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Bucket Man Research Paper

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Bucket Man: Man, Myth, Legend, or Drunk Guy?

The title asks the question and leaves much unsaid: who is the Bucket Man?
To many who know the .gif (small, looping “video”), Bucket Man is a person with a bucket on his head climbing onto a car in the middle of a freeway. The man inside the car is angry; this is displayed when the man gets out of his car, climbs onto it next to Bucket Man, and slaps the bucket off his head. Under this bucket is not a face, or a black void, or anything in this universe that can be comprehended using science. It is… another bucket.

Man?

If one has ever worn multiple buckets on one’s head, one would know just how difficult it is to keep the rest of the buckets intact when one is knocked off. Bucket Man …show more content…

Does one notice that both of Bucket Man’s buckets are blue? Throughout the ages, the color blue has represented wisdom. Bucket Man is the symbol of the owl, the harbinger of the new generation of scholars. He is akin to Athena in his ostentatious acts.

Legend? I chose to write about the Bucket Man due to my interest in supernatural beings. Mothman. Yeti. Aliens. They are all creatures capable of amazing feats. But Bucket Man is something else.
He’s different from the rest. He has a bigger cult following than bigfoot; he has a more mystifying aura than the Flatwoods Monster. There is actually filmed evidence of his existence. This leaves many questions... we know he’s real, but what is his purpose on Earth? Is he good or evil? The crushing truth is that we may never know.

But Bucket Man is still out there as far as we know. He could be human. He could be some sort of reptile. He could be dead somewhere (but probably not, as this would disprove the theory that he is omnipotent and therefore immortal). He could be on his home planet somewhere, with his own species of bucket-headed beings.

One thing is certain: he is in our hearts and will live on forever as long as we

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