Of the Silver Man
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smokingbootHere's David telling his story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejwk4H1LPaA
Having met and listened to David for a while now, I find him a gentle, soft spoken amicable man, but he is the sort some might mistrust as 'sensitive' or 'impressionable.' Regression, psychic, Aleister Crowley, covens, and a tiny touch of masonic fear, there's a hint of these all around him, he's not the kind of sturdy unimaginative witness who convinces people by dint of Ox-like earthiness. For that you want someone like my uncle, a policeman whose idea of light relief is building a house from scratch.
But then, alternative interests often emerge in people who have these experiences; afterwards they change. They might be people suffering from latent psychosis which then gets triggered or they just start off with unusual interests which sceptics are all too quick to treat as a sign of unreliability. Very few carry on as they were, and the ones most likely to do so seem determined to forget, like my uncle. Robert Taylor, witness to the Dechmont Woods Incident, was exceptional. He remained unaltered throughout his life, never changed his story, and was considered a very credible witness.
In my own little notepad of strangeness though I will add that when I have spoken to people who are exhibiting signs of paranoia/ forms of schizophrenia, I often find they are troubled by some kind of persistent bad smell, an artificial scent like burning rubber or metal. I have observed this consistently enough to treat it as a tell; whenm it turns up, consider some form of physical brain malfunction, anywhere between migraine and schizophrenia. Of course one non medically trained person cannot claim this as a bellwether, but when I hear someone complaining about these smells, I always wonder. Why bring it up now? Because Robert Taylor did complain of these smells when he came across his UFO in the woods, so to my immensely untrained understanding, this would be a warning not to discount some kind of epileptic incident. But David Colman never has.
Returning to David, he rambles more than I do! His diversions are fascinating, but they won't work in a talk, and might frustrate audiences at Q and A. Filmed with editing that homes on actual what happened and when it happened stuff will do him and his listeners the most favours.
I will say this; he's not lying. When I jokingly talked about stake-outs in the hills and getting photos of the silver man, his face dropped in near horror.
'Never!' He said, 'I wish you never to see it! What will you do if it catches you?'
And the expression on his face convinced me that whatever happened before or since, he saw something that night, and it terrified the wits out of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejwk4H1LPaA
Having met and listened to David for a while now, I find him a gentle, soft spoken amicable man, but he is the sort some might mistrust as 'sensitive' or 'impressionable.' Regression, psychic, Aleister Crowley, covens, and a tiny touch of masonic fear, there's a hint of these all around him, he's not the kind of sturdy unimaginative witness who convinces people by dint of Ox-like earthiness. For that you want someone like my uncle, a policeman whose idea of light relief is building a house from scratch.
But then, alternative interests often emerge in people who have these experiences; afterwards they change. They might be people suffering from latent psychosis which then gets triggered or they just start off with unusual interests which sceptics are all too quick to treat as a sign of unreliability. Very few carry on as they were, and the ones most likely to do so seem determined to forget, like my uncle. Robert Taylor, witness to the Dechmont Woods Incident, was exceptional. He remained unaltered throughout his life, never changed his story, and was considered a very credible witness.
In my own little notepad of strangeness though I will add that when I have spoken to people who are exhibiting signs of paranoia/ forms of schizophrenia, I often find they are troubled by some kind of persistent bad smell, an artificial scent like burning rubber or metal. I have observed this consistently enough to treat it as a tell; whenm it turns up, consider some form of physical brain malfunction, anywhere between migraine and schizophrenia. Of course one non medically trained person cannot claim this as a bellwether, but when I hear someone complaining about these smells, I always wonder. Why bring it up now? Because Robert Taylor did complain of these smells when he came across his UFO in the woods, so to my immensely untrained understanding, this would be a warning not to discount some kind of epileptic incident. But David Colman never has.
Returning to David, he rambles more than I do! His diversions are fascinating, but they won't work in a talk, and might frustrate audiences at Q and A. Filmed with editing that homes on actual what happened and when it happened stuff will do him and his listeners the most favours.
I will say this; he's not lying. When I jokingly talked about stake-outs in the hills and getting photos of the silver man, his face dropped in near horror.
'Never!' He said, 'I wish you never to see it! What will you do if it catches you?'
And the expression on his face convinced me that whatever happened before or since, he saw something that night, and it terrified the wits out of him.
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Date: 2022-11-15 02:04 pm (UTC)That burning smell is very, very consistent with pre-ictal epilepsy, those sensorium changes that presage the onset of a temporal lobe seizure.
I'm not saying they are pre-ictal epilepsy, necessarily. But they are consistent.
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Date: 2022-11-16 12:19 am (UTC)