Are you one of
those unique people who brave the woods at night to search for the
large unknown creature known as Bigfoot or other cryptid creatures?
Do you like to explore old run down haunted places or grave yards, to
conduct a ghost hunt? Do you investigate areas where sightings of
strange unknown flying aircraft and landing sites have been reported?
Are you one of those people who search for legendary lost treasure
left behind by pirates or soldiers? If you do to all of that, then
you are a legend tripper.
“You’ve heard
the saying ‘Think outside the box.’ With legend tripping, you
‘look outside the box.’ You go out and search for things out of
the norm. Let’s be real, Bigfoot and ghosts are not what we call
normal. In fact, that is why they are called the paranormal. If you
look up and see strange lights moving in an irregular pattern, and
say ‘It’s probably a plane,’ then you are not looking outside
the box. If you say, ‘That might be a UFO,’ then you are. Legend
trippers don’t care what scientists have to say. Everything isn’t
always explainable. There are still things out there we don’t
know.” A legend tripper braves the night to find the truth behind
these legends.
Now, a person who
looks for just cryptids is a cryptozoologist, and a person who looks
for ghosts is a paranormal investigator. A legend tripper does not go
by these labels. They eat, drink and live legends and spend every
available time researching and exploring the stories behind the
legends. My passion lies in thrill of the search for the unknown, the
unexplained, the mysterious, and the weird. To A legend tripper, it
is not a job but a passion. It would be nice to have a job looking
for legends and mysteries. Legend tripping is a chance to get out
and away from the everyday routine of life, and experience something
above the norm.
Recently, legend
tripping was given a bad name when kids were going into abandoned
buildings and underground facilities and were calling themselves
legend trippers. In July 2012, teenagers snuck into the old,
abandoned Ravenswood Hospital (outside of Chicago, Illinois). One
teenager fell from a second-story window onto a concrete floor and
died. This is not legend tripping. It's called trespassing. Legend
trippers today do go into abandoned buildings, but they first get
permission and they do it safely. There are many abandoned buildings
I would love to go into, but I don’t because I know it can be
dangerous, and it’s illegal. Legend tripping is looking for and
experiencing a legend, but doing it the right way.
On a side note, if
you are one of those people who is looking to get famous, then legend
tripping is probably not for you. Today, there are a lot of people
out there looking for Bigfoot and/or ghosts, just to get what is
referred to as the “money shot” (that one photograph that nobody,
including scientists, cannot dispute), and to gain a large amount of
money for being the person who took it.
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| A recent hoax photo |
The truth of the
matter is that there is no money shot. Today, with the many hoax
videos on the internet, people want proof that they can actually see
and touch. So, unless somebody brings in a live or dead specimen,
then the photo or video is going to be ridiculed and branded a fake.
The famous Bigfoot film is the 1967 Roger Patterson film of a
supposed female Bigfoot, and it to this day, still considered my
scientists a fake. No matter how many legend trippers say it’s
real, scientists say it is a person in a specially built gorilla
suit. With the paranormal and extraterrestrials, unless you can get
the ghost or UFO to show up at the same spot for scientists, again
your photo(s) is going to be called a fake. But a legend tripper
doesn’t care. It’s is not about making money and fame; it is
about experiencing something nobody else gets to experience. It is
the opportunity to look for something unique. It’s a chance to step
out of the normal day to day routine of everyday life and look for
something that might reexamine how we look at certain scientific
theories. Legend trippers are not out to prove science wrong, but
that some of these legends to have fact behind them.
Where to legend
trippers go to explore legends. The quick answer is everywhere. There
are Legends in every one of the fifty tow states in the US. Every
state has legendary haunted places. Washington Irving’s famous
short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is based on a real
legend of a headless specter who is doomed to search for his head
forever. The cave with the bottomless pit and hidden treasure in the
Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer is based on a real legend. Unidentified
flying objects are seen almost daily in every part of the world. Look
on MUFON’s website to see the daily UFO sightings. There are all
kind of different crytpids seen in various parts of the country to
include Bigfoot, the Moth-man, werewolves, and lake/river serpents.
Native Americans have stories of these strange creatures that go back
centuries, and they are still reportedly seen today. A legend tripper
knows where to look.
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| Legend tripper's bag |
A legend tripper is
not one of those people who is content to just lie on the couch
watching television every weekend. They don’t spend all their money
at theme parks for excitement. A legend tripper lives to find weird
places and explore them. Legends are all around us, you just need to
research and find one close by and go on a legend trip.
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