>>42755
I love your theory, OP. This is the kind of stuff that I'd like to see more of on /x/. I think you make some good points, for example, why didn't the Indians get wiped out by disease when ancient Europeans (Romans, Vikings, etc) already travelled to North America hundreds of years before Columbus? That's something that's worth investigating, in my opinion.
And you mention that the black plague that killed 1/3 of all Europeans might have been an act of chemical warfare against the humans by some non-human population. I've often wondered the same thing! In William Bramley's book 'Gods of Eden' he says that before the plague hit a certain area, people saw strange lights in the sky, I think he even mentions green clouds or something like that; wherever people witnessed these strange phenomena, soon after they started dying from disease. When I read that, I thought, maybe the 'gods' were angry at us because we had stopped worshipping them and started following a new religion? Maybe they thought the world was becoming overpopulated? Who knows, but your theory is interesting too.
One weak point about this theory is that the 'others', whatever you want to call them, the non-humans, always seem more powerful than us in any story you read about them. People used to be scared of fairies because they had powers beyond our comprehension. Bigfoot also seems to have supernatural powers, like being able to appear and disappear at will. So how did humans manage to defeat them? I mean look at UFOs today, we're powerless against them.
It does seem like they went into hiding, especially underground, but I'm not sure the reason is that we kicked their asses. According to many stories, they're afraid of the sun. Maybe the sun was different a long time ago, I mean the light, it might have been weaker. Maybe the current radiation coming from the sun is deadly to them.
Also another thing I wanted to tell you, is that your theory is really disorganised! You jump from one place to another and you make vague references to people or books that are not well known (I knew most of them, but I bet the majority of /x/ doesn't). You should add citations so we can discuss each part in depth. I'd really like to read that story about the leprechaun that was lamenting that his people were dying out, where did you find that?
Anyway, thanks for posting this.