Submitted 2 months ago by Lydia_K@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I was reading this book, academic book about the witch trials but written very early 1900s, and weird shit.
It referenced actual court documents and such during witch trials and this one person was admitting to talking to some dude with red eyes in a hat. I swear it sounds like the fucking Hatman, but during medieval times… Dude has been fucking with humanity for centuries at least.
Do you have the name of the book? My cousin was talking about the red eyed man his immediate family sees from time to time and I mentioned how it sounded like the hat man. Having a reference to a red eyed hat man would be sick to pull out in the next conversation
Actually yes! the Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray.
It’s a very odd book arguing that they weren’t seeing the devil and the witch trials were people worshipping what she calls the “Dianic cult”, like some ancient fertility gods with horns and stuff. But it does reference a lot of actual witch trials in the book and it’s fascinating.
red eyed man
Sclera or iris?
TFW The Hat Man sits down next to you and offers you a cigarette…
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Ah, the sound of TV static. How I miss you.
What's this a reference to?
A common hallucination that people see when they OD on Benedryl: knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-hatman
not just bendaryl or dxm or whatever else, people get out of their trip what have put in their heads beforehand. if you read about hat man a lot you will see hat man
He’s seen in many other situations too. Benadryl is just super commonly known.
Someone I talked to online said they saw him multiple times in their life sober, and every time there’d be a death in the family or really bad thing would happen. They didn’t see him as evil, just as an omen/warning.
I experience this but never saw it as a man in a hat. Interesting.
People often ask chatbots questions and treat their responses as genuine artificial intelligence
Folks see the hat man from robotripping.
Never look at the hat man. Always look down and away.
What is the hat man? Like a boogeyman?
Worse. Even worse than the BEKS.
When I saw the hat man on Benadryl, I did look away at first, but at some point it felt wrong and I looked to where I saw him.
He did no longer stand there. So I stood up and wandered the house to find him (maybe that was already after I passed out idk) and he sat in the kitchen and seemed lost in thought. So I just said “Nice meeting you, bye!” and went to bed.
Anyways that‘s my story of the hat man.
ChatGPT is often very blatantly incorrect
People don’t care as long as it ingratiates itself and strokes the users ego.
Better him than poopman
Oh, no. He’s going to tell me to use Chrome!
It used to be “I asked my dad”
Funny, the old hag told me the same thing
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well I asked the scat man and he said “Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope”
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the scatman can do it brother so can you
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I had that same song start playing in my head when I read hat man, too!
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well I asked the Batman and he said “I’m Batman”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you asked the wrong scat man. Mr. Jarreau scats way better.