shut up!!!
What are you a monday morning QB???
YOU WEREN'T THERE!!!
It's pretending it was. I saw this back in the '70s, when anti-war types became so romantically involved with the fiction they spun about the Vietnam war that they pretended to have been there themselves (it's a sort of self induced Stockholm syndrome).
This creature is a plant, meant to trigger the correct Pavlovian response in the indoctrinated among us. Problam is, we hang out here because the brainwashing didn't take, and thus we don't drool at the ringing of a bell.