NooneOfConsequence wrote on Jul 18
th, 2018 at 1:04pm:
@Morphy,
Those sightings could be willful delusion, but I generally agree that cryptozoology, aliens, and ghost stories all have that common element of eyewitness accounts which are impossible to prove.
Personally I think scary stories are one way of hacking the brain by applying a specific form to a non-specific fear. It’s kind of the inverse of the “invisible gorilla “ effect.
Some I think are delusion and some are lies. For sure, we know this to be ,statistically speaking, a fact. But when you talk to outdoorsman who have years of experience out in the wild and you know these people and they are not liars and they have an extremely detailed account of what they saw it's just damn hard to say all of those are false.
Thing is, I don't really disagree with the logic of what you are saying. But I think the more you speak to these people and look at what evidence does exist the less sure one is inclined to become. It's very easy to succumb to the old Dunning-Krueger effect. I think looking at both sides and perhaps being unsure of both, is a good way to remain relatively balanced when hard evidence is lacking.
@Ratman- I totally agree, they didn't stage it at Disneyland. The whole idea is ridiculous...
It was Disney World. Our Reptoid overlords changed the location at the last minute.