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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
Nobody has ever believed me.
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The thing is that excitement can distort perception.
When I look at the photos I took of a disgustingly vulgar looking old turkey vulture sitting atop a barn, the scale does not relate to memory.
This was back in 2009 and I still remember the look in this birds eye as it looked at me with
disdain, it freaking had a consciousness or at least my mind attributed one to it. It did take off when I got too close, so it at least it knew I was there.
Here is an example of scale from memory being inaccurate.
Go back and visit one of your old grade schools, they always seem smaller now than as you remembered as a child.
The human mind is not a scientific instrument, but then again there are new discoveries in science every day, even in the natural sciences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(cryptozoology)
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Some cryptozoologists have theorized the ancient Thunderbird myth to be based on sightings of a real animal with a mistaken assessment of its apparent size. Cryptozoologists also posit that the Thunderbird was associated with storms because they followed the drafts to stay in flight, not unlike the way a modern eagle rides mountain up currents. John A. Keel claimed to have mapped several Thunderbird sightings and found that they corresponded chronologically and geographically with storms moving across the United States.
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Recent sightings in Pennsylvania in article below, and I thought the T-bird was a SW USA thing.
http://paranormal.about.com/od/thunderbirds/fl/The-Giant-Thunderbird-Returns.htm
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Centuries-Old Legend
The legend of the Thunderbird reaches back hundreds of years as part of the mythology of several Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes region. And the legend might have remained strictly a part of those cultures had not the great winged creature been seen countless times by the "white man" over the centuries.
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