(End of the American Dream)—When I was a kid, it was much more difficult for hoaxes to spread. In those days, a much higher proportion of the population was grounded in truth, and so there was not as much fertile territory for falsehoods to take root. Unfortunately, times have changed. Today, a very large percentage of the population no longer believes in “absolutely truth”, and social media has made it possible for “fake news” and misinformation to travel all over the globe in just moments. Yes, without a doubt there are a lot of very strange things going on in our world today. But we must also have enough discernment to be able to separate truth from fiction.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.
The other day, the police in the little town of Damariscotta, Maine started getting flooded with calls.
Local residents were breathlessly reporting that “Bigfoot” was walking around right in the middle of their community…
Maine cops launched an investigation after a surge of 911 calls reported spotting Bigfoot roaming around town — only to discover it was actually just a fashion victim in a “very convincing” costume.
Damariscotta cops received an “unusually high number of calls” on Tuesday about a Sasquatch-like creature wandering around the tiny mid-coast tourist destination, including during morning drop-off on the first day of school, according to NBC News and the Damariscotta Police Department.
The mystery prompted several alarmed residents to snap photos of what appeared to be a large figure covered head-to-toe in fur and wearing a top hat.
It is amazing that so many people fell for this.
If Bigfoot is going to invade your town, he probably isn’t going to do it wearing an odd brown hat…
Over the years, I have seen many photographs of creatures that I cannot explain.
This is not one of them.
After conducting a “completely serious investigation”, the police did not put the guy in the costume under arrest because he had not committed any crimes…
“After a lengthy, exhaustive, and completely serious investigation, members of the Damariscotta Police Department have reached a conclusion: Bigfoot is not real,” cops said.
“We understand this may be disappointing to some. Frankly, there were members of our department who were secretly hoping we had finally stumbled upon something that would make national news.”
Officers did not place the wannabee Bigfoot buffoon under arrest, since there was no evidence of criminal activity, police said.
That story made me smile, but this next story is much more serious.
There are some online hoaxers that are using a sinister AI-created version of “the Cat in the Hat” to terrorize local communities…
The “Cat in the Hat” hoax used AI-generated images depicting a sinister version of the familiar Dr. Seuss character. Some posts falsely suggested that the character was lurking outside homes, schools or neighborhoods, often pairing the images with threatening captions.
Needless to say, “the Cat in the Hat” is not real and is not going to hurt anyone.
But in one area, dozens of kids recently stayed home from school because there was so much concern about this hoax…
On Monday, Aug. 31, TRISD reported 90 students who were absent from school, most related to the hoax. On Tuesday, the number was 50 and on Wednesday, 35. While acknowledging the fear that parents may have, Superintendent Les Dragon said the social media craze has affected learning.
“Kids need to be in school,” Dragon said.
These days, people will fall for just about anything.
Earlier today, I came across an article that discussed how some people are using a 1937 painting to prove that time travel is real…
A painting from 90 years ago has resurfaced online and is sparking wild theories that it proves time travel is real.
The 1937 work, entitled ‘Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield,’ allegedly shows an Indigenous man in the 17th century holding a smartphone to take a selfie.
The man can clearly be seen in the foreground holding the bottom half of the black device with white or silver trim like a modern phone while he looks into the top half of the object.
The out-of-place item, which did not exist in either the 1600s or the 1930s, has sparked speculation for years that the painter left a clue in this well-known work that confirmed the existence of time travel.
Are you kidding me?
Below is the 1937 painting that has created such a furor…
The Indian near the bottom of the painting is certainly looking at some sort of a rectangular object.
But to claim that it is a smartphone takes a lot more imagination than I have.
Now let me get into a subject that is more controversial.
The Mirror just published a piece about a series of cattle mutilations that have been occurring in the western half of the country…
A rancher featured in the new Amazon Prime documentary Not One Drop of Blood took filmmakers to see what remained of a bull that had been killed and partially carved up by an unidentified attacker.
The property owner, who identified himself as Keith, said: “We saw that bull laying there dead, and it was pretty obvious he’d been mutilated.”
When Keith’s wife closely examined the bull that had been killed, she discovered “a perfectly-cut circle on the underside”…
Keith’s wife Candy noted that the cuts on the bull’s carcass were remarkably exact: “You just don’t see a perfectly-cut circle on the underside of an animal like that. You can see where they cut his testicles out … and then when we walked around the other side we could see that the anus had been perfectly cut out too.”
I don’t doubt that she is telling the truth.
Another rancher in Oregon says that a similar thing has been happening on his property…
Another Oregon cattle farmer, Clint Weaver, initially assumed a deceased bull discovered on his land had perished during a confrontation with another bull: “At first, we thought it was just the bulls fighting, so we kind of chalked that up to a death,” he said, “But then we found another one.
“Then we started looking at them a lot closer, and noticed that their testicles and their reproductive organs were gone. Then we drove up the creek and found the rest of them, and it was the same: the testicles, reproductive organs, sometimes the tongues were gone. And then we knew something was going on, so then we called the law enforcement in.’”.
Clearly something very unusual is going on.
But it isn’t “aliens from another galaxy” that are doing this.
Nobody has traveled tens of thousands of light years to mutilate cattle.
The entities that people commonly refer to as “aliens” did not originate from a galaxy far, far away.
But I realize that a lot of people out there don’t want to hear that.
Lastly, I wanted to mention a story that millions of people all over the country are talking about today.
Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon is claiming that the people that are building AI are convinced that it could kill all of humanity by the end of this decade.
The following is the post on X that started the frenzy…
Yes, AI is a potential threat in a lot of different ways.
But it isn’t going to kill all of us within the next five years.
There are a number of other things that could kill millions upon millions of people during the years ahead, but AI will not be one of them.
AI is just another tool.
When computers were invented, people issued all sorts of ominous warnings.
When the Internet came along, many warned that it would be the end of everything.
And how many times have we heard that the robots are going to kill all of us over the years?
It isn’t the technology that is going to do us in.
Of course the elitists behind the technology are another matter altogether.
Throughout human history, one of the greatest threats to humans has always been other humans.
And right now tyranny is on the rise all over the planet.
In the UK, 62,000 people have been arrested for “speech crimes” in just the past five years…
A report from a leading civil liberties campaign group has found that the British state has arrested at least 62,000 people over five years for speech crimes, for an average of 34 arrests per day.
Censorship laws such as the Malicious Communications Act 1988, the Communications Act 2003, and the Online Safety Act 2023 have been used by both Labour and so-called Conservative governments to arrest 62,199 people for “communication offences”, including offensive jokes online, between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2025, the Big Brother Watch pressure group has revealed.
They don’t want us to be able to speak freely.
In fact, they want us to have as little freedom as possible.
Here in the United States, our lives are governed by literally millions of federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Just about every form of human activity that you can imagine is covered by these laws and regulations.
But despite all of their efforts to tightly control society, it is falling apart anyway.
We live at a time when the pace of change is faster than ever, and that is why it is going to be so important for all of us to be grounded in the truth so that we will be able to separate fact from fiction during the extremely chaotic times that are ahead of us.
Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
Starting the Day With a Scripture-Inspired Roast Helps Center Your Thoughts on Eternal Truths Amid Temporal Pressures
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