Tracking Down Vauge memories.

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Have you ever had or currently have an experience like the one I'm talking about below? I have two others including that one. One of which has never been solved.

For years I had a persistent vague memory of a movie I saw when I was a small child. All I vaguely remembered was a foggy lost land with explorers wearing something strange, like big bubble helmets? And most in particular some guy being condemned by some tribunal and being thrown into a pit and eaten by a giant sea monster. At that point whatever adult I was with, said "oh geeze" got up and dragged me out of the theater.

I've tried figuring out what movie it was off and on for many years without success. And then the other day I finally discovered it.

The Lost Continent (1968). This review shows the most content of the film I've found in YouTube so far.

Another one is a place I visited. I moved to an entirely new area about 8 years ago. And I did a lot of exploring. But for some reason this one place kept popping up in my head as a vague yet persistent memory and I became preoccupied with locating it.

All I remembered that would help me any was an overpass above a river. And there's lots of those here. Finally after going over maps extensively over a period of a year or two I found it. Eureka!

I've been back there enough times now to have no difficulty finding it. But if I hadn't, I'd still be trying to discover where it was.


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Yours sounds like your typical low budget Fifties space opera. But which one I couldnt say.

In fact its sounds a little like the notorious "Plan 9", which involves a guy wrestling an octopus from outer space.

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I have a similar thing. Memories of reading about a certain famous pioneer of particular science. The science of myrmecology. The study of ants.

Mom and dad bought me the "Golden Books Encyclopedia". A set of books for kids of knowledge- written for kids in terms kids understand. And I remember just casually reading about this man in history- who "was obsessed with ants since his boyhood...a lot of what we no know about ants is based on his observations" . I remember seeing a pic of a little boy lying on his stomach observing an ant hill.

As a farm boy in england he would stare at ant hills and study how like workers ants interacted or like that. But then when he grew up he had to earn a living. So he earned a living as a pirate on the Spanish Main.

But in his off hours on dry land he would go off to woods and fields and study ants. And write treatises. Which became the foundations of ant study today!

My innocent nine year old self didnt give the story a second thought. Made sense to me. Didnt think about it again for fifty years.

But recently this memory of decades ago has drifted back into my mind. The image my current adult self has...the pirate ship returns to some Caribbean port after weeks of plundering other ships...docks...the rest of the guy's pirate buddies all go off to town to drink rum and fondle wenches, but he...treks out to the woods to lie on his stomach on the ground to stare at ant hills...seems ludicrous and laughable.

Have tried googling "pioneers of ant research". Havent found mention yet of anyone prior to the 20th century. No mention of any one resembling this swashbuckling nerd of the 1700s that I remember reading about. So I cant pin down how much of this odd memory is true.

The third is the most mysterious. A place or perhaps more properly a thing, I found in the 80s. It was in a wooded area. But like urban woods. An old abandoned area that nature had reclaimed.

It was a big round thing. Either entirely made of metal or made of concrete with a metal roof. It was covered in graffiti. I don't quite know how to describe it, other than dugout and bunker comes to mind. I wanted to explore it, but I was afraid because of all the graffiti, people might be inside, so I left. I was either on a bicycle a moped or my first motorcycle (which was a small enduro).

It was located in one of three different areas far apart from each other that I lived in in the 80s.

One day, some time in the 90s, it popped into my memory. That vague memory. And I wanted to go back to get a better look at it. But have never solved where or what it was. Perhaps it was only a dream?

What the hell was that thing and where was I?! Aarghhhhh!

Retro game forums have loads of threads where someone describes what they remember of a game. Then 99% of the time someone knows it. I've had a few of those.