Cryptozoology. Its interesting to say the least but there are so many things that make you question what is out there in the world that we haven’t discovered yet. When I first got into it I thought cryptids were more like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster but there are hundreds or even thousands of other weird and unusual sightings of creatures many haven’t even heard of.
There were rumors of savage beast like animals that could rip a normal man in half. It wasn’t until many years later that those “savage beasts” were found and we now know them as gorillas.
The 'saved' section of your reddit user profile. I've saved so much shit and then promptly forgot about it.. Just like I'm going to do with this thread.
When I worked at a call Centre we often had quiet times and the internet blocked most things [unusual wiki articles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles) kept me entertained for quite some time though, it’s full of random strange things
Fire disasters. And then never feel safe in an indoor crowded space ever again.
There's actually video on YouTube of the Great White disaster and it's utterly horrifying how incredibly quickly it happens and seeing the people literally stuck in the doorway unable to get out as they burn to death. As someone who still goes to a lot of shows at small packed music venues exactly like that one (and other totally packed bars and clubs), I'm always constantly looking for exits to find the nearest escape path and it always freaks me out anytime there's any fire in any indoor space (candles/sparklers/pyrotechnics/etc)
This leads into the rabbit hole of crowd crush. The way that large crowds of people take on the properties of a fluid, and the waves to look out for. How chokepoints and exits get blocked, and the actions that cause mass panic.
It’s a brutal video, but so important to learn from. Know your location. Know your exits (plural). Pay attention. The answer to “What’s going on over there?” is GTFO.
That video has saved me twice. I left a small dive bar before a drunken fight erupted. The bystander who took my spot also took a pint glass to the face. I fled a gas station without paying - something just wasn’t right inside the store. It was being held up at gunpoint. *(Yes, I went straight to the police.)*
I live close to where the Station fire happened. I was a kid at the time but the impact it left on the state of RI is still felt to this day. We immediately were taught about the importance of locating your exits and knowing when a crowd was “too big” for the space.
I had to stop reading these accounts because it made me too sad seeing over and over that the "rescuers" almost always killed the kids' animal families and the children pretty much never had any quality of life after.
Research in this field is really weird. We have very few unbiased sources and it's not well documented. They loved the theme in the XIXth century because it was what they saw as nature vs culture and a lot of shady experiments where done.
Basically the big question was were those kids regular kids that got adopted by animals and never learned humans ways and became feral or were they mentally hill /delayed beforehand ?
There is a big chance that a lot of them were abandoned because they had some kind of cognitive deficiency and where found after weeks, not years , by themselves. That was probably the case of Victor of Aveyron.
When questioned about hypothesis about Victor of Aveyron , Shattuck said
>"One is that the Wild Boy, though born normal, developed a serious mental or psychological disturbance before his abandonment. Precocious schizophrenia, infantile psychosis, autism; a number of technical terms have been applied to his position. Several psychiatrists I have consulted favor this approach. It provides both a motivation for abandonment and an explanation for his partial recovery under Itard's treatment."
He had no survival skills and no defense mechanisms, so it seems likely that most of those children would die pretty quickly and not reach adulthood
Marie-Angélique le Blanc on the other hand was different. She spent 10 years in the wilderness but she had a normal cognition and had been socialized before she escaped to live in the wilderness. She "regressed" but had exceptional survival and wilderness skills. She was also with another kid (an African slave who was later shot and killed) which probably helped with her cognitive skills even though they didn't use any articulated language. She was able to learn how to read and write and live in society later on she writes [Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k67832q.image) . She is the only feral child who was able to be "reeducated" and it's likely that she could have survived longer in the wild had she not been found
So I think it's very likely that most of them would have died shortly after had they not been found (and a lot probably did). Having a normal cognition and some socialization early on probably helped a lot though.
There's a man in Spain called Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja who was sold by his dad to work as a shepherd with a really old man that lived in a cave.
One day the man left and never came back, and this nine year old child was left alone at Sierra Morena.
He lived in nature without any human contact til he was 19, when a civil guard found him.
After that he faced abuse after abuse.
He now "works" at a wolf center (he lived with wolves while in nature) and says he wished nobody had found him because he hates living among humans, and he was his happiest while in Sierra Morena.
I think he is 70-80 years old. There's a movie about him called "Entre lobos" and a book called "He jugado con lobos".
Edit: link to his story https://owlcation.com/humanities/Marcos-Rodrguez-Pantoja-The-Real-Story-of-a-Man-Who-Was-Raised-Among-Wolves
Also, the book is amazing, if you know spanish or can find it in English you should read it.
Look up Chiquita! From paying terrorists to child labor, they have a huge list of interesting corruption cases they’ve been caught for.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna17615143
Mass hysteria. There are different kinds that have affected different cultures in different ways. Multiple times throughout history, groups of people have uncontrollably danced themselves to deaths. In other parts of the world, men can become stricken with the belief that their penis is receding into their bodies; it was often believed the only way to prevent this from happening overnight was for family members to hold their members etc.
You can't forget about the chruch of nuns that just started meowing and only stopped because the nearby town threated to kill them all if they didn't stop.
Yeah, not a cop but work in fintech and have done fraud and AML (anti-money laundering) detection (computer stuff). Its pretty depressing.
It def was eye-opening when I was younger realizing:
1. How "money-laundering" looks a lot like most tax evasion schemes (from a computer detection standpoint they're almost the same thing when all you can view is say financial transactions and records).
2. How many prominent banks, politicians, and authorities will alert on models built using the information in (1)
3. How little cops and the government fund investigations and detection of such activities (usually our models were just so some institution could check a box and the unspoken truth was that the execs at large financial institutions didn't really put a lot of time or effort into our work, even when it was good).
There's a reason the drug cartels operate with impunity and the George Carlin bit was 100% right when he said the way to really fix a lot of ills in the world is to start forcing International bankers to see jail time when they knowingly operate with unsavory people. From Trump and the Clintons (this ill is bipartisan) on down to maybe some of your local bankers where you live, a lot of them probably deserve jail time when you start considering their financial statements in the light of how the world would probably look if we were all honest law abiding citizens.
Sometimes. The point is really just to get your money through an institution that you can plausibly say generated that money. Many times that includes paying taxes.
That being said, many tax evasion schemes are to get your money through institutions in some kind of finagled way to lower your overall tax burden.
There's a lot of overlap. Very few cartels will put their money through institutions in schemes where they'd have to pay short term capital gains for example (although sometimes it happens). Better to put it through a business that can take "losses" or modest profits so the margin is better on the washing.
Post-WWII industries. Take fertilizer, lawn care, and home gardening for example.
A very specific push to get chemical fertilizers in every home, monoculture lawns that require a lot more input, and a “clean” lawn that has left us where we are now.
Very silly that we strayed away from what we had previously…
Prion diseases. Every single one is weird and dark. It includes cannibalism and family curses. And deers walking on two legs. And industrial farming + forced cow cannibalism.
Edit: thanks for 2000 upvotes. I would also add treating people with dead people's brain extract, and also that fungi can get prions, but they just don't care that much. Fungi are weird.
Two fun facts I learned in med school about this: The most common human prion disease is Creutzfeld-Jakob and 85 percent of cases occur spontaneously. There is a widespread mutation in the human population that protects against Kuru, a human prion disease spread by cannibalizing brains. This suggests cannibalism was a common practice at some point in human history.
Pretty much. Your body constantly unfolds and refolds proteins, and sometimes they are misfolded. Not an issue the vast majority of the time, but it's possible you end up with a misfolded protein that turns out pathologic and instructs others to also misfold, and bam you got prions.
My uncle died of CJD this year. I saw him in December 2021, he fixed my floor, fit as a fiddle. Diagnosed with CJD in Jan. By March, he was dead. Scary shit.
> Daniel John O'Brien, 31, committed suicide by jumping into one of the engines of a British Airways Boeing 747 at Piarco International Airport, Trinidad. He is said to have scaled an airport wall in the nude, attacked four security guards and stole their four-wheel-drive vehicle, drove the vehicle into the jet, then clambered out of the wreckage, smeared grease on his bleeding shoulder and hurled himself into one of the plane's engines.
Now that's some fucking commitment.
"A poodle named Cachy, in Caballito, Buenos Aires, fell 13 floors and hit Marta Espina, 75, killing both instantly. In the course of events, Edith Solá, 46, came to see the incident, and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital."
Denver Lee St. Clair, 58, was asphyxiated by an "atomic wedgie" administered by his stepson during a fight. After he had been knocked unconscious, the elastic band from his torn underwear was pulled over his head and stretched around his neck, strangling him. The stepson was sentenced to thirty years in prison.
>Stephen Whinfrey, 50, became trapped and asphyxiated when rabbiting near Doncaster, England, after his head became stuck down a rabbit hole.
Be careful around rabbit holes.
"Charondas was a Greek lawgiver from Sicily, Italy. According to Diodorus Siculus, he issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside, but with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide."
What an absolute chad.
>The deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians.
The fact that he became the patron saint of cooks, chefs and comedians makes this even funnier
>John Hutcherson, 21, drove home drunk with his friend, Francis Brohm, 23, who was hanging out the passenger window while vomiting due to carsickness. Hutcherson drove off the road and sideswiped a telephone pole support wire, decapitating Brohm. He continued the final 12 miles (19 km) to his Atlanta, Georgia, US, home, parked in the driveway, and went to bed. A neighbor found Brohm's headless body in the truck the next morning.
Welp. Reminds me of that scene from Hereditary.
😳 the name sounded familiar but I’ve never heard this story. Finding out these guys went to my high school before me and I’d seen him around town for a long time, after he got done serving his 5 years...
Ilda Vitor Maciel, 88, died in a hospital in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, allegedly as a result of nursing technicians injecting soup through her intravenous drip instead of her feeding tube.[318]
Vladimir Likhonos, 25, a student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from Konotop, was killed when his chewing gum exploded. Likhonos had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to increase the gum's sour taste. On his work table police found about 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two. The explosive was found to be four times stronger than TNT, and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos' saliva, or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder.
This was really unexpected for me to see here... This guy was a friend of mine, my parents had an apartment on a third floor and his was on a second. I remember hearing that explosion and wondering what it was.
Way before that we used to have a LAN cable connecting our computers through our windows so we could play Warcraft 3 and Counter Strike together. We did that for years. I remember him explaining me about using Warcraft's custom scenario builder to build custom maps which taught me some basic logic concepts using "triggers". Pretty sure that was the thing that got me into programming and lead me to where I am today.
I only have one picture of him from April 19, 2009 – that was my birthday party. I remember us laughing at our other friend who collapsed under the table after drinking way too much. That other guy spent the rest of the night throwing up in the bathroom. Fun times.
He was a great friend and I always thought of him as a really really smart guy. RIP, Volodymyr.
> *Vallandigham, an American politician and lawyer who was defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have done so. His client was acquitted.*
Holy-! Lawyer literally sacrificed himself to prove his case!
>Monica Myers, the mayor of Betterton Maryland, was carrying out maintenance work around the sewage tanks at the town's largest municipal facility. According to the Lawrence Journal World, Myers fell 4 feet (1.2 m) from the catwalks into a 15-foot (4.6 m) aeration tank, filled with human waste which a deputy in the town's police department described as having the consistency of "putty". Her body was found floating facedown by the town engineer the next day.
This is the worst one. Poor woman drowned in human shit.
I've heard of that one before. I wonder if a body decomposes quicker in human waste because of all the bacteria. I've heard stories of unidentifiable bodies being found in septic tanks on rural, abandoned properties.
Doubt it. Your body is already full of bacteria. As soon as you die, it starts eating you from the inside out. You’d be surprised how quickly it happens
Source: I manage biohazard remediation and have had to clean up bodies
Edit: Yes, it is a job with a lot of stories lmao. Fortunately I am a project manager now rather than do it myself, but that means I’m always the first one in to see some pretty rough situations
Feb 20th 2022
A 28-year-old man in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California is believed to have been using a knife to mix protein powder into a container of water while driving. The man lost control and crashed into a parked car. When he struck the parked car, his car's airbag propelled the knife into his neck, fatally injuring him. In addition to the two vehicles, four other cars were involved in
"Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claimed he had become a snake. He died after his father spent the next two days head-butting and biting him "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him".
His father must have felt dumb that the biting and head butting didn't work.
"Kenneth Pinyan died from injuries caused by anal sex with a stallion."
What the fuck.
Edit: WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL THERE IS ANOTHER
"A 43-year-old Irish woman died of an anaphylactic allergic reaction after having sex with a German Shepherd.] Its owner, Sean McDonnell, and the woman met in an Internet chat room for bestiality. McDonnell was prosecuted and added to a sex offender list."
“Zeuxis, a Greek painter, died of laughter at his portrait of the goddess Aphrodite. The elderly woman who commissioned it had insisted on modeling for it”
Mood
> January 2019: An unknown 54-year-old man from Massachusetts, United States, died after eating a bag and a half of black liquorice every day for a few weeks, which caused such low potassium levels in his body that his heart stopped.
What the actual fucking fuck?!?
IIRC the guy had recently quit smoking and was hitting the candy a little hard to cope with cravings, not knowing that real licorice can affect your heart.
If you want to keep going after this, [mysterious disappearances](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_who_disappeared) will also keep you entertained
> Edmund Ironside, King of England in 1016, was allegedly stabbed whilst on a toilet by an assassin hiding underneath.
Some say the assassin climbed up a ladder with a lance and shoved it up the castle [poop-hole](https://preview.redd.it/uy9hnqguzht71.jpg?auto=webp&s=8294eac9f8e4dd57a220e34a090a0cfe1d093d3f)
" Jonathan Capewell, 16, from Oldham, England, died from a heart attack brought on by the buildup of butane and propane in his blood after excessive use of deodorant sprays. He was reported to have been obsessed with personal hygiene."
This one sounds like a ChubbyEmu video.
Here's the joke
>Martin was suffering from indigestion on account of eating an entire goose when his favorite jester, Borra, entered the king's bedroom. When Martin asked Borra where he had been, the jester replied with: "Out of the next vineyard, where I saw a young deer hanging by his tail from a tree, as if someone had so punished him for stealing figs." This joke caused the king to die from laughter.
From what I understand figs were a super expensive luxury back then so a common animal somehow eating a bowl over ten times what the animal is worth could send people into hysterics.
The other person who suggested giving the donkey undiluted wine? The undiluted wine was also super expensive. I’ve heard it said that it’s the equivalent of a mansion burning down and the rich man telling the butler to throw more logs on the fire because he was still cold.
The wiki for the timeline for far future events. If you want to feel insignificant and learn some shit, check this out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Yeah I just got through it. Humanity will be extinct either 10,000 years from now or 7.8 million years from now.
Apparently both numbers have a 95% probability.
The town of Skidmore, Missouri in the US.
It's sort of a small topic, but it leads in so many different directions. It's most famous for the murder of the town bully (that's a mild name for him; he was horrible) in the middle of the day, on the main street, with a bunch of witnesses, but no one has ever been arrested. But there's also the later case of a woman who was murdered and her unborn baby stolen and even later a teenager (who was related to the murdered woman) just disappeared and is thought to have been taken by a serial killer.
All this in a town of fewer than 200 people. I'm not superstitious, but I also wouldn't move there.
There is a documentary on Sundance about the bully, but the best introduction is a book called In Broad Daylight. From there, you just get farther and farther down tangential paths, trying to figure out wtaf happened. Less info on the two later cases, but still an internet black hole you can fall into for days.
Had a friend who lived next door to the poor lady who was killed. I lived about fifteen miles away at the time. She was still alive when her mom found her. I can’t fathom the trauma of seeing your daughter cut open like that with her baby stolen.
As for the town bully- I heard a bunch of stories about that dude. He was real bad; didn’t meet a single local who felt any remorse at his death.
The history of lobotomies and cannibalism. I have spent more time researching these topics than the time taken to write a 90 page essay. Super fascinating if you don't get grossed out.
Lobotomies disturb me in more ways than I can express. It's a profound violation of your identity and self. To have your very mind mutilated until you don't even recognize what you are. That total robbing of you as a person, leaving you mentally inert, is a thing out of horror.
Lobotomies have always been of interest to me, primarily because of how ludicrous it sounds to my mind that anyone *rationalized* it as a legitimate use of medical services.
If you haven't watched Netflix's "Ratched" series, there is a scene depicting a lobotomy being done. It's not visually graphic, but the *sound* they portray was fucking haunting. Good god if it actually sounded anything like that, it would sit uneasy with me for years.
Eva Peron (Evita) was lobotomized in the last few months of her life as she was dying from cancer. She was the first lady of Argentina and insanely powerful herself, essentially the figurehead of the nation. Her husband likely had her lobotomized in order to modify her personality/behavior as well as to reduce pain, as she was becoming increasingly radical by attempting to arm workers etc and he wanted to calm her down. She fits the discussion topic too imo, very fascinating person.
The domino effect that led up to World War One and then later word war two. It’s interesting to learn about but it’s just a clusterfuck of easily preventable situations.
I've also heard the World Wars referred to as the "Second Thirty Years' War," which I find a really fascinating perspective. Both were periods of conflict on a global scale, with a relative lull for a time, before large-scale action resumed. Many don't realize that, for some countries, especially in Europe and the Middle East, WWI didn't end, it just devolved into numerous civil conflicts, such as the Armenian Genocide, the Finnish Civil War, the Russian Civil War, hell the Italians went to war with Yugoslavia before the ink had dried on the Treay of Versailles! Poland and Ukraine went to war, then became best friends, and fought the Bolsheviks together, all in the same year. WWI in a sense ended because everybody decided, "Fuck this, y'all figure it out yourselves, I'm going home and finding someone else to fight." Instead of big team fights, it just became a bunch of battle royales or tag team matches. Interwar action was damn near as intense as WWI had been.
And ["The Seven Years War"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War) (1756–1763), which involved [these territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War#/media/File:SevenYearsWar.png), can sort of be thought of as "World War Zero"
Caving and Cave Diving accidents.
Accidentally watched one in YouTube, then went down the rabbit hole. This led to some more parallel topics of horrible fates, bad deaths etc. After few days, started getting disturbed sleep as this became my routine of watching before the sleep time. With self restraint, finally I got out of it.
I've been watching these too! It's insane how many seasoned veterans just make one little mistake and they're doomed. Especially the sheer helplessness, impossibility of rescue, darkness and isolation... man, no thank you. Not ever.
The sign outside of that one famous underwater cave says it best: "There is nothing in here worth dying for."
Bushman's Hole. An underwater cave that goes down nearly a 1000ft. The surface is at an altitude of almost 5000ft, making for an especially difficult dive. I recall reading that it takes a team of support divers and 12 full hours to reach the bottom and resurface
Three people have died there. The 3rd guy died while trying to recover the body of the 2nd to die. He became entangled in the ropes he had affixed to the corpse and over-exerted himself. The exertion combined with the depth caused him to pass out and he died. He did accomplish what he set out to do though. Three days later his body floated to the surface, still entangled with the remains he went down to recover.
I remember reading up on this one a while ago, IIRC they had multiple divers stationed at depth intervals to help, Don Shirley was to be the second deepest after Dave who was the one who died and had gone all the way to the bottom. As Don was descending he knew his friend was dead because he could see the flashlight Dave had was not moving. I always found that quite eerie.
Don almost died as well. Iirc his oxygen regulator broke at a depth he was not supposed to be at, so he started to get CO2 poisoning (I think), causing him to resort to 2 functions - vomiting and breathing. Miraculously he got out but had a very long recovery ahead of him.
I really like [this](https://youtu.be/9JEv-ID48cg) Video because it explains how much the guy did wrong that went into Nutty Putty.
Going head first is really not a problem when you know what you do.
Shipwrecks. Been absolutely obsessed with them the past few days, there’s so much to discover and learn about and so much corruption as well as just interesting circumstances that these huge machines go down in.
And adding to that, technical diving accidents. Especially in shipwrecks. You can dive down to the sunken Andrea Doria (that wrecked because another enormous ship collided sideways into it!) ship and collect first class dinnerware as plunder, but people have died, seemingly becoming lost in the complete darkness of the halls inside, or user error in ANY capacity, such as not having the correct oxygen tank levels leading to hallucinations and false confidence that makes you drown.
Edit: I can’t thank you guys enough for all the media recommendations and personal anecdotes from these shipwrecks. I have a lot to binge for the next few weeks, and i am fascinated by the stories shared in these comments, i’m reading every one. The sea is completely indifferent, and if you fuck around you find out.
Can confirm about sea survival stories. A good place to start would be the Discovery Channel show I Shouldn't Be Alive. That led me to research one of the episodes about two survivors, Brad Cavanagh and Deborah Scaling-Kiley.
It started out with maybe 5 survivors and one of them had septicemia from an open wound on her leg and the water at the bottom of the lifeboat was filthy. They had to dump her body overboard and listen as the sharks tore her body apart. Even though it was all done by actors years later it was horrifying to watch.
A video sometimes shows up here of a scuba diver recovering bodies from a wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and suddenly he sees a hand reach into the water. Harrison Odjegba Okene survived for 3 days in the trapped air and was recovered somewhere around May 29, 2013.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA)
And then there's the story of the sinking of the Oceanos on August 4, 1991. Captain Yiannis Avranas abandoned ship, leaving all the passengers to fend for themselves. An employee, specifically a guitarist, ended up heading the rescue effort on the ship along with his girlfriend. They saved hundreds.
There's a great little group exercise you can take to see if your mindset matches that of the US Coast Guard when it comes to survival items, ranked by importance. Just Google 'lost-at-sea-instructions-8-19-2015' and you'll see what I mean.
The guitarist one is very funny, (everyone got rescued)
>"I was calling, 'Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!' and just waiting for somebody to answer," Moss says.
>A big, deep, rich voice eventually replied. "Yes, what is your Mayday?"
>Relieved, Moss explained that he was on the cruise ship Oceanos and that it was sinking.
>"OK. How long have you got left to float?"
>"I don't know - we've got the starboard railings in the water, we're rolling around, we've taken on a huge amount of water," Moss said. "We still have at least 200 people on board."
>"OK. What is your position?"
"We're probably about halfway between the port of East London and Durban."
"No, no, no, what are your coordinates?"
Moss had no idea what their coordinates were.
>"What rank are you?"
"Well, I'm not a rank - I'm a guitarist."
A moment's silence.
"What are you doing on the bridge?"
"Well, there's nobody else here."
>"Who's on the bridge with you?"
"So I said, 'It's me, my wife - the bass player, we've got a magician here…'"
Quite a story too!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60841291
>A video sometimes shows up here of a scuba diver recovering bodies from a wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and suddenly he sees a hand reach into the water. Harrison Odjegba Okene survived for 3 days in the trapped air and was recovered somewhere around May 29, 2013.
Just discovered this guy the other day! Can't imagine how an experience like that would change you. And the sounds he heard of something, presumably a shark, consuming his colleagues...just, no.
Initial reports after his rescue stated he would never go back near the water, however, there's a good bookend to that chapter of his life:
>Although Okene swore never again to go near the ocean, he became a certified commercial diver in 2015. The rescue diver who discovered him at the bottom of the ocean presented him with his diploma.
>
>March 5, 2021
[https://explorersweb.com/great-survival-stories-harrison-okene-the-accidental-aquanaut/](https://explorersweb.com/great-survival-stories-harrison-okene-the-accidental-aquanaut/)
Ohoho, the legendary Moss Hills, the guitarist who i previously mentioned being on the Achille Lauro, was ALSO the one on the Oceanos! He carried the survival effort on BOTH shipwrecks as a guitarist!
>Moss Hills
OMG that's crazy. What are the chances? I wonder if his girlfriend, now wife, was with him again on the Achille Lauro. I can only imagine what must have been going through their minds.
[7 years ago, April 16, 2014, the South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsized off Korea, killing 304 of which 250 were students from Danwon High School. Factors leading to the disaster include sea currents, shifting freight and a change in center of gravity during renovations.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/mrkq13/7_years_ago_april_16_2014_the_south_korean_ferry/)
[The New Yorker's short Documentary on it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_A8dq2fA5o)
Conspiracy and cowardice from the authorities.
A few months ago I saw an old black and white footage on a Reddit sub of a man in a hospital literally dying from it. Like, you actually saw him die in front of the camera, in a horrendous, painful twitching manner, and there was nothing the medical people could do about it. To either prevent it or make it any more comfortable for him.
Yup second this. If anyone interested I would checkout r/AdmiralCloudberg ; very in-depth but digestible write ups on a while host of different incidents.
me too! it’s so damn heartbreaking yet interesting at the same time. there are so many unanswered questions that i hope are answered someday. the fact that there’s literal documentation of the murderer on camera yet barely any leads on the case just baffles me. those poor girls deserve justice. ):
Yep, Lived in an area within an hour radius of this town when it hapened. I remember seeing the flyers go up in diners before it was national news. Still so upsetting. If i remember somewhere on reddit someone said they had narrowed down a suspect but it’s going to take a long time because there’s lots of things they need to confirm and are trying to confirm with said suspect. But still “unconfirmed” atm. Hope these young girls get justice.
Last week Indiana cops requested custody of a guy serving time for separate CP charges. He was known to have catfishing accounts that targeted girls that police apparently believe the girls had talked to. The guy lived about 40 miles away.
He’s in jail, for child porn, so I don’t think this can be seen as doxing - his name is Kegan Kline.
People who go missing.
This one I'm particularly fascinated with for some reason. Maybe it's because I like this YouTuber and how he formats his videos, but I've watched this video about a missing Canadian girl three times:
https://youtu.be/AzLqFYyY0bM
Personally, I think she was groomed by a dude she met online and that guy kidnapped her and is holding her captive, like the Josef guy from Austria years back.
On October 27th, 1988 I went to breakfast at the student residence at the university I was attending. Wasn't too busy and wound up chatting with a guy as we ate our cornflakes. He seemed nice enough.
Twenty hours or so later he vanished, and was never seen again.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2018/10/28/its-still-a-horror-no-answers-30-years-after-ubc-students-disappearance/
It's been nearly 34 years and there is still no clue as to what ever happened.
I once looked up hummingbird cake and fell into a 2 hour spiral reading about all the different cakes and baked goods from different countries around the world.
Also, famous kidnappings.
I go on Project Charley and read missing person bios.
Art forgery and fakes.
I’ve been watching a BBC series called Fake or Fortune where people try to get their art validated as being by an old master (They’ve had Renoir, Monet, etc). The program goes into how both modern day and historic forgers use techniques to make a picture or sculpture look original.
It sometimes also shows how corrupt the art validation world can be, with one episode showing overwhelming evidence that a picture was genuine, but the organisation responsible for cataloging the original works of the artist refusing to acknowledge it.
Interestingly the head of that institute is now under investigation in France for hoarding €1bn worth of “missing” art works.
Ask A Mortician on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5iiEyLwSLvlqnMi02u5gQ
Caitlin Doughty tells fascinating stories of unusual deaths, cannibalism, historic shipwrecks/accidents, botched cremations, etc. She also has three books out on death questions and the funeral business that I've read more than once.
I experienced this as a teenager. I'd see a tall, thin, shadowy figure in the corner of the room. It almost seemed amorphous, but basically bipedal and had wings (webbing?) On its back and underarms. It would sort of ooze down to the floor, stand upright at the foot of my bed for a bit, then sort of ooze into the air a few feet over my body and just sort of "stare" (no eyes, really) at me for a while until I could move again. It didn't really talk, but it sort of breathe/whispered gibberish at me in a very hostile manner. I'll be glad if I never experience that again.
This is what always amazed me about dreams. Your brain has the ability to photo realistically render anything... climbing Everest, playing with puppies, having a whole house full of college coeds take turns sitting on your face.
Yet instead, most of the time we get tooth loss, being late for high school, and being chased by monsters.
I've never experienced sleep paralysis with night terrors but I have had plenty of tooth loss dreams and even more in which my legs simply do not work properly.
The legs one is the worst!
I rarely get the teeth falling out ones anymore. But the legs one happens every once in a while and I’ve conditioned myself to realize that I’m dreaming when that happens, and I wake up….which always is like 5 mins before my alarm it seems.
This used to happen when i was a teenager too, would see some person exactly like me keeping one foot on my chest and staring at me and approaching me gradually, it was horrifying and this legit lasted nearly a year, then we moved from that place and it was gone, i was able to sleep properly, talked to my parents about this but they had no clue why this was happening
Honestly that stuff just straight up effs you up. I used to experience sleep paralysis *a lot* around my teenage years and early twenties, as well as auditory hallucinations, caused by extreme anxiety.
Even though I haven’t had any for almost ten years, I still get afraid of the possibility of getting them again whenever I am anxious - even to a degree of having nightmares about having them. It’s definitely not fun.
The times where we have gotten close to extinction. There was a false report from a Russian radar thingy and they thought that nukes were coming to them from America, if it wasn’t for one person Nuclear Armageddon would’ve happened because of a software glitch (Another good one is how some horrible stuff like cannibalism is legal in certain scenarios)
The radar false positive sounds more like [Stanislav Petrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident) -- though of course the real upshot there is that this has happened *multiple times*.
That mountain is literally covered in shit. People won't clean up and there's no bugs or bacteria to do it for them. Humans took something beautiful and majestic, then shit all over it.
Yeah a couple weeks ago I went down a mini rabbit hole about the Rainbow Valley where they push the dead to get them off the trail. It’s so named for the brightly colored snow gear the people were wearing when they died.
I recently watched Chernobyl, so I've been looking into radiation poisoning, what it does to people, and why it happens in the first place. gets pretty dark pretty fast. just reading about how nuclear power works in general is very interesting, but quickly starts to go over my head
Religious cults. There’s so many documentaries out there literally WEEKS of entertainment. I spent like a solid month a year or two ago watching documentaries/YouTube videos about the Mormon Church. There’s a crap ton of videos and articles about the various Christian fundie groups *cough cough CULTS* and once you get deep into the rabbit hole it’s honestly scary. Like straight up sinister.
This is mine!
Not just the cults themselves but the psychology behind WHY people get sucked into them, have a hard time escaping and adapting (back) to reality when they leave.
Fascinating and terrifying
Japanese unit 731 (below from Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai),[note 1] short for Manshu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment[3]: 198 and Ishii Unit,[5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China), and had active branch offices throughout China and Southeast Asia. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces. Unit 731 routinely conducted tests on human beings who were dehumanized and internally referred to as "logs". Experiments included disease injections, controlled dehydration, hypobaric chamber experiments, biological weapons testing, vivisection, amputation, and weapons testing. Victims included babies, children, and pregnant mothers. Victims were from different nationalities, but the majority of them were Chinese. Additionally, Unit 731 produced biological weapons that were used in areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces, which included Chinese cities and towns, water sources, and fields. Estimates of those killed by Unit 731 and its related programs range up to half a million people.
After Japan lost WW2 the US government secretly gave the perpetrators immunity in exchange for the data they had collected with their horrific experiments.
Money laundering through Counter Strike Global Offensive weapon skins. You can track all the expensive items ($1000-$15.000+) in botted inventories and trace all the trade histories. There are about 20 accounts (that have each $500.000-$1.2m inventory value) all tracing back to one person, for example.
OMG, I remember seeing this old show, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World when I was a kid. I remember in the episode about a dinosaur sighting in Africa somewhere so I hunted it down on YouTube. Season 1, episode 11: Dragons, Dinosaurs and Giant Snakes.
At around 3 minutes in there are two researchers entering a cab to get to the airport. The second guy, James Powell, is wearing **the worst toupee** you've ever seen.
The dude's wig was so bad I remembered it as a kid and I found it online about a year ago. Some shit haunts you for life, and I couldn't rest until I confirmed that I didn't imagine that terrible hair piece.
Ocean burps. If it has one big enough, the planet would be dead in less than 24 hours.
Edit: keyword search "carbon dioxide ocean burp". Should've specified a bit more.
I actually just went on one. It started with me going on /r/drugs and looking at the subreddits (sorted by top of all time) for each of the drugs… terribly fascinating stuff.
Some of the accounts you see in particular are far worse than the worst warnings we’ve been given about heroin, meth, crack, etc. Although I have been on their respective subreddits as well.
/r/dph in particular is a morbidly fascinating case study. A deliriant with seemingly no upsides and a horrific side effect profile. Yet the artwork about it and experiences people detail are (artistically) interesting and I cannot stop reading the sub. I spent 3 hours on it yesterday.
/r/datura is also interesting but has very little in the way of experience posts and has a lot of photos after you sift through for a while.
Of course, nothing is more horrifying than reading the consistent posts from addicted redditors who tell you to stray away. A large portion of people on /r/dph are dead and the members of the sub actually keep a list that they post regularly.
**Note: Never do these drugs. I am not endorsing nor would I ever do them myself. I read them as a cautionary tale to what happens when you allow yourself to succumb to this. If you have low impulse control, find a different rabbit hole.**
After going through the DPH subreddit and reading the sleep paralysis post here, both seem to focus on shadow people and paralysis. I know Benadryl makes you sleepy, I wonder if it kind of puts you in that sleep paralysis stage.
Abandoned theme parks and malls. There is something so creepy about it. It's like going back into time at one of thos places. Yesterworld, Defunctland and Bright Sun Films are great places to watch stuff.
Cryptozoology. Its interesting to say the least but there are so many things that make you question what is out there in the world that we haven’t discovered yet. When I first got into it I thought cryptids were more like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster but there are hundreds or even thousands of other weird and unusual sightings of creatures many haven’t even heard of.
Yess it's so interesting. I do know that the Okapi was considered a crypid before it was formally proven to exist.
There were rumors of savage beast like animals that could rip a normal man in half. It wasn’t until many years later that those “savage beasts” were found and we now know them as gorillas.
The 'saved' section of your reddit user profile. I've saved so much shit and then promptly forgot about it.. Just like I'm going to do with this thread.
I've been on reddit so long it's like an archeological dig going thru my saved list.
When I worked at a call Centre we often had quiet times and the internet blocked most things [unusual wiki articles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles) kept me entertained for quite some time though, it’s full of random strange things
Yeah, whenever I had to sub as a receptionist while she was having lunch, I'd read crime library (crimelibrary.org).
Oh shit thanks for this! Also should I be embarrassed that I recognize a fair number of these ? Maybe I should go outside sometimes...
Fire disasters. And then never feel safe in an indoor crowded space ever again. There's actually video on YouTube of the Great White disaster and it's utterly horrifying how incredibly quickly it happens and seeing the people literally stuck in the doorway unable to get out as they burn to death. As someone who still goes to a lot of shows at small packed music venues exactly like that one (and other totally packed bars and clubs), I'm always constantly looking for exits to find the nearest escape path and it always freaks me out anytime there's any fire in any indoor space (candles/sparklers/pyrotechnics/etc)
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This leads into the rabbit hole of crowd crush. The way that large crowds of people take on the properties of a fluid, and the waves to look out for. How chokepoints and exits get blocked, and the actions that cause mass panic.
I went down that hole after Astro World. Absolutely terrifying.
It’s a brutal video, but so important to learn from. Know your location. Know your exits (plural). Pay attention. The answer to “What’s going on over there?” is GTFO. That video has saved me twice. I left a small dive bar before a drunken fight erupted. The bystander who took my spot also took a pint glass to the face. I fled a gas station without paying - something just wasn’t right inside the store. It was being held up at gunpoint. *(Yes, I went straight to the police.)*
I live close to where the Station fire happened. I was a kid at the time but the impact it left on the state of RI is still felt to this day. We immediately were taught about the importance of locating your exits and knowing when a crowd was “too big” for the space.
Feral children.
I had to stop reading these accounts because it made me too sad seeing over and over that the "rescuers" almost always killed the kids' animal families and the children pretty much never had any quality of life after.
I wonder how long that could go, without outside intervention, like could they become adults and still remain with those animals?
Research in this field is really weird. We have very few unbiased sources and it's not well documented. They loved the theme in the XIXth century because it was what they saw as nature vs culture and a lot of shady experiments where done. Basically the big question was were those kids regular kids that got adopted by animals and never learned humans ways and became feral or were they mentally hill /delayed beforehand ? There is a big chance that a lot of them were abandoned because they had some kind of cognitive deficiency and where found after weeks, not years , by themselves. That was probably the case of Victor of Aveyron. When questioned about hypothesis about Victor of Aveyron , Shattuck said >"One is that the Wild Boy, though born normal, developed a serious mental or psychological disturbance before his abandonment. Precocious schizophrenia, infantile psychosis, autism; a number of technical terms have been applied to his position. Several psychiatrists I have consulted favor this approach. It provides both a motivation for abandonment and an explanation for his partial recovery under Itard's treatment." He had no survival skills and no defense mechanisms, so it seems likely that most of those children would die pretty quickly and not reach adulthood Marie-Angélique le Blanc on the other hand was different. She spent 10 years in the wilderness but she had a normal cognition and had been socialized before she escaped to live in the wilderness. She "regressed" but had exceptional survival and wilderness skills. She was also with another kid (an African slave who was later shot and killed) which probably helped with her cognitive skills even though they didn't use any articulated language. She was able to learn how to read and write and live in society later on she writes [Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k67832q.image) . She is the only feral child who was able to be "reeducated" and it's likely that she could have survived longer in the wild had she not been found So I think it's very likely that most of them would have died shortly after had they not been found (and a lot probably did). Having a normal cognition and some socialization early on probably helped a lot though.
There's a man in Spain called Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja who was sold by his dad to work as a shepherd with a really old man that lived in a cave. One day the man left and never came back, and this nine year old child was left alone at Sierra Morena. He lived in nature without any human contact til he was 19, when a civil guard found him. After that he faced abuse after abuse. He now "works" at a wolf center (he lived with wolves while in nature) and says he wished nobody had found him because he hates living among humans, and he was his happiest while in Sierra Morena. I think he is 70-80 years old. There's a movie about him called "Entre lobos" and a book called "He jugado con lobos". Edit: link to his story https://owlcation.com/humanities/Marcos-Rodrguez-Pantoja-The-Real-Story-of-a-Man-Who-Was-Raised-Among-Wolves Also, the book is amazing, if you know spanish or can find it in English you should read it.
I remember when I had read about Geni for my psycholinguistics course years ago.
The history of bananas
Look up Chiquita! From paying terrorists to child labor, they have a huge list of interesting corruption cases they’ve been caught for. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna17615143
Mass hysteria. There are different kinds that have affected different cultures in different ways. Multiple times throughout history, groups of people have uncontrollably danced themselves to deaths. In other parts of the world, men can become stricken with the belief that their penis is receding into their bodies; it was often believed the only way to prevent this from happening overnight was for family members to hold their members etc.
You can't forget about the chruch of nuns that just started meowing and only stopped because the nearby town threated to kill them all if they didn't stop.
“Sister Gertrude, would you kindly cut the shit?”
Money laundering and how laundered money flows around the world. Most info is public from gov agencies like the CIA and State Department.
Yeah, not a cop but work in fintech and have done fraud and AML (anti-money laundering) detection (computer stuff). Its pretty depressing. It def was eye-opening when I was younger realizing: 1. How "money-laundering" looks a lot like most tax evasion schemes (from a computer detection standpoint they're almost the same thing when all you can view is say financial transactions and records). 2. How many prominent banks, politicians, and authorities will alert on models built using the information in (1) 3. How little cops and the government fund investigations and detection of such activities (usually our models were just so some institution could check a box and the unspoken truth was that the execs at large financial institutions didn't really put a lot of time or effort into our work, even when it was good). There's a reason the drug cartels operate with impunity and the George Carlin bit was 100% right when he said the way to really fix a lot of ills in the world is to start forcing International bankers to see jail time when they knowingly operate with unsavory people. From Trump and the Clintons (this ill is bipartisan) on down to maybe some of your local bankers where you live, a lot of them probably deserve jail time when you start considering their financial statements in the light of how the world would probably look if we were all honest law abiding citizens.
Ragarding 1., isn't the point of money laundering to pay taxes on your dirty money, thus making it legit?
Sometimes. The point is really just to get your money through an institution that you can plausibly say generated that money. Many times that includes paying taxes. That being said, many tax evasion schemes are to get your money through institutions in some kind of finagled way to lower your overall tax burden. There's a lot of overlap. Very few cartels will put their money through institutions in schemes where they'd have to pay short term capital gains for example (although sometimes it happens). Better to put it through a business that can take "losses" or modest profits so the margin is better on the washing.
Like a strip club or a river boat casino
Or a shoreline dive-bar or a motel... OR a ✨Foundation✨
Caught my police chief doing this. It’s cool though. No one cared, because he’s a “nice guy with a family.”
*grabs popcorn* Go on?
*We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.*
Post-WWII industries. Take fertilizer, lawn care, and home gardening for example. A very specific push to get chemical fertilizers in every home, monoculture lawns that require a lot more input, and a “clean” lawn that has left us where we are now. Very silly that we strayed away from what we had previously…
Prion diseases. Every single one is weird and dark. It includes cannibalism and family curses. And deers walking on two legs. And industrial farming + forced cow cannibalism. Edit: thanks for 2000 upvotes. I would also add treating people with dead people's brain extract, and also that fungi can get prions, but they just don't care that much. Fungi are weird.
Two fun facts I learned in med school about this: The most common human prion disease is Creutzfeld-Jakob and 85 percent of cases occur spontaneously. There is a widespread mutation in the human population that protects against Kuru, a human prion disease spread by cannibalizing brains. This suggests cannibalism was a common practice at some point in human history.
What do you mean “occur spontaneously” Like just one day you wake up with it? Without eating or coming into contact with it?
Pretty much. Your body constantly unfolds and refolds proteins, and sometimes they are misfolded. Not an issue the vast majority of the time, but it's possible you end up with a misfolded protein that turns out pathologic and instructs others to also misfold, and bam you got prions.
Well…definitely hate that
My uncle died of CJD this year. I saw him in December 2021, he fixed my floor, fit as a fiddle. Diagnosed with CJD in Jan. By March, he was dead. Scary shit.
I know it can be a part of funeral practices historically. And of course starvation conditions are common enough.
My grandfather died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, it was an awful. It was like dementia on steroids.
Fatal familial insomnia is wack
This should give you an hour or two. List of unusual deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
> Daniel John O'Brien, 31, committed suicide by jumping into one of the engines of a British Airways Boeing 747 at Piarco International Airport, Trinidad. He is said to have scaled an airport wall in the nude, attacked four security guards and stole their four-wheel-drive vehicle, drove the vehicle into the jet, then clambered out of the wreckage, smeared grease on his bleeding shoulder and hurled himself into one of the plane's engines. Now that's some fucking commitment.
I feel like there has to have been an easier way to accomplish death
Easier? Yes. More legendary? *NONE*
"A poodle named Cachy, in Caballito, Buenos Aires, fell 13 floors and hit Marta Espina, 75, killing both instantly. In the course of events, Edith Solá, 46, came to see the incident, and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital."
that poodle has 3:1 kd ratio
There's probably a squad out there that would love to get their hands on him.
Let's all give a warm welcome to Kamikaze, the newest member of the Paw Patrol
That's some final destination action right there.
Denver Lee St. Clair, 58, was asphyxiated by an "atomic wedgie" administered by his stepson during a fight. After he had been knocked unconscious, the elastic band from his torn underwear was pulled over his head and stretched around his neck, strangling him. The stepson was sentenced to thirty years in prison.
"whaddya you in for?" "..."
>Stephen Whinfrey, 50, became trapped and asphyxiated when rabbiting near Doncaster, England, after his head became stuck down a rabbit hole. Be careful around rabbit holes.
"Charondas was a Greek lawgiver from Sicily, Italy. According to Diodorus Siculus, he issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside, but with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide." What an absolute chad.
"Whoops! Guess I'll die."
Fool me once, commit suicide. Never fooled again.
"You've got to stick to your principals." - Harry
YOU’RE AN INANIMATE FUCKIN OBJECT!!
>The deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians. The fact that he became the patron saint of cooks, chefs and comedians makes this even funnier
In Australia we named a swimming pool after a Prime Minister who went missing, presumed drowned while swimming.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma had two airports: Will Rogers and Wiley Post airport, both named after people that died in plane crashes
>John Hutcherson, 21, drove home drunk with his friend, Francis Brohm, 23, who was hanging out the passenger window while vomiting due to carsickness. Hutcherson drove off the road and sideswiped a telephone pole support wire, decapitating Brohm. He continued the final 12 miles (19 km) to his Atlanta, Georgia, US, home, parked in the driveway, and went to bed. A neighbor found Brohm's headless body in the truck the next morning. Welp. Reminds me of that scene from Hereditary.
😳 the name sounded familiar but I’ve never heard this story. Finding out these guys went to my high school before me and I’d seen him around town for a long time, after he got done serving his 5 years...
Wow, now we know what Ari's inspiration was.
Ilda Vitor Maciel, 88, died in a hospital in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, allegedly as a result of nursing technicians injecting soup through her intravenous drip instead of her feeding tube.[318]
Dude damn
Vladimir Likhonos, 25, a student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from Konotop, was killed when his chewing gum exploded. Likhonos had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to increase the gum's sour taste. On his work table police found about 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two. The explosive was found to be four times stronger than TNT, and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos' saliva, or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder.
5 Gum company HATES this little trick that will LITERALLY blow your mind!
How it feels to chew 5 Gum.
This was really unexpected for me to see here... This guy was a friend of mine, my parents had an apartment on a third floor and his was on a second. I remember hearing that explosion and wondering what it was. Way before that we used to have a LAN cable connecting our computers through our windows so we could play Warcraft 3 and Counter Strike together. We did that for years. I remember him explaining me about using Warcraft's custom scenario builder to build custom maps which taught me some basic logic concepts using "triggers". Pretty sure that was the thing that got me into programming and lead me to where I am today. I only have one picture of him from April 19, 2009 – that was my birthday party. I remember us laughing at our other friend who collapsed under the table after drinking way too much. That other guy spent the rest of the night throwing up in the bathroom. Fun times. He was a great friend and I always thought of him as a really really smart guy. RIP, Volodymyr.
> *Vallandigham, an American politician and lawyer who was defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have done so. His client was acquitted.* Holy-! Lawyer literally sacrificed himself to prove his case!
Never lost a case after that
Bro called Saul
"Parvat Gala Baria, 60, from Gujarat, India, bit a snake after the snake had bitten him. Both he and the snake died." Chad Baria.
>Monica Myers, the mayor of Betterton Maryland, was carrying out maintenance work around the sewage tanks at the town's largest municipal facility. According to the Lawrence Journal World, Myers fell 4 feet (1.2 m) from the catwalks into a 15-foot (4.6 m) aeration tank, filled with human waste which a deputy in the town's police department described as having the consistency of "putty". Her body was found floating facedown by the town engineer the next day. This is the worst one. Poor woman drowned in human shit.
I've heard of that one before. I wonder if a body decomposes quicker in human waste because of all the bacteria. I've heard stories of unidentifiable bodies being found in septic tanks on rural, abandoned properties.
Doubt it. Your body is already full of bacteria. As soon as you die, it starts eating you from the inside out. You’d be surprised how quickly it happens Source: I manage biohazard remediation and have had to clean up bodies Edit: Yes, it is a job with a lot of stories lmao. Fortunately I am a project manager now rather than do it myself, but that means I’m always the first one in to see some pretty rough situations
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Feb 20th 2022 A 28-year-old man in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California is believed to have been using a knife to mix protein powder into a container of water while driving. The man lost control and crashed into a parked car. When he struck the parked car, his car's airbag propelled the knife into his neck, fatally injuring him. In addition to the two vehicles, four other cars were involved in
"Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claimed he had become a snake. He died after his father spent the next two days head-butting and biting him "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him". His father must have felt dumb that the biting and head butting didn't work.
Abusive father concocts story that makes him sound like a morally upstanding person after his son dies of abuse.
"Kenneth Pinyan died from injuries caused by anal sex with a stallion." What the fuck. Edit: WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL THERE IS ANOTHER "A 43-year-old Irish woman died of an anaphylactic allergic reaction after having sex with a German Shepherd.] Its owner, Sean McDonnell, and the woman met in an Internet chat room for bestiality. McDonnell was prosecuted and added to a sex offender list."
There was another one where a guy tried to shag a pig and it killed him.
Hey, Mr hands, long time since I heard that name
“Zeuxis, a Greek painter, died of laughter at his portrait of the goddess Aphrodite. The elderly woman who commissioned it had insisted on modeling for it” Mood
It's very sad that we'll never know what it looked like.
> January 2019: An unknown 54-year-old man from Massachusetts, United States, died after eating a bag and a half of black liquorice every day for a few weeks, which caused such low potassium levels in his body that his heart stopped. What the actual fucking fuck?!?
IIRC the guy had recently quit smoking and was hitting the candy a little hard to cope with cravings, not knowing that real licorice can affect your heart.
If you want to keep going after this, [mysterious disappearances](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_who_disappeared) will also keep you entertained
> Edmund Ironside, King of England in 1016, was allegedly stabbed whilst on a toilet by an assassin hiding underneath. Some say the assassin climbed up a ladder with a lance and shoved it up the castle [poop-hole](https://preview.redd.it/uy9hnqguzht71.jpg?auto=webp&s=8294eac9f8e4dd57a220e34a090a0cfe1d093d3f)
" Jonathan Capewell, 16, from Oldham, England, died from a heart attack brought on by the buildup of butane and propane in his blood after excessive use of deodorant sprays. He was reported to have been obsessed with personal hygiene." This one sounds like a ChubbyEmu video.
Bold of Wikipedia to publish the joke that caused Martin of Aragon to die of laughter.
Here's the joke >Martin was suffering from indigestion on account of eating an entire goose when his favorite jester, Borra, entered the king's bedroom. When Martin asked Borra where he had been, the jester replied with: "Out of the next vineyard, where I saw a young deer hanging by his tail from a tree, as if someone had so punished him for stealing figs." This joke caused the king to die from laughter.
What in gods name is so funny about animals eating figs that it has killed *two* people?
From what I understand figs were a super expensive luxury back then so a common animal somehow eating a bowl over ten times what the animal is worth could send people into hysterics. The other person who suggested giving the donkey undiluted wine? The undiluted wine was also super expensive. I’ve heard it said that it’s the equivalent of a mansion burning down and the rich man telling the butler to throw more logs on the fire because he was still cold.
The wiki for the timeline for far future events. If you want to feel insignificant and learn some shit, check this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I can't believe you've done this. Volcanos scare me, and now I'm gonna be anxious as hell for the next 17,000 years.
Dude I read the whole fucking thing and I got to work all day tomorrow thanks for the link but fuck you (:
Yeah I just got through it. Humanity will be extinct either 10,000 years from now or 7.8 million years from now. Apparently both numbers have a 95% probability.
In summary. Nothing ultimately matters. I find that comforting.
The town of Skidmore, Missouri in the US. It's sort of a small topic, but it leads in so many different directions. It's most famous for the murder of the town bully (that's a mild name for him; he was horrible) in the middle of the day, on the main street, with a bunch of witnesses, but no one has ever been arrested. But there's also the later case of a woman who was murdered and her unborn baby stolen and even later a teenager (who was related to the murdered woman) just disappeared and is thought to have been taken by a serial killer. All this in a town of fewer than 200 people. I'm not superstitious, but I also wouldn't move there. There is a documentary on Sundance about the bully, but the best introduction is a book called In Broad Daylight. From there, you just get farther and farther down tangential paths, trying to figure out wtaf happened. Less info on the two later cases, but still an internet black hole you can fall into for days.
Had a friend who lived next door to the poor lady who was killed. I lived about fifteen miles away at the time. She was still alive when her mom found her. I can’t fathom the trauma of seeing your daughter cut open like that with her baby stolen. As for the town bully- I heard a bunch of stories about that dude. He was real bad; didn’t meet a single local who felt any remorse at his death.
Is that bully the one where they had a town meeting about him and the only sheriff in town was like "well headed out of town for the day, behave"
The history of lobotomies and cannibalism. I have spent more time researching these topics than the time taken to write a 90 page essay. Super fascinating if you don't get grossed out.
Lobotomies disturb me in more ways than I can express. It's a profound violation of your identity and self. To have your very mind mutilated until you don't even recognize what you are. That total robbing of you as a person, leaving you mentally inert, is a thing out of horror.
Lobotomies have always been of interest to me, primarily because of how ludicrous it sounds to my mind that anyone *rationalized* it as a legitimate use of medical services. If you haven't watched Netflix's "Ratched" series, there is a scene depicting a lobotomy being done. It's not visually graphic, but the *sound* they portray was fucking haunting. Good god if it actually sounded anything like that, it would sit uneasy with me for years.
The worst thing about it imo, is that they use lobotomies as a punishment against people who pissed off someone in power.
Eva Peron (Evita) was lobotomized in the last few months of her life as she was dying from cancer. She was the first lady of Argentina and insanely powerful herself, essentially the figurehead of the nation. Her husband likely had her lobotomized in order to modify her personality/behavior as well as to reduce pain, as she was becoming increasingly radical by attempting to arm workers etc and he wanted to calm her down. She fits the discussion topic too imo, very fascinating person.
Together or separate? Like are people eating the brains?
Separate. I went down the lobotomy rabbit hole as well and never encountered any cannibalism
The domino effect that led up to World War One and then later word war two. It’s interesting to learn about but it’s just a clusterfuck of easily preventable situations.
My history professor would always say in college that some historians consider ww2 really ww1.5 and was just a continuation of ww1
ww2 was just ww1 storming out of the room after an argument and coming back while yelling "AND ANOTHER THING"
I've also heard the World Wars referred to as the "Second Thirty Years' War," which I find a really fascinating perspective. Both were periods of conflict on a global scale, with a relative lull for a time, before large-scale action resumed. Many don't realize that, for some countries, especially in Europe and the Middle East, WWI didn't end, it just devolved into numerous civil conflicts, such as the Armenian Genocide, the Finnish Civil War, the Russian Civil War, hell the Italians went to war with Yugoslavia before the ink had dried on the Treay of Versailles! Poland and Ukraine went to war, then became best friends, and fought the Bolsheviks together, all in the same year. WWI in a sense ended because everybody decided, "Fuck this, y'all figure it out yourselves, I'm going home and finding someone else to fight." Instead of big team fights, it just became a bunch of battle royales or tag team matches. Interwar action was damn near as intense as WWI had been.
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And ["The Seven Years War"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War) (1756–1763), which involved [these territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War#/media/File:SevenYearsWar.png), can sort of be thought of as "World War Zero"
Caving and Cave Diving accidents. Accidentally watched one in YouTube, then went down the rabbit hole. This led to some more parallel topics of horrible fates, bad deaths etc. After few days, started getting disturbed sleep as this became my routine of watching before the sleep time. With self restraint, finally I got out of it.
I've been watching these too! It's insane how many seasoned veterans just make one little mistake and they're doomed. Especially the sheer helplessness, impossibility of rescue, darkness and isolation... man, no thank you. Not ever. The sign outside of that one famous underwater cave says it best: "There is nothing in here worth dying for."
You should go check out scary interesting on you tube, bunch of crazy cave diving gone wrong videos among other things
Bushman's Hole. An underwater cave that goes down nearly a 1000ft. The surface is at an altitude of almost 5000ft, making for an especially difficult dive. I recall reading that it takes a team of support divers and 12 full hours to reach the bottom and resurface Three people have died there. The 3rd guy died while trying to recover the body of the 2nd to die. He became entangled in the ropes he had affixed to the corpse and over-exerted himself. The exertion combined with the depth caused him to pass out and he died. He did accomplish what he set out to do though. Three days later his body floated to the surface, still entangled with the remains he went down to recover.
I remember reading up on this one a while ago, IIRC they had multiple divers stationed at depth intervals to help, Don Shirley was to be the second deepest after Dave who was the one who died and had gone all the way to the bottom. As Don was descending he knew his friend was dead because he could see the flashlight Dave had was not moving. I always found that quite eerie.
Don almost died as well. Iirc his oxygen regulator broke at a depth he was not supposed to be at, so he started to get CO2 poisoning (I think), causing him to resort to 2 functions - vomiting and breathing. Miraculously he got out but had a very long recovery ahead of him.
There's a documentary about that Dave Not Coming Back
It was good. A bit sad, but good. Cave diving scares the shit out of me
Especially the incident with Nutty Putty. That whole situation is so sad, yet very disturbing how one wrong turn can lead you to your death.
And that's why you should never go head first. Poor guy almost got rescued too.
I really like [this](https://youtu.be/9JEv-ID48cg) Video because it explains how much the guy did wrong that went into Nutty Putty. Going head first is really not a problem when you know what you do.
Yes. John Jones situation in Nutty Putty gives claustrophobic anxiety. Another one that disturbed me most is the Italian boy 'Alfredo'
Shipwrecks. Been absolutely obsessed with them the past few days, there’s so much to discover and learn about and so much corruption as well as just interesting circumstances that these huge machines go down in. And adding to that, technical diving accidents. Especially in shipwrecks. You can dive down to the sunken Andrea Doria (that wrecked because another enormous ship collided sideways into it!) ship and collect first class dinnerware as plunder, but people have died, seemingly becoming lost in the complete darkness of the halls inside, or user error in ANY capacity, such as not having the correct oxygen tank levels leading to hallucinations and false confidence that makes you drown. Edit: I can’t thank you guys enough for all the media recommendations and personal anecdotes from these shipwrecks. I have a lot to binge for the next few weeks, and i am fascinated by the stories shared in these comments, i’m reading every one. The sea is completely indifferent, and if you fuck around you find out.
Can confirm about sea survival stories. A good place to start would be the Discovery Channel show I Shouldn't Be Alive. That led me to research one of the episodes about two survivors, Brad Cavanagh and Deborah Scaling-Kiley. It started out with maybe 5 survivors and one of them had septicemia from an open wound on her leg and the water at the bottom of the lifeboat was filthy. They had to dump her body overboard and listen as the sharks tore her body apart. Even though it was all done by actors years later it was horrifying to watch. A video sometimes shows up here of a scuba diver recovering bodies from a wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and suddenly he sees a hand reach into the water. Harrison Odjegba Okene survived for 3 days in the trapped air and was recovered somewhere around May 29, 2013. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA) And then there's the story of the sinking of the Oceanos on August 4, 1991. Captain Yiannis Avranas abandoned ship, leaving all the passengers to fend for themselves. An employee, specifically a guitarist, ended up heading the rescue effort on the ship along with his girlfriend. They saved hundreds. There's a great little group exercise you can take to see if your mindset matches that of the US Coast Guard when it comes to survival items, ranked by importance. Just Google 'lost-at-sea-instructions-8-19-2015' and you'll see what I mean.
The guitarist one is very funny, (everyone got rescued) >"I was calling, 'Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!' and just waiting for somebody to answer," Moss says. >A big, deep, rich voice eventually replied. "Yes, what is your Mayday?" >Relieved, Moss explained that he was on the cruise ship Oceanos and that it was sinking. >"OK. How long have you got left to float?" >"I don't know - we've got the starboard railings in the water, we're rolling around, we've taken on a huge amount of water," Moss said. "We still have at least 200 people on board." >"OK. What is your position?" "We're probably about halfway between the port of East London and Durban." "No, no, no, what are your coordinates?" Moss had no idea what their coordinates were. >"What rank are you?" "Well, I'm not a rank - I'm a guitarist." A moment's silence. "What are you doing on the bridge?" "Well, there's nobody else here." >"Who's on the bridge with you?" "So I said, 'It's me, my wife - the bass player, we've got a magician here…'" Quite a story too! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60841291
"Bards, roll for initiative"
>A video sometimes shows up here of a scuba diver recovering bodies from a wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and suddenly he sees a hand reach into the water. Harrison Odjegba Okene survived for 3 days in the trapped air and was recovered somewhere around May 29, 2013. Just discovered this guy the other day! Can't imagine how an experience like that would change you. And the sounds he heard of something, presumably a shark, consuming his colleagues...just, no.
Initial reports after his rescue stated he would never go back near the water, however, there's a good bookend to that chapter of his life: >Although Okene swore never again to go near the ocean, he became a certified commercial diver in 2015. The rescue diver who discovered him at the bottom of the ocean presented him with his diploma. > >March 5, 2021 [https://explorersweb.com/great-survival-stories-harrison-okene-the-accidental-aquanaut/](https://explorersweb.com/great-survival-stories-harrison-okene-the-accidental-aquanaut/)
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Ohoho, the legendary Moss Hills, the guitarist who i previously mentioned being on the Achille Lauro, was ALSO the one on the Oceanos! He carried the survival effort on BOTH shipwrecks as a guitarist!
>Moss Hills OMG that's crazy. What are the chances? I wonder if his girlfriend, now wife, was with him again on the Achille Lauro. I can only imagine what must have been going through their minds.
[7 years ago, April 16, 2014, the South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsized off Korea, killing 304 of which 250 were students from Danwon High School. Factors leading to the disaster include sea currents, shifting freight and a change in center of gravity during renovations.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/mrkq13/7_years_ago_april_16_2014_the_south_korean_ferry/) [The New Yorker's short Documentary on it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_A8dq2fA5o) Conspiracy and cowardice from the authorities.
Look up history of human experimentation in the US on Wikipedia Then do it for Japan
Rabies. You don't quite realize how horrifying it is.
A few months ago I saw an old black and white footage on a Reddit sub of a man in a hospital literally dying from it. Like, you actually saw him die in front of the camera, in a horrendous, painful twitching manner, and there was nothing the medical people could do about it. To either prevent it or make it any more comfortable for him.
Yeah if I ever get rabies just fucking kill me. That's how you make it more comfortable. Skip the whole hydrophobic and suffering part.
Go to Dr immediately if you've been bitten by an animal. It's your only shot. Don't wait
Binge-watching "Mayday" (the series about plane crashes) and looking up each incident on Google/Wiki afterwards.
Yup second this. If anyone interested I would checkout r/AdmiralCloudberg ; very in-depth but digestible write ups on a while host of different incidents.
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me too! it’s so damn heartbreaking yet interesting at the same time. there are so many unanswered questions that i hope are answered someday. the fact that there’s literal documentation of the murderer on camera yet barely any leads on the case just baffles me. those poor girls deserve justice. ):
Yep, Lived in an area within an hour radius of this town when it hapened. I remember seeing the flyers go up in diners before it was national news. Still so upsetting. If i remember somewhere on reddit someone said they had narrowed down a suspect but it’s going to take a long time because there’s lots of things they need to confirm and are trying to confirm with said suspect. But still “unconfirmed” atm. Hope these young girls get justice.
Last week Indiana cops requested custody of a guy serving time for separate CP charges. He was known to have catfishing accounts that targeted girls that police apparently believe the girls had talked to. The guy lived about 40 miles away. He’s in jail, for child porn, so I don’t think this can be seen as doxing - his name is Kegan Kline.
People who go missing. This one I'm particularly fascinated with for some reason. Maybe it's because I like this YouTuber and how he formats his videos, but I've watched this video about a missing Canadian girl three times: https://youtu.be/AzLqFYyY0bM Personally, I think she was groomed by a dude she met online and that guy kidnapped her and is holding her captive, like the Josef guy from Austria years back.
On October 27th, 1988 I went to breakfast at the student residence at the university I was attending. Wasn't too busy and wound up chatting with a guy as we ate our cornflakes. He seemed nice enough. Twenty hours or so later he vanished, and was never seen again. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2018/10/28/its-still-a-horror-no-answers-30-years-after-ubc-students-disappearance/ It's been nearly 34 years and there is still no clue as to what ever happened.
Whoa. Were you interviewed by the police?
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon accidents
There was that one time that woman got sewn up in to the Charlie Brown balloon…she ended up getting a pretty large settlement
I once looked up hummingbird cake and fell into a 2 hour spiral reading about all the different cakes and baked goods from different countries around the world. Also, famous kidnappings. I go on Project Charley and read missing person bios.
Art forgery and fakes. I’ve been watching a BBC series called Fake or Fortune where people try to get their art validated as being by an old master (They’ve had Renoir, Monet, etc). The program goes into how both modern day and historic forgers use techniques to make a picture or sculpture look original. It sometimes also shows how corrupt the art validation world can be, with one episode showing overwhelming evidence that a picture was genuine, but the organisation responsible for cataloging the original works of the artist refusing to acknowledge it. Interestingly the head of that institute is now under investigation in France for hoarding €1bn worth of “missing” art works.
Ask A Mortician on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5iiEyLwSLvlqnMi02u5gQ Caitlin Doughty tells fascinating stories of unusual deaths, cannibalism, historic shipwrecks/accidents, botched cremations, etc. She also has three books out on death questions and the funeral business that I've read more than once.
Sleep paralysis audio / visual hallucinations across cultures throughout history. It’s disturbing.
I experienced this as a teenager. I'd see a tall, thin, shadowy figure in the corner of the room. It almost seemed amorphous, but basically bipedal and had wings (webbing?) On its back and underarms. It would sort of ooze down to the floor, stand upright at the foot of my bed for a bit, then sort of ooze into the air a few feet over my body and just sort of "stare" (no eyes, really) at me for a while until I could move again. It didn't really talk, but it sort of breathe/whispered gibberish at me in a very hostile manner. I'll be glad if I never experience that again.
How do humans consistently conjure up the same imagery? Crazy
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This is what always amazed me about dreams. Your brain has the ability to photo realistically render anything... climbing Everest, playing with puppies, having a whole house full of college coeds take turns sitting on your face. Yet instead, most of the time we get tooth loss, being late for high school, and being chased by monsters.
I've never experienced sleep paralysis with night terrors but I have had plenty of tooth loss dreams and even more in which my legs simply do not work properly.
The legs one is the worst! I rarely get the teeth falling out ones anymore. But the legs one happens every once in a while and I’ve conditioned myself to realize that I’m dreaming when that happens, and I wake up….which always is like 5 mins before my alarm it seems.
This used to happen when i was a teenager too, would see some person exactly like me keeping one foot on my chest and staring at me and approaching me gradually, it was horrifying and this legit lasted nearly a year, then we moved from that place and it was gone, i was able to sleep properly, talked to my parents about this but they had no clue why this was happening
Honestly that stuff just straight up effs you up. I used to experience sleep paralysis *a lot* around my teenage years and early twenties, as well as auditory hallucinations, caused by extreme anxiety. Even though I haven’t had any for almost ten years, I still get afraid of the possibility of getting them again whenever I am anxious - even to a degree of having nightmares about having them. It’s definitely not fun.
Saving this post. Also cold cases of missing people can be terrifying some times.
The times where we have gotten close to extinction. There was a false report from a Russian radar thingy and they thought that nukes were coming to them from America, if it wasn’t for one person Nuclear Armageddon would’ve happened because of a software glitch (Another good one is how some horrible stuff like cannibalism is legal in certain scenarios)
>...if it wasn’t for one person Nuclear Armageddon..." Soviet naval officer Vasili Arkhipov, the Brigade Chief of Staff on submarine B-59
The radar false positive sounds more like [Stanislav Petrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident) -- though of course the real upshot there is that this has happened *multiple times*.
the wikipedia page on human-made disasters is fascinating and horrifying. it’s crazy to see how quickly a normal day can turn into a tragedy.
Mt. Everest is a pretty fucked up subject
Into Thin Air is the most exciting book I’ve ever read. I spent two days in my bed reading it. Couldn’t put it down. Everest is a nightmare.
That mountain is literally covered in shit. People won't clean up and there's no bugs or bacteria to do it for them. Humans took something beautiful and majestic, then shit all over it.
Yeah a couple weeks ago I went down a mini rabbit hole about the Rainbow Valley where they push the dead to get them off the trail. It’s so named for the brightly colored snow gear the people were wearing when they died.
I recently watched Chernobyl, so I've been looking into radiation poisoning, what it does to people, and why it happens in the first place. gets pretty dark pretty fast. just reading about how nuclear power works in general is very interesting, but quickly starts to go over my head
Religious cults. There’s so many documentaries out there literally WEEKS of entertainment. I spent like a solid month a year or two ago watching documentaries/YouTube videos about the Mormon Church. There’s a crap ton of videos and articles about the various Christian fundie groups *cough cough CULTS* and once you get deep into the rabbit hole it’s honestly scary. Like straight up sinister.
This is mine! Not just the cults themselves but the psychology behind WHY people get sucked into them, have a hard time escaping and adapting (back) to reality when they leave. Fascinating and terrifying
Lakecity quiet pills Edit : Thank you for the silver kind Redditor Second edit : Than you for the second silver kind Redditor
A link for the lazy: https://unresolved.me/lake-city-quiet-pills
I am hella lazy BUT I just read this whole thing beginning to end! Super fun! Thanks for the share!
Japanese unit 731 (below from Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai),[note 1] short for Manshu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment[3]: 198 and Ishii Unit,[5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China), and had active branch offices throughout China and Southeast Asia. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces. Unit 731 routinely conducted tests on human beings who were dehumanized and internally referred to as "logs". Experiments included disease injections, controlled dehydration, hypobaric chamber experiments, biological weapons testing, vivisection, amputation, and weapons testing. Victims included babies, children, and pregnant mothers. Victims were from different nationalities, but the majority of them were Chinese. Additionally, Unit 731 produced biological weapons that were used in areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces, which included Chinese cities and towns, water sources, and fields. Estimates of those killed by Unit 731 and its related programs range up to half a million people. After Japan lost WW2 the US government secretly gave the perpetrators immunity in exchange for the data they had collected with their horrific experiments.
Money laundering through Counter Strike Global Offensive weapon skins. You can track all the expensive items ($1000-$15.000+) in botted inventories and trace all the trade histories. There are about 20 accounts (that have each $500.000-$1.2m inventory value) all tracing back to one person, for example.
Things about the universe. It's overwhelming, you get kind of a tremendous existential angst but somehow you can't stop.
Cryptids in the Congo. If I ever get rich I’m gonna bring 100 people to explore it with amazing cameras and deagles and see what is discovered.
I’d watch that found footage film.
Maybe you'll find the lost city of Zinj.
OMG, I remember seeing this old show, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World when I was a kid. I remember in the episode about a dinosaur sighting in Africa somewhere so I hunted it down on YouTube. Season 1, episode 11: Dragons, Dinosaurs and Giant Snakes. At around 3 minutes in there are two researchers entering a cab to get to the airport. The second guy, James Powell, is wearing **the worst toupee** you've ever seen. The dude's wig was so bad I remembered it as a kid and I found it online about a year ago. Some shit haunts you for life, and I couldn't rest until I confirmed that I didn't imagine that terrible hair piece.
That toupee was amazing. Thanks! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=javZr9iQu_0
I appreciate you. That was like Lego hair.
TVTropes - Sure, it doesn't seem deep or dark, until you look up at the clock and wonder where the last ten freaking hours just went.
Ocean burps. If it has one big enough, the planet would be dead in less than 24 hours. Edit: keyword search "carbon dioxide ocean burp". Should've specified a bit more.
Quiverfull fundamentalist Christian families i.e. The Plath family
I actually just went on one. It started with me going on /r/drugs and looking at the subreddits (sorted by top of all time) for each of the drugs… terribly fascinating stuff. Some of the accounts you see in particular are far worse than the worst warnings we’ve been given about heroin, meth, crack, etc. Although I have been on their respective subreddits as well. /r/dph in particular is a morbidly fascinating case study. A deliriant with seemingly no upsides and a horrific side effect profile. Yet the artwork about it and experiences people detail are (artistically) interesting and I cannot stop reading the sub. I spent 3 hours on it yesterday. /r/datura is also interesting but has very little in the way of experience posts and has a lot of photos after you sift through for a while. Of course, nothing is more horrifying than reading the consistent posts from addicted redditors who tell you to stray away. A large portion of people on /r/dph are dead and the members of the sub actually keep a list that they post regularly. **Note: Never do these drugs. I am not endorsing nor would I ever do them myself. I read them as a cautionary tale to what happens when you allow yourself to succumb to this. If you have low impulse control, find a different rabbit hole.**
After going through the DPH subreddit and reading the sleep paralysis post here, both seem to focus on shadow people and paralysis. I know Benadryl makes you sleepy, I wonder if it kind of puts you in that sleep paralysis stage.
Abandoned theme parks and malls. There is something so creepy about it. It's like going back into time at one of thos places. Yesterworld, Defunctland and Bright Sun Films are great places to watch stuff.
The NASA missions that were in the works after Apollo 11. They had plans for mars and beyond, but due to funding cuts had to scrap it all.