February 18, 2024 • 13 mins
If you have ever wondered about dog headed men, cynocephaly, missing bridges, or lack of camera film in the public domain, then today is your lucky day. All covered this week on Hidden Window.
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(00:00):
[Music]
(00:23):
Okay, welcome everybody to episode two of the Hidden Window.
Hope everyone had a good week, Bob. Hope your week was good under your steel and
concrete bunker. So hey, a couple questions came in,
regarding the show last week. The first one was, what was that song?
"Burt the Turtle." All right, now, "Burt the Turtle" was a PSA for those of you
(00:45):
keeping Squared Home. That means public service announcement.
That was one of those ridiculous things they cut out in the 1950s when the
Ruskies were to start raining A-bombs at us. The whole idea was,
when the bomb start writing down duck and cover, so yeah,
like that's gonna work, but so as what "Burt the Turtle" was, is this ridiculous PSA?
(01:08):
There should be somebody there who probably remember doing these drills in
school, but you literally hit onto the desk, my sisters might have done that.
I know, I missed out on that fun, but um, so that's "Burt the Turtle."
The second one was, "What do I like to listen to when I'm out driving around?"
Now, I, I listen to a lot of programs. I'll mention one that some of you
(01:30):
probably have not heard of. His name is Richard Syrett, S-Y-R-E-T-T.
He's a canuck, yes, Canadian. Out of Canada, he has a weekly program on
saga 960 in Toronto. That makes him a maple leaf fan, and we're not gonna hold that
against him. Anyhow, uh, saga 960, 4 to 6, great program.
(01:53):
He also has his own podcast, known as " Strange Planet," which I love
listening to, so he's a great entertainer.
Richard Syrett, check it out sometime. All right, first episode, like I say,
part of this program. We're gonna look at some kind of lighthearted news, which is
hard to find. I found one. Now, it's, it's, it's a little bit different.
(02:15):
It involves theft, which is, you know, not usually a lighthearted segment, but, you know,
I'm gonna make an exception with this one. This one takes the cake.
So, we're gonna go down to Jasper, Alabama, and WJLX, the sound of Walker County.
What happened down there? They have a two-hundred-foot-toil radio tower.
(02:38):
You know, people have radio towers, right? No big deal, except for this one was stolen.
Yes, right. Somebody stole a two-hundred-foot-toil radio tower.
And I'm thinking to myself, well, how do you, how do you do that? You know, it was gone, the whole
gone. It wasn't cut up, wasn't chunked into pieces. It was gone, the entire two-hundred-foot segment.
(02:59):
I'm thinking to myself, how did they pull this off? Even if you find a two-hundred-foot-long trailer,
which I don't think they make, how are you gonna transport this thing out of there?
So, I'm going through the process of my mind. You're going down the road with this trailer. Let's say you
found one. And you get pulled over by the Walker County Sheriff and he asked you, "Alright, son, what do you,
(03:24):
what are you holding back there?" "Oh, that, that, that, that, that, that's my, that's my, that's my
hog pen, yet the hog pin." I brought it from a fellow and he, you know, he, he had it all bolted up
and, you know, put, so I figured I don't want to go fool with it. I'm just gonna take it all home
and make it a hog pen for my hog. Yeah, it's just a hog pen. It's all, all that is. No problem.
(03:45):
So let's say the sheriff thinking, well, what else could it be? I mean, go ahead, you're on your way.
There's nothing wrong with a hauling a two-hundred-foot-long trailer for as I know.
So then you go on to where are you gonna put this thing? Let's say you bring it to your backyard
and you put it back there and the neighbor walks by and go, "Hey, hey Jim, um, what's that in
(04:08):
the backyard?" I don't remember seeing that before. Oh, no, that, oh, no, that's, it's my radio tower.
No, that's been there, that's been there for years. I just painted it and it really pops, doesn't it?
And I, no, I painted it. That's why you never saw it before, but, uh, you know, that, that's why
that's there. So, uh, really, really bizarre. And I'm looking at the date. You know, I'm no detective.
(04:30):
All right, I look the date and it was stolen on February 2nd. Yes, that's Groundhogs Day.
So I'm going through my mind thinking, wait a minute, there's something suspicious about this.
I'm thinking of all Puxetani Phil. What does he do all year? He doesn't have the work.
He comes out for 20 seconds and says, "Shadow out or no shadow." Then he goes back on his hole.
(04:53):
All right, so what a perfect alibi. They throw him back on his hole.
Is he connected to this, you know, the theft of this radio tower? I don't know. He's got a great alibi.
If I was Walker County, I think I'd go up to that burrow in Puxetani and knock on his burrow and see
what he knows. So that is that segment.
(05:29):
All right, everybody. So let's move on to the heart of this program. That is the conspiracy theory,
slash something you've never heard before, slash bizarre news. This is going to fit clearly in that
category of something you've never heard of before. Today, we're going to talk about the dog headed
(05:51):
men. Now, I'm not talking about PT Barnum's dog face boy or werewolf, see how everyone's heard
about them. These are the dog headed men better known as Cynocephaly. Cyno from the Greek word,
Cyno meaning dog, and then Cephali, you can place your wagers now if you want.
Meaning head, you'll be right. So Cynocephaly, dog headed men.
(06:15):
Now, there's been writings about them for 25,100 years. That's an awful long time in my book.
The first reported writing was a Greek physician named Sestius in the 5th century BC. You roll forward,
cop 100 years later, the Rome has got in the act, guy named Claudius Aurelius,
(06:35):
wrote about them as well. Interestingly enough, they both wrote about them in the same regions in
their journeys in India. They said they lived in the mountains. They were quite tall, six and a half
and maybe seven feet tall. Looked like a regular o'l human, except as you would guess, they had the
head of a dog. All right, and the way that talked about them is that they, you know, get along,
(07:00):
they weren't too aggressive, but they would communicating. They were intelligent. As you
guess, communicating, being a dog, what do you think they're going to bark? And that's what they did.
So they both wrote about them the same way. O'l Claudius and Sestius had the exact same
description of these characters, Cynocephaly, which is interesting. Now, I don't know those two.
(07:23):
The next three, I guarantee all of you probably heard of. The first one is Alexander the Great.
Now, he wrote about them in the 2nd century. He reported not only seeing them, but his troops doing
battle with them, saying that they were fierce fighters. And you go forward again, another one.
(07:44):
The old probably heard of was Marco Polo. I don't know much about Marco Polo. To me, he got relegated to
a game you played in the pool in the summertime. You were a kid. Remember going, Marco Polo. That's the
guy I'm talking about. Marco Polo. So he saw them out in the Indian Ocean again. We're, you know,
seeing that connection to India here out in the islands, changed out there. And when he saw them,
(08:07):
he said that these, these guys were there. Report the same way they would bark. They would,
you know, tear apart game, but this time they would go after you. They didn't like you anymore.
So I'm seeing a description here when it happened. And it kind of manifests itself best in the next
one I'll talk about. you all know too is Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus by royal decree
(08:32):
from Queen Isabella was told, "I want to know what's going on out to Cynocephaly. I've heard a lot of
stories about them. I heard that they're in a Caribbean. I want you to go out there and find them."
So when he went over there, he started talking to the indigenous tribes known as Tatyano. And
they had a lot to say about these guys. Cynocephaly were there by this time. They transformed
(08:57):
into man eaters. So I think the game was up. You go away back to Sestius. We got along with them.
"Kinda, you standing outside the fence? I'll stay in mine." Later on, they figured, you know what?
You guys are out to kill us. So we're going to probably have to kill you first. We're going to kill you
be might as well eat you. So that's what happened in Christopher Columbus and the Cynocephaly. Now what first got me
(09:22):
into looking at all this, I always just, you know, fooling around with it, googling images up, whatever
looking at stuff. And I saw an icon of Saint Christopher that was portrayed in the Eastern Orthodox
Church. You know, he's a saint. And I look at the icons, except his is different. He had a head of a dog.
Well, you don't normally see head of dogs on saints. So I'm like, "Well, that kind of caught my eye.
(09:48):
I kind of jumped at me." So I started reading on it. And to be fair,
Saint Christopher was by all accounts a giant of a man. He was about 7 feet tall, which was huge
for that time. He also was reported by some Roman accounts under Emperor Diocletian
(10:10):
was captured in battle. If you want to believe that side of the story, his name at that time was
reprobis, which means reprobate, which I could understand that. So he was captured by the Romans.
And then he converted to Christianity, accepted Christ baptized. And for doing all this,
he was transformed into a full human. So that's one side of the story. The other side, again,
(10:35):
to be fair is he was a Canaanite, Saint Christopher. And he was martyred in about 305. But you have that.
And Canaanite, Canis, you remove a word. It looks like Canaanite, so it could be a play on words. But
you know, kind of food for thoughts. There is an icon in the Eastern Orthodox Church of
Saint Christopher has been depicted as having a dog head. Kind of weird to me. I don't know, that's
(10:59):
just me. Kind of a strange guy. But so that's it. The Cynocephaly. Go and look it up. Spend some time.
We're out then looking all the garbage that's on the news now. So if you're taking googling something,
call it up. Cynocephaly. C-Y-N-O-C-E-P-H-A-L-I. Cynocephaly. Looking up, fine after yourself. Again,
(11:22):
something bizarre at food for thought. That's what this show was all about. All right. So what ended
today? I'm one of my just ramblings of my head, which kind of just, it could go anywhere. So this,
yeah, these are all true stories that don't make this stuff up. I am not a tech wizard. As a matter of
fact, there's one end you have the techniques. I am on a far other end of the spectrum. My son says
(11:49):
a tech tard. So I guess I'm a tech tard, which I could live with that. I went down to a camera store.
I'm up in Aratic and I found a bag and I said, "Look at this, it's a Nikon camera with all the
lens attachments. That's pretty cool. I forgot we had it there." So I know, look at em. Let me run it
down to a local camera store and see if they could dust it off, polish it up, and buy some film for it.
(12:14):
Let's start using these things again. So I went down to the Staunton Camera Shop and Museum. Now,
if you folks have never been to a camera museum in your life, this is the best one I've ever seen in
my life. Well, also the only ones that don't take down to a account, but Staunton, Virginia,
if you're there, go check it out. The Stanton Camera shop and Museum. So I digress. I'm in the shop,
(12:37):
talk to the owner and he goes, "Oh, that's a fine camera there. You got a Nikon?" Yes, I do. I like to
dust it off and get using it again. He goes, "What do you want to do with it?" I said, "Well, I'd like to
look at it and get some film and use it." He looked at me like I had four heads. He goes, "You want to
use it?" Yeah, I want to buy film. We don't have any film. This is a camera shop. Why wouldn't you
(13:02):
carry camera film? I don't understand that. He goes, "Well, where have you been?" I don't know. I
had the last time I took pictures was a long time ago. I have no idea. I want to buy some film for the
camera. Is that asking too much? Evidently, yes. He said that film was out for about 15 years. 15 years.
(13:23):
Everything's digital now. Nobody told me. I haven't been paying attention. So I figured out
that I'm kind of like a Rip Van Winkle. Remember him? He fell asleep for like a hundred years. I have
this 15-year gap where I just technology wise. I just went off the cliff. I had no idea. No one told
me film was out, but guess what? Finding out that film is making its way back. So wait around
(13:48):
long enough. Things come back to normality. All right, folks. That's the end of the show. We'll see
you next week. Bob, take it easy. See you later.
[Music]
(00:23):
Okay, welcome everybody to episode two of the Hidden Window.
Hope everyone had a good week, Bob. Hope your week was good under your steel and
concrete bunker. So hey, a couple questions came in,
regarding the show last week. The first one was, what was that song?
"Burt the Turtle." All right, now, "Burt the Turtle" was a PSA for those of you
(00:45):
keeping Squared Home. That means public service announcement.
That was one of those ridiculous things they cut out in the 1950s when the
Ruskies were to start raining A-bombs at us. The whole idea was,
when the bomb start writing down duck and cover, so yeah,
like that's gonna work, but so as what "Burt the Turtle" was, is this ridiculous PSA?
(01:08):
There should be somebody there who probably remember doing these drills in
school, but you literally hit onto the desk, my sisters might have done that.
I know, I missed out on that fun, but um, so that's "Burt the Turtle."
The second one was, "What do I like to listen to when I'm out driving around?"
Now, I, I listen to a lot of programs. I'll mention one that some of you
(01:30):
probably have not heard of. His name is Richard Syrett, S-Y-R-E-T-T.
He's a canuck, yes, Canadian. Out of Canada, he has a weekly program on
saga 960 in Toronto. That makes him a maple leaf fan, and we're not gonna hold that
against him. Anyhow, uh, saga 960, 4 to 6, great program.
(01:53):
He also has his own podcast, known as " Strange Planet," which I love
listening to, so he's a great entertainer.
Richard Syrett, check it out sometime. All right, first episode, like I say,
part of this program. We're gonna look at some kind of lighthearted news, which is
hard to find. I found one. Now, it's, it's, it's a little bit different.
(02:15):
It involves theft, which is, you know, not usually a lighthearted segment, but, you know,
I'm gonna make an exception with this one. This one takes the cake.
So, we're gonna go down to Jasper, Alabama, and WJLX, the sound of Walker County.
What happened down there? They have a two-hundred-foot-toil radio tower.
(02:38):
You know, people have radio towers, right? No big deal, except for this one was stolen.
Yes, right. Somebody stole a two-hundred-foot-toil radio tower.
And I'm thinking to myself, well, how do you, how do you do that? You know, it was gone, the whole
gone. It wasn't cut up, wasn't chunked into pieces. It was gone, the entire two-hundred-foot segment.
(02:59):
I'm thinking to myself, how did they pull this off? Even if you find a two-hundred-foot-long trailer,
which I don't think they make, how are you gonna transport this thing out of there?
So, I'm going through the process of my mind. You're going down the road with this trailer. Let's say you
found one. And you get pulled over by the Walker County Sheriff and he asked you, "Alright, son, what do you,
(03:24):
what are you holding back there?" "Oh, that, that, that, that, that, that's my, that's my, that's my
hog pen, yet the hog pin." I brought it from a fellow and he, you know, he, he had it all bolted up
and, you know, put, so I figured I don't want to go fool with it. I'm just gonna take it all home
and make it a hog pen for my hog. Yeah, it's just a hog pen. It's all, all that is. No problem.
(03:45):
So let's say the sheriff thinking, well, what else could it be? I mean, go ahead, you're on your way.
There's nothing wrong with a hauling a two-hundred-foot-long trailer for as I know.
So then you go on to where are you gonna put this thing? Let's say you bring it to your backyard
and you put it back there and the neighbor walks by and go, "Hey, hey Jim, um, what's that in
(04:08):
the backyard?" I don't remember seeing that before. Oh, no, that, oh, no, that's, it's my radio tower.
No, that's been there, that's been there for years. I just painted it and it really pops, doesn't it?
And I, no, I painted it. That's why you never saw it before, but, uh, you know, that, that's why
that's there. So, uh, really, really bizarre. And I'm looking at the date. You know, I'm no detective.
(04:30):
All right, I look the date and it was stolen on February 2nd. Yes, that's Groundhogs Day.
So I'm going through my mind thinking, wait a minute, there's something suspicious about this.
I'm thinking of all Puxetani Phil. What does he do all year? He doesn't have the work.
He comes out for 20 seconds and says, "Shadow out or no shadow." Then he goes back on his hole.
(04:53):
All right, so what a perfect alibi. They throw him back on his hole.
Is he connected to this, you know, the theft of this radio tower? I don't know. He's got a great alibi.
If I was Walker County, I think I'd go up to that burrow in Puxetani and knock on his burrow and see
what he knows. So that is that segment.
(05:29):
All right, everybody. So let's move on to the heart of this program. That is the conspiracy theory,
slash something you've never heard before, slash bizarre news. This is going to fit clearly in that
category of something you've never heard of before. Today, we're going to talk about the dog headed
(05:51):
men. Now, I'm not talking about PT Barnum's dog face boy or werewolf, see how everyone's heard
about them. These are the dog headed men better known as Cynocephaly. Cyno from the Greek word,
Cyno meaning dog, and then Cephali, you can place your wagers now if you want.
Meaning head, you'll be right. So Cynocephaly, dog headed men.
(06:15):
Now, there's been writings about them for 25,100 years. That's an awful long time in my book.
The first reported writing was a Greek physician named Sestius in the 5th century BC. You roll forward,
cop 100 years later, the Rome has got in the act, guy named Claudius Aurelius,
(06:35):
wrote about them as well. Interestingly enough, they both wrote about them in the same regions in
their journeys in India. They said they lived in the mountains. They were quite tall, six and a half
and maybe seven feet tall. Looked like a regular o'l human, except as you would guess, they had the
head of a dog. All right, and the way that talked about them is that they, you know, get along,
(07:00):
they weren't too aggressive, but they would communicating. They were intelligent. As you
guess, communicating, being a dog, what do you think they're going to bark? And that's what they did.
So they both wrote about them the same way. O'l Claudius and Sestius had the exact same
description of these characters, Cynocephaly, which is interesting. Now, I don't know those two.
(07:23):
The next three, I guarantee all of you probably heard of. The first one is Alexander the Great.
Now, he wrote about them in the 2nd century. He reported not only seeing them, but his troops doing
battle with them, saying that they were fierce fighters. And you go forward again, another one.
(07:44):
The old probably heard of was Marco Polo. I don't know much about Marco Polo. To me, he got relegated to
a game you played in the pool in the summertime. You were a kid. Remember going, Marco Polo. That's the
guy I'm talking about. Marco Polo. So he saw them out in the Indian Ocean again. We're, you know,
seeing that connection to India here out in the islands, changed out there. And when he saw them,
(08:07):
he said that these, these guys were there. Report the same way they would bark. They would,
you know, tear apart game, but this time they would go after you. They didn't like you anymore.
So I'm seeing a description here when it happened. And it kind of manifests itself best in the next
one I'll talk about. you all know too is Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus by royal decree
(08:32):
from Queen Isabella was told, "I want to know what's going on out to Cynocephaly. I've heard a lot of
stories about them. I heard that they're in a Caribbean. I want you to go out there and find them."
So when he went over there, he started talking to the indigenous tribes known as Tatyano. And
they had a lot to say about these guys. Cynocephaly were there by this time. They transformed
(08:57):
into man eaters. So I think the game was up. You go away back to Sestius. We got along with them.
"Kinda, you standing outside the fence? I'll stay in mine." Later on, they figured, you know what?
You guys are out to kill us. So we're going to probably have to kill you first. We're going to kill you
be might as well eat you. So that's what happened in Christopher Columbus and the Cynocephaly. Now what first got me
(09:22):
into looking at all this, I always just, you know, fooling around with it, googling images up, whatever
looking at stuff. And I saw an icon of Saint Christopher that was portrayed in the Eastern Orthodox
Church. You know, he's a saint. And I look at the icons, except his is different. He had a head of a dog.
Well, you don't normally see head of dogs on saints. So I'm like, "Well, that kind of caught my eye.
(09:48):
I kind of jumped at me." So I started reading on it. And to be fair,
Saint Christopher was by all accounts a giant of a man. He was about 7 feet tall, which was huge
for that time. He also was reported by some Roman accounts under Emperor Diocletian
(10:10):
was captured in battle. If you want to believe that side of the story, his name at that time was
reprobis, which means reprobate, which I could understand that. So he was captured by the Romans.
And then he converted to Christianity, accepted Christ baptized. And for doing all this,
he was transformed into a full human. So that's one side of the story. The other side, again,
(10:35):
to be fair is he was a Canaanite, Saint Christopher. And he was martyred in about 305. But you have that.
And Canaanite, Canis, you remove a word. It looks like Canaanite, so it could be a play on words. But
you know, kind of food for thoughts. There is an icon in the Eastern Orthodox Church of
Saint Christopher has been depicted as having a dog head. Kind of weird to me. I don't know, that's
(10:59):
just me. Kind of a strange guy. But so that's it. The Cynocephaly. Go and look it up. Spend some time.
We're out then looking all the garbage that's on the news now. So if you're taking googling something,
call it up. Cynocephaly. C-Y-N-O-C-E-P-H-A-L-I. Cynocephaly. Looking up, fine after yourself. Again,
(11:22):
something bizarre at food for thought. That's what this show was all about. All right. So what ended
today? I'm one of my just ramblings of my head, which kind of just, it could go anywhere. So this,
yeah, these are all true stories that don't make this stuff up. I am not a tech wizard. As a matter of
fact, there's one end you have the techniques. I am on a far other end of the spectrum. My son says
(11:49):
a tech tard. So I guess I'm a tech tard, which I could live with that. I went down to a camera store.
I'm up in Aratic and I found a bag and I said, "Look at this, it's a Nikon camera with all the
lens attachments. That's pretty cool. I forgot we had it there." So I know, look at em. Let me run it
down to a local camera store and see if they could dust it off, polish it up, and buy some film for it.
(12:14):
Let's start using these things again. So I went down to the Staunton Camera Shop and Museum. Now,
if you folks have never been to a camera museum in your life, this is the best one I've ever seen in
my life. Well, also the only ones that don't take down to a account, but Staunton, Virginia,
if you're there, go check it out. The Stanton Camera shop and Museum. So I digress. I'm in the shop,
(12:37):
talk to the owner and he goes, "Oh, that's a fine camera there. You got a Nikon?" Yes, I do. I like to
dust it off and get using it again. He goes, "What do you want to do with it?" I said, "Well, I'd like to
look at it and get some film and use it." He looked at me like I had four heads. He goes, "You want to
use it?" Yeah, I want to buy film. We don't have any film. This is a camera shop. Why wouldn't you
(13:02):
carry camera film? I don't understand that. He goes, "Well, where have you been?" I don't know. I
had the last time I took pictures was a long time ago. I have no idea. I want to buy some film for the
camera. Is that asking too much? Evidently, yes. He said that film was out for about 15 years. 15 years.
(13:23):
Everything's digital now. Nobody told me. I haven't been paying attention. So I figured out
that I'm kind of like a Rip Van Winkle. Remember him? He fell asleep for like a hundred years. I have
this 15-year gap where I just technology wise. I just went off the cliff. I had no idea. No one told
me film was out, but guess what? Finding out that film is making its way back. So wait around
(13:48):
long enough. Things come back to normality. All right, folks. That's the end of the show. We'll see
you next week. Bob, take it easy. See you later.
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