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30 Absolutely Horrifying Secrets People Confessed Having Heard From Seemingly Normal Folk
Some of the most disturbing stories to be heard can be found in real life, not just in books and movies. And it just goes to show that even the most ordinary-looking folks might have some deep and dark secrets hidden among all the skeletons in their closets. You can never tell what someone’s done or what they’ve experienced just by looking at them superficially.
Reddit users revealed the creepiest confessions and the most disturbing things that they’ve ever heard from seemingly-normal people. We’ve collected the most powerful stories to share with you. Scroll down to read them, but be warned—many of these are not for the faint of heart and deal with some very dark aspects of humanity.
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about our fascination with reading horror stories (whether fact or fiction), so we reached out to Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer Doug Murano. He is the founder of Bad Hand Books and has launched an Indiegogo campaign to inspire people based on his extremely viral 'give me calloused hands and tender hearts' tweet.
"Real life is absolutely terrifying right now. We're years into a deadly pandemic. Authoritarianism and fascism are literally on the march around the world. People and institutions we once thought we could count on to do the right thing routinely reveal themselves to be opportunists and cowards. It's not looking good right now. These are real monsters and there is no silver bullet. That's the one thing about horror—there are rules you can follow to defeat the evil. Real-life isn't quite as easy as that," he told us how reality stacks up against fiction at the moment. Scroll down for our full interview with Doug.
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#1
I used to help out at a nursing home. This old Russian lady would relate the same tale over and over. Her husband drank and hit her. It was sad for sure. But one day she leaned over and whispered "he was [bad] drunk, so I pushed him down stairs. Dead."
Tanja Hoffmann-Blaha 3 years ago (edited)
She saved herself... maybe she had no other chance :(
Memere 3 years ago
I'm with you. If that makes me an outlier, fine. Self defense is absolutely the right thing in cases like this.
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#2
When I was a cashier a guy was buying around 50 cans of wet cat food and just making friendly conversation I asked how many cats he had. Big mistake. He has no cats, he eats it.
ThatOneWriter 3 years ago
Some people in poverty situations or on fixed incomes can't afford much more than cat food.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
He's most likely on a fixed income and most likely not 100% stable. If you see this happen please make sure to point out food items like ramen and single unit foods that are cheaper. This is very sad, not funny.
Vicky Zar 3 years ago
Not necessary healthier tough. In my country animal food is highly regulated. I bet it is better then Ramen for instance
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago (edited)
Yes it is. I've seen people on fixed incomes do this towards the end of the month. They can afford the 56 cents for off brand cat/ dog food cans but not really food. I usually point them to the ramen packets. I worked retail during Christmas season for years.
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Lollipop Girl 3 years ago
Oohh, once, they were giving free samples of cat tuna in the supermarket (idk why). Me, being the hungry tuna-lover that I am, ate one, before I even had time to realise I was in the pet aisle. I got a rash, but the tuna was good 🤷♀️
Sarah 3 years ago
You definitely shouldn't eat too much tuna in a short period though.
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PurpleDoople 3 years ago
I tried it once in a dare, it’s not amazing cuisine but it’s not horrible. Tasted like fish. Not too bad.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
hmm Is it really that different to the lower quality stuff that goes into hotdog sausage meat? just asking. I know ours are made of the scraps (ie the stuff that can't be sold as "cuts").
Angelar 3 years ago
That was what I was thinking. At least in my shops, this brand is more expensive than cheap tuna
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There was this girl in my school who I think was a selective mute; she only talked to a few people, and I was one of them. Then she told me that I'd never be on her hit list.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
I'm going to be a selective mute in college. I'm in seventh grade and everybody has labeld me as the "weird girl" and always try to make me do stuff, bad stuff. Can't even tell them otherwise, that I'm a boy, because the place is so homophobic, and I'm fairly certain that homophobes are more likely to be transphobes.
Katrina Bradley 3 years ago
I have always strived to treat everyone the same, try to be friendly and welcoming because that's how I want to be treated by everyone. It's basic decency at the very least. Once had a co-worker at a factory (we were both office employees) ask me why I was so friendly to the floor workers. Knowing he as an a$$ I just replied that I had no concerns of being targeted when one of them went crazy and shot up the place. The surprised look on his face was priceless!
Editor and writer Doug believes that part of the appeal of the horror genre is that it allows people to tackle the issues of the day in exciting and unexpected ways. "Look at what Jordan Peele is doing in terms of our discussion of race in America with Get Out and Us. Contextualizing that discussion within the horror genre allows him to force the discussion in an entertaining and visually interesting way that I wonder whether he could achieve otherwise. The spectacle allows the message to slip right into our subconscious," he shared.
#4
My parents got divorced when I was 6 and my mother got full custody because my dad was super abusive. She'd always tell the story of how they were fighting before the divorce and the 3 of us were out boating and my dad tried to tip the boat so that my mother [and] I would drown.
Flash forward to 20 years later when I reconnected with my dad. We were driving to meet his family and he had a mental breakdown and confessed that he is bipolar and wasn't on his meds but he did in-fact try to push her and [me] over the side of the boat in hopes that we'd drown. He also wasn't taking his meds again when he confessed.
J&B FitzTubeKidz 3 years ago
I feel bad for both the family and the dad. The dad doesn’t want to hurt his family but his brain thinks otherwise.
Rachael Sampson 3 years ago
This is so sad, but just know that MOST bipolar people are not abusive.
Manuel Delgado 3 years ago
Exactly. Most bipolars are not homicidal, most non-bipolars are not homicidal, etc.
Load More Replies... IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
I'm so sorry. He seems like a mostly decent person, just with some mental health issues. I'm glad he's on meds, as it means he recognizes that he has an issue and is getting help for it. That's awesome, and something I wasn't strong enough to do for a long time.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I’m bipolar and wasn’t on meds for it until I was almost 50. I never tried to or wanted kill anybody. What this guy is is a violent piece of s**t who also happens to be bipolar.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
People with mental illness are apt to hurt themselves rather than other people. I'm bipolar and tend to resent it when people excuse bad or even violent behavior because of "mental illness".
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Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Bipolar people, please take your meds all the time. Even when you think you're better: thats because the meds are working
Elly Sketchit 3 years ago
Please understand that medication is not for everyone. I'm bipolar and have been medication free for around 20+ years (got off it when I got out from my folks' thumb, as they forced me to take it). There are other treatments, but you can be medication free. One has to weigh the benefits versus pitfalls, and believe me, the med effects, etc, can be as bad or worse than the illness.
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Marco Conti 3 years ago
My wife is bipolar. Of course I cannot extrapolate everyone's case from hers, but I can safely say that my wife has all her empathy in place and wouldn’t harm a fly. Can Bipolar Disorder affect an otherwise good person to the point where he or she would commit premeditated murder? Of their own family? To me it seems like the excuse "I tried to rape her because I was drunk". I have been drunk many times. Never raped or tried to rape anybody.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
This is also scary because he still doesn't take his meds all these years later. Similarly, my ex-husband, 4 days ago, pulled a gun on my son's girlfriend and told her that he had something for her and wasn't afraid to use it. My son was washing dishes and he had just walked over by him mumbling about disrespectful women and bs, then walked over to his girlfriend who was on the couch and and did that. He had already been acting strange, so they had been audio recording with their phone and captured the moment he did it. They did not call the police. My son asked him why he would do this and he was saying, damned crazy women, disrespectful bîtches, always screwing him over. But the fact is he was cheating on one gf with another girl they work with, he broke up with the gf but was still leading her on, making her think they were getting back together and she would be moving back in, when she was hearing from people at work about the other gf. He was playing games with ex gf, cont below
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
He kept denying the cheating and having multiple women over to his house, even after their mutual friends had told her. So she was taking pills and smoking weed and stormed in on my son, his gf, and their 6 month old baby, at exhusband's house and demanded to have her concerns verified. So my son's gf finally said, yeah, you're right. To which ex-husband still denied even though he was with the current gf at that very moment. A couple days later his ex gf OD'd and had a heart attack, but survived, which caused him to tell my son's gf that it was her fault that it happened. This was like Wednesday night of last week. He kept acting more irratic and Friday his new gf that he was cheating with, broke up with him and that's when he went home and pulled a gun on my son's gf, because he blames her for his issues. Now, the cheating ex gf knew about the other girl the entire time, but figured it was over because they broke up. She didn't know he was still stringing her along and lying to her.
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I had a friend confess that every time he stayed at my apartment (which was frequently, because we lived in different countries, sometimes he would stay for a month+ at a time) he watched me sleep. I woke with him staring at me, he was literally inches away from my face just staring and I freaked out, he broke down and confessed. My husband was asleep next to me!
That was the most creepy for sure. It also ended our friendship.
Marcellus II 3 years ago
Why? If you think it's needed with your friend, they're not a friend and they're not safe to have in your house.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Wow, that's very creepy. Did he say why? Was it some sort of fetish or something?
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
You never really know people until you know them for real be careful. Sometimes the people you trust or think you should trust are not the people they pretend to be
Holvnn Olive Ntivuguruzwa 3 years ago
why do sleep with your husband without locking your door?
#6
When I was pregnant some crunchy types asked me if I was planning to eat my placenta. I said "No." To that unambiguous answer I met with "You should," "It's natural and healthy," "You will need the nutrition" and other such statements. I respond "I am not a cannibal, I do not eat human flesh." I wish I had a camera to capture the facial expression of a person who suddenly realizes that they have committed an act of cannibalism and encourages others to do the same.
Rens 3 years ago
I will never forget when I was in the hospital giving birth to my daughter in the Netherlands in 2001, they asked if I wanted the placenta and I asked what the hell would I want that for? Apparently it's very common to cook it and eat it helps retain the nutrients that would otherwise be lost and I've been told it tastes a lot like liver; either way, yuck!
Bexxxxx 3 years ago (edited)
I couldn’t do it just knowing it was my own body tissue. I’m confident I can find a way to replace those nutrients without having to gag my way through my own placenta. But if some women can and want to, all power to them! Let me know how it tastes cause I’m morbidly curious!
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Not Proud British 3 years ago
Umm, it's not cannibalism. We are the only mammals not to eat the placenta after birth (apart from marine mammals). It is a by-product of the pregnancy and some believe it is packed with nutrients. It's a personal choice and I'm damn sure your apparent dislike for 'crunchy types' made you think you had scored a point over them. But you haven't.
Kay blue 3 years ago
The main reason other mammals eat it is to remove evidence of the birth so as not to attract predators.
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Eb 3 years ago
Not sure it's cannibalism if it's a product of your own body. Otherwise you have to include nosepickers and nailbiters, and arguably anyone who's ever exchanged body fluids should be taken into consideration. And breastfed babies I guess. Oh dear.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
The first time I heard of this practice, I almost gagged. Then I read more about it and even found recipes. It still makes me want to gag, but only intellectually. However, should you give birth on a desert island and awaiting rescue, it may not be such a bad idea.
Laura Deckers 3 years ago
It's a human organ. Like a liver. It's a lot different than breast milk.
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Elleana Sky Lopez 3 years ago
I mean.....asian companies package animal placenta in capsules for the stem cells and age related benefits....I'm 38 and have been taking this placenta brand from New Zealand that cost the earth. No regrets
Doug also had some advice for amateur writers who want to give the horror genre a shot. "Write about what scares you—and be honest about it. Horror is fueled to a greater extent by empathy than terror, so if you can make your audience feel what you feel, you will bring them into your world and your fears. Just about anything can evoke terror in the right context. You have a huge canvas," he said.
During an earlier in-depth interview, Bored Panda spoke about people’s fascination with the dark and disturbing aspects of humanity with psychologist Lee Chambers. One way that that fascination crops up is in the fascination with True Crime stories that explore evil in real life.
#7
I had an art teacher in about third grade who was really cool--or at least I thought so. At some point, she came up to me and said, "I love your red hair. I just want to chop it all off when you're asleep and glue it to my head."
It's one of my sharpest childhood memories because I remember going afterward, "Uh.....thanks?" and laughing really nervously.
Chicken Nugget 3 years ago
This is so creepy...I would report her. A THIRD GRADE TEACHER being like this is just....wow
Wednesday 3 years ago
You are so cute I just want to eat you! Squish you up in a ball! Same thing - should we report all the sweet Southern Aunts out there?
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Summer Mason 3 years ago
Being a red head myself people say the most wired s**t ever to us regarding our hair.
Lainie 3 years ago
Absolutely creepy. At least the OP was able to move on, without the trauma. I don't know about the other pretty red hair lil girls in his life. Shiver.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I agree, but the teacher was a woman. Lol, didn't know if you hit a suggested word while texting, as I do this myself, or if you thought it was a man. Either way it's still creepy as hêll.
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My HS art teacher said my braids could make a hanger for my head as a planter. Don't recall how he phrased it. We were doing self portraits, so I painted it. May still have it ...
Stephen Steve Stephenson III 3 years ago
Maybe I’m naive but it seems like a harmless, kookie thing that a 3rd grade teacher would say.
Alex Luiz 3 years ago
All the people saying the teacher should be reported... Teachers spend roundabout 35 hours a week with kids. We talk to them all the time. We have communication quirks ourselves, especially when we have been up late the night before stressing about work. Of course we realise that we have to be careful what we say, but we are human and don't always phrase every interaction flawlessly. Hold up the same lens to your own work interactions- i bet you have the odd face-palm moment. Now imagine that every time you speak you are being scrutinised. This is just one of the MANY reasons that there are shortages of teachers.
#8
My ex boyfriend could not handle our break up. I broke it off with him because of significant issues - drugs, stealing, etc. I finally got out of it. He didn't. He would not give up on me. At first he was desperate at trying to get back with me, following me, waiting in obscure locations for when I walked to my car, and even threatening to kill himself if I didn't see him. I blocked his numbers, changed my email, transferred colleges, moved a state away, and tried to move on with my life.
He was in and out of jail for drugs and stealing in addition to concealed weapons charges. Which was scary for me knowing all the times when he confronted me alone.
It was about 4 or so years later when I received the creepiest phone call. It was him calling to tell me that he was looking for me all this time. The tone of his voice, the horrific laughter, I freaked out. I called my parents and informed them, hey if I go missing this is who has me. I called campus security and made sure they had his description. He never showed up but my god, the voice on the other end of the line still brings chills.
It scares me to this day that he is out there possibly looking for me. Luckily I've become more aware of precautions to take. Pepper spray, learning self defense, etc. If I was in another state where obtaining a gun was easier, I would have done so. Unfortunately it's not so easy where I am now. I do however have panic buttons and GPS locators so if something were to happen, I can be found.
I try not to let fear or paranoia run my life, I try to take the best precautions, but I will always have that fear that just around the corner, he will be waiting for me.
John Borrell 3 years ago
If there was a god he would have kill the bastard years ago.
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 3 years ago
Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Pamda Panda 3 years ago
I feel this one. I ended an abusive relationship in 2019 (thank GOD I got out before the pandemic and quarantine). I was terrified for about a year that he would show up at my new home with some story about how I owed him something. I still live in the same general area and am afraid I'll see him around, even though he's moved across the country.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I can't imagine living in this kind of torture. It would be hellish to know there's someone so out of touch that has these kinds of feelings about me.
Austin Hicks 3 years ago
Find him first and solve the problem, or you'll always live in fear and paranoia
Rens 3 years ago
My ex has promised to do something to me years after I would have forgotten about him. I've been away from him for almost 4 years, but I know for a fact you still stalking me online 9th and if one stage he had access to to my personal information (in the UK, my Universal Credit account). I'm a lot less able-bodied now but I do love in a very secure home. I'm not really afraid of him, but I do wish I never had to think of him again
Rens 3 years ago
So many typos my apologies I was dictating my message and slurring my words...
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Katie 3 years ago
This reminds me of my mom's ex, he's been in jail for a while now thank goodness, and we did escape him about 4 years ago, but if he ever gets out I don't know if I'd be able to live in peace. I've always been scared of him. He was so controlling over us and was always abusive. I hope this person can be in peace soon <3
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
FYI: Original Reddit post is over 7 years old, OP has been dealing with bipolar disorders, intrusive thoughts, self-harm, and other crap. Their last post was 3 years ago.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Are you willing to shoot him dead on sight? If not, what good do you think having a gun will do? He will shoot you if you escalate by bringing your gun out, or if he doesnt have one he will take yours and use it if you arent willing to pull the trigger.
#9
My friend told me he robbed a bank...he got like $11,400 in cash and escaped by bicycle. The bank has since been closed but he had it all planned out before hand and worked out to a tee. He comes back freaking out sweating and panicked and his sister knew something was up and then heard on the news the robbery and bicycle and realized it was him but didn't rat him out. He took his girlfriend on a cruise, paid some bills off.
K Witmer 3 years ago
I knew a guy that robbed a bank on a bicycle one time in the drive through lane. He got caught both times and went to jail. When someone told me that story I thought it was so funny bc how digging stupid
Linda Ellis 3 years ago
The building I worked at once overlooked a bank, from my floor I couldn't see this happen, but, the 5th floor could. Someone robbed a bank, ran behind the Wendy's next door and changed their clothes and then stood in front of the bank and waited for a bus! Of course they were caught!!
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Memere 3 years ago (edited)
Back in the 70's, a relative of mine & his girlfriend tried to rob a bank, with toy water pistols. When the teller hit the alarm button, they ran out & took off on his moped. The cops caught them of course. When he went before the judge to be charged, he couldn't understand why he was being held - he actually told the judge "I didn't get away with any money, so I didn't really rob the bank", and demanded to be released. Yeah, that didn't work so well.
Syamsul Arifin 3 years ago
I had read a story once (probably a fiction) of a guy rob a bank, for 10,000, when he watch the news, reporter said he stole 100,000, turn out that the bank manager stole much more that what he took 😬
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
The cruise, a bit much. But the bills, especially in America, and especially especially if they were medical, sheesh. It might have been the only way to pay them off. I'm not saying what he did was right, and I would have a lot more sympathy if not for the cruise, but it might have been the only option he had.
Valerie Lessard 3 years ago
It's only wrong when it affects other customers
Load More Replies... Marcellus II 3 years ago
Kinda hard to believe. Police will have their suspects, not that many in a 10mile radius around the bank... and one suddenly goes on cruises? No questions asked?
madbakes 3 years ago
I'm a bank manager who has been in robbery situations... You're giving away too much credit to the police on this one.
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"When considering why the darker side of humanity and entertainment are so compelling, we have to first look at our evolutionary journey as human beings. For the majority of our existence, we were prey and always hyperaware of threats to our safety, which created a negativity bias that we are drawn towards," Lee told us.
"But in today's safe and often sanitized world, we are rarely threatened significantly, and the ability to explore evil, frightening and gruesome entertainment is one of the few ways we can visit this part of humanity while remaining safe and comfortable,” the psychologist said to Bored Panda.
“There is a level of novelty to it, it removes boredom quickly, and it helps us to discover our emotional limits while understanding the minds of those who go beyond social norms and potentially gaining knowledge of how we might avoid being victims ourselves. They also offer closure, with many stories ending with the mystery being solved, and the criminal being brought to a level of justice.”
#10
I was with some friends at a bonfire, and there were a bunch of seemingly cool/normal people there... we were all just hanging out, drinking and having a good time. The stories started flowing, and kinda out of nowhere, this pale/gollum-[esque] dude chimes in with "one time, some friends and I lit a playground on fire..."
We all kinda sat in silence, then awkwardly laughed and shrugged it off. Stories kept flowing.
Then a few minutes later he said "... yeah, back where I grew up, it was a small town... we didn't have a lot to do, so my group of friends and I would go around the neighborhood and find stray cats, and stomp them to death" ... and he kinda chuckled as he was saying it (like he expected us to laugh with him) ... everyone kinda said a collective "that's really fu***d up man..." ... and again, there was awkwardness and silence...
He quite literally ended the night with his next story...
"One time we stole a car from a parking lot. It was me and one other friend, and we just noticed that the lady had left the car running while she ran into the store, so we just hopped in and drove it off... Then, right as we got out of the parking lot and on to the main road, we noticed there was a baby in a safety seat in back... my buddy panicked, and as we got on to the main highway, he just threw the baby out of the window... we never found out if it was okay or not."
Everyone left without really responding to that one...
Later, we discovered that he ended up doing some time for shooting an 80-year-old lady in the face with a pellet gun from his balcony... just for fun. Good dude.
Laura Dawson 3 years ago
no just evil. If this is true, he should be on death row.
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Shelp 3 years ago
Same. This post ruined my day, and probably the next day too.
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Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
I would've told the police so they could've looked for any past missing babies/stolen car cases. No way would I have let that one go!
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Yep that guy needs to be hunted down and taken off the streets pronto, for a very long time, preferably infinitely.
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DC 3 years ago
Admit the cat-stomping to me and you're never the same again. Seriously, no matter what punishment this gets me into - torturing innocent animals has to get punished.
Jp@nda 3 years ago
If somebody said that in my presence i would knock em the f out, no discussion needed.
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IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago (edited)
I-I have no words. I cannot explain this in any light other than black. The baby story is... I can't even begin to wonder what goes through this mans brain. And I frankly don't want to.
Emberlee Tatum 3 years ago
Me either, I think this just ruined my whole month
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#11
OK, I served in the Parachute regiment in the British army and another unit (Prefer not to say) and then went on to private contracting. I went to protect Christian missionaries in Sierra Leone in the late '90s. One of the peacekeepers had detained a young boy, maybe 8 years old. I asked what he'd done wrong to the missionary and she said 'ask him'. I asked why he was detained and he told me he had 'Murdered his brother, his sister and his mother for admission into the RUF'. This 8-year-old boy had killed his entire family.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
It's so extremely sad how these malitia use these young boys to build their armies. They are vile loathsome individuals.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
Oh man, you need to understand how it works!! The RUF and many other military organizations in Africa go to villages and round up young boys. They force them at gunpoint to rape their own families. The soldiers will rape and torture everyone. They will force the kids to sometimes kill their own family afterwards, or they will kill and torture other villagers until the kids comply. They make it so that the kids are so traumatized and so shamed, that they will never, ever go back home. All the kids have left in the world are the terrorists, and they are then further traumatized by being taught to kill others, until they are the perfect killing machines. To think that kids are then PUNISHED for all the trauma that they have been through. I hate f*****g missionaries with a passion. They have no f*****g clue. I have done work on the survivors of this horrific practice, who are often continually raped and abused themselves. They need rescuing, not "detaining".
Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
Pretty common for child soldiers.... They are often forced to do it. After that they have nothing to go back to and belong to the army.
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The RUF was the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel army that fought a failed eleven-year war in Sierra Leone from 1991 till 2002. The RUF was particularly brutal and bloodthirsty even by the standards of African revolutionary armies. They made extensive use of child soldiers, some as young as 5 yrs old. The three most senior surviving leaders were convicted in February 2009 of war crimes and crimes against humanity and received sentences of between 25 and 40 yrs.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
Why does this hit so close to home? ( Had a period of time where I was not ok, past it now)
Valerie Lessard 3 years ago
Instead of protecting Christian missionaries please tell them to f**k off back to where they came from and stop dogmatising children for food
#12
Once I was out. We were sitting side by side at dinner, and two of our friends were sitting across from us. Mid-meal, the liar's phone rings. Since I'm right next to her, I see that it clearly reads "mom" on the caller ID, and she presses "ignore". No biggie, she can call her back later, it's rude to answer a call during dinner anyway.
But then, she starts talking about how it's her ex who called her, and how she's too afraid to pick up the phone. She suddenly tells us that her ex is this crazy stalker type person who abused her for years and who keeps tracking down her phone numbers and addresses no matter where she moves, and how the police won't believe her and how she's always so afraid of seeing him on the streets. She started shaking and crying and everything, it was quite the performance. If I hadn't clearly seen that it was her mom who called her, I would have believed it. And for what? What was the point of that?
That was the day I really realised how much this chick lied. It was insane.
Lainie 3 years ago
Disturbed attention seekers... I met quite a few of those. It's so easy to read them, for me at least.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Unless she put it on the phone as "mom" so her current partner would not s**t his/her pants when she/he saw that the caller was the Ex.
Barbara Skolly 3 years ago
Except if she knows ex's number why not just block it then?
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Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
I believe everyone lies when necessary. What I don't understand are those who lie unnecessarily.
Becky Moore 3 years ago
I knew someone who lied for months about having cancer and our mutual friend would take her to the hospital for her 'appointments' until she found out. If that isn't a sign you need help I don't know what is!!
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I had a roommate who was a pathological liar. She was also a hoarder and stopped paying her share of everything. It was a months long ordeal to kick her out, and I hated her at the time, but I just feel sorry for her now. She was bright, lively, and a lot of fun to be around at first, but all she could do was ruin every relationship around her.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
Might not have been lying. She could have put that as the contact name for varying reasons. But chances are, she was lying.
Labas No 3 years ago
My father is similar, only he spreads all sorts of conspiracy theories, ksenophobia and other similar stuff. The thing is he says everything in a very veryain, convincing way and now I think of all thoae times he would tell me stuff about nature and the world and I'm scared he made me biased in some way. The only good thing coming from this - I learned to shut up and just say 'i don't know' if I, in fact, don't know aomething while before I would try and figure it out in my head without having much info.
Lee stressed that seeing someone else face evil while the viewer (or reader) feels safe can even have a “comforting element” to it. "It can take us on an emotional rollercoaster, have us trying to solve the puzzle and test our fear in a controlled way. The permission to explore evil is powerful, as we so rarely get the chance elsewhere, and in itself, it is healthy and normal in moderation," he told Bored Panda.
"The challenge we face is the fact that consuming too much of this can desensitize us, and cause us to become less empathetic to the suffering of others, more fearful of our own environment, and potentially be more likely to use aggression ourselves,” the psychologist warned that consuming too much negativity and darkness can have an adverse effect on our mental health.
“It can also cause us to be triggered by our own previous adverse experiences, make it harder to manage our own emotional balance, and increase our stress levels, so moderating our consumption is something we should have front of mind, even when we get embroiled in the latest series that is pulling us in.”
#13
So this is actually my mom's story. She and her best friend in high school took an anatomy class together. They dissected fetal pigs. One day the friend confesses that she stole a fetal pig from the lab, took it home, and she dressed it up in baby clothes. She asked my mom if she thought there was anything wrong with that.
Bonus: The friend is a very successful psychiatrist.
Lainie 3 years ago
Ugh the smell of the Formalin in which they are kept so as not to crumble. I don't understand how she could dress the dead remains if they had to be submerged in formalin so they wouldn't fall apart?
Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
I've NEVER forgotten that smell from all my college lab classes. It's wretched. The entire room would smell of it for days after.
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Id row 3 years ago
The mental health profession is a magnet for the mentally ill. The most unstable person I know got her masters in psychology. God help anyone who has the misfortune of trusting her to their care.
deadinside 3 years ago
my bestie is super mentally unstable and wants to go into that... i love her but i can't imagine that being good
Load More Replies... shuka shuka 3 years ago
Most psychiatrists and psychologists are a little crazy. It's what drew them to the subject in school, after all.
Mistralok 3 years ago
The main reason psychologists and psychiatrists are in their professions comes from them studying the reasons for their own mentall illnesses.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
They stink so bad from the preservative. I could not imagine taking one home
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
I think it’s a kind of cute story 😂 but I used to do taxidermy etc 😝
Marcellus II 3 years ago
In summary, "psychology/psychiatry student describes horrible/hard-to-believe setup, and asks for your opinion", and you don't wonder how made-up it is? Hm.
#14
A girl I knew broke down in tears when she confessed that her dad was homeless and that she misses him.
She was the hardest, scariest most serious girl I knew.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
No idea why people are being judgy and downvoting peoples' comments. Sometimes people just have a point of view, downvote is not an articulate counterargument. If you disagree say why.
deadinside 3 years ago
i mean i have ASD and sometimes i just feel like "that's wrong" but i have problems putting all my thoughts into words??? some downvotes might be from that demographic
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Emily Phillips 3 years ago
My dad was homeless before he died. I miss him everyday. In April it will be 12 years. I didn't know he was homeless til after he passed.
Lainie 3 years ago
I'm so sorry, Emily. I can't imagine that kind of sadness. I'm going through something right now that I still don't believe happened. Be strong .
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#15
That they like the taste of petrol
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
most people like the smell the reason is Gasoline Activates the Mesolimbic Pathway Benzene and other hydrocarbons, when inhaled, have a suppressing effect on the nervous system, which results in a temporary, euphoric feeling. It produces a pleasurable sensation that's not unlike alcohol or a host of other drugs But to actually like the taste..... I actually got a bit on my hand before and as everyone knows curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back, I tasted it {didnt wash my hand, touched lip/teeth} and it was Nasty as hell! reminded me of the medicine they used to put on my arms to keep me from biting myself and my nails {pica sucks}
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Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
The smell of petrol, tar, polish etc is particularly nice. Reminds me of my Dad’s garage when I was young, the smell of his motorbike, the lawn mower and the associated tinctures and lubricants that kept them running. A few years ago I drove a sweeper wagon that was assigned to clean up around tarmac laying operations, it was heaven sitting in my cab, window open, breathing in the smell of fresh, hot tarmac. Weird? Maybe. Do I care? Not a jot 😀
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
The taste of petrol....the like the taste of petrol?!?! Why? Also, I hope that was a one time tasting and not a regular occurrence.
Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago
I worked in a garage when young and had to siphon a petrol tank I sucked to hard and petrol went in my mouth it was totally disgusting I took much more care next time I had to do it.
#16
I work with a woman that one day during a conversation about my kitties/pets in general says "I hate all animals... I like going to the zoo to see them in cages especially when the cages are too small". I distanced myself from her that day.
Lainie 3 years ago
This is a typical sadistic behavior, which for now has remained "only" on animals. Who knows what's the underlying problem for such a sick behavior, and who knows if it is squeamishness towards animals, or if they get off of the helplessness of living beings. Psychiatrist needed.
Klas Klättermus 3 years ago
Kind of sounds like a "funny dark joke" to shut someone up when they are talking about their cats or whatever. Lets hope it is. People really shouldn't be talking about their cats
Melanie Hornak 3 years ago
It does right! Have we all worked with that one person who won't shut up about her cats?lol I've had 8 cats in my lifetime...I love cats...but no...I don't want to hear detailed stories about how you named each one of your 14 cats!!
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KimB 3 years ago
I don't trust anyone who don't like animals. I also keep a close eye on anyone my dogs don't like...never flailed me yet
#17
I pick someone and just find as much information on them as I can. Pictures, stories, weird accounts on dating sites. I don't do anything with it other than wknt I know a little extra about this person than another. Honestly, I think I'm creepy for doing it.
Sam Kunz 3 years ago
I think it's good they acknowledge it so if it gets worse they can get help
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IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
As long as you are not stalking them in any way, stealing or selling any personal information, pretending to be them, or in other ways using their info for your own good, this should be fine.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I think everybody does that to some extent. I can see someone in a movie and be curious about them and then I end up down a rabbit hole where I find out a bunch of stuff. Sometimes I look up people I used to know when I was a kid because I'm curious. I think of that as fairly normal, not creepy!
Qibli of the SandWings 3 years ago
I do this same thing. I’ll remember something like the bakers war and I’ll go on to Wikipedia and spend like 30m just reading about it.
Ava MacPhetridge 3 years ago
I mean, if he’s not trying to stalk the person I just think it’s kinda weird. If it’s all things he can find on the internet and public information, I guess it’s harmless.
#18
Out of nowhere my ma tells me my dad drunkenly "confessed" that he and his cousin (whom my mom later dated and had a kid with) picked up a hitchhiker out near the beach in the early '90's. They were intoxicated and one thing lead[s] to another and they ended up killing the guy and burying him in a remote location in some sand dunes. She assumed he was trying to scare her into staying with him since they were going through a break up and she shrugged it off as machismo [BS].
So the story goes, years later a story comes up on the news, they are asking for information about remains found buried in a sand dune. She's not really paying attention until they start describing this large belt buckle that may help identify the man...she flips the fuck out because my dad had bragged about taking the guy's belt off, which had a huge Texas-style buckle, and beating him with it...making fun of the buckle and stuff. Next day the cousin calls and tells her he or his buddies would not hesitate to kill us if she breathes a word.
Anyways, she always felt really guilty about not turning them in but after losing my sister (she [passed] very young) she couldn't fathom losing me as well. The rest is history. They are free dudes.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
How does ‘one thing leads to another’ end with someone getting killed? That phrase should only lead to things like ‘and then she/he kissed me’ or ‘we got extremely drunk’ or at worst ‘so the officer arrested me for being naked’. It’s not and ‘and then they died’ kind of phrase!
Cody 3 years ago
A young man was once rejected from art school. One thing led to another, and nuclear weapons were dropped on Japan.
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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Then what? There is nothing in the story that can identify anyone.
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BasedWang 3 years ago
Sooo timeout.... The cousin who threatened to kill the mom........later bopped her and had a kid? Mom wasn't all "there" either
chuck.dont.surf 3 years ago
I believe she dated him before she found out about the body. That's the way the story is set up. And lost the child she had with him.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 3 years ago
Sure keep your cowardly mouth shut, and this gang of lunatics can keep on killing any time "one thing leads to another"
Marcellus II 3 years ago
Love your optimism that that programme works so well.
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Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago
You should have come clean on terms that they put you in the witness protection program!
#19
I used to know a girl who would stalk people. She'd get their license plates, memorize their schedules, call/text them obsessively, and once even followed someone home. She was incredibly shallow and just... off. She would tell me she would bully other students. It wasn't until that she started stalking my brother that I realized the extent of her crazy.
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
Some people with neurodevelopmental conditions can become quite obsessive with one particular person.
Legend_Trooper 3 years ago
This is kind of creepy. You should report her and get her the help she needs.
JuniorCJ82 3 years ago
I may be from the 1620's, but I don't get how people can phone stalk other people. How do they get their numbers? Is there something obvious I'm overlooking?
DogGoneOlive 3 years ago
They might exchange numbers, and there's a few sites where all you have to do is put someone's name in and all their active websites will come up.
Load More Replies... Ava MacPhetridge 3 years ago
She definitely needs help. I’m not sure whether her intent is malicious by what I’ve read but either way, it’s scary to the other person. I hope she got help from mental health professionals.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago (edited)
I feel like you should have talked to her, and when that didn't work, ( it never does, I say you should do that in case she ends up in court for her actions you can testify you tried to help her,) you should have told a mental hospital. The police, in my opinion, are an option for if nothing else works in this case.
Eiram 3 years ago
In real life no one can just tell a mental hospital to incarcerate someone. If a person unrelated is stalking than each victim must file a restraining order once they get evidence. There is nothing police or any authority can do unless she physically attacks someone she stalks. That is reality! Stalking is not illegal, it's just a voilation and a ticket if a judge can be convinced.
Load More Replies... J&B FitzTubeKidz 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah because not completely noticing something is off is exactly the same as stalking people
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I worked on a psych ward for a year in a military hospital. A young man was arrested while doing push ups on the White House lawn. He said he had a meeting with the president and he was just killing time. He is lucky he didn't get killed. Anyway, he was on our ward for quite some time. In that time, he and I got extremely close. When I was on shift, he would request to talk to me, confide in me, etc. This was fine with me, it was my job. This guy said a lot of weird stuff. He was extremely sick. He began making religious drawings everyday. At least 7-10 a day. Then he started to claim he was a prophet. Then he claimed he was Jesus. He even asked us to call him Jesus or Christ. For some reason, after all the other weird things he'd done, that stuck with me the most. After weeks of medication, he hadn't gotten any better. He was getting worse. Eventually he got released and last I heard he said he had a manager and was getting a record deal for being a rapper. He also bought 3 brand new cars and was rumored to be homeless. I think about him often and hope he is doing ok.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I remember going hitch hiking across Europe with a friend (or I thought he was anyway). He ended up telling me when we were the furthest from home that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. I had literally seen no signs of any kind from him before that moment. I just remember how incredibly black and shiny his eyes were when he told me and I just didn't know what the hell to do with myself. I did not enjoy the journey back!
ohjojo 3 years ago
I would have drank the hell out of all that wine was producing
Load More Replies... Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
Don't get 'extremely close' to clients in a health and social care setting. Bad move.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Seriously? Sounds more real than a lot of these to me. I've had clients like this. They are treatment resistant.
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Munchkin 3 years ago
wait so he has 3 brand new cars but not a house? I think he needs to buy a laptop first and play some money management games
bob bruce 3 years ago
Who needs a house when you've got 3 different cars to sleep in?
Load More Replies... Trisha Howson 3 years ago
There is a guy that comes in to my work place that says that he is Jesus Christ and he says the weridst things an he trust to act like he has a Jamaican accent. But you can tell it is fake an he he trying to make it sound Jamaican. He says the weridst stuff. An there is group of ppl that believe him that are on drugs an probably a little crazy themselves.
Joy 3 years ago
There's a UK rapper called J-Hus that this story brought to mind. Then I realised the OP mentioned the White House so... I'll get my coat
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Had an absolutely charming, incredibly smart-looking close friend for a few years. It took me about 1,5-2 years to find out everything about her life was a lie. Even the smarts, she'd read some detailed article on a subject and present ideas as if they were her own, but never knew anything deeper. Pretended to speak many languages by secretly watching a foreign movie with subs on, then "translating" some cool scenes to us.
She made up a story about her father abusing her mom to make excuses for failing her uni exams, lied to people about being a medical student to look smart, and would give them very dangerous advice, lied to her family about being a brilliant medical student (don't know if they believed her), and about many, many other things.
She was an incredibly fun person, but an awful toxic friend. Still, I was afraid she'd lose her mind completely if I revealed her secrets to everyone. So I only quietly told the people she was abusing or potentially putting in danger, so she couldn't do any damage anymore. Several times I tried to talk her into going into therapy, but I stopped... She was in complete denial about me knowing everything, I was so afraid she'd kill herself if she found out what everyone thought of her. One day she just packed her things, said goodbye with a hug and a huge smile on her face, and left for another country to "pursue her medical studies". I've kept evidence of all the craziness in case it comes back someday.
I'd say that if you genuinely pay attention to people around you, you'll find out many creepy stories like this. Some people see friends come and go, and actually never have any idea of what's going on in their lives.
Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
As the saying goes "everyone has a secret....". She just has many, many, lies.
Béla Kun 3 years ago
This is my ex from highschool, I am sure that she had Munchausen syndrome.
Kit Ff 3 years ago
Was she from Belgium? I think I dated that girl, total nutbag and compulsive liar. Told me her parents had imprisoned her inside their house, that her father physically abused her, she was raped by her roommate. Oh, and that she was a 2nd yr med student (at a Belgian university that doesn't even have a medical program). She confessed that she would befriend people so she could take over their friend group and lied to get people ostracized by their own friends.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago (edited)
It has a name - Delusions of Grandeur. When one insists that they are more wonderful than they are, smarter than they are, richer than they are. It's a form of mental illness. It's like they cannot bear being "normal." They MUST be someone special.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
This is very true truly creepy you never really know someone until you actually know rhem
ohjojo 3 years ago
Yeah, there are people out there who are just pathological liars. I've known a few as well. Didn't know it right away but they just believe their own b******* and eventually you realize that they're hurting people and you have to distance yourself. Kind of comical for a while until people start getting hurt. Save yourself
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
I knew someone like this. Absolute whoppers. Eventually she faked cancer and made a lot of people mad.
#22
My friend who is this Grade A student goes over to all these different girls houses, not to have sex or anything. Just to steal their underwear while they're in the bathroom or they're elsewhere. He has a full box (Which includes a pair of my sisters underwear which he admitted to stealing) in his "Pant-ry." I'm surprised no one has noticed in his house. But to this day, I'm the only one who knows. Well, now the whole of Reddit knows.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I wish the poster could read this: This is a well known sign of the beginning of abusive and dangerous behaviour towards women. It begins by secret little "victories" like this. It very often progresses to crossing more and more boundaries and often results in violent behaviour against women. This is not cute or funny. This is the beginning of something potentially extremely dangerous.
Christine Jemison 3 years ago
Couldn't you have warned someone? One more thing, if he had stolen my sister's panties he would not be able to steal another pair from anyone.😳😳
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
This is the sort of gateway behavior that if left unchecked can lead to more atrocious acts later.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Russell Williams was a decorated pilot, a base commander, a holder of a Masters in Defence Strategy, and a colonel in the Canadian Army who is now serving life in prison for first degree murder, sexual assault, forcible confinement, and breaking and entering. He was convicted of entering at least 82 homes, stealing women’s and female children’s underwear, progressing to photographing himself wearing them, committing sexual assaults, and eventually to murder. If your friend steals underwear and you have kept his secret, you are contributing to crimes you don’t know about yet. And dude, that’s also a crappy way to treat your sister.
#23
A bartender I used to know admitted to making fun of a depressed guy at the bar until he went out back, laid down on the train tracks, and waited for a train to come. I went to school in the same town when it happened, third-party accounts support that he did this, plus I saw the aftermath at the tracks.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
someone needs to report this guy so he is arrested for incitement to murder or something. You need people like this to get consequences.
Mobey Drunk 3 years ago
Nothing illegal was done, so it's down to their conscience now. However, and more importantly this is a cultural problem. It's still common to ridicule people with mental illnesses. People try to convince themselves that we are in a progressive society, but that's really a joke. Mental illness activism is still strongly needed. We need to challenge things culturally to make any sort of difference. It's still an uphill battle, but it's worth fighting for.
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KimB 3 years ago
As a bartender, dealing with all types of people is literally your job. Some people just lack empathy and compassion. Those people just should not work with people. I had a coworker jump in front of a fast moving train. There wasn't even enough of her left for a coffin :(...all because she was too afraid to come out to her deeply religious parents :(
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
Maybe the lesson is don’t make fun of people. I hope the bartender went out and looked at the aftermath, and realized what he did.
Ava MacPhetridge 3 years ago
Being a bartender, you should understand that a lot of people who drink excessively have an internal struggle going on. Making fun of someone for that is so disgusting.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
No one kills themself just because of something a bartender - probably a complete stranger - or any other single individual says to him. That's not how suicide works.
#24
[My father] is a career soldier, is still in and has many more years before he gets out. (23 years in so far). Well he isn't the most normal person anymore, after he came home from Iraq the second time he had changed majorly. He was put on alot of PTSD medications that keep him pretty normal most of the time.
However, on his 48th Birthday we decided to celebrate with some friends and have a few drinks. We didn't know that he didn't take his medicine that day and we got him a little too much to drink on whiskey. One of his non-military buddies said "hey man, how many of those bastards did you actually get?" we all stop and just stare not really wanting an answer and hoping he was sober enough to not provide one... he wasn't. He answered with "You know what? I don't give a f*ck about the [jerks] I killed, they tried to [end] me and my buddies, they deserved it. The only ones I do regret are the women and children that got in the way they didn't deserve to die."
We stopped giving him drinks after that and haven't spoken about it since, but it was a shock to say the least.
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Oh how wonderful. You send them off to kill people and/or die somewhere and when they get back, you deny what happened over there because it makes you uncomfortable. YOU, his FAMILY, should talk with him. Let him tell his story, his horrors, so he can maybe overcome them. Not give him meds, withhold liqor and hope he never mentions it again. What a horrible people you are.
Busy Panda 3 years ago
I feel you. I think military spouse should attend courses about traumas, PTSDs, and what is exactly happened in the war-zone.
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Mark Karol-Chik 3 years ago
WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE ASK THAT QUESTION. THESE POOR PEOPLE ARE F****D IN THE HEAD ALREADY, AND A QUESTION IKE THIS JUST PUTS THEM BACK INTO THE SITUATION.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Why are people surprised by this? Everyone is freaking out over Ukraine, but the US killed a host of civilians in an unnecessary and corporate war.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
One of my cousins is a career soldier, and one Christmas Eve he got absolutely wasted and told us about this one time when he was in training, his superiors got him and his fellow recruits drunk and told them to go out into the city and bring back homeless people. They did, but they never saw where their superiors took said homeless people. The next day when we asked him about it, he went BERSERK. Said he never told us any such thing and to never mention it again.
KimB 3 years ago
Cheez and rice this is actually heartbreaking! Shame on our government not taking proper care of our Vets! He clearly isn't getting what he needs for his PTSD and his clearly family isn't ready to listen and help him cope. I hope they get the help they need! :(
Sharon Ingram 3 years ago
Family can't listen and help them cope because they won't/can't talk about it. They shove it down as hard as they can and try to cope themselves. It breaks them. That's one reason why there are 22 veteran suicides a day. That's what Mission 22 is about. Trying to stop 22 suicides A DAY! So when military budgets are cut, it ain't bombs and planes and guns, it's programs. And the social/medical ones are the first to be cut.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 3 years ago
Never ask a soldier how many people they killed. I served in peacetime and I have been asked several time. My job was to lob nuclear missiles, if I had to answer "Yes" the number would have been pretty high. Just don't ask. Especially of someone that fought an insurgency where the line between enemy soldier and collateral damage is hair thin.
MustardLemon 3 years ago (edited)
My dad was in Iraq as well, and he usually doesn't talk about it but sometimes in similar situations I hear thing slike this from him.
#25
Not sure if she qualifies as normal, but one of my ex-gfs once confessed to me that she was linked to a cat spirit/demon/creature from another dimension that gave her magical abilities. Apparently several of her group of friends had similar links and abilities and they were all [super] serious about it. No weird costumes or contacts, they would just drop stuff about into conversation very casually.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Hahaha I remember that movie ! I do t remember that part tho ! But I do remember lite as feather stuff as board😂
Load More Replies... Ally MacMann 3 years ago
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with this. She believes in something of which there's no evidence and others completely reject - so something not that far off religion. It doesn't sound like she's harming herself or anyone else. Sounds okay to me.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
No weirder than believing you talk to the creator of the universe who has a son who is himself and was killed 2000 years ago because one of your ancestors ate an apple.
#26
When I was in middle school, about 13 at the time, I had an English teacher we will call her Mrs. L. I had a friend who would spend a lot of time with our teacher outside of school. Going over to her house, to the mall, [etc.]. My friend after awhile told me that he had been having sex with Mrs. L, who was in her late thirties and married and that he was going to tell his parents about it. They pressed charges and she was gone from school for awhile and then quit, but didn't serve any jail time.
I don't know much else about the court case. We kinda stopped talking after all this had happened.
Nunya Bus 3 years ago
Also depending when this was (GenXer/Xennial here) it just wasn't something anyone would take action on unless forced. First like someone said, she's a woman and a teen boy should feel manly about that (Hello Van Halen's Hot for Teacher). Second, like bad cops, schools don't want that hanging over them so they just let them go and "kick the can" down the road. Three, if it had been a girl and she was old enough (double standards with ages) at say 16/17 then she "knew what she was doing." I'm so glad we have made better forward movement in this arena. The things I witnessed and knew about with our teachers....
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ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
So people obviously don't understand patriarchy. This has happened several times recently in our country too. It's pretty sickening. Fortunately our laws are pretty strict about the age issue. Except our marriage act (which was written during apartheid). Fortunately THAT is going to be rescinded shortly. During apartheid however the kid would be joked about as a 'real man' and the female teacher just warned. One case I know of, she ended up marrying him. I think she was 23 when he was 18.
VulcansAreSexy 3 years ago
How is it relevant that she was married? This isn't an affair, it's a sex crime.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
"Had been having sex" makes it sound like it was consensual.
#27
Someone close to me killed her step-dad's dog by feeding it tylenol PM in peanut butter because it annoyed her.
Paul C. 3 years ago
If someone told me this, I'm not sure just how much damage I would inflict on them. Oh, yes I do, a lot!
Marco Conti 3 years ago
You just don't do this s**t. Gratuitous cruelty to human or animals brings up the worst in me. As in maybe I'd be tempted to slip the guy an antifreeze cocktail. Cruel, but not gratuitous.
Ɔ~ã~Ⓡ~ș~Ȭ~ɴ 3 years ago
oh noooooo. no one messes with dogs on my watch. I'm gonna track this person down and feed her Tylenol PM in some peanut butter! (Not actually, but you get the point)
#28
My friend has long dreads and had a pretty bad case of lice. When he came back from traveling his roommates wouldn't let him in the house until he was lice free. Being poor he couldn't afford treatment so he dunked his head in some sort of gasoline, then he lit a cigarette... He has no nipples, most of his body is skin grafted. He still has dreads. He is lice free.
v 3 years ago (edited)
So, this guy soaked his hair in some flammable substance, proceeds to light a cigarette and as a result most of his body is skin grafted but he still has enough hair to have dreads? Does BP spend any amount of time proofreading these things or do they blindly copy/paste?
Kay blue 3 years ago
I got lice when I had dreads. The only way to get rid of them is to shave your head. The dreads are so thick that the lice can get in and lay eggs but the chemicals can't.
zububonsai 3 years ago (edited)
(20years ago, student's shared flat) My roommate decided she wanted to get rid of her dreadlocks.so we made a kind of haircut party. When it was over, we sat talking , drinking wine.... and noticed all the little creatures and critters escaping from the locks on the table. Mass exodus. She freaked out screaming "Ah! I've n e v e r felt anything!" . It was beyond disgusting. (From this day on Dreadlock guys were my only hard No when it came to one night stands or relationships. I just... can't. And still shudder when I see one, no matter how nicely maintained)
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bob bruce 3 years ago
With 8 billion people on the planet? I'll have to vote no.
Load More Replies... Katherine Boag 3 years ago
The gasoline soak would probably kill them! Also how can you afford gasoline if you are poor ><
#29
That they have had cannibalistic thoughts in the past
Shane S 3 years ago
I get irritated by this because we all have weird thoughts. Every single one of us. This was even brought up on one of the BP articles about “Things people tell their therapist that they think are shocking but turn out to be quite common”. There is not a problem with having a random thought; the problem starts with how much real estate it takes up in our mind. Thinking about eating flesh? Ok, strange but human. Obsessing about it? Ok, that’s more of a concern.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 3 years ago
I mean, you can't help intrusive thoughts but if they act upon it then obviously wrong
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Armand... don't use his friendly name, it only makes him sound more human.
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Birma Gustafsson 3 years ago
Meat is meat. Cow, pig, chicken - human - it's all the same. Having a drumstick on your plate or a piece of fried human flesh makes no difference - it's all dead body parts.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
I do too but it doesn’t mean I’d kill to eat one, just if I happened to be in a place and was offered some, I wouldn’t say no.
#30
Had a good friend of mine tell his crush at a party that he, "just wanted to cut her ears off and take them with him".
He's a great guy, married, and just had his first child (with someone completely different, that girl was gone).
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
That girl was gone...where? In one piece, or a bit at the time starting with the ears?
#31
Told me that he used to go on forums and boards dedicated to people struggle with depression, and he'd PM the ones who were feeling suicidal with instructions on how to go about killing themselves, and give encouragement to do so.
Daria B 3 years ago
I heard this is what had happened to a very nice and kind young man I used to hang out with often. This is why this entry really infuriates me. There's also a film about this problem, Chatroom is the title, a really good one. Too bad this friend of mine didn't have that happy ending, though...
Lainie 3 years ago
I'm sorry, Daria for your loss. Watched the movie. Hugs
Load More Replies... Lainie 3 years ago
Mental institution would be more appropriate, absolutely behind the thick wall.
Load More Replies... #32
I have a completely normal friend (we're both in our early 40's now) that shared with me his childhood story of living with a ghost. Every night he had a ghost that would walk down the hallway into his bedroom and just stare at him ... sometimes making noises, but usually quiet. He was so petrified that he would pull the sheets over his head. When this first happened, he would scream or run down the hallway to his parent's bedroom but they would always turn him back to his own bedroom and tell him that his imagination was running wild. Over time, he actually grew accustomed to this apparition, but was still freaked out by it.
I, personally, don't believe in ghosts and think that it must have been something else. But because my friend has such a type-A and a "no-lies" personality, I admit that I found it creepy (the hairs stood up on the back of my neck) to listen to him tell this story with such a nonchalant and straightforwardness. He eventually moved out of his childhood home when he was a teenager and these "ghost" episodes have never reoccured. There are different people living in his childhood home now, and he said that he would never go back there again.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Apparently old freezers vibrate at that pitch which can cause hallucinations. So maybe he had an old freezer close to his bedroom. This explained a lot to me when I found out because I had a similar experience when I was a child, and my bedroom was right next to a room with an old freezer.
Lainie 3 years ago
I personally, don't know anyone who is /was dealing with this issue (so, no first/second hand experience). But I've heard, and even more stories read - mostly on the internet, very similar to this one. In some, entire families have become accustomed to the spirit that lives in their house, moves certain objects, for example, opens kitchen drawers and moves chairs away from the table while they watch, therefore, without any mystical intent. I've really read a lot of these. Basically, everyone has in common that spirits "live", and are tied to the space in which they are located, and not to people who come and go, pass through "their" houses or apartments. I don't know why I or "my people" haven't experienced anything like this, as proof that there's a possibility of these ghosts, which has decided to stay. And if so, did they decide to stay behind by themselves, or did something force them to do that? I have also heard of ghosts who have no intentions, neither bad nor good, they simply existed in their homes. Most of them are not even creepy, and when they seem to be, they don't get it, they are trying to have some fun. Everyone has in common that they allegedly had some unresolved "business" that was too important for not finding a way to make it right. (it could be something really small - for us, living beings), but they thought it was really important to take care of it.
Lainie 3 years ago
sorry for my English there, I can't edit anything since I've been on my phone (also, can't read what I wrote in the sentence before, so I apologize for my messy thoughts). :D
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#33
I work with a Polish dude who barely speaks English... He's a loveable 40-something dude, who just drinks vodka and laughs infectiously all day long. A textbook carefree scamp.
Every couple of months everyone from work heads to a bar that hook us up with half price drinks for that particular night. It's pretty sweet... So anyway, this Polish dude and i were at the end of a long 10 person bench laughing about nothing and drinking ice cold cruiser, after ice cold cruiser. It was great.
Eventually we (somehow) got onto the topic of what he did before he came to England... After a few brews his English became even more scattered, but he did try, bless him.
So he says he was in the army and so on and so forth, after which he said 'I shoot 7 men dead'. Now that might not seem too heavy for you, but it blew me away... He was on the front-lines during the Kosovan war (from what i could gather).
I couldn't, and didn't want to, get too much more out of him due to the language barrier. Also, some gnarly, illegal shit happened during that war, which I don't think i could bear to know about.
Keep smiling, Pete
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Drinking vodka all day is not a "carefree scamp". Thats a person with serious problems. Quite possibly from the war.
#34
My teacher was showing the beginning footage of the leaked snowden video where a US drone bombs Iraqi civilians. I don't know what was going through my mind when I said "Fast forward to the good part!" I meant it as a joke but the room was silent. Oh god the cringe.
Shane S 3 years ago
I had classmates that hijacked the teachers computer screen connected to the projector and showed an actual beheading video. The teacher had no idea it was graphic. He thought it would be edited for news/tv. He immediately realized his error and reported what happened to the principle. I was sick to my stomach the rest of the week.
Scarlett 3 years ago
Some older guys in my old middle school (not the one I went to after that, the first one) found the beheading video of a journalist in the Middle-East (I’m sorry, I can’t remember details) and showed it to all of us younger kids who asked. It was horrific and I’m glad I blacked it out in my memory
Load More Replies... Cold Contagious 3 years ago
So, what will it be, exile or death? So it's death then? Looks that way. Very well, death. By exile.
#35
I confessed to one of my friends that I find girls with bloody clothes or bleeding from scratches really attractive. They just sorta shook their head and said whatever.
BasedWang 3 years ago
Just seems like he likes to see a woman thats like dirty and roughed up, but I am picturing it in like a Gung Ho army type woman with battle scars..... As long as he wasn't leaving out the part where HE wants to inflict the cuts.... Theeeeeeen thats totally different
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
As long as everyone involved is comfortable, knows exactly what is going on, and has consented to it, it's fine. Anything less and not ok.
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"Yeah... I have cannibalistic thoughts. I almost had a mental breakdown last year because I kept thinking these thoughts and couldn't get them to stop. But I've come to terms with it. Like, imagine a hot person... as chicken nuggets! With the skin and everything."
He's been recently diagnosed schizophrenic and still has these thoughts.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I'd never feel comfortable around them. I'd never know whether they wanted me for friendship or food 😕
#37
My sister killed my pet fish when I was 11 or 12. She laughed when she told me.
1010011 1001110 3 years ago
Cut her arm off and say that you were getter her back for the fish
#38
A really shy and timid friend told me her idea of a perfect date was [having sex] while watching the movie Antichrist.
Toko Danganronpa 3 years ago
For context, Antichrist is a very violent and disturbing horror movie. Not most people's idea of a nice night out...
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I guess that's just strange but not so bad. If that's what turns them on then do you. Once no one is getting hurt or without consent.
Lainie 3 years ago
I always knew you had to be careful with these quiet and invisible people. Of course, depending on age and degree of maturity. For example, one of the best things my dearest childhood friend owns, for example, are situations that I really adore and it's that after all these years she can still surprise me, of course pleasantly. Whether it's a gesture towards me or someone else. And on the other hand, I love that I know her in her soul, and I adore the fact that she was/is always on my side, no matter what, no questions asked, who wouldn't want that type of loyalty and uniqueness for understanding the real friendship which goes both ways?
Lainie 3 years ago
SORRY, THIS TEXT IS NOT MEANT TO BE HERE, BUT I CAN'T DELETE ANYTHING I POST. THIS IS HOW ANDROID PHONES ARE WORKING ON BORED PANDA. SO PLEASE, I WOULD LIKE IF ANY MODERATOR CAN BE HELPFUL AND ERASE THIS WHOLE THING? Please, and thank you in advance. I'm not screaming like a crazy person, I just wanted to get attention as soon as possible.
Load More Replies... #39
Somebody once told me, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you... But it's still on the list."
#40
Some idiot admitted to me he once hit a homeless person with his truck door as he was driving by. What a loser.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I'm in favor of filing a police report. Even if nothing comes of it at the time, if this sociopath does caught doing something else horrible it helps the case against them. I've had some redneck trying to door me on my bicycle more than once, I'd love to see one of these pieces of garbage who do this go to prison.
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There was this chef I worked with who seemed like a pretty normal dude. He was an immigrant from Haiti.
One day he brings up that he had to put his sick dog down when he was a kid. He said he did it himself since Haitians didn't have extensive access to medical care for people, much less animals.
He said he tied a rock to its neck and dropped it in the ocean.
Supa79 (He/him) 3 years ago
My old dog (Who has now passed on, he was hit by a car about six or seven months ago, I’m still not over it, trying to move on from the grief, but I’m okay right now) used to be really scared to go over bridges. My parents would take the pupper on hikes and every time they tried to go over a bridge, he wouldn’t budge. The obvious theory of ours is that someone dumped him into a river as a pup, because we got him from an animal shelter, so he had to come from somewhere. People can be so cruel to animals.
Load More Replies... Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
These animal stories make me so angry! I wish there was an *animal warning* so I could skip over them otherwise once read I can't get them out of my head. People who hurt animals aren't people at all. They are monsters!
chuck.dont.surf 3 years ago
He was a child...in Haiti....he didn't have a choice. People in third world countries can't take a sick dog to the vet. He stopped its suffering.
Load More Replies... A_UserHere 3 years ago
isnt the point of putting an animal down to make sure they dont feel pain in their final days? I feel like this does the opposite.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
I feel what you should do here is not torture it. Possibly treat it like a horse with a broken leg, although I don't really condone that. At least make sure they don't feel abandoned and they don't suffer.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
wow that is an awful way to kill something. Could he not at least have used his chef knife or something??
Kobus Loots 3 years ago
My father grew up on a farm in South Africa and they went through the same thing, but it happened to them because they couldn't afford it. But they would do it in a much more humane way..... they shot them.
#42
After we'd been dating for about a year, my current girlfriend told me she found my school (then high school) and my home address through what could be seen by friends of friends on FB and one or two comments about my home town on a forum we were both on.
She did this before we started talking.
We're still together, but I've never stopped teasing about it.
Kay blue 3 years ago
That just shows you how easy it is for scammers to use your identity for nefarious reasons.
What do you think ?
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Remember that violence isnt a mental illness and that mentally ill people are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of abuse.
Briana Kessler 3 years ago
Some of these are made up or highly embellished. Robbed a bank on a bicycle, psych ward to big time rapper. LOL please
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I took the rapper bit to be another delusion due to his illness.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 3 years ago
I feel like if any of these things are true, people are really oblivious to screaming red flags.
Memere 3 years ago
Yes, but if most of these are from the U.S., we can't just have a family member committed. That is thanks to Ronald Reagan & his administration. Some of these people will only be treated once they've committed a serious crime & get locked up. And very few of them go into treatment voluntarily.
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Lara Verne 3 years ago
I remember one elderly lady who lived in my town. I knew her my whole life and she seemed like nice person. I once talked to her, and she told me about her childhood, her first job, etc. Then she mentioned that back in the1980s, she found stray dog and took him home. I asked her what happened to dog and she said that she hunged him on tree and beaten him to death with hammer. I just stared at her and she chuckled, like it was good thing to remember. I never talked to her again.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago (edited)
Nowhere near as creepy as some of these stories, but in a drunken stouper one of my cousins admitted to having sexual relations with one of our other cousins. It wasn't a one time thing either, they'd been involved for a couple years at that point and had no plans to stop.
Faith Hurst-Bilinski 3 years ago
No one ever told me that they robbed a bank. However, when I tried to find my solar guy for my friend to get an install it was harder than it should be. A quick search and we found out that we bought solar from, and lent camping gear to, the satchel bandit: https://www.sbsun.com/2017/12/20/bank-heist-suspect-dubbed-satchel-bandit-responsible-for-robberies-in-san-bernardino-riverside-counties-is-arrested/
AndersM 3 years ago
A friend told me he once robbed a bank with a bunch of other veterans. Ended up like a Guy Ritchie movie in a old gravel pit, everyone pointing their machine guns at each other and yelling at each other. Ended up getting caught of course. Convinced the judge he had a rough childhood and PTSD and got off really easy.(Scandinavia) Sorted himself out and got job and family. :-) And I thought I knew the guy.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Remember that violence isnt a mental illness and that mentally ill people are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of abuse.
Briana Kessler 3 years ago
Some of these are made up or highly embellished. Robbed a bank on a bicycle, psych ward to big time rapper. LOL please
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I took the rapper bit to be another delusion due to his illness.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 3 years ago
I feel like if any of these things are true, people are really oblivious to screaming red flags.
Memere 3 years ago
Yes, but if most of these are from the U.S., we can't just have a family member committed. That is thanks to Ronald Reagan & his administration. Some of these people will only be treated once they've committed a serious crime & get locked up. And very few of them go into treatment voluntarily.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 3 years ago
I remember one elderly lady who lived in my town. I knew her my whole life and she seemed like nice person. I once talked to her, and she told me about her childhood, her first job, etc. Then she mentioned that back in the1980s, she found stray dog and took him home. I asked her what happened to dog and she said that she hunged him on tree and beaten him to death with hammer. I just stared at her and she chuckled, like it was good thing to remember. I never talked to her again.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago (edited)
Nowhere near as creepy as some of these stories, but in a drunken stouper one of my cousins admitted to having sexual relations with one of our other cousins. It wasn't a one time thing either, they'd been involved for a couple years at that point and had no plans to stop.
Faith Hurst-Bilinski 3 years ago
No one ever told me that they robbed a bank. However, when I tried to find my solar guy for my friend to get an install it was harder than it should be. A quick search and we found out that we bought solar from, and lent camping gear to, the satchel bandit: https://www.sbsun.com/2017/12/20/bank-heist-suspect-dubbed-satchel-bandit-responsible-for-robberies-in-san-bernardino-riverside-counties-is-arrested/
AndersM 3 years ago
A friend told me he once robbed a bank with a bunch of other veterans. Ended up like a Guy Ritchie movie in a old gravel pit, everyone pointing their machine guns at each other and yelling at each other. Ended up getting caught of course. Convinced the judge he had a rough childhood and PTSD and got off really easy.(Scandinavia) Sorted himself out and got job and family. :-) And I thought I knew the guy.
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