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Many people have at least a few scary stories stored in their heads, in case they’re ever in a position to tell one; for instance, when friends decide to share spooky stories sitting around a bonfire or at a Halloween party, where, just like the costumes, each story is more creative than the last one. But some horror stories are not the fruit of someone’s creativity; they are real accounts of real things that happened to real people, making them all the more spine-chilling.
One netizen became curious about such real stories, so they turned to the Reddit community, asking netizens to share the scariest stories they know to be completely true. And share they did. On the list below, you can find their answers, some of which are firsthand accounts; so if you’re interested in terrifying stories, too, continue scrolling to browse them, but please be aware that some of them can get pretty upsetting.
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#1
A Soviet officer saw on his computer that America had launched nuclear weapons against his nation.
Instead of ending the world he went, "Must be a faulty computer, I will check."
How there isn't a statue of him in bronze in every city on the planet I'll never know.
His name was Colonel Stanislav Petrov.
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
I've read that quite often by now! But agree! That man deserves his statue!
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Hrm... the U.S. decided to spontaneously end the world? He was supposed to wait for a confirmation. He did. He is said to have "violated orders" because he did not report the attack. Had he reported the attack, the fear was that his superiors might have acted insanely stupid, although he certainly could have pointed out, "I do not have confirmation, and I suspect malfunctioning equipment." He was not charged with violating those orders to report the attack, because he was deemed to have acted rationally, especially in the absence of confirmation.
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ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. On 26 September 1983, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to four more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm. His subsequent decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that would have resulted in a large-scale nuclear war. An investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned. Because of his decision not to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike amid this incident, Petrov is often credited as having "saved the world".
Zorro The Bus Conductor 1 year ago
September 26th should be a day of celebration all around the world and we should toast Petrov. 👏🏻👏🏻
Michael None 1 year ago
This is an oversimplification of the story. The world has been on the brink of nuclear holocaust many times and there's quite a few Stanislav Petrov's out there who did the rational thing.
B Hobbs 1 year ago
I recall reading about a US system alerting that the Soviet's had launched a number of ICBMs. US protocol is for multiple systems to confirm, no other systems confirmed. The investigation showed that a training scenario had been transmitted. Major changes: Production systems will not contain any training scenarios. Training scenarios will have many messages, labels, flags, etc. that they are training scenarios.
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Peter Bear 1 year ago
As Terry Pratchett pointed out in 'Jingo', putting up a statue to a man who stopped a war isn't very... heroic. But if he'd accidentally slaughtered hundreds of his own people, they'd be melting the bronze already.
Widdershins66 1 year ago (edited)
War Games, 1983 film with Mathew Broderick. The film opens showing the Human versus Computer dilemma 💖
B Hobbs 1 year ago
There are reasons that the US requires several humans as part of the whole system. There is no completely computer controlled nuclear missile system. Hollywood has its own views.
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#2
A guy I used to work with, who was in his early 30s, in great shape, didn’t drink or smoke, and always showed up to work with a smile and an almost annoyingly positive outlook on life, got diagnosed with a rare and aggressive hard to cure form cancer. He was very open about his lifestyle, proud to not smoke and not drink, was really into music, worked out every day. I’m talking this guy was the exact poster child for someone who would live a long life. The chemo reduced him down to a bald husk of his former self for several months, but he still came into work a handful of times in a wheelchair to fill us in on the details.
Finally it went into remission, he told everyone. He was still pale and skinny but he gained strength back and was able to walk. Facebook posts about his recovery and thankfulness to be alive, able to enjoy food again and play music like he wanted. One year after remission the cancer came back aggressively and k**led him. This man was as innocent as they come, just a happy go lucky dude. He was brave. and gave cancer a run for its money for a couple years though. F**k cancer you f*****g absolute f*****g f**k.
JustAPandaGirlInAPandaWorld 1 year ago
Amen because F*ck cancer you f*cking absolute f*cking f*ck! I have lost loved ones to this nightmare of a disease and friends have lost children and family as well! Until there is an affordable cure for all F*ck Cancer!
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Bronwyn 1 year ago
Lost my sweet husband to an aggressive form of cancer and it's awful. He was as you described. Positive, funny, kind, lover of music and arts, and best husband and father to our boy who lost "his best friend" his junior year of high school. Yes, cancer a mother f****r. My boy has two stickers on his awesome car that say "F**k Cancer". He was still in high school and I said anyone who has a problem with it has never known anyone who's battled or lost their fight.
Renee Fiola-Homen 1 year ago
I have stage 4 cancer, and my bff always says" cancer, your mother's a whore!" I don't know why, but this always makes me laugh. Also so sorry to read about this young man's death because of cancer
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
To deal with the loss, I tell myself these kind of cancers only happen to the best people because if they happened to the worst people we wouldn’t care. It makes no sense but it’s what kept me together about loosing someone like this.
Leg less In Minneapolis 1 year ago
Cancer does not care. You can live the best, most perfect life yet, cancer does not care. It will indiscriminately take your child, your parent, grandparent or even yourself. Cancer does not care.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
My friend's father was fit as a fiddle, worked outdoors, drank a bit but Finnish people do. Never smoked. Healthy lifestyle, lovely guy. Got felled by covid in its infancy stage. My stepmother was also really, really healthy - never smoked, would have a token sip of champagne at big occasions, diet was excellent. Cancer 8 times before a brain haemorrhage. finally took her. I will never understand the randomness of this s**t when my mother was resuscitated from alcohol in 1992, been in and out of hospital most years but only finally died last month despite her shocking lifestyle at age 74.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Cancer does not care what age you are, whether you're a "Non smoking, non alcohol drinking, runs 20miles a day etc" person. Cancer Does Not Care because? Why are there children/babies cancer wards? Why did I have pre-cancerous cells found in my cervix at age 17 and then had a huge part of my cervix removed via laser treatment?
#3
My cousin picked up a hitchhiker about 20 years ago. Nice enough guy. Cousin was hungry so stopped at McDonald's, grabbed the hitchhiker some breakfast, too. Dropped him off where the guy had said he was headed. No big deal.
Next morning, my cousin's watching the morning news and sees that hitchhiker's face. Dude was a serial k*ller and had k*lled someone that picked him up. Cousin calls the cops and they have him come in. Turns out the hitcher had k*lled the very *next* person after my cousin that had given him a ride. He'd k*lled a few people that had given him rides, that was his MO.
They asked the hitcher why he didn't k*ll my cousin. He said "eh, I'd planned to, but he was a really nice young man, he bought me breakfast. I couldn't k*ll someone that bought me breakfast."
Id row 1 year ago
Tell that to the kind people who gave him a ride and got killed for it.
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Brent Russell 1 year ago
Why oh why do we now say k*ll and k*lled? Unalived himself instead of suicide. I don't get this fear of using words that seemingly might trigger people. What's the deal?
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
I believe it's for the almighty algorhythm. The advertisers don't like if their products appear beside some not-so-cheerful content. Hence the use of * and bad euphemisms. I agree, it really unalives the mood.
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Zorro The Bus Conductor 1 year ago
I find it fascinating about what goes on in the mind of a serial killer. This particular act makes me believe that there is a shred of kindness even in him. 🤔
Je souhaite 1 year ago
Uh that's how they lure most of their victims by faking a shred of kindness, this guy's got lucky but many good Samaritans get murdered
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Seadog 1 year ago
I've only ever picked up 4 people who actually weren't hitching, just walking. First was when I was 16 and I saw a guy walking away from a disabled car. What made me turn around and give him a ride to wherever he was going was he had his 3ish year old child on his shoulders and it was 90+ and sunny. He alone I may not have gone out of my way but I wasn't letting that child suffer like that. The next I was 20, with a friend and we see 2 girls walking. It's after 11pm, there's no houses eve near there and they don't have proper coats for the condition. We stopped and they accepted a ride. Turns out they were headed home some 6 miles away.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
Big of flawed logic. The others who stopped to give him a lift also did a kind thing
#4
This is a personal one, and I find it terrifying on a couple levels, but the main one I'll elaborate on at the end.
In early 2007 my father seemed to be in otherwise good health. He'd been working with his PCP to get his cholesterol under control, his heart seemed healthy from EKGs and whatnot. The outlook seemed good.
He catches a nasty strain of the flu during a business trip to South Korea and is still dealing with it 2 weeks after he gets home. Like a jacka*s, he takes no time off from work, even working longer hours. His coworker finds him one morning dead at his desk from a massive heart attack.
The coroner opens him up and there's a huge amount of damage to his heart that she claims would normally take years to occur.
My family is devastated. His PCP attends the memorial service and is completely beside himself trying to logic out what could have gone wrong, because all tests and scans showed that my father's heart health wasn't at risk. He'd specifically dedicated a lot of time and energy to working with my father to ensure that, due to a family risk of heart disease.
We eventually learned that the influenza virus increases your risk of a heart attack exponentially. My father further increased his chances by constantly working to the point of physical exhaustion, and making it harder for his body to fight off the virus. The damage to his heart was caused by the virus itself getting into it and directly attacking the tissue.
A lot of people seem to think the flu is just a minor cold that you get over in a week, but in reality it's a deadly virus that *will* k*ll you if you don't take the proper precautions. That, to me, was terrifying to learn.
This is also why when people were like "Oh, it's just like a flu" about COVID-19, I could feel the bile building up in my gullett. It can k*ll you, and it definitely will if you indulge in the same buffoonery people did for COVID.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 1 year ago
Yeah, anyone who said COVID-19 was nothing to worry about was a grade-A moron.
JoMeBee 1 year ago
@spyder (can't reply to them directly 'cause they've been downvoted too much) Congratulations on your survival! 7 million people world wide weren't so lucky. Kinda like car accidents: lucky ones get to walk away, but that's not always the case. Often from someone else's stupidity. The world really needs to work on empathy....
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Eunice Probert 1 year ago
My husband and I are going to our GP today to get our annual flu vaccinations. We get free ones, being over 60. But even the paid-for ones don't cost a lot. Get vaccinated people!
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
And remember to take it easy after getting the vaccines too. No going to the gym for a couple of days! Got both the influenza and the covid boosters as a risk group member a couple of days back
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Myocarditis is a major side effect when the body suffers of inflammation.
liam newton-harding 1 year ago
It’s just the flu…yeah, the flu kills thousands each year, and because you wouldn’t wear a mask, Covid-19 is now endemic, you twat waffle.
DC 1 year ago (edited)
The REAL flu ... often, at least in germany, people refer to a cold that had hit them harder than usual as flu, because they assume a regular cold couldn't be that bad - it can, but usually doesn't - and therefore, it must have been the flu, or because they heard the term "Grippaler Infekt" somewhere (roughly translates to "flu'ish infection") and draw the conclusion that it, in fact, means "Infection by the Flu" and not "Infection with similar symptoms to the flu", which it actually does refer to. But, depending on strain of virus, the flu CAN be a pretty tame cold, by the symptoms, or it can immobilize and weaken you to the point that you don't expect to survive the night, or not even hope for it. It's a pretty broad range, but is known to damage heart tissue since ... my Dad's heart attack was in 1997, and by then, it was already common knowledge, common to everybody affected by it - patients and MDs working in heart and circulation. But, regardless of all this - if you're sick, you're sick. Don't go to work, especially if you work with or for me - I don't want your sickness, none of them, from nobody, and I'll do the same in turn, promised. I won't go to work sick, ever, because I am lucky enough to live in a country that doesn't allow shenenigans like limited sick days. You're not sick because you want to, it just happens. You don't plan that, but you can plan how to return afterwards - healthy and healed beyond being contagous. As this makes sure that one person's sickness doesn't spread around the company and wander through several offices, it's also thought to overall reduce missed workdays, as fewer people are exposed, fewer people get sick, fewer peolpe have to stay home, fewer people who'd have to don't stay home, but come to spread at work. No, just no. If taking off the stupid limitations on sick leave wouldn't do the trick, prohibiting to attend work while sick might be a path worth trying.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
USA here and can confirm. All jobs I've worked give a certain amount of days a year (any where from 3 days to 2 weeks) and if you go over the days (or hours like my current job has. We get 82 hrs a year for sick days - you get the hours back the following year on the day(s) you used them. Unpaid of course. We get warnings when close to the 82 hours and get a stern talking-to for using more than 50),then you lose your job. So ppl come in sick if they don't have any hours left (or days left, given the business) because they obviously can't afford to be fired. It's sad but everyone gets used to it. I've seen ppl at work with severely puffed up faces from bad tooth abscesses because they don't have hours left. Of course, my job also makes ppl with injuries (broken appendages,), post surgery etc come back to work after 2 days because they don't want to pay workman's comp for longer than that. Gotta love most usa businesses.
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
The last time I caught the flu it was the H1N1 version. It had me bedridden for almost 3 months. My elderly father moved in for a while to help take care of me cos I couldn't get out of bed, I barely had enough strength to swallow water, let alone lift a glass or bottle of it.
TheMagicalUnicorn 1 year ago
i lost my dad for similar reason and will happilly slap anyone who goes to work while sick or thinks flu is anything but 'just a'
María Hermida 1 year ago
You should slap the bosses and companies that don't pay sick days, so many people can't afford to get sick and still go to work even if they know they are sick. Honestly, If I risked losing my house or not feeding my kids if I stay at home for some days, I'd also go to work while sick.
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That during covid and other crises many political leaders would happily sacrifice your life (and probably any but their own) for gain.
Sian E 1 year ago
The Tories were literally having parties whilst telling the rest of the UK to stay at home to save lives. Rules for thee, but not for me...
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Spidercat 1 year ago
During COVID ... come on people surely you're not that naive. Political leaders would sacrifice you for personal gain any day of any year if the day ends with a Y.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
it should be noted that the State I'm in, Michigan, had a total shutdown. Even construction and landscaping which seemed odd as you generally use your own tools. I still think she (Whitmer) erred on the side of caution, using what passed for advice from those who would know. Contrast that with Florida, that was restricted initially but opened up shortly thereafter. Comparing death rates, one would assume Michigan's would be far lower. Nope! statistically off by < 3%
Julia Cargile 1 year ago
All politicians will sacrifice anyone for their own gain-look at Trump and Jan 6th. Five people were killed as he sat in the dining room and watched. Disgusting person.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago (edited)
One person was killed during the actual incident. A veteran that was shot in the neck/shoulder (varies by report) by DC police. 3 participants died from medical emergencies (2 heart attacks, 1 OD). The DC police officer Brian Sicknick died the day after (Jan 7) after suffering from 2 strokes.
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Still doing it. COVID is in resurgence with a new variant and there's zero action from the politicians. No vaccinations, no warnings, not even any figures being reported by the 'good old journalists'
#6
Outside of batombong town, in Cambodia, there is a cave, the floor of the cave is I think 20-30 feet below the entrance. The khmer rouge used it as an open air grave. They would shoot people then throw the body into the cave.
But sometimes they didn't want to use bullets, so they would beat the person with rifle stocks, and then throw them into the cave, if they were lucky they were dead by the time they landed. Sometimes the khmer rouge just threw people into the cave, and maybe they broke some bones when they fell.
People spent their last days on earth dehydrating in a cave full of bodies in various states of decomposition, in near pitch black, very likely being able to hear other people who were also dying. There is also a decent chance that a person would be on top of a corpse. And, because it is Cambodia, it would have been hot, humid, and full of mosquitoes that can transmit malaria and dengue fever.
I have seen the cave, when I was there the bodies were all undisturbed. Just piles of skeletons. They have since collected the remains and made a monument in the cave. The knowledge that so many people ended their time on earth with such barbarity, fear, and pain still haunts me.
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
The most terrifying part is people will never learn and will keep on committing these atrocities!
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OpheliaPoe 1 year ago
I thought the Nutty Putty Cave story was bad, this is another level of nightmare I can't even comprehend.
lisa_l_ross58 1 year ago
Humans are one of the few species that kill for fun.
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Floeckchen 1 year ago
The khmer rouge were truely absolutely human garbage. Trigger warning but prison S-21 was also another dimension of cruelty
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
I was in Battambang in 2000, heard no mention of this; but I'd already seen plenty of horror at Toul Sleng and the killing fields, where there is a memorial made from bones.
Renee Fiola-Homen 1 year ago
I hope the men (kmer rouge) who participated in such horror, live with the knowledge of their deeds as long as they live. They may have gotten away with these war crimes legally, but we can never escape our own thoughts and ourselves.
#7
There’s an extremely high number of child ab*sers that apply to be foster carers. I lived in over 60+ homes growing up and in all apart from one I experienced either physical, emotional or sexual abuse. There’s not a single person I know that was in foster care that hasn’t been abused.
One foster family in particular used to really creep me out, and they always made me take a ‘night drink’ before bed. One night I didn’t drink it and I was woken up by my foster father getting into my bed in the middle of the night. I told social services but they didn’t believe me, I kept crying about it at school and telling everyone and all they done was move me to a family that after a few months started physically abusing me instead.
Bay Bo 1 year ago
F**k all those twisted perverted animals. Please feel real love and healing, you deserve it
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
Yes! There are times I've wanted to resort to violence after hearing something like this. It's especially galling when you read that educators straight up didn't believe a child practically screaming for help.
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Penelope Orange 1 year ago
This pisses me off more than words can say. I know this is all too common in foster care. Social workers "checking on things" in the home is not effective. Interview children in foster care privately, regularly, and every single time a child is leaving a home before placing another child there. And when a child reports abuse LISTEN TO THEM.
Rob D 1 year ago
I want to know why foster homes are packed at all? ...you'd think as vocal and adamant as the prolife movement is, they'd be lining up to adopt. Hmmm makes you wonder if maybe, just maybe, they DO NOT GIVE A FLYING F**K ABOUT CHILDREN IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM and like every, literally, every aspect of their lives it is vanity, hypocrisy, and satiating idiotic superstition.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
We need to do more screening for people who get to Foster. And we need to believe the children
Kristi Niemi Williams 1 year ago
This is true. I was in foster care and the foster parents played the perfect church going "Caring people" but were really sadistic, abusive and cruel.
urfav_ang3l 1 year ago
one of the hundred reasons I want to foster and adopt children, they deserve a happy home
Miki 1 year ago (edited)
Yep. Welcome to earth. This is us. The humans. Most f****d up species in universe. I hope we will die out before really going to space. Don't get me wrong. There are plenty of good ppl. Many times more then evil. But still.. I hope we figure out how to find them easily and quick or died out. :((
#8
My great grandfather came home from world war 2 with shell shock and my great grandma refused to sleep in the same bed as him because he would keep repeating “no don’t k*ll Tom!!” Which was what he said before he witnessed his childhood friend getting k*lled.
He luckily managed to get therapy, and was ok, but wheelchair bound up until I was about 11 where at Christmas dinner he sat while we all ate, completely frozen, my granddad asked “you ok dad?” to which he started crying and suddenly let out a very loud and hurt filled “don’t k*ll Tommy” and started crying.
Ik it’s not “scary” but it freaked me out :(.
JP Purves 1 year ago
And why so many service members end themselves. There isn't enough help for them.
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Chriss21 1 year ago
Poor man. STOP WARS. Even people that survive them, are forever traumatized
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Even if you don’t develop PTSD, you live with those memories forever.
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G A 1 year ago
I have mild PTSD from an incident, and have been having flashbacks this week due to a similar incident, some 5 years later. I have felt broken and depressed all week.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
I knew a very kind and caring woman. We was pregnant at the same time. Then I read about a gruesome murder. I refuse to believe it was her, but the police was right, she had a post partum psychosis that led her to unalive her baby in a very violent way. I was so scared that the same thing would happen to me, but thankfully not even Baby Blues.
Peter Bear 1 year ago
That's definitely scary. And tragic. The things we do to each other as a species, for the stupidest of reasons...
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
A great uncle if mine went all the way from Moscow to Berlin, had all kinds of medals, so people would sometimes ask him to tell about, say, the battle of Moscow. And he would reply something like "what is there to tell, we rode over corpses". Drank a lot too...
#9
Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated medication to South Americans in order to not lose profit.
They were caught and fined but their profit was far higher than the fine, so literally infecting and k*lling hundreds of thousands of innocent people was lucrative.
N G 1 year ago
i believe contaminated blood products were bought from America and infected thousands of people in the UK.
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Miki 1 year ago
Of course it is. There is no such thing as "illegal". It's only "how much money it will cost". You want to hunt for humans? sure welcome to my country. Cash or card?
DC 1 year ago (edited)
... and that has become the standard to be expected. Civilians, usually, consider something being prohibited as just that, as things you don't do, either because they agree to the ethics the rules are based on, partially so or completely, or because they fear the punishment due on being caught. But, for companies, it's chances and gains. The question THEY answer is "How much do I make from braking law XYZ - and how likely will I get caught?", and if the potential gain and chance to get away outweigh the expected punishment and chance thereof, they go ahead with it. We, as societies, treat companies like they are the reason for all of it, and people are to be there for their disposal, not the other way like it should. If we continue to not disagree with this, it will get worse, worse, worse, worse, worse, ... companies need to be held accountable, and braking the law by professional means should automatically be considered organized crime - rather, a company that deliberately violates the legislation it's supposed to be operating in, obviously is criminal and obviously is organizedly so, so I don't see too many other possible interpretations and denominations.
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Kee-Bak 1 year ago
Bayer is based in Leverkusen, near Düsseldorf. I think you may have confused this with Bayern Munich, the football club.
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Big Chungus 1 year ago
Same thing happened with the company Merck and one of their older products, it killed tons of people who took and they got a slap on the wrist. I am very weary about taking gardisil since Merck makes it
Perendinator 1 year ago
F**k Bayer but it was maybe a few thousand, not hundred of thousands. No need to exaggerate to make this story bad.
#10
My friend got kidnapped and drugged when she was 13 and the only reason she didn’t end up a victim is because they happened to get pulled over while the police were looking for a totally different guy with the same car.
They basically realized something was up right away and yolked him out of the car. F*****g wild to think about what have happened to her otherwise.
B Hobbs 1 year ago
There is a possibility that their fellow inmates will find out why they are in prison and "relieve" the prison system of having to care for them.
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#11
My uncle and his girlfriend were hitchhiking down the mountains of colorado and were picked up by a man. A little ways down the road, he stops the car and asks my uncle if he can check the tire, he thinks he ran something over.
My uncle gets out and the man drives away with his girlfriend and pulled a weapon on her. She immediately opens the door and jumps out while he’s driving.
My uncle and his gf reconvene and were okay, just were trying to process what happened. At a later time on the news they saw a story about a serial k*ller and it ended up being the man who picked them up. It was Ted Bundy.
Bryn 1 year ago
Not sure about this story exactly but Bundy was in Colorado for a time: https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/%E2%80%9C-very-definition-heartless-evil%E2%80%9D-ted-bundy-colorado
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Mary Kelly 1 year ago
doesn't sound like bundy's MO...plus, they have a list of people who confirmed escapes and near misses with bundy...none like described here
AshHills 1 year ago
This happened to my Aunt and her boyfriend in 1983 -- except it was a Semi Truck. The trucker tried to take off with her while her boyfriend checked the back brake lights. They made it about a mile down the road, where my Aunt managed to open the passenger door, when she jumped/fell she snapped her neck and eventually died.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Oh my goodness, that's awful. I'm so sorry for your loss.
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Victoria Lopez 1 year ago
You know, Ted Bundy reminds me of 'The Bow Tie Killer'' also considered as 'Uncle Marty', from Problem Child- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#12
The guy who died in the Nutty Putty Cave.
OpheliaPoe 1 year ago
This story haunts me. I can think of very few things more terrifying than being trapped in a tiny space made out of solid rock, upside down, in the dark.
SingingCatMom 1 year ago
I am claustrophobic. The idea of even walking into a cave absolutely makes my skin craw. I find this story more stomach-churning than most of the rest of the stories. You have to wonder why a large man would even try to get into a passage that was so tiny. What was going through his mind?
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Emma S 1 year ago
Also what happened to the group of friends who decided to explore the Gollum cave. One changed their mind and decided to stay outside. The rest all took it in turns to swim through a narrow tunnel. The one to go first couldn't find her way out and drown. Then the next person, assuming their friend was safely at the other end, swum through and obviously couldn't get out because the body of the first one was in the way so they also drowned. Then the same thing happened to the next two so all four were found dead by emergency services a few hours later.
Stephanie de Blaauw 1 year ago (edited)
This is my phobia, not 'just' claustrophobic but the being actually physically stuck part. Not being able to go forwards or backwards (the tunnel scene in The Lost City made me feel queasy)
Upstaged75 1 year ago
What's truly awful for his family is that his wife was pregnant at the time. :(
MeMosabe 1 year ago
Tragic, for sure, but also panic-inducing. I just couldn't imagine the terror that he might have experienced. I was invited a few times to go to Nutty Putty Cave. Glad I decided not to. And glad it's now sealed off. There are also many old mines across the Mountain West that are just as dangerous, and people go exploring them. Crazy. Fortunately, he State of Utah agency that is over mines is in the process of closing them all up.
TadPoleTheThird 8 months ago
how tf can something with 9 words make me close the fridging tab?
#13
The m*rder of Junko Furuta. A handful of her classmates abducted her, tortured her in repulsive ways for almost two months and then disposed of her body when she died.
Susie Elle 1 year ago
The classmates were part of the yakuza and abducted her because Furuta refused the advances of one of them. For over a month she was r*ped, both by the classmates and other men they invited, and she was tortured. She died pregnant.
yo mama's cookie 1 year ago (edited)
When I first read about this case it haunted me for weeks. Now I just skip everything that mentions her name in the slightest.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Don't. It's absolutely nightmare stuff. The worst part, in my opinion, is that some patents knew what was happening and did nothing to help the girl.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
For what she suffered, she should have been forgiven for any and all sins she committed - if there is a heaven and judgment beyond the grave.
#14
When I was a kid, there was a peeping tom in the neighborhood. But the weird part is we all knew who he was, a little older guy named Ralph who lived a couple streets over and smoked like a chimney. We knew because he was caught once early on by a neighbor while on their roof, watching them through the skylight (the neighbor had left a ladder against the house when doing work earlier that day) but after that he was like a ghost, impossible to catch.
People would find footprints and cigarette butts outside windows, smell cigarette smoke, and occasionally see the red cherry on the cigarette glow in the woods. Occasionally angry dads and teenagers who spotted him out in the darkness would give chase, but he moved like a deer through the woods and no one could put hands on him. The cops were involved a few times and they dragged him in, but it was never for long (partially I think because he had a disabled wife for whom he was the sole carer.) He was sorta a neighborhood boogie man, though thankfully seemed mostly harmless if terribly creepy.
Many years later, there were a rash of break-ins around the neighborhood. People even joked at the time that it must not be Ralph, because we all figured he had copies of everyone's hide-a-keys already if he wanted to go inside (sidenote: we later learned that he definitely DID have keys to some houses.) Anyway, everyone's guard was up.
One night, one of the neighbors heard a commotion outside, and ran outside to find a stranger laid out in his driveway, beat to s**t. They called 911 and when the police arrived, they were able to identify the guy as someone who had previous arrests for B&E and found items from the previous break-ins in his vehicle nearby and later at his apartment. As for how he ended up taking a bloody nap in the driveway? He said he was jumped from behind in the dark and never got a good look at the guy. All he remembered for certain was that the guy stunk of cigarette smoke.
Tony Zecco 1 year ago
That's hilarious. The peeping tom took offense to someone else in his territory
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
I guess it's a typical vigilante story. If Batman existed, many Gotham citizen would call him a peeping Tom.
Bron 1 year ago
I’m very surprised not one father/husband (or group of men) ever confronted him and threatened him, to keep their family members safe. Lucky we’ve got men to protect us! (Eye roll)
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
He would’ve been gone so fast in my neighborhood. We don’t stand for that s**t.
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Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
Oh Ralph was angry that he had competition. LOL We had one also and he was married to the sweetest lady, so many of our families hated to tell her or press charges, We all just kept the blinds down and curtains closed except during sunlit days.
#15
Western capitalist countries will never move to effectively address human caused climate change because the changes necessary will force corporations to take losses. It will never matter what the human cost has already been or will be. The rich will not accept the costs to their earnings or lifestyles.
JP Purves 1 year ago
And even if the corporations did everything mandated to stop climate change they would still make profits, just not the massive profits they want.
Load More Replies... D 1 year ago
Why Western focussed?! Do you see China or India or Turkey or Brazil or South Africa or or or doing ANYTHING?!?! Some of the only ones doing anything are the Western ones.
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
China makes all the super capitalist, slave labour, worth 2p s**t. Think Temu, shein
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Calunii 1 year ago (edited)
These countries produce a ton of products for the western world. At this point a majority of western tech and fashion companies get their products from factories in countries such as India, Vietnam or China. Social media is filled with the overconsumption of shein influencers and amazon moms. Not to mention that we ship a lot of waste and plastic to eastern countries instead instead of processing & cleaning it up ourselves.
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Sunny Day 1 year ago
The main culprit is overpopulation, and no one wants to speak up about population control because they know what happens to the messenger.
Be_ Heard 1 year ago
This!! We need a huge population drop. Hopefully it will drop in the next 10 yrs or so
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#16
Robert Pickton a serial k*ller who operated a pig farm in the Vancouver area and would feed his prey to his pigs and his bacon was the best in the area! Many people grew up eating his pork products.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
An edit to this: Pickton *was* a serial killer. He's dead now. I worked on this case, and was not at all sad when I learned he died.
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
I know the daughter of one of his victims, and her adoptive family. His brutal death was very much celebrated.
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Spidercat 1 year ago
And this is why human flesh is known as Longpig...hey a pig heart can be transplanted into a human. If you've ever eaten pork, you have a rough idea of what human would taste like.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
They eat everything except the teeth, someone told me a couple weeks ago.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
There's a 2 part episode of Criminal Minds based on his crimes. And yes, the pigs ate the victims.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I just watched it a couple of days ago! Kept telling myself how crazy it is that it actually happened.
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G A 1 year ago
Not at all. You are not processing any of the meat directly or indirectly. It will have been converted into energy which fueled the animal, not as traceable dna in the meat.
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Tony Zecco 1 year ago
Pig farms are a fantastic way to get rid of bodies. They'll eat everything.
#17
When I was 13-14 I got into play-by-post role-playing. It was on the forum section of the official Harry Potter website lmao. Not that we would RP as students or anything, it was all made-up characters and took place in a bar. The "leader" of the group was a very talented writer. We got to talking OOC and eventually linked up on MSN Messenger.
He was the first internet friend I made. We found out we both were from Minnesota and not too far from each other, but never met in person. I got to know him very well over two-some years. He was a year older than me, but was an extremely talented guy. Very well spoken, well read on topics I wasn't even thinking about at that age, and made very impressive Flash animations. Stick Death was big around then, so it was stuff like that.
He lived with his grandmother, 'cause his mom was a drunk and his dad was dead. He talked about being bullied at school, his s**t home life, etc. I remember once he said he told his grandma that he wanted to k*ll himself and that her only response was to do it outside so he doesn't make a mess of the house...
We talked a lot and got to know each other really well over our friendship. He'd disappear occasionally a week or two at a time 'cause of his depression, but would always pop back up. Until he didn't.
Breaking news was all over the TV one afternoon. There was a school shooting in the town he lived in. I immediately knew who the shooter was, well before the news announced it.
He k*lled his grandpa and his grandpa's girlfriend, fellow students, teachers and then himself.
The FBI came to my house the weeks following and questioned me, but I didn't know his plans to do that. They took my computer to examine our interactions.
I grieved him privately, but he's forever going to be a school shooter. That's the scariest thing I've ever been involved in.
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
I'm sorry for your loss and for the losses of everyone he killed because he couldn't deal with the experiences he had made. As long as guns are as easily accessible as they are this will be a repetitive occurrence.
Liz Mary 1 year ago
Guns will always be readily accessible in the US because your politicians have their fingers in the pie!
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Tara L. 3 months ago
You’re referring to one of the most tragic and infamous school shootings in Minnesota’s history: the Red Lake High School m******e, which occurred on March 21, 2005. --- Who Was the Shooter? The perpetrator was Jeffrey James “Jeff” Weise, a 16-year-old student from the Red Lake Indian Reservation . On that day, he first killed his grandfather, Daryl Lussier Sr., a tribal police sergeant, and his grandfather's girlfriend, Michelle Leigh Sigana, at their lakeside home . Weise then stole his grandfather’s police weapons, bulletproof vest, and vehicle, and drove to Red Lake Senior High School, where he fatally shot seven more people—including a security guard, a teacher, and five students—injuring others, before taking his own life .
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
It is tragic how one generation can bring about another generation of troubled mental victims by their own nasty immoral behavior!
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
JLMay just look at other countries statistics. Don't deny facts.
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Tamra 1 year ago
Yes, of course they will, and rightly so. There are children who will never come home because of what he did. I do have sympathy for his troubles and hardships, but cannot condone the killing of innocents.
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The story of a continuous days-long shark attack following a US navy ship sinking as told in Jaws was real.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Only 317 Survived. Jim Jarvis survived and autographed a book for my husband because my husband told him Jaws is my favorite movie and I knew all about the Indianapolis. My husband has met some amazing people through his job that I admire that I wish I could have met. I have met people (sports and musicians) other people wish they could have met. Weird how life works. Also funny is Robert Show was drunk as heII telling that story in the movie. Still chilling.
MagicJacket 1 year ago
"The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When it comes at you it doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white."
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
"Show me the way to go home.... I'm tired and I wanna go to bed..."
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Joe Reaves 1 year ago
The Captain of the Indianapolis was blamed at the time and was only exonerated not that long ago.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Clinton exonerated him in 2000. Unfortunately he killed himself after the trial where they charged him for letting the ship sink.
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Joshua David 1 year ago
Julia Child was tapped to make something that would repel the sharks for the soldiers that may end up in the waters. Scientists discovered the only deterrent was the decomposing smell of other sharks. So she basically came up with a soap bar looking product the soldiers would wear on them and when they went in the water it would slowly dissolve and keeping the sharks away. 🦈
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
My Father in law told of the barracudas that ate living men that were floating next to him after they were blown out of their gun ship. The fish ate their gluteus first then legs. He lucked out and was saved.
#19
I’ll tell a very personally scary one.
Good friend of mine from high school. Was driving his perfectly normal family in their perfectly normal minivan, on the highway. They were on vacation, headed to Disney World.
A pickup coming the other way crossed the center line and hit them head on. He and his two sons were k*lled instantly. His wife and daughter (the youngest child) were critically injured but survived.
He was literally one of the two or three genuinely kindest people I ever met. Got up that morning all set for a fun family adventure. Cruising along the highway, and then lights out. In an instant. And his wife/daughter left behind to go it alone.
Bad things happen to good people. To anyone. And you don’t see them coming. As a parent, that’s scary.
Donald 1 year ago
The same thing happened to my friend Pete when he was moving home from Florida. Whole life packed in the back of a U-Haul and someone fell asleep behind the wheel, crossed the median and hit him head-on. Gone in an instant.
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
Only God knows the time of any persons departure. Pray for protection when you can.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
One of my oldest friends died the same way, more or less. Drunk driver slammed into him. He died at the scene. He was in his twenties and perfectly healthy, and just like that he was gone. The driver, who had already gotten a DUI in the past, f*****g survived. Though he was found guilty and presumably went to prison.
Rosemary . 1 year ago
Two years ago my nephew was killed in a similar accident where a truck driving the wrong way on the highway purposefully aimed his vehicle at his car. https://local21news.com/news/local/19-year-old-lucian-li-killed-us-202-crash-manheim-township-high-school-lacrosse-athlete-chester-county-lancaster-county-pennsylvania
Big Chungus 1 year ago
They were probably on I-4 in Orlando (used to live there) you really have to put your guard up there that I-4 corridor is one of the most dangerous highways. I used to take back roads all the time to avoid that interstate.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
A lady I knew. Grandson was coming up north and was on the phone with his parents, lots of yelling, then nothing. Dude crossed the median on the interstate and took those in the car out...head on. Ya just never know...
#20
Close friend of the family. Single young woman.
Back in the 80's. Bought her first house. Small house in a quiet neighborhood (They all were in my town).
So ya know she's moving in her one small U-Haul worth of stuff. Nice summer day. Most neighbors see this and come up and introduce themselves.
Anyway, as the story goes, it was warm, summer, no AC (you could get houses with no AC back then) so she has the windows all open to try and let some breeze through.
Now it's night. She's absolutely exhausted from the move, so she walks into her back bedroom, and flops on her bed. All the lights were on in the front living room / kitchen part of the house, but she didn't turn them on in the bedroom. She said she was just gonna rest for a few minutes and get back to putting stuff away, but she fell asleep.
She said she didn't know how long it was, but she woke up to a sound. And then she realized what it was once she got her bearings. Someone was slowly and trying to quietly, cut the screen out of that window with a razorblade. After the fact we assumed the idea was they would secretly enter the dark part of the house assuming she was still up in the lit part and lie in wait for her.
She sat up in the bed and yelled "I have my magnum right here next to me, and if you don't GTFO i'll shoot!" or something to that effect. She said she heard the footfalls of whoever it was hauling a*s away.
Which was lucky for her. Because she had no gun. She didn't even have phone service hooked up to the house yet. (no cell phones in the 80's for most people). She had successfully bluffed her way out of God knows what...
I've heard a lot of scary true stories in my life - but this one has stuck with me ever since I was a teenager. In that moment, she shot her shot and it worked.
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
Sometimes I wonder. Is America really that scary? You forget to close the windows and get killed or robbed right away?? Here we leave the doors and windows unlocked all day...
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
Not all areas probably. But I lived in a condo in what was considered a nice area. Woke up to my dogs barking at the window and looked out and saw someone trying to get in. That’s when I decided to exercise my right to own a gun. I did everything the right way, went to classes and even got my concealed carry. I don’t live in that area anymore buy another “nice” area. My sister came to visit and on her way home, less than a mile from my house, she witnessed multiple people firing at each other. So yea, maybe it is all areas after all.
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Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
EXACTLY why I argue for guns! Outlaw guns and ONLY outlaws will have them!
Codswallop 5 months ago
Except for all the school shootings etc done with registered guns from parents, all the lethal accidents happening with registered guns etc. Also, how does one become an outlaw with a gun if you can't get a gun anywhere?
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I love the fact that she shouted that! I've talked about this before but it's... If you shout out, scream loudly and say whatever? Sometimes, more often than not, the person will run or go. When that guy was on the scaffolding right outside my 5th floor bedroom window at about 12.30am? I screamed/yelled "WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? I'VE CALLED THE POLICE!". The police said that I'd scared him off. I saw the guy. His upper body.... And thank gosh they'd fixed my broken bedroom window a week or so before so it'd lock on tilt. Anyway? This female is totally Punk Rock. Noone knows what they'd do in any situation until they're in it...
lisa_l_ross58 1 year ago (edited)
Happened to me. I was upstairs sleeping and I heard a noise at the kitchen window. I started down the stairs and shouted "I have a gun". ( no gun just a big stick). The person ran away and I called the police. No prints.
#21
My childhood friends took over a gas plant in Algeria, held the workers hostage and then k*lled 37 people and themselves.
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
Where on Earth were you raised? Good for you that you did not join them,.
#22
My dad got into a car crash head on with a convertible with a young couple in it and the top part of the convertible window decapitated them instantly. He ended up falling into something red (berries,blood). And when the cops and medics showed up they were freaking out and telling him to lay down, he was actually fine, witnessing that screwed him up though.
Senjo Krane 1 year ago
Seatbelts aren't going to keep your head attached to your shoulders though.
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KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Was this in Krugersdorp in 1988? Ask me why I think that...
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Was driving up interstate 40 through the NC mountains once (the same interstate that's shut down because Helene) it's decent traffic and I get passed by a couple in a convertible. Not too long afterwards the traffic slows to a crawl and a sheriff passes me on the right. After a bit I come around a curve and pass the sheriff... And the convertible.... Which is off the road.... And upside down. The top had been open. I doubt anyone survived in there. The moral of the story; slow down!!!!!
Rosemary . 1 year ago (edited)
Convertibles are designed without a fixed roof, which means they need extra structural reinforcement to maintain safety, particularly in the event of a rollover. One of the most critical features in a convertible's safety design is the strengthened windshield posts, or A-pillars, which serve as a key support point in the absence of a hard roof.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
Shame on you. While not wearing a sweat belt is never a good choice, it is in NO way "funny" when people die.
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People have not enjoyed me telling them that my neighbour was dead in his flat for at least 2 weeks and was only discovered when I called the police to request a welfare check as he hadn't been seen and there was a weird bin juice smell in the hallway.
I know this happens a lot, I've heard many stories worse, even but I know this one happened coz it was the guy next door.
Ritchat 1 year ago
Happened at my BFs last flat before moving in together. Old lady upstairs died and noone noticed for 2 weeks and it was 30°C in summer. BF woke up to noises on the staircase. Went into the kitchen to make coffee, looked out the glasdoor to the balcony and there was a cop standing there. This was especially strange, since he lived on the 3rd floor. They tried to get into the flat above and at some point had to break down the door. The smell must have been the worst. Glad, I didn't experience it first hand. 🤢
María Hermida 1 year ago (edited)
A woman died in her office and nobody realised for several days. I don't remember the details, but it happened not so long ago in the USA.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I think I actually read about it here, on BP.
Load More Replies... Texmaam 1 year ago
My daughter calls me one morning to tell me she now knows what a decaying body smells like. She alerted management to a package outside his door for several days. This was second time. An elderly woman passed away without anyone to notice. My oldest brother 3 days in his home. He had cancer, system wasn't working that well for him so he self medicated. Other brother found him.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
My neighbour died of a heart attack around Christmas a few years ago. I had been away over Christmas, and I didn't talk to him, we wave if we saw each other, thst was it. A couple of his friends came by to ask if I had seen him, he didn't turn up at a club meet he usually attended. They then contacted the police to do a welfare check. He had had a heart attack, dead for a week. Ive since moved, but I now make sure, when I can,to know my neighbours and check if something is off
Brazen 1 year ago
This happened in the condo building I lived in when I was in Winnipeg. Older guy, whose wife left for weeks at a time to do who knows what, died in his sleep. It took two weeks for management to take us seriously and check on him. Rumors were that he was basically soup at that point. It's a smell I'll never forget.
Pascale Laroche 1 year ago
My daughter's father (my ex) was discovered 2 and a half months after his death. His cat at the same time. He had cut off contact with everyone, including his mother and my daughter.
#24
My brother in law roomed with Jeffrey Dahmer at Ohio State freshman year.
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
I had an evening college class with US mass shooter, Jared Loughner. During a lecture one night, he randomly blurted out, “I wonder what it would be like to rape a woman.” I was terrified. I ended up reporting him to campus security. Little did I know, my report would start the chain reaction that lead to his shooting.
María Hermida 1 year ago
It was NOT your fault. If you hadn't reported him, somebody else would have eventually heard another similar comment and reported him, with the same results.
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JenC 1 year ago
My uncle was also his roommate. There was a pod with 16? guys, 4 to a suite, with a common living area. He said Dahmer was angry and drank a lot. His closet was full of empty whiskey bottles, and he stole from the roommates to fuel the habit. Once he ripped the top off of someone's dresser to get into the locked drawer. My uncle moved out with friends to get away.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
In "The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer" it says he did indeed have a couple of roommates, and that they complained about him a lot because he was always drunk, stole from them repeatedly, and at one point trashed the bathroom. Luckily for them he flunked out very quickly.
Manana Man 1 year ago
I started reading this thread specifically for this one. I was really hoping for a little more detail.
#25
The guy who volunteered to be eaten by a cannibal has got to be up there.
Marmee Noir 1 year ago
He not only agreed, he joined in. Both decided his cooked penis was too chewy and threw it away
Jocelyn Webster 1 year ago
What do you have to be on or thinking when you'd agree to this?
Load More Replies... Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
If you want to avoid being eaten by cannibals, get a few tattoos. Apparently they make humans taste awful (according to Dahmer).
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
It was insane all around, he literally volunteered, like, who does that? They talked about it for ages and he still agreed, he got to the room and got all garnished up, and he stillllll agrees.
Limey 1 year ago
This is not only true but in fact the most disturbing thing on this post.
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My wife's neighbor completely lost his s**t. He k*lled his whole family, the dogs, and he even shot the houseplants and the fishtank.
Earonn - 1 year ago
Yeah, we get it, you love animals, but the wife and kids probably would have loved to live, too. FFS.
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Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Unlike most family annihilators, that sounds like he actually had some kind of breakdown and wasn't in his right mind, because who the heck would shoot the plants?
Diolla 1 year ago
This scares me extra. Because someone snapping and losing it could happen at any time, anywhere. Am lucky to live in a place with strict gun laws.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
A few people have replied in the same manner but I'm like, "What the hell did the houseplants and fish ever do to you???"... It's a way of coping with a horrific event... Dark humour. It doesn't mean that we don't feel empathy or sympathy, it's that people are trying to get their heads around it
Icomefromthelanddownunder 1 year ago
Yeah, they could just do themselves & leave everyone else alone
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Okay, shooting the HOUSEPLANTS AND FISH TANK is definitely a new one. Good lord.
#27
I was in the house alone with a corpse for hours.
My brother OD’d about two weeks ago in the bedroom across from me and I or my mom didn’t know. The next morning, very weird and sort of scary, my mom texted (she was at work since 6:30 AM) me and told me to check on him saying she had a dream he was dead. I went to his door to check(10:30 AM), calling his name, and getting no response. I manually had to unlock the door since it was locked. I walked in and didn’t see him at first but eventually walked inside enough to see him hunched in the corner, purple and bent over. One of the most traumatic experiences of my life.
G A 1 year ago
Watched my dad draw his last breath just before midnight. No one to pick him up from the undertakers until late the following morning. I drank most of a bottle of gin that night.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
When my younger brother died, my mum kept his body in the house for a couple of day. I'm not sure why (everyone had been notified that needed to be), but I refused to go into hi room, just like I did when my older brother died in palliative care.
Load More Replies... Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
I just watched my mother die in hospice at home. While it’s obviously very different to your situation, the way we see our loved ones after they die sticks in our heads and keeps popping up when we least want them to. So sorry op had to see their brother in that condition.
Weasel Wise 1 year ago
My aunti found my cousin in a similar manner. She said she had a dream that she couldn't fully remember but she had a terrible feeling something was wrong with her son. She went to check on him and found him dead with a plastic bag over his head. He had passed out while huffing paint and suffocated.
Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
I completely misunderstood that, I thought they were saying her brother was dead for two weeks in his bedroom by himself, but I think they’re saying the incident happened two weeks ago?
Cathy Lemay 1 year ago
That is terribly traumatizing. Hubby and his brother found their mother dead. She'd been gone for several days. He was the only non emergency person to see her as he went in first and stopped his bro from coming in. He's scarred.
#28
Slid under an 18 wheeler on the highway in a blizzard bc of road conditions. Poor guy thought he k*lled me as thetrailer dragged my car half a mile before he could stop and I shot out into the median. Car totaled and saved my life but insurance still tried to double rates even after being deemed not at fault. Classic.
Bay Bo 1 year ago
Insurance is a b***h sometimes, but that's so nice how you called the trucker "poor guy". Glad you have a positive outlook and your life😁
Sarah Andrews 5 months ago
I was waiting for the lights to change so I could cross the road, they changed so quickly (no time on amber at all, perhaps a fault?) that the approaching lorry driver didn't have time to stop, even though he wasn't speeding at all. I saw him close his eyes as he slammed on the brakes, then the look of relief when he came to a stop and saw I was still standing there and hadn't tried to cross. I would describe him as 'the poor driver'.
Seadog 1 year ago
Insurance is a racket. Totaled car? At best you'll get 15% of it's true value and if it's something special or valuable, you better have a policy covering it for its value or you're really screwed. I found out the hard way. Fought them tooth and nail (other guys fault) and in the end I got $16k for a car that it'll take around $100G to recreate as there's no way to actually replace a one-off car. You can't even buy the production model for 16.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Good luck paying any medical bills if you are ever at fault in a wreck that injures them. That's why I keep insurance, liability only, on my 20 year old junker.
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A friend of mine drives 18 wheeler tanker trucks, and he was on some highway in Ohio or Illinois or somewhere in the winter that was infamous for icing over. He was northbound and one of the cars from the southbound side lost control on the ice and went across the median and right in front of him. He had no chance to get out of the way or slow down.
It was a woman driving and her 18 month old daughter in the back, the impact k*lled them both instantly. The worst part is that the husband/father was in another car following them, and had to watch his wife and daughter die without being able to do anything about it.
My friend had to go to therapy for a while after that and I'm still not sure he's ever gotten past it.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
We had something similar happen here. A man had just brought his daughter to get her new car. They were driving home, him in front and she was following, when a car in oncoming traffic crossed over the line and came at them. The father, working totally on instinct, yanked his car away and the oncoming car hit the car behind him. I'm sure he breathed a sigh of relief for only a second before he remembered who was in that car behind him. His daughter had been killed instantly and I can only imagine the grief and guilt that plagues this man today. I'm sure he wishes constantly that he had taken the hit of that oncoming car.
Bec 1 year ago
A lady my Mom used to work with was heading down a country highway with her little dog, husband was following behind on a motorcycle. He comes over a hill to find his dog running around a long the highway, and his dead wife crashed into a tree not far away. He was maybe 10 minutes behind her.
Big Chungus 1 year ago
My sister and I were driving to work one day in clearwater and watched a man purposely run out in front of a van to kill himself I presume. It was heartbreaking and I can't imagine how the people in the van felt. They had no chance to stop at all.
Leigh 1 year ago (edited)
My mom was driving and a peterbuilt near her lost control on black ice and barely missed her. The driver hit people who's car had broken down on the side of the road. One poor guy was smashed into the truck grill and clearly dead. The other guy was lying on the ground moaning where's my friend. My mom covered him with a blanket and kept him calm till help arrived. Since then she wont drive if the roads icy.
The Majestic Opossum 6 months ago
Was really hoping this would be the same truck driver from above :(
Melanie Filmer 1 year ago
You never get past an experience like that. You could just be sitting watching TV, something totally unrelated and suddenly have that scene flash through your brain. It's awful, and every time I read about a tragedy, I always think of that first person to witness/find the aftermath.
#30
My high school gf called late one night after I was home and in bed. She said that something had happened and asked if I could come over. She was clearly shaken and not full of details. So I told my parents and drove over towards her house.
At the top of her subdivision I was met by a cop with lights on. He asked where I was going and I told him about the call from my gf. He lets me go by and I come over the hill to the cul de sac where she lives and I see multiple cop cars around the circle. They watch me pull up and get out of my car. My gf comes running out of her house and meets me in the street. She explains that someone had broken into her neighbor’s house and started beating her with something heavy. The neighbor managed to get out of the house and headed to my gf’s house where she started banging furiously on the front door. My gf’s dad was out of town, so her mom answered the door and the neighbor just fell into the foyer bleeding profusely from the head. Her mom looks up to see the attacker headed up the walkway towards the front door. She pulls the neighbor into the house and closes the door hitting the attacker with it before it fully closed. He then took the heavy tool he had used to beat the neighbor and smashed the little window at the top of the door. Her mom started screaming and the attacker just turned around and walked up the street into the darkness.
I spent the night there that night (along with two or three cops outside in their cars) and in the morning we could see blood still pooled on the floor in the foyer and splattered blood above the front door from where the attacker had swung the bloody tool to smash the window.
No one was ever caught or even identified. It was just completely random.
The neighbor survived and to my knowledge had no permanent physical injuries beyond scarring from having her scalp stapled shut. She moved away shortly after the incident.
TLDR: gf’s neighbor was brutally attacked in her home. She ran to my gf’s house and the attacker fled after nearly getting into their house too. No one was ever caught.
Heir of Durin 1 year ago
How in the world do you ever sleep peacefully again after something like this happens??
Rob D 1 year ago
Ample debate for net benefit vs net harm, but in this case, a lil' 9mm goes a long way.
crazydogmama 1 year ago
If she was sleeping with it strapped onto her body, maybe.
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#31
One of my friend's neighbors had a secret basement dungeon where he used to keep kidnapped women.
#32
My mother-in-law, and husband, saw a motorcyclist lose control and fly off over a hedge into some trees. They pulled over and went to help him. What they found was a full leather suit without a head on the ground, and a head, still wearing a helmet, stuck between two branches in a tree.
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
That's why I will do anything to deter my children from riding a motorcycle.
Seadog 1 year ago
Most cycle crashes are due to excessive speed and/or over braking. The majority of the rest are due to cars not giving them the space they're legally entitled to. So many drivers actually think a car has ROW over a motorcycle and that a motorcycle can stop on a dime because it's smaller than a car. These same people also tend to think an 18 wheeler can stop fast because it has 18 tires. What it really boils down to is these people think they own the road. Yes I ride, yes I've wrecked and yes I've had cars think highway laws don't apply to them and their interaction with motorcycles.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I arrived at the scene of a motorcycle crash once. The bike was lying at the end of a huge skidmark, engulfed in flames. No sign of the rider anywhere. A bystander told me the guy said something about the bike not being his and ran the F away!
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
I ama retired nurse and spent many times assisting closed head injured cycle drivers. Helmets and all. One that sticks in my mind was a young blonde whose husband was a close head victim and she slept on a gurney for 2 days, he passed away and she said that was her second husband that died that way!
#33
My father's ship sank in the North Atlantic. Most of his shipmates(including the friend he enlisted with) died of exposure while awaiting rescue.
The bodies remained in the lifeboat.
RosenCranzLives 1 year ago (edited)
When I was in the Navy, we were told that the North Atlantic would kill anyone who flipped overboard - they would have only about 5 minutes or less to live before their body temp had fallen so far and so fast that they would go into shock and stop breathing.
Myoviridae 1 year ago
In the Southern Ocean (south of 60' near Antarctica) we were told that if you fell overboard you would be dead before the ship was able to turn around to come pick you up.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I forget the name of the boat, but my brother was first mate on a crabbing vessel. The skipper wanted to do an almost immediate turnaround and head back out, but brother said no, he wanted to be home for the holidays. He was the only one who didn't go back out (I remember now - it was the Valiant). The boat sank in high seas and only 3 of the missing 7 crew members (and Captain) were ever found.
#34
I gave Aileen Wuornos a ride a couple days before Christmas in 1990.
For context, she was a serial k*ller in the central Florida.
In hindsight, it's kind of a funny story. When I was 16 I hung out with a rougher crowd, they let me hang out at one of the bars they owned in Daytona, these bars were generally in rougher areas of town. One night I was leaving at the same time she was, she was pretty drunk, and I offered her a ride because the neighborhood was dangerous. I dropped her off at the hotel she was staying at (cheap, by the week hotel) and headed home. A couple weeks later, I saw her on the news.
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
She may have appreciated your kindness since she had so little in her life.
#35
The Cuban missile crisis. It was “almost” the end of the world.
El Dee 1 year ago
It ended in a compromise for both sides. Missiles removed from Cuba and missiles removed from Turkey (Turkey - as far as I remember) It's not often reported that the US removed missiles but it gives a completely different context to the brinksmanship..
Karen Krause 1 year ago
We lived in Germany at the time and had suitcases packed and at the ready near the door. We had an escape plan to get out of Germany. My dad worked with the Army Security Agency at the time, so he knew what was happening. It was one of the rare times he called his brother in the States.
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Deb M.F. 1 year ago
I was born 10/18 (just two days into it) and if it had turned bad I wouldn't be here..
S R Godwin 1 year ago
It was a scary time to be in this world. You couldn't stop thinking about it. I was 14, still at school. Lots of young people joined the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and went on peaceful marches, & wrote to MPs. For most, that was about all you could do.
#36
My brother and I were racing on rollerblades outside our apartment complex down the alley to the street. He beat me there and when I arrived he was talking to a stranger who was walking on the sidewalk. My brother looks at me and says “let’s go ask mom, come on!” and rushes inside to which I quickly follow. My brother begins to beg my mom to go help this guy find his lost puppy. We follow our mom outside and this guy is nowhere to be seen.
A week later, the neighbor kid at the house just across the street was abducted. His litter brother was playing in the front yard. A car drove up and got the little boy to come up to window to talk. The guy tried to grab the little boy and pull him in the car. The older brother ran up and fought off the attacker only to be pulled into the car himself. He was only 10 years old. The kidnapper was Joseph Edward Duncan, a convicted serial k*ller.
Chilling to think it could’ve been my brother instead.
Teach your kids not to talk to strangers! And if they do to always come get you before going anywhere with them. The chances are slim but it’s a sick world and it could quite possibly save their life.
G A 1 year ago
M8 and I were playing down by the river (ages about 10 and 11) when a guy approached us to ask about taking Photos on the land. We were clearly kids so no idea why he approached us. Fortunately we had our bikes, so we picked them up ready to ride or otherwise jump in the river. It was very strange, he was wearing a business suit approaching us from a car on the bridge, through a cow pasture. Fortunately he f****d off, maybe he saw we were uncomfortable.
Pheebs 1 year ago
My mom always wondered if my sib met a serial killer, but it could never be confirmed. Sib was standing in the driveway waiting for the bus, mom watching out the window because she was trying to get me fed and dressed. Looked away for a couple minutes, and when she looked back a car was by my sib. Sib told mom after she rushed out (and the car drove away) that a “weird man with women’s hair” was trying to get him to come closer. There was a murderer in the area who had been kidnapping and murdering women and scalping them. He apparently wore their scalped hair? The car matched a description of the murderer’s car. Mind you, this was the 80s so the “women’s hair” the sib reported could have been a mullet, and he could have just been a pedo.
Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
Too many sickos not to warn your kids and even be careful yourself. I am VERY careful and yet...one day I was loading groceries into my trunk. I saw nobody then all of the sudden this guy popped up out of nowhere, he leaned in to my face and I said move it or lose it. I had a bag filled with heavy canned goods and began to swing it at him he took off and had the nerve to say, geeze talk about unfriendly broads! I went in and reported him to the manager there.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
When I was about 10, I was rollerskating on the road, some guy pulled up with a camera and said he was from a newspaper and wanted to take some pictures so I let him. At 10 I was still naive and dumb as f**k. It could have ended badly but for the fact that I nearly wet myself because I needed the loo so badly and just skated away.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
I don't actually remember my parents teaching me the 'don't talk to strangers' rule but I do remember a time when age about 10, a guy pulled up in a car while I was on the sidewalk and asked me a question, I thing it was about where a street was. I told him and then he said he couldn't hear me very well and could I come closer. For some reason I didn't do that - I think I though it a bit odd so I just told him again but this time very loud. I have that about that alot over the years that I may have doged a bullet with that one. I don't think I mentioned it to mom and dad, at least I don't remember if I did.
#37
Worked at a pizza place in a small town, had this lady come in every Friday and get two pizzas for her family, two kids. One Friday she comes in like normal, seems normal, chit chat is normal, grabs the pizzas and heads out. Less then an hour later she stabbed her two kids and husband to death, decapitated them, and when the police arrived tried to decapitate herself. In jail she somehow was able to get something sharp and stabbed herself several times but still survived. Not sure what came of the trial and whatnot after as I had moved, but yeah it was wild, super nice lady I saw every week, just snapped I guess.
#38
A friend's father just dropped dead while brushing his teeth with his youngest daughter (6y/o), they never found out what happened, so they figured he had a brain hemorrhage.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
You don't need CSI level to see a clot in the brain.
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🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 1 year ago
An autopsy would easily tell if they had brain hemorrhage. That is not a mystery killer.
MagicJacket 1 year ago
That's why one should always use a toothbrush, and not a 6 year-old, to brush their teeth.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
A childhood friend of mine dropped dead at age 40 from an aneurism. Her kid was only 4 years old at the time. :(
Seadog 1 year ago
You do need to watch what they do list as COD. Especially in recent years coroners are too likely to list COVID when that was not and had nothing to do with COD and that is already coming back to bite the relatives. One case not far from me was a convalescent home. Workers basically walked when COVID restrictions kicked in, left the patients to fend for themselves. Of course nearly all died. Of course the lawsuits followed. It was rather short-lived though because the coroner listed them as COVID. Anyone listed that way was exempted from the lawsuit. How long do you think it will be before life insurance companies either charge more or deny policies if anyone in your family was ever listed as COD COVID?
#39
My Grandmother inlaw's house burned down with her parents and two children inside while giving birth at the hospital, to my wife's father. In Unionville CT. The fire department drove by and said it was out of their district, once the other fire department arrived they said it wasn't their district either. Only thing left was a foundation.
Chich 1 year ago
Does happen. The first FD I was on had very definite boundaries. We could go outside of them but had to get approval. We looked at extending the boundaries and showed that the increase in taxes would be more than offset by lower insurance premiums but some areas still voted it down. Why? who the hell knows? They did once respond to a fire outside the area without approval. While they were gone a residence in town burned. Town sued, FD sued, Chief fired.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
I'm bewildered. This isn't the 18th century!! This is horrific. Districts and duristrictions bollocks. That wouldn't happen here,
Heather Menard 1 year ago
Union only has a population of like 500 people so I'm not surprised.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
And your lawsuit would be dismissed before it ever got out of the judge's chambers.
Load More Replies... Rob D 1 year ago
This had to have been forever ago. I understand the magalands that opt out of taxes and are simply uncovered for fire service. But two departments refusing a covered area in this context? Don't think it would happen today. Many smaller, non-metro, departments are set up to help one another, not argue, hinder or neglect.
S Bow 1 year ago
It's not forever ago, it still happens today in parts of America and it predates trump by many years. I'm as anti trump as they come but this is one thing he has nothing to do with.
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similarly 1 year ago
No, I've heard of this happening in America where local taxes pay for fire departments. I read a case where people outside the tax zone, on the edge of town, were given a choice to pay taxes and be covered by fire and police, or not pay taxes and not be covered. One person chose not to be covered, and when their house caught fire, the fire fighters WANTED to help, but were told if they put out the fire, they'd be ... well, fired. Out of a job. They were only supposed to watch the fire and make sure it didn't harm the homes of people who paid their local taxes.
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#40
Someone at my school vanished for a week with no leads other than a video of him on a security camera at a McDonald’s 2 towns over. A week later his body turned up in the lake in a Bay. They never figured out what happened to him.
Bec 1 year ago
College student here disappeared and everyone looked and looked. Eventually found him in a utility room at a dorm he had tried to get into after hours. They had found a show and an unlocked door, but location of his body, surrounded by high voltage transformers made it hard to find.
Bec 1 year ago
https://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2007a/070320PoliceSteffey.html
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I was hiking down from doing two weeks of trail work in Colorado a few summers ago. A guy hiking up stopped to chat with us about our work and asked if we had seen anyone make the summit while we were up there. We told him that the first summit of the season had been done a few days prior and wished him luck. A friend of mine hiked in that area the next day and there was a helicopter circling around. The guy had taken the wrong gulley back down and died. It’s still crazy to me to think about.
#42
This one is personal.
My family and I are staying in a rental house for a few months because my dad was s**t with money. This particular house was owned by a fairly wealthy friend of his who was going through a divorce because his wife had developed a long and nasty d**g problem. So, we're staying there pretty cheap.
One night near Christmas, I groggily wake up and see a woman wearing white going through drawers on the other side of the room. I must have made a sound because she turned and rushed over to me and gently said, "shhh, go back to sleep little boy." Weirdly, I did. She looked like Liza Minelli, if that's at all relevant.
Next morning I wake up to my parents acting weird and I hear one of them make a comment like, "I can't tell what's gone and what's not." For some reason, I didn't connect the dots until I was older and never told them what I saw (I thought it was a dream).
So, yeah, the former cr*ckhead owner of our rental house broke in (probably had a key) and I saw her but didn't do or say s**t. I was probably 9 or so.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
At least she didn't hurt OP. It could have been a lot worse.
reuben kift 1 year ago
Okay, what the hell is wrong with you? Read the room, d ickhead.
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#43
Anything cult related. Especially mass s*icides like Jonestown where people k*lled their spouses, children, and themselves by the hundreds with poisoned koolaid. Makes my stomach turn to think about it.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
*it wasn't kool aid - it was flavoraid. Kool Aid has spent every single year since trying to shake this off.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
And yet there's still the term "drinking the Kool Aid" that's associated with cult mentality.
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I'm always amused by the folks who complain about the pagan religions being cults. Guess what? The leader of Jonestown was Roman Catholic. The branch Davidians are an offshoot of seventh day (which is about as Christian as you can get!) and don't get me started on "heaven's gate". There are bad folks in every religion, but to pin "cults" as being purely pagan (or at least non Christian) is totally laughable.
Rob D 1 year ago (edited)
I can't leap to the defense of pagan religion, but upvote for recognizing how many "cults" are rooted in mainstream Christianity.
Load More Replies... Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
Ego and charisma can be a very dangerous combination. Add in a little schizophrenia and things get much worse.
Penelope Orange 1 year ago
IIRC there were some that refused and were forced to drink it. I could be misremembering but I watched a documentary on years ago and think that was discussed.
Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
Most didn't want to do it, they were forced to. Murder more than suicide
Dela Bee 1 year ago
Morbidly interesting follow-up to Jonestown: the US air force brought all the bodies back to Dover AFB in C-5 Galaxies (because it has a large cargo bay) and were distributed to local funeral homes for processing because the base mortuary section just couldn't handle the massive amount of remains. A few years ago one of the homes went bankrupt or something and they found cremains of unclaimed people in the basement. So sad. (My parents were stationed there for a while and we learned about this in school.)
Grace Note 1 year ago
A lot of them didn't want to do it and were forced. It followed the murders of a visiting US senator and others. There were a lot of weapons in Jonestown and the inhabitants knew if they didn't follow orders they'd be killed anyway. Some drank, many were injected. It was basically a mass murder.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
It's been reported that most of the Jonestown victims were actually forced to do it at gunpoint. Some tried to run away and were gunned down.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Mürder - suìcide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Load More Replies... Judi Sherosky 1 year ago
How easy it is to follow like sheep. Never follow any man or woman. God is your shepherd.
#44
Vet friend was lightly kicked by a horse (happens in ag, not usually a big deal at all) with a bottle of ketamine in his pocket. It shattered. He did not survive.
Karl der Große 1 year ago
This is why I never let my horse carry any type of bottle in his pocket.
Be_ Heard 1 year ago
Get a girl horse.... they dont let us have pockets 😑
Load More Replies... GB 1 year ago
I'm confused. What role does the ketamine play in this story? Can someone please clarify?
Linda C 1 year ago
Breaking the bottle of ketamine made it that the entire contents come in contact with his bloodstream, which resulted in a fatal d**g overdose
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SnackbarKaat 1 year ago
My farmer great grandfather was kicked in the stomach by a horse and died. His oldest son, my granddad, was 15 and had to step in and help on the farm. My mum never let me ride a horse.
Happy Onion 1 year ago
Ketamine vials are usually about 50 ml and 100 mg/ml. That's 5000 mg of ketamine in a full vial. Unlike narcotics or benzos, ketamine doesn't have a reversal agent (antidote). Once it's in the body, you just gotta ride it out. If you can
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I will quote from the movie Armageddon (1998). Dr. Banks: “One toxicology analysis revealed ketamine. That is a very powerful sedative!” Harry: “Sedatives are used all the time, doctor.” Dr. Banks: “Well this one is used on horses.” Harry: “Some of these guys are pretty big.”
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
I call shenanigans on this one. There's too much that has to align for this to happen and even then I doubt it. just read all of the comments and I have some experience with the d**g (long ago, thank goodness).
Yellow dot 1 year ago
Does anyone know why he had ketamine in his pocket? D**g abuse? Is it used for horse medicine?? I wanna know!
Bec 1 year ago
Ketamine is a horse tranquilizer - not just a party d**g folks
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#45
Someone rang our doorbell and my mom answered the door. A man was standing there and he asked if he could come in and use our phone. She didn't like the look of him and he gave off some bad vibes. She said he also didn't smell very well. She told him to wait and he could talk to her husband. He mumbled something and just walked off.
A few years later she saw him on TV. He was Henry Lee Lucas.
Dame Cherry 1 year ago
didn't it turn out he just confessed for the hell of it and apart from his mother he recanted all the confessions?
Mike F 1 year ago
That's the tale. Even law enforcement say there's no possibility of his doing everything he said he did because the time line was not possible. The guy was a nut job though, can't sell him and his BF short there.
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Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
She remembered a random man she saw for a minute or two years later?
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Depending on how much he scared her, yes. It's been 25 yrs since I was sexually assaulted and I can remember his face as clear as day.
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Was a teenager and my parents and I went to rural Wisconsin to buy a Boxer purebred. We show up and were greeted by a warm family and puppy heaven, clearly these dogs were happy and well taken care of. Except maybe a month or two later it turned out their 17 year old daughter was kept shackled in the basement, teeth hammered out, abused and forced to eat s**t, shock collar around her neck they'd zap until the battery died. She escaped and they had a shootout with the police, now in prison(still, I hope).
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
And this is why you shouldn't buy dogs from breeders. Adopt from a shelter and you wont come into contact with lunatics
#47
My ex-brother-in-law is John Strutz.
He's my ex-husband's little brother. He lived with us from 1998 to 2004ish.
He m*rdered his wife in 2009. They only found her torso - he'd disposed of the rest of her but for some reason had her torso in his trash can on the curb when the cops came.
John was much, MUCH nicer than his brother. Super dumb. The crazy, convoluted story he told? Absolutely sounds like something my ex would come up with.
I can't prove it but I know in my soul that John probably accidentally k*lled/grievously injured Kristan during some fight. Panicked and called his brother instead of calling 911. And Mike told him what to do and what to say. John's dumber than a sack of hair and didn't wipe his a*s without consulting his psycho but smarter brother. Mike is intelligent but batshit insane and evil as f**k. John stuck to the story and will die in prison. His brother changed his name and washed his hands of him. I don't know what really happened that night, but I know that the whole hacksaw dismemberment and wild OJ type story sounds way more like my ex than something John would concoct on his own.
I'm only shocked that my ex wasn't the one with a torso in his trash can.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
I used to manage a university program which mostly consisted of adult students taking classes at night. One of our students murdered his wife, chopped her up, put her in a suitcase, and threw her in a field. I found out when I saw his face on the news. He was a very polite, normal seeming guy. I guess you just never know!
#48
The champawat maneater, she was a tiger from nepal and northern India who had 436 confirmed human k*lls before she was shot by Indian born british hunter Jim Corbett.
He wrote a book about it too thats actually a pretty good read.
hwatinternation 1 year ago
When big cats do this, it's often speculated that it's because they have issues with their teeth or mouth in general and so need to take down weaker prey. On the occasions that the carcasses have been studied, this has frequently been found to be the case.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
From Wikipedia The Champawat Tiger was a man-eating tigress which purportedly killed some 200 men and women before being driven out of Nepal. She moved to Champawat district in the state of Uttarakhand in North India, and continued to kill, bringing her total human kills up to 436. She was finally tracked down and killed in 1907.[13] She was known to enter villages, even during daylight, roaring and causing people to flee in panic to their huts. The Champawat Tiger was found and killed by Jim Corbett after he followed the trail of blood the tigress left behind after killing her last victim, a 16-year-old girl. Later examination of the tigress showed the upper and lower canine teeth on the right side of her mouth were broken, the upper one in half, the lower one right down to the bone. This permanent injury, Corbett claimed, "had prevented her from killing her natural prey, and had been the cause of her becoming a man-eater."[5]
Load More Replies... Norm Gilmore 1 year ago (edited)
Why do you think it was one a day? It was over at least 9 years if it's two years from the end of the 19th century through to 1907 when she was killed.-The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an astonishing 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon division of India, during the last years of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.
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A really popular athlete that I went to school with got married to his HS sweetheart and had 3 kids. He also was having an affair with a woman from Sweden. She apparently convinced him to k*ll his entire family. He was on some kind of antidepressants at the time and not acting himself. After he k*lled his family he flew to Sweden and k*lled the woman he was having the affair with. He then shot himself. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard but so scary at the same time. I knew this guy. I grew up with him and he had good parents and a nice childhood. Scary to think what made him turn into a monster.
Bobby 1 year ago
As a Swede i can't finding anything online that supports this claim but maybe someone else can idk. Seems fake.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I'm usually s**t hot on googling stuff like this but not sure where to start without know where he was from.
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les 1 year ago
i bet he got prescribed prozac, evil evil anti depressant. speaking from experience
Scooches 1 year ago
Sorry you had a bad experience with Prozac, I was on it for 25 years, saved my life!
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#50
This happened just this month. Daughter of my school principal was drunk-driving and ran over a small passenger rickshaw with an entire family on it. K*lled the father, the mother, and two children. One kid remains in the hospital until now. School principal's daughter got bailed out and escaped into another country. She's now a fugitive.
Earonn - 1 year ago
May she never find rest, let alone peace of mind. May she suffer forever, and die alone, painfully, and slowly.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Super popular, super pretty girl in my highschool did something similar. Shortly after graduation she was driving while high, ran over a man on his bike. He was a pastor, on his way to his church where they were serving dinner to homeless people. Sad, sad, sad ...as far as I know she's still locked up.
#51
I’m walking my dog in Philadelphia and light is turning red and car slows down and is it turns green and I enter the intersection the car speeds up and I have to avoid me and the dog getting hit.
I yell “A*****E” at him and he slams on breaks and pulls into a parking lot and parks ahead of me. I can see at this time the car had Illinois plates and as I walk up he says very calmly “I wouldn’t call me an a*****e I’ve k*lled people.” I just keep walking.
Next day I see spree k*ller Andrew Cunanan had k*lled somebody in New Jersey and stolen his truck leaving behind the car he took from Chicago after he k*lled the owner.
100% who I called a a*****e.
#52
My family literally had a party to die for. We hosted a super late Christmas party in March, we invited a few neighbors over including an older couple, beyond a few weird comments from the old husband like "I'm so glad I could have one last good meal" we all had a good time, everyone kept telling us how great the party and food was.
Eventually the old couple go home a bit earlier than the rest of the guests and we don't think anything of it, about an hour later as another guest was about to leave they come rushing back into the house yelling about police and medics on our street. Turns out the husband of the old couple simply dropped dead about 30 minutes after they got home.
I guess to be fair a big talking point at the party was how he was already basically on his last leg thanks to health conditions and it was only a matter of time but we didn't think it'd be that soon.
#53
One of my elementary school friends ended up working as a gunman for a Cartel, he was k*lled this year in a gunfight with the Army.
Not really a scary story, but it messes me up every time I give it a thought, just reflecting in how different our paths in life became, I'm actually happy and doing good in life, both emotionally and economically, he on the other hand, had d**g addiction issues too young and unfortunately ended up joining with the wrong people in the wrong place.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
Seriously, don't do this. All you're doing is making sure everyone immediately goes to look for the comment. So really you're promoting it. Just downvote and report it for hate speech. It will get hidden once it gets a few downvotes and the moderators can delete it.
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#54
My English teacher of my senior year was missing after I graduated. The only other teacher that I knew was friends with him called for a wellness check, and when they burst into his house they found his dead bloated corpse lying in his bed.
#55
One of my good friends who used to drive me around was about ten years older than me
We both went through some pretty messed up s**t in our lives but one time I was sitting in a cafe with him swapping stories and he casually just mentioned about how funny it was when he (at the age of 11) went to some government soldiers, said he knew where insurgents were hiding and then directed the soldiers into a ravine and said the communists were down there
Then after they went in he pulled a hand grenade and dropped it in after them.
Dude laughed about it like it was the funniest "lmao gotcha" prank ever.
The regime was f*****g evil but the casual attitude this super friendly and nice guy talked about luring a group of people to their deaths and m*rdering them with a grenade in a dark ravine struck me as deeply cold and unsettling.
#56
I was reading the list of people who disappeared mysteriously page on Wikipedia. One was about a politician in Chicago. He voted against a large housing development project. The next day he drove into his driveway, and a group of men appeared and forced him into a car. Never seen again. No other details in the Wikipedia article.
Seadog 1 year ago
Worked with a guy in the 80's and he would talk about life where he grew up. There was an open pit mine in that area and he told us of a guy that went around town talking about things he shouldn't have been. He disappeared. It was rumored some people threw him off a high wall. Friend said if they did, between the blasting and the digging, his body would never be noticed and once it went through the crusher there'd be no evidence.
#57
I once lived next to this elderly man whose wife had a history of doing d***s and being unfaithful. He was very nice and even let me use electricity whenever our were turn off till we got it paid which was often. ....... so later finds out he attacked a guy with a machete over said wife. Never really know some people till you hear about them trying to off a guy over a d**g addict wife. Turn out he had a history of family violence, and the guy was trying to defend his ex-girlfriend, not his wife. Either way, I never truly knew someone until it revealed that they are machete wielding manic trying to hurt someone for whatever reason. Scary the idea of never knowing a person.
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Lee Banks 1 year ago
A friend and I were hitchhiking along the east coast, USA. We got stuck at this truck stop for hours and hours. A gut comes over and said he and his cousin could give us a ride in the morning, but needed rest. Since there were two of us, and two of them, we'd have to ride in the back of the cab. Said thank you, but I got seriously bad vibes. My buddy was tired, and just wanted to get to our next stop, but I was adamant about not riding with them. We curled up in a back booth, and I intentionally let her sleep through their departure. Another trucker (who spoke Spanish) approached me in the morning. He said that the "trucker" was actually the cousin, and they had spent most of the night planning what they would do to us. Refused details, but said we were very, very lucky. He couldn't give a ride, but would have lied to keep us out of that truck.
Mimi M 1 year ago
Seriously? Why choose the most disturbing thing for the headline so that we are all forced to read it? I've seen BP do this before. Hint - it's a poor choice.
Mark Olsson Moreno 1 year ago
When I was 18 I was walking home from my shift at a factory. Older guy pulls up in car and asks me if I wanted a ride (this was in the NW suburbs of Chicago). I say no, he asks a couple more times. Really weird; I kept walking. 5 months later they arrested John Wayne Gacy. Recognized him as the guy in the car.
Angel Winward 1 year ago
My ex and family had animal control come to their house to catch a neighbor's parrot that had flown onto their roof. The animal control officer that showed up was Dennis Rader, AKA the serial killer BTK. Killed several people in the 70s before dropping off the radar for 20 years (it was during those 20 years that this animal control visit occurred), then began killing again in the early 2000s.
Amanda Fondaumiere 1 year ago
When i was a lovesick teen i would sneak out many nights and walk to my bf house a few miles away. One night a man in an asplundh work truck noticed me and slowed down and drove by a couple times before pulling over to offer me a ride. I turned him down a few times and he would drive off and come back as i made my way. The last time he pulled over and was opening his truck door to get out. My saving grace was that at that exact moment a speeding sports-car came rushing by and clipped his truck causing some damage and he had to persue it. The car didnt stop. The truck driver came back one last time to “get my info” because i saw the hit and run. I gave him a fake name number and booked it out of there. I was fortunate.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
The second time he came around to talk to you, you should have either ran to your bf's house or back home. To any young people out there thinking of doing sometg0hing like this, don't. You never know what type of creeps are out there to take advantage of you.
Load More Replies... Crystal 5 months ago
When I was a kid (like 2011) I heard men whispering and a bottle break outside the house. I quickly went and told my mother as it was around midnight. She didn't do anything and thought I heard things. The next day we ran into a neighbour and she told my mum two men kept showing up drunk to different houses, I believe later that night they were cornered and the police took them in.
Stephanie Trump 11 months ago
In the wee hours of the morning, in April 1995, my brother had an upset stomach, so my mom went to get him some Sprite out of a pop machine, since most places were closed at that time. She drove past a Ryder truck. It just gave her bad vibes. Later that day, a building in Oklahoma City with a Ryder truck full of explosives.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
As a child I saw a neighbour's cat get run over. It was horrible and I remember it all too well to this day.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I have a friend whose brother found their dad hung himself in their garage. Messed him up. Last I knew he is not doing very well.
Seadog 1 year ago
Place my step-son worked, one of the head guys hung himself from the doorknob in his office. When his secretary couldn't open the door or get a response from him, she went to the plant and they had to get several guys to push the door open.
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Vicki Thill 1 year ago
The scariest moment I've ever felt was when I was fishing with my two sons in an unpopulated area not far from where we lived. Up until then, I've never encountered another person there, but a DNR man came out of the woods. I told him I'm licensed and fishing with my boys and to leave. As he came closer I moved further away with my kids. I told him to call for police backup if he intended to come any closer. He took a few more steps in our direction and I grabbed my boys and walked out into the lake. I noticed a house around the lake bend and started for it, in the lake, with two little boys. Why didn't the DNR officer realize that he was scaring a mother with two children and leave or call for police backup? I've spoken to DNR officers a hundred times, but this one, this one did not feel right. Eventually, he left and I got my boys out of there. I couldn't believe I put myself and children in a position that rendered us cornered. I was ready for the next time, if it happened again.
Lee Banks 1 year ago
A friend and I were hitchhiking along the east coast, USA. We got stuck at this truck stop for hours and hours. A gut comes over and said he and his cousin could give us a ride in the morning, but needed rest. Since there were two of us, and two of them, we'd have to ride in the back of the cab. Said thank you, but I got seriously bad vibes. My buddy was tired, and just wanted to get to our next stop, but I was adamant about not riding with them. We curled up in a back booth, and I intentionally let her sleep through their departure. Another trucker (who spoke Spanish) approached me in the morning. He said that the "trucker" was actually the cousin, and they had spent most of the night planning what they would do to us. Refused details, but said we were very, very lucky. He couldn't give a ride, but would have lied to keep us out of that truck.
Mimi M 1 year ago
Seriously? Why choose the most disturbing thing for the headline so that we are all forced to read it? I've seen BP do this before. Hint - it's a poor choice.
Mark Olsson Moreno 1 year ago
When I was 18 I was walking home from my shift at a factory. Older guy pulls up in car and asks me if I wanted a ride (this was in the NW suburbs of Chicago). I say no, he asks a couple more times. Really weird; I kept walking. 5 months later they arrested John Wayne Gacy. Recognized him as the guy in the car.
Angel Winward 1 year ago
My ex and family had animal control come to their house to catch a neighbor's parrot that had flown onto their roof. The animal control officer that showed up was Dennis Rader, AKA the serial killer BTK. Killed several people in the 70s before dropping off the radar for 20 years (it was during those 20 years that this animal control visit occurred), then began killing again in the early 2000s.
Amanda Fondaumiere 1 year ago
When i was a lovesick teen i would sneak out many nights and walk to my bf house a few miles away. One night a man in an asplundh work truck noticed me and slowed down and drove by a couple times before pulling over to offer me a ride. I turned him down a few times and he would drive off and come back as i made my way. The last time he pulled over and was opening his truck door to get out. My saving grace was that at that exact moment a speeding sports-car came rushing by and clipped his truck causing some damage and he had to persue it. The car didnt stop. The truck driver came back one last time to “get my info” because i saw the hit and run. I gave him a fake name number and booked it out of there. I was fortunate.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
The second time he came around to talk to you, you should have either ran to your bf's house or back home. To any young people out there thinking of doing sometg0hing like this, don't. You never know what type of creeps are out there to take advantage of you.
Load More Replies... Crystal 5 months ago
When I was a kid (like 2011) I heard men whispering and a bottle break outside the house. I quickly went and told my mother as it was around midnight. She didn't do anything and thought I heard things. The next day we ran into a neighbour and she told my mum two men kept showing up drunk to different houses, I believe later that night they were cornered and the police took them in.
Stephanie Trump 11 months ago
In the wee hours of the morning, in April 1995, my brother had an upset stomach, so my mom went to get him some Sprite out of a pop machine, since most places were closed at that time. She drove past a Ryder truck. It just gave her bad vibes. Later that day, a building in Oklahoma City with a Ryder truck full of explosives.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
As a child I saw a neighbour's cat get run over. It was horrible and I remember it all too well to this day.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I have a friend whose brother found their dad hung himself in their garage. Messed him up. Last I knew he is not doing very well.
Seadog 1 year ago
Place my step-son worked, one of the head guys hung himself from the doorknob in his office. When his secretary couldn't open the door or get a response from him, she went to the plant and they had to get several guys to push the door open.
Load More Replies... Vicki Thill 1 year ago
The scariest moment I've ever felt was when I was fishing with my two sons in an unpopulated area not far from where we lived. Up until then, I've never encountered another person there, but a DNR man came out of the woods. I told him I'm licensed and fishing with my boys and to leave. As he came closer I moved further away with my kids. I told him to call for police backup if he intended to come any closer. He took a few more steps in our direction and I grabbed my boys and walked out into the lake. I noticed a house around the lake bend and started for it, in the lake, with two little boys. Why didn't the DNR officer realize that he was scaring a mother with two children and leave or call for police backup? I've spoken to DNR officers a hundred times, but this one, this one did not feel right. Eventually, he left and I got my boys out of there. I couldn't believe I put myself and children in a position that rendered us cornered. I was ready for the next time, if it happened again.
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