WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.200 I'll do it in post. You are now listening to 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:45.520 cryptid cocktail party. Welcome back, everybody, 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.979 to another episode. No, that's not. I don't like 00:00:47.979 --> 00:00:49.880 that one. I don't like that one. Hey, everybody. 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.179 Welcome back to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail 00:00:52.179 --> 00:00:53.740 Party, a show where we have a few drinks, share 00:00:53.740 --> 00:00:55.780 a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm 00:00:55.780 --> 00:00:58.380 your host, Dave. Joined, as always, by my wonderful 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:01.079 co -host, Sarge. How's it going, buddy? What's 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:05.599 going on? Here I am. In all my average dick energy. 00:01:06.780 --> 00:01:09.200 I don't know why, but for some reason, when you 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.099 said, here I am, I just thought of that. It was 00:01:12.099 --> 00:01:15.579 like Kelly Clarkson. There I am once again. Oh 00:01:15.579 --> 00:01:18.319 my God. I almost forgot about that song. For 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:20.719 some reason, that was the first thing that popped 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.219 in my head. But yeah, Sarge is coming in today 00:01:24.219 --> 00:01:26.719 with average dick energy. Just very low key. 00:01:26.819 --> 00:01:30.519 Very chill. I feel like I'm content. I'm content. 00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:34.159 I'm bringing it's a good size energy to the show 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:36.659 today. That's a good feeling to have, I feel 00:01:36.659 --> 00:01:39.819 like. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. No, I think it's, 00:01:39.819 --> 00:01:42.670 I mean, I'm okay with it. I mean, honestly, I'd 00:01:42.670 --> 00:01:45.569 prefer that than low or small. Yeah, exactly. 00:01:45.769 --> 00:01:47.730 Small dick energy is when you... I don't want 00:01:47.730 --> 00:01:49.950 small dick energy. If I did that, I would have 00:01:49.950 --> 00:01:52.030 to become a conservative. I'd have to buy a lot 00:01:52.030 --> 00:01:55.450 of red hats. I don't want to do that. So today 00:01:55.450 --> 00:01:57.390 we were out running errands. We were at Home 00:01:57.390 --> 00:02:00.790 Depot because we got an umbrella, like a patio 00:02:00.790 --> 00:02:03.370 umbrella, which is way too big for my tiny patio 00:02:03.370 --> 00:02:07.250 in Philadelphia. But we needed to get a base 00:02:07.250 --> 00:02:10.110 for it because the base we got was too small. 00:02:10.830 --> 00:02:14.069 um and some fucking douchebag in a truck like 00:02:14.069 --> 00:02:16.530 drove through the parking lot like an asshole 00:02:16.530 --> 00:02:19.550 and my only thought was wow such a big truck 00:02:19.550 --> 00:02:26.810 for such a small dick for some who need you don't 00:02:26.810 --> 00:02:28.770 need a truck that big you live in fucking philadelphia 00:02:28.770 --> 00:02:31.330 where are you driving i know i see the same shit 00:02:31.330 --> 00:02:32.889 in boston and i'm like dude what are you doing 00:02:32.889 --> 00:02:36.030 as it is the streets aren't big enough for pedestrians 00:02:36.030 --> 00:02:38.969 no because it's just like Boston, Philadelphia, 00:02:39.050 --> 00:02:41.849 all of our streets were made for horses and horse 00:02:41.849 --> 00:02:44.389 carriages. And then they just paved over it. 00:02:44.449 --> 00:02:47.469 Like half the two way streets should not be like, 00:02:47.469 --> 00:02:49.650 it's insane. Agreed. But you don't need a fucking 00:02:49.650 --> 00:02:54.419 H2 Hummer when you live in the city. It's not 00:02:54.419 --> 00:02:56.479 the apocalypse, you fucking clown. You're going 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:58.680 to brunch. Dude, but also like the gas, like 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:02.099 stop go traffic is terrible for your gas mileage. 00:03:02.219 --> 00:03:05.340 I can only imagine what a giant fucking gas guzzling 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:07.939 truck is doing when you have a stop sign every 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:11.479 block. It's ridiculous. It is way too much truck 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.919 for anybody. Yeah. Well, so I guess that being 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:16.639 said, thank you for having average dick energy 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.259 and not small dick. Thank you. Here we are having 00:03:19.259 --> 00:03:23.509 an old man screaming match. I feel like this 00:03:23.509 --> 00:03:25.509 is the exact kind of conversation that happens 00:03:25.509 --> 00:03:28.650 in the sauna at my gym. Yeah, we're basically 00:03:28.650 --> 00:03:32.210 having the modern day version of kids on my lawn, 00:03:32.389 --> 00:03:35.750 but now it's... Yeah, exactly. That truck is 00:03:35.750 --> 00:03:38.449 too goddamn big. Who needs a truck that big? 00:03:40.930 --> 00:03:43.990 It's not far off. Fuck it, dude. I feel like 00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:47.969 that's way more... We should be complaining about 00:03:47.969 --> 00:03:49.629 that. We're speaking of practicalities, and that 00:03:49.629 --> 00:03:53.280 is an impractical vehicle for a city. Yeah. Wildly. 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:55.560 Yeah. Considering the amount of tight turns you 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:56.840 got to take a ship. I don't know. Whatever. It's 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:00.379 ridiculous. Three point turn to take a left. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:02.340 Just, you know, just a couple of middle -aged 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:04.300 men on a cryptic podcast complaining about trucks. 00:04:05.780 --> 00:04:08.080 Just what it is. You know, some, some days. What 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.199 I like about this show is that you and I are 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.500 slowly starting to look more and more like each 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:16.860 other. Hey, it's kind of like when you have a 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:20.089 pet, like a dog. Yeah. And you kind of morph 00:04:20.089 --> 00:04:22.769 into the, yeah, it's kind of that vibe. I, you 00:04:22.769 --> 00:04:25.069 know, but hey, I fuck with it. Are those elderly 00:04:25.069 --> 00:04:27.750 couples that just at some point start to look 00:04:27.750 --> 00:04:29.829 like bookends, like one would look weird without 00:04:29.829 --> 00:04:37.649 the other one? Oh, fuck. All right. Good thing 00:04:37.649 --> 00:04:39.709 we chose to do a second take on this episode. 00:04:44.269 --> 00:04:47.230 We had some technical difficulties. It's every 00:04:47.230 --> 00:04:49.730 episode, but it was weird today. I don't know. 00:04:49.829 --> 00:04:50.850 Maybe I'm just hearing things differently. You 00:04:50.850 --> 00:04:53.189 guys missed an enthralling discussion about penises. 00:04:54.430 --> 00:04:58.730 Did they? I feel like they did. Whether or not 00:04:58.730 --> 00:05:01.970 they wanted to hear it, I don't know. Let me 00:05:01.970 --> 00:05:03.129 know if you guys want to hear it. I could edit 00:05:03.129 --> 00:05:06.189 it out and just send it to you directly. Some 00:05:06.189 --> 00:05:08.949 pointed criticism directed towards Steven Seagal's 00:05:08.949 --> 00:05:12.149 entire catalog. Well, we haven't gotten there 00:05:12.149 --> 00:05:14.410 yet. We haven't gotten there yet. Oh, okay. We'll 00:05:14.410 --> 00:05:18.050 get there. We can still talk about that. That's 00:05:18.050 --> 00:05:24.509 true. Make sure you cut this part out. All right, 00:05:24.509 --> 00:05:28.230 Sarge. I got an episode for you today. We're 00:05:28.230 --> 00:05:31.290 going to go back to our roots. We've been covering 00:05:31.290 --> 00:05:34.589 a lot of cryptid -adjacent things, which, I mean, 00:05:34.589 --> 00:05:36.029 I guess makes sense for the show. It's a cryptid 00:05:36.029 --> 00:05:37.649 cocktail party. It's a cocktail of all different 00:05:37.649 --> 00:05:39.990 things paranormal and weird and shit. We haven't 00:05:39.990 --> 00:05:42.170 talked about a straight -up cryptid in a long 00:05:42.170 --> 00:05:44.899 time. And I feel like it's because we ran out 00:05:44.899 --> 00:05:50.360 of them. We didn't run out of them. It's just 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.959 that like a lot of people don't know this, but 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:55.040 like your favorite cryptid, if you're listening 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.319 to this, probably the, the amount of information 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:00.339 behind it isn't enough to constitute a full episode. 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.259 And I'm not going to do a bunch of random, like 00:06:02.259 --> 00:06:05.500 three cryptid episodes. I don't think that's 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:07.639 fun for me. I've done it before. It's whatever, 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.959 but I did find something super crazy, fucking 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.399 weird. And I think you're going to enjoy it. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.639 So, Sarge, are you ready to hear a story? Yes. 00:06:17.939 --> 00:06:19.819 Okay. So, today we're going to be talking about 00:06:19.819 --> 00:06:21.980 The Glimmer Man. Are you familiar? The movie 00:06:21.980 --> 00:06:25.360 with Steven Seagal and Damon Wayans? It's not 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.579 that. Okay. Good. Because that movie was butt 00:06:29.579 --> 00:06:34.000 cheeks. I believe it. But this is how the last 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.540 conversation started. But it came out in 96. 00:06:36.819 --> 00:06:40.860 And I will repeat this again for everyone listening. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.000 to this for the first time is that 96 was like 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.079 peak, peak Seagal. Was there ever really a peak 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.959 for Seagal? I feel like there was under siege 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.620 and then that was it. No, I mean, yeah, that 00:06:54.620 --> 00:06:56.439 movie ruled though. I know you're going to come 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.819 back with the whole, but it has Tommy Lee Jones 00:06:58.819 --> 00:07:00.639 in it. That doesn't mean that's because it had 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:06.480 Tommy Lee Jones in it. Yeah, but he was also 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.360 in man of the house. So, I mean, That's true. 00:07:09.740 --> 00:07:14.060 Actually, yeah, that's fair. He also did Batman 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:15.879 and Robin, and we can't really forgive that one. 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:17.720 So you're not familiar with this at all? You 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.300 have no idea what I'm talking about? No, I've 00:07:19.300 --> 00:07:21.600 never heard of it. I'm actually really excited. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.720 Okay, so the Glimmer Man is... I don't really 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.560 know. Elton John from the 1970s. No, but I... 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:31.480 Just tons of sequins all the way down, head to 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:33.180 toe. Nothing to do with... You're thinking about 00:07:33.180 --> 00:07:35.079 this all wrong. You're thinking about it as something 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:37.180 that's shining. Don't think about it as something 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:40.879 that refracts. Just chill. Just wait. Got it. 00:07:40.939 --> 00:07:42.959 Just calm down. This is not the crab from Moana. 00:07:43.139 --> 00:07:45.699 No. Sarge, you're no longer average dick energy 00:07:45.699 --> 00:07:48.660 right now. You're coming in hot. All right? I 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:50.860 need you to fucking... Above average dick energy. 00:07:51.100 --> 00:07:54.939 Yes. All right? I was just trying to shoehorn 00:07:54.939 --> 00:07:56.879 as many references into the show as possible. 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.420 Yeah, we're eight minutes in. I think most people 00:07:59.420 --> 00:08:03.480 are going to turn off by now. Except for the 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.819 Seagal fans. Yeah. Well, no, they're probably 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:09.139 mad at you now, so they don't, whatever. Fuck 00:08:09.139 --> 00:08:11.920 it, you're Russians anyway. So the Glimmer Man 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.740 is, I don't know what it is. No one knows what 00:08:15.740 --> 00:08:17.740 this thing is. The best way I can describe it 00:08:17.740 --> 00:08:21.240 is that it pretty much is like a human -shaped 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.120 glitch in the air, if that makes sense. People 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:27.540 who see it all described it the same way. A tall, 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.319 invisible figure that you can't really see. you 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.519 can kind of only like spot it because the air 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:34.779 around it bends and shimmers almost like looking 00:08:34.779 --> 00:08:37.179 through heat waves. Like when the blacktop gets 00:08:37.179 --> 00:08:40.139 too hot, I'll like, and forgive me the predator. 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:46.019 No, that's like an accurate reference. I feel 00:08:46.019 --> 00:08:51.799 no. Oh, God damn it. So Sarge, what I want you 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:53.220 to do is I want you to think of it basically 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:55.440 like the predators cloaking device, but in real 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:01.990 life, you son of a bitch. It's my own fault. 00:09:02.149 --> 00:09:04.149 I should have anticipated that you would put 00:09:04.149 --> 00:09:06.330 that in the script. Again, Sarge, you're coming 00:09:06.330 --> 00:09:07.909 in with above average dick energy. You got to 00:09:07.909 --> 00:09:11.629 let me get through my sentences. All right? Again, 00:09:12.250 --> 00:09:14.289 we've gone time and time again, Sarge. You know 00:09:14.289 --> 00:09:16.090 that I would never string you along without a 00:09:16.090 --> 00:09:18.830 payoff. All right? Sorry, I have trust issues. 00:09:19.049 --> 00:09:23.830 That sucks. What's worse is that it's rarely 00:09:23.830 --> 00:09:27.220 just standing there. It moves. And it moves very 00:09:27.220 --> 00:09:29.960 fast. Some would say unnaturally fast, through 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.419 trees, across fields, even running right up and 00:09:32.419 --> 00:09:34.720 peering into people's windows. Then there's the 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.919 combination of the sound that it makes and the 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.759 lack of when it's near. Most people who have 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.960 encountered it say that right before, everything 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.220 goes dead silent. So no birds, no bugs, and a 00:09:45.220 --> 00:09:47.779 gut feeling that you're being watched. And then 00:09:47.779 --> 00:09:50.360 some people say they hear a weird clicking noise, 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:52.679 like the thing is either trying to communicate 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.360 and or mess with them. So you weren't wrong to 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.460 just immediately think Predator. But we'll get 00:09:58.460 --> 00:09:59.600 into it. We'll get into it. Don't look at me 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.519 like that. I'm not going to say it. I'm not going 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.080 to say it. What are you going to say? I'm just 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.820 enjoying the ride. What are you going to say? 00:10:04.980 --> 00:10:07.480 You have free reign. No, no, no. I mean, like, 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.480 I'm not. I've cleared my mind, and I'm just accepting 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:12.360 the information that you're plugging into it. 00:10:12.620 --> 00:10:15.580 Because now I'm really enthralled. And the thing 00:10:15.580 --> 00:10:18.360 is, this is even more fucking scary to me. Because 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.360 at least with, like, Bigfoot or fucking Chupacabra, 00:10:21.419 --> 00:10:24.789 I know I can see it. yeah no that's this guy 00:10:24.789 --> 00:10:28.110 i can't see him unless he moves yeah it's a nightmare 00:10:28.110 --> 00:10:30.309 it's all bad none of this nothing in this story 00:10:30.309 --> 00:10:34.169 is good so so yeah nobody knows or even agrees 00:10:34.169 --> 00:10:37.629 with like what the glimmer man is but the basics 00:10:37.629 --> 00:10:40.750 are the same across all stories it's roughly 00:10:40.750 --> 00:10:43.730 human shaped uh it bends the air around it just 00:10:43.730 --> 00:10:46.570 like the predator it's seen mostly in forested 00:10:46.570 --> 00:10:49.830 or wild areas and it's scary as fuck so you ready 00:10:49.830 --> 00:10:52.070 to dive into some sightings You want to? God 00:10:52.070 --> 00:10:55.509 damn. Yes. Now what's wild is that there are 00:10:55.509 --> 00:10:58.289 a lot more of these sightings than you would 00:10:58.289 --> 00:11:00.149 think there would be. This actually has been 00:11:00.149 --> 00:11:04.149 going back for like 40 years or so. Oh, snap. 00:11:04.370 --> 00:11:07.049 Yeah. So like before predator came out, but I 00:11:07.049 --> 00:11:09.509 narrowed some of the settings down to what I 00:11:09.509 --> 00:11:12.450 would call like the top three glimmer man moments 00:11:12.450 --> 00:11:18.179 in no real order. The first one. I mean, I guess 00:11:18.179 --> 00:11:19.879 I can't say it's an order, but this one's the 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:21.480 worst one. I should have probably put it last. 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:23.700 I don't know why I didn't. But the first one 00:11:23.700 --> 00:11:25.820 I got for you takes place in the early 90s in 00:11:25.820 --> 00:11:28.600 rural western New York. So two boys whose names 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.139 were never released were exploring a patch of 00:11:31.139 --> 00:11:33.759 quote unquote forever wild woods near Rochester, 00:11:33.980 --> 00:11:37.960 New York. Forever wild means that's like untouched. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:40.860 Like it's like, okay, okay, it's gonna and it's 00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:42.820 probably gonna remain that way. If that makes 00:11:42.820 --> 00:11:44.500 sense. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they were 00:11:44.500 --> 00:11:46.539 just roaming around these woods when suddenly 00:11:46.539 --> 00:11:49.220 they were hit with an overwhelming gut -level 00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:53.500 primal fear. They didn't see anything but decided, 00:11:53.700 --> 00:11:57.379 let's fucking, let's dip. And then they just 00:11:57.379 --> 00:11:59.399 bolted home. Unfortunately for them, though, 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:03.120 this wasn't the end of it. That night, one of 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.220 the boys woke up being dragged towards an open 00:12:07.220 --> 00:12:09.340 second -story window by something invisible. 00:12:10.190 --> 00:12:12.250 In the commotion of it all, the other boy woke 00:12:12.250 --> 00:12:15.649 up, looked over, and saw a massive human -shaped 00:12:15.649 --> 00:12:18.929 distortion, like a clear shimmering figure warping 00:12:18.929 --> 00:12:21.950 the air around it. It had the boy by both arms 00:12:21.950 --> 00:12:25.370 and was almost to the window when it must have 00:12:25.370 --> 00:12:28.009 either noticed the kid or something because it 00:12:28.009 --> 00:12:30.389 suddenly let go and then just disappeared. You 00:12:30.389 --> 00:12:32.610 know what happened? Jesse Ventura was holding 00:12:32.610 --> 00:12:35.850 a Gatling gun in the woods and he just growled. 00:12:36.169 --> 00:12:39.029 I ain't got time to bleed. Okay. I'm glad you 00:12:39.029 --> 00:12:42.509 said that line and not a sexual Tyrannosaur. 00:12:43.169 --> 00:12:44.690 Because I feel like that would have been way 00:12:44.690 --> 00:12:47.049 worse to say when you knew your two kids almost 00:12:47.049 --> 00:12:51.070 getting abducted. Though I wouldn't put it past 00:12:51.070 --> 00:12:53.370 Jesse Ventura to say that in an inappropriate 00:12:53.370 --> 00:12:59.389 time. True. It's true. Now, the boys were so 00:12:59.389 --> 00:13:01.429 rattled that they didn't talk about it for months. 00:13:02.220 --> 00:13:04.960 when they finally did open up about what happened 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.039 they both described the same thing a predator 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.820 like shimmering creature so what's wild about 00:13:10.820 --> 00:13:12.559 this case and why it stands out over all the 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.480 others because this wasn't just like a sighting 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.559 or a glimpse like this motherfucker like the 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:18.940 glimmer man he fucking like stalked these kids 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:21.840 home made physical contact and then tried to 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.360 kidnap this child which is not great yeah no 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:30.100 that's problematic it's now next up We have in 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:34.399 the winter of 2002, two men, Joseph and his friend 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:38.179 Troy, decided to explore the ruins of a long 00:13:38.179 --> 00:13:41.259 abandoned U .S. Air Force radar station outside 00:13:41.259 --> 00:13:43.340 of Brookfield, Ohio. Well, that's your first 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:47.299 mistake. No. The base had been dead for about 00:13:47.299 --> 00:13:49.620 like 15 years, maybe longer. There was no power, 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.419 just crumbling buildings and snowy fields surrounded 00:13:52.419 --> 00:13:57.440 by brush. Inside one of the buildings, they heard 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.889 something that... It was like a series of weird 00:14:00.889 --> 00:14:03.649 electronic beeps. Tracking the noise down, they 00:14:03.649 --> 00:14:06.950 found a shoebox -sized metallic device half buried 00:14:06.950 --> 00:14:10.029 under debris. There was no lights on it, no wires. 00:14:10.169 --> 00:14:13.169 There was no clear power source. But something 00:14:13.169 --> 00:14:16.649 about it felt kind of off. Like it was too new, 00:14:16.769 --> 00:14:19.830 too out of place to be in a building that was 00:14:19.830 --> 00:14:22.490 dilapidated the way it was. So feeling a bit 00:14:22.490 --> 00:14:24.289 uneasy about the whole thing, they decided to 00:14:24.289 --> 00:14:27.080 bail. As they cut across the open snow field 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.840 heading back toward the perimeter fence, they 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.659 saw fresh footprints forming right behind them. 00:14:32.740 --> 00:14:36.200 There was no body, no shadow, just deep human 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.519 -sized prints appearing in the snow, pacing them 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.519 at about 30 to 40 feet back. Oh, that's fucked 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.659 up. I don't know why that bothers me, but it 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:46.320 really does. It's not great. Now, Joseph squinted 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.860 and caught sight of a shimmering human -shaped 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:51.279 distortion, like a heat mirage, but it's winter, 00:14:51.379 --> 00:14:54.679 so that doesn't make any sense. He raised his 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.679 rifle, and that's when things got a little out 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.299 of hand. Yeah, and he looked steely -eyed and 00:15:01.299 --> 00:15:05.059 was like, if it bleeds, we can kill it. So from 00:15:05.059 --> 00:15:08.019 the brush off to the side, they heard a massive 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:10.519 crashing sound like a truck ripping through the 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.679 undergrowth. It sounded like something huge barreling 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:15.700 through ground level brush and it was heading 00:15:15.700 --> 00:15:18.940 straight for them. They didn't wait to see what 00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:20.720 happened next. They were just like, fuck it, 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.759 we're going. So they sprinted to a hole in the 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.220 chain link fence and then dove through it. When 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:27.799 they looked back, the shimmer, whatever it was, 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:31.139 had stopped cold at the fence line. It wouldn't 00:15:31.139 --> 00:15:35.159 or possibly couldn't. cross through. Seconds 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.600 later, it was gone, vanished into thin air. Wait, 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:39.320 hold on. I feel like you buried the lead here. 00:15:40.460 --> 00:15:45.860 I'm not trying to like... The fact that it wouldn't 00:15:45.860 --> 00:15:50.740 go through a hole in the fence... Was it wearing 00:15:50.740 --> 00:15:55.340 one of those dog collars? There's stuff buried 00:15:55.340 --> 00:15:57.899 in the ground. There's a weird noise when he 00:15:57.899 --> 00:16:01.919 crosses it. Alright, so... some people think 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.840 that maybe the device the box they found maybe 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:09.299 that's like a range thing oh or maybe like gotcha 00:16:09.299 --> 00:16:11.840 it's we'll get into it but maybe it's like a 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.879 military thing you know what i mean no more like 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.100 so like it could be like maybe like yeah maybe 00:16:18.100 --> 00:16:20.100 it is a perimeter thing like i can't leave the 00:16:20.100 --> 00:16:22.340 military installation i fucking don't know dude 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:25.580 uh that's immediately where my mind went is i'm 00:16:25.580 --> 00:16:27.159 like oh maybe it's wearing one of those collars 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:32.519 it's like Like an invisible fence collar. It's 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:36.379 an attack predator. All right. So lastly, we 00:16:36.379 --> 00:16:39.279 got what I dubbed the military spouse encounters. 00:16:39.539 --> 00:16:43.799 Now, these took place between 2015 and 2017, 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:50.179 where a woman living at Holloman Air Force Base 00:16:50.179 --> 00:16:53.940 had two encounters with a glimmer man. The first 00:16:53.940 --> 00:16:55.700 encounter happened while jogging with her husband 00:16:55.700 --> 00:16:59.500 one evening when they both spotted a large, semi 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:02.220 -transparent figure in the desert between them 00:17:02.220 --> 00:17:05.500 and the airfield. She described it as tall, human 00:17:05.500 --> 00:17:07.960 -shaped, and mostly invisible. She said it kind 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:11.779 of looked like clear cling wrap that would distort 00:17:11.779 --> 00:17:14.680 the bushes behind it. Now, the husband, an active 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.779 -duty military man, immediately told her, don't 00:17:17.779 --> 00:17:20.359 look at it. just keep walking. And that's what 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:22.400 they did. They just put their heads down and 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:24.599 left the area without acknowledging it any further. 00:17:25.140 --> 00:17:27.660 She was later as quoted. She was later quoted 00:17:27.660 --> 00:17:31.079 as saying the jungle. It just came alive and 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.640 took him. Is that what you've been doing this 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.460 whole time? Are you Googling predator quotes? 00:17:37.339 --> 00:17:44.150 Maybe. No, God damn it. Motherfucker. I saw you 00:17:44.150 --> 00:17:45.789 keep looking down, and I didn't know what you 00:17:45.789 --> 00:17:48.750 were doing, but now it all makes sense. Okay, 00:17:48.930 --> 00:17:51.549 sorry. I'm done now. Now, the second incident 00:17:51.549 --> 00:17:54.349 is way worse, and I hate it. That same woman, 00:17:54.430 --> 00:17:56.230 just wanting to let in the bright desert sun, 00:17:56.309 --> 00:17:58.829 opened up her bedroom blinds and then saw the 00:17:58.829 --> 00:18:01.430 same shimmering figure standing right outside 00:18:01.430 --> 00:18:04.589 her window. Just a tall humanoid distortion hanging 00:18:04.589 --> 00:18:09.660 out, just fucking peering. Freaked out, she slammed 00:18:09.660 --> 00:18:11.720 the blinds shut and stayed hidden until she was 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.859 sure this thing had left. Now, when she later 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:16.119 pressed her husband about both incidents, he 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.960 did what any career military man would do, and 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.940 he gaslit the shit out of her and denied everything, 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.440 even though he had just seen it too and acknowledged 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:29.240 it during their jog. But given the proximity 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.220 to a base known for high -tech weapons and UFO 00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:35.460 lore, the woman believed that what she might 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:38.869 have seen With some sort of classified military 00:18:38.869 --> 00:18:42.549 cloaking technology or maybe even something out 00:18:42.549 --> 00:18:45.210 of this world. You see, I disagree. I feel like 00:18:45.210 --> 00:18:49.369 any true military man would immediately try to 00:18:49.369 --> 00:18:51.849 shoot whatever this is. I mean, without for a 00:18:51.849 --> 00:18:54.130 jog on the base, I don't think they're just carrying 00:18:54.130 --> 00:18:56.349 around a pistol. I know a lot of military men 00:18:56.349 --> 00:18:58.309 who do carry around a pistol just for funsies. 00:18:58.490 --> 00:19:00.569 When they're jogging, like just in their fucking 00:19:00.569 --> 00:19:04.190 trainers. These guys will find a way to carry 00:19:04.190 --> 00:19:08.059 a gun. I mean, that's fair. No, I mean, in all 00:19:08.059 --> 00:19:09.380 reality, I don't think he would, like, you know, 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:11.180 try to shoot it while he was out for a jog. But 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:15.359 if it came on his porch... He wasn't home. Oh, 00:19:15.579 --> 00:19:19.920 now I'm sorry. I thought what you had said is 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:22.920 that, like, she saw it, and then he was immediately 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:24.799 like, nah, you didn't see it. That was when they 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.559 were jogging in the woods. Again, you were too 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.019 busy looking up quotes to... No, no, not the 00:19:30.019 --> 00:19:32.240 second story. The second story was very present. 00:19:32.819 --> 00:19:37.829 Okay, so... So what is the Glimmer Man and where 00:19:37.829 --> 00:19:39.869 the fuck does it even come from? Well, it's probably 00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:42.049 no surprise that the Glimmer Man is a modern 00:19:42.049 --> 00:19:46.089 phenomenon. Now, visually, we've already established 00:19:46.089 --> 00:19:48.289 that the blueprint for what people report today 00:19:48.289 --> 00:19:51.190 can pretty much be traced back to 1987 when the 00:19:51.190 --> 00:19:53.509 movie Predator dropped and gave the world the 00:19:53.509 --> 00:19:56.349 image of an invisible hunter cloaked by a shimmering 00:19:56.349 --> 00:19:59.130 heatwave -like distortion. Now, nearly every 00:19:59.130 --> 00:20:02.549 modern Glimmer Man witness describes it the same 00:20:02.549 --> 00:20:05.440 way. Like the predator. Yeah. Same wavy outline, 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.319 same feeling like the air itself was warped around 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:11.380 into a human shape. But here's the twist. A lot 00:20:11.380 --> 00:20:13.680 of these witnesses hadn't even seen the movie 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:15.559 when they had their encounters. They'd only make 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.000 the connection years later when they finally 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.319 saw predator and nearly fucking shit themselves, 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:23.680 realizing it matched pretty much exactly what 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.200 they'd seen. Exactly. And the other thing is 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:29.319 like, this is such a, like a hard thing to describe. 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:32.970 Hmm. That, like, we had to search through our 00:20:32.970 --> 00:20:36.009 minds to find an analog, you know, in our minds. 00:20:36.029 --> 00:20:39.549 Like, oh, yeah, like the Predator. Yeah. Maybe 00:20:39.549 --> 00:20:42.410 people have been seeing this shit forever, but 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:44.869 could never put a name to it. Like, how do you 00:20:44.869 --> 00:20:47.950 describe moving air, right? Well, here's... Besides 00:20:47.950 --> 00:20:54.269 wind. So, the real world sightings started quietly 00:20:54.269 --> 00:20:59.299 in the mid -1980s to early 90s. We had isolated 00:20:59.299 --> 00:21:01.759 incidents like there was a woman in South Illinois 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:04.420 who saw a quote -unquote heat wave angel near 00:21:04.420 --> 00:21:08.180 the Chikoya Mountains around 1987, or there was 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:10.720 another guy in Tennessee in 1993 who spotted 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:13.200 a shimmering figure leaping through the trees 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:15.880 like it was fucking nothing. Now, back then, 00:21:16.019 --> 00:21:18.319 as you said, nobody had a name for it. It was 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.859 just that weird invisible thing. Yeah, you know, 00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:25.740 and almost nobody talked about it out of fear 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:28.720 of sounding completely batshit insane. These 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:30.619 are what you call like silent reports. They're 00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:32.359 just basically memories shoved into the back 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:33.900 of people's heads because they figured no one 00:21:33.900 --> 00:21:36.720 would ever believe them. Exactly. Or maybe they 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:38.400 were like, oh, I must be seeing things. Maybe 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.119 it's a mirage, whatever. Yeah. It wasn't until 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:43.420 like the early 2000s that things started to like 00:21:43.420 --> 00:21:46.400 snowball. Paranormal forums and weird encounter 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.779 websites like Phantoms and Monsters and the old 00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:52.980 above top secret like boards. They started to 00:21:52.980 --> 00:21:54.900 collect. people started to notice a pattern, 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:56.640 like different people from different parts of 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.200 the country were telling the same story. A transparent 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:01.599 figure, bending light, moving unnaturally fast, 00:22:01.859 --> 00:22:05.220 and as more reports stacked up, people realized 00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:08.920 this wasn't just a one -off thing. So by the 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:13.220 2010s, the term Glimmer Man started, it pretty 00:22:13.220 --> 00:22:15.380 much stuck. That's the only way you could really 00:22:15.380 --> 00:22:18.819 describe it. Podcasts like Expanded Perspectives, 00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:21.359 Monsters Among Us, and Belief Hole picked up 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:24.150 the scent and started featuring like encounter 00:22:24.150 --> 00:22:26.950 stories and then once tiktok youtube and reddit 00:22:26.950 --> 00:22:28.569 latched onto it like the glitter man officially 00:22:28.569 --> 00:22:32.470 turned into like what it is now now so so today 00:22:32.470 --> 00:22:35.690 the glitter man isn't just like some fringe weirdo 00:22:35.690 --> 00:22:38.289 story you have to dig for like it's pretty mainstream 00:22:38.289 --> 00:22:45.890 among paranormal fans doing the gritty but what's 00:22:45.890 --> 00:22:48.710 wild about it is that like from what i can tell 00:22:48.710 --> 00:22:51.769 like this legend didn't start like out it's not 00:22:51.769 --> 00:22:53.789 like a hoax or a creepypasta like this is way 00:22:53.789 --> 00:22:56.990 before the internet it's way before like those 00:22:56.990 --> 00:23:00.509 types of things were around it built itself naturally 00:23:00.509 --> 00:23:03.430 piece by piece out of hundreds of independent 00:23:03.430 --> 00:23:06.329 accounts from people who thought they were alone 00:23:06.329 --> 00:23:12.109 until they weren't i guess right yeah yeah so 00:23:12.109 --> 00:23:13.390 if you want to dive into some theories about 00:23:13.390 --> 00:23:15.930 what this thing could be fuck yeah i do Me personally, 00:23:16.029 --> 00:23:18.829 I think, I honestly think that, like, and I'm 00:23:18.829 --> 00:23:20.410 not, this isn't a theory about what it is, but, 00:23:20.430 --> 00:23:23.089 like, there's always this contingent of people 00:23:23.089 --> 00:23:25.690 who's like, oh, well, people didn't start seeing 00:23:25.690 --> 00:23:28.390 these until they saw them in movies. And my counter 00:23:28.390 --> 00:23:30.869 to that is, or maybe they finally had a way to 00:23:30.869 --> 00:23:33.069 describe what they were seeing. Exactly. Like, 00:23:33.170 --> 00:23:38.990 there, you, until you finally, I don't know how, 00:23:39.049 --> 00:23:40.990 I'm trying to agree with you, but I don't know 00:23:40.990 --> 00:23:44.380 how to word what I'm trying to say. I got you. 00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:47.460 I know we're mind linked. Yeah. Sorry that the 00:23:47.460 --> 00:23:49.660 people who are listening to us can't see that. 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:52.279 Yeah. Like you can only describe something so 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:55.319 long until you have the perfect visual representation. 00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:59.140 Exactly. Yeah. You got it. You understand. Yeah. 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:01.619 Well, they like back in the 50s, they used to 00:24:01.619 --> 00:24:03.779 say like, oh, you know, people didn't really 00:24:03.779 --> 00:24:05.940 start describing flying saucers until this movie 00:24:05.940 --> 00:24:09.259 came out and it had flying saucers in them. And 00:24:09.259 --> 00:24:12.420 it's like. Or maybe they would see a disc in 00:24:12.420 --> 00:24:14.400 the sky and they're like, how do I tell somebody 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:20.599 it looked like a plate? A saucer? Yes. Yeah. 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:23.519 Exactly. It's just, I mean, you can call it what 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:27.619 you want, but I mean, it's the Predator. There's 00:24:27.619 --> 00:24:29.940 no other way to describe it until that. Exactly. 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:36.200 All right. So, Darius, you ready? I'm ready. 00:24:36.339 --> 00:24:39.400 Okay. So, again, nobody knows for sure. what 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:42.019 this thing is obviously, but the theories fall 00:24:42.019 --> 00:24:45.240 into two big camps, the paranormal or military 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:50.359 technology. So some believe, and I, if this thing 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.440 is real, I kind of fall into this category that 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:54.500 it's an interdimensional creature. So it's slipping 00:24:54.500 --> 00:24:57.140 in and out of our world. It's never fully solid. 00:24:57.420 --> 00:24:59.579 That would explain why it looks like a distortion 00:24:59.579 --> 00:25:02.019 instead of a body and why the woods go deathly 00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:05.059 silent when it shows up. Others think it's a 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:07.599 spirit or forest guardian tied to ancient legends 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:09.940 from Native American tribes and European folklore. 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:12.920 Basically like a natural protector chasing humans 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:16.500 out of place that we don't belong. Okay. And 00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:20.019 then you have the cryptid angle, which is a biological 00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:23.599 creature with natural camouflage. And this is 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:25.660 the part that I find really funny because this 00:25:25.660 --> 00:25:28.339 is something we joke about all the time. Some 00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:35.500 Bigfoot theorists. Have described similar invisibility 00:25:35.500 --> 00:25:42.000 tricks. Claiming that it's blurry. Glowing eyes. 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:51.359 It's just naturally blurry. It's a creature that 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:58.680 adapted to be out of focus. Some Bigfoot theorists 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:07.180 believe that he's just naturally blurry. They 00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:11.759 fucking did it, man. They're using the he's just 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:17.539 naturally blurry defense. Fuck, dude. No, we 00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:19.559 don't have to get better cameras. He's just always 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:26.180 blurry. Come on. When I saw that, I was like, 00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:31.000 fuck you guys so hard. That is so much cope. 00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:34.579 As you can see, that's why I named the studio. 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:37.259 They actually use the, he's just naturally blurry 00:26:37.259 --> 00:26:39.680 defense because that is a banana. I love it. 00:26:40.579 --> 00:26:43.700 Either way, but yeah, but you know, maybe it's 00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:46.299 not paranormal at all. Maybe it's just something 00:26:46.299 --> 00:26:49.119 that like learn to hide better than anything 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.940 else on earth. Like maybe it's just like a cousin 00:26:51.940 --> 00:26:56.359 of Bigfoot. That's super cool at, you know, I 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:02.240 mean like octopi cuttlefish. Yeah. They, they're 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.079 pretty incredible at fucking mimicking their 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:06.740 background. Chameleons kind of, but you know, 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:08.539 they're not as good as octopus or cuttlefish. 00:27:08.660 --> 00:27:14.460 So, um, I mean, you see it in nature all the 00:27:14.460 --> 00:27:16.940 time. Like you watch a nature documentary about 00:27:16.940 --> 00:27:19.160 cuttlefish, you'll see them completely change. 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.660 Some octopus looks like rocks and coral and shit 00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:25.240 like that. It's wild. Yeah. So, I mean, it could 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:28.660 be, I don't know. But a lot of sightings of this 00:27:28.660 --> 00:27:30.420 thing happen to your military bases. Because 00:27:30.420 --> 00:27:32.099 of course they do. And I didn't know this, but 00:27:32.099 --> 00:27:35.099 there's real -world invisibility technology. 00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:38.160 Kind of. There is, yeah. There's hyper -stealth, 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.140 quantum -stealth cloaks. They're patented. Yeah, 00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:44.559 I saw it on YouTube. There's actually some kind 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:47.960 of cool videos of people using these cloaks that 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.079 sort of... I forget how it works, but it kind 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:53.519 of just projects what's behind them onto the 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:55.859 cloak in front so that it looks like they're 00:27:55.859 --> 00:27:59.279 not there. But it's kind of close to what you're 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.099 describing in terms of shimmering air almost 00:28:02.099 --> 00:28:04.680 because it moves. Kind of. So the theory that 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:07.539 the glitter man is secret technology, that's 00:28:07.539 --> 00:28:10.480 actually been gaining more traction. in obviously 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:13.039 like in the 2000s obviously not like in the 80s 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.700 uh but it could be soldiers testing cloaking 00:28:15.700 --> 00:28:17.980 suits or maybe even like weird drones with light 00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:20.759 bending armor or something nastier that we're 00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.099 not supposed to know about yet uh and considering 00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:25.039 places like holloman and white sands they're 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:27.039 like basically playgrounds for secret projects 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:29.980 like this one isn't like crazy far -fetched The 00:28:29.980 --> 00:28:32.599 only problem is that some of the Gloomer Man's 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:35.140 behavior, like sprinting through treetops or 00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:38.259 smashing into walls of brush, seems way beyond 00:28:38.259 --> 00:28:41.420 the limits of what a human being could do. That's 00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:43.279 because you have never gotten drunk with a bunch 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:46.119 of soldiers before. This is true. Because everything 00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.480 you described are things I've actually witnessed. 00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:57.240 special tech, like some sightings, it could explain 00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:59.180 some, but not all of the sightings. How's that? 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:01.579 Is that better? Yeah. And I feel like back in 00:29:01.579 --> 00:29:03.640 the day, like if this was like in the, you know, 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:06.759 early two thousands, like that would require 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:10.839 a lot of power. And I feel like you wouldn't 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:15.039 be able to have batteries that would be small 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.400 enough to make you agile. You know what I mean? 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:21.319 True. But maybe like, so, but maybe like the 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:26.299 sightings and like the later, 2020s, 2010s. We 00:29:26.299 --> 00:29:29.200 did then, but maybe like the one in 2002 when 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:30.799 they were, or whatever, when they were at the 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.099 military base, the abandoned one, maybe that 00:29:33.099 --> 00:29:37.180 fucking box was like, you know what I mean? Like 00:29:37.180 --> 00:29:41.900 it could be, could be. Yeah. It just, the only 00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:44.259 thing that would make me shy away from the military 00:29:44.259 --> 00:29:46.619 idea. And actually I'm usually the one who like 00:29:46.619 --> 00:29:49.180 immediately shuts down the military angle because 00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.339 I know how incompetent the military is. Yeah. 00:29:53.020 --> 00:29:55.640 But R &D at the military has got to be fucking 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:58.720 legit. It is pretty crazy. It is pretty crazy. 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:03.079 I got a buddy who works at the Proving Grounds 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.220 in... Not the Proving Grounds. Natick Labs. And 00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:10.190 I mean, like... You know, he's obviously not 00:30:10.190 --> 00:30:11.990 giving me, like, top secret information, but 00:30:11.990 --> 00:30:13.690 he says, you know, there's a lot of cool shit 00:30:13.690 --> 00:30:16.390 that they have there. And I'm not, again, opposed 00:30:16.390 --> 00:30:18.250 to this at all because I know that the military 00:30:18.250 --> 00:30:20.490 has been working on this kind of advanced camouflage 00:30:20.490 --> 00:30:25.029 technique for a long time. So, yeah, I mean, 00:30:25.029 --> 00:30:27.230 like, the only thing, the only reason that I 00:30:27.230 --> 00:30:30.049 would say, like, maybe not is just because, like, 00:30:30.170 --> 00:30:33.289 usually when the military tests something, there's, 00:30:33.309 --> 00:30:35.410 like, a lot of people there to watch the test. 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:39.500 So, like, for there to just be one guy and they 00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:40.900 didn't happen to see anybody else, like, the 00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:42.039 only thing I could think of was, like, okay, 00:30:42.059 --> 00:30:43.940 maybe there were cameras that they were watching 00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:46.079 it on. But I feel like if you were going to test 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:48.019 something this top secret and high tech, you're 00:30:48.019 --> 00:30:49.440 not going to be in, like, a warehouse somewhere. 00:30:49.700 --> 00:30:51.220 True. You're going to be, like... You'd probably 00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:53.099 have a perimeter set up where people could just 00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:56.259 walk in. Like the basement of the Pentagon or 00:30:56.259 --> 00:30:58.779 something. Yeah. You know, like, Aberdeen Proving 00:30:58.779 --> 00:31:00.200 Grounds. Like, you're not going to be, like... 00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:03.559 Let's go to the old candy factory. Yeah, no one's 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.160 just jogging through your high -tech military. 00:31:06.420 --> 00:31:08.839 Yeah, no, that makes sense. But then again, I 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:11.559 also know Special Forces are just fucking crazy. 00:31:12.380 --> 00:31:14.980 So I also wouldn't put it past the Special Forces 00:31:14.980 --> 00:31:17.240 guy just to steal it and go fuck around with 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:20.859 it. I mean, that also tracks, too. Like, those 00:31:20.859 --> 00:31:24.900 dudes are nuts. Yeah, but pretty much the bottom 00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:26.970 line here is that it could be cryptids. Could 00:31:26.970 --> 00:31:29.549 be aliens, could be spirits, could be government. 00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:32.410 It could be literally all of the above. Like, 00:31:32.410 --> 00:31:37.990 who the fuck knows? Also, some have speculated 00:31:37.990 --> 00:31:40.650 that these creatures could explain mysterious 00:31:40.650 --> 00:31:46.109 disappearances in national parks, like the cases 00:31:46.109 --> 00:31:49.210 documented in the missing 411 phenomena. But 00:31:49.210 --> 00:31:51.309 that's a whole different rabbit hole theory that 00:31:51.309 --> 00:31:53.549 I'm not going to dive into. There are some stories. 00:31:53.609 --> 00:31:55.849 It's fucking wild. But that's the missing 411. 00:31:55.869 --> 00:31:58.089 I'll leave that to Nick and his show because 00:31:58.089 --> 00:32:01.170 he does all that stuff. But there you have it, 00:32:01.170 --> 00:32:02.930 Sarge. That is the Glimmer Man. That's all I 00:32:02.930 --> 00:32:05.170 got for you today. I love it. What are we thinking? 00:32:05.289 --> 00:32:09.349 How are we feeling? Honestly, the military thing 00:32:09.349 --> 00:32:12.670 somehow makes it a little bit more believable 00:32:12.670 --> 00:32:15.920 for me because I would not put it past. A couple 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.839 of specialists in the army to be like, hey, put 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:20.539 on the camo suit and then play the predator noise. 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:23.579 I mean, that's the only one that tracks to me. 00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:26.359 Exactly. I mean, there were like, I know like 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.380 Skinwalker Ranch, which I fucking hate so much. 00:32:29.420 --> 00:32:32.759 I hate Skinwalker Ranch. So stupid. They have, 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:35.519 there are, before the fucking billionaire, whoever 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:38.119 that was, bought it and made it into the reality 00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:41.440 show it is now. There were like this like type 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:43.019 of shit happened where there was like a predator 00:32:43.019 --> 00:32:45.799 type thing. And they've had other instances where 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:48.900 like on thermal cameras, they see a body. There's 00:32:48.900 --> 00:32:51.960 nothing there kind of thing. Yes. Yes. I do remember 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:55.420 hearing about that. I mean, I like it. I mean, 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:57.519 I think I'm not skinwalker ranch. I think that's 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:01.960 nonsense. I like this theory and it's, it's actually 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.299 one that I'm surprisingly open to. Normally I'm 00:33:04.299 --> 00:33:06.480 the, I'm the skeptic who's like, no possible. 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.819 There's no way you can make space age cam a lot, 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:13.859 but in this situation, I actually kind of, I'm 00:33:13.859 --> 00:33:16.019 not, I'm not against this idea. I kind of think 00:33:16.019 --> 00:33:18.339 it's, it's definitely plausible. It's definitely 00:33:18.339 --> 00:33:20.880 plausible that it could be military. And I hope 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:22.960 it's an interdimensional being, honestly. Because 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:26.339 that's so fucking cool. Honestly, that's my theory. 00:33:26.500 --> 00:33:28.599 That's the one I want to go with. I don't think 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:30.339 that it's Bigfoot who's just naturally blurry. 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:32.099 I think you're a bunch of fucking pieces of shit 00:33:32.099 --> 00:33:33.819 if you think that. That's the dumbest shit I've 00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:35.380 ever heard in my entire life. I actually had 00:33:35.380 --> 00:33:37.579 this conversation in the car with my sons, actually, 00:33:37.619 --> 00:33:42.400 today. We're driving to Target. And my oldest 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.420 boy, he didn't know what he was getting himself 00:33:44.420 --> 00:33:47.420 into. But he was like, man, I just wish that, 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.109 like... we could get definitive proof that there 00:33:50.109 --> 00:33:53.809 was life on other planets. And I was like, all 00:33:53.809 --> 00:33:59.029 right, buckle up boys. And I just went down a 00:33:59.029 --> 00:34:03.109 list of like crazy shit. And they were like, 00:34:03.210 --> 00:34:05.509 dad, are you okay? Do we need to call someone? 00:34:05.589 --> 00:34:08.469 I called a VA. I think my, my, I think my nine 00:34:08.469 --> 00:34:10.429 year old was ready to jump out of the car. Like 00:34:10.429 --> 00:34:14.289 he was just done. Yeah. Well, the 13 year old 00:34:14.289 --> 00:34:15.650 was like a little bit more. He was like, Oh, 00:34:15.670 --> 00:34:18.400 that's right. Dad's dad's a war bad. It's okay, 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:22.840 Dad. Dad's crazy. Yeah, a little bit. It's fine. 00:34:23.860 --> 00:34:26.460 All right, yeah, shorter episode today. I didn't 00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:28.500 really have much. I just thought this was a fun 00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:31.760 story I wanted to tell, which is how most of 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:34.179 the stories I want to tell go. But you're good 00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:35.860 with this one? This one's good? You fine with 00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:38.559 this? I love it. Love it? I love it. I want more. 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:42.880 If you have seen A Glimmer Man, reach out. Yeah, 00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:44.460 please. I want to know what the fuck. I want 00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:46.280 to know your story. I just want to know what 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:49.610 the fuck. Where were you? What were you doing? 00:34:51.170 --> 00:34:53.090 Did you smell it? Does it have glowing blood? 00:34:53.329 --> 00:34:58.130 But more importantly, what the fuck? Like, come 00:34:58.130 --> 00:35:03.909 on. All right, man. Before we sign off, I just 00:35:03.909 --> 00:35:05.650 want to say thank you everyone listening. We 00:35:05.650 --> 00:35:09.469 charted twice recently for some fucking reason. 00:35:10.050 --> 00:35:12.150 This episode probably won't because people are 00:35:12.150 --> 00:35:13.590 going to listen to it and be like, they're a 00:35:13.590 --> 00:35:16.360 bunch of fucking ding -dongs. But yeah, we got 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:21.139 to 80 -something in Ireland and like 122 in Sweden, 00:35:21.260 --> 00:35:23.219 which is crazy. So if you're in Ireland or Sweden, 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:26.739 thank you so much for listening. You guys, tell 00:35:26.739 --> 00:35:30.260 all your friends. Keep it going. Keep listening. 00:35:30.539 --> 00:35:32.480 Call your cousins here in America. Tell them 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:35.139 to get their shit together. Yeah. And, you know, 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:36.820 if you like what you hear, just leave us a rating 00:35:36.820 --> 00:35:38.639 and review. That'd be fucking awesome. I'd really 00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:40.840 appreciate it. Helps the show go on. You can 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:43.039 do it on Apple. You can do it on Spotify. You 00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.570 can do it on... pocket cast that there's a bunch 00:35:45.570 --> 00:35:50.309 of anywhere you can just do it um yeah yeah uh 00:35:50.309 --> 00:35:52.610 but yeah that's all i gotta say sarge you got 00:35:52.610 --> 00:35:54.269 anything you want to plug before we sign off 00:35:54.269 --> 00:35:56.889 yeah you know we still got the coloring book 00:35:56.889 --> 00:36:00.289 going on it's sarge's supernormal .com um i promise 00:36:00.289 --> 00:36:02.449 one day i'll stop plugging this thing but um 00:36:02.449 --> 00:36:04.750 it's still relevant unfortunately probably more 00:36:04.750 --> 00:36:07.869 so now than ever um so get the coloring book 00:36:07.869 --> 00:36:11.469 it's some political humor um that well i mean 00:36:11.469 --> 00:36:16.780 it was funny until recently uh yeah and find 00:36:16.780 --> 00:36:19.860 us on social media i'm at sarge the destroyer 00:36:19.860 --> 00:36:22.719 just google it i'm the only moron who picked 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:29.260 that name um and you know that's all you gotta 00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:31.239 say i was gonna say i was gonna say google i 00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:33.840 mean google the show we pop up everywhere that's 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:35.840 true uh but if you want you can just follow us 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:38.039 on instagram at cryptic cocktail false tiktok 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:40.260 cryptic cocktail party and that's all i gotta 00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:41.639 say sarge you want to say goodbye and a little 00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:44.949 bit to the audience Goodbye, and I love you.