The reason people mock what’s outside their sphere of experience and ‘knowledge’ is they are frightened to open their minds and expand their consciousness.
Sorry if I come across as mocking - I just tend to be pretty sarcastic about most topics! I think it's possible to open-minded and sceptical at the same time - I certainly tried to keep an open mind when researching all of this, and genuinely kept an eye out for the UFOs up on Mis Tor.
@@thedartmoorpodcast It wasn’t aimed at you at all 👍 sorry if it seemed that way. It was just a general observation of many people,and it swings both ways ie.some folk automatically believing it was aliens or whatever as well as many folk automatically dismissing strange phenomena. I liked the video it was well done and you might be correct in your ideas of what happened,I guess we’ll never know for sure.👍
It must have been a lot of work making this but it was fascinating and brilliantly written, your conclusions were spot on as far as I'm concerned. Well done on a great video.
Usually, at the first sound of the plectrum plucking the string, my first reaction is to flinch and think "George! Step away from the ukelele! Please!" But I have to admit your cover/intro to this episode would make Strauss himself smile, and i have 'jumped back' to the start over a dozen times now. Big grin 👍 Thanks! 🤣 p.s. Another cracking episode again!
This episode was brilliant, combining two of my favorite things: Dartmoor and space. I thoroughly enjoyed the logical thinking, and it’s impressive how much ground you covered.
Interesting stuff. If you like other Dartmoor mysteries you might be interested in the William Donaghy story which could include a good walk to his memorial plaque. Good luck finding it though as it's notoriously tricky to locate although I managed it once, but only because I was in a group being lead by a guide. Thanks for another great podcast, not a podcast. I lived on Dartmoor for over three years and I miss it.
I love these videos. I grew up on the edge of DM and your photography captures the atmosphere perfectly. Also your narratives are very interesting to listen to.
Although I happen to know there was another UFO sighted on Dartmoor (proof's in the video and associated letterbox, naturally), there's nothing not to love here: The 2001 and X Files jingles, the abstract distancing and evolution lesson with great respect for SLIME. We're glad you don't know what a podcast is because if you did, it might not be this good 🐎🛸
Jonathan Creek would have been proud of this episode and your summary. Well done! I was waiting for the Close Encounters of the Third Kind music to make an appearance haha
This is incredible, George! I think you've exceeded yourself; one of my favourites *not a podcasts for sure. The night time-lapse was out of this world... 💜✨ P. S. Watching while travelling back. 😉 x
Overtones of Neil deGrasse Tyson and HG Wells in this episode. Lightning is the likely cause of the horse deaths, the odd dead sheep is no mystery, but the Pew Tor case...unconvinced that it was anything sinister, it's a busy place and Mary was scary.
Another great video and really well thought out. I was once told the best evidence of intelligent life on other planets is the fact that they haven't tried to contact us. Keep up the good work dude 👍
Make sure you dry them out first to check for the metallic blue color to ensure they’re the right mushrooms. It works on cubensis and cyanensis and I assume it works on semilincita as well.
Thanks George. I'm not entirely convinced it's aliens. I'm not entirely convinced it's natural. If I was alone on Dartmoor, I wouldn't be inclined to say what I think it is, because they might hear me. When I hint at what I think it is, my comments disappear like magic 🤭🤔 😉
that was a really interesting video, lots to think about and you certainly got about. out done yourself George. oh and you did get the last copy of that book..
The dead ponies, possibly, were hit by lightning, which is reported to cause accelerated decomposition. The gully is very wet and boggy, the photo of the dead ponies look as though they were standing in water when struck by millions of volts of static electricity causing an instantaneous contraction of their muscles, wrenching their spines as they involuntarily leaped upwards then fell dead after ripping tendons attached to the muscles. I am not saying the mutilated sheep experienced the same fate. Clearly, the sheep mutilations are strange, and very different.
Like Fox Mulder "I want to believe" but my basic A level science education has made me an extreme sceptic, so I can't help feeling a bit sad when another sceptic backs up my own opinions in a non podcast, rather than running into an alien rave on top of a tor. I will be visiting Dartmoor soon for a camp and perhaps will find evidence to prove us both wrong! I agree this was not a podcast, it was an excellently researched, written, filmed and produced documentary. If the BBC still made good stuff like this I'd still be paying for a TV licence.
You’ve been reading my mind, again! I’ve been talking about the mutilations a lot recently, damn I want a copy of that book! A very beautifully made video but there is a flaw in your logic straight off - you assume that the UFOs spotted and reported by the US Navy, Airforce, British military, air traffic controllers, Police, military police and the general public etc are extra-terrestrial in origin. From that your main argument is that of alien evolution and space travel, but there is nothing in the definition of UFO or NHI (non human intelligence) that specifies ‘extra terrestrial’…..an idea to mull over perhaps. Thanks for this, Great timing as every 👍
Indeed why is it always ‘extra terrestrial’ - maybe because that notion was implanted into the mainstream collective consciousness by the CIA etc especially with the Roswell story.
What a superb video thank you for making it as usuaĺ. My opinion on other life visiting us is twofold. A. If they were able to get here and didnt want to be seen or heard im sure that would be easy. B. There is also the matter of scale. Who is to say that those sprecks of dust in a sunlit room are not numerous other life forms observing us. Why should they be our size ? I would imagine interstellar travel would be easier on a microscopic scale. Perhaps you spent your night on the tor staring up at the sky with 500 other observers. Once again thanks for the not a podcast.
Ha! Wonderful idea - I hadn't considered that aliens could be microscopic. I wonder if there is a problem with producing complex thought in a very small organism, though? But I'm probably just judging things by known human standards, there.
yes were did we get this notion that we have to discover E.T. life before our extinction. instead of holding off our extinct6ion untill we can discover E,T, life❓
Not at all convinced by the lightening theory. In this country it kills very few and if these osses were done by it, this is a unique case. One of the problems is the lack of any real evidence records. Given that ponies then were worthless I'd guess they were killed by the owner. But that's a disturbing prospect. The other possibility is some form of military incident. From the description, blast injuries for sure. As for sheep, the activities of unsound people into all sorts of pagan shight is known, have a look at the case of Pork Hill (no relation). And then there are hurried poachers. Again a known and indeed current problem. Not to mention bloody dogs. Ask the Dartmoor Livestock Protection Association.
Yep, the military accidentally blowing them up and not admitting it seems like a possibility, but killed by the owner seems less likely just due to the remoteness of the location. Lots of solutions that don't involve UFOs anyway!
Good start until you start to talk about distance. Your teacher understanding is primary school level. Any aliens have had time to go to every planet in the galaxy at realistic speeds. They got here a long long time ago. Are they interested in life here? Who knows!
Jeeeeeeez!!! How long are you going to bang on about how unlikely it is for life to get here it is to be? You are an english teacher? Surely you read books that dont reinforce your personal echo chamber what if the "alien" or "ufo" is from this planet perhaps from the ocean or deep under your feet. Maybe they are more clever than our monkey brains can work out like how we observe cows in the fields. I have seen so much odd stuff just around okehampton (yes not just in the pubs) but around on the moors and just in the surrounding woods especially in the skies things that i cant explain and ive tried. You have gone on and on about "being clever" without talking about ufos, if you dont take it seriously dont talk about it. D minus, try harder next time instead of banging on about what you believe and try a little bit to broaden your horizons
Did you watch to the end? Because I do a switch to explain that *despite* the distances, there should be life everywhere, then discuss the Fermi Paradox. I focus on the extra-terrestrial aspect as opposed to USOs etc. because it's what I found most interesting, and, also, what related to the Hollowcombe Bottom case. As for the 'echo chamber', and 'broadening my horizons', I read the book featured in this episode 'Killers on the Moor' by Mike Freebury, and 'Communion' by Whitley Strieber as research, as well as watching numerous videos online, and reading any articles I could find pertaining to Dartmoor UFO sightings. I poke fun at pretty much everything on this channel, so don't be offended that I don't take UFOs seriously. It's meant to be a bit of fun. I'd love to see something inexplicable for myself, hence why I camped out and watched the skies. Oh, and I'll 'bang on' about whatever I like, as it's my podcast*. *not a podcast
@thedartmoorpodcast you bang on whatever you want thats your perogative but its also mine to comment on your podcast not podcast. I was genuinely just really wanting a talk about UFOs on dartmoor because its a rich subject so for me and it seems others they were gutted with what we got. The footage is very nice, your content wasnt really what you said it was, but thats your perogative as well. Enjoy the moor. Just felt snarky and arrogent, wish you were more on target.
@@thedartmoorpodcast Darwin and hos masonic colleagues came up witn the evolution myth to steer the population away from God -- it's blatantly not true. Darwin himself was a mason and believed in satan and therefore, of course God. They mocked atheists
I'm not going to get into arguing this on the internet- but just think about how we've selectively bred animals like dogs then think about that could happen naturally through environmental pressures. It's a very easy and elegant explanation for the wide variety of life on Earth. There's plenty of room for God and evolution together if you are a believer. In fact, it solves a lot of problems like why a loving God would create such cruelty and suffering in the animal kingdom. Oh, and Darwin was actually a Christian who actually worried that his theory would upset people. I have no idea where you're getting your information from.
@@thedartmoorpodcast Darwin was a mason -- he believed in satan and invented evolution to lead us away from God. There are definitely adpatations to species -- there has to be to overcome environmental changes, but a Dog is always a dog and always will be -- it uses a fundmental dog recipe which we've never observed jump species -- Besides, there is no way the human reproductive system could appear in one generation, with all the pieces of the puzzled need to make it work....in Male AND Female -- perfectly compatible!??! Come on man, thats ludicrous
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This is so boring
Thanks!
@claytonh4917 You’re Boring.
You have no soul. Clearly.
That's what they want you to think.
The reason people mock what’s outside their sphere of experience and ‘knowledge’ is they are frightened to open their minds and expand their consciousness.
Yeah when 40+ senior US Gov whistleblowers are testifying to Congress under oath, it's not something to mock.
Lovely video though.
Indeed and now "sceptic" means ruthlessly upholding the established view of things.
Sorry if I come across as mocking - I just tend to be pretty sarcastic about most topics! I think it's possible to open-minded and sceptical at the same time - I certainly tried to keep an open mind when researching all of this, and genuinely kept an eye out for the UFOs up on Mis Tor.
@@thedartmoorpodcast
It wasn’t aimed at you at all 👍 sorry if it seemed that way.
It was just a general observation of many people,and it swings both ways ie.some folk automatically believing it was aliens or whatever as well as many folk automatically dismissing strange phenomena.
I liked the video it was well done and you might be correct in your ideas of what happened,I guess we’ll never know for sure.👍
It must have been a lot of work making this but it was fascinating and brilliantly written, your conclusions were spot on as far as I'm concerned. Well done on a great video.
Yes it's a great piece of work but there's no need to grovel, please.
@@fatfreefarmer4023 Who rattled your cage?
Usually, at the first sound of the plectrum plucking the string, my first reaction is to flinch and think "George! Step away from the ukelele! Please!" But I have to admit your cover/intro to this episode would make Strauss himself smile, and i have 'jumped back' to the start over a dozen times now. Big grin 👍
Thanks! 🤣
p.s. Another cracking episode again!
This episode was brilliant, combining two of my favorite things: Dartmoor and space. I thoroughly enjoyed the logical thinking, and it’s impressive how much ground you covered.
Interesting stuff. If you like other Dartmoor mysteries you might be interested in the William Donaghy story which could include a good walk to his memorial plaque. Good luck finding it though as it's notoriously tricky to locate although I managed it once, but only because I was in a group being lead by a guide. Thanks for another great podcast, not a podcast. I lived on Dartmoor for over three years and I miss it.
I love these videos. I grew up on the edge of DM and your photography captures the atmosphere perfectly. Also your narratives are very interesting to listen to.
Thanks very much!
Although I happen to know there was another UFO sighted on Dartmoor (proof's in the video and associated letterbox, naturally), there's nothing not to love here: The 2001 and X Files jingles, the abstract distancing and evolution lesson with great respect for SLIME. We're glad you don't know what a podcast is because if you did, it might not be this good 🐎🛸
Haha! Thanks mate. Good ear on the X-Files cover - it was beginning to drift quite a way from the original tune.
Recently discovered your Podcast ( it’s not a ….! ). Fantastic thank you
Great video; I really enjoyed watching this.
Thank you!
Jonathan Creek would have been proud of this episode and your summary. Well done! I was waiting for the Close Encounters of the Third Kind music to make an appearance haha
This is incredible, George! I think you've exceeded yourself; one of my favourites *not a podcasts for sure. The night time-lapse was out of this world... 💜✨
P. S. Watching while travelling back. 😉 x
Another great episode, the channel deserves more views. Thanks for making them!
The Ali G sand reference has not gone unnoticed.
Graced by your (and Dartmoor's) presence once again. Thanks.
Good on you for climbing North Hessary just to place the grain of sand atop it.
Overtones of Neil deGrasse Tyson and HG Wells in this episode. Lightning is the likely cause of the horse deaths, the odd dead sheep is no mystery, but the Pew Tor case...unconvinced that it was anything sinister, it's a busy place and Mary was scary.
Surely you must realise that time and distance are human constructs. Aliens would not be travelling fast in a straight line wearing watches.
Everything we experience is a human construct. The question of objective reality is a difficult one for "sceptics".
You might be right... but 'surely' is a strong word here!
One of the best ... Thanks.
Another great video and really well thought out.
I was once told the best evidence of intelligent life on other planets is the fact that they haven't tried to contact us.
Keep up the good work dude 👍
Excellent........thank you........subbed..
If there is one thing that is undeniable it's the weirdness of people and what they choose to believe in.
We're understanding time and distance our way...
One of your best episodes so far! Im very interested in this subject and you researched and presented it rationally and with great detail. Thank you!
You have a very calming voice!
What tor is best to find liberty caps?
Eastern side of Cox Tor in and around the small Bronze Age settlement...or so I'm told...
Make sure you dry them out first to check for the metallic blue color to ensure they’re the right mushrooms. It works on cubensis and cyanensis and I assume it works on semilincita as well.
Fascinating, I bet your students love you! Really interesting podcast (not a podcast) 😍
Thanks George.
I'm not entirely convinced it's aliens.
I'm not entirely convinced it's natural.
If I was alone on Dartmoor, I wouldn't be inclined to say what I think it is, because they might hear me.
When I hint at what I think it is, my comments disappear like magic 🤭🤔
😉
really?? seems odd
Brilliant video mate, love from South Africa
that was a really interesting video, lots to think about and you certainly got about. out done yourself George. oh and you did get the last copy of that book..
Thank you! Enjoyed making this one.
The deafening tone by the standing stone, I got it, just so you know.
Jupiter.
There's plenty of data for anyone paying attention. Watch Karl Nell @ the SALT conference 21st May. Nice (not a) podcast btw.
Great video, as always! Very intriguing, you might be onto something with the lightning strike theory!
An EH 101 Merlin
Well done you get 100billion gold stars for this investigation, good effort.
The dead ponies, possibly, were hit by lightning, which is reported to cause accelerated decomposition. The gully is very wet and boggy, the photo of the dead ponies look as though they were standing in water when struck by millions of volts of static electricity causing an instantaneous contraction of their muscles, wrenching their spines as they involuntarily leaped upwards then fell dead after ripping tendons attached to the muscles.
I am not saying the mutilated sheep experienced the same fate. Clearly, the sheep mutilations are strange, and very different.
Yep, I agree on the lightning... Much more likely than a UFO vortex!
That night Timelapse!!! 😍😍😍
I used to live Nr Oke, great video mate, who's the acoustic pieces by?
Thanks! All me on the guitar :)
Like Fox Mulder "I want to believe" but my basic A level science education has made me an extreme sceptic, so I can't help feeling a bit sad when another sceptic backs up my own opinions in a non podcast, rather than running into an alien rave on top of a tor. I will be visiting Dartmoor soon for a camp and perhaps will find evidence to prove us both wrong!
I agree this was not a podcast, it was an excellently researched, written, filmed and produced documentary. If the BBC still made good stuff like this I'd still be paying for a TV licence.
Very kind! Hopefully we'll see something someday that'll force us to rethink our sceptical position!
You’ve been reading my mind, again! I’ve been talking about the mutilations a lot recently, damn I want a copy of that book!
A very beautifully made video but there is a flaw in your logic straight off - you assume that the UFOs spotted and reported by the US Navy, Airforce, British military, air traffic controllers, Police, military police and the general public etc are extra-terrestrial in origin. From that your main argument is that of alien evolution and space travel, but there is nothing in the definition of UFO or NHI (non human intelligence) that specifies ‘extra terrestrial’…..an idea to mull over perhaps.
Thanks for this, Great timing as every 👍
Indeed why is it always ‘extra terrestrial’ - maybe because that notion was implanted into the mainstream collective consciousness by the CIA etc especially with the Roswell story.
Thanks mate! Yes - a different way of looking at things, I suppose!
WooooW ! Thanks 🙂
Epic podcast!....Not a podcast.
I mean, my god! What if we are it?
The most advanced, the absolute best of the best beings in existence, it's a huge concern.
What a superb video thank you for making it as usuaĺ.
My opinion on other life visiting us is twofold.
A. If they were able to get here and didnt want to be seen or heard im sure that would be easy.
B. There is also the matter of scale. Who is to say that those sprecks of dust in a sunlit room are not numerous other life forms observing us.
Why should they be our size ?
I would imagine interstellar travel would be easier on a microscopic scale.
Perhaps you spent your night on the tor staring up at the sky with 500 other observers.
Once again thanks for the not a podcast.
Ha! Wonderful idea - I hadn't considered that aliens could be microscopic. I wonder if there is a problem with producing complex thought in a very small organism, though? But I'm probably just judging things by known human standards, there.
The universe may be larger inwards than outwards, yes we think on a human scale. Beware of the dust !
some sheep see moore n more moore, yet some look up n nose, ( flock me paradocs,,,,,,as inn what le flock was dat )
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
excellent.
Here we go 🎉
yes were did we get this notion that we have to discover E.T. life before our extinction. instead of holding off our extinct6ion untill we can discover E,T, life❓
Not at all convinced by the lightening theory. In this country it kills very few and if these osses were done by it, this is a unique case. One of the problems is the lack of any real evidence records. Given that ponies then were worthless I'd guess they were killed by the owner. But that's a disturbing prospect. The other possibility is some form of military incident. From the description, blast injuries for sure. As for sheep, the activities of unsound people into all sorts of pagan shight is known, have a look at the case of Pork Hill (no relation). And then there are hurried poachers. Again a known and indeed current problem. Not to mention bloody dogs. Ask the Dartmoor Livestock Protection Association.
Yep, the military accidentally blowing them up and not admitting it seems like a possibility, but killed by the owner seems less likely just due to the remoteness of the location. Lots of solutions that don't involve UFOs anyway!
I camped there at the weekend!
There are UFOs. You’re getting them mixed up with alien craft. M
Good start until you start to talk about distance. Your teacher understanding is primary school level.
Any aliens have had time to go to every planet in the galaxy at realistic speeds.
They got here a long long time ago.
Are they interested in life here? Who knows!
Did you watch to the end? I make exactly this point then talk about the Fermi Paradox.
No I didn't, might give it a watch again.
Jeeeeeeez!!! How long are you going to bang on about how unlikely it is for life to get here it is to be? You are an english teacher? Surely you read books that dont reinforce your personal echo chamber what if the "alien" or "ufo" is from this planet perhaps from the ocean or deep under your feet.
Maybe they are more clever than our monkey brains can work out like how we observe cows in the fields.
I have seen so much odd stuff just around okehampton (yes not just in the pubs) but around on the moors and just in the surrounding woods especially in the skies things that i cant explain and ive tried. You have gone on and on about "being clever" without talking about ufos, if you dont take it seriously dont talk about it.
D minus, try harder next time instead of banging on about what you believe and try a little bit to broaden your horizons
Did you watch to the end? Because I do a switch to explain that *despite* the distances, there should be life everywhere, then discuss the Fermi Paradox.
I focus on the extra-terrestrial aspect as opposed to USOs etc. because it's what I found most interesting, and, also, what related to the Hollowcombe Bottom case.
As for the 'echo chamber', and 'broadening my horizons', I read the book featured in this episode 'Killers on the Moor' by Mike Freebury, and 'Communion' by Whitley Strieber as research, as well as watching numerous videos online, and reading any articles I could find pertaining to Dartmoor UFO sightings.
I poke fun at pretty much everything on this channel, so don't be offended that I don't take UFOs seriously. It's meant to be a bit of fun. I'd love to see something inexplicable for myself, hence why I camped out and watched the skies.
Oh, and I'll 'bang on' about whatever I like, as it's my podcast*.
*not a podcast
@thedartmoorpodcast you bang on whatever you want thats your perogative but its also mine to comment on your podcast not podcast. I was genuinely just really wanting a talk about UFOs on dartmoor because its a rich subject so for me and it seems others they were gutted with what we got. The footage is very nice, your content wasnt really what you said it was, but thats your perogative as well. Enjoy the moor.
Just felt snarky and arrogent, wish you were more on target.
Fair enough. If I ever see a UFO myself, then maybe I'll come back to it in a completely different manner. All the best!
Loved the music and the filmography but maybe next time make a film about something you do believe in. Witnesses arn’t witless.
So true also I thought it was a talk about Dartmoor not the evolution of earth
It's all connected!
But I like to investigate things I don't believe in!
This guy has bought the evolution myth
What myth is that?
@@thedartmoorpodcast Darwin and hos masonic colleagues came up witn the evolution myth to steer the population away from God -- it's blatantly not true.
Darwin himself was a mason and believed in satan and therefore, of course God. They mocked atheists
I'm not going to get into arguing this on the internet- but just think about how we've selectively bred animals like dogs then think about that could happen naturally through environmental pressures. It's a very easy and elegant explanation for the wide variety of life on Earth.
There's plenty of room for God and evolution together if you are a believer. In fact, it solves a lot of problems like why a loving God would create such cruelty and suffering in the animal kingdom.
Oh, and Darwin was actually a Christian who actually worried that his theory would upset people.
I have no idea where you're getting your information from.
@@thedartmoorpodcast Darwin was a mason -- he believed in satan and invented evolution to lead us away from God.
There are definitely adpatations to species -- there has to be to overcome environmental changes, but a Dog is always a dog and always will be -- it uses a fundmental dog recipe which we've never observed jump species --
Besides, there is no way the human reproductive system could appear in one generation, with all the pieces of the puzzled need to make it work....in Male AND Female -- perfectly compatible!??! Come on man, thats ludicrous
Good luck to you, mate.
I wish I could like this (not a podcast) twice! 😃🤌👏🏻