Yours truly has received some unwanted attention lately. In an article called Jay Man: Is This The Source Of The Mystery Sounds? (here) from GhostTheory.com, I’m the target of bizarre insinuations once again.
Somehow because my domain is registered privately, I’m the villain behind the mystery sounds. Oh, and because it was registered in September that’s suspicious too, because supposedly there were only a couple of strange sound videos. Not true, just look at my archives.
In a link to my site they say:
Now, here’s Jay Man’s site in all it’s glory, creating panic and quite a viral happening.
Bitter much?
Shockingly, this is followed by my domain registration information proving that it’s privately registered. I can’t understand why it’s so important to know who I am. How is that relevant to taking public YT videos and discussing them.
If the people over at GhostTheory read the posts, they would find my articles offer theories and question the sky event’s genuineness. I use dramatic headlines to get people intrigued, but I suspect they’re disappointed when they read my theories. I gave this reader some peace of mind:
Jay Man, congrats for your work! You have been a kind of ‘compass’ to me, since you have a pretty balanced approach on the subject. Last night I put a comment on Laura Knight-Jadzyk’s facebook page about some media releases being not realiable (as I’ve read on your blog, about Costa Rica’s release). Well… she’s shut me down from her page! I come to the conclusion that she can’t stand DIFFERENT OPINIONS!—Thelma
The most hilarious part of the article is that they found a musician from Alabama named Jay Man here. Jay Man’s repertoire includes tunes such as “Twerk she poppin with hook” and “In da zone instrumental with hook”. Okay ya got me.
If anyone out there thinks for one minute that I’ll reveal my identity, they must think I’m crazy. The reason I won’t is that I get comments like this one below. No matter how much evidence there is to support the debunking, they still get angry that I dare say they aren’t real.
The host of this article is playing a guessing game. It’s really hard to decide which sounds are real or not.. I’d say, just dismiss it all. Nothing happened along with those sounds so it’s nothing to be concerned over.. The host of this article has no life and a lot of useless time on his hands to decipher between each video and their sounds.. The host of this article has a sad sad life.. Make it electric!—luc59457
MORE AFTER THE JUMP…
But the GhostTheory “theory” is not what this is about. Last week a satirical article from news.com.au appeared in my alerts. The article called Is HAARP making the skies snore above Malaysia? Or is it Jay Man? here, begins with the phrase “Tin foil hats? Check….” You know what’s coming after that. Que the X-files theme. It’s basically about the Malaysia incident and focuses on the fact it sounded like “snoring” in the sky. He goes on to say that HAARP has been blamed for everything from Columbine to the Japanese tsunami.
He ends the article with this:
Of course, there’s another explanation. Back in September, an anonymous poster calling himself “Jay Man” set up this website – http://strangesoundsinthesky.com/. The timing of Jay Man’s launch has those bored by the HAARP theory thinking he might be the culprit.
I think that quote pretty much says it all.
This site was caught up in the hysteria over the Conklin hoax. I don’t expect to retain readers and that’s okay. As the fad wears off and people return to their senses, they’ll turn to some other viral video like the Lego man in space.
I will quietly record strange sound videos and relevant information that interests me, even if I get 100 hits a day. This is a hobby and an exercise in writing for me. I have enjoyed the whole experience and it’s been a blast to debunk these Canada videos.
You’re paying the cost of being famous
Don’t worry mate, you do a great job here by categorizing these events and discovering the fakes.
LOL. I saw that news.com.au article a few days ago. That’s a site not known for great journalism, so if they want to insinuate you’re behind all this, chances are virtually 100% that you’re not.
I for one think your articles are well written, interesting, and balanced.
You might find this story interesting. A few years ago I was the first writer in the world to expose The Fourth Kind movie marketing as fake and to name the actress who was supposedly the real person in the film, namely Charlotte Milchard. For over a year I was told I was a loony by hundreds of thousands of people. I put out images from the film and of the actress (including videos to show one image morphing into the other to prove it), all to show it was one in the same, but thousands claimed I photoshopped her image and that I did a bad job of it too because I was wrong and the viral marketing was real. Hahah. Anyway, after a year it became official knowledge Milchard was the actress and the viral marketing was fake. So yes, I know how easy it is to get shot down when you’re the messenger and, on the Charlotte Milchard issue, know that even now people are posting comments here and there about how wrong I am despite the truth being out there.
So I say stick with it. Good work and forget the morons like that wanna-be-journalist at news.com.au. You have plenty of readers now who appreciate what you do, and I’d guess they are the (largely) silent majority.
ummmm … the Fourth Kind was only thought to be real EVER by some seriously retarded fringe groups (foil-clad) … I don’t think you were the first writer of any such kind. pat yourself on the back more, you Australian nutter.
I have read numerous blogs regarding this phenomena,they all seem to be biased one way or an other. I think you are doing a great job here presenting food for thought. There is something going on for sure, what? Well we shall see, but only if we have an open mind and an un-biased one. I have to agree with Shakespeare that there is much more out there than can ever be dreamt in our philosophy. Thanks for the work!
hey jay man, i hope you know that i personally appreciate your effort and work on this site
and i’m sure many others are too..
I have clinical anxiety disorder. As such I frequently find myself fearful of the unknown, especially when its as widespread as this is. I live near North Battleford Sk Canada, and it was covered by radio stations, and other news agencies as you noticed. I can say without a doubt, that your site doesn’t cause panic, as it stood out to me, and calmed me down tremendously. Showing me a different side to something fearful. So thank you.
Also, check out http://www.2012hoax.org. For anyone else having problems with any other crazy 2012 theories
Jay,
Sorry, man, I may have been the cause of the majority of your pain. The article at GhostTheory I did run across, and it was mostly and excerpt of MY article – the original found here:
http://bit.ly/yd5ir6
I’m not affiliated with GhostTheory in any way, I just happen to have a similar site,and my article was cross-posted there.
Due to your further posts, and, of course, this one, I’m positive the first suspicion is just…wrong.
My post explains in some detail why suspicion was thrown…generally, because of the registration date (nothing to do with private, other than any viral campaign would do that, also…), and why we thought that was important, at the time, there were only a couple or so “strange sounds” videos that existed when your domain was registered. Logic initiated was, “who would register a domain to post about a phenomenon that hasn’t happened yet, or very little…”…Secondly, the sounds hadn’t yet been deciphered and the source found, and it was very “Cloverfield-ish” sounding. JJ Abrams usually starts his viral stuff about this far out (Movie is due in 2014). Lastly, your site admin handle is “Jay Man”…so, JJ Abrams, you can see how it all fit. Others I talked to had drawn the same conclusion (without knowing of your site).
This article perpetuated probably most of the flack you have caught, so, I just wanted to tell I”m sorry if it caused you even a minute of grief. At the time, all of this sites videos and comments were “pro-strange sounds”, with not debunking or suspicion cast, but, of course, you are now on that bandwagon also. I do apologize for it affecting you to the point that you had to make an official public statement.
Take Care,
Kent
http://texasghosts.org
No worries Kent. I’m a believer of some of them and was fooled by Conklin so it made me seem pro-strange sound. The reasoning behind your suspicion makes perfect sense and it’s very wise to distrust anything on the net. I’m not really upset, it’s just that I felt the need to explain myself just in case the idea got out of hand.
Jay Man,
I just wanted to leave you a note of encouragement. Please don’t stop-keep up the good work!
I love your site because it offers information and because it offers a balanced opinion.
Personally, I have a tendency to go off the deep-end when it comes to conspiracy theories so it’s nice to be able to read that these strange noises aren’t the work of aliens, the gov’t, or godzilla…that there probably is a logical explanation out there. It keeps me calm and reminds me to think rationally.
Thank you so much for all that you do!
-JRS
Hi Jay
I dont know about anyone else, but I’am getting totally confused as to what the current situation is. Has there actually been any recent noises recorded which have not been proved as fake?? There seems to be a whole heap of people that are just confusing whats real and whats not and at the same time throwing wild and stupid accusations around that these sounds have been invented by yourself. Why these people cant just let those of us, who I’am sure are intelligent enough to make up our own minds, get on and draw our own conclusions is beyond me.
Yes I believe there have been real sky noises. They are jet like sky roars and “snoring”. They aren’t proven to be fake. The metal ones…I feel are pretty much all fake. The Kiev sound can’t conclusively be dismissed…but I have my doubts. The reason the Canada ones are proven fakes is they are copies of Kiev. Kiev is the source. As weird as sky noises are, I’m not sure they’re threatening or unnatural. We can’t discount environmental causes by human beings.
Thanks Jay ,even if we never find out the source of these sounds, it has at least opened a whole new interest for me, investigating our world and its atmosphere and the effects things have on it. Keep up the good work, dont let others get you down and stay focused on investigating what you enjoy. It must be strange having all these hundreds of people suddenly being interested in something which until now, was something that you did for yourself and your own interest.
Does anyone think it may have something to do with the Schumann Resonance? Or the poles shifting faster than usual? According to David Suzuki it is 40Km /per year lately. As for the magnetic rebound affect regarding the sun,it wouldn`t have such frequent occurences…or could it?
Maybe someone has a comment would be appreciated . I think many are fakes, however I don`t think so many people would have nothing better to do than hoax the world. There are new ones practically daily, with the odd hiatus, that I find fascinating. Thank you all for listening…and great work Jay.
So you’re aren’t that rapper? Boom boom chuck boom boom boom boom chuck? No didn’t think so but like i said on another post i appreciate your efforts here. I make at a visit a day to your site to see if anything new has come up. I saw the space quake video on another site yesterday… someone named Jay had posted there about the video and then here it is on your site
At least there is someone out there trying to explain the weird happenings. Keep up the good work
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