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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Big(foot) if true.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Cain became an undead, probably a vampire.

Last I heard he was driving taxis up in LA.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago
[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I feel like “X immortal character is really Cain/Lilith” is extremely close to the same trope tier as “main character actually died when X happened and everything after is a dream”.

[–] Sabbo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mormons have entered the chat

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Elder Patten will finally be vindicated by modern science.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

"Yeah I'm an amateur cryptotheozoologist"

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I think some Gangrel somewhere is about to get a stern talking to about the masquerade.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Bigfoot is DB Cooper

Think about it

They can never catch Bigfoot, Bigfoot is independently wealthy, and DB is short for Dat Bigfoot

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's this channel that started as a dark souls lore channel that eventually became a Christian lore channel and they had a vid on bigfoot like this

[–] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait that sounds hilarious, what's the name of the channel?

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eredin be aware the channel is very weird, I quite liked it's old dark souls vids but I think they got rid of them by now

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah pretty sure that guy now considers Dark Souls satanic lmao

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago

As all games are except the GBA bible cartridge

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Funny since there's not really any satan analog in Dark Souls. Nito and I guess humanity are kinda' hell dwellers/hades/styx analogs I guess? About all I can think of. I guess not linking the flame in DS1 is like taking the left-hand path and rejecting the patriarchal god-father but it's also like rejecting pantheism so whatever.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No because in Supernatural, Sam is affectionally called Sasquatch by Dean, who bore the Mark of Cain.

[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Dean cain?!?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

bigfoot is dracula?

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How does Bigfoot the monster truck fit into this?

[–] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Thanks to sprawling American car-dependent infrastructure, not even Bigfoot can walk to places anymore.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do monster trucks have stories and lore like pro wrestling? Like does Grave Digger beef with Bigfoot?

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 1 points 16 hours ago

Are there face and heel monster trucks? Inquiring minds want to know!

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Bigfoot is actually the wandering jew.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago
[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 6 points 23 hours ago

New? This goes all the way back to one of the earliest "accounts" which is a misconstruing of an early Mormon writing about how he met Cain. Mormons until a decade ago officially held that black people are descended from Cain, and part of that ties into this early story about one of their founders meeting Cain who is effectively a Bigfoot.

Great paper on this that I read a few years ago https://www.jstor.org/stable/23289895?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents it is actually a really interesting part of how sasquatch lore interweaves with other aspects of american myth-making and of course racism

The conflation of these two legends is a study in the transformation of Mormon culture as reflected in its folklore. Its simplest lesson is that skepticism about the veracity of such tales can be interpreted as declining belief in physical manifestations of supernatural evil. However, the content of Cain stories reflects more subtle changes. The reidentification of Cain as Bigfoot demonstrates how Cain has come to be identified with the mainstream legendary figure; in the process, he is stripped of his spiritual status as an intelligent, malevolent agent of supernatural evil, a presence accepted, and even expected, in nineteenth-century Mormon life. Further, this dehumanization of Cain reflects the weakening grip of the "curse of Cain" folk doctrine that associated him with the stigmatized African race. In these ways the uncoupling of Cain and the demonic is indicative of a larger process of cultural assimilation and transformation

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I like aliens (if you hadn't gleamed that from my bio and profile pic) and I often run into bigfoot people when I root around online in ufo discussions. It's pretty common for people to have out there views on the creature like this. I'm on the fence if it's real or not, unlike aliens/ufos which have a lot of documented evidence behind them, most of the bigfoot phenomenon is hearsay and people faking it.

[–] barf@vegantheoryclub.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe Bigfoot is an alien. Checkmate, skeptics

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Honestly anything is on the table given how weird all the stories of close encounters are so one of them being a 7 foot tall hairy beast isn't too out there.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prob just a fucked up grizzly walking around

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Post hibernation bears are very skinny and bedraggled, seeing one walking on its hind legs as bears sometimes do, you’d think Bigfoot.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The grizz is walking upright now, we're fucked.

[–] William_Nilliam@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Give them jobs, crush their spirits

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hey aliens are serious business and not a laughing matter.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

See, attitudes like this are why they don't contact us. Maybe the flatwoods monster is a really chill guy and it hurt his feelings when those people screamed and ran away from him. Maybe if they had laughed at his jokes he wouldn't have gone back to his home planet and given up on his dreams of being a Xenocomedian.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 1 day ago

Is Anna's boyfriend doing his styn on the forest.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's two camps when it comes to biggie: the woo woo it's a mystical creature from the bible camp and the it's a cryptid we need to hunt and study for science camp.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago

My favorite theory is that bigfoot is a sort of forest spirit that keeps an eye out for people who are kind to nature, and shares his weed with them

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago

and the objectively correct "we can't prove a negative but there's no credible evidence and no reasonable way for a breeding population of unknown hominids to be around and undetected"