Comments on: Face to Face with the White Thing

By: cliffhanger042002

cliffhanger042002 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:20:39 +0000

I have an uncle that used to tell a similar story of the Brookside White Thing to me and my cousins. We all grew up in Brookside, Alabama and he told the story that he saw the White Thing as a yong boy. And coincidentally, that would have been in the 1960’s too. He told the story a bit differently, or at least the creature was different in his story. In my uncle’s story it was a ferocious 4-legged creature with white hair and long teeth, he described it as a cross between a bigfoot and a werewolf. That was a very scary story to hear as a young child. I was amazed to see the post in here of the White Thing, I haven’t heard anything about that in years, and only ever heard the story in back in my hometown Brookside, never heard the story out of any of the neighboring cities or towns.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:27:06 +0000

When did this story start surfacing? I don’t mean the 1967 part, but when did this come to your attention? There is a movie coming out called Pan’s Labyrinth, and there is a creature in there that has no eyes, just slits for nostrils and a mouth, ears and it’s skinny and white. Could someone just be playing along with this new movie?

Interesting story though.

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:45:37 +0000

So, let me see if I can translate this. This guy seems to claim that at some point in his childhood there was a story being circulated among local kids about a “white thing” they were seeing and he was the skeptic who decided it was just a dog. Only after seeing for himself that the entity was not a dog did he become a believer. After that he learned that the entity could also walk on its legs along and after that the entire situation turns into a rehashing of the Mary Green story with multiple generations of his family having had contact with the entity (entities) that supposedly live inside the earth.

Anybody else puzzle something similar out of this mish-mash of various fortean elements? We’ve got the multi-generational interaction of abductees, the hollow-earth theory, and just a DASH of relict hominid/evolutionary divergence if not true cryptozoology.)

Were the delivery not so incoherent, you might have all the elements of a nice sci-fi/fantasy novel there, but I gotta agree that it isn’t cryptozoology.

Still, it’s intriguing as an amalgam of modern myths.

By: skeptik

skeptik — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:04:43 +0000

Maybe it’s Gollum.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:25:06 +0000

I agree the white thing is very similar to the strange looking creatures in the movie THE DESCENT. Did anyone happen to take a photo of this human like creature ?

By: busterggi

busterggi — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:55:01 +0000

All this fuss over a morlock.

By: WVBIG_2006

WVBIG_2006 — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:21:43 +0000

sschaper says “I think they need a priest, not a wildlife biologist” A priest or someone from SETI.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:37:03 +0000

I think they need a priest, not a wildlife biologist.

By: skeptik

skeptik — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:52:10 +0000

Having read this story I can’t help thinking it might be a human, and not necessarily albino. Poor lighting can make a wrong assassment of colour. Especially if you’re in a stressed situation.

It didn’t say anything about fur, did it?

The part about the running might be a miscalculation of speed, a common error. Let’s not underestimate the human body either.

By: joppa

joppa — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:10:53 +0000

Not zoology.