If I may, the issue of HOAX or not is unresolvable in terms of the context.

How could you possibly 'prove' anything posting on a forum such as this? Every image is deemed either technically unsatisfactory or manipulated. Every claim is countered with 'give me proof' but no one dares explain what proof really would be.

I will not be the one to discount a story simply because my gut says so, unless I know that 'my gut feeling' is an acceptable substitute for reason. At the very most I'll express reservations, but it would be unfair to categorically deny someones experiences took place.

Having said this; I hope for DT's sake that this particular chapter in his families life has ended, and he never face such a horror again.

I completely agree with you OP on this one. I want to look at this a little deeper. The OP's of the two recent hoaxes most likely will not read this thread for fear.

Since I'm a pacifist, I do not like to upset the OP's, because sometimes they are sick or they are suffering through something in their lives, and this board is their only outlet for whatever is going on in their lives. I have substantial evidence that at least part of the threat, "Violent Encounter..." is indeed a hoax, or at least partly a lie.

1.) Common sense dictates, the Violent Encounter is entirely false. Any non-paranoid, non-schizophrenic, sane human can use logic to determine this.
2.) When the OP of "Violent Encounter..." uses his wife, he makes two mistakes identifying himself posing as his wife.
a.) Similar grammatical errors
b.) Same typing punctuation style, i.e a space after a sentence followed by a question mark. Trust me, that is a trait that only one idiot has.

Now I hate to point fingers, but this "violent encounter" most likely never happened. Now from another perspective, it is possible something happened. If this is so than the OP of that particular thread, probably had his home invaded, had a lot of stuff stolen, fabricated this story, then posted it to make himself feel better. It is also possible that his wife/girlfriend was raped, or some sort of traumatic experience occurred, and he wrote out his own version of the story to help him escape, which I hope is not true because it truly is pathetic.

Best case scenario, he's just a kid wanting attention (probably isn't even married). They say there are two primary reasons for a hoax. For profit, career enhancement, or for attention. I think we've solved that first one.

I haven't read the other thread about the bedroom, but I'll be sure you look it over. Also to read another hoax, check out JKrog's Secret Black Projects Part 2. Great fictional read, and somebody already proved it to include elements from an entire season of Stargate.

Originally posted by darkelf
We need a new forum category on ATS. Whenever someone makes claims like this, it needs to go to the HOAX forum until the OP has provided definative proof. Once this has been met, the thread can be moved to the applicable category.

But isnt that what ATS Skunk Works is perfect for?

Non definitive proof, until proved otherwise.

[edit on 7-7-2008 by Denied]

Originally posted by alienj

I dont like the flag system, you can flag it to push it higher to the top but you cant flag it to push is to the bottom. If we had a way to flag these post as nonsense(and those who thought they were true could flag otherwise) then I think we could put a stop to this.

Thats a really good idea, so even if it had 80 flags, you might have 90 naysayers.