I believe in EVERYTHING but also NOTHING…

“But Kate, that doesn’t make any sense.”

Yeah, I know. My brain has a hard time landing on a solid yes or no with some of this mystical and historical stuff. I want solid proof before I say I believe something. In the meantime, I can be skeptical and still have fun imagining what it’d be like if it were true.

1. Aliens and disclosure

Aliens? Yeah. I think they’re intelligent beings that can travel in ways we don’t understand. Space, time, dimensions… who knows. Maybe they pop in to see what’s up because we’re interesting. Or maybe they’re worried about us fucking up everything with our nukes.

Why now, though? Now it feels like it’s more popular to believe than not, we even gave the different species names. Grays, Reptilians, Insectoids, the Nordics... I'm sure there's some truth to it, but a lot of these stories are just a little too fantastical.

And disclosure coming from Trump? Like I believe anything coming out of his mouth, please... Now. If an alien came directly to me, I’d believe it in a second!

2. Bigfoot

Those Messin’ with Sasquatch ads used to be my favorite. And yeah, that’s pretty much what I picture when I think of Bigfoot.

I like to think they’re some old branch of hominids that evolved differently. They’re intelligent in a different way. Their specialty is to be elusive. I think they’re smart enough to know humans are bad news, and they’ve found places where it’s easy to stay out of sight.

I’m talking DENSE woods. The kind where you can barely see ahead of you. Where are those woods? I don’t know. I don’t get out much.

3. Fairies

I don’t know what I think fairies actually are. I always pictured tiny, really pretty magical creatures with wings. Quirky little things. Some are sweet and helpful and some just like to fuck with you. I love blaming fairies when I can’t find something. Maybe I’m an easy target?

Then I read ACOTAR. It had never occurred to me that a fairy could be regular human-sized. All the different races of Fae in the books put them more in the realm of vampires and witches in my head.

4. The moon landing

I wish I believed we went to the moon. I really do. The explanation I always hear for why we haven’t been back is basically “we forgot.” Bitch, how do you forget how to go to the MOON?

Other countries have sent spacecraft there, and I’m still hung up on why nobody else has put a person on it.

And the footage. Holy hell. It makes zero sense to me. I won’t elaborate. Just go watch it. It’s comical.

My brain goes straight to “they faked it for a distraction.” I wasn’t around, and I haven’t done enough digging to say that for sure. I’d love to watch somebody walk on the moon in my lifetime, though.

5. Ancient civilizations

I don’t think mainstream archaeology has caught up with how old some of this crap is. I mean all over the world.

Angkor in Cambodia. One of their reservoirs was FIVE MILES LONG. Why they need that much water? They got data centers back then? I get that they had monsoon rains to deal with and rice fields to water. But come on...

Egypt, India, Peru, etc... Some of that stonework is so damn precise that the tools we know they had don’t make sense to me. It often appears like it would almost HAVE to be machinery.

Where they all go??

The Younger Dryas is where my brain goes. There are old flood stories from cultures all over the world, and I think they’re ALL talking about the same event. I think that event wiped out entire civilizations. The people who came later took what was still standing and made it their own. (some even admit this)

And while I’m here, I think that event had a hand in shaping the Grand Canyon too. Geologists say the Colorado River had already been carving it for millions of years by then. I still think a flood that big would’ve changed the canyon in a major way. I’d love to see what it looked like before and after.

Atlantis? Ok, I'll bite. My vote is the Richat Structure in the Sahara. Plato described rings of land and water. Those rings did it for me. Finding out how wet the Sahara used to be made it a lot easier to picture. The dates are where I get stuck. Maybe Plato got the rings right and the timing wrong.

I could be wrong about all of this. I’d love to find out which parts. If it IS fairies, put my shit back.