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What the Beep?!

By Gregon

A quick excursion into high strangeness territory: Ufology pundit Regan Lee has a new UFO Digest article posted titled, “Beeping Creatures“, which touches on many of the same areas as my Darklore Volume 1 article “Her Sweet Murmur” (which you can download as a free sample PDF). Our good friend Emps, from Cabinet of Wonders, also noted these sounds in his Darklore article “The Unbelievable Strangeness of Bigfoot” (only available by buying the book). Although I disagree with Regan somewhat in terms of the ‘mind control’ aspect, it’s certainly an area which deserves more serious research. There are other aspects as well – the smells, the fogs etc. – “recurrent regularities” which offer an avenue of scientific investigation into these strange phenomena.

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  1. Saw that and thought of you
    It is interesting to see further data and discussion on the topic, as it is, in some ways, a test of the hypothesis you threw out in your article: that there seems to be an odd similarity in reported noises across what most would define as discrete phenomena. As you say it is something I expand on with the high strangeness associated with Bigfoot, a topic I have since seen touched on in other blogs. The frustrating thing is that we seem to keep reinventing the wheel rather than building on the previous work of others (and I’m sure I’m guilty of this too). It seems a pity in this case as your article is available free online in at least 2 places but I understand partly that this is down to the information not being “out there” (like The Truth isn’t 😉 ). As an example when I blogged on the people behind the 1897 airship flap someone I know dropped in a comment to say they’d had a letter published in Fate about it in the seventies. Recently I also found more information on Bigfoot and UFOs in a rather odd place (DC Comic’s The Big Book of the Unexplained) which would have been really useful. I am not sure what the solution to this is – academics have various databases they can search through for citations and the like – it strikes me a wiki (Red Pill?) would be the best way forward for bringing together resources on subjects.

    Also, you say, mind control seems less likely – your evidence (and other things I’ve stumbled across since – some of which I threw in on the Graham Hancock board during your author of the month residence 😉 ) shows these noises have been reported back to the dawn of recorded history.

    I think the interesting thing about “recurrent regularities” (the various elements that make up the different levels – which I mention in Darklore, drawing on Vallee’s work of course) is that when you look at the phenomena “horizontally” (i.e. across boundaries rather than “vertically” within them) we see odd links time and again (the reason I focused on Bigfoot was because if it is a relic hominoid then you’d not expect it to be able to disappear, pass through solid objects, have glowing red eyes, etc.) but I know I hadn’t looked it that way until I read the finished draft of your piece, but afterwards they kept cropping up. They are often the kind of thing that you’d often overlook as background, flavour or set dressing to a good tale but they could be the important part – as the larger features seem to be wide open to interpretation (and, in the case of the space brethren, nonsense or lies) – judge them by what they do, not what they say 😉

    Anyway very interesting topic and, potentially, a very important one.

    1. Recurring regularities
      [quote=Emperor]It seems a pity in this case as your article is available free online in at least 2 places but I understand partly that this is down to the information not being “out there” (like The Truth isn’t 😉 ).[/quote]

      Hi Emps,

      With all humility I have to say I thought my article would have provoked a little more comment. On two fronts – (1) as you say, that supposedly discrete phenomena share certain characteristics, and (2) it provides some degree of authenticity to accounts of high strangeness that people might usually not take seriously (i.e. if a report from the 1940s tells of a buzzing sound or whooshing sound, and then a leprechaun-like creature appearing, now we have this checklist to say “yup, buzzing sound – that’s a staple part of the experience”).

      [quote]Academics have various databases they can search through for citations and the like – it strikes me a wiki (Red Pill?) would be the best way forward for bringing together resources on subjects.[/quote]

      In a perfect world, Google Books. I find it a great tool for keyword searching texts…though it’s slowly becoming more and more impeded by copyright concerns, with the text of many books now not being accessible.

      [quote]I think the interesting thing about “recurrent regularities” (the various elements that make up the different levels – which I mention in Darklore, drawing on Vallee’s work of course) is that when you look at the phenomena “horizontally” (i.e. across boundaries rather than “vertically” within them) we see odd links time and again[/quote]

      Ayup. So when are we writing this book? 😉

      Thanks for your comment, appreciate it. At least I know one person out there gets the point of my article…

      Kind regards,
      Greg
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