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This seems opiniated vs fact based. Medical facilities are obligated to report gunshot victims, dead or alive. I highly doubt the proper data isn't there.
Sorry I'll be more specific. it's not that hospitals aren't tracking that. It's that cities look at homicide rates and those are improving but it's mostly because of the vast improvement in how hospitals treat gunshot victims. So it looks like cities are getting safer but really we have no data on specific gunshot data because it all gets lumped into aggravated assault. There is a city that is going back through all the records to tease this data out.
 
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The professor was feeding you a line.

I've owned hogs of every size and age and while they are capable of destroying a carcass of another animal, they do not do so in a way that would be considered complete. And it isn't fast, either.

This; especially teeth. If one owned a hog farm and discreetly wanted to get rid of a body, it could be done. But as you say it would take time and there would be some follow-up work to do.

But it’s not gonna happen like magic.
 

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You'd think so. But I'm telling you, there are some seriously weird disappearances out there. There was a story of this guy who went missing from a snow mobile years back in the NW of the country - there were no steps, no nothing, it was almost like he was straight lifted off the machine and it just stopped.
I don't know if there's the religious after life and don't want to turn the thread into that, but I 100 million percent believe that there is way more going on than what we were aware of. Or told.
Send out Hellboy and the BPRD.

For the record, I agree with you.
 

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You'd think so. But I'm telling you, there are some seriously weird disappearances out there. There was a story of this guy who went missing from a snow mobile years back in the NW of the country - there were no steps, no nothing, it was almost like he was straight lifted off the machine and it just stopped.
I don't know if there's the religious after life and don't want to turn the thread into that, but I 100 million percent believe that there is way more going on than what we were aware of. Or told.

We're back to aliens.

Plausible. (Seriously)
 

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A load of fat hogs would devour a limp human body in an hour or two. I didn't catch that they were feeder pigs going from a nursery to a finisher. If that's the case, they wouldn't be able to consume the body quickly.
But the hogs wouldn't eat a skull or a femur. The authorities should find those things pretty quickly.
 

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Millions of people unknowingly drove past a body dumped off I-90 east-bound lane on the north side of Albert Lea, less than 2 miles from my home. The remains were found 8 years ago, the body had apparently been dumped (apparently wrapped in something like painter's tarp) many years prior. Right up against fence line, which is apparently why mower never exposed remains. Still no resolution as to identity of the deceased.

 
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We're back to aliens.

Plausible. (Seriously)
Either that or stuff like Wendigos, Bigfoot / Yeti's etc...

Have I ever encountered one? Not to my knowledge.
But I do also know that almost all ancient civilizations who recorded stories - all have similar stories. Of similar types of entities.

If it was just in Europe or South America or Asia, I could dismiss it as non-sense.
But for all of them to have similar stories - in time periods where there was no true global news and very little interaction across continents let alone outside of your own village / immediate area -

IDK. That's what makes me think there are things out there. Proof? No hard proof no.
But it just seems to be an awful lot of smoke for no fire.
 
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Either that or stuff like Wendigos, Bigfoot / Yeti's etc...

Have I ever encountered one? Not to my knowledge.
But I do also know that almost all ancient civilizations who recorded stories - all have similar stories. Of similar types of entities.

If it was just in Europe or South America or Asia, I could dismiss it as non-sense.
But for all of them to have similar stories - in time periods where there was no true global news and very little interaction across continents let alone outside of your own village / immediate area -

IDK. That's what makes me think there are things out there. Proof? No hard proof no.
But it just seems to be an awful lot of smoke for no fire.

I can't say I've encountered anything with certainty. I did know some ufologists who were absolutely certain.

I've seen odd things. Stuff like a hovering orb over the freeway. It finally moved horizontally across the sky really ******* fast. Stuff like that.

Ufologists are right up there with pro-wrestling fans and Trekkies as being some of the nicest people on the planet.
 

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I can't say I've encountered anything with certainty. I did know some ufologists who were absolutely certain.

I've seen odd things. Stuff like a hovering orb over the freeway. It finally moved horizontally across the sky really ******* fast. Stuff like that.

Ufologists are right up there with pro-wrestling fans and Trekkies as being some of the nicest people on the planet.
Yeah. I've had less experience with that stuff. Being a avid hiker and triker through back country and state and national parks...

there's been some wierd stuff I've seen or sensed in the woods. Nothing concrete just - weird. Not to be cliche but there are times I clutch my sharp friend a little tighter even with the dog. Its always creepy when you go through a thicket and there's no or very little wind and or noise, bugs, birds, nothing. That's happened a few times. Sure, they know we're there but usually the birds are chirping away and a deer will just look at us like so what, etc... when its that still and quiet, I always feel funny. Not threatened per say but funny. Like there's something there and Shiloh generally acts weird too in those instances. That's when I trust him to tell me where to go.

There could 100% be aliens. And I think there is a 100% chance of some of the "mythical" creatures of old. Too many stories. Too many accounts from different people over long periods of time and distances who describe the same thing with no real way of knowing what someone said 2,000 miles away.

That's why I don't know what comes after life - but I think there's something. What I have no idea for sure. But there is just too much out there that I've seen, experienced or talked to people - like what you are describing - for me to think this is it. What's after? Oh, I have no clue. I have what I believe and what I hope, but I certainly have no idea for sure
 
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I can't say I've encountered anything with certainty. I did know some ufologists who were absolutely certain.

I've seen odd things. Stuff like a hovering orb over the freeway. It finally moved horizontally across the sky really ******* fast. Stuff like that.

Ufologists are right up there with pro-wrestling fans and Trekkies as being some of the nicest people on the planet.
My mom tells of some strange things she saw living on the farm. One that she said still creeps her out is when she was up with one of us kids, when we were babies, and she saw bright lights shine in the east house windows. The farm house sat on the west side of the road that ran north/south. She first thought it was a car driving down the road, but then realized it couldn't be a car because the lights were shining directly into the east windows. She grabbed the kid and locked herself in a bedroom.
 

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My mom tells of some strange things she saw living on the farm. One that she said still creeps her out is when she was up with one of us kids, when we were babies, and she saw bright lights shine in the east house windows. The farm house sat on the west side of the road that ran north/south. She first thought it was a car driving down the road, but then realized it couldn't be a car because the lights were shining directly into the east windows. She grabbed the kid and locked herself in a bedroom.

And then you get into stuff like this and life looks... different

 

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Yeah. I've had less experience with that stuff. Being a avid hiker and triker through back country and state and national parks...

there's been some wierd stuff I've seen or sensed in the woods. Nothing concrete just - weird. Not to be cliche but there are times I clutch my sharp friend a little tighter even with the dog. Its always creepy when you go through a thicket and there's no or very little wind and or noise, bugs, birds, nothing. That's happened a few times. Sure, they know we're there but usually the birds are chirping away and a deer will just look at us like so what, etc... when its that still and quiet, I always feel funny. Not threatened per say but funny. Like there's something there and Shiloh generally acts weird too in those instances. That's when I trust him to tell me where to go.

There could 100% be aliens. And I think there is a 100% chance of some of the "mythical" creatures of old. Too many stories. Too many accounts from different people over long periods of time and distances who describe the same thing with no real way of knowing what someone said 2,000 miles away.

That's why I don't know what comes after life - but I think there's something. What I have no idea for sure. But there is just too much out there that I've seen, experienced or talked to people - like what you are describing - for me to think this is it. What's after? Oh, I have no clue. I have what I believe and what I hope, but I certainly have no idea for sure
I’ve walking in a woods alone quick a bit. I was on a trail east of Gilbert. Half way through I felt strong sense that I was being watched/followed. Only time I’ve felt that before. I’d if I was just being paranoid or what. But I speed walked back to my car lol.
 
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I’ve walking in a woods alone quick a bit. I was on a trail east of Gilbert. Half way through I felt strong sense that I was being watched/followed. Only time I’ve felt that before. I’d if I was just being paranoid or what. But I speed walked back to my car lol.
Same. And to anyone who's not experienced it, its just a weird, kinda creepy feeling. But I've felt like I was being watched a few times. The time around Evansdale was bad.

I've been around a grizzly, wolves, coyotes, etc... I've got a healthy respect for their power and abilities. But feeling like I was being watched without being able to see who or what it is - was almost more unsettling than coming out of a rest room in campsite in Yellowstone at 19 at 2 am and finding a full grown grizzly 10-12 feet away. Thankfully for myself, the bear had no interest in me whatsoever.

I may be a fairly large person from human being standards at 6'4 and what not - but that was one of the few times in my life I've felt... very incredibly small.
 
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And then you get into stuff like this and life looks... different

Yeah... there's something . And even without the weirdness - what are the odds that gravity is set roughly to just the right amount? Or everything that allows life to exist on Earth just happened? I've no problems with some concepts of evolution but overall - I don't know that I believe all of the coincy dinks would have lined up perfectly so many times for there not to be some kind of something in the universe and some kind something to more than life
 

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Same. And to anyone who's not experienced it, its just a weird, kinda creepy feeling. But I've felt like I was being watched a few times. The time around Evansdale was bad.

I've been around a grizzly, wolves, coyotes, etc... I've got a healthy respect for their power and abilities. But feeling like I was being watched without being able to see who or what it is - was almost more unsettling than coming out of a rest room in campsite in Yellowstone at 19 at 2 am and finding a full grown grizzly 10-12 feet away. Thankfully for myself, the bear had no interest in me whatsoever.

I may be a fairly large person from human being standards at 6'4 and what not - but that was one of the few times in my life I've felt... very incredibly small.
Mountain Lion? Use to do a fair amount of raccoon hunting with dogs way back in the late 00's early 10's. Running the Boone River one night and just felt something weird. That real eerie feeling that makes you skin kind of crawl. Game camera ended showing a mountain lion.
 
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