It's October, and you know what that means: darker and colder days, the aroma of all things pumpkin spice, cozy evenings with your favorite hot beverage, and, of course, a dose of creepiness. Here at Bored Panda, we're absolutely hooked by the spookiness of October, and we couldn't resist creating another article that might not be everyone's cup of tea, especially if you're faint-hearted.

Introducing "Creepy Knowledge" - an X page filled with eerie facts that might send shivers down your spine. With over 33 thousand followers, this corner of the internet serves as a gathering place for those who crave that exhilarating thrill of the unknown. From men believing they were abducted by aliens to a woman who underwent 67 exorcisms, we’ve gathered the best chilling stories and mysterious phenomena that might keep you on the edge of your seat. Scroll down for the spine-tingling experience. Just be warned, you might want to keep the lights on.

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Nana
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3 years ago

Kinda love this

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    Gimme that Cash
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    3 years ago

    They don't pose much of a threat to humans and usually flees when alarmed. Not particularly dangerous to humans.

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    Lotus Flower in Space 🪷‍
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    3 years ago

    Ram! My man.

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    David A Paterson
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    3 years ago

    Nice drawing. The Jungian "shadow" archaetype.

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    David A Paterson
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    3 years ago

    Did it work?

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    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
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    3 years ago

    Because I wanted to know what happened, I looked up her name and apparently the police arrived and arrested the man and nobody was hurt

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    Nana
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    3 years ago

    I mean if they managed to do that and put in all the hard work to steal it, they probably earned it. That's low key impressive. 😆

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    David A Paterson
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    3 years ago

    Not so much creepy as apposite.

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    Roger Lickers
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    3 years ago

    1361

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    Hippopotamuses
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    3 years ago

    It never ceases to amaze me the lengths children have gone to throughout history to avoid eating their brussels sprouts!

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    Elizabeth Elliot
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    3 years ago

    They also display 'burrowing response' where they crawl into confined spaces - looking like someone has concealed a body..

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    Kurichfield
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    3 years ago

    Nope

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    SheamusFanFrom1987
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    3 years ago

    What in the actual fishcake...!!!

    Little Wonder
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Still happens, and yes it happens in the USA. There are five states with no minimum age for marriage.

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    Gimme that Cash
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    Nope. I'm dipping. Glad this b******t is illegal now. But seriously, who tf decided it was ok to have a 22 year old marry a 9 year old?? EDIT: Did a little research and apparently her mother said he was a good guy and something along the line of 'NoT gOiNg AgAiNsT tHe BiBlE', whatever the f**k that means.

    Trish
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    A good guy can't/won't sexualize a 9 year old. What a terrible situation for the girl.

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    BetterBitterButter
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    3 years ago

    That's not a "husband"! That's a criminal!

    Rose the Cook
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    A pedophile to be exact.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Around this time Lina Medina in Peru became the youngest person to ever give birth. I say "person" because she was FIVE years old. Things like this were happening well into the modern age.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I believe her kid had a kid at a really young age too and she became the youngest person to be a grandmother. They never revealed who was raping her.

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    Leo Domitrix
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Pity this child. The doll pictured is one Charlie Johns had given her a year ealier. We call t his extreme grooming and amorality where I'm from. And this sparked moral outrage but wasn't annulled. A reverend actually did the ceremony even tho' she is obviously not 18, the age Johns claimed she was. Her mother defended the marriage as a love match. And of course it helped Johns had land and therefore was a "good catch". No sh*t folks, you can't make this up. She never had a chance. Or a choice. :-(

    CatLady
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yet Eunice said throughout her life that she had no regrets. At age nine, she likely mistook her friendship with the neighbour boy for "love" and knew that she'd be safe from extreme poverty with him. I still find the whole idea horrifying, but I don't see the adults as being totally predatory. Any interview with Charlie shows him to be... dull-witted at best. They were in a society of extreme ignorance and poverty, where children were basically miniature adults. The mother called her daughter a woman because she could cook. She may not have even known that menstruation means fertility. It was a case of extreme ignorance. Eunice's mother also probably felt that this was the best possible future for her daughter in their poverty-stricken society.

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    The Scout
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    3 years ago (edited)

    It is illegal in Tennessee by now - but there still remain five US states that do not have a minimum age for marriage. Until recently, it was not even that: "For instance, in 2017, Human Rights Watch pointed out that Afghanistan has a tougher law on child marriage than parts of the United States: in Afghanistan the minimum age of marriage is 15, and that only with permission from their father or a judge; otherwise it is 16.[ As of that date, 25 U.S. states had no minimum marriage age at all if one or more of the grounds for exception existed; this number has continually decreased since then." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States#:~:text=29%25%20of%20the%20children%20were,%2Dyear%2Dolds%20getting%20married).

    Moosy Girl
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    He was apparently 24 when they married, they ended up with 9 kids and were together until he died, 60 or so years later. :/

    EP
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That is crazy. 9 years old. And the only reason she doesn’t have a child until 14 is because her body couldn’t yet. That’s insane to think of someone having sex with her when she’s not even through puberty. Why would someone want to do that. That’s a stupid question. I’m trying to make sense of criminal and deviant behavior. This is so sad.

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    darqemm
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    3 years ago

    How horrible for her.

    Susan S
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    3 years ago

    This girl gave birth to her 9 pound daughter at age 14

    tl gmc
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I feel so bad for her and other kids like her

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    SillyPandaBunny
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    3 years ago

    Can’t believe people are surprised by this. This is still happening today here in the US. Many of these cults/religions have very close knit communities and give their very young daughters away for marriage. These are girls who have been sheltered from the outside world their whole lives (home schooled or just made to believe that everything outside their religion is evil). The men don’t legally marry them but they are wives and treated as property. It’s absolutely terrible but will keep happening because we have allowed religion to dictate much of everything in our country including politics. They will say it’s because of freedom on religion but these are no more than cults and no one will stop them. Be careful who you vote for in all your elections. Conservative is usually a red flag that points to these types of groups.

    Snorky The Pig
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    There is a reason their color is red.🚩

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    Cheryl Skina
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    3 years ago

    I don't care what year it happened or how backwoods it was, NINE FREAKIN' YEARS OLD. NINE! Holding a baby doll, NINE! The man was 22-years old, so he'd be 108-years old today, probably dead, but I say dig him up and beat him 'til-both-your-arms-hurt anyway.

    EP
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    It’s very sick. I cannot understand it. I’m a mother and cannot see any condition where I would back my 9 year old marrying this man. How can you not love your daughter enough to protect her at all costs?

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    Clarf
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    She shouldn't be called a "child bride." He should be called a pedophile.

    Robyn Ward
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Paedophile acceptance....shame on them all....

    Jaya
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    So horrible. I also can't believe there's still places where this is allowed today. I especially don't understand the places where the minimum age is lower if the parent(s) gives consent, why on earth are parents allowed to offer up their kid like that? Parents should not be allowed to give consent to that, that just means that if you have okay parents you'll be fine but if you have s****y parents you're f****d. And some people have really s****y parents.

    EP
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Right? How is it better if a parent wants to stamp it as ok? What’s the goal of having any law where you don’t have to be an adult??? 18…. How hard is that? Not 17 not 15, 18… how hard is it to actually say you need to be legally an adult before you can get married, no exceptions. Doesn’t appear difficult to me so why would there be any need for an exception to be less than 18. I cannot see the need.

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    Dragonmonkey17
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    3 years ago

    There are still GOP Senators who think this is a-okay. I'm looking at you Mike Moon.

    Kathryn Baylis
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    OK, here’s the definitive answer, which takes into consideration the marriage laws in TN in 1937 when this couple married, and not as they stand now. In 1937, Tennessee was one of the many states in the US that had NO minimum age requirement for marriage, though anyone under 16 needed parental permission—-and apparently this little girl’s parents gave it. BTW, the groom wasn’t 22, he was 25. This marriage led the governor of TN at the time to change the no age limit law to prohibit anyone under 17 from getting married, and totally repealed the parental permission clause for anyone to get married under that age. Believe it or not, Charlie and Eunice had like 9 kids and stayed married about 60 years, until he died in the 1990s. She died about ten years later, in the early 2000s.

    Disgruntled Pelican
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    People were talking about the current laws because some people claimed it was still currently legal.

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    Ima Manimal
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Pervert

    Camber Hollywood
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That's odd. Charlie doesn't look anything like a drag queen.

    your sarcastic bestie
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    this is so f*****g disgusting

    Francesa Miller
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    "When the press interviewed Eunice in 1976, she said she had no regrets over marrying so young." There was such an uproar over the marriage (yes, in Tennessee as well) that an age law was passed the next year.

    Peta Hurley-Hill
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    disgusting and heartbreaking. https://www.mamamia.com.au/eunice-winstead/

    HTakeover
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    With certain specific consent (emancipation, parental, judge, pregnant... it varies), there's no minimum age for CA, MS, NM, OK, and WA. Min. 15 for HI & KS.

    UtanaYona
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    3 years ago (edited)

    18 is the minimum age to marry in Oklahoma. 16 with parental consent in special circumstances in front of a judge. Oklahoma statute 43-3.

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    Lunamorte Louise
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    3 years ago

    Wtf. Well I read that in some states they want to make this legal.

    Joe Reaves
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    It's already legal in several states. Only 9 states ban underage marriage altogether. Most of the others allow it from various ages from 15-17 if parents or a judge consent, or if the minor is pregnant, has given birth, or is emancipated. 5 states have NO MINIMUM AGE as long as one of those exceptions exists or parents/a judge consent. So in those 5 states the moment a child gets pregnant they are fair game or if the parents consent. One of those is California btw, before everyone starts making deep south jokes (another is Mississippi though so they're not doing much to get rid of the stereotype there)

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    Gmaddles
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    3 years ago

    "The South is a way of life. The confederacy was just protecting states's rights, like marrying a nine y.o!"

    BlueCat
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Call this what it is. Pedophilia.

    Nice Beast Ludo
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    If you are buying your wife a baby doll for the wedding present....ugh God it's too sick to fathom. I wonder what age this girl got pregnant for the first time. Sickening

    CatLady
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    13 or 14. Far too young, but certainly not unusual in that area during that era. I think this is terribly wrong, of course, but if you look at the sociocultural contexts (desperate poverty, extreme ignorance), there's a warped logic about this whole travesty.

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    Emma Goransdottir
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Horrible! To think that this kind of child abuse still is going on in some countries 😠🤢

    JoNo
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I had to look twice to check that's a doll she's holding, not a baby.

    Karen Grace
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    There are republicans in some red states that want this back. They have talked openly about it, along with dismantling child labor laws.

    Anarch Duke
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The Republican Ideal

    UtanaYona
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    It's not the Republicans sniffing children's hair...

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    don'tcensorstupidstuff
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    3 years ago

    this absolutely disgusts me

    Alison Hobbs
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This sickens me.

    Kristie French
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The story about these two is so offensive to most modern standards. They had, if I remember correctly, 6-7 kids. She gave birth the first time at 14. But they never divorced, and she said she was happy years later about getting married. Yeah, she was probably groomed into thinking it was good and proper. But thankfully their marriage started the ball rolling for a law to be passed prohibiting anyone under 14 from getting married in Tennessee. And now the minimum age is 17 with parental consent, or both parties have to be 18.

    Allen Packard
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    How was this ever a thing? Like ever? So gross. I just can't wrap my head around it.

    Bridgit Gilmore
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ya...good times...and it's all coming back, thank you Republicans. And hey, child labour will be back soon as well. Oh happy days.

    ZombieMommy
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    this makes me sad

    Jods
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Jerry Lee Lewis anyone?

    bernie bulk
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    shake rattles and doll

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    CatLady
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This whole thing is a travesty, and Eunice was a victim of the poverty and ignorance around her. One thing I need to correct though... Charlie Johns wasn't a predatory paedophile. As someone who spent their childhood at the mercy of actual paedos, I learned in adulthood how they actually operate. They have a specific age bracket they prey upon; that doesn't change. If Charlie was actually a paedo, he would have set Eunice aside after she grew up and sought out a new young victim. But he remained wed to her for life. It's far more likely that he was a incredibly stupid man who didn't understand human development and maturity and mistook his friendship with a child for "love." It disrespects CSA survivors to call everything "paedophilia" or "grooming." I know this will anger people, but I'm so bloody sick of anti-paedo virtue signalling. Where is the care for survivors? People don't want to help us heal, they just want "catch a paedo" for likes. The spectacle is useless.

    Magnifico Giganticus
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Pedophile and his state sanctioned victim.

    Maggie Fulton
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Please no.

    Brent Hollett
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Good to know they only *recently* changed laws in some states to stop this.

    Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Disgusting pëdophi!e!

    Heidi Noll
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Jeff Foxworthy - If your bride has a doll with her in your wedding photo, you might be a redneck......

    Norah Reilly
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    Premium
    3 years ago

    What kind of sick f**k takes a nine-year old for a wife? And her parents!?!

    WonderWoman
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ahhhhh Tennessee - and they are trying to bring this back today - because they will do anything possible to keep women down.

    Spocks's Mom
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Tennessee isn't trying to bring this back. I think you might be thinking of Wyoming. I live in Tennessee and can tell you that they are not exclusive to keeping women down. Not all of us are bad, though.

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    •Prolific Panda•
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    3 years ago

    She has a doll and he has left school. Could no-one see the problems with this relationship?!

    FabulousMari
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    3 years ago

    Took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize it wasn't referring to the doll. Now I wish it was the doll.

    Crouching hippo hidden panda
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    3 years ago

    He has a serial killer face

    Hey!
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    3 years ago

    I had a colleague that was married at 14 (arranged India I think). He was 19. They waited until she was 19 to have any kind of relations and he did not see her naked until she was 18. I asked because we were friends.

    CatLady
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That's a longtime common thing in some cultures in India (India has so many distinct cultures, you can't just boil anything down to "Indian culture.")

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    Jordan Scott
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    2 years ago

    Sick f**k and sick society to allow this!

    Rebecca Ferguson
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Cultural pedophillia. That poor girl.

    Claire Driver
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    3 years ago

    i'm not defending it of course but they remained married until death, to be fair.

    Anna Stephenson
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ew ew eww eww ewwwwwwww! It's made worse by the fact that she looks the same age as her doll! (And the fact that she CARRYING A DOLL!)

    Jan Moore
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    3 years ago

    That's just evil! Legal pedophilia.

    Keam
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    3 years ago

    Loretta Lynn married her husband at 13. She used to say their first christmas, he bought her a doll. Then next christmas she got a real doll - their first daughter.

    Daniel Gómez
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ah, good ole 'Murica...!

    Earthquake903
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    Premium
    3 years ago

    Disgusting pedophile

    Chuck Coulson
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    Get the time machine fired up and load my guns....

    Junebugjump!
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Of course, America!

    Gmaddles
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yeah, so I haven't seen a bride so young she requires her doll to stay sane. Did someone literally have to give her the same speech you'd give a regular 9y.o. going somewhere, like you have to be a good girl, listen to the adults (ahhhhhhewwwwww!)? Seriously this is sick! I want to grab her and run but oddly enough it would be that kidnapped her and not the groom

    possessedcat101 (she/her)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    She is TOO YOUNG!!! Even her doll agrees!

    Gmaddles
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I don't think she's fully grasped this isn't judging "playing house" anymore.

    LJ
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    sneedville??? i thought that was made up?

    ⳜƝⰙⱲꝒ𐤠ⱤƊⱿⱿ
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    3 years ago

    I really REALLY hope that isn't their child. . .

    Disgruntled Pelican
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    3 years ago

    Are you talking about the doll?

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    Mojayokok
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    3 years ago

    Here is what her life looked like … https://www.mamamia.com.au/eunice-winstead/

    David Brandel
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    3 years ago

    What happened to both of them?

    CatLady
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Stayed married for 60 years till he died, had 9 kids. In interviews in the seventies, she said she had no regrets. I still think this is reprehensible. However, I do think that in their ignorance, Eunice and her mother believed this was Eunice's best prospect for a decent life in their poverty-stricken world. From the bits I've been able to gather from quotes from Charlie, he didn't appear to be the brightest crayon in the box. The fact that they stayed married their whole lives and had so many kids makes me wonder if Charlie wasn't so much an actual predatory paedo as someone who didn't grasp the difference between childhood and adulthood. Again, I find this marriage reprehensible. I'm just seeking to understand the warped thinking behind it. There were may who simply saw children as miniature adults and treated them as such, throwing five-year-olds to work in mines, etc. Blessedly that mindset is disappearing. I see this as a tragic symbol of ignorance and desperate poverty.

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    David
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    3 years ago

    I'm not excusing the cradle robbing but at least he stuck with her. "Over the next decades they lived out the rest of their lives together at their cottage home, raising their large family and attending their local church. Charlie died on February 13, 1997 at the age of eighty-four. Eunice would live another nine years without her husband."

    CatLady
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    We are imposing our cultural and moral values and our knowledge of human development onto a very different time and situation. This was an uneducated, rural area where people still often saw children as miniature adults. Mrs. Winstead said that Eunice had set aside dolls and was cooking well, which, in her ignorant mind, told her that her daughter was ready for marriage. The fact that Charlie owned land and could provide for her daughter in a desperately poor time probably helped her overlook a few things. As to Charlie's motives... all I can think is that he didn't grasp the difference between childhood and adulthood and mistook his friendship with the neighbour girl for adult love. They stayed married their whole lives. If he was a predatory paedo, he'd have tired of her quickly and gone on to other prey. I'm not excusing it either; I'm grossed out, but I think I can see how poverty and ignorance brought it about.

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    Krizzy Wilde
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    3 years ago

    Her doll looks older than the little girl, really sad

    Corvus
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    3 years ago

    (playing of Confederate anthem intensifies)

    Jane Doe-Doe
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    1 year ago

    Poor child

    WalkieTaco
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    2 years ago

    this is the type of thing that makes me reconsider world domination. it's not worth the effort

    Lyn Moffett
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    2 years ago

    This was and still is paedophilia. WHY was it allowed?

    Tess Butler
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    2 years ago

    so were people all pedophiles back in those days or what?

    J
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    2 years ago

    This is beyond vile 😡

    Keith Lancaster
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    2 years ago

    They do things differently in the deep south.

    Iera Foxx
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    2 years ago

    Thisbus just disgusting. There's no other word for it!

    Mark Tapply
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    2 years ago

    Tennesee, if they get a divorce is she still his sister?

    Timothy Leung
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    2 years ago

    Is that even legal?

    Shortstuff
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    2 years ago

    You have to wonder about her parents.

    ZuriLovesYou
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    2 years ago

    NOOOOO!

    Sandi Goodell
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    2 years ago

    Nowhere else but Tennessee. No surprise.

    Daddy’s Girl
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    2 years ago

    Now that’s creepy

    Sophroniel
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    2 years ago

    Disgusting

    Bewarethere@gmail.com
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    What kind of parents did she have? Horrible ones apparently. Probably the dads ok with it.

    Anna Bender
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    2 years ago

    https://www.mamamia.com.au/eunice-winstead/

    Myxomatosis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    AS OF JULY 2023 in 'muriKKKa: MARRIAGE TO A CHILD is currently legal in 41states (only CT, DE, MA, MN, NJ NY, PA, RI, and VT have set the minimum age at 18 and eliminated all exceptions), and 20 MURIKKKAN STATES DO NOT require any MINIMUM AGE FOR MARRIAGE, with OR WITHOUT a parental or judicial waiver.

    Monarch cat lady
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    2 years ago

    This is just wrong

    MyMindWanders
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    2 years ago

    OMG NO

    pamela nichols
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    3 years ago

    He should be hung naked from a tree upside down, pervert. Where the hull werr the mothers of liberty then. And yes i know they weren't around yet.

    Cydney Golden
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    3 years ago

    Good christian red state...

    Al Padilla
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    3 years ago

    Tennessee Virgin = a 12-year-old with track shoes

    Janine Randall
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    3 years ago

    MAGATS want to go back to this. Disgusting!

    Gozer LeGozerian
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    3 years ago

    But drag queens.....

    Diplodocus Dinosaur
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    3 years ago

    Why? 😳

    Christof Irran
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    3 years ago

    That reminds me of very bad joke that I read in one of John Sandford's books...

    Pamelot
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    3 years ago

    Does this creepy doll have big breasts?!! Seems it might with this deranged man AND her MOTHER@!#:&_%÷!!!

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    3 years ago

    EEEEWWWW

    Magdalena Zofia Gotowicka
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Sad it is still legal in many places. And I'm not talking just about the "third world" countries. Child marriage is so wrong

    Geordie Girl
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    3 years ago

    Disgusting

    Ada Hiestand
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    3 years ago (edited)

    She's nine!!! She can't be married yet!

    Shirley Heyn
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    3 years ago

    Well, they look happy. . .?

    Anna Stephenson
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    3 years ago

    The ONLY possible way in which this could be even slightly "OK" is if he did it to save her from abusive parents and never touched her in any way at all!

    Shelli Aderman
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    3 years ago

    🤢

    Shauna Voigt
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    3 years ago

    They stayed married until his death in 1997 at 84.

    Pamela Christie
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    3 years ago

    WHY??? Weren't there any grown up women where he came from?

    Amanda Hunter
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    3 years ago

    SICK.

    Justin Rogers
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    3 years ago

    I think this needs more context. I would hope that she was an orphan and he married her to take care of her as a provider not a pervert

    Nick Szalai
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    3 years ago

    That dude kinda looks like 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli. Maybe being a creep is genetic?

    Fonzie Bulldog
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    3 years ago

    People often forget these days that once upon a time we in the west used to marry really young people.And it was not that long ago.

    Wendy Bryan
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    3 years ago

    Who allows their 9 year old to get married?

    CatLady
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    3 years ago

    Deeply ignorant, desperately poor people who don't understand human development. The mother figured her daughter was a woman because she could cook. The husband owned land and would keep their daughter from a lifetime of extreme poverty. I still find it reprehensible, but if you look at it in the context of the time, the society, and the lack of knowledge those people had, you can see their warped logic.

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    Jessany Trotter
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    3 years ago

    NNNNOOOOOOOOO

    Lesbitarian Lady
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    3 years ago (edited)

    I'm thinking this is the creepiest post of all. Not sure if anything will top it. Tennessee, 🤔 of course

    Rocky Horror Panda
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    3 years ago

    So fùcking gross. This one turns my stomach every time I see it.

    Flbeachbum
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    3 years ago

    And this still happens today. How sad

    Šárka Součková
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    3 years ago

    WOW! You can do this, yet abortion is banned.

    Robin Tapper
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    3 years ago

    She's 9 dude! 9 fuken years old...jesus

    dbildbo
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    3 years ago

    The doll was a wedding gift.

    PeepPeep the duck
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    3 years ago

    Ewww I googled it there’s a photo of them kissing with her on the stairs to make her more adult height 🤮

    Denise Siciliano Kite
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    3 years ago

    I read they stayed together until he died at 84 in 1997. They had 7 children. Crazy!

    Denise Siciliano Kite
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    3 years ago

    And they stayed together until he passed in 1997 at age 84. They had 7 kids. Crazy.

    monkeydog
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    3 years ago

    Horrific

    No Clue
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    3 years ago

    https://uselessinformation.org/podcast-135-the-child-bride/ (It's not a podcast- is actually a written article with a lot of pictures.)

    Megalodon Meg
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    3 years ago

    I'm leaving

    ANGEL BABY
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    3 years ago

    Beyond Sick!!!!!!!

    Lisa in Colorado
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    3 years ago

    All I can say is, I'm glad I live in Colorado. Sanity.

    The other-other David Wong
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    3 years ago

    I couldn’t happen to notice their last names… were they the same before the ceremony?

    Mr.G86
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    3 years ago

    Come on BP seriously!? This is so fuxked up.

    Dynamite Samurai Koala
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    3 years ago

    am sry the frik?

    Scary Fish
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    3 years ago

    Haha I would kick him in the place where it hurts the most

    Rebecca Joan
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    3 years ago

    They stayed together until his death in 1997, and neither she nor her mom ever said it was an abusive marriage. The worst Thu f she said about her marriage so young was she was forced to leave school, but he had a 150-acre farm in 1957, and they had at least 7 kids by the time she was 29.

    Yer maw 󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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    3 years ago

    AGR for marriage in Scotland is 16 and I thought that was too young (is 18 in England hence the whole Greta green wedding elopement history as it's just over the border)

    lenxia buda
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    3 years ago

    Why am not not surprised to learn it was in America....

    Some Weirdo
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    3 years ago

    Beyond disgusting

    QuanτumSpace2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣
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    3 years ago

    NOPE

    LinaLovesBooks
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    3 years ago

    Poor sweet thing. So much for a promised land.

    Pam Page
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    3 years ago

    They remained married until his death in 1997.

    catt
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    3 years ago

    Disgusting

    Miss Tinker
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    3 years ago

    More info here: https://www.mamamia.com.au/eunice-winstead/

    Veronica Monell
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    3 years ago

    That man is Disgusting.

    ThatBlackNightingale
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    3 years ago

    Glad this era is over

    Midoribird Aoi
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    3 years ago (edited)

    I read stories of stuff like this in the frontier days because a married man could get twice the the acreage as a bachelor (homesteading), but with a scarcity of women around, they would marry a family's underage daughter and he would come for her years later when she became capable of childbearing.

    JLMay
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    3 years ago

    What their life was like in the following years.

    JLMay
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    3 years ago

    https://www.mamamia.com.au/eunice-winstead/

    Alessa Gillespie
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    3 years ago

    The doll makes it even more terrible

    Silre
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    3 years ago

    Ew

    Bidango Smith
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    3 years ago

    I had to Google this - OMG - 'On December 18, 1942, fourteen-year-old Eunice gave birth to the couple’s first child, Evelyn. And she wouldn’t be their last. As their twentieth anniversary rolled around, Evelyn was the proud mother of seven children. Charlie had inherited his parents’ 150-acre hillside farm and had become a prosperous farmer. After selling off the mineral rights to a zinc company for $75/acre, the couple was financially set for the remainder of their lives. ' 'Charlie Jess Johns died on February 13, 1997 at the age of eighty-four. After all of the criticism from the naysayers had long faded away, the couple had a successful marriage that lasted sixty years. Together they had nine children; three girls and six boys with a nineteen year age gap between the youngest and the oldest. Sadly, their youngest daughter had died from pneumonia at twenty months of age just one-week before their twenty-fifth anniversary. Eunice Blanche Winstead Johns would live another nine years

    NapQueen
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    3 years ago

    No no no no no no no no!

    Danielle Renee
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    3 years ago

    gross

    Princeofdarkness
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    3 years ago

    Disgusting

    Joseph Stillman
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    3 years ago

    WTF!

    detective miller's hat
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    3 years ago

    She had their first child at age 14, and went on to have 6 more children with him.

    Michael Parsons
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    3 years ago

    People in Alabama not getting what the big deal is....

    Nobody Knows
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    3 years ago

    CA, WA, NM, OK and MS have no age limit on marriage. Contrary to what you may think the only state that might be considered "backwoods" in that list is MS. And no Republicans (voters) in general do not support a young age of consent or marriage. As a matter of fact they don't feel children have the maturity to make major types of life altering decisions. The fact that many of you assume they do shows that you neither take the time to talk to one or base your opinions on research. You probably just consume the blast from the media which is exactly what they want. If you want to complain why not complain about Nigeria, Philippines and Angola whose age of marriage is 12. Or middle eastern and African countries that allow marriage at 9 or 10. Stop being lazy. Go read this. Then maybe do something to stop it. https://19thnews.org/2023/07/explaining-child-marriage-laws-united-states/#:~:text=Child%20marriage%20is%20legal%20in%20most%20of%20the%20United%20States&text=The%20majority%20of%20st

    iseefractals
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    3 years ago

    While this is obviously gross, it's also not that far removed from what was commonly accepted at the time. Up until the early 1900's , average life expectancy was around 45 in the US, so girls would start popping out babies as soon as they were physically able. Up until the 1970's it was accepted practice for someone that was 24 to be dating someone as young as 14. In many, many places across the world, this is still seen as acceptable. In japan for instance, the age of consent is 12 (there's been plans to raise that to 14, but i don't know if it ever went into effect) with many places in Europe putting the age of consent at 14-16 without stipulation.

    Disgruntled Pelican
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    3 years ago

    Their marriage wasn’t accepted. There was a huge uproar, even in their own community. This marriage is what caused the state of Tennessee to change their laws to set a minimum age (which is currently 17, as long as your fiancée/fiancé is no more than 4 years older). Also, the life expectancy being so young was largely due to the high infant mortality rates and higher likelihood of dying in childbirth. Having children young did not combat that. Once you made it past that, you weren’t expected to die of “old age” in your 40s. (Part of life expectancy was also certain disease and accidents that weren’t as easily treated as they are now, of course).

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    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    3 years ago

    Tennessee says it all.

    meganandderrick4ever
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    3 years ago

    Pp

    Joe Smith
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    3 years ago

    Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee. We'll, golllllly.

    E. Hamilton
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    3 years ago

    The land of sister cousins... **Que the banjos**

    Paul Pienkowski
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    3 years ago

    Tennessee actually allows this now!

    Aaron Parker
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    3 years ago

    Ah, the South.

    Disgruntled Pelican
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    3 years ago

    There are currently 5 states with no minimum age for marriage. Only one of them is Southern (Mississippi). Tennessee’s state government is backwards (save for a few legislators), but they did set the minimum age to 17 right after this happened. Also, if you’re 17, your intended spouse can’t be older than 21.

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    Oddly Me
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    3 years ago

    I recently heard about this, and supposedly it isn't as bad as it seems. Eunice needed to get away from her family. They didn't have sex till she was of consenting age for that time. Their first child was boen when she was 15.They stayed together till he died in 1997.

    cugel.
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    3 years ago

    Which one's which?

    Karl
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    3 years ago

    Why can I hear loud banjo music?

    CatScratchFever
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    3 years ago

    Why does this photograph have all these hearts? Does this reveal something about Bored Panda's?

    Disgruntled Pelican
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    3 years ago

    The likes aren’t supporting the marriage. The title of the article is “Creepy Knowledge.” This is incredibly creepy, so it fits the theme well. Likes don’t always mean that people are approving of a terrible thing that happened. They appreciate the sharing of information.

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    Trumpers want to return to this.

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    Tennessee, it figures

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    Nine year old brides and ten year old mothers are not unknown among pre-European aboriginal society.

    Tameeza Joyce Lightowler
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    3 years ago (edited)

    So... What you're saying is - "The Great White Man Saved The Heathens"? Wow... Way to be racist there... Not to mention MASSIVELY incorrect.

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    Adam Jeff
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    If anything it looks more like the shadow of a crucified Justin Bieber

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    3 years ago

    What a romantic.

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    3 years ago

    I DON’T LIKE THIS IMAGE

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    CoMa4
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    3 years ago

    What a tragic and beautiful place.

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    Alexej Dvorak
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    3 years ago (edited)

    I think I saw a documentary once that covered this case. There also was kind of a mystery around how his body could have decayed/mummified into the state he was found in, because it nowhere near fits the time frame since he was last seen alive/went missing.

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    Skullface VonHornhelm
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    3 years ago

    This is really mild compared to the other things on the list.

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    Panda-sized Potato
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    3 years ago

    That is wrong on so many levels.

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    3 years ago

    Home Depot's latest Halloween decoration.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    3 years ago

    I think this was the inspiration for the movie Fire in the SKy.

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    Nana
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    3 years ago

    Forget 0 to 100 real quick. That started at 100 and went up from there.

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    Gimme that Cash
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    3 years ago

    Yikes. Would not be able to sleep for days if I saw a dead body with eyes open in real life.

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    David A Paterson
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    3 years ago

    An extreme form of body dismorphic disorder, where the affected person believes that some part of their body doesn't belong to them.

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    BoredPossum
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    3 years ago

    Also not creepy. Everything has a last photo before it dies.

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    So much for Rest in Peace.

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    Lotus Flower in Space 🪷‍
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    3 years ago

    Someone forgot to switch off the radio before the Soviet Union fell. Wouldn’t want to see that electric bill.

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    Moosy Girl
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    3 years ago

    I’d think presenting the actual living actors alive would be more effective to clear the murder charges…

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    troufaki13
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    3 years ago

    So that's where Zara drew inspiration for their ads!! 😅

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    SCamp
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    3 years ago

    Dammit, there is no language construction ‘off of’ and the collocation is ‘based on’

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    3 years ago

    Yeah Catholicism can get pretty weird. They probably did this to overturn some of his edicts that had become problematic.

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    3 years ago

    Do yourselves a favor, and do NOT look this up. I'm not sleeping tonight, or any night for that matter.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    3 years ago

    I can't stand watching any TV show with a laugh track anymore. Everybody loves Raymond ruined me. Ray Romano is so not funny and the laugh track just makes it worse. I was literally counting the seconds between LOLs and bored as hell.

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    Susie Elle
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    3 years ago

    The roots of those teeth look incredibly long

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    Sian Edwards
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    3 years ago

    These don't necessarily belong to children. It's more likely that they belonged to the Liquidators who went in after the area was evacuated. Don't forget, the Soviet government didn't even tell the people of Prypiat and the surrounding areas about the severity of the incident, and when they did evacuate, the people were encouraged to believe it was for 3 days. Almost no precautions were taken with the safety of the public until then. The gas masks were likely abandoned by the Liquidators when they were released from duty, they could have been using the school as a base of operations. They left most of the equipment behind, from gas masks to clothing to the fire engines and helicopters because they were too radioactive to take from there.

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    3 years ago (edited)

    The strangest thing about this is that while premature burials were extremely rare, the fear of them was not. It was something close to mass hysterics at the time, helped by stories and novels like Edgar Allan Poe's "Buried Alive" and similar. Doctors at the time sometimes carried a "heart knife": If they pronounced someone dead, they afterwards stabbed him to the heart to make sure he did not wake up in the grave.

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    Panda-sized Potato
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    3 years ago

    Looks like Dr Robotnik. Also looks like he needs clothes.

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    Kurichfield
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    3 years ago

    Nope...clown...double nope

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    CoMa4
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    3 years ago

    Burn the house 🔥🏠

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    Bec
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    3 years ago

    Since the nails appear to be close together, wouldn't this be similar to the bed of nails, more entertainment than torture?

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    Hippopotamuses
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    3 years ago

    No more belly-rubs until we learn to behave ourselves around company!

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    SkyBlueandBlack
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    3 years ago

    Okay, who put acid in the punch bowl?

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    3 years ago

    Paradolia.

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    Thenatural
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    Bit misleading no? It's a reflected image

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    BoredPossum
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    3 years ago

    And still nobody has ever been able to prove the existence of ghosts...even when they know where they live. Curious.

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    Maya Baggins
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    3 years ago

    I thought this was common knowledge

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    Annie 1973
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    2 years ago

    5 year old daughter to sleep and I had to be up early for work. She was asleep in 20 minutes and told me the next morning that an old lady sat on her bed with her and sang until she fell asleep. Just be respectful .

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