The truth is definitely out there.
I have seen things in the bush that would make your blood run cold. I don't talk about it much for fear of losing what little credibility I have left. As a consequence when people start telling me about Sasquatch and strange creatures back in the woods, I listen attentively, but never try to top them, as it sounds like mockery. I never say "wow" or other patronizing comments, or sound like I immediately believe it. I am prepared for anything. I have seen the usual acceptable animal oddities like Wildcat passing my vehicle at 50 mph, bears peeling bananas in a garbage dump, and pure white moose, beaver and wolf. But the stuff you wouldn't believe, like fish with antlers, talking animals, martian colonies and the like, I refuse to even mention.
Mineral oddities and occurrences of gold for instance .. the actuality of it.. to the average investor who doesn't really know the business are quite compelling. Just what ordinary folks have done and have found in the pursuit of mineral wealth in this country should give us pause. Just plain ordinary facts of a dry and supposedly dull nature. Like how many mineral occurrences of gold have been counted in a single township near Beardmore Ontario. It is recorded that there were 15,000 different reports of gold in one township east of Beardmore. I believe it was McVicar Twp, where I used to prospect, but it could have been on of the adjacent ones. The Ontario Geological survey only reports 15,000 documented mineral showings in Ontario in their computer database. That is interesting enough to look at, but it is very red tape government anemia. There are easily 5,000 gold showings in Kenora Ontario. Between Kenora and Dryden there are perhaps another 10,000. There were 20,000 diamonds found near Flint Michigan in soil between 1850 and 1930. There are 1,500 adits, small mines of silver, lead and zinc that were exploited between south Washington State and Revelstoke BC from the 1800's to present day. I don't believe there are any operational today. I find that last plain ordinary fact as disturbing as the revelation never before seen creatures or lost Indian tribes. There are 5,000 occurrences of copper and zinc in Ontario - of some extent - which have either drill holes in them, channel samples and or excavations. 50 of them were mines at one time. If you presented the underground drilling data of any of these mines to the Toronto stock exchange today, you would have to make the statement that it cannot be relied on because it does not pass 43-101 standards. I find the latter fact about as intriguing as a Hairy Blue Sasquatch that speaks proto Basque any day. But maybe that is just me.
As perhaps just an interesting fact, one could contemplate that the human has the highest intelligence of any animal by a wide margin, yet none of them could make a beehive with their teeth (or just about any other implement), or build a beaver dam and lodge by swimming underwater and packing twigs and mud just so. In addition with all that extra intelligence, they seem to need books on sex in order to mate properly it would seem, and cannot get it straight what to do in their environment or amongst themselves that isn't ultimately some kind of disaster that threatens their survival. That, you have to admit, is a conundrum. Perhaps Intelligent Life is an oxymoron.
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