I always do a little dance.
I'm always excited.
I've woken up with it stuck in my head before.
It's a catchy tune.
I want to write lyrics for it, actually.
All right.
Well, welcome back to Cryptid Cocktail Party.
This is a show where we have a few drinks, share a few laughs and take a dive into the
unknown.
I am not your host, Dave, once again.
He has been commissioned by the nation of Canada to investigate why all of their bacon
is just thin round slices of ham.
Godspeed, Dave.
My name is Saj and diving down the rabbit hole with me today.
Holy shit, two guests.
We've got Cam from Narragansett.
Also, hi, Cam's mom.
Thanks for listening.
And then there is Amanda from Fanghorn Forest.
Folks, how are we doing?
Not too bad.
Feeling good.
Hanging out with the treebeards.
I competed in a Bloody Mary competition today, so I got a fourth place.
And I'm not a bartender, so I'll freaking take it.
Honestly, we.
Oh, go ahead.
Is that fourth place?
And as in you, you drink fourth place amount of Bloody Marys?
If it was a drinking competition, it would be a whole different thing.
I'd need a handicap and all these things.
But no, it was I was making the cocktails competing against other bartenders.
And there's like a crowd vote and a judge vote and all that stuff.
So I made an only bill.
New York system wiener Bloody Mary.
It's a Rhode Island hot dog ish thing, but they're called wieners.
It's the best drunk food in the entire world.
After you go to a concert and you're really fucked up, you go get wieners because they're
open till three a.m. and maybe fight somebody in the parking lot.
You know, what are you doing?
Wieners, hot wieners, hot wieners, baby.
Always looking for a hot wiener after a concert.
Every single time.
That is one of my favorite things about New England.
One of the reasons I was so disappointed when the Patuket Red Sox moved to Worcester, besides
the fact that Worcester is a toilet, is that it's not it's not like it's like an actual
toilet.
It's like a it's like a chemical toilet because it smells different.
It's a metaphor.
But when you would go down to see the Patuket Red Sox right outside the stadium is a place
advertising hot wieners.
And at one one season, the team like had a couple of like fun exhibition style games
where they change their names to the Patuket Hot Wieners.
And I have two hats.
Yes, I had to.
I had to.
Incredible.
It's a little wiener dog in a bun and it's on fire.
How could you not buy that?
I am deeply jealous.
When you wear the hat, do people understand what it means or do they think you're just
like wiener guy?
It depends on where they're from, honestly.
I hope they don't understand.
I want them to not understand.
I don't want anyone to know.
All right.
So this is going to be this is a spooky episode, you guys, which is appropriate as Halloween
is upon us.
Some might even say inside us.
Have you ever heard?
Have you ever heard of the Fresno Nightcrawler?
Not sure.
Haven't.
OK.
All right.
So I'm going to start at the beginning, as you do, with a story in the early morning
hours of November 5th, 2007, a man who wished to only be identified as Jose was woken up
by the barking of his dog.
Sensing the urgency of his dog's behavior, Jose decided to check the surveillance camera.
See, Jose had previously installed these surveillance cameras because he had been a victim of theft
in the past.
So he went to go see if the thieves were back.
However, he would not find thieves on the footage this time.
What he saw instead would briefly take the world by storm.
So because this is a podcast, I can't show the video to everyone, but I'm going to share
a little bit of the video with you guys just so you can kind of get an idea of what we're
talking about here, because this is wildly absurd.
And did you just say where this took place already?
Because I wasn't listening.
Yeah, Fresno, California.
I think I said, I think I said, no, actually, maybe I didn't.
I think you did.
Now, it is the Fresno Nightcrawler, but I was wondering if it was like the Appalachian,
you know, that's fair.
I was thinking that.
No, it's Fresno.
OK.
Give me just a second.
I want to bring up the window.
Sorry for everyone else, but hopefully you'll be able to hear the laughter.
OK.
Keep an eye on it.
Do you see what I'm looking at?
What the actual fuck?
OK, so this is just.
This is just.
Somebody can overstarch their khakis.
Yeah.
All right.
So what you saw was just part of the clip.
I'm going to describe the clip for everyone because it is just a whole man.
All right.
So the grainy footage looks pretty normal at first glance.
I don't know if you guys can see it.
This particular footage was really blown up so you could see it.
But the footage initially starts out with just a normal scene at the bottom of the frame
as a time stamp indicating 1241 in 32 seconds.
The view appears to be someone's front lawn.
There's a tree in the upper left hand corner of the frame and what appears to be a walkway
running diagonally from the bottom right to the center of the frame.
And then the walkway appears to connect to the street, which runs in front of the lawn
behind the tree near the left corner of the screen.
What we see is what initially looks to be a white pole.
However, a few seconds into the video, the pole appears to start moving.
In the limits of early 2000s cameras, it's hard to make sense of what you're seeing.
As the long thin creature moves from the top left to the bottom right of the frame, you
can kind of make out short, almost wobbly steps.
The long shadow in the ground follows the creature's movements, indicating the creature
is not simply a camera artifact.
Some distortion in the shadow is visible as a creature gets closer to the camera.
At one point, it almost looks like the creature is hovering above the ground.
This could be due to grainy footage.
The second creature, I'm sorry, the first creature is completely out of view by 1242
and 51 seconds.
Shortly after the first creature moves out of frame, a second creature comes into view.
This is the one that everyone was just laughing at.
It pops up at 1246, 4141 seconds following the same trajectory as the first creature.
This one is slightly different though.
Instead of maintaining the short steps and almost wobbly gait, the second creature is
taller, faster, and more graceful.
The strides are slightly longer.
In its form, more closely resembles just a pair of legs with a head.
Each leg surrounded by what appears to be flowing white fabric.
Finally, at the end of the footage, the second creature appears to have a large head with
dark eyes, not too different from your traditional alien gray.
Stranger still, the creature does not appear to have arms.
This creature exits the frame at 1247 in four seconds.
I did not see a head.
That footage that you saw just there was really bad.
They had blown it up for some reason, probably to fit the frame or something.
I've watched a couple of different iterations of this footage because I just could not believe
it the first time I saw it.
There is another one.
I am going to see if I can find it.
Sorry again for everyone who is on the visual medium here, I mean on the audio medium, but
I promise you it's just a hell of a video.
It was your imagination.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's see.
Fresno Nightcrawler.
I know.
Tell them what it has been.
So I'm going to get to that.
Oh, sorry.
No, no, that's okay.
It's a really good question to ask.
I'm telling you.
It's a really good question to ask.
But there's an answer to that question that's actually really simple.
But at first, it looks pretty tall.
You guys can tell from the tree in the video, it looks kind of tall.
So this guy here, I'm going to share this video just a second.
I'm just waiting for the commercial to get out of the way.
This guy here actually did an analysis of the video.
So I'm going to pause it and share again.
So this is less?
This is actually an enhanced video.
Oh, this is boring.
Yeah.
So it's actually not too bad.
It's not as awful.
I like how he uses commas instead of periods like a really cool guy.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And maybe we trust the validity of what I'm seeing.
That's how I felt about it when I first watched it.
And this I like the title card also lasts for five minutes.
That's how you know it's good.
I took it all to a read.
So again, this one looks really shitty, but then he has an enhanced version where he like,
hold on, let me see if I can bring that up.
There we go.
Freaking goofy boss effect.
And it actually does kind of change things.
So there's the tree right here in the top left hand side.
OK.
And that is infinitely more spooky.
Yeah, it's just like white snow.
Here comes the silly goose.
There goes a lot.
Oh, see, now you can kind of see the head.
No, I can't.
What do you mean?
Now you can see the head.
I mean, if his legs go all the way up to his head, right?
That's why I watch this video.
It does remind me of that joke like her legs go all the way up all the way up.
Hold on, let me see.
Those legs go all the way up.
Why?
Yes, they do.
Is that literally what you mean that those fans go up to a head?
Is that no, you'll see in a second.
Let me see if I can find the.
The worst part was the whole footage was only available on Facebook and I just can't.
I love that you were like in this video, you'll see the head and relate.
Yeah, I saw.
I saw it, but that's because I know it's there like you guys don't know it's there.
I was distracted by how graceful it was.
It was weirdly graceful, right?
I know it's upsetting.
I don't think I'll ever be that graceful.
Considering it's just legs, it does really well.
Well, that's what I'm working on.
Who broken arms will do that?
Oh, I'm turning off that audio.
OK, oh no, this is the.
This is another one.
This isn't going to help us.
I feel like at this point we should just take your word for it.
It's a head.
Trust me, you guys got to look it up.
If I find the clip, I'll I'll send it to everyone.
Every listener, just drop your email in the comments.
So as if, let's say now put yourself in poor Jose's shoes.
You're sitting in your house.
It's twelve, you know, fifty, maybe one a.m.
You're bleary and tired because your dogs woke you up because you thought there was
an intruder and instead a pair of what looks to be white linen pants has escaped a casino
in Cuba and is now walking across your front lawn.
I mean, what would you do?
Obviously you're scared and confused, right?
And Jose searching for answers did the only thing he could.
He contacted the Fresno Univision channel and gave them the footage.
And this is where we meet a man with quite possibly the best fucking paranormal investigator
name in history.
His name is Victor Camacho.
Oh, that's nice.
Right.
That's real nice.
It feels good.
So Camacho was the host of a radio program called and I'm going to fuck this up.
Los Desfilados.
OK, you did a great job, which Google translated to the sleepless ones, which is an equally
badass name.
That is so.
According to Camacho, Univision reached out to him for his opinion on the video as a paranormal
researcher.
Camacho viewed the footage but refused to take a stance on whether it was authentic
or not based on the video alone.
So Univision called Jose, who I can't stress enough how how much this guy didn't want to
be involved.
And he had just he needed answers.
The only reason he did this is he was terrified.
And so Jose finally agreed to come to the station and meet with Victor and Victor Camacho
was later quoted in a 2024 Fresno Bee article on the Nightcrawler.
He said this about Jose.
He didn't even want to go out of the house.
He stayed home for a couple of weeks.
It wasn't possible that someone tried to make this video just to fool you or the TV station.
Victor and Camacho became a believer.
I mean, I mean, it's possible.
Let's not say it's not possible.
Yeah, I've never been that afraid of pants.
Right.
I mean, frequently they don't fit, but I don't like I choose not to wear them.
If I could.
Yeah, like socially acceptable.
Yeah.
Like any good New Englander, I stay in shorts until December.
It was the last opportunity to not say I need pants.
Oh, God damn it.
That is really good.
We might need to change the name of the episode, actually.
I need pants.
So according to howstuffworks.com, Camacho met with Jose again in February of 2008, months
after the footage aired.
This follow up visit was also filmed and it added some valuable context to the original
video because it was done during the daytime.
In the surveillance video, it's hard to determine size.
I mean, you ask the question, how tall is this thing?
I sure did.
And you saw.
You are wrong.
And you saw in relation to the tree, right?
So it appeared kind of tall.
Well, it depends on how tall the tree is.
Exactly.
So with no other information that up against the tree, you're like, OK, that could be a
pretty tall thing.
That could be like six to eight feet tall, right?
Possibly.
Sure.
OK.
So the tree itself is actually like five feet tall.
I nailed it.
It's a weird looking tree.
It's probably a little bit taller than that because it looks like Camacho is kind of a
shorter dude.
He's a short king.
So to him, the pants were tall.
Oh, yeah.
Well, so the pants could really only possibly be between like three or four feet tall at
the most.
OK.
So like normal pants.
Yeah.
Well, no, if your pants are four feet tall, you had to can be a tumbo.
Oh, yes.
Fair point.
I don't know how pants work.
I also have a question.
Why in the actual fuck is how stuff works dot com covering this?
Because no idea.
It's not answering the question of the website.
Yeah, clearly.
How do those pants work?
Clearly, they ran out of like household appliances and strange inventions to cover.
We've already done the refrigerator.
Do we have ghost pants by any chance?
Like now we're asking you, does this work?
Exactly.
So also what you see in the daytime video that you don't see at night, this is actually
a fence and where the so there's the there's the grass, as you guys saw in the video.
And then there's a little walkway at the bottom, bottom right hand side of the screen at the
top of the screen is the driveway.
And there's actually a gate where where the homeowner, Jose, can pull his car out.
So where the creatures come from is actually coming from the driveway and then walking
down to the walkway.
Just visiting.
Just visiting, just popping by to say hello.
Company.
So maybe like a large property.
It's not.
It's a it's a pretty small lawn.
So when you see the video, when you see the surveillance video, it looks like it could
be a big lawn.
But when you see when you see the real life video, you realize that come out.
I mean, Jose must have had like a fisheye lens, the biggest fisheye lens he could find
because it was like it looks much bigger than it actually is in real life.
So with Jose's permission, Victor Camacho later showed the Nightcrawler video at the
2008 MUFON symposium in San Jose, California.
And there were immediate sides chosen.
Some people thought it was a hoax.
Some people thought it was very real.
The MUFON community, of course, being very skeptical people and not easily fooled by any
stretch.
Oh, pants are controversial.
They are.
But Camacho was not the only person to analyze the video.
This is where it gets kind of interesting.
Enter former FBI agent.
Don't worry, guys.
FBI is on the case.
Ben Hansen.
Hansen is actually a pretty interesting character with multiple degrees and accomplishments,
including hosting a show called Fact or Fate.
On the show, he leads a team of investigators to analyze the details of a story.
And in the case of the Fresno Nightcrawler, he even tries to recreate the footage, which
he did in 2010.
Ben and his team determined that he could not recreate Jose's video and therefore could
not explain it.
They tried puppets.
They tried dolls.
They even tried having children dress up as the pants like you do.
And it couldn't make it work.
They couldn't they couldn't replicate it.
I have a question.
Sure.
This kind of like splitting hairs.
Why is it called the Nightcrawler?
I don't know.
He's walking.
It is walking.
It's not even it's not even by the loosest definition of crawling.
Is it crawling?
No.
However, that's probably why it has another name, which I'm going to get to right now,
actually.
This would not be the last video of the Fresno Nightcrawler, aka the Fresno Alien, aka Ghost
Pants.
Ghost Pants is so much better.
That's that's top tier.
That's that's the best.
I'll be honest with you guys.
I came up with Ghost Pants, but I really want it to catch on.
Oh, yeah, no, it's good.
Ghost Pants is my favorite.
Also, we all need Pantsers.
That's that's still is called back, Amanda.
That was called back to Amanda's greatest contribution.
So on March 28th, 2011, at roughly 2am, two creatures were again captured on surveillance
footage, this time in Yosemite National Park, much like the first camera in the story, the
park rangers had set up the camera to catch potential criminal activity.
Now, this footage is a bit clearer.
This time, the taller creature appears to be in front of the smaller one.
I can show you guys this video actually do have there.
There's a lot of footage of this because it really this is like where it really took off.
This is when pants became serious.
So you guys are just going to have to really learn to appreciate our our commentary on
this video.
The interval.
This video, this video is actually pretty fascinating in just how silly it is.
Not because the creature is unbelievable.
It's just how silly the actual creature is.
All right, get ready.
Here we go.
I'm going to share again.
Ready.
I'm ready.
All I'm ready.
My body is ready.
Okay, here it is.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
His head is rolling around.
Do you notice that?
Yep.
He's clearly not as excited as he was in the previous video.
He's not feeling it.
I mean, he's just he looks sad, frankly.
This time he's it's all pants, maybe.
It's always been all pants.
His pants all the way over.
My favorite is the little one here, though.
Those are the complete.
The first one is my favorite.
I want that guy.
I want that little guy living in my yard.
Do you?
I do.
He's too goddamn cute.
Okay, so I definitely see heads this time for sure.
That's like a body.
I don't know if I see arms.
No arms.
There's no arms.
It's like pants all the way up.
Still, the legs go all the way to the top.
My legs go all the way up.
Honestly, I don't understand what I'm looking at.
And it's in a different place.
That's the whole point.
It's almost like it's a different thing, though.
It doesn't look like a pair of pants walking.
It looks like a white thing just too late.
Something you have to consider is that the camera quality is a thousand times better.
It's still shit, but it's way better.
Way better.
That's how I live my life.
I don't actually have to consider anything.
Fine.
That's where my conclusion is.
Fuck it.
So this footage appeared to be a bit clear.
This time, the taller creature appears to be in front of the smaller one, which sparked
speculation that the creatures were possibly parent and child.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
Yeah, in the original article that I started researching this, they said mother and child,
but I was like, you know what?
That's sexist.
Maybe the dad's taken the pants out for a stroll.
We don't know.
Yeah.
So I said parent and child because I don't want to assume gender.
The gait of both creatures appeared slightly different with the smaller one being less
pole-like.
Is the only way I can think of it.
Kind of wobbly.
Yeah.
Is there a difference in angle, the better overall quality of the footage, a hoax looking
to capitalize on the first video or possibly different creatures?
The National Parks Department does have a pretty good sense of humor about this incident
mentioning it in a March 20, 23 blog post on the U70 page about strange things that
you can see in the parks.
Thank God for Teddy Roosevelt.
Yeah, right.
You wouldn't have to imagine that they have just, and maybe this is just my wishful thinking
of a goddamn library of this shit because I would have to imagine there's stuff happening
all the time.
If you believe in cryptids.
There's a whole Reddit dedicated to it specifically from park rangers.
Yeah.
Which I love.
I love that.
What makes, I mean, U70, the proximity makes sense that it could be the same creature.
Yep.
However, I don't think it's the same, even with the quality difference.
I don't think it's the same thing.
I mean, I am not prepared to make a judgment either way.
I just love it.
I love it so much.
I don't care if it's not real.
It will be real in my head.
Oh, it's real.
It was clearly a different creature because one of them was pleaded and one of them wasn't.
And you have the Capri's.
It wasn't, and it wasn't iron.
No, clearly that means somebody's lazy.
Slacking.
They up the production value.
Okay.
So this isn't the only footage either.
The next footage was captured in Billings, Montana on April 25th, 2020 at 9 45 PM.
This is possibly the worst quality footage of the bunch.
I'm not even going to show it to you because it's, it's, you can't see anything.
Filmed on what I can only assume was a zero megapixel daguerreotype.
What appears to be a single night crawler pops into frame in the top right side of the
screen and then back out.
However, it's tough to tell because the footage looked like it was filmed during, it was filmed
during a rare underwater blizzard is the only way I could describe it.
It looks like it's somehow snowing in the ocean.
Filmed by a game boy.
Now, now I would be utterly failing at my job if I didn't mention some possible related
sightings on December 12th, 2014, a former Marine and his wife claimed to have seen a
similar creature.
However, there are some differences that make me think this would be a different being altogether
for sure.
According to a cryptids fandom.com, which is a great little website.
You guys should check it out if you get a chance.
Also I found the cryptid wiki page, which is really good.
They had some good information on it.
Anyway, according to cryptids fandom.com, this creature was a seven foot tall, slim,
great creature with muscular legs.
Don't know why that's relevant.
That walked like its knees were backwards.
Damn, sounds sexy.
Right?
Let me get over there.
Some sexy ass legs moonwalking.
Is this a cryptid or a daddy?
Given the previous adorable sightings, this thing sounds like it can fuck right the fuck
off.
I hate it and I want to kill it with fire.
Muscular backwards bending legs you say you sir are horrific abomination.
Yeah, I mean, how did you know that they're backwards bending?
Well, you just know.
So like when you see you just know a person walking like this.
And then you've got another one that's like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That was really helpful for everybody listening.
By the way, it just made me think of it like a horse's legs, like a horse's back legs.
What you just showed us is where you go like, yeah, now you get it.
So the second creature had a horse's back legs in the sense that it bent backwards,
not like our knees, which bend the correct way.
That's deeply upsetting.
I mean, all I saw was like a couple of sad marshmallows wandering.
Yeah, but they were adorable marshmallows.
This thing, the picture that they have, which again, I'm not going to show you was fucking
nightmare fuel.
It had also had no arms.
Oh, this is from the one we didn't see.
Yeah, this is the Billings Montana one.
I'm sorry, not Billings Montana.
This is no, it is Billings Montana.
Is it no Carmel Carmel, Ohio.
So this is called that's because they pronounce it wrong.
It's caramel.
This is the Carmel creature.
So it's muscular backwards bending legs.
They said this a number of times in the article.
So I'm guessing this guy really wants everyone to know this.
He is a former Marine who is 60 years old.
And he described the encounter.
Here's a direct quote as reported by cryptids fandom.com.
The man said we recently bought a place in Fort Hill area in Southeast Highland County.
We first noticed after about 30 days of living here that we suddenly had a perfect circle
that stays fresh green, no matter what the weather in our front lawn.
Again, not super relevant.
I think he's just bragging at this point.
On Friday night, the 12th, we were driving home after turning on Carmel Road.
It's not it by the way, it's not like the candy.
It's carmel.
After turning on Carmel Road, which leads to our road, we went around the curve by the
Carmel Church is everything Carmel in this town.
And then up a small incline welcome to the Carmel Post Office and the Carmel McDonald's.
So sticky and then up a small incline and approximately 10 feet over the incline and
in front of our truck.
Just get to the point.
Old man, the alien ran across the road and into the woods.
He's also painting a picture.
Okay, this is a picture that he's painting.
He's using his left hand and a roller to paint a wall.
It's the video or no, there was no video for the Carmel creature.
So he's just saying it's an alien.
He doesn't know.
He's saying that he this is what he witnessed.
I feel like he knows what he saw.
Yeah, what is I'm a former Marine and we don't lie.
The flat circle is I don't know what the circle in his lawn has to do with anything other
than he's just bragging about how nice his lawn is.
All right, maybe it was like that's what I thought too.
Like I was like, where does this tie in?
And then I got to the end of the quote and I was like, what about your lawn though?
Why are we talking about it?
He was saying there are circles like there are crop circles.
And so therefore my alien story checks out.
Look at the circle of my lawn.
See, I'm not lying about how great my lawn is.
That's how you know there's a real alien.
So finally, there is the Poland sighting.
This video has it all you guys bad quality, no lighting and filmed from what I could only
assume was the first car of a moving roller coaster.
This video really does appear to be a hoax.
The flowing movement of the first three videos is replaced with what looks like broomsticks
wrapped in white sheets.
And this was it after the original?
Oh yeah, way after.
This was like in 2023 or 2024, I think.
Taking it.
It's full of shit.
It's so bad.
And it's like the cameras all over the place.
And then you see two broomsticks like goose stepping across the screen wrapped in white
sheets and then the camera immediately jerks away to nothing.
And it's like, well, obviously this is a hoax because if I had this shit crawling on my
lawn, I wouldn't have the guy who had had way too much Adderall hold the camera.
I would like put it down and rest it somewhere.
Sounds like a clan meeting to me.
Sounds like a what?
Wipe sheets.
I get it.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's possible.
You said there were goose stepping in and white sheets.
It's actually a mix when you think about it.
Now there's Nazi Klansmen.
And they skipped leg day.
What is the world coming to?
Yeah, I want to see it.
I'll look it up later.
Yeah, look that up.
It's so bad I didn't even bother showing it to you guys because it's just horrible.
The guy didn't even attempt to film this.
So final note, there's a bit of a cottage industry surrounding the Fresno Fresno pants
monster patent pending the Fresno Bee shows all sorts of products from stickers to T-shirts
and even plushies.
Some of the stuff out there is actually pretty clever.
And I want it.
I don't even care if it turned out to be a hoax.
I fucking love this thing.
What do you guys think?
Sure.
I also want all of the merch.
Yeah, I need a poster or something.
Maybe like a sexy recreation.
Yeah.
Oh, rule 34 version of the pants monster.
I'm in.
You don't have to change the name.
He comes along.
That's what they call me in college.
Yeah.
Before I got the restraining order, I didn't go to college.
Amanda, what do you think?
Well, you know, I'm a true believer.
I'm a true blue believer and it does not take much to convince me because I don't care.
Well, that's why I invited you.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't care if it's a fake.
I have more fun believing that it's true and it doesn't matter either way.
So to me, 100% true.
I'm into it.
I'm going to say, I'm going to say the first two were probably true.
Definitely the first one.
There's so much like compelling evidence that if it is a fake, it was very masterfully done.
And I will still give you a round of applause and wear your t-shirt to the end and to the
end of the world.
Right.
The Yosemite one, I can see how that one might be considered a bit more of a hoax.
There's really no shadow in the video.
In the things moving like it's like a like a Mickey Mouse cartoon for the early Mickey
Mouse cartoons.
It's definitely funny, but I think the racist ones.
I think, I think that's a different thing.
Yeah.
And then the Montana one.
I mean, what little of the creature you see, it does look like, like the creature, but
it's impossible to tell what it is.
The Poland one is 100% a lie.
It's literally you can see the folds in the sheets.
Yeah.
Horribly done.
I believe it.
Okay.
Thanks.
So much effort just to fake something so I mean, you could fake something better than
that.
But yeah.
Yeah, you could.
You could.
We actually in Boy Scout Camp, that's right, folks.
I am a nerd.
In Boy Scout Camp, we had to take a metalworking class and we had these like little plates that
we were going to turn into bowls and my friend and I being utterly useless and completely
disinterested in metalworking, we actually turned them into flying saucers and we glued
them together and then we threw them up in the air over the field and we got like a perspective
shot with like just, because you know, this was back in the ice ages, so I only had like
a disposable camera and so I took a bunch of pictures.
We would throw it up in the air and then I would snap the photos and a couple of them
actually came out pretty good.
Yeah.
It really did look like a UFO was like over the lodge just because of the perspective.
It looked huge because the thing was way closer to us and falling towards me.
Yeah.
So you could definitely make awesome and fairly convincing fakes.
Yeah.
You know that you change somebody's life because they were developing those photos and they're
like, Jesus Christ, right?
I'm not allowed to say that I looked at them or talk about them.
My god, this guy's done something.
But I don't know if I turned into Batman there.
It just happened.
Where's the UFO?
Actually, in my case, it's like, where's the merit badge?
I didn't get it.
I get that merit badge.
If there was a create UFO hoax merit badge, I would have nailed it though, that summer
broad merit badge all day long.
Done.
Anyway, so that's that's that's the story.
Cam, you got anything you want to plug?
Just dance at beer.
I mean, that's that's that's the whole thing.
Drink anto beer.
Come visit us at the brewery in Providence.
Had a good time there the other night for my buddy's 40th birthday and got some great
beers on tap.
So yeah, come hang out.
We need to make a cryptid cocktail party beer.
I'm 100% on board.
I'm so shit out of here.
Like actually, Dave and I had a couple of ideas.
We were just like joking around the other night.
He was texting me from Canada.
Poor man.
And we were like, oh, we we've got to have a cryptid theme beer.
We have to we have to make it.
Well, if we can ever recover him from from the gulags of Canada, we can we can meet up
at the brewery.
Hopefully.
I think I think Trudeau will will release him soon.
I'm certainly crossing my fingers.
He's needed here.
Amanda, do you have anything you'd like to plug?
Oh, absolutely.
No, I'd like a beer.
Yes.
It's good, right?
No, I'm just a friend of the show.
We appreciate you coming on, especially because your birthday is tomorrow.
Yeah.
We're going to let you get away without wishing you a happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
I hope you get some haunted pants.
Oh, my God.
Ghost pants.
Trail cam out tonight.
Hopefully.
I hope you get a trail cam.
All right.
So that's all we got.
Thank you for listening to another episode of Cryptid Cocktail Party.
Dave will be back next week.
I'm pretty confident we're working out a deal.
We're going to return some maple syrup we stole from Montreal and they're going to give
Dave back.
Thank you for listening.
May the Mothman bless you and I love you.