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This seemed like the best fit for this, if not, I tried.

I got the idea for this thread from another post, seemed like it might be fun. 

I figured it would be cool to post a few paragraphs about when/where/how you got sucked into the CT type world. I did one in another thread, but will redo/elaborate here.

Basically, in a few paragraphs(for ease of reading, but post whatever you want). What got you into the subjects, when, where and what specific topics do you most gravitate toward. I'm assuming most here have been around awhile, so it's interesting to see the origins of some of our interests before the world changed so rapidly.
So for me, it was in elementary school. 

I don't remember the exact age/grade. But I came across some books on the loch ness monster. Read a few and was hooked. I dove into that subject and read anything I could.

I focused mainly on the loch ness mystery, but within a while branched out into crypto in general(because most books on loch ness catered to the whole). That was what drug me in, it was such a mystery and the possibilities were amazing. I always found that subject, specifically cryptozoolgy, fascinating. As time went on I read about other stuff, UFO's and other CT. But crytopzoolgy always was my main draw. 

These days I still favor that, but I've also taken a liking to reading about alternative archeology/history. It's extremely fascinating and still makes me feel like there is so much knowledge to be gained and so much possibility.

Sorry if this is a ramble, but I threw this together now because I look forward to seeing the reply's from other members. This isn't about the "merit" of anything, just what you grabbed onto in the early years, and led you down the path of mystery.
Had a straight-shooting family.  Well wired to reality.  Father and mother had both seen a lot, and made clear their skepticism of various official narratives.

As time moved on, politics seemingly got weirder and the BS got thicker.  It became clear the MSM was not in the business of unbiased information distribution, although Dad had already pointed that out way back during the Vietnam War.

Checked out TOS a few years ago.

Certainly not on board with all of it, but it makes for entertaining reading if nothing else.

Cheers
(08-01-2020, 08:13 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: [ -> ]Had a straight-shooting family.  Well wired to reality.  Father and mother had both seen a lot, and made clear their skepticism of various official narratives.

As time moved on, politics seemingly got weirder and the BS got thicker.  It became clear the MSM was not in the business of unbiased information distribution, although Dad had already pointed that out way back during the Vietnam War.

Checked out TOS a few years ago.

Certainly not on board with all of it, but it makes for entertaining reading if nothing else.

Cheers

Started as a kid in the mid 60's and experienced some weird stuff later in life while working.  Sought some answers through the net many years later.  Not stuff you talked about in those days and in my jobs I guess I just shut my mouth, so, hence I wandered into sites such as this.

Kind regards,

Bally:)
(08-01-2020, 08:33 AM)Bally002 Wrote: [ -> ]
(08-01-2020, 08:13 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: [ -> ]Had a straight-shooting family.  Well wired to reality.  Father and mother had both seen a lot, and made clear their skepticism of various official narratives.

As time moved on, politics seemingly got weirder and the BS got thicker.  It became clear the MSM was not in the business of unbiased information distribution, although Dad had already pointed that out way back during the Vietnam War.

Checked out TOS a few years ago.

Certainly not on board with all of it, but it makes for entertaining reading if nothing else.

Cheers

Started as a kid in the mid 60's and experienced some weird stuff later in life while working.  Sought some answers through the net many years later.  Not stuff you talked about in those days and in my jobs I guess I just shut my mouth, so, hence I wandered into sites such as this.

Kind regards,

Bally:)

Thanks for the reply, but I figured there would be some specifics, even if vague. 

Probably isn't much danger here, these days. 

I'm guessing you were in the air, commercially or via .gov and that lead you down the path of exploration?
(08-01-2020, 08:35 AM)MisterSpock Wrote: [ -> ]
(08-01-2020, 08:33 AM)Bally002 Wrote: [ -> ]
(08-01-2020, 08:13 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: [ -> ]Had a straight-shooting family.  Well wired to reality.  Father and mother had both seen a lot, and made clear their skepticism of various official narratives.

As time moved on, politics seemingly got weirder and the BS got thicker.  It became clear the MSM was not in the business of unbiased information distribution, although Dad had already pointed that out way back during the Vietnam War.

Checked out TOS a few years ago.

Certainly not on board with all of it, but it makes for entertaining reading if nothing else.

Cheers

Started as a kid in the mid 60's and experienced some weird stuff later in life while working.  Sought some answers through the net many years later.  Not stuff you talked about in those days and in my jobs I guess I just shut my mouth, so, hence I wandered into sites such as this.

Kind regards,

Bally:)

Thanks for the reply, but I figured there would be some specifics, even if vague. 

Probably isn't much danger here, these days. 

I'm guessing you were in the air, commercially or via .gov and that lead you down the path of exploration?

Cheers for your interest.  No I was in the navy, ship(carrier) and shore based then worked as an LEO for many years in some different jurisdictions.

But as a child I did have a UFO experience, again as a young bloke in the navy and several weird spiritual experiences while working as an LEO in remote areas.  I do recount my stories at times to close friends and they did say I should write a book but I would have to include some close acquaintances, whose privacy I respect, to cover the truth about the matters.

I have alluded to a couple of tales albeit semi fictional, if I can put it that way, by way of short stories.  I will write more but I also enjoy my retirement now and avoid going into specifics.  You can't convince skeptics.  

Kind regards,

Bally:)
Me?
Everything More or Less I was taught in China growing up was a Lie.
Saw my first UFO (cigar shape, silent) as a child holding my father's hand and he said it was the Americans, be glad we are not dead.

My eyes opened more in College then the University I became more curious in UFOs and Ancient Earth.
But there were no computers in the 70's.

I had my best learning experience after my training for the MSS.
Be assured there still where not any computers for a long while yet, but I met others with the same curiosity and didn't believe the primus that America was all Evil and had these UFOs and not others countries, why not China we thought, we kept those thoughts to ourselves.

After I was a field agent I learned much, much, much more about other cultures and countries.
Then in 1995 we were allowed access to our Agencies Computer in a Heavily Monitored Office with Obedience Police over our shoulders.
Nothing to learn there and it was not allowed to own a personnel PC, beside we just got to buy our first Black and White TV.
(08-01-2020, 09:29 AM)guohua Wrote: [ -> ]Me?
Everything More or Less I was taught in China growing up was a Lie.
Saw my first UFO (cigar shape, silent) as a child holding my father's hand and he said it was the Americans, be glad we are not dead.

My eyes opened more in College then the University I became more curious in UFOs and Ancient Earth.
But there were no computers in the 70's.

I had my best learning experience after my training for the MSS.
Be assured there still where not any computers for a long while yet, but I met others with the same curiosity and didn't believe the primus that America was all Evil and had these UFOs and not others countries, why not China we thought, we kept those thoughts to ourselves.

After I was a field agent I learned much, much, much more about other cultures and countries.
Then in 1995 we were allowed access to our Agencies Computer in a Heavily Monitored Office with Obedience Police over our shoulders.
Nothing to learn there and it was not allowed to own a personnel PC, beside we just got to buy our first Black and White TV.

Well, that was an amazing story. 

I'm sure you'll obviously win the perseverance award for that one. 

I was just some pudgy white kid in america that read some books rather than choose to go smoke cigs and kick frogs on the playground.

How different we all are in our lives that bring us to the same path.
(08-01-2020, 09:33 AM)MisterSpock Wrote: [ -> ]
(08-01-2020, 09:29 AM)guohua Wrote: [ -> ]Me?
Everything More or Less I was taught in China growing up was a Lie.
Saw my first UFO (cigar shape, silent) as a child holding my father's hand and he said it was the Americans, be glad we are not dead.

My eyes opened more in College then the University I became more curious in UFOs and Ancient Earth.
But there were no computers in the 70's.

I had my best learning experience after my training for the MSS.
Be assured there still where not any computers for a long while yet, but I met others with the same curiosity and didn't believe the primus that America was all Evil and had these UFOs and not others countries, why not China we thought, we kept those thoughts to ourselves.

After I was a field agent I learned much, much, much more about other cultures and countries.
Then in 1995 we were allowed access to our Agencies Computer in a Heavily Monitored Office with Obedience Police over our shoulders.
Nothing to learn there and it was not allowed to own a personnel PC, beside we just got to buy our first Black and White TV.

Well, that was an amazing story. 

I'm sure you'll obviously win the perseverance award for that one. 

I was just some pudgy white kid in america that read some books rather than choose to go smoke cigs and kick frogs on the playground.

How different we all are in our lives that bring us to the same path.

Hawww My growing up was so firmly controlled there was always the threat of YOU and your entire Family being send to a Re-Education Camp.
Yes they were real, Re-education camps were a place your neighbors disappeared to. 
Why, for asking questions, not reading or knowing a paragraph my heart out of Mao Little Red book when asked to recite it. 
Being Different.

I learned more in 10 years in America with My Husband than I ever believed was possible.
Now I have Excellent Friends that trust me to run a Conspiracy Website.

You have started an Excellent Thread.  minusculebeercheers
(08-01-2020, 09:47 AM)guohua Wrote: [ -> ]
(08-01-2020, 09:33 AM)MisterSpock Wrote: [ -> ]
(08-01-2020, 09:29 AM)guohua Wrote: [ -> ]Me?
Everything More or Less I was taught in China growing up was a Lie.
Saw my first UFO (cigar shape, silent) as a child holding my father's hand and he said it was the Americans, be glad we are not dead.

My eyes opened more in College then the University I became more curious in UFOs and Ancient Earth.
But there were no computers in the 70's.

I had my best learning experience after my training for the MSS.
Be assured there still where not any computers for a long while yet, but I met others with the same curiosity and didn't believe the primus that America was all Evil and had these UFOs and not others countries, why not China we thought, we kept those thoughts to ourselves.

After I was a field agent I learned much, much, much more about other cultures and countries.
Then in 1995 we were allowed access to our Agencies Computer in a Heavily Monitored Office with Obedience Police over our shoulders.
Nothing to learn there and it was not allowed to own a personnel PC, beside we just got to buy our first Black and White TV.

Well, that was an amazing story. 

I'm sure you'll obviously win the perseverance award for that one. 

I was just some pudgy white kid in america that read some books rather than choose to go smoke cigs and kick frogs on the playground.

How different we all are in our lives that bring us to the same path.

Hawww My growing up was so firmly controlled there was always the threat of YOU and your entire Family being send to a Re-Education Camp.
Yes they were real, Re-education camps were a place your neighbors disappeared to. 
Why, for asking questions, not reading or knowing a paragraph my heart out of Mao Little Red book when asked to recite it. 
Being Different.

I learned more in 10 years in America with My Husband than I ever believed was possible.
Now I have Excellent Friends that trust me to run a Conspiracy Website.

You have started an Excellent Thread.  minusculebeercheers

"You have started an Exellent Thread."

Thanks, I was thinking of it as more of an "origin story" as to what made most of us look "beyond" the "normal". Plus i figured it would show that most people have that "one" think that really gets their interest going. Like mine will always be cryptozoology.
I didn't start out as a CT. I wasn't even familiar with the term.  I am just that person that finds it hard to accept something just because someone says it. 

It has gotten me in trouble all my life. It is not just needing to know why,  it has to make sense to me. If I can't make sense of something,  if I can't wrap my head around it,  I exhaust myself trying. 

Even when I was a child, the "because I said so", explanation didn't wash with me. I spent hours in the Library's reference section, looking crap up that no one was interested in but me. 

My friends used to say I was the smartest person they knew. I was doing High School homework for members of the basketball team when I was in 8th grade. I wasn't smart, I was just a walking talking encyclopedia. Then I discovered computers. The info junkie was trapped.

I worked with computers when they took up a whole building and you had to dress like you were in Alaska when in the building. I used to think they were the greastest thing since sliced bread. Maybe they were back then.

I was given a modem back in the early 80's as a Christmas gift and I fell into "The Well".

The rest is history.
Way back in the age of dinosaurs and before computers, I subscribed to a magazine called, "The Skeptical Enquierer".  The precursor to conspiracy websites.  

In the 80's I was stationed at RAF Bentwaters, in East Anglia, UK.  The base right next to Rendalsham Forrest.  Knew some of the people involved in the UFO sightings.  Figured that the government was lying then and never stopped believing that.

So I've lived in this "rabbit hole" for decades.

tinywhat
I was one of those kids with overprotective parents, never had friends outside school or played with others really, I was a bit of a mute kid, never wanted to be seen or heard, trapped in the house, so I had to occupy my mind with other things. when I was about 5 I watched The Lost Boys (to this day one of my favourite movies) and my love affair with anything weird and away from normal began. I gravitated towards anything Mysterious, Paranormal, weird, fantastical etc I would get these weekly magazines called ''Spinechiller'' with awesome stories and mysteries covering the whole weird spectrum, from UFO'S and Aliens to Vampires, to Mothman etc I was a pretty depressed kid so being able to escape into other worlds was a lifesaver for me. Getting into other conspiracies was just a natural progression as I grew older, I still prefer the Myths, Monsters and UFO's type stuff, but I'm pretty grounded and rational, I don't just believe shit because I want it to be true.
The house I grew up in was haunted as all hell too, that had a big impact on me as I grew up.

Nothing too exciting but yeah that's where it all started for me, some people wouldn't even call that stuff conspiracy, but they are always side by side, so can't really escape it. Besides, reality sucks!
Is "CT" conspiracy theorist, or critical thinker?  I choose the latter to describe myself.   minusculebiggrin

I experienced my first "paranormal" experience while still sleeping in my crib. I had to sleep there until I was two because of the lack of bed space in our house back then.
There was a being standing at the foot of my crib and I could see my parents still in bed, which frightened me. That's all I remember about that experience.

Skipping forward to age six, I saw my first smokey white ghost figure while outside playing with my cousins. I had ghostly encounters from that time forward; some really scary ones. Couldn't find an adult anywhere that believed me, so I grew up feeling alone and scared.

At age 10 or so, I saw my first UFO. It was a mother ship and had little scout ships coming out of the bottom.  They shot off into all directions of the night sky.

Not long after spying the UFO, a very strange creature started hollering in the forest across the road. It sounded like the sound the movie producers give to a pterodactyl. To this day I think it arrived in the UFO I saw.

And not long after that, I saw an "invisible" Bigfoot standing in the woods. It's body was wavy, like the heat that one sees rising up off a hot highway.

Many more paranormal experiences and UFO sightings after that. As a matter of fact, things still happen to me to this day, but just not as often.

As I said, I had no one to talk to about any of this weirdness, so after getting a computer in my home in the late 1990s, I was able to start looking for answers and found my way to ATS and other boards.

And, yes, I finally did find the answers that I had searched for all my life, thanks to finding others who had the same types of experiences. I'm no longer alone.   tinybiggrin

ETA: I would also like to add that I started seeing how the medical, food, drug, media, and politicians were "scratching each other's back" in the early 1990s. I started looking into this also. It didn't take me long to see how they play their games in withholding information from the public. We've had natural cures for many diseases for decades, but Big Pharma shuts anyone down who tries to make the public aware.

From there, it's just been one rabbit hole after another. In the end, we've been lied to our entire lives. You have to do your own research if you want to know the truth.
I wanted to know more about Aliens and UFOs so on January 4th of 2008 I joined Above Top Secret thinking I might be able to educate myself further on the topic. 

It was a huge disappointment with idiots talking about lizard people, the Galactic Federation of Light, and all the other nonsense that stacked shit on top of an already massive pile of it. I walked away from Alien and UFO CT around 2011. Besides, I had other shit to do. 

I became interested in political/media conspiracies while I was in Afghanistan. 

On December 13, 2013, Arrowsmith 35, a UH 60 Blackhawk helicopter carrying 4 of my friends was blown out of the sky by a powerful IED emplaced in a mountain where we were conducting what is called an "Air Hammer" mission. That day CNN and others published so many fake stories about the incident that I had to wonder WHY. That started me down a rabbit hole that I am still on today. 

Anyone who trusts the media is being fooled in ways they'll never truly understand until you've been part of the fiasco. There's plenty there to dissect and the conspiracies are very real with very real consequences.

drussell41

(08-01-2020, 08:06 AM)MisterSpock Wrote: [ -> ]This seemed like the best fit for this, if not, I tried.

I got the idea for this thread from another post, seemed like it might be fun. 

I figured it would be cool to post a few paragraphs about when/where/how you got sucked into the CT type world. I did one in another thread, but will redo/elaborate here.

Basically, in a few paragraphs(for ease of reading, but post whatever you want). What got you into the subjects, when, where and what specific topics do you most gravitate toward. I'm assuming most here have been around awhile, so it's interesting to see the origins of some of our interests before the world changed so rapidly.

It all started with the unsolved homicides of young men.  I wanted to figure out which group was doing it.   Spent alot of time researching it, eventually stumbled into ATS.
(08-01-2020, 08:52 PM)drussell41 Wrote: [ -> ]It all started with the unsolved homicides of young men.  I wanted to figure out which group was doing it.   Spent alot of time researching it, eventually stumbled into ATS.

I remember those cases. I followed for a while. Like so many other mysteries, the information is cut off or something else takes its place.

They know we have short memories and are easily distracted. Unfortunately, they also know that we believe truth is relative, can be ordered to suit, and can be dismissed when convenient. So information on the internet is bountiful, but not always reliable.

Therefore, CT is often frowned upon, and thought of as silly and demeaning, while many of the sources used to vet the information they trust, is just as unreliable and constructed. 

They only tell you what they want you to know, and only give you what they want you to believe. I have no trust in anything provided by the media, and only half-way trust what I can see, hear, or touch.

I am very skeptical and yet always searching. Silly me
Hi ! My name is Sol and I'm a Conspiracy Theorist! tinylaughing


I had an incredible experience happen to me when I was around 10 years old. I saw something in the sky (was with a friend) that got way too close to us for comfort. Scared the living hell out of me (and of my friend) and that's when I started reading what you would call 'different' books than what others were reading.

Around the age of 18, I had become a sort of magnet of information for those around me. From UFOs to pyramids, to ghosts and spirits, everything paranormal, really. Until a co-worker humiliated me in front of everyone at work (was at lunchtime, speaking of the pyramids and the Sphinx). She totally lost it, told me to cut the bullshit and that people were stupid to listen to me. That shut me up. For years.

Met my ex-wife, had kids, started a family and forgot about all of that until a little before 2010. I had a bit more time on my hands by then and started reading again, in bookstores and online. My interest came back (like riding a bicycle, you never forget) but I wanted more. Finally found ATS as I was looking into UFOs and that website became my second home.

Made friends, met new people and that is how I met Guohua, Ninurta, Senona, Charles (which were Guohua, Neno, Snarky and Charles over there). Charles had started this new conspiracy website and I joined in. Guohua, Sen and Nin were already involved and I got to know them better. From there, Guohua started her own website, with the help of Wrabbit2000, Sen and I helped in. Wrabbit left and we started Rogue Nation 2 which transformed into Rogue-Nation3 which is the platform you are on now.

Being around people that I would trust with all that I've got, which are the Admins and Staff here, has been a blessing.

Getting to know people that think outside the box as I do, that do not believe everything they see or hear is also comforting. We don't always agree on everything but we dearly respect each other, in a world that is filled with smoke and mirrors.

Getting to know more and more people, from across the world, through a website that is non conformist is a joy that I can hardly describe.

It's home.

Sol.

P.S. Great thread idea !!!
Hi everyone !

For as long as I can remember , I was reading my dad's National Geographic, popular science and reader digest magazines. Probably since the late 60's. My reading progressed into all the sci fi greats. H G Wells, Jules Verne, just to name a few. 

Probably in middle school is when I started reading ufo , bigfoot , and , of course Chariots of the Gods. 

I have always questioned authority, hence I was a problem child. I always wanted to real truth, not all the bullshit. 

After having a very busy life, not having time for all that I sought out anymore, I found alot of time for it again , around 2010. 

In 2011, I was researching about the birds that fell in Beebee Arkansa. That is when I came across TOS and my entire world changed forever. 


Thanks to all of you for this wonderful journey . 


minusculebeercheers
When I joined ATS I joined because of some of the threads about 2a and disinfo about guns which had pissed me off.

I would not classify myself as a CT but more of a doubter of what is being said about a multitude of topics. If that is CT then so be it.
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