That was always my theory about Kolchak: The Nightstalker. Nobody else ever sees the supernatural stuff (and if they do, they never seem to remember/admit it later), and all the evidence is always (coincidentally) destroyed at the end of the episode. The viewers see the monsters, but the show uses Kolchak writing about what happened to him as a framing device, so all we really know for sure is what Kolchak believes he saw.
The Devil? Don’t be ridiculous. What would Satan, the demon Lucifer, Great Tempter, Adversary of God, Author of Sin, Father of All Lies, Great Red Dragon, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, the Devil his own sel’ be doing here in New Jersey?
Well, according to local legend, a woman named Mrs. Leeds living in the Pine Barrens had had twelve kids and was sick and tired of being pregnant and giving birth all the time, so when she found she was pregnant again, she declared “may this thirteenth child be a devil!”, and what was born was an inhuman monster that immediately ran out into the pines, where it remains today attacking innocent hikers.
Plenty of variations of the story, of course, but along that general theme.
Who is to say there aren’t multiple Devils, and one of the IS a six-foot-high hammer-headed bat?
What if it works like a plant version of Unity’s nanomachines invading a host body? What if all the different versions of the Jersey Devil reported over the years were different creatures all infested by parasitic plants? It turns out they were ALL real!
Considering how many different versions of the Jersey Devil legend there are (demon, space alien, mutant, dinosaur, demonic mutant space dinosaur, etc.), there might be something to that theory.
Besides, who ever heard of wings on a vegetable.
There are various descriptions of the Jersey Devil which, being a cryptid, may be able to look like whatever it feels like that day. You never know…
And it is a proper beastie! Yay!
Alas, poor Gotham hockey players…
Also, is this the first time Mustacho’s snarked?
That does not look at all like cavemen. Mulder lied to me!
Cavewoman you mean
The real secret: Mulder just THINKS he’s always right.
That was always my theory about Kolchak: The Nightstalker. Nobody else ever sees the supernatural stuff (and if they do, they never seem to remember/admit it later), and all the evidence is always (coincidentally) destroyed at the end of the episode. The viewers see the monsters, but the show uses Kolchak writing about what happened to him as a framing device, so all we really know for sure is what Kolchak believes he saw.
That would make a great pet for Unity.
Just one more creature for Sweetheart to clean up after.
Wait. So the angry trees _aren’t_ the Jersey Devil? I’m confused now.
Given its resemblance to a living Chia-pet, I’m inclined to think its a symbiote.
Or perhaps some sort of ambulatory plant-creature that grows on the trees
Along the lines of the vegetable lamb? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary
Shelby is just going to have to get used to the fact that machine intelligences are *machine* intelligences and as such quite literal. ^_^
So are humans once you bypass the critical factor of the conscious mind.
Sometimes even before that, depending on the human
It seems friendly enough. Feed it some cake.
The Devil? Don’t be ridiculous. What would Satan, the demon Lucifer, Great Tempter, Adversary of God, Author of Sin, Father of All Lies, Great Red Dragon, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, the Devil his own sel’ be doing here in New Jersey?
Don’t answer that.
Slumming?
(sorry. couldn’t resist.)
Well, according to local legend, a woman named Mrs. Leeds living in the Pine Barrens had had twelve kids and was sick and tired of being pregnant and giving birth all the time, so when she found she was pregnant again, she declared “may this thirteenth child be a devil!”, and what was born was an inhuman monster that immediately ran out into the pines, where it remains today attacking innocent hikers.
Plenty of variations of the story, of course, but along that general theme.
I suppose there were no issues of paternity, then.
I think the issue here is that they thought more ‘Satan’ than ‘Jersey Devil’ when he asked.
Why do all these mad science gizmos never have off switches?
Why bother? Everybody’s just going to use the self-destruct button anyway.
I think she was expecting the OFF button to reverse the summoning effect.
Oh. Then she should’a taken the vacuum cleaner hose out of the blow hole and put it back in the suck hole…
All of this reminds me of that scene in Sherlock with the nuclear bomb.
Alas, my favourite cryptid explanation for the Jersey Devil is ruled out. That ain’t no six-foot-high hammer-headed bat.
Who is to say there aren’t multiple Devils, and one of the IS a six-foot-high hammer-headed bat?
What if it works like a plant version of Unity’s nanomachines invading a host body? What if all the different versions of the Jersey Devil reported over the years were different creatures all infested by parasitic plants? It turns out they were ALL real!
Considering how many different versions of the Jersey Devil legend there are (demon, space alien, mutant, dinosaur, demonic mutant space dinosaur, etc.), there might be something to that theory.
No wings or improbable-physics-defying bipedal stance? I’m kind of dissapointed, to be honest.
Wallabies do stand on two feet; I think it’s just leaning and the panel border cut off the feet.
Besides, who ever heard of wings on a vegetable.
There are various descriptions of the Jersey Devil which, being a cryptid, may be able to look like whatever it feels like that day. You never know…