UFO subculture.

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📊 Survey and Study Data

➤ Belief in UFOs / Aliens

• A 2017 Chapman University survey in the U.S. showed:

  • 35–40% of men believe aliens have visited Earth

  • 25–30% of women believe the same

➤ Reporting UFO Sightings

• According to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), over 70–80% of UFO sighting reports are filed by men

• Men are more likely to provide detailed descriptions, maps, and diagrams with their reports

➤ Involvement in UFOlogy

• Most well-known UFO researchers, authors, and theorists are men

  • Examples: Jacques Vallée, Stanton Friedman, Bob Lazar, Richard Dolan, George Knapp

• Conferences, forums, and podcasts are heavily male-dominated

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🔍 Why Is This?

🧠 Cognitive Styles

Trait	Men (on average)	Women (on average)
Systemizing (mechanical/explanatory focus)	Higher	Lower
Empathizing (emotional/relational focus)	Lower	Higher

UFOlogy often involves:

• Technical speculation (e.g., propulsion systems, radar)

• Conspiracy theories

• Cold War-era government secrecy

• A “detective” or “debunker” mindset

This systemizing focus tends to attract male brains more than female ones.

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🕵️‍♂️ Cultural Framing

• UFOs are often framed as:

  • Technological mysteries

  • Linked to military secrecy or alien surveillance

  • A domain of rational investigation and heroic discovery

This framing is culturally coded as male, especially in Western contexts.

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👩‍🦱 Female Engagement with UFOs

Women do engage with UFOs, but often:

• Through abduction narratives (e.g., Betty Hill, Whitley Strieber’s accounts)

• As part of experiential or spiritual belief systems (e.g., New Age contactees, starseed beliefs)

• In UFO stories that blend trauma, mysticism, and healing

This contrasts with the nuts-and-bolts approach common in male-dominated UFOlogy.

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📚 Academic Insight

• Historian David Jacobs noted that abduction stories in the 1980s–90s often came from women, and featured more emotional, symbolic, and bodily elements.

• Anthropologist Diana Pasulka points out that women are increasingly present in modern “techno-mystical” UFO belief systems, especially where AI, consciousness, and aliens intersect.

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🧩 Summary

Area	Men	Women
Believe in UFOs (extraterrestrial)	✅ More likely	⚪ Less likely
Report sightings	✅ More likely	⚪ Less likely
Join UFOlogy communities	✅ More often	⚪ Rarely
Abduction stories / emotional content	⚪ Less common	✅ More common
Tech/secret government angle	✅ Popular	⚪ Less central

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Would you like to compare this to ghost beliefs, or explore how UFO experiences differ by gender in reported cases?

Ghost beliefs, please.

Great choice — beliefs in ghosts and spirit encounters show a very different gender pattern from UFO beliefs.

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👻 Ghost Beliefs: More Common Among Women

Across numerous surveys and studies, women are significantly more likely than men to:

1. Believe in ghosts or spirits of the dead

2. Report paranormal experiences like hauntings, visitations, or sensing presences

3. Be involved in ghost-hunting, spiritualism, or mediumship

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📊 Data Snapshot

Belief/Experience	Women	Men
Believe in ghosts	~45–55%	~30–40%
Believe in life after death	~65%	~50%
Report seeing/sensing a spirit	2x more likely	Less likely
Attend spiritualist events / séances	Dominated by women	Minority
Work as mediums / psychic practitioners	Vast majority	Few

For example:

• A 2005 Gallup poll found 51% of U.S. women believe in ghosts, compared to 37% of men.

• In ghost-hunting TV shows, while male investigators often take the lead, many teams include women who report more intense emotional or psychic experiences.

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🧠 Why Are Ghost Beliefs More Prevalent in Women?

1. Higher Fantasy-Proneness & Absorption

• Psychological studies find women score higher on average in:

  • Fantasy proneness (immersiveness in imagination)

  • Absorption (deep involvement in sensory or emotional experiences)

These traits correlate strongly with reports of paranormal experiences, especially involving ghosts, spirits, or signs from the afterlife.

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2. Social and Emotional Orientation

• Women often have stronger interpersonal and emotional awareness

• Ghosts are frequently interpreted as:

  • Loved ones who have died

  • Unfinished emotional ties

  • Sentimental or protective presences

This emotional resonance may make ghost beliefs more personally meaningful and socially acceptable for women.

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3. Spirituality & Religion

• Women also tend to be more religious or spiritual overall, which often blends with ghost beliefs (e.g., angels, spirits, afterlife communication)

• Many cultures associate women with healing, intuition, and caregiving, roles that carry over into spiritualist practices

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4. Cultural Roles in Mediumship

• Throughout history, most spirit mediums have been women

  • Victorian séances were often led by women

  • Modern-day psychics and ghost tour guides are disproportionately female

• Spiritualism provided women in the 19th–20th centuries with a socially acceptable path to public speaking, leadership, and financial independence

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⚖️ Summary: Ghosts vs UFOs by Gender

Feature	Ghost Beliefs	UFO Beliefs
More common in...	Women	Men
Motivated by...	Emotion, spirituality, connection	Curiosity, secrecy, tech
Typical context	Death, memory, grief, intuition	Surveillance, abduction, disclosure
Common narrative style	Personal, emotional, symbolic	Investigative, mechanical, skeptical
Pop culture examples	The Sixth Sense, Medium	The X-Files, Close Encounters

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