• surewhynotlem
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    2 hours ago

    Well I asked the scat man and he said “Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope”

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    11 hours ago

    I was reading this book, academic book about the witch trials but written very early 1900s, and weird shit.

    It referenced actual court documents and such during witch trials and this one person was admitting to talking to some dude with red eyes in a hat. I swear it sounds like the fucking Hatman, but during medieval times… Dude has been fucking with humanity for centuries at least.

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      8 hours ago

      Do you have the name of the book? My cousin was talking about the red eyed man his immediate family sees from time to time and I mentioned how it sounded like the hat man. Having a reference to a red eyed hat man would be sick to pull out in the next conversation

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        Actually yes! the Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray.

        It’s a very odd book arguing that they weren’t seeing the devil and the witch trials were people worshipping what she calls the “Dianic cult”, like some ancient fertility gods with horns and stuff. But it does reference a lot of actual witch trials in the book and it’s fascinating.

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        8 hours ago

        not just bendaryl or dxm or whatever else, people get out of their trip what have put in their heads beforehand. if you read about hat man a lot you will see hat man

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        10 hours ago

        He’s seen in many other situations too. Benadryl is just super commonly known.

        Someone I talked to online said they saw him multiple times in their life sober, and every time there’d be a death in the family or really bad thing would happen. They didn’t see him as evil, just as an omen/warning.

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          I done seent this guy when sleep-paralyzed, but in my case it was my brain misinterpreting a coat hanging on my bedroom door

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            I’ve been there. But my mind always interpreted it as a semi-humanoid/semi-formless demon. Definitely no hat.

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          I haven’t seen a hat man, but I get migraine with aura and sometimes “see” a moving shadow sort of shaped like a person out of the corner of my eye. Of course, if I try to look directly, there’s nothing there.

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      10 hours ago

      People often ask chatbots questions and treat their responses as genuine artificial intelligence