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30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into
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“I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!” said Alice as she tumbled into Wonderland and found herself in a world of bizarre adventures.
If there’s anything that can rival Wonderland’s strange allure, it’s the internet, where you can find weird and wonderful things about almost anything.
But sometimes, curiosity leads to some truly unsettling places. These Reddit users shared the most disturbing online rabbit holes they’ve fallen into, and they’re definitely not for the faint of heart. Read their stories below, and don’t miss our chat with horror researchers Mathias Clasen and Coltan Scrivner about our fascination with fear!
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#1
I forget the subreddit, but it shook me to my deepest fiber. It’s a Reddit where they ask you if you can ID where a photo was taken. At first I thought, oh cool, this sounds fun…
Some of the photos clearly had a small child edited out, they were f*****g trafficked and trying to find where the perp is who is committing the heinous act(s).
I looked thru every single post to see if I could help/recognize a landmark/indicator. Not every photo has a person edited out, but, you can just tell.
Realizing there’s people/children *right now* needing to be saved breaks my heart.
Edit: thanks Filiberto, the page is r/TraceAnObject, if you’d like to see for yourself.
John Mosley 1 year ago (edited)
I had a neighbor that was a lead in a department of a government agency that dealt with child trafficking and p*rn. I asked her how she could do it and she motioned to her 10 year old son and said, "I do it for him." I know I couldn't do it but I'm glad there are people that can and will.
Alexandra Nara 1 year ago
I would turn to dexter into half a second if I ever found out where and who.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago (edited)
I have also heard that there is an organization that uses volunteers to take and upload photographs of hotel rooms where they stay while traveling. So that if that decor shows up in the background of videos or images the authorities can trace it . EDIT - it's called TraffickCam
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#2
Japan's SOS sign incident. Everything about it is weird and disturbing.
FrankSonata: For those who haven't heard of this one:
In 1989, some hikers got lost in Northern Japan. A search quickly began of the mountains in the area where they'd been, and helicopters found a huge "SOS" sign made from logs on a mountainside, visible from the air.
The missing hikers were found 2-3km away, and were successfully rescued. But when asked, they knew nothing about the SOS sign. They didn't make it.
It appeared another hiker also happened to be lost in the same area, so another search was conducted. Near the sign they found human skeletal remains, as well as a backpack containing personal items, including ID. It was Kenji Iwamura, a 25-year-old man who had gone missing 5 years earlier, and was a known hiker.
Records of aerial photos showed that the SOS had been there for at least two years, but no-one had seen it until other hikers happened to get lost in the area. And clearly it was too late for Kenji by then.
But analysis of the bones indicated a woman, so they weren't Kenji's. Yet there were no matching records of missing women in the area. Who was the mysterious woman who'd died, what happened to Kenji, and why did she have all his stuff?
The backpack also contained a cassette tape player, with the music of one of the tapes partially recoded over. It was a man saying he was lost on the mountain, unable to climb through the thick vegetation, and asking for help from anyone who listened. He didn't mention his name. Kenji's parents listened to it, but due to the poor quality (it had been lying in a backpack on a mountain for years) they couldn't say for sure if it was Kenji or not. Kenji's friend did confirm the tape was likely his, since it was music he had liked.
There are conspiracy theories that Kenji is still alive, that he was abducted, kidnapped, that the taped voice is an impersonator, that the woman is a spy, etc.
Analysis years later showed the bones were actually male, as far as can be ascertained. Weather damage and poor forensic work caused the initial error. (Of course, some people maintain that this is a coverup)
In all likelihood, Kenji died on the mountain, and the bones, belongings, and voice recording are all him. By coincidence, his SOS sign was only found years after he'd died, when other people got lost in a nearby area. Just a sad story of someone who died alone in the wilderness. But people love all the uncertainties, and get carried away, when really it's just tragic.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Wherever he is now, it's nice to imagine that he's glad that at least his SOS saved others.
Jallamedalla 1 year ago
I find this story hard to believe. The reason is that they claim that the SOS sign made from logs was still visible after 5 years in an area where the vegetation is too thick to climb through. Moss covered logs in thick shrubs would not be visible.
There’s something undeniably captivating about scary experiences—be it a chilling horror movie, or a bizarre conspiracy. To understand why we’re so drawn to them, Bored Panda reached out to experts at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University.
Mathias Clasen, co-director of the Lab, and author of A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies, told us what inspired him to study fear and horror. “As a teenager, I became deeply fascinated with scary fiction—books and movies, mainly. I would devour Stephen King novels and chain-watch slasher movies,” he recalled. Despite the shivers running down his spine, he couldn't help but wonder why he was so drawn to experiences that made him want to keep the lights on at night. “It isn’t just me, of course. The majority of people enjoy a scary experience every now and then,” Clasen noted.
According to Clasen and his colleagues, scary content offers a unique chance to play with fear in a controlled environment. “We are curious creatures, and we have evolved to find pleasure in learning about the world—and scary content lets us learn about the darker sides of it,” he explained. It’s this curious paradox that pushes us to explore fear while generally steering clear of it in our everyday lives.
#3
My TikTok algorithm showed me a video of the worst motel in Georgia. I looked up the reviews and found one left by a young homeless guy clearly struggling with mental health / addiction that was living at the motel. It said the guy had left 200+ reviews. I clicked on his page and realized that he wrote reviews every day at every place he went to. Many were "they helped the homeless" or "they wouldn't give me food and I'm starving. F**k this place." I was basically able to see every place the guy stopped for almost two years. I went back to look further at the seedy motel reviews and the guys dad left one saying that he was grateful his son had a roof over his head. It crushed me. I don't remember the name of the motel but I was crying at 4 am.
#4
Elisabeth Fritzl’s story.
to put it brief, her father imprisoned his own daughter in a self made bunker/prison, and kept her for over 24 years. In that time, she had 7 children, was r**ed nearly every single day, and Elisabeth’s dad was soon imprisoned for life, and caught because Elisabeth needed to take one of her kids to the hospital.
yea. don’t look at the details, please.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Jerry Sandusky's wife knew what he was doing to children. So did Bill Cosby's wife know what he did to women.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Here’s an article about it, but it’s rough. Don’t read it if you have a weak stomach. https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-josef-fritzl-the-rapist-who-kept-his-daughter-locked-in-a-cellar-for-24-years-12878269#:~:text=Fritzl%20kept%20his%20daughter%20Elisabeth,from%20when%20she%20was%2011.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Lifetime made a movie about this. It's absolutely horrifying.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
He built a huge bunker in the garden. What wife wouldn't want to know what he was up to and what he was doing in it?!
Lez Be Honest 1 year ago
No, she was around 17 when he put her down there.
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KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Joseph Fritzl is a very VERY dark rabbit hole that I too will warn you not to go down. Along with Jimmy Saville.
This idea resonates with Reddit user Xxxbigfootisreal_, who started the thread on disturbing rabbit holes. Bored Panda connected with him, and he shared, “As I was exploring the smartschoolboy9 case, I became extremely curious about whether there were other disturbing cases out there.” His search led him to dark, harrowing tales that fueled his curiosity about the more sinister aspects of life.
Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral scientist at the Recreational Fear Lab, discussed the various motivations behind our consumption of scary content. “Some people enjoy the adrenaline rush they get from feeling afraid. We call these adrenaline junkies. Others don’t particularly like feeling afraid but enjoy overcoming their fear—these are the white knucklers. Finally, some use scary content to work through difficult emotions, known as dark copers.” This classification highlights the variety of reasons people are drawn to horror and fear.
Clasen pointed out that engaging with scary content can actually be beneficial. “Playing with fear can help you develop resilience. It’s sort of like an inoculation,” he explained. “When you watch a scary movie or step on a roller coaster, you’re actively engaged in regulating your own emotions.” This practice helps us learn to handle stress and fear more effectively in real life.
#5
Bots will downvote me into oblivion and I won't be believed, but up until around 2005, if you looked up 'Balfour accords' on Encyclopedia Brittanica's website, it was shocking how much it disclosed. Even at the time the Wikipedia article and the Encyclopedia Brittanica's article were very different. It described how the Ottoman Empire, and the whole Middle East was carved up, and their oil was largely given to the conquering powers, IE France, Britain, US. "BP" only exists because it was founded as a company that was taking Middle Eastern war spoils (oil) and selling it through England. The borders of the countries as they are now are because that's how the west decided them to be. And they were purposely carved out in a way to prevent Persia from ever re-uniting.
The articles today hint at this and if you dig deep enough you'll find all this to be true, but back in the day the history was laid out in a very stark, obvious manner, and having read that and living today, I can see clearly the erasure of what really happened by way of framing.
StPaul9 1 year ago
The reason Iran exists the way it does today is because the British pressured the man who would become the second-to-last Shah into becoming Shah instead of the President that he wanted to be. They convinced him that the religious priests would be on his side if he did so, unlike the secular Ataturk. And in Saudi Arabia, Britain fully installed the nationalist Wahadist Ibn Saud family, knowing they would crush any revolts which sought to stop oil exports.
Max Fox 1 year ago
The carving up of the colonies of their enemies by Britain and France after WWI is well known, though the USA wasn't really part of it. However, this person seems to have misunderstood most of it. Like many of these posts, this guy seems to have read a bit here and a bit there, misunderstood most of it, but found something that they can be outraged about. Also, "they were purposely carved out in a way to prevent Persia from ever re-uniting"? What? Does this person believe that the Achaemenid Empire was all "Persia" that should be reestablished?
Michael Goldsberry 1 year ago
I've read a bit of history around this and I have one question. What does the dismemberment of Ottoman Empire have to do with Persia? A completely different former empire.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
I tried explaining all this to my parents years ago and they didn't believe me.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
"To the victor the spoils" is a much darker sentence when viewed in its actual context.
#6
The Nuremberg Trial documentary. Not a modern documentary. The actual documentary made back after WW2 when they took the National Socialists to trial. Actual footage used in court. It's absolutely rough. Yet free in wikipedia where it's been out in HD. Amazon has it in the original pixilated form. IDK which is worse.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Today someone would tell us "There were good people on both sides."
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David 1 year ago
There are even more brutal videos that were only made public later. At Yad Vashem museum they have on a loop a 2 minute video (with a warning before you come to it) of the Death Squads in Ukraine marching Jews into trenches naked, and then shooting them with rifles are close range, and then bringing in the next group. The video was recorded by the German Navy for their own records about the extermination of Jews. Showing how wide spread knowledge of this was in Germany at the time.
Scrivner supported this, saying, “Experiencing fear in a safe setting allows us to practice regulating it.” However, both researchers caution that too much fear can have the opposite effect. Clasen emphasized the importance of finding that “sweet spot” of fear—if a movie or experience is too intense, it can lead to negative feelings, rather than the intended enjoyment.
The “paradox of horror” shows that being scared can actually be enjoyable, especially when framed as recreational fear. Clasen pointed out, “We learn something about the dangers of the world. We learn something about our own responses: What does it feel like to be afraid? How much fear can I take?” This engagement with horror serves as a critical tool for personal growth and self-discovery.
Incorporating scary content into our lives can take various forms—horror movies, true crime podcasts, or unsettling Reddit threads. Finding your comfort zone is key: start small and gradually increase the intensity of what you consume. Clasen suggests beginning with lighter horror, like children’s films that have spooky elements.
Exploring these experiences with friends often enhances the fun. Clasen emphasizes that recreational fear is usually a social activity. “Few people go to watch scary movies or run through haunted houses alone,” he said. Experiencing fear together can amplify the thrill and create memorable moments.
#7
I used to follow high fashion models in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Frida Gustavsson, Sasha Pivovarova, Vlada Roslyakova, Olga Sherer, Snejana Onopka (as you can see, I gravitated toward the Slavic models, mainly)--those were my favorites. I was looking up runway photos of either Roslyakova or Sherer and stumbled upon a blog "congratulating" one of the models in a candid photo for enjoying a breakfast of black coffee and a cigarette. The caption was, "We approve."
That was the day I learned that there was such a thing as a "pro-ana" community, or "thinspo." This was the opposite of a support group--unless your understanding of a support group was supporting each other's addictions and unhealthy coping mechanisms. They exchanged "tips" like sprinkling black pepper on lettuce to make you think you were eating more than you actually were. It was... frightening.
Edit: typo.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
There was a huge investigation into the impact of 'thinspiration' by Australian journalists a few of years ago. One major point was that all someone had to do is watch one video or picture connected to weight loss etc and the algorithm (like most things on social media) would bombard you with more. Teenagers were particularly susceptible to this and many developed eating disorders because of it.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
I struggled with anorexia for YEARS and was extremely active in the online community. It was absolutely toxic, but also.... those were the only people I felt I could really talk to about it, especially when I was trying to recover. Everyone was unbelievably supportive of recovery, even if they themselves were still deep into their own disorders. Some of the best friends I ever made. I'm still close friends with 3 of them.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Having a neice who struggled with Anorexia Nervosa for over a decade, I find this disturbing as hell because young women see them as role models.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Courage by Superchick - https://youtu.be/8iVOP8C2TSY?si=mRkkQ-sVK4t2DX3q
Combfish McComish 1 year ago
I had a toxic morbidly obese friend who loved sifting through thinspo and pro Ana pages as they 'admired the dedication'
#8
Definitely not the most outright disturbing but still incredibly disturbing and more inexplicable was the existence of the monkey hate community. And they’ll just sit around watching videos of baby monkeys commenting s**t like “next you gotta put that f****r in the microwave and watch him squeal”. The part that’s really confusing to me is how these people woke up one day and said “f**k monkeys in particular” Since it really does seem to be specific to monkey for them.
BTDubs 1 year ago
There are people in my county who take a particular delight in hurting apes and primates. It's like it's as close as they can to hurting a person, without hurting a person and it scares the c**p outta me.
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
My ex refused to believe in evolution - which I was studying in university - not because of any religious hangups or anything like that, but purely because she hated monkeys and didn't want to be related to them. We finally arrived at a bizarre agree-to-disagree scenario in which she agreed to acknowledge the reality of evolution, and I agreed to consider the possibility that she had perhaps evolved from a flower, not a primate. One of many, many reasons that relationship was doomed.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I went on a date with a guy once who, when he found out I studied human evolution, said “you believe in that?” Technically no, because demonstrable phenomena don’t require belief. You might as well ask me if I believe in gravity or erosion. These are things that just are/happen. Belief is reserved for things we can’t demonstrate.
Load More Replies... Captive 1 year ago
Is this related to humans in a way? I mean do they imagine doing these things to humans but only openly talk about monkeys?
Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
This particular one was the woman who started the site actually carrying out the acts live online. She has been arrested, the site is now shut down and she's awaiting trial in the UK.
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Julia Ford 1 year ago
Monkey crush videos. And kitten, puppy, etc. People actually do the things suggested. There is a push from peta to get these videos off Twitter, etc. it’s truly horrifying.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Ok this was not a tread for me. Especially when I need more hours of sleep more!
Lara Verne 1 year ago
I was once searching on pinterest and find someone's account. Everything seemed normal- boards like movies they like, actors they like,fashion, funny videos, and then there was seal-hating board. This person just hated seals for some reason.
#9
Fatal caving accidents. Nutty Putty, but also Floyd Collins too (don't Google these). Learned way more than I care to and it only ensured I will never go caving, at least not in caves tight enough to get trapped forever.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
There is a movie called As Above So Below about cave exploring and holy hand grenades does that film freak me out.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
When I was a kid my mom and I once got "trapped" in a cave in Kentucky (the same area as Floyd Collins) and I was traumatized for life. In reality someone came and opened the gate within 15 minutes, but we both panicked during that time. :)
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
It's not really the same though, is it? On one hand, realistically, anyone can go caving whereas not everyone has millions of dollars to throw at an adventure in a shady submersible.
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Definitely the Russian scientist that sewed the top half of a dog to the back/neck area of another larger dog to see how long it would live. Like some human centipede [nonsense].
G A 1 year ago
It was for medical research, not for fun. A LOT of medical breakthroughs that save human lives today came about through animal research. I'm not condoning it, but I'm not outright condemning it either. There simply weren't alternatives at the time. This will probably make me vastly unpopular with the knee jerk responders, but your life may well have been saved one hundred times over by medical research on animals in the past without you stopping and thinking about it-every medical procedure and medicine you've undertaken. Think on that before calling all scientists 'bastards' and thinking they got their jollies off doing this.
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
Well, someti es, I guess. But I could have told them this wouldn't work.
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
At most about a day or two. He did this DOZENS of times.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I'm with and agreeing with G A... As barbaric as it seems? Without this type of medical research etc how do you find out how to reattach limbs, hands, feet etc? Reattaching them isn't just about "sewing them back on", there's multiple nerves, tendons, muscle etc to reattach. Will they work after, is there sensation/feeling in said body part after?... Would you in all honesty deny anyone the chance to have their limb reattached? Anyone from babies, children upwards btw. Just to go for the 'emotional jugular'.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Well, this is the post I hope isn't real and I'm just imagining it. Yup, that's it, dreaming.
#11
One of the most disturbing rabbit holes I stumbled into was reading about abandoned, haunted amusement parks around the world. What started as an innocent curiosity turned into hours of looking at eerie photos, creepy backstories, and even watching videos of people exploring these decaying, forgotten places. It left me with chills, but I couldn't stop digging deeper!
Brigitte 1 year ago
When I hear "abandoned amusement park" I always immediately think of that ferris wheel in Pripyat (Chernobyl).
Mike F 1 year ago
To be sure, the majority of them are absolutely lies. The people who buy the places are putting those stories out there to generate some interest so they can charge huge amounts to do ghost hunts, for nonexistent ghosts. I remember one that was in an old coal mining community from years past. The "interview" with the owner disclosed multiple deaths over the 40 or so years the place was in operation. Wouldn't you know, the "psychic" found ghost activity in those EXACT places. Oooohhhhh, spoopy!
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#12
Hisashi Ouchi.
In 1999, the nuclear plant at Tokaimura had a radioactive accident, and Hisashi was the closest victim to the incident. It happened during the purification process of uranium oxide. There were 3 victims in total.
Hisashi survived despite being exposed to the largest amount of radiation on record.
And the Japanese kept him alive. Against his will. For 83 days.
It is the most painful, extended death I have ever read. They could have humanely ended his life.
But they kept bringing him back. To experiment. Despite all the injuries, skin loss, burns, and organ failure.
Do not read about it if you are weak/sensitive to graphic details.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I looked into this one once, and the doctors get way too much blame in all this. The family wanted him to survive and he himself was very set on making it too. If anything it just draws the blame away from the real villains in this story: the astoundingly irresponsible fools running the power plant whose negligence allowed the accident to happen in the first place.
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
I saw a documentary about him and HE DID 2 die. Unfortunately they showed some pics.
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 1 year ago
This is horribly misleading and inaccurate. The doctors did everything they could to try to help him, including blood transplants and stem cell treatment. They were no experiments. Towards the end, he was kelp alive solely at the request of his family, who wanted him to live until Jan 1, 2000.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
No experiments? Here’s an article describing them testing an experimental therapy on him: https://www.science.org/content/article/experimental-treatment-japanese-radiation-victim
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Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
I was hoping I wasn't the only person to read this and be like, dude did not want to live up to that name.
Load More Replies... Lost Panda 1 year ago
By what I read, they didn't bring him back to experiment... They kept bringing him back because his family wanted him to live... If anything, they should have said "There's nothing more we can do"
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Lee Henderson 1 year ago
I have mixed feelings on this. He suffered horribly but seldom have doctors had such a bad case of radiation poisoning. They tried everything they could and I am certain they did their best to save him. Look up "17 Sieverts".
Kat_Bat 1 year ago
People have already said but this is misrepresenting what happened. The guy received a huge dose of radiation which destroyed his cells and particularly his stem cells, preventing them from dividing. There's this stage of radiation poisoning, the walking ghost stage, where everything appears fine but no new cells are being produced and eventually that leads to organ failure. The 'experiments' were actually an experimental stem cell transplant from his sister which succeeded I raising his white blood cell count though obviously didn't manage to save his life and he was only resuscitated due to his family's wishes.
#13
Datura trip reports rank pretty high. I've had bad trips on psychedelics, but nothing even remotely as f****d up as what people experience on deliriants like datura.
On psychedelics, no matter how crazy it gets, you at least know you're tripping. The s**t you see is clearly just overlaid on reality - you know you're hallucinating. That's not the case with datura. From what I've read, the s**t you see doesn't look psychedelic at all - it looks real. You might not even realize you're tripping.
Your dead grandpa is really in the room talking to you. Your friend is really getting brutally [attacked] in front of you. The giant spiders are really crawling all over you. It's all 100% real as far as you can tell.
Since you have no connection to reality, you can get into serious trouble or even die. You might think you're fighting a demon and then get arrested for assaulting a random person in a park. All bets are off with that s**t.
Oh and also it lasts several days.
SlothyK8 1 year ago
Back in the early 80's, a book called "Clan of the Cave Bear" was published; over the next three decades-ish, it became a rather lengthy series. The story centers on a Cro-Magnon child whose family dies in an earthquake, and she ends up being adopted by a Neanderthal tribe. Ultimately the main character grows to adulthood and becomes a medicine woman. Datura figures prominently in the series, as does another unknown root with "magical" properties. I was really fascinated with the herbal lore when I read the original book, but after having read about what datura does, I'm SO not interested in it. There's a reason we call things "controlled substances"...because straight up herbology is dangerous.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
Datura grows wild on the side of the roads here. It's called estramonio in Spanish. Most people didn't even realise it was toxic until three young guys made a concoction a few years ago and two of them died in hospital.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
That reminds me of when people would smoke Salvia. My husband thought he was a ninja so I was like OK, maybe I will try it. Then his friend went and he was in a nightmare for 2 minutes, grasping for the light and holding onto his dog for dear life. Nope nope nope, not for me.
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
Humey I've trapped a couple of times and sometimes u really know and s**t does look real
#14
The leg found at the OKC Bombing site.
Nutshell: A random leg was found in the aftermath of the OKC bombing back in '95. They identified the leg, and exhumed the corpse it belonged to. Only problem? He was already buried with two legs. Except one wasn't his. They swapped his leg, and set to work trying to find the owner of the other leg. DNA testing failed to find out who it belonged to.
...So whose leg was it? Nearly 30 years later, we have no clue. Some say it was a widely believed *third* accomplice to the bombing.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
I live in Oklahoma City and 7 miles away and felt the aftershock when the Murrah Building was blown up on April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were evil incarnate and as far as I'm concerned McVeigh didn't suffer enough. I know people that died in the Bombing, I've seen what the families and friends went through and how they are still effected 29 years later. It still tears me up inside every time I visit the Memorial and Museum, but I still go because it's the least I can do to make sure that none of them are forgotten.
Kit Black 1 year ago
You know all those stories where someone finds a dead person in their apartment, who's been dead for years because they had no friends and no one left who cared about them? Some of those people have jobs before they die... The genuine most likely explanation is that this was someone who did work in, or had reason to be in the building, and the leg was the only part of the remains recovered recognizably. This was 2001 - 23 and Me was still 5 years away, and the only DNA testing they could compare to would have been criminal databases and family members of the known missing who submitted a comparison sample. So the remains of someone who didn't have any close friends or family at all would have been incredibly difficult to identify then. It's possible that if they had living relatives with whom they were not in contact that at this point a comparison with 23 & Me archives might turn something up, but then that would only happen if someone wanted to bother to initiate such a thing and
Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
You forget this was a massive terrorist attack on our soil. They knew every single person that could possibly be in that building. They reviewed all known victims and determined no one was missing a leg. No one that worked in that building is unaccounted for. If someone did die and had no one, they would have figured it out in the decades since. It's still an unknown John Doe body part.
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John Maigler 1 year ago
.... It wasn't a suicide bombing.... No perpetrators died in the bombing.
#15
Stumbled upon an antivaxxer group once …. the sheer tin foil hat stupidity was utterly astounding.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
People absolutely believe in that bs so much that they're risking their children's lives by not waxing them. I don't think that can be put down just for amusement
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Mark Karol-Chik 1 year ago
The latest I heard was that the "devil Democrats" sent out the Covidtests, BUT- the tests were water with the virus inside!!
Byron Black 1 year ago
Sure, dudes, spike proteins are your friends. Let them into your bloodstream for a free donut. Hey-kids-s...62-png.jpg 
#16
On Reddit there used to be yearly thread for a while talking about supernatural experiences of Sailors. It was such a fantastic read . Every couple of years if I am bored and travelling I love to re-read them.
JimSteve 1 year ago
Saint Elmo's Fire is a really interesting phenomenon and its been happening for centuries. Not actually supernatural but its still pretty cool.
LillieMean 1 year ago
I suspect that this is because the sense of time and place gets blurred at sea because you can't see the land, you get a little lost. The phenomenon must be cabin fever's delusional cousin.
David Paterson 1 year ago
I only read those in the hope of a close encounter with a relative of Nessie. It's happened twice.
#17
Ant walking alligators.
Survivors of nuclear bombings. Very NSFL stuff.
The "alligator people" bit refers to their skin being so charred and cracked it looked like reptile skin, and their lips and eyes melted away, making them look like some sort of human-reptiles
The "ant-walking" bit is separate, referring to how they aimlessly followed each other around, crawling on all fours due to their ruined limbs, all while making a neverending murmuring noise as they tried to scream but had too damaged vocal cords and throats
The more detailed descriptions are probably worse than what you're imagining, but the veracity is also somewhat questioned. The book that describes all this was later withdrawn by the publisher for having several factual errors, exaggerations, using bad sources, etc.
Zero Costa 1 year ago
barefoot gen is a very good manga about the attacks, loosely based on the author's own experience through the bombing of Hiroshima. it's a real hard read though
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
The Last Podcast on the Left gets deep into this in their series on the Manhattan Project. Absolutely horrific what humans will do to each other.
Pyla 1 year ago (edited)
The photo is from her textile she wore at the time of the explosion leaving that mark on her body. I don't think the US really had a grasp of the ramifications to the civilians, but they did not feel they had a choice. Tragic all around.
Visitor 1 year ago (edited)
Another reason for launching the bomb: as Germany was defeated, URSS troups were moving to the asian war front. And US wanted to avoid having to share the occupancy of Japan (that they knew would be defeated soon too or they would have agreed to negociate to avoid more soldiers' deaths). So US leaders absolutely KNEW they had the choice. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened for political reasons. I'm not here for US bashing, I don't care for that. But I think it's important to remember that 1. history should not be influenced by propaganda (on all sides), and 2. ultimatly, politicians will always care more about power than human lives, no matter what they try to tell you to justify their actions.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
No one is without blame in WWII. Japan did some incredibly horrible things to the Chinese. The Rape of Nanking/Nanking Massacre, the ten million Chinese slaves that Japan took (and forced into hard labor) in Manchukuo when they conquered part of Manchuria, and the utter horrors that took place in Unit 731 - where prisoners were vivisected (cut into pieces) without anesthesia, were experimented on with bacteriological and chemical warfare, and were subjected to endless illegal human experimentations. Japan isn't some sparkly innocent when it comes to WWII. Did the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserve to die? No. But neither did the millions of innocents that Japan killed in China and Russia. All humans are pretty horrible to each other. No country is innocent.
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Artifacts from Spanish inquisition Era. A couple of Books supporting their beliefs was enough to make one puke. Then they brought out various "devices" and the explanation scarred me for life. Can't believe that humans came with such seriously effed up things to be used on someone. I used to hate humans in general but had a little faith in humanity. After watching the documentary in wayback machine i doubt nothing much has changed. There were also 77 pages fully filled with the names of the victims and the name of the priests who "handled" them. It was a french documentary from 90's and I was just curious about Spain's history, very dark stuff that almost nobody outside Europe/Spain knows about.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Many years ago there was a traveling torture museum with hundreds of artifacts used for torturing people from all over the world. It would be set up somewhere for a year or two and then move to a new location. I visited it in San Francisco. Absolutely ghastly and mind blowing all of the devices people created to torture other people. People would suffer for days before succumbing to death.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
A more unknown (and surprising) rabbit hole is the German Inquisition.
StPaul9 1 year ago
In all effect, the Inquisition investigated beforehand if the accuser had reason to accuse, and it seems to be more more lenient than others. Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition I'm sorry you were in a space where humanity as a whole got you down.
Visitor 1 year ago
A lot of these ghastly devices were made up by the perverse imagination of guys from the 19th century as it aligned with the thought that the Middle-Ages was an upmost barbaric era. Ex: the iron maiden is completely made-up. Torture was used, true, but it was turned into an entertainment show like "oooh people used to be so barbaric" (the underligning idea being "we're so much more civilised and modern")
brittany 1 year ago
my family has documentation that a (distant) ancestor of ours worked for Queen Elizabeth the First in the Tower of London and participated in the "confessions" and may have even helped invent some. it was.....yikes. there is (or was) a replica tower of London in Cincinnati (i think) years ago that was set up during a rein faire as a walk through. it was educational to say the least. i dont know if they still set it up now though. last time i went was over 15 years ago.
#19
Watching the new videos about the TitanSub that was destroyed last year. While I have zero sympathy for the owner who was knowingly breaking the rules, dying in that sub, I feel bad for the crew that he conned into going.
One video that I watched last night suggested the possibility that they knew they were in danger and was trying to raise up to safety when they imploded and it wasn't a quick thing, like they knew for approximately a minute that they were moments away from instant death, but the death was so sudden and so violent that no one knew it happened, human brains don't work fast enough to process an implosion at that speed. .
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
I feel so bad for the young man who didn't want to go but was forced by his a*****e father.
Jaaawn 1 year ago
That's been debunked. The younger guy began to have an interest in the Titanic and asked his mother for her place instead.
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MushroomHead22 1 year ago
all of this information has been known for quite sometime, like not even that long after it happened.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
A 19-year-old boy died. HE wasn't a billionaire. And not all billionaires are inherently evil. They are human beings.
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Deep diving into the toy box killer, the tape he plays to his newly kidnapped victims is pretty disturbing even just reading the transcript. .
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Can we just take a moment to admire the *extraordinary* courage and fortitude of Cynthia Vigil and Kelli Garrett? They were two of his victims who survived and somehow found the strength to actually testify, in gruesome detail, against him in open court. Without their bravery, he may easily have gone free.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
I came across a subreddit about serial killers. That day discovered the story of the toy box killer but, worse for me, the toolbox killers. Every post was warning NOT to read the transcript of*that* tape. I trust seasoned true crime veterans so I didn't but only the Wikipedia entry gave me two nights of nightmares. Hits harder to when you have daughters.
Java Addict 1 year ago
I was living in that area when it was happening. You could see the trailer from the highway and I passed it many times.
Aud (she/they) 1 year ago
I just looked him up on Wikipedia... oh. my. f*cking. god. I'm not religious, but people like David Parker Ray make me believe in the existence of evil.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Oh, evil truly does exist in various manifestations.
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The logistics of crowd crushes.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
"Logistics"? As if somebody deliberately planned it and ordered the necessary supplies? I think the word the OP was looking for is "mechanics".
Myoviridae 1 year ago
For those who don't know, if you are caught in a crowd surge, you need to raise your arms so they are elbows out at chest level. This increases the chance that you are carried along with the crowd of people instead of falling and being trampled.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I got caught up in a minor one once and I still remember those few horrible seconds of rising panic as I realised I couldn't move an inch.
featherytoad 1 year ago
My husband went to the Taste Of Chicago one year, and he said he would never do it again. The crowd was so thick that he had to go with the direction of the crowd. He literally could not turn around.
Load More Replies... LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
I was unlucky enough to be at the Who concert in Cincinnati when I was a kid. I was lucky I wasn't killed or hurt, but the older girl who drove us all to the concert had her arm broken in the crush. Crowds still make me nervous.
Certainly not Dan 1 year ago
There’s lots of work out there on the physics of crowds. It’s possible to predict quite accurately what will happen to a crowd
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Pearl Jam actually stopped their concert at London O2 the night we were there because the crowd was getting dangerous down the front and they asked them to stop surging and give people space. Kudos.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Some prick pulled me into a mosh pit once and the panic I felt in there alone means I would absolutely die in a crowd crush.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
15th April 1989, the Hillsborough disaster... Still can't with that one.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
On a personal level... The Green Day concert at Milton Keynes Bowl where the crowd surged forward, I had my arms braced against the barriers standing with my legs apart to steady myself as best as possible at the front protecting by boyfriends niece with my arms either side of her. I got knocked over and stood on as people were coming forward. I grabbed one guys jeans and he started shouting "She's on the floor! Get her up!". I was lucky to get away with a bruised sprained ankle and other surface bruising. My boyfriends niece was unharmed, I was in the first aid tent after they'd taken us over the barriers and she went just outside and watched the rest of the show with a excellent view from the side of the stage!!! 😄 I don't hold it against her though! She was 15 and I'd have probably done the same thing at her age!
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Diphenhydramine addiction.
No part of it sounds enticing, yet it's still abused. I don't know that I've seen any other d**g related sub be so adamant about avoiding it at all costs.
glitteryvomit: diphenhydramine is what began my descent into drugs. I had insomnia veeeery young and my pediatrician suggested Benadryl to my mom. I began sneaking obscene amounts the older I got. I didn't think twice about it. eventually it got worse but you know life decisions xyz.
sober from pills (it got to benzos/etc) for 7/8 years now. OTC pill abuse is an issue most day to day people don't see.
Just stopping by 1 year ago
I have never heard of this with allergy pills. I’ve been taking Benadryl since I was a child and it’s never been like this. And yes I have severe allergies so I have to take some form of allergy medicine no matter what.
Kit Black 1 year ago
Do you take only the recommended dosage at the recommended spacing , every single time? If so, then, this wouldn't be a problem for you. If you take the medication more often than recommended, or at a higher dose, because it only works for you at the higher dose, or wears off too fast - this is you.
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Jaaawn 1 year ago
I am a legal (as in, prescribed to me) prescription pill abuser.
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Carla Phillips 1 year ago
A side note. Most products for sleep have this as an ingredient. Tylenol PM, zZzquil, etc. Just read the label. You can get a box of generic benadryl fairly cheap, but throw a brand name on it, and suddenly it's like gold.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
TIL... which worries me that parents give their kids this to keep them quiet on long haul flights...
Tammy Leung 1 year ago
You cannot get physically dependent on this, maybe you are psychologically addicted?
Joshua David 1 year ago
Once i ordered bottles and bottles of codeine 1 from canada. I was able to extract the 1 and it scared me so much. Plus it was probably illegal to have these sent to me.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Diphenhydramine is non-addictive. At repeated high doses, it can cause delirium, as a side effect of severe insomnia (but this is not due to any addictive properties, as it has none)
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Please read this research paper along with the many sites from reputable health organizations that beg to differ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5874453/
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I spent one night reading all about staircases in woods stories and was thoroughly creeped out, only to discover the next day that the stories were all fake.
Andreea Ghita 1 year ago
For anyone curious: 'I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service' on r/nosleep. Amazing read, highly recommend.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Oh man, thank you, now THAT’S a rabbit hole! I read all 4 parts - it’s noon right now and I have goosebumps 💀
Load More Replies... Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
Not all of them. Some r fr om homes where the rock stairs still exists
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
I saved all those posts from r/nosleep and go back and read them from time to time like one of my favourite books.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
So ... the picture is photoshopped and there are no staircases in the woods?
Biofish23 1 year ago
Stone staircase in the woods certainly exist. A house burns or decays away leaving only the parts made of stone, such as the front steps, a fireplace or a foundation. There is a pretty example in New Hampshire in an area known as Madam Sherri's forest. It's the site if a 1920s mansion turned conservative area with nothing of the original house remaining except a beautiful arched stone staircase. What is not true is the myriad of stores about climbing forest stairs to some sort of other realm.
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I saw someone mention Junko Faruta so I looked her up.
Edit: The worst part was, I had no context before looking. I can’t remeber the exact circumstances, but it was a Reddit post that someone casually mentioned her name but as a missing person or something far leas than what it was. Certainly not the horrors that poor women went through and what happened after. But it was almost a casual mention. The only reason I looked her up was because I thought the name was quite unusual and rather interesting. So I was just wondering if she was famous in Japan or something to look up while being bored and meandering around Reddit. Little did I know…. This was quite awhile ago. Her name comes up frequently now, but it was almost unknown (internationally, I am sure it was well known in Japan) at the time.
VeryOddNaw: F***ed up thing is some of the guys who did that are still walking the streets without a care in the world, I have seen some people spam Junko’s image in there accounts though but still I want them dead or behind bars forever.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Was that intended to leave us curious or send us on our own searches? A 17yo was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered, and it went on for 40 days. Perhaps the most f****d up thing about it is that it's not even exceptional in terms of what some sickos have done.
MsLou 1 year ago
And it was at one of the perpetrator's homes AND the parents were there the entire time
Load More Replies... Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
I just learned about her here. A quick glimpse at Wikipedia that l already regret. How can be one of them free??
#25
That girl with munchausens that picked her legs to the bone so she could be a double amputee.
Zero Costa 1 year ago
is that munchausens? there's a syndrome where people want to self amputate etc
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
A form of body dysmorphia called body integrity identity disorder
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
I thought, perhaps erroneously, that true Munchausens had never been documented
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
They should meet my sister who I am NC with because she f****d with my head so much doing this.
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Raw isis and cartel execution videos
I deeply regret both.
T. 1 year ago
Cause in teenage years one is young and dumb. Like I was around the millennium. Anyone remembers rotten.com? (Offline for nearly a decade now).
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago
r/eyeblech (the opposite of r/eyebleach) had some that I unfortunately saw before the subreddit was deleted
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Oof. A was accidentally drawn to a website called "best gore". DON'T ever go there. The original site was eventually shut down, but, there are others using the name. I repeat...DON'T look for them, just don't.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Many years ago I worked at a video store. When we were hired we would throw a tape in a check it out. The first images were of an execution. It was so horrible we all screamed and shivered and ran to shut the tape off. Pure evil.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
Just the videos on YouTube are bad enough, which I only know because I've done a deep dive on the largest ones. I have said it before, The Cartels and MS-13 make American gangs look like toddlers with toy guns, because they cannot even come close in sheer brutality. American gangs will just shoot their opps, MS-13 and The Cartels like to make "examples" of people, some of the things they've done to children would make you sick.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I accidentally watched the Daniel Pearl video. Don't ask me why or how because I don't remember. I really wish I hadn't.
Pyla 1 year ago
Damn, do NOT do this. I mean this is NOT Tudor england where they had to saw off the head of Mary Queen of Scotts, but it's not good. I lived in Saudi, a friend's dad was downtown in the souk when they were doing an execution. He was unable to leave. I never witnessed one, but the current leader (king or prince, can't recall) just offed 80 people not that long ago.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I've no idea what the actual name of the main square in Riyadh was, but we called it Chop Square. And yes my dad did get stuck there one time when someone was being chopped, and wasn't allowed to leave till it was over
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I've never seen a video, thank God, but very early in the Syrian war I saw a photo of a child on Twitter, standing behind five severed heads. It took me a minute to compute what I was looking at.
#27
Looking up my physical symptoms… i have health anxiety.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
I was recently introduced to the concept of “intellectualizing.” -“Intellectualization is a defense mechanism in which people reason about a problem to avoid uncomfortable or distressing emotions… By channeling mental energy into a logical assessment or abstract discussion, an individual can avoid painful emotions or remain distanced from beliefs that challenge their sense of self.”
Kangaroo 1 year ago
To add, you may be intellectualizing if: “When something or someone hurts you, do you try to learn everything you can about it? Maybe you read books, follow professionals on Instagram, and try to understand all the details?”
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My ex friend (numerous reasons why he's ex) posted years ago claiming that he had bone cancer. As in actually saying that "I have bone cancer". He'd been looking up various medical sites, even the NHS and other legitimate ones. Got himself all worked up about a harmless tiny Ganglion on his foot that was diagnosed about a week before by his doctors. All that was needed was it for it to be drained at his doctors surgery via aspiration. He hadn't even been to his doctors when he claimed he had bone cancer! Meanwhile? That was at the same time as I was having to have three moles surgically removed, one was "of concern". Two on my neck and the worrying one on my right shoulder. It was fully removed, tested and had, yup, "rogue cells" but they'd gotten them all.... My body sucks btw but during that time? He sucked more...
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Dr Google and particularly WebMD are the worst. runny nose? Must be cancer. Everything is cancer. I work for doctors and the moment someone tells us they have been on google is the moment we tell them to stfu and get a medical degree if they want to self diagnose.
Joshua David 1 year ago
I am a proud non googler of health issues. In 2005 I did this for a small amount of time before my general anxiety searches convinced me i had either aids or cancer.
#28
I got sucked into the world of creepy pasta stories and ended up staying up nights reading about haunted websites and urban legends. It was eerie and I had to take a break to clear my mind!
Aud (she/they) 1 year ago
Oh, I did the same about a year ago. Some of the stuff, like the Russian Sleep Experiment, shook me horribly. I could not sleep for several nights.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
"A creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet. The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet. These entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories that are intended to frighten readers. The subjects of creepypasta vary widely and can include topics such as ghosts, cryptids, murder, suicide, zombies, aliens, rituals to summon supernatural entities, haunted television shows, and video games. Creepypastas range in length from a single paragraph to extended multi-part series that can span multiple media types, some lasting for years." - it's a variant of the old term "copypasta", which is a form of "copy and paste", referring to paragraphs/chunks of text that people would copy-paste to social media or chatrooms or other internet sites.
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When eugenia cooney was on twitch. I was disturbed but curious about how she was able to be like that. I would watch her streams every once in a while and ask simple and vague questions that she would sometimes read. Just wild to me a human can live like that.
#30
The Sreberencia Massacre, which led to reading transcripts from the Hague war crimes trial. Absolutely horrifying.
El Dee 1 year ago
The human race learns nothing from the past. 30 million civilians murdered by the Nazis in WW2 horrified the world - but not enough to stop doing these things..
Sue User 1 year ago
Ueah, the " never again" mantra rings just a bit hollow.
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#31
What iv’e been kinda freaked out by recently is eating disorder twitter (#edtwt) and self harm twitter (#shtwt). Both communities overlap with eachother a lot and it’s insane to me seeing a large community of people ENCOURAGE eachother in this behavior. They have their own inside jokes, share routines, trauma dump, share compliments. They also take pictures of and document everything. You can scroll through profile timelines and see conditions worsen as their mental health descends. It’s honestly just a pretty disturbing thing to see from an outside perspective.
#32
Elan school was quite the rabbit-hole for me. Schools —if you can call them that— like these are f****d up and should not exist imho. 😟.
Ytrog: A "school" where children with difficulties are sent to and it is an abusive hell basically.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
This was all the rage in the 90s. I had friends that were sent to these places - "schools", wilderness "camps", etc. The troubled teen industry is pure evil, but it still exists.
Mark Karol-Chik 1 year ago
These f*****g places sprung up in the 1960's-early 1970's. My poor Aunt used to have to go to Ridgway Home in the Denver area. She hated it.
#33
It's probably not that exciting but learning EVERYTHING Diddy did and we just let that s**t slide for decades. Also, seeing how many celebs are involved oooooh s**t so glad I'm not one of those people who has a Parasocial relationship with celebrities lol. It's awful and the stuff that's coming out now is only the tip of the iceberg. I feel like this is just old news being brought to light.
I can't stand Justin Bieber or Usher but damn, Diddler f****d them up.... like sent Usher to the hospital for a torn a*****e when he was younger.... s**t is f**kkkked.
Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago
Usher and Bieber have never said they were abused, nor is there any evidence of that. Theres no need to come up with stories, the facts are bad enough
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Just before the arrest he blathered about "being a changed man, and sorry" as if that excuses it or "forgiving himself" absolves him of responsibility.
Dave In MD 1 year ago
The most relieved people in the world and the ones that wanted to get invited to a Diddy party but couldn't get the invite.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
The rapper, P Diddy, formerly known as Puff Daddy.
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#34
Pimple picking / extractions at 3 am!
#35
Soft White Underbelly.
RealAnise: While SWU is often disturbing, I wouldn't put it in the same category as all of this other stuff. It's basically hundreds of videos of people discussing their lives, their work, their trauma, their experiences-- [escorts], addicts, that kind of thing.
#36
A couple of medical conditions I had to study after I learned a loved one was suffering from at least one of them. Doing it out of curiosity is one thing, but when you're forced to do so in order to either improve your health or make it less serious... oh s**t.
#37
Secret societies consumed my life for like 5 years.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My college had secret societies. It was nothing nefarious though - they were sort of like sororities, which we didn't have.
#38
I landed in a telegram channel where people were manipulating or blackmailing underage girls to post nude pictures/videos and cut themselves with razors, including cutting themselves with the abusers name. It was an open channel with a deceptive name. Discord apparently has similar channels but they get banned faster there.
I uninstalled telegram shortly after that.
#39
That 19 year old girl that married an ~80ish year old man and live tweeted as he was on his deathbed.
#40
Jfk assassination.
#41
The guy who jumped from the cruise ship in the Bahamas got eaten by sharks. The subreddit is pretty interesting, after going down the rabbit hole, I'm convinced you can see sharks in the video.
Pyla 1 year ago (edited)
Wait, his friends video tape it? I thought it happened at night. DAMN! Now I have to look. OK went to look. Maybe there are sharks, but calling it "shark infested" is like calling a forest "tree infested" It's their home.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Right, it’s more like the shark’s home became human-infested. Still sad for the guy though!
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It actually happened recently. My friend and I were planning our trip to Japan on discord and looking at Google Maps, just seeing how far away we were actually travelling. We stumbled across some VERY weird islands, with VERY weird names. We came across this one island that had an airport, a church, and the names were extremely weird like 'banana' or something. The images you see from people using that location weren't real photos and the website to the church looked extremely fake. We dove a little into the history and just saw more and more weird s**t. The funny part is, you can't even see it normally on the map, you literally have to zoom in so much just for it to even appear.
Edit
HI
Banana
CIA airport code, LOL
weird reviews
It appears to be real, but goddamn this was funny at the time.
#43
Doomscrolled through BestG+r3's self-delete tag until the site ran out of articles for that tag or the site itself was shut down.
Found some.. interesting.. stuff. Like that Indian family that offed themselves, by hanging, to communicate with a dead relative, thinking they'll just back to life and untie eachother from their binds and nooses.
One tragic article that I remember very clearly was just video, of a woman - a mother of two or three - streaming her by hanging while her children cried and wailed around her. One of the children, seemingly too aware of what their mama is doing, tried to lift her up but to no avail.
#44
When I had around 13~14 years old I was browsing in the deep web and ended up reading a blog about how to invoke demons, but it said that I would go to hell if I tries then I never tested due the fear lol.
#45
Tabs vs spaces.
#46
The JimJack336 Mystery.
TL:DR - Secretive wealthy man who uses a niche sim racing community as a cover for possibly money laundering or other financial mysteries that utilize shell companies.
Full explanation (Warning: Long and super mysteriously weird)
My favorite internet mystery that actually got me into internet mysteries is the JimJack336 Mystery. It is about a secretly wealthy person who goes by the name of JimJack336. He is known by that name because he had a Reddit account almost a decade ago with that name.
He was involved in a niche sim racing community and he helped create mods and content for it along with setting up modding groups for other members to team up and create mods with. He did this for a few years until he randomly went inactive one day.
This all sounds innocent and pretty ordinary until it was recently discovered that he was actually a wealthy secretive person who used the sim racing community for nefarious purposes that coincided with his use of offshore shell companies. The niche sim racing community had members suddenly come out and reveal that JimJack336 created the groups and the groups were actually named after his shell companies. This happened because several members from different groups found out that their groups were formed by the same guy named JimJack336 and no one really knew who he was or what happened to him or why he did all this.
The users also found connections between the modding groups and actual real life shell companies, especially one being named “Full Throttle LTD” and being based in the British Virgin Islands. (Look up the company on ICIJ)! There was so such drama in the community that the higher ups of the community had to ban discussions about JimJack336 so that the entire community won’t get derailed. They had to get the members of the modding groups to stop talking about it and to move on from all of it in order to focus on making mods for the community.
This led people to post about JimJack336 on many other subreddits and social medias like r/RBI, r/subredditdrama, etc, and it even spread to 4chan, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and even a well known news agency wrote an article about it. However mysteriously many of the Reddit posts got taken down by Reddit admins for unclear reasons. The 4chan thread got taken down quickly and the news article was deleted in a single day. It wasn’t even Reddit mods taking down the posts, it was Reddit admins themselves.
And Google and Bing deliberately hide search results of JimJack336 and information relating to him. However a search on DuckDuckGo reveals a lot of information that aren’t available on Google or Bing. This made it obvious that the major search engines were deliberately concealing search results.
Additionally a month or two later, the niche sim racing community suffered a massive Reddit account ban wave and it involved the JimJack336 Reddit account (which was inactive for several years) along with several other modding group accounts to get suspended on the same day. That ban wave revealed that JimJack336 had control of several Reddit accounts and now the theory is that he got Reddit admins to suspend all the accounts so that people investigating the mystery would have more difficulty in doing so.
People in the community theorized on why some wealthy guy would create modding groups named after his shell companies in a niche sim racing community. Is it to use the sim racing community as a front? Is it to conceal money laundering?
Whoever JimJack336 really is, it is so f*****g weird that someone would use a niche community dedicated to a sim racing game as a front cover for their mysterious offshore shell company business. And whatever they’re trying to do, they definitely put so much effort into actually staying in the shadows and getting Reddit admins and the large search engines to take down posts about him and his activities.
Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
Dude uses a handle to mask himself, something about a game I think, launders money through she'll companies, gets posts about this taken down. I think
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I assume it's people who are fans of a simulation (game) of car racing! Basically you can drive cars around a track in the game, just like they do in NASCAR or F1.
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We should make a drinking game. Take a shot every time OP says "niche Sim racing"
#47
Still in said rabbit hole but learning how torture has evolved and how we have given out the death sentence I’ve even looked up pictures of people that have been decapated I have even given my self Chinese water torture that was a fun 5 hours.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
I don't see how that would be fatal, but having seen Kari do it on Mythbusters and be on the verge of a total breakdown after just minutes I also don't believe anyone would be able to go 5 hours just on a whim.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Time to decompress with funny kitten videos
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 1 year ago
If you're wondering why people even look into this stuff, I can tell you why I've done it on many occasions, and it's because I have a certain fascination with dark and twisted things coupled with a particularly ghoulish curiosity. I sometimes end up regretting it, but I just can't seem to help myself. Dark and forbidden things have always had a certain allure, but some of us lean more into that than others.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Morbid curiousity is an interesting trait many humans have, including myself :)
Load More Replies... Myoviridae 1 year ago
Aaaaaaaannnnndddd now I will go watch Downton Abbey at the suggestion of a friend. It apparently has very sarcastic humor and I need a break from awful humanity after this thread.
george 1 year ago
Well the JimJack336 Mystery is certainly interesting. I think it’s a lot of people’s favorite mystery as it has been going on for almost a decade and is still unsolved. A lot of people discuss JimJack336 on Reddit and Youtube and a lot of the posts get removed by legal teams. Pretty interesting that someone is actively suppressing the mystery.
larry nelson 1 year ago
The JimJack336 Mystery was the best one. It's something that's definitely still going on today as it is an ongoing mystery. A lot of people have been into the rabbit hole of it and it is still unsolved. Hope to see more about it soon!
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
For me it was after I read the auto-biography "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully. (The title says it all.) I just couldn't wrap my mind around it and needed to find out everything I could. Deepest rabbit hole I've ever been down.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
If you think the monkey haters are unhinged, go to the anti-dogs forum on Reddit and see what true unhinged is.
BatPhace 1 year ago
I'm old. We got internet when I was 13ish? A friend's older brother dared us to look at a site called bangedupdotcom (I don't know if it still exists and I don't want to test it). Said it had super cool and funny videos and pictures. Horrific stuff. Suffice to say it made me not go back on the internet for a solid while and I got over my crush on the older brother real quick
Kangaroo 1 year ago
LOL I have stories of friend’s older brothers tricking us into going to weird/creepy websites too. In the early days of the internet we all had to beware the Friend’s Older Brother 😂
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Time to decompress with funny kitten videos
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 1 year ago
If you're wondering why people even look into this stuff, I can tell you why I've done it on many occasions, and it's because I have a certain fascination with dark and twisted things coupled with a particularly ghoulish curiosity. I sometimes end up regretting it, but I just can't seem to help myself. Dark and forbidden things have always had a certain allure, but some of us lean more into that than others.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Morbid curiousity is an interesting trait many humans have, including myself :)
Load More Replies... Myoviridae 1 year ago
Aaaaaaaannnnndddd now I will go watch Downton Abbey at the suggestion of a friend. It apparently has very sarcastic humor and I need a break from awful humanity after this thread.
george 1 year ago
Well the JimJack336 Mystery is certainly interesting. I think it’s a lot of people’s favorite mystery as it has been going on for almost a decade and is still unsolved. A lot of people discuss JimJack336 on Reddit and Youtube and a lot of the posts get removed by legal teams. Pretty interesting that someone is actively suppressing the mystery.
larry nelson 1 year ago
The JimJack336 Mystery was the best one. It's something that's definitely still going on today as it is an ongoing mystery. A lot of people have been into the rabbit hole of it and it is still unsolved. Hope to see more about it soon!
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
For me it was after I read the auto-biography "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully. (The title says it all.) I just couldn't wrap my mind around it and needed to find out everything I could. Deepest rabbit hole I've ever been down.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
If you think the monkey haters are unhinged, go to the anti-dogs forum on Reddit and see what true unhinged is.
BatPhace 1 year ago
I'm old. We got internet when I was 13ish? A friend's older brother dared us to look at a site called bangedupdotcom (I don't know if it still exists and I don't want to test it). Said it had super cool and funny videos and pictures. Horrific stuff. Suffice to say it made me not go back on the internet for a solid while and I got over my crush on the older brother real quick
Kangaroo 1 year ago
LOL I have stories of friend’s older brothers tricking us into going to weird/creepy websites too. In the early days of the internet we all had to beware the Friend’s Older Brother 😂
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