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Uzi’s verses on Justin Bieber’s “There She Go” and “His & Hers” with Gunna and Don Toliver feel way too dry in the mix for his usual style. They’re not bad verses at all, but imagine how much better they would’ve sounded with that more spacey 2017–2018-type mix.

If you listen to Uzi acapellas from around 2018, his delivery is often also kinda nasal on purpose because thats how the Autotune works best. But on “There She Go” and “His & Hers”, he sounds like he was mixed almost like a pop artist. That makes the verses feel a bit flat or underwhelming, even though the performance themselves are solid.

I feel like if those verses had a more atmospheric, experimental mix, they’d have way more replay value.

It’s not as extreme, but I also felt like Uzi’s verse on Trippie Redd’s “Holy Smokes” was a bit underproduced. It could’ve really used more experimental ad-libs or vocal layering, instead it comes off pretty simple and phoned in tbh

I think we can all agree that the Flatwoods Monster is one of the most iconic and interesting American cryptids. When I first heard about it in 2013, I was fascinated by the story. At that time, I came across the Feschino version of the case, and I couldn’t think of any natural explanation. A large metallic creature frightening a group of children and teenagers in the woods while emitting poisonous mist sounds like something straight out of a sci fi movie. And something definitely happened that terrified the group of children, teenagers, and Mrs May. The descriptions of the creature are broadly consistent when it comes to key features like the eyes, the head shape, and its behavior.

In the last few months, the topic caught my attention again and I wanted to form a final opinion once and for all. And even though the Flatwoods Monster is one of my all time favorite cryptids, I have to say: the story is much less spectacular than it seems when you reduce it to the facts of the original sighting.

A large part of what is often presented as “facts” about this incident was added later. For example, many sources mention a dog that supposedly died from the toxic mist, which is not part of the original reports. The witness statements are also more inconsistent than many people would like to admit. Not every detail was seen by the entire group, and some aspects of the sighting rely heavily on individual accounts.

What really shaped my opinion is the duration of the sighting. Eugene Lemon saw two eyes in the darkness which he thought were those of an animal. He shined his flashlight at it and then dropped it in shock. The group saw the Flatwoods Monster only for a very brief moment, maybe a second or slightly longer.

And this is the key point: it was not a detailed sighting, it was a snapshot. For a split second, the flashlight illuminated something in the dark, and that single moment is essentially all they saw. There was no continuous observation, no time to study the figure, no clear view of details. It was a single image, not an encounter.

It was not like many retellings suggest, where the group had enough time to get a detailed look at the creature or clearly see features like arms, a full body, oil, or similar details. What they experienced was this brief, almost frozen image of something in the dark, accompanied by a hissing sound, before the flashlight was dropped.

Everything that people associate with the case today was added afterward. The original Flatwoods sighting includes no metallic body, no crashed UFO, no long term damage or dead dogs caused by the mist, and no reptilian being inside a suit. For a brief moment, something was illuminated, and the group ran away in fear. Most of the group did not perceive a body at all. Only Mrs May described a rough shape, and even that was a very general impression.

That is why I find the owl theory convincing. If you imagine an owl in a defensive posture, with its wings raised above its head, and consider how strongly an animal’s eyes can reflect and appear to glow when illuminated, it becomes a close case for me. In that context, the sighting matches surprisingly well.

In the end, it was a snapshot, not a sighting in the way people usually imagine it.

Curious to hear your thoughts!