Originally posted by jkrog08
OKAY PEOPLE..........Lets PLEASE keep Dans wife and family out of this,if she wants to tell a story,LET HER.Dont start flaming a person who as only been exposed to ATS for like 30 minutes!Stop being hounding dogs and mature up and let her speak,please.I am getting sick of this excessive flaming crap.Skeptiscism is good and so are questions-TO AN EXTENT.~JKrog

You must be kidding...

Tell me, why is it SO IMPORTANT for you to believe his story? What in his story made you believe in it?

And tell me how does his so called experience make sense in your reality?

It's unbelievable how people like you can defend someone like Dan, who's made this thing up and not very well if I may add.

Why do you believe? Why do you NEED to believe in this? Can't you filter out the BS that's on these boards anymore?

Well, add me to the list of paranoid people. I keep plenty of sharp or dangerous objects within reach in my apartment. If someone threatens me in my own home, I will kill them. I will not cower in the corner frantically dialing 911 hoping that the cops show up sometime in the next 2 hours all the while allowing this person to have their way with me.

That said, I don't think I would attack an alien unless it showed itself to be hostile. A human? They know better than to be in my bedroom at night uninvited. I would be more curious about the alien and try to communicate with it at the very least. I would be gambling with only my own safety, but if I had a wife and kids to protect it would be a different story.

If Dan's story is real, then I don't hold much pity for this thing. It was in his house uninvited. It was in his bedroom where he and his family were sleeping. It/they apparently have messed with his mind at least once. This does not seem to be the actions of an enlightened and friendly "space brother" type creature does it?

As for Dan posting "normally" for a couple days after this event, this seems normal to me. I have known many people in traumatic situations. Most time they try to go about a normal, comfortable, routine after something like that happens. I know one person that severely injured themselves (metal pole through their foot) and looked around to see if anyone saw them do such a dumb thing before even grabbing the injury and saying "ouch". What else was he supposed to do? Sit and stare at the wall for a few days before posting here? Boredom alone would drive him back to doing "normal" type things very quickly.

Some people have flamed him for not calling the authorities. What good would that do? They would most definitely call him a nut. They would take his child away from an "obviously" mentally unstable person. Have you ever seen Protective Services in action? They are one of the most corrupt, despicable organizations ever conceived of. I have seen perfectly good families absolutely destroyed by these types of organizations. Even if they DID believe him 100% what could they do? Go arrest the fishman? Do you honestly think they would call in a full forensics team for what they think is some nut job that saw a fishman? They don't even do that for "real" crimes unless they are major. Forensics teams cost money.

We humans may have the ability, through nanotechnology, within the next 50 years to clean a room at the atomic level. I'm sure an alien race would be able to do this with no problem.

Is Dan's story real? Maybe. How the hell would I know? I was not there. Asking for proof here is worthless. There is nothing that he could post here that could not be faked. Text, Pictures, Video; It could all be faked. He could have recorded the whole thing with the very best camera equipment in multiple angles and people would still say "Fake!" because it *could* be faked. It all comes down to whether you believe him or not.

I'm a very scientifically minded person, but I have seen and experienced things which prove to me that there is more to this world than what you will find on the pages of a science book.

Okay... Okay. This is BS.

I don't even know where to start. Other posters have pointed these things out:

* The OP is posting after a supposed horrific event. Let's think - you've been hanging around in a conspiracy forum for some time. As far as you're concerned, you have the upmost respect of your fellow forum buddies. You've been reading about aliens, Barrack Obama being a communist, and all sorts of nonsense. Obviously, there's a majority of people who are going to believe the fabrication.

* The OP basically stated in his story "believe me or I'll ignore you." That neutralizes any counter-argument that this is BS, and even my earlier post on the 2nd page was crafted in such a way so I didn't get ignored.

* RATS. Not many people knew what this was - a bit of an 'exclusive' club for ATS members who are seemingly more genuine than others. The rest of us who can't get into RATS seem to be considered 'scum' and 'garbage', when paradoxically, we're usually the ones that are the straighter-thinking type of people who haven't amassed a billion conspiracy forum points to read the damn thing.

* The room where it was supposed to happen had the magic 'clean up' treatment. Of course... And all we have to go by are extremely small camera phone images. Any camera phone made in the past few years takes photos of at least 320x240 pixels - these ones were smaller than a postage stamp. Again, the 'real' ones were supposedly in the RATS forum, where the rest of us plebs can't even read.

* Pictures of the knives used in the attack; if everything got cleaned up, why do we still have the knives that were used to almost kill the thing left lying around? That seems like a pretty important piece of evidence to leave around. The aliens may have cleaned up purple goo, but they left the OP with a collection of knives to photograph for all to see?

* The wife posting using the guys account. Alright, I can understand that... to an extent. The writing and editing closely follow that of the OP. This doesn't seem like a healthy thing to do with a spouse if it's true - sharing a traumatic event on the internets is one thing, but getting your wife in on the act, or pretending it's your wife is, wow, I don't know, that's just sort of creepy.

* The injuries. C'mon... Anyone would have worse scratches than that after tripping over into a rose bush.

Many things have been pointed out by other posters. All I can say is, this is a paranoid delusion that others are sharing.

Some guy earlier even made a post that read like "yeah, yeah, me too, I keep KNIVES with me all the time, too!" Yes! That'll keep those pesky aliens out, I'll have to get me some flash-looking knives too.

This thread has stopped me from posting in any other ATS thread, because it seems ATS has somewhat degenerated into nonsense.

That was some story. Another reason I thank God I live in the USA so I can keep as many guns as I feel I need to keep, and if even a shred of this is true, I am going to need them all.
BTW, why didn't you have a tripod handy?
After all, everybody on this site knows a tripod makes everything good.
Why, I would bet that if you had beaten that thing to an inch of it's life using a tripod, there would have been no flamers.
Seriously, Dan, here in Florida we have a 'mans home is his castle' law that means, in a nutshell, good for you, Mate!

Originally posted by BcnDiamond
From what I read so far, I think it's strange that someone who lives in the uk or schotland, makes critical grammar and spelling mistakes and his wifes makes the exact same ones.

I agree. Spelling mistakes on an internet forum. Only the most foolish amongst us could do such a thing.