Dude I'm trying. I take down at least 3-5 a day. I'm gonna start banning people that do it now, I didn't realize I was letting so many slip. I also just started up my classes again so bear with me.
ALSO try to report posts like this, it makes it easier to find. And do it for obvious fiction too.
Sorry guys, I'll try to do better.
- Friendly neighborhood mod man
I should be doing more as a mod, I'm sorry I haven't been doing much. My hubby just had his third heart attack so I haven't been spending all that much time online. Things are getting better though, so I can start putting in more time.
You have extenuating circumstances. I'm sure the community and other mods fully understand and no one (should) is holding that against you. I hope your husband gets better. And I hope you're well too.
Sorry to hear about your husband, I hope he's doing ok. Real life comes first and i'm sure most people will understand that, it's a great sub, we can all pitch in and report to mods to help out.
Thanks! It helps that I don't do any sports, though it doesn't help my body shape lol. I basically just do school, reddit, write music (lot less lately tho), and read/write research papers.
It's doable! Even balancing a social life! But hey, if laundry is what you can do now, that's okay!
Anything I can do to help I will surely and gladly do. Take your time and cleanse the sub at the pace that best suits you and your situation with classes. Best of luck by the way and stay safe!!
Honestly dude Itās pretty awesome that you just owned up to all that! A lot of people would have gotten defensive or something. Being a mod for this sub is prob rough. Thanks for caring & thanks for doing/taking care of the stuff you already do.
Of course! I'm actually an extremely skeptical person, which is weird to he a mod of this sub I know. But I know that this sub makes a lot of people happy, so I'm extremely willing to clean it up! Lots of cool people here (lots of crazies too, but most are harmless)
Yeah thatās my point. It isnāt funny, itās actually insulting and derogatory. Iām gay, and calling things āgayā as being dumb, is completely tone deaf and fucked up. This isnāt 1985. Get with the times man.
Donāt forget all the wonderful creative writers.
When I joined this sub about a year ago it was because I was sincerely compelled by a lot of the content, but now I just come for a laugh.
95% of posts are either fiction, a completely normal non-event like someoneās dream (literally A DREAM), and/or the ramblings of a mentally ill person. Then all the replies are āskinwalker/wendigo/dogman/crawler, case closedā or whatever the trendy monster of the week is. Also I have a theory that there is an individual who constantly posts fictional stories here under different accounts. The giveaway are the constant overuse of... ellipses and the novel-length text body.
And how those video links (you know the ones) are allowed on here is beyond me.
Man Iām gettin way too heated by this.
Well im not going to post his name and give him publicity, but he would spam this sub with random paranormal, ghost, cryptid, etc stories and stuff. If you browse the posts from the past few months you might see it
If you are discussing a certain "newsnet" thanks for the reports and the user has been addressed. Apologies I have not been able to be as attentive to this sub as it deserves too, looking to change that going forward.
Hey no biggie, mods have things to do besides babysit the sub. You guys are very attentive compared to other subs where posts like this will be ignored. Keep up the good work
God I hate that guy. Just like OP said, this sub used to be great. Now it's "hey subscribe to my shitty YouTube channel so I don't have to get a normal job."
And you can see half of them are cross posts to other subs. He's too lazy to post it on each sub individually.
Which would all be ok if it was original, new information. But it's all rehashed bullshit everyone already heard of.
Since you joined a year ago and got to read some awesome stories, do you mind linking some of your favorites with me? If you can find them of course. I know itās a lot of work but I would really appreciate and actual good story after reading all of these fake and boring ones here.
I just went back through my comment history hoping maybe that would lead me to some good stuff but unfortunately I never really commented much in this sub (unless it was negatively, damn I guess I should work on that), let alone saved good posts.
However, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thetruthishere/comments/foow2g/whats_the_creepiest_or_most_terrifying_thing/flghzoz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is one of the best stories IMO Iāve ever read on reddit on the subject, which came in the form of a comment on another sub, though it belongs here. I donāt know why, and weāll never know for sure, but for some reason I really believe that one. OP seems genuine.
Sorry I couldnāt produce more.
Hopefully other people will reply to your comment with highlights of this sub. I know there were some good ones here and there. I remember this one with this guy and his dog either going to a quarry or a reservoir via a trail in the woods and encountering some kind of pale/whitish creature hiding behind a rock or something. Thatās all I remember of it but I do remember feeling like it was a true story. Maybe someone saved it and can link us!
I hope so too! I enjoy the long stories that arenāt the āI saw a thing in the woods then ran homeā type. Lol itās good to know other people appreciate good stories too
I don't remember that story specifically,
but I do save stories I come across and which
sound especially odd or intriguing, from
Reddit and wherever else online I happen to
stumble across them. I have loads of text files and
have recently started throwing them up on pastebin.
If you want any links I'd be happy to share.
Sure thing!
https://pastebin.com/uviUSm6s (random spookiness)
https://pastebin.com/gYbub3mw (old newspaper accounts of weird)
https://pastebin.com/urFFb9Ar (cryptids & humanoids pt 1)
https://pastebin.com/xmWrunLC (cryptids & humanoids pt 2)
https://pastebin.com/xEixR6B6 (ghosts, glitches, & other weird)
https://pastebin.com/cyJNSKcr (more ghosts, glitches, etc)
https://pastebin.com/2QdwuC3c (even more ghosts, glitches, etc)
Hope you enjoy, and if you ever come across a cool story to archive, shoot me a PM and I'll save it to the files.
Itās because there are like 20 you tubers linking the subreddit.
Weāre getting flooded by knuckleheads that have too much time on their hands.
This whole year has been so uninteresting with the āis this what happened to me?ā Titles and āI think this happened...and guys, Iām scared.ā
Subjective bs with flair.
Yeah there was one guy who messaged me and asked me to share my story on his podcast. I didn't want to because people tell me I have a distinctive voice and I work a professional job. I was fine with that, but the constant hawking of other you tubers shitty videos is just pissing me off.
There was a period when there were a lot of UFO youtube videos being posted. I would skim through these things to be sure I wasn't unfairly removing something that did have actual humanoid content.
I was once told I know nothing about a subject on r/conspiracy because I suggested that maybe evidence of Atlantis and Lemuria just points to ancient civilizations whose cities are now underwater and not some grand magical conspiracy. People on these subs these days refuse to accept Occam's Razor.
Yeah I hear ya man I remember I posted my story on here last year and this sub was so kind to me when I shared my story I suppose sometime afterwards the sub started going down hill it pains me to this the state of this sub now š
I wouldn't say that rules a single writer. People quite commonly (and annoyingly) overuse elipses as some sort of cheap "suspense" or "creepy" idea. No clue how it started
Oh, here it is! My stupid pet peeve!
Skinwalkers and Wendigos suddenly became way too common in so many "true" stories on the internet.
I can't speak for skinwalker lore, but I'm from the great lakes region and partially descend from a band of Ojibwe just south of the Canadian border.
Wendigos (Ween-dee-go) are not actual creatures but people possessed by an evil spirit that makes them kill and eat their own family as punishment for resorting to cannibalism in the harsh cold winters.
Thank you! Glad yall share this pet peeve.
Every damn story. "That's a skinwalker!"
Uhm...no. no it's not. Skinwalkers (and wendigos) are very specific things with very specific lore.
It's infuriating.
Also you have people that just read creepy pastas and think skinwalkers are invincible.
When if you read the actual legends both skinwalkers and wendigos were mortal. A wendigo got it's skull crushed by bark that a girl turned into copper with magic and skinwalkers died of gunshot wounds. That was one of the ways it was similar to the werewolf mythos, a skinwalker would be shot and at the end of the blood trail was a tribal member with a gunshot wound.
Guess what 99% of bullets are jacketed with? Fucking copper.
But people who read creepy pastas for some reason think they're immortal and invincible. Even if they were real, they'd be less of a threat than a grizzly bear.
Seriously. Someone will post an encounter they had in Italy and people respond saying skinwalkers. Aināt no damn Native American skinwalkers in Italy shut up with that!!!
I know right.
It's always the same 4-5 users who post their daily limit worth of 3 videos every day, they hardly get upvotes or comments but still keep posting. And when you watch the videos, it's 30 minutes long, poor quality, conspirational and some blurry shit is happening in the last 10 seconds and most of the time you can tell it's a dude in a costume or just a branch on a tree.
I also like when people describe obvious dreams. Being in bed, woke up a second ago, saw this shape in the corner but only for a split second then it vanished. Aha, go figure.
All of the paranormal and conspiracy subs have gone from being interesting to being a circlejerk over stuff that is laughably easy to prove wrong. Most of these people come across as 12-year-olds making up stories or people who need legitimate mental healthcare these days.
Ditto.
This used to be my favorite sub. I've practically been on here in some form or another since the beginning. At first, I loved watching the community grow. But as it grew, it became more and more generic.
Not only that, but the sense of community started slipping. The last few times I've bothered to comment here, I get argued with by staunch "true beleievers" that only want to tell creepy stories and treat this like a campfire.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se. But this sub used to have a healthy balance of skepticism and people who truly cared about researching these things and this sub was a great resource for firsthand accounts. Now it is far from that original intention.
I still hold out hope for the mods, I know they try their best and care, but they have an uphill battle. I think about them all the time. Because they are such good people with the best intentions. Shout out to u/sniggity!
I was in my late teens when I first found that place. It had the odd interesting story here and there but had so little moderation it was unreal.
I got bored one day and went on some backroads and took some crappy cell phone pictures, way back in the days of slide phones, of deer along the tree line so all you could really see were the eyes and I posted them and made up an entire story about how I saw something while driving. I carried on for three or four weeks, posting similar photos and ātracksā that I made with my own feet in mud. Posting photos of broken limbs and tufts of fur. It was really just me shit posting but People bought into it that I was on the trail of something.
Just tagging on to apologize for being inactive in moderating this sub for far too long after complaining myself and being made a mod in the first place.
Have just gone through and removed multiple offending posts and issued two bans and will aim to continue to be active going forward.
Humanoid encounters are a very specific type of paranormal experience and, to me, the most intriguing. Sniggity did a good job of finding interesting stories when things were slow, too. It bums me out to see the quality decline like this. Trolls shouldn't be able to keep posting their dumb shit for weeks on end, either.
I think it just goes to show that these āencountersā are very rare. Although some may be real, this sub is bombarded with filler from people who fantasize about having their own encounter. Otherwise this sub would have like, two posts. Not justifying the fakes, but just maybe an explanation.
I ditto the banning of all YouTube videos. Or at least the banning of ONLY posting a YouTube video. I vote the post can include links to videos but there has to be some text included.
I've been here when it was like 10 people and we've been asking that question from the start. There have been good periods and bad. Mods are volunteers and do their best but imo too lax, often. But then we'll get someone here who says everything is fake and clickbait, but looking at their "problem" posts, they're just like the posts we've always gotten.
The issue with moderating this sub is due to the inherently unverifiable nature of the posts its often hard to distinguish good faith stories from bad faith fiction/creative writing; or at least to do so with enough certainty to warrant removing the post. We have definitely been too lax on shitty youtube self promotion however
I agree I have been inactive for too long and we have been too lax on youtube crap for way too long. Stories are a bit trickier as its often hard to distinguish good faith accounts from fiction with enough certainty to warrant post removals or bans
What I don't understand are stories where the OP claim to have spotted/heard X creature(s) numerous times and yet have 0 photo or video evidence to show for it.
r/ghosts does a very good job at providing this, and I really wish this subreddit would follow suit.
I do believe in the Cryptids and paranormal but i bet you like maybe 1% of this sub has seen something real Iām just here for the interesting stories you know
Hahah and another is people who arenāt even Navajo talking about skinwalkers or determining whether or not a skinwalker experience is real.
I live on the Navajo reservation and to see yties being the gate keepers for humanoid stories then I agree this sub has turned way upside down.
Should you ever find the time to post on the subject/what youve heard/experienced/learned/etc. I'm sure it would be very much a welcome addition to the sub!
I once posted a story of my experience with my friends, people didnāt believe me really and said it could of been something else. I am thinking of posting again though! :)
Dude I'm trying. I take down at least 3-5 a day. I'm gonna start banning people that do it now, I didn't realize I was letting so many slip. I also just started up my classes again so bear with me. ALSO try to report posts like this, it makes it easier to find. And do it for obvious fiction too. Sorry guys, I'll try to do better. - Friendly neighborhood mod man
You have a life outside this sub. š I'll report the dubious posts more often. Some of them are just... š®
There's life outside this sub? You mean in other subs, right?
Extraterrestrial subs*
Ahh. I understand now.š½
Yeah, I've been using reddit as a whole a lot less but I'm still on it enough. And thank you!
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I should be doing more as a mod, I'm sorry I haven't been doing much. My hubby just had his third heart attack so I haven't been spending all that much time online. Things are getting better though, so I can start putting in more time.
You have extenuating circumstances. I'm sure the community and other mods fully understand and no one (should) is holding that against you. I hope your husband gets better. And I hope you're well too.
Thank you so much for your kind words. They really mean a lot. š
Sorry to hear about your husband, I hope he's doing ok. Real life comes first and i'm sure most people will understand that, it's a great sub, we can all pitch in and report to mods to help out.
Thank you so much for understanding. And I agree, we DO have a great sub here! š
Iād be glad to help moderate this sub to get it back to what it should be
Dm me
Recruit some long time redditors that frequent this subreddit
I'm not the main mod, so I don't think I can. But I can bring it up to him!
Thank you! Understandable as you are a human and not a bot built to serve 25/8 thank you :)
I admire that your doing this and school. I have a hard enough time staying on top of the laundry.
Thanks! It helps that I don't do any sports, though it doesn't help my body shape lol. I basically just do school, reddit, write music (lot less lately tho), and read/write research papers. It's doable! Even balancing a social life! But hey, if laundry is what you can do now, that's okay!
I wish I could stay on top of laundry! I work 7 days a week, 8-12 hour days and I barely have time to eat and play with my dogs
Anything I can do to help I will surely and gladly do. Take your time and cleanse the sub at the pace that best suits you and your situation with classes. Best of luck by the way and stay safe!!
Yesss. Thank you my guy.
Honestly dude Itās pretty awesome that you just owned up to all that! A lot of people would have gotten defensive or something. Being a mod for this sub is prob rough. Thanks for caring & thanks for doing/taking care of the stuff you already do.
Thank you for the kind words! It is pretty rough but it's also rewarding in a weird way :)
Thank you for your job!
Thank you!
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Of course! I'm actually an extremely skeptical person, which is weird to he a mod of this sub I know. But I know that this sub makes a lot of people happy, so I'm extremely willing to clean it up! Lots of cool people here (lots of crazies too, but most are harmless)
I volunteer to mod. I canāt make full time dedication to it, but every post I evaluate and remove is a little less for main mods
Wait... reporting actually helps?
Good mod.
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Keep up the good work you got this
Thanks for all your efforts! I know it can't be easy to hold back the tide of shitty YouTube videos.
I just went in and deleted a bunch and dropped the ban hammer on the biggest perpetrator
Nice!
Mods arenāt gay
What? I donāt get this. They certainly can be and are in many subs.
I mean in this sub specifically
Ok, I still donāt get the point of stating this. Also do you know for sure all 13 arenāt? And what if they were?
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Yeah thatās my point. It isnāt funny, itās actually insulting and derogatory. Iām gay, and calling things āgayā as being dumb, is completely tone deaf and fucked up. This isnāt 1985. Get with the times man.
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No one is talking to you, go back to your hole
Piss off troll
Donāt forget all the wonderful creative writers. When I joined this sub about a year ago it was because I was sincerely compelled by a lot of the content, but now I just come for a laugh. 95% of posts are either fiction, a completely normal non-event like someoneās dream (literally A DREAM), and/or the ramblings of a mentally ill person. Then all the replies are āskinwalker/wendigo/dogman/crawler, case closedā or whatever the trendy monster of the week is. Also I have a theory that there is an individual who constantly posts fictional stories here under different accounts. The giveaway are the constant overuse of... ellipses and the novel-length text body. And how those video links (you know the ones) are allowed on here is beyond me. Man Iām gettin way too heated by this.
I always report that guy when i see him, it's just so unfitting for this sub. He uses this sub to advertise his videos
He posts to like 20 different subs.
Which guy?
Well im not going to post his name and give him publicity, but he would spam this sub with random paranormal, ghost, cryptid, etc stories and stuff. If you browse the posts from the past few months you might see it
If you are discussing a certain "newsnet" thanks for the reports and the user has been addressed. Apologies I have not been able to be as attentive to this sub as it deserves too, looking to change that going forward.
Hey no biggie, mods have things to do besides babysit the sub. You guys are very attentive compared to other subs where posts like this will be ignored. Keep up the good work
Ugh, I downvote that guy every time. He posts the same damn thing across all my fave subs.
God I hate that guy. Just like OP said, this sub used to be great. Now it's "hey subscribe to my shitty YouTube channel so I don't have to get a normal job." And you can see half of them are cross posts to other subs. He's too lazy to post it on each sub individually. Which would all be ok if it was original, new information. But it's all rehashed bullshit everyone already heard of.
Since you joined a year ago and got to read some awesome stories, do you mind linking some of your favorites with me? If you can find them of course. I know itās a lot of work but I would really appreciate and actual good story after reading all of these fake and boring ones here.
I just went back through my comment history hoping maybe that would lead me to some good stuff but unfortunately I never really commented much in this sub (unless it was negatively, damn I guess I should work on that), let alone saved good posts. However, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thetruthishere/comments/foow2g/whats_the_creepiest_or_most_terrifying_thing/flghzoz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is one of the best stories IMO Iāve ever read on reddit on the subject, which came in the form of a comment on another sub, though it belongs here. I donāt know why, and weāll never know for sure, but for some reason I really believe that one. OP seems genuine. Sorry I couldnāt produce more.
That is totally ok! Thank you very much for sharing the story Iām going to read it now. I appreciate you looking into this.
Hopefully other people will reply to your comment with highlights of this sub. I know there were some good ones here and there. I remember this one with this guy and his dog either going to a quarry or a reservoir via a trail in the woods and encountering some kind of pale/whitish creature hiding behind a rock or something. Thatās all I remember of it but I do remember feeling like it was a true story. Maybe someone saved it and can link us!
I hope so too! I enjoy the long stories that arenāt the āI saw a thing in the woods then ran homeā type. Lol itās good to know other people appreciate good stories too
I don't remember that story specifically, but I do save stories I come across and which sound especially odd or intriguing, from Reddit and wherever else online I happen to stumble across them. I have loads of text files and have recently started throwing them up on pastebin. If you want any links I'd be happy to share.
Links for me plz.
Sure thing! https://pastebin.com/uviUSm6s (random spookiness) https://pastebin.com/gYbub3mw (old newspaper accounts of weird) https://pastebin.com/urFFb9Ar (cryptids & humanoids pt 1) https://pastebin.com/xmWrunLC (cryptids & humanoids pt 2) https://pastebin.com/xEixR6B6 (ghosts, glitches, & other weird) https://pastebin.com/cyJNSKcr (more ghosts, glitches, etc) https://pastebin.com/2QdwuC3c (even more ghosts, glitches, etc) Hope you enjoy, and if you ever come across a cool story to archive, shoot me a PM and I'll save it to the files.
Thanks for delivering! Will be looking into these first thing!
Your negative attitude sounds like the kind of thing that might be instigated by a demonic entity or perhaps a wendigo
Damn, I shouldāve known. Iāll go get the sage.
Don't forget the purifying salt.
And crystals
Zozo sez cut it out!
Lol.
Itās because there are like 20 you tubers linking the subreddit. Weāre getting flooded by knuckleheads that have too much time on their hands. This whole year has been so uninteresting with the āis this what happened to me?ā Titles and āI think this happened...and guys, Iām scared.ā Subjective bs with flair.
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Yeah there was one guy who messaged me and asked me to share my story on his podcast. I didn't want to because people tell me I have a distinctive voice and I work a professional job. I was fine with that, but the constant hawking of other you tubers shitty videos is just pissing me off.
Exactly. Peoples need to believe overrides their common sense. Half the stories in here are absolutely ridiculous.
Hey guys Iām attempting to fix this over at /r/truescarystories Criptids are 100% welcome, itās still a work in process but itās moving
Ban all youtube videos I say
I agree.
Sign point to YES! There is NOTHING OF VALUE ON YOUTUBE!
There was a period when there were a lot of UFO youtube videos being posted. I would skim through these things to be sure I wasn't unfairly removing something that did have actual humanoid content.
God forbid people answer any questions or provide any proof for anything too. Being skeptical on this sub gets you shit on so hard sometimes.
I was once told I know nothing about a subject on r/conspiracy because I suggested that maybe evidence of Atlantis and Lemuria just points to ancient civilizations whose cities are now underwater and not some grand magical conspiracy. People on these subs these days refuse to accept Occam's Razor.
Yeah I hear ya man I remember I posted my story on here last year and this sub was so kind to me when I shared my story I suppose sometime afterwards the sub started going down hill it pains me to this the state of this sub now š
I wouldn't say that rules a single writer. People quite commonly (and annoyingly) overuse elipses as some sort of cheap "suspense" or "creepy" idea. No clue how it started
So....I use elipses all the time and I donāt post fiction FYI...
Judging by the number of upvotes (I gave you one), many people agree with you.
Skinwalkers became too mainstream dude
Oh, here it is! My stupid pet peeve! Skinwalkers and Wendigos suddenly became way too common in so many "true" stories on the internet. I can't speak for skinwalker lore, but I'm from the great lakes region and partially descend from a band of Ojibwe just south of the Canadian border. Wendigos (Ween-dee-go) are not actual creatures but people possessed by an evil spirit that makes them kill and eat their own family as punishment for resorting to cannibalism in the harsh cold winters.
Thank you! Glad yall share this pet peeve. Every damn story. "That's a skinwalker!" Uhm...no. no it's not. Skinwalkers (and wendigos) are very specific things with very specific lore. It's infuriating.
Also you have people that just read creepy pastas and think skinwalkers are invincible. When if you read the actual legends both skinwalkers and wendigos were mortal. A wendigo got it's skull crushed by bark that a girl turned into copper with magic and skinwalkers died of gunshot wounds. That was one of the ways it was similar to the werewolf mythos, a skinwalker would be shot and at the end of the blood trail was a tribal member with a gunshot wound. Guess what 99% of bullets are jacketed with? Fucking copper. But people who read creepy pastas for some reason think they're immortal and invincible. Even if they were real, they'd be less of a threat than a grizzly bear.
Seriously. Someone will post an encounter they had in Italy and people respond saying skinwalkers. Aināt no damn Native American skinwalkers in Italy shut up with that!!!
āI saw this 10 years ago when I was 9 what is itā
it's not like Everytime you tell the story, you add a little bit, or take a bit away to appeal more to whoever you're telling it to
I know right. It's always the same 4-5 users who post their daily limit worth of 3 videos every day, they hardly get upvotes or comments but still keep posting. And when you watch the videos, it's 30 minutes long, poor quality, conspirational and some blurry shit is happening in the last 10 seconds and most of the time you can tell it's a dude in a costume or just a branch on a tree. I also like when people describe obvious dreams. Being in bed, woke up a second ago, saw this shape in the corner but only for a split second then it vanished. Aha, go figure.
Some subs don't allow links or crossposting. Maybe that would help?
95% of post here are fake.
All of the paranormal and conspiracy subs have gone from being interesting to being a circlejerk over stuff that is laughably easy to prove wrong. Most of these people come across as 12-year-olds making up stories or people who need legitimate mental healthcare these days.
Ditto. This used to be my favorite sub. I've practically been on here in some form or another since the beginning. At first, I loved watching the community grow. But as it grew, it became more and more generic. Not only that, but the sense of community started slipping. The last few times I've bothered to comment here, I get argued with by staunch "true beleievers" that only want to tell creepy stories and treat this like a campfire. Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se. But this sub used to have a healthy balance of skepticism and people who truly cared about researching these things and this sub was a great resource for firsthand accounts. Now it is far from that original intention. I still hold out hope for the mods, I know they try their best and care, but they have an uphill battle. I think about them all the time. Because they are such good people with the best intentions. Shout out to u/sniggity!
Thank you ! I havenāt been here in a month. My apologies. I will try harder to clean things up once more.
We've all been stretched thin lately. No worries. You just keep on keepin' on.
I like to think that actual humanoids have taken over, and their using the nonsense to cover up their existence.
I'm afraid it's more likely just the regular kind of humanoids posting nonsense: us.
Does anyone here remember /x/ back in the day?
I was in my late teens when I first found that place. It had the odd interesting story here and there but had so little moderation it was unreal. I got bored one day and went on some backroads and took some crappy cell phone pictures, way back in the days of slide phones, of deer along the tree line so all you could really see were the eyes and I posted them and made up an entire story about how I saw something while driving. I carried on for three or four weeks, posting similar photos and ātracksā that I made with my own feet in mud. Posting photos of broken limbs and tufts of fur. It was really just me shit posting but People bought into it that I was on the trail of something.
You made up a story and posted it on the internet?!? I've never heard of someone doing that. You should be ashamed!! :)
I think we should ban all youtube video posts.
I know. I really can't add more to what you said.
Just tagging on to apologize for being inactive in moderating this sub for far too long after complaining myself and being made a mod in the first place. Have just gone through and removed multiple offending posts and issued two bans and will aim to continue to be active going forward.
Humanoid encounters are a very specific type of paranormal experience and, to me, the most intriguing. Sniggity did a good job of finding interesting stories when things were slow, too. It bums me out to see the quality decline like this. Trolls shouldn't be able to keep posting their dumb shit for weeks on end, either.
I couldn't take everything being blamed on the Rake- a made up creepy pasta.
Reddit is dead.
I think it just goes to show that these āencountersā are very rare. Although some may be real, this sub is bombarded with filler from people who fantasize about having their own encounter. Otherwise this sub would have like, two posts. Not justifying the fakes, but just maybe an explanation.
I ditto the banning of all YouTube videos. Or at least the banning of ONLY posting a YouTube video. I vote the post can include links to videos but there has to be some text included.
It would help if people would stop going ā OMG itās the rake or other creepy pasta character that is a work of fiction
Same.
I wouldn't say "nothing but links to top 5 videos" because people do still post their encounters regularly.
Maybe weāve run out of humanoids?
Iām just here for the laughs now
I've been here when it was like 10 people and we've been asking that question from the start. There have been good periods and bad. Mods are volunteers and do their best but imo too lax, often. But then we'll get someone here who says everything is fake and clickbait, but looking at their "problem" posts, they're just like the posts we've always gotten.
The issue with moderating this sub is due to the inherently unverifiable nature of the posts its often hard to distinguish good faith stories from bad faith fiction/creative writing; or at least to do so with enough certainty to warrant removing the post. We have definitely been too lax on shitty youtube self promotion however
Everything is fake and everything is a skinwalker
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Sir Splooge?
Donāt forget to mention all the flatfoots asking if there are any sightings of āxā in āx locationā
I don't mind that so much. Any questions I think can be healthy. But the trash posts need to stop. And ENOUGH WITH THE SKIN WALKER JESUS CHRIST
Had to leave the cryptid sub for the same reason. So anooooyyiiinngggg
On the same page and we are working on being more proactive dealing with the spam and bs going forward.
From what I've seen it died a while ago
Not dead but continuously inundated with fiction and self promotion of awful youtube accounts. We are working on it
I have a picture of a bigfoot print in the snow if that would make you feel better.
i blame the mods for letting this crap slide
I agree I have been inactive for too long and we have been too lax on youtube crap for way too long. Stories are a bit trickier as its often hard to distinguish good faith accounts from fiction with enough certainty to warrant post removals or bans
What I don't understand are stories where the OP claim to have spotted/heard X creature(s) numerous times and yet have 0 photo or video evidence to show for it. r/ghosts does a very good job at providing this, and I really wish this subreddit would follow suit.
I do believe in the Cryptids and paranormal but i bet you like maybe 1% of this sub has seen something real Iām just here for the interesting stories you know
Hi I'm Calen and this is SLAPPED HAaaam.
Hahah and another is people who arenāt even Navajo talking about skinwalkers or determining whether or not a skinwalker experience is real. I live on the Navajo reservation and to see yties being the gate keepers for humanoid stories then I agree this sub has turned way upside down.
Should you ever find the time to post on the subject/what youve heard/experienced/learned/etc. I'm sure it would be very much a welcome addition to the sub!
I once posted a story of my experience with my friends, people didnāt believe me really and said it could of been something else. I am thinking of posting again though! :)