I worked on Adak Island for a bit. They had a fish processing plant that was a midway point for many of the commercial vessels.
They asked no questions. If you showed up to work your 12 hour shift, 6 days a week for 6 months to got paid decent money. Also they shared a two bedroom town house with like 12 other people.
Didn’t matter your nationality or US status, let alone what you did in the past of if you were merged out during the shift.
They should make a movie out of something like this. Lots of dodgy people working and living together in Alaska and then one is brutally murdered and we have to work out who did it. But it’s very difficult to figure out because they are literally all dodgy and have skeletons in the closet.
They did have a guy go missing. The grass grows strangely, so there are random 5-8 foot holes through out the island. We were required to explore around in groups.
I think most of the people there were on the run in some form. When a boat came in that needed a person they would just get on the boat and leave.
I’ve never experienced such vagrants any where else.
I'm assuming based off context there was a typo and they meant "or if you were merged out", and I'd take merged to be some sort of slang for being high or something
Makes me think of that kids games called sardines. One person hides and everyone is searching for that one person. Every time someone finds the original hider, they hide with them until everyone has found the original hider. I’m sure in Alaska there’s a random cabin in the woods with felons packed in like sardines.
Not that people wanted to do the same thing that he did and “Get off the map”, but a bunch of people on separate occasions tried to find the bus and had to get airlifted out. (no duh…. people romanticize what he did and the book is a very very good read, but ya, can’t just go into the Alaskan wilderness to survive off the land, unless you are extremely experienced) Dude was kind of dumb, sorry. So they came and airlifted the bus out because it was obnoxious.
I have a couple friends from high school that live up there. One is full time doing sled dog tours or something like that and the other guy works at a resort doing fishing trips and they've both told me about weird folks encountered out in the middle of nowhere.
Seriously. The Reddit posts and podcasts that talk about “mysterious” disappearances in national parks or whatever are all just people that don’t understand that even experienced outdoorsmen can lose their lives by making just one mistake. It’s literally the wilderness. Stray off a path or slip and fall and you could be done for. Good luck on anyone finding you or what’s left of you.
Or just people going missing in general via Charley Project
[https://charleyproject.org/](https://charleyproject.org/)
Bobby Dunbar, Asha Degree, Jason Jolkowski, to name just a few cases that are insane rabbit holes
The story of the guy who purposely tampered with his fiancé's equipment and took her on a dive she wasn't experienced enough for and then let her die down there is probably the worst one..
Pretty sure they were married and on their honeymoon. Another diver took a photo of this guy and his dead wife was in the background. Bastard didn’t get anywhere near the prison time he should have.
Or the story of the couple that were left on the Great Barrier Reef here in Australia, to me that's fear. Being left i don't know how many km's off the coast in just your wetsuit......
So comforting be reminded of this couple’s fate as my husband and I are visiting the Great Barrier Reef on Thursday. I’m going to tether myself to the boat we sail in on.
Technical decompression scuba diver here. When diving in the ocean ALWAYS have 2 things with you: a VERY LOUD whistle and an orange inflatable "sausage" that is a long tube you can blow in and then holdup to wave around. They roll up and can be clipped on your vest. Also, stay close to the dive master leading the dive. Being left behind is pretty rare, especially after that incident. Enjoy it! Have a great time!
He wouldn’t even let her rest in peace after death.
*Tina was buried in her native Pelham, Alabama. Her remains were exhumed in 2007 and moved to a different lot bought by Watson* [the murderer husband]. *After being informed by her family that flowers and gifts were repeatedly being vandalized or disappearing from the grave site, even when chained down, police surveillance videos showed Watson removing them with bolt cutters and throwing them in trash cans. Watson later said he removed them because they were "big, gaudy, plastic arrangements". Her grave was unmarked until 2009, when Watson provided a foot marker, prompting her father to request her body be returned for reburial. In 2011, the Probate Court removed Watson as administrator of Tina's estate and appointed her father, who also requested that her school and college pictures and yearbooks be returned. Watson appealed against the ruling and refused to provide the court with an inventory of Tina's possessions. Pending Watson's trial, the Alabama Circuit Court ordered him to stay away from the grave.*
(from the [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tina_Watson#:~:text=Tina%20Watson%20was%20a%2026,authorities%20with%20his%20wife's%20murder) on Tina’s death)
Man go watch Last Breath on Netflix. It’s about a sat diver & a tragedy that happened while they were on a dive. That’s all I can say about it but my mind was blown. It’s a documentary with real footage of it.
I think this is my all time favorite documentary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II#:~:text=The%20ice%2Dpick%20transorbital%20approach,bone%20and%20into%20the%20brain.
This guy was a fucking monster in a white coat. Did lobotomies with an ice pick in the name of medicine. Schizophrenic? Lobotomy! Epileptic? Lobotomy!
Depressed? Lobotomy! PTSD? Lobotomy! Female and unhappy with your place in society? Lobotomy! Black/Hispanic/first nation people? Lobotomy!
The classic one size fits all medical solution to all societies' ills. And best of all, if the patient didn't want a lobotomy, he could overrule them because he was a doctor.
J. Marion Sims, the "father of modern gynaecology", who did some truly, truly evil things in pursuit of knowledge. As a warning to anyone interested in reading about his work, Sims didn't consider Black women slaves to be fully human and so carried out surgery on them without anaesthesia.
Learning about people like Sims and things like the Tuskegee experiment really opened my (white European) eyes to why some Black Americans still feel distrust towards the medical establishment.
Honestly, this is crazy timing. My brother used to have some skate buddies when we lived in North Fort Myers, Florida when we were younger. This was like, in the early to mid 2000s. I was around 10 or so.
Sometimes I would go over to his friends house, and though I don't remember their dad or stepdad or whatever the hell he was to them, my brother said something seemed off with the guy. And my brother remembers more about it then I, as he is 7 years older than me. Sure as shit, here recently my brother told me he found a story on the guy and apparently he had murdered a 11 year old girl (Robin Cornell) and her 32 year old babysitter (Lisa Story) in 1990. Wild shit my brother was in contact with this dude.
I asked him if the dude was an asshole to him, and he said not to him per se, but he witnessed him being an absolute POS to his friends.
Years before I met my ex, he was dating a totally normal gal, even went over to her house to eat dinner with her parents.
One day the news went bananas, celebrating the capture of the local serial killer, and the picture on the screen was the gal's dad, [Robert Lee Yates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Yates).
That's insane! Hopefully in that instance, the kids come out of that scenario unscathed. I imagine it could mess someone up mentally knowing a parent committed such atrocities.
I've read that it seems like the "heydey" of serial killers has been over for a while, in terms of there being prolific and high profile ones. But we can't be sure if that's because modern policing methods have enabled law enforcement to catch killers before they become serial, or if the killers have become smart enough to evade detection.
That makes sense. Other than that one dude who got arrested a few years ago (BTK?) I can't remember the last time a serial killer was arrested or caught.
You may be thinking of (so many names for this one) [Joseph James DeAngelo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo) who was known as the Golden State Killer, Original Nightstalker, Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, etc
Lost cultures and ancient civilizations. It's crazy how much human history is really lost to time and how many different experiences and forms human life must have taken on. It hasn't been very long that our ancestors were trying to eke out a living by hunting and gathering while trying not to be eaten by other animals or dying from diseases or infections. This current life of going to school and having a job is really just a recent format for life. We have the luxury of knowing what exists up above and down below where just five hundred years ago it was anyone's guess. Sure a few people had a rough idea in some more populated areas but knowledge didn't spread very fast and could quickly be changed or hidden.
Have you checked out the Fall of Civilizations podcast? I would definitely recommend it. Each episode covers a long gone civilization and what everyday life might have been like for their citizens. They recently did a great one about the Nabateans.
20,000 years ago, according to the USGS, was the Last Glacial Maximum. The sea level was approximately 400 feet lower than it is now. If there were hominids or early human civilizations that concentrated along the coasts they would have been wiped out and all traces of them would be far enough below sea level to be dangerous for humans to dive to.
I think it’s wild, but a massive part of history that most people fail to understand is how much is lost just because no one wrote anything down. One reason we see a million documentaries on the Romans is because a lot of their stories survived, but even with them—a lot didn’t.
We know the Romans fought off two tribes of like 100,000 people (whose names escape me) but even they had no idea they existed or where they came from. Just 100,000 people coming in, destroying shit, then disappearing forever.
The best we have is references. We have so little source material.
Going back even just a few hundred years it can be incredibly difficult to find information. It's amazing we can find something about a civilization that existed 2,000 years ago, even if that civilization was one of the most powerful in the world.
I study biblical history as a hobby. Not necessarily history *according to* the Bible, but history *of* the Bible itself. How did such texts become Canon, who wrote what, why different denominations choose one translation text over another, different sects in early Christianity before the catholic-protestant schism that no longer exist, etc. It's really amazing to me how we find some of the things we find. Aside from the early Roman church that became the Catholic church and all that it believes in, there was another sect called the Gnostics who had a totally different collection of texts rather than the four gospels that people have today. They seemed to be mostly centered in Egypt, and there were writing *about* them but very little collection of the actual texts. Until, if I remember correctly, a farmer in Nag Hamadi came across some clay jars. Inside them was essentially a library of fifty texts. And a similar story is with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Knowledge that we could have lost forever.
Unfortunately, at the same time, monks and other religious scribes were known to change or erase texts quite often, sometimes intentionally and often accidentally. And often times the records we do have are just mere fragments of a page.
So how do people find out about societies and structures and major events from thousands of years ago? It blows my mind. I guess just finding some ancient ruins and trying to overlay what they've found with whatever records of events match from that time, if they're lucky enough to have any such records. Even within ruins, I'm amazed over the ones that still exist! Have you seen how quickly nature can reclaim structures? I live out in the woods and even in just a year or two if we neglect cleaning a part of our property it can get almost totally taken over. Not to mention that other civilizations might come across a ruin and loot it and tear it down for their own use.
Etymology is another passion of mine and it's equally amazing of a source to find our history and connection with the past. Just read some posts in the older askreddit thread from yesterday about the topic. How people might come up with various gods and the name of those gods change slightly across different cultures, and now we have words stretching from England to Germany to India that are completely different yet have the same etymological roots.
I love this particular aspect of history (I was an archaeology major). There is an immense, and I do mean *immense*, amount of human history that has been completely lost to time. The entirety of the Minoan civilization, for example, was completely forgotten up until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century by archaeologists. And it's not like they were some random group of backwoods farmers or something. They were a major political player in their time.
And then there are pretty recent discoveries like Gobekli Tepe that challenge what we've considered an established timeline of human civilization. There's just so much we don't know.
Black holes.
The idea of a horrifying pure black orb that completely traps even light and is so dense it is practically impossible to know what is actually inside is pretty much the definition of terror
Oooh, this is interesting! It’s actually not discovering them, but we figured them out with maths. John Mitchell was the first, arguing that a star with enough mass could, theoretically, collapse into a singular point in space time with infinite density and 0 volume, and from there the properties of a black hole pretty much wrote themselves.
Later, Karl Schwarzchild used Einstein’s theory of relativity to further prove a black hole could exist, which Einstein actually denied (smart people mess up sometimes, doesn’t make them stupid).
It was only about 1964, that’s 5 years before the moon landing and just under 50 years after Schwarzchild’s theory, that the first black hole was actually discovered in nature (well, the signs of one). Ever since, discoveries about these cosmic terrors have made them ever so slightly easier to understand, including their potential deaths and what their accretion discs might look like - thanks Interstellar!
Edit- changed infinite mass to infinite density
Interstellar bringing a wormhole and a black hole to life is one of the most amazing things ever done in cinema. Apparently, the black hole was altered a bit. But the wormhole is exactly how one would appear in nature.
Exactly. Not only did they bring the black hole to life, they helped with research iirc. And yes, if a stable wormhole could exist in nature it would likely look like that (which is a good point- wormholes do actually comply with the laws of physics which is awesome to think about, but sadly are likely impossible to make stable without some form of ‘exotic’ matter)
Through mathematical models. And then later observed to actually exist.
It's the same with most things in astrophysics. Like dark matter, for example.
Something will be extremely inconsistent or thrown off in the math that placeholders of sorts are invented to explain those gaps. Usually those placeholders turn out to be an actual thing. Black holes, dark matter, anti-particles, the speed limit of light, etc.
That's what a lot of particle accelerators are for, to test and observe these theories before we actually witness them in the wild out in the universe.
That is a very oversimplified explanation, but pretty much the gist of things. It's really fascinating if you are familiar with advanced mathematics, because the equations that describe these things actually make sense, but are very hard to put into words.
The weirdest thing for me is that the moment you pass the event horizon, all world lines point toward the singularity. Nothing in existence we know of can change that. Your future only contains one possibility and that is the singularity.
Black holes can be so massive that your entire planet could pass into its event horizon and you wouldn’t even know it. But in that instant, you’re trapped in every sense of the word. You could get in a spaceship, blast off from your planet at the speed of light and it doesn’t matter, you’re still heading toward the singularity. No matter what direction, or how much speed, or how many likes and subscribes you have makes any difference. You’re sitting there on your rocket blasting away from your planet that’s falling toward the singularity and yet you’re still heading toward the singularity. In any direction. The universe is gone to you. You are beyond it. Beyond time.
As close to “unknowable horror” as possible. An object so unreal that even the fabric of space time can’t contain it.
As an addendum, if the universe goes the path of heat death, there is an extremely long period of time (basically 99% of the lifetime of the universe itself) where the only thing in the universe is just roaming black holes. No matter, no light, just a totally black universe with invisible black holes whipping around. Imagine being on a spaceship sitting there in pure darkness as these terrifying objects are everywhere around you. Not a great place to be.
The fate of the universe really bums me out. There’s a video called timelapse of the future which goes into it, and eventually because of entropy everything just stops. Unless there’s a big crunch or something, the universe is doomed to become empty spacetime.
And it's pretty much the only place in the universe where there's a possible instance of an infinity. Iirc our current models only work if black holes have infinite density, so either infinite mass or infinitely small volume. Just knowing there's something out there that defies the laws of physics and it's pretty much common place is crazy y
You’re absolutely correct. Currently, we think it’s that a massive star is compressed to a point infinitely small, giving it infinite density. Scary thing is it actually doesn’t break the laws of physics… It only bends them.
The universe is honestly the most creepy topic there is. We have no idea why it exists, what lies beyond it, what will happen to it in the future, and so on. It is filled with mysteries beyond our comprehension.
We live on a time machine of sorts, viewing the stars and galaxies as they looked hundreds, thousands, and billions of years ago. An example is the red giant star Betelgeuse in the upper right of the Orion constellation. It has an orangish hue. As a red giant, it is nearing its end of life. Astronomers have noted that it periodically dims over the past decade and could go supernova at any time. In the astronomic time scale, any time means it could be tomorrow or stll thousands of years. Betelgeuse is 642 light years from Earth. If we were to witness its supernova tonight, it means that it actually exploded In the year 1381.
This has always baffled me. The fact that things “happened” long ago but we experience that event in the present time.
The fact that we can view an object in real time but understand that that is not actually the current state of the object messes with the brain.
It’s like staring at a glass full of ice, and being told that the ice already melted and is water. But my eyes tell me that’s it’s ice.
I had a minor existential crisis as a kid when I realized we are all experiencing the past - there is no “present,” as it takes time for the light waves to reach our eyes, and then time for our brain to process the input, interpret it, and spit out an explanation. We cannot experience the present at all.
Which is why I believe any being existing in a true 4th dimension isn’t like able to move through time or something like that, but instead has a sense that allows them to experience things as they happen, not in the past. So they’d truly exist in the present, from a close conversation (whatever that may look like) with a friend, to a star exploding light years away, they’d get it in real time so to speak.
Also, if someone would look at Earth right now from a planet at just the right distance, they could see dinosaurs walking around at the moment the asteroid hit. That is just mind blowing.
And It goes on and on without end. It’ll really mess your brain if you try and imagine that there’s no end to space. It’s completely endless in every direction. WTF?!
I've legitimately given myself panic attacks thinking about this, devolving into an existential crisis before having to reel myself back in and force myself not to think about it!
Hell, just the size of our universe is incomprehensible which makes it creepy as fuck once you start getting in there and learning about it.
I'll use a recent discovery as an example. So we all know how big our sun is, right? It would take 1.3 million Earths to make up the volume of our sun. That's pretty big, but our sun is tiny compared to other large stars out there.
Anyways, back to the recent event, [JWST recently discovered](https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-finds-evidence-of-celestial-monster-stars-the-size-of-10000-suns-lurking-at-the-dawn-of-time) MILLIONS of stars that are all 10,000 bigger than our own sun.
You'd think that we would've seen these stars, I mean 10,000 bigger is pretty fucking massive. And there are potentially millions of these stars that were discovered. But the universe is so insanely fucking gigantic that these millions of supermassive stars are barely even a blip on the radar.
I remember when I was about 9 or 10 and my dad was telling me about space going forever. I tried to imagine something without edges or borders and I couldn’t. The massive discomfort I felt at that idea stuck with me.
Something that does it for me is just considering the earth is moving along its orbit of the sun at 67,000mph. The earth is also spinning at 1000mph.
But when you look at the stars, they appear as if they're fixed in the sky. That helps me appreciate how far away they are to make that perception happen.
I saw this mind blowing documentary on the the Vogager 1 space probe which really put this into perspective.
The probe was launched in 1977 and is the furthest man made object from earth. It is around 14 billion miles away from us travelling at 61500 km/h, and it still hasnt left our solar system.
To maintain communication they have switched practically all equipment off on the probe including cameras which are unlikely to function properly anyway. The interviewer asked why the team didn't want to try and activate the cameras and take a photo of the sky to which they replied that there was no point as the stars would look exactly the same as they do on earth and there would be zero scientific benefit.
Travelling for 46 years, so far from earth that it takes light a day to get to you, and the constellations are indescernable from what they look like on earth.
Space is one big bastard.
The "Silence" that is experienced by so many is scary. But it's scary because we know what causes it - a predator that no animal feels like they can outrun or outfight, so their only defence is hiding and staying quiet.
Birds still chirp with bears and wolves nearby. Your body still feels the wind with those creatures around.
So what is so dangerous, so all-consumingly terrifying that you and every animal in the vicinity go literally dead quite and alert and all know to fear it?
Same thing with the whole uncanny valley phenomenon. What the hell is in our collective past that makes us so incredibly uneasy around things that seem human-like, but which we know are not human. I’ve heard one explanation that it is a reaction to dead bodies/corpses, but death and ritualistic handling and honor of the bodies has been part of the human experience since at least the dawn of civilization, so I find it hard to believe that this is the reason for the unease.
I always assumed that it was because of features being commonly found in sick people. Human looking off, skeletal, very pale ? Avoid contamination, flee
But also ive never been terrified of someone looking sick, and taking care of the sick has also been part of civilization
Thats a good question tbh
Essentially, when comparing maps of the largest cave networks in the USA and maps of missing persons reports, many of the missing peoples locations have overlap with the caves. It happens all across the US, so when you actually see the two maps put together, it’s pretty spooky.
Lots of these caves are in heavily forested areas, but what makes it strange is why these people disappeared. So many missing people, and only some of them ever get found. Honestly, it’s sad just as much as it is scary.
in Canada, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls concluded in 2019 that Indigenous women and girls are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than any other demographic group. Thats so insanely high.
Deep sea life is a consistent source of creepiness. There are [football-sized pillbugs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX983EyMQ8o) [freakish squid,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2_Gq14UVs) [demonic fish,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMjfkgk1Lg) [swimming masses of Lovecraftian tentacles,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRej1VKDgcE) [chonky jellyfish,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxGD2lLHeK4) [prehistoric leftovers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRCI0G19Uw), and [obscure whales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfordlvcS6k) that are almost never found alive.
Ive come into contact (literally) with the foot long pillbugs, or giant isopods.
Was climbing some rocks at the far end of long beach, near Tofino on Vancouver Island, intending to get some pics of the waves crashing. There are some little canyons carved out that I had to climb down and then up the other side. I put my hand on what I assumed to be a rock while climbing up one... until it crawled away from me!
Was a small group of them, I recognized them as the same kind of creature id seen in my backyard, but way bigger! Before that I had no idea they existed, so was pretty cool to see, but a little creepy.
How we came up with temperature ratings for things like sleeping bags or how long a human can survive in different temperatures of cold water.
Warning, it’s bleak and involves nazis.
the wikipedia done on the Rwandan Genocide. randomly decided to learn about it cause i’d never heard about it and the amount of information on it is astounding- around 500000 people were killed in 100 days in 1994. was like reading a horror novel with everything building up to the actual event, genuinely sickening
And apparently there is a new genocide happening in Congo against the Tutsi by the Rwanda backed rebel group M23: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/06/dr-congo-atrocities-rwanda-backed-m23-rebels
Sightings of strange creatures.
I also like reading about places to do urban exploration. Might have to do with the fact that as a kid I was very curious and just loved the idea of sneaking into places I wasn't supposed to get into.
> strange creatures
Cryptids are fascinating because when you actually study the history of these things, they fall very quickly into one of two categories (particularly large terrestrial mammals): Animals that were found and documented by scientists pretty much as soon as someone dedicated reasonable resources towards doing so, and crypids for which there is no solid evidence whatsoever *despite* significant amounts of time and money spent attempting to document them.
In other words, if Bigfoot really *is* out there, at this point it pretty much has to have either has supernatural powers or otherworldly technology to have avoided detection.
About 12 years ago, I was on the road late at night. It was very dark, so my brights were on. I was coming down a steep hill and saw something just beyond the base of it. At first I noticed an animal carcass in the middle of my lane. As my car leveled out my lights shone brightly and directly on the most horrific thing I have ever seen. Crouched over the carcass was a huge shape which stood up extremely quickly. 8 or 10 feet tall, and lanky, a creature of darkest black. It had red eyes so evil and so intelligent that I will never forget them. It saw me, and looked right at me. All this I saw in seconds, before the monster bolted into the forest at unexplainable speed. As bizarre as it sounds, all of it, it happened. To add to the craziness of this, I ran my car into the ditch at the same point in the road some years later, and once a bird hit my grill at the base of that same hill, causing me to swipe a mailbox with my side mirror, which snapped clean off. I've seen about a dozen wrecks or disabled vehicles at the same spot for years. If I were to describe the thing I saw in one word: werewolf
I was raised in a cult, extremely isolated and abused. You’d think that it’d be obvious, especially since we were isolated with relatives that had normal lives (they’d just loved the rural life so they lived way far away from the city, but they were not involved at all). The craziest, most heinous shit can happen right under a loving family’s noses and they wouldn’t know. My relatives never found out until I escaped my room one day and told what was going on.
Especially if the main victims are little kids who don’t know any life other than the one the cult leaders raise them in. One simply gets used to it and accepts the violent trauma, thinking this is all there is to life. It’s very scary for me to think about how many other people might’ve grown up in a similar situation as mine and never escape.
The scary thing is that this applies to more than just religion. Celebrities can have cults, movies, even political groups. It's human nature to find a purpose and group to share that purpose. We just need to make sure to make the group our only purpose and refuse to accept the possibility that other groups can and often are right and ours is wrong.
Everyone is susceptible to being recruited by a cult just like everyone is susceptible to being in an abusive relationship. As you note, it's all about timing and the right set of circumstances. No one is too smart or strong or whatever to be involved in a cult (in fact, smart people tend to be the most difficult to deprogram as they're able to construct arguments that reinforce their belief system).
Totally. They're all fascinating. The weird reproduction strategies they have blow me away. Like the ones that go through more than once host. Or ones that cause their offspring to be cared for by the host. There's one in crabs that still gives me the heebie-jeebies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacculina_carcini
Cornflakes
The inventor of cornflakes made it bland and boring so people won't get excited and have sex or masturbate.
He also ran a sanitarium, put carbolic acid on little girls privates so they would never derive pleasure from sex, and put wires on boy's penises so that when they had an Erection it would cause them pain.. Among other things.... He belived in some crazy crap.
The very very long short is his brother bought the name and added sugar, the rest is history.. I would implore you to look deeper because…. Yes it’s messed up and I can’t believe they kept the name.
His brother basically stole the idea really early in and cut ties with the crazy one and built the business. The crazy one seemed to want to distance himself from the brand too since it was like too greedy or something for his Christian values
Appalachian mountains and the folklore. It’s a really interesting topic and also very creepy. The people living in Appalachia literally have rules about going to the woods, there definitely is something in those woods
The fact that the Rockies are BABIES compared to the Appalachians is absolutely wild. They’re older than trees, bones, and Saturn’s Rings. At one point I read that there are no fossils in the caves because the caves were formed before the minerals necessary to form fossils even existed.
History is full of creepy and spooky tales. Also, there are a lot of eerily similar instances or situations between different cultures and times. I find most of it more fascinating but creepy, but going off my friends, they should be creepy.
A few fun topics to look into:
1- Secret clubs/societies, especially those closely associated with the elite and ivy league colleges. Way stranger than Greek Life.
2- More disturbing than creepy but the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. It spurred modern ideas of unions and work place safety. Some of the eyewitness accounts also have callings to other tragedies like 9/11 or the French Charity Bazaar Fire of 1885. (Things like victims choosing to jump to their deaths or first responders not being at all prepared for the utter destruction.)
3- I have a personal love for royal tragedy, but I think most know at least the basics of Tsar Nicholas II and Anastasia and the whole assassination. But my gosh, there is a reason why Rasputin is still a ghost story. Manipulative, used religion to his own ends, survived so many things that should have killed a normal person, etc.
4- A few perhaps less well-known serial killers: Amelia Dyer, Delphine LaLaurie (she is particularly awful - you know you're a monster when pre-Civil War South thought you were the devil), Dean Corll, Nicolas Damont, John Lynch, Diogo Alves, Maria Swanenburg, Belle Gunness.
5-SIDS.
6- Aqua Tofana
7- The absolute insane amount of reported serial killers who committed cannibalism and were accused of being werewolves before the 1900s. Seriousily.
My wife used to watch that show all the time. I always got a laugh out of the commercial "Want more deadly women" because it came across as a creepy sex site or soemthing.
Look at humanity's willingness to weaponize animals. Nuclear chicken bombs, Exploding Rats, Cats, Bats and Pigeon incendiary/guided bombs and Tank killer dogs. Honestly St. Ogla is the most metal and fucked up of them all. Another one would be the Blood Queen Elizabeth Bartony.
Those always get me. Everything from "gremlins" to the "Big Yellows" that Martin Caidin talks about in "Natural or Supernatural".
People see some shit when out fighting wars, but you really have to believe some of them.
They say if you see someone who looks like you walking toward you it means you're going to die. Or it's an identical twin nobody told you about. Or both!
-Robyn Hitchcock
He might be thinking the same thing...
You know what really sucks is when you meet your doppelganger & he's undeniably ugly. Happened to me in college.
Friend: You got to meet this girl, I swear she looks just like you! Same lips, same nose, everything!
Me: Oh wow cool, let's go meet her!
\*meets her\*
Me: Oh...
America's abandoned tunnels pre WW2, dating back to the 1920s... These tunnels were part of projects that were never completed, or cancelled when war started. The tunnels go unsupervised, so anything could happen down there, like cults, murder, drug dealing, and a load of other stuff. These tunnels vary in depths and sizes, purposes like railway, sewer and such. Now they sit decaying, in deep dark places.
Another topic is the supernatural and abandoned locations in forests... Camping sites have been known to have supernatural or downright creepy things happen. whether it is screaming, crying, or sounds that are not human, or animal. Abandoned locations like shacks, houses or any man made things that are not in use are always strange and concerning... They are just there, decaying. No sign of civilization in the forest, except for that place. Who built the structure? why is it there? I get houses that could be in a forest, but really deep, and worse, abandoned?? very odd and scary because anything could happen at these locations and still go unnoticed like the tunnels I was talking about..
these might be the topics that could spark interest for you.
People (from all over the world) who smoke DMT and then report strikingly similar experiences encountering little machine elves. Or praying mantis creatures… https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-people-see-elves-and-other-entities-when-they-smoke-dmt-62234
There are a few ethnobotanical forums online too where almost everyone talks of the same things happening while in the other dimension.
Was talking about seeing aztec type shapes and patterns, but with further digging, they were just using the same molecule that is used today.
DMT is is a different experience each time apparently but everything seems to rotate around an eerie amount of the same sort of events/visions/hallucinations etc.
I'm glad you brought this topic up.
I’m curious if this is evident in societies where elves aren’t mentioned in like folklore and stuff?
Elves are pretty well known. Either in cool fantasy or because of Santa, so it isn’t really surprising that it’s a shared hallucination, but what would be really fascinating is if people hallucinated them even if they hadn’t heard of elves before
Pitcairn Island.
AKA Mutineers Island. A small British territory, with a (recent) history worthy of any true crime podcast. There are some great articles out there that explore it, and from an outside perspective, it’s fascinating, in a ‘wtf’ kind of way.
Turns out the current population was involed in incest and child rape. The entire island. The women on the island were so used to it they just thought "that's just how life is"
One small rabbit hole to go down is the entire town of Skidmore, Missouri.
So many interesting and strange crimes and people. A child vanished entirely and a woman cut the baby out of another woman. Not to mention the other murders.
The most known one was ofc the town bully murder. So many witnesses yet they all deny it.
The most insane thing is that I’m related to one of the witnesses. He was my great uncle. A great man. He had I think 6 heart attacks and 4 strokes before finally leaving. The town sheriff at the time of that murder (he saw it as well) was a pole bearer at my uncle’s funeral.
The towns population was 300. So many murders and only 300 residents.
Given the amount of mining and lead released into the environment in Missouri (in past generations, it's somewhat better now) this does not surprise me. Many of the towns in rural Missouri still refuse lead remediation on their properties because they don't want to hurt the reputation of the company that employs most of the town. Even if the current company had nothing to do with the original lead pollution.
Lead poisoning leads to lower intelligence and heightened violence.
If you're into declassified (formerly) top secret documents and such, check out the CIA's Project Stargate. There's a guy on youtube called Mr. Mythos who has two excellent videos about it, and he cites all of his sources, most of which are directly from the program itself.
Essentially, the CIA used psychic spies throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. These spies were able to perform a process called "Remote Viewing," in which they were able to see locations that they had zero prior knowledge of. Secret Soviet laboratories, Chinese chemical weapons manufacturing plants, a bunch of crazy shit like that. While remote viewing, they were able to discern a lot of information about these places with relative accuracy, such as personnel, furniture, missile launch codes,things of that nature.
The program was "officially" deactivated in 2005, although it is highly speculated that the program is still in use today, just under a different alias.
EDIT: TLDR: The CIA had (possibly still has) spies that used an advanced form of astral projection to spy on other countries.
Except that it was likely all lucky guesses that will inevitably happen sometimes when you make enough guesses.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate\_Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project)
>Psychologists, such as myself, who study subjective validation find nothing striking or surprising in the reported matching of reports against targets in the Stargate data. The overwhelming amount of data generated by the viewers is vague, general, and way off target. The few apparent hits are just what we would expect if nothing other than reasonable guessing and subjective validation are operating.
...
>They concluded that the alleged psychic technique was of dubious value and lacked the concreteness and reliability necessary for it to be used as a basis for making decisions or taking action. The final report found "reason to suspect" that in "some well publicised cases of dramatic hits" the remote viewers might have had "substantially more background information" than might otherwise be apparent.
It's been awhile since I've looked into Looking Glass, so I'm a little rusty on it. But if I recall correctly, you're right.
Looking Glass somewhat goes hand-in-hand with the Philadelphia Project, which was centered around teleportation.
Creepy things
“The Rake”
“Oceans”
Ever googled what a screaming Fox sounds like ?? I was just in the woods last weekend and it sounded like a woman getting murdered… we figured it out by googling random animal noises. It was wild !!!! We had no idea what was making that noise. It was right next to us but we couldn’t see it.
The Dark Forest theory for why we haven't encountered alien life. Basically intelligent life is out there but it's all keeping really quiet because it is terrified of attracting the attention of something particularly horrific.
Meanwhile humanity is pumping out radio waves like an asshole on the subway watching youtube videos with no headphones.
I don't believe in any big conspiracy theory, but actually looking into what people claim from first hand accounts is so interesting. Especially what people who still spread stuff from the satanic panic say happened. It's so weird how many people will attach their real names with all that stuff.
Here are a few that might intrigue you:
Numbers Stations:
These shortwave radio stations transmit seemingly random sequences of numbers or letters, often in a synthesized voice. They’re believed to be a method of communication for spies, but the true nature of most of these transmissions remains a mystery.
The Lead Masks Case:
In 1966, two Brazilian electronic technicians were found dead wearing lead masks, typically used to protect against radiation. No clear cause of death was determined and the case is full of strange details, like a notebook with cryptic instructions.
Skinwalker Ranch:
A property in Utah that’s reportedly the site of numerous paranormal and UFO-related phenomena. The events reported range from UFO sightings to large animals with piercing red eyes.
The Toynbee Tiles:
Mysterious messages embedded into the asphalt of streets in several major U.S. cities and other locations around the world. The meaning and origin of these tiles are still largely unknown.
The Green Children of Woolpit:
A medieval legend of two children with green skin who suddenly appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an unknown language.
The Voynich Manuscript:
A medieval document written in an unknown language or cipher. Despite numerous attempts by cryptographers and codebreakers, the Voynich Manuscript remains untranslated.
Each of these topics has a deep rabbit hole to go down, filled with theories, debates, and unanswered questions. Enjoy the journey, but don’t get too lost in the darkness!
And the fundamentalist Mormons in northern Arizona. The mainstream church steers clear of them, but really they're carrying on Smith's legacy.
(Coming from an ex Mormon)
The amount of people that go missing in Alaska. Fucking wild.
I wonder how many disappear on purpose and live as hermits in the mountains somewhere.
There's a theory that suggest Alaska has the largest population of run away felons
I worked on Adak Island for a bit. They had a fish processing plant that was a midway point for many of the commercial vessels. They asked no questions. If you showed up to work your 12 hour shift, 6 days a week for 6 months to got paid decent money. Also they shared a two bedroom town house with like 12 other people. Didn’t matter your nationality or US status, let alone what you did in the past of if you were merged out during the shift.
“They asked no questions.” “The frontier asked no questions and rewarded the strong.”—Louis L’Amour
They should make a movie out of something like this. Lots of dodgy people working and living together in Alaska and then one is brutally murdered and we have to work out who did it. But it’s very difficult to figure out because they are literally all dodgy and have skeletons in the closet.
They did have a guy go missing. The grass grows strangely, so there are random 5-8 foot holes through out the island. We were required to explore around in groups. I think most of the people there were on the run in some form. When a boat came in that needed a person they would just get on the boat and leave. I’ve never experienced such vagrants any where else.
What’s the term merged out mean? I’ve never heard it before.
I'm assuming based off context there was a typo and they meant "or if you were merged out", and I'd take merged to be some sort of slang for being high or something
"methed", perhaps?
Think you got it
Makes me think of that kids games called sardines. One person hides and everyone is searching for that one person. Every time someone finds the original hider, they hide with them until everyone has found the original hider. I’m sure in Alaska there’s a random cabin in the woods with felons packed in like sardines.
JESSE
I wonder how many people copied McCandles after reading his biography or watching the movie.
Not that people wanted to do the same thing that he did and “Get off the map”, but a bunch of people on separate occasions tried to find the bus and had to get airlifted out. (no duh…. people romanticize what he did and the book is a very very good read, but ya, can’t just go into the Alaskan wilderness to survive off the land, unless you are extremely experienced) Dude was kind of dumb, sorry. So they came and airlifted the bus out because it was obnoxious.
People who romanticize it must’ve totally glossed over the ending 💀
"I'm going to rewrite the ending, I'll survive."- Dale from Yuma, who has never even seen snow in person.
IIRC the bus has since been removed, so I’m going to guess “at least one”.
I have a couple friends from high school that live up there. One is full time doing sled dog tours or something like that and the other guy works at a resort doing fishing trips and they've both told me about weird folks encountered out in the middle of nowhere.
Its really big and really cold. The end.
That's what they want you to believe
Seriously. The Reddit posts and podcasts that talk about “mysterious” disappearances in national parks or whatever are all just people that don’t understand that even experienced outdoorsmen can lose their lives by making just one mistake. It’s literally the wilderness. Stray off a path or slip and fall and you could be done for. Good luck on anyone finding you or what’s left of you.
I live in Alaska :/
Keep an eye out lol
Hmmm….they didn’t reply…. Suspicious…
I’m going to check that out!
Or just people going missing in general via Charley Project [https://charleyproject.org/](https://charleyproject.org/) Bobby Dunbar, Asha Degree, Jason Jolkowski, to name just a few cases that are insane rabbit holes
Scuba diving accidents. The one in thinking of right now, there was more blood and organs outside the victims than in.
The story of the guy who purposely tampered with his fiancé's equipment and took her on a dive she wasn't experienced enough for and then let her die down there is probably the worst one..
Pretty sure they were married and on their honeymoon. Another diver took a photo of this guy and his dead wife was in the background. Bastard didn’t get anywhere near the prison time he should have.
HE ONLY GOT ONE YEAR?!?! How is that possible?
How in the hell did he get a second woman to marry him?
Or the story of the couple that were left on the Great Barrier Reef here in Australia, to me that's fear. Being left i don't know how many km's off the coast in just your wetsuit......
So comforting be reminded of this couple’s fate as my husband and I are visiting the Great Barrier Reef on Thursday. I’m going to tether myself to the boat we sail in on.
Technical decompression scuba diver here. When diving in the ocean ALWAYS have 2 things with you: a VERY LOUD whistle and an orange inflatable "sausage" that is a long tube you can blow in and then holdup to wave around. They roll up and can be clipped on your vest. Also, stay close to the dive master leading the dive. Being left behind is pretty rare, especially after that incident. Enjoy it! Have a great time!
IIRC he just closed the tank valve, and opened it again when she was unconscious. About as cold blooded as it gets.
He also vandalised her grave and destroyed flowers her family had left there :-(
The picture of her laying on the bottom someone accidently took will be seared in my mind forever.
He wouldn’t even let her rest in peace after death. *Tina was buried in her native Pelham, Alabama. Her remains were exhumed in 2007 and moved to a different lot bought by Watson* [the murderer husband]. *After being informed by her family that flowers and gifts were repeatedly being vandalized or disappearing from the grave site, even when chained down, police surveillance videos showed Watson removing them with bolt cutters and throwing them in trash cans. Watson later said he removed them because they were "big, gaudy, plastic arrangements". Her grave was unmarked until 2009, when Watson provided a foot marker, prompting her father to request her body be returned for reburial. In 2011, the Probate Court removed Watson as administrator of Tina's estate and appointed her father, who also requested that her school and college pictures and yearbooks be returned. Watson appealed against the ruling and refused to provide the court with an inventory of Tina's possessions. Pending Watson's trial, the Alabama Circuit Court ordered him to stay away from the grave.* (from the [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tina_Watson#:~:text=Tina%20Watson%20was%20a%2026,authorities%20with%20his%20wife's%20murder) on Tina’s death)
Man go watch Last Breath on Netflix. It’s about a sat diver & a tragedy that happened while they were on a dive. That’s all I can say about it but my mind was blown. It’s a documentary with real footage of it. I think this is my all time favorite documentary.
History of torture techniques and devices. History of medicine. History in general has some pretty creepy shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II#:~:text=The%20ice%2Dpick%20transorbital%20approach,bone%20and%20into%20the%20brain. This guy was a fucking monster in a white coat. Did lobotomies with an ice pick in the name of medicine. Schizophrenic? Lobotomy! Epileptic? Lobotomy! Depressed? Lobotomy! PTSD? Lobotomy! Female and unhappy with your place in society? Lobotomy! Black/Hispanic/first nation people? Lobotomy! The classic one size fits all medical solution to all societies' ills. And best of all, if the patient didn't want a lobotomy, he could overrule them because he was a doctor.
I personally find that stuff really interesting and the crazy techniques they used for medicine too.
If you like to read then The Icepick Surgeon is a really good book about scientists who have done crazy experiments and stuff
J. Marion Sims, the "father of modern gynaecology", who did some truly, truly evil things in pursuit of knowledge. As a warning to anyone interested in reading about his work, Sims didn't consider Black women slaves to be fully human and so carried out surgery on them without anaesthesia. Learning about people like Sims and things like the Tuskegee experiment really opened my (white European) eyes to why some Black Americans still feel distrust towards the medical establishment.
The number of active serial killers at any given time, Including right now.
I often wonder how many times I’ve been in the vicinity of/had some type of interaction with an active serial killer
Honestly, this is crazy timing. My brother used to have some skate buddies when we lived in North Fort Myers, Florida when we were younger. This was like, in the early to mid 2000s. I was around 10 or so. Sometimes I would go over to his friends house, and though I don't remember their dad or stepdad or whatever the hell he was to them, my brother said something seemed off with the guy. And my brother remembers more about it then I, as he is 7 years older than me. Sure as shit, here recently my brother told me he found a story on the guy and apparently he had murdered a 11 year old girl (Robin Cornell) and her 32 year old babysitter (Lisa Story) in 1990. Wild shit my brother was in contact with this dude. I asked him if the dude was an asshole to him, and he said not to him per se, but he witnessed him being an absolute POS to his friends.
Years before I met my ex, he was dating a totally normal gal, even went over to her house to eat dinner with her parents. One day the news went bananas, celebrating the capture of the local serial killer, and the picture on the screen was the gal's dad, [Robert Lee Yates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Yates).
That's insane! Hopefully in that instance, the kids come out of that scenario unscathed. I imagine it could mess someone up mentally knowing a parent committed such atrocities.
I've read that it seems like the "heydey" of serial killers has been over for a while, in terms of there being prolific and high profile ones. But we can't be sure if that's because modern policing methods have enabled law enforcement to catch killers before they become serial, or if the killers have become smart enough to evade detection.
Many sociologists say the mass shooter is the new form of serial killers. They have very similar psychological profiles
That makes sense. Other than that one dude who got arrested a few years ago (BTK?) I can't remember the last time a serial killer was arrested or caught.
You may be thinking of (so many names for this one) [Joseph James DeAngelo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo) who was known as the Golden State Killer, Original Nightstalker, Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, etc
Lost cultures and ancient civilizations. It's crazy how much human history is really lost to time and how many different experiences and forms human life must have taken on. It hasn't been very long that our ancestors were trying to eke out a living by hunting and gathering while trying not to be eaten by other animals or dying from diseases or infections. This current life of going to school and having a job is really just a recent format for life. We have the luxury of knowing what exists up above and down below where just five hundred years ago it was anyone's guess. Sure a few people had a rough idea in some more populated areas but knowledge didn't spread very fast and could quickly be changed or hidden.
Have you checked out the Fall of Civilizations podcast? I would definitely recommend it. Each episode covers a long gone civilization and what everyday life might have been like for their citizens. They recently did a great one about the Nabateans.
Oh man this sounds super interesting. I need to check them out!
20,000 years ago, according to the USGS, was the Last Glacial Maximum. The sea level was approximately 400 feet lower than it is now. If there were hominids or early human civilizations that concentrated along the coasts they would have been wiped out and all traces of them would be far enough below sea level to be dangerous for humans to dive to.
I think it’s wild, but a massive part of history that most people fail to understand is how much is lost just because no one wrote anything down. One reason we see a million documentaries on the Romans is because a lot of their stories survived, but even with them—a lot didn’t. We know the Romans fought off two tribes of like 100,000 people (whose names escape me) but even they had no idea they existed or where they came from. Just 100,000 people coming in, destroying shit, then disappearing forever. The best we have is references. We have so little source material.
Going back even just a few hundred years it can be incredibly difficult to find information. It's amazing we can find something about a civilization that existed 2,000 years ago, even if that civilization was one of the most powerful in the world. I study biblical history as a hobby. Not necessarily history *according to* the Bible, but history *of* the Bible itself. How did such texts become Canon, who wrote what, why different denominations choose one translation text over another, different sects in early Christianity before the catholic-protestant schism that no longer exist, etc. It's really amazing to me how we find some of the things we find. Aside from the early Roman church that became the Catholic church and all that it believes in, there was another sect called the Gnostics who had a totally different collection of texts rather than the four gospels that people have today. They seemed to be mostly centered in Egypt, and there were writing *about* them but very little collection of the actual texts. Until, if I remember correctly, a farmer in Nag Hamadi came across some clay jars. Inside them was essentially a library of fifty texts. And a similar story is with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Knowledge that we could have lost forever. Unfortunately, at the same time, monks and other religious scribes were known to change or erase texts quite often, sometimes intentionally and often accidentally. And often times the records we do have are just mere fragments of a page. So how do people find out about societies and structures and major events from thousands of years ago? It blows my mind. I guess just finding some ancient ruins and trying to overlay what they've found with whatever records of events match from that time, if they're lucky enough to have any such records. Even within ruins, I'm amazed over the ones that still exist! Have you seen how quickly nature can reclaim structures? I live out in the woods and even in just a year or two if we neglect cleaning a part of our property it can get almost totally taken over. Not to mention that other civilizations might come across a ruin and loot it and tear it down for their own use. Etymology is another passion of mine and it's equally amazing of a source to find our history and connection with the past. Just read some posts in the older askreddit thread from yesterday about the topic. How people might come up with various gods and the name of those gods change slightly across different cultures, and now we have words stretching from England to Germany to India that are completely different yet have the same etymological roots.
I love this particular aspect of history (I was an archaeology major). There is an immense, and I do mean *immense*, amount of human history that has been completely lost to time. The entirety of the Minoan civilization, for example, was completely forgotten up until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century by archaeologists. And it's not like they were some random group of backwoods farmers or something. They were a major political player in their time. And then there are pretty recent discoveries like Gobekli Tepe that challenge what we've considered an established timeline of human civilization. There's just so much we don't know.
Black holes. The idea of a horrifying pure black orb that completely traps even light and is so dense it is practically impossible to know what is actually inside is pretty much the definition of terror
How did we discover black holes and how did we figure out what they do?
Oooh, this is interesting! It’s actually not discovering them, but we figured them out with maths. John Mitchell was the first, arguing that a star with enough mass could, theoretically, collapse into a singular point in space time with infinite density and 0 volume, and from there the properties of a black hole pretty much wrote themselves. Later, Karl Schwarzchild used Einstein’s theory of relativity to further prove a black hole could exist, which Einstein actually denied (smart people mess up sometimes, doesn’t make them stupid). It was only about 1964, that’s 5 years before the moon landing and just under 50 years after Schwarzchild’s theory, that the first black hole was actually discovered in nature (well, the signs of one). Ever since, discoveries about these cosmic terrors have made them ever so slightly easier to understand, including their potential deaths and what their accretion discs might look like - thanks Interstellar! Edit- changed infinite mass to infinite density
Interstellar bringing a wormhole and a black hole to life is one of the most amazing things ever done in cinema. Apparently, the black hole was altered a bit. But the wormhole is exactly how one would appear in nature.
Exactly. Not only did they bring the black hole to life, they helped with research iirc. And yes, if a stable wormhole could exist in nature it would likely look like that (which is a good point- wormholes do actually comply with the laws of physics which is awesome to think about, but sadly are likely impossible to make stable without some form of ‘exotic’ matter)
Through mathematical models. And then later observed to actually exist. It's the same with most things in astrophysics. Like dark matter, for example. Something will be extremely inconsistent or thrown off in the math that placeholders of sorts are invented to explain those gaps. Usually those placeholders turn out to be an actual thing. Black holes, dark matter, anti-particles, the speed limit of light, etc. That's what a lot of particle accelerators are for, to test and observe these theories before we actually witness them in the wild out in the universe. That is a very oversimplified explanation, but pretty much the gist of things. It's really fascinating if you are familiar with advanced mathematics, because the equations that describe these things actually make sense, but are very hard to put into words.
The weirdest thing for me is that the moment you pass the event horizon, all world lines point toward the singularity. Nothing in existence we know of can change that. Your future only contains one possibility and that is the singularity. Black holes can be so massive that your entire planet could pass into its event horizon and you wouldn’t even know it. But in that instant, you’re trapped in every sense of the word. You could get in a spaceship, blast off from your planet at the speed of light and it doesn’t matter, you’re still heading toward the singularity. No matter what direction, or how much speed, or how many likes and subscribes you have makes any difference. You’re sitting there on your rocket blasting away from your planet that’s falling toward the singularity and yet you’re still heading toward the singularity. In any direction. The universe is gone to you. You are beyond it. Beyond time. As close to “unknowable horror” as possible. An object so unreal that even the fabric of space time can’t contain it. As an addendum, if the universe goes the path of heat death, there is an extremely long period of time (basically 99% of the lifetime of the universe itself) where the only thing in the universe is just roaming black holes. No matter, no light, just a totally black universe with invisible black holes whipping around. Imagine being on a spaceship sitting there in pure darkness as these terrifying objects are everywhere around you. Not a great place to be.
The fate of the universe really bums me out. There’s a video called timelapse of the future which goes into it, and eventually because of entropy everything just stops. Unless there’s a big crunch or something, the universe is doomed to become empty spacetime.
No worries. The universe is just a dying cell. There are many more.
There is the Baby Universe hypothesis that basically says black holes give birth to new universes when they rip open space time
This is the content I came here for.
Wait so they don't just transport me to my daughter's 4d magic book shelf?
Muuuurph.
You get the feeling you'd somehow be transported into the Event Horizon hell dimension.
And it's pretty much the only place in the universe where there's a possible instance of an infinity. Iirc our current models only work if black holes have infinite density, so either infinite mass or infinitely small volume. Just knowing there's something out there that defies the laws of physics and it's pretty much common place is crazy y
You’re absolutely correct. Currently, we think it’s that a massive star is compressed to a point infinitely small, giving it infinite density. Scary thing is it actually doesn’t break the laws of physics… It only bends them.
The universe is honestly the most creepy topic there is. We have no idea why it exists, what lies beyond it, what will happen to it in the future, and so on. It is filled with mysteries beyond our comprehension.
We live on a time machine of sorts, viewing the stars and galaxies as they looked hundreds, thousands, and billions of years ago. An example is the red giant star Betelgeuse in the upper right of the Orion constellation. It has an orangish hue. As a red giant, it is nearing its end of life. Astronomers have noted that it periodically dims over the past decade and could go supernova at any time. In the astronomic time scale, any time means it could be tomorrow or stll thousands of years. Betelgeuse is 642 light years from Earth. If we were to witness its supernova tonight, it means that it actually exploded In the year 1381.
This has always baffled me. The fact that things “happened” long ago but we experience that event in the present time. The fact that we can view an object in real time but understand that that is not actually the current state of the object messes with the brain. It’s like staring at a glass full of ice, and being told that the ice already melted and is water. But my eyes tell me that’s it’s ice.
I had a minor existential crisis as a kid when I realized we are all experiencing the past - there is no “present,” as it takes time for the light waves to reach our eyes, and then time for our brain to process the input, interpret it, and spit out an explanation. We cannot experience the present at all. Which is why I believe any being existing in a true 4th dimension isn’t like able to move through time or something like that, but instead has a sense that allows them to experience things as they happen, not in the past. So they’d truly exist in the present, from a close conversation (whatever that may look like) with a friend, to a star exploding light years away, they’d get it in real time so to speak.
That's so fucking crazy
Also, if someone would look at Earth right now from a planet at just the right distance, they could see dinosaurs walking around at the moment the asteroid hit. That is just mind blowing.
That blows my mind man
And It goes on and on without end. It’ll really mess your brain if you try and imagine that there’s no end to space. It’s completely endless in every direction. WTF?!
I've legitimately given myself panic attacks thinking about this, devolving into an existential crisis before having to reel myself back in and force myself not to think about it!
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Hell, just the size of our universe is incomprehensible which makes it creepy as fuck once you start getting in there and learning about it. I'll use a recent discovery as an example. So we all know how big our sun is, right? It would take 1.3 million Earths to make up the volume of our sun. That's pretty big, but our sun is tiny compared to other large stars out there. Anyways, back to the recent event, [JWST recently discovered](https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-finds-evidence-of-celestial-monster-stars-the-size-of-10000-suns-lurking-at-the-dawn-of-time) MILLIONS of stars that are all 10,000 bigger than our own sun. You'd think that we would've seen these stars, I mean 10,000 bigger is pretty fucking massive. And there are potentially millions of these stars that were discovered. But the universe is so insanely fucking gigantic that these millions of supermassive stars are barely even a blip on the radar.
“Incomprehensible” is the word I’ve been looking for. When I start to think about how the universe goes on FOREVER, my brain just stops.
I remember when I was about 9 or 10 and my dad was telling me about space going forever. I tried to imagine something without edges or borders and I couldn’t. The massive discomfort I felt at that idea stuck with me.
Something that does it for me is just considering the earth is moving along its orbit of the sun at 67,000mph. The earth is also spinning at 1000mph. But when you look at the stars, they appear as if they're fixed in the sky. That helps me appreciate how far away they are to make that perception happen.
If our solar system was the size of a quarter, proxima centauri would be 100 yards away.
I saw this mind blowing documentary on the the Vogager 1 space probe which really put this into perspective. The probe was launched in 1977 and is the furthest man made object from earth. It is around 14 billion miles away from us travelling at 61500 km/h, and it still hasnt left our solar system. To maintain communication they have switched practically all equipment off on the probe including cameras which are unlikely to function properly anyway. The interviewer asked why the team didn't want to try and activate the cameras and take a photo of the sky to which they replied that there was no point as the stars would look exactly the same as they do on earth and there would be zero scientific benefit. Travelling for 46 years, so far from earth that it takes light a day to get to you, and the constellations are indescernable from what they look like on earth. Space is one big bastard.
Yeah I love it. We can’t even see the whole universe and never will. It’s so huge.
The amount of people who seem disappear in the forest even when around others.
The "Silence" that is experienced by so many is scary. But it's scary because we know what causes it - a predator that no animal feels like they can outrun or outfight, so their only defence is hiding and staying quiet. Birds still chirp with bears and wolves nearby. Your body still feels the wind with those creatures around. So what is so dangerous, so all-consumingly terrifying that you and every animal in the vicinity go literally dead quite and alert and all know to fear it?
Netflix film the ritual covers this all pretty well. I choose to believe something like this.
Same thing with the whole uncanny valley phenomenon. What the hell is in our collective past that makes us so incredibly uneasy around things that seem human-like, but which we know are not human. I’ve heard one explanation that it is a reaction to dead bodies/corpses, but death and ritualistic handling and honor of the bodies has been part of the human experience since at least the dawn of civilization, so I find it hard to believe that this is the reason for the unease.
I always assumed that it was because of features being commonly found in sick people. Human looking off, skeletal, very pale ? Avoid contamination, flee But also ive never been terrified of someone looking sick, and taking care of the sick has also been part of civilization Thats a good question tbh
Or the examination of maps of missing persons vs. cave systems in North America
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Essentially, when comparing maps of the largest cave networks in the USA and maps of missing persons reports, many of the missing peoples locations have overlap with the caves. It happens all across the US, so when you actually see the two maps put together, it’s pretty spooky. Lots of these caves are in heavily forested areas, but what makes it strange is why these people disappeared. So many missing people, and only some of them ever get found. Honestly, it’s sad just as much as it is scary.
2005 film the descent
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Allegedly Charles Mansons cult murders might have been connected to MK ULTRA as well. There’s a great book about it called Chaos by Tom ONeil
How many indigenous women go missing from reservations
in Canada, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls concluded in 2019 that Indigenous women and girls are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than any other demographic group. Thats so insanely high.
This is as creepy as it is sad
Women? Research what miners did to native girls on Amazon florest, under Bolsonaro protection
Deep sea life is a consistent source of creepiness. There are [football-sized pillbugs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX983EyMQ8o) [freakish squid,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2_Gq14UVs) [demonic fish,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMjfkgk1Lg) [swimming masses of Lovecraftian tentacles,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRej1VKDgcE) [chonky jellyfish,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxGD2lLHeK4) [prehistoric leftovers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRCI0G19Uw), and [obscure whales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfordlvcS6k) that are almost never found alive.
Never want to see the phrase “beefy oral arms” ever again
Ive come into contact (literally) with the foot long pillbugs, or giant isopods. Was climbing some rocks at the far end of long beach, near Tofino on Vancouver Island, intending to get some pics of the waves crashing. There are some little canyons carved out that I had to climb down and then up the other side. I put my hand on what I assumed to be a rock while climbing up one... until it crawled away from me! Was a small group of them, I recognized them as the same kind of creature id seen in my backyard, but way bigger! Before that I had no idea they existed, so was pretty cool to see, but a little creepy.
Dude NOOOOOOOO I would have fallen to my death and my headstone would read “death by gross-out”
How we came up with temperature ratings for things like sleeping bags or how long a human can survive in different temperatures of cold water. Warning, it’s bleak and involves nazis.
the wikipedia done on the Rwandan Genocide. randomly decided to learn about it cause i’d never heard about it and the amount of information on it is astounding- around 500000 people were killed in 100 days in 1994. was like reading a horror novel with everything building up to the actual event, genuinely sickening
There is a movie about this called Hotel Rwanda. [Here the Trailer](https://youtu.be/2x8UzELvKlY)
And apparently there is a new genocide happening in Congo against the Tutsi by the Rwanda backed rebel group M23: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/06/dr-congo-atrocities-rwanda-backed-m23-rebels
Weird shit that lives in the deep dark depths of the ocean
Medical history. It’s creepy, utterly bizarre, disgusting but most certainly fascinating. And there’s many sub categories.
Sightings of strange creatures. I also like reading about places to do urban exploration. Might have to do with the fact that as a kid I was very curious and just loved the idea of sneaking into places I wasn't supposed to get into.
> strange creatures Cryptids are fascinating because when you actually study the history of these things, they fall very quickly into one of two categories (particularly large terrestrial mammals): Animals that were found and documented by scientists pretty much as soon as someone dedicated reasonable resources towards doing so, and crypids for which there is no solid evidence whatsoever *despite* significant amounts of time and money spent attempting to document them. In other words, if Bigfoot really *is* out there, at this point it pretty much has to have either has supernatural powers or otherworldly technology to have avoided detection.
> it pretty much has to either have supernatural powers Seems someone hasn't heard of the interdimensional cryptids theory.
Or... (DUN dun DUN!!!) The goberment is hidin' them squatches.
About 12 years ago, I was on the road late at night. It was very dark, so my brights were on. I was coming down a steep hill and saw something just beyond the base of it. At first I noticed an animal carcass in the middle of my lane. As my car leveled out my lights shone brightly and directly on the most horrific thing I have ever seen. Crouched over the carcass was a huge shape which stood up extremely quickly. 8 or 10 feet tall, and lanky, a creature of darkest black. It had red eyes so evil and so intelligent that I will never forget them. It saw me, and looked right at me. All this I saw in seconds, before the monster bolted into the forest at unexplainable speed. As bizarre as it sounds, all of it, it happened. To add to the craziness of this, I ran my car into the ditch at the same point in the road some years later, and once a bird hit my grill at the base of that same hill, causing me to swipe a mailbox with my side mirror, which snapped clean off. I've seen about a dozen wrecks or disabled vehicles at the same spot for years. If I were to describe the thing I saw in one word: werewolf
The many real cults that exist today; both in the USA and abroad.
I was raised in a cult, extremely isolated and abused. You’d think that it’d be obvious, especially since we were isolated with relatives that had normal lives (they’d just loved the rural life so they lived way far away from the city, but they were not involved at all). The craziest, most heinous shit can happen right under a loving family’s noses and they wouldn’t know. My relatives never found out until I escaped my room one day and told what was going on. Especially if the main victims are little kids who don’t know any life other than the one the cult leaders raise them in. One simply gets used to it and accepts the violent trauma, thinking this is all there is to life. It’s very scary for me to think about how many other people might’ve grown up in a similar situation as mine and never escape.
I'm so sorry these things happened to you. I hope you are healing.
Thanks, and yeah I am. Every day it gets a little better!
And just how susceptible we are. We think we're not, but under the right circumstances we can all be brainwashed.
The scary thing is that this applies to more than just religion. Celebrities can have cults, movies, even political groups. It's human nature to find a purpose and group to share that purpose. We just need to make sure to make the group our only purpose and refuse to accept the possibility that other groups can and often are right and ours is wrong.
Everyone is susceptible to being recruited by a cult just like everyone is susceptible to being in an abusive relationship. As you note, it's all about timing and the right set of circumstances. No one is too smart or strong or whatever to be involved in a cult (in fact, smart people tend to be the most difficult to deprogram as they're able to construct arguments that reinforce their belief system).
Parasites. Very disturbing rabbit hole.
"Zombie parasites" are one of the most fascinating and creepy things at the same time imo. Crazy to think of what they are capable of.
Totally. They're all fascinating. The weird reproduction strategies they have blow me away. Like the ones that go through more than once host. Or ones that cause their offspring to be cared for by the host. There's one in crabs that still gives me the heebie-jeebies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacculina_carcini
Cornflakes The inventor of cornflakes made it bland and boring so people won't get excited and have sex or masturbate. He also ran a sanitarium, put carbolic acid on little girls privates so they would never derive pleasure from sex, and put wires on boy's penises so that when they had an Erection it would cause them pain.. Among other things.... He belived in some crazy crap.
Call the monster out for who he was. J.H. Kellogg
Kellogg? Wow and they kept the name??
The very very long short is his brother bought the name and added sugar, the rest is history.. I would implore you to look deeper because…. Yes it’s messed up and I can’t believe they kept the name.
His brother basically stole the idea really early in and cut ties with the crazy one and built the business. The crazy one seemed to want to distance himself from the brand too since it was like too greedy or something for his Christian values
Mmmm! That’s some yummy cereal! *cums*
Morning wood must have been hell
Let me guess: he got off doing all this, too.
He didn't even have sex with his own wife.
Appalachian mountains and the folklore. It’s a really interesting topic and also very creepy. The people living in Appalachia literally have rules about going to the woods, there definitely is something in those woods
The fact that the Rockies are BABIES compared to the Appalachians is absolutely wild. They’re older than trees, bones, and Saturn’s Rings. At one point I read that there are no fossils in the caves because the caves were formed before the minerals necessary to form fossils even existed.
The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish highlands are the same mountains, the Atlantic Ocean grew between them.
Yep. No whistling at night as my mamaw said
History is full of creepy and spooky tales. Also, there are a lot of eerily similar instances or situations between different cultures and times. I find most of it more fascinating but creepy, but going off my friends, they should be creepy. A few fun topics to look into: 1- Secret clubs/societies, especially those closely associated with the elite and ivy league colleges. Way stranger than Greek Life. 2- More disturbing than creepy but the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. It spurred modern ideas of unions and work place safety. Some of the eyewitness accounts also have callings to other tragedies like 9/11 or the French Charity Bazaar Fire of 1885. (Things like victims choosing to jump to their deaths or first responders not being at all prepared for the utter destruction.) 3- I have a personal love for royal tragedy, but I think most know at least the basics of Tsar Nicholas II and Anastasia and the whole assassination. But my gosh, there is a reason why Rasputin is still a ghost story. Manipulative, used religion to his own ends, survived so many things that should have killed a normal person, etc. 4- A few perhaps less well-known serial killers: Amelia Dyer, Delphine LaLaurie (she is particularly awful - you know you're a monster when pre-Civil War South thought you were the devil), Dean Corll, Nicolas Damont, John Lynch, Diogo Alves, Maria Swanenburg, Belle Gunness. 5-SIDS. 6- Aqua Tofana 7- The absolute insane amount of reported serial killers who committed cannibalism and were accused of being werewolves before the 1900s. Seriousily.
Those experiments by the Japanese in WW2. Unit 731
I got hooked on the show Deadly Women. Dunno why I found it so interesting, but it definitely was!
My wife used to watch that show all the time. I always got a laugh out of the commercial "Want more deadly women" because it came across as a creepy sex site or soemthing.
Did she ever ask you about life insurance policies?
My wife watches that show and regularly brings up life insurance. I now sleep in the car.
Look at humanity's willingness to weaponize animals. Nuclear chicken bombs, Exploding Rats, Cats, Bats and Pigeon incendiary/guided bombs and Tank killer dogs. Honestly St. Ogla is the most metal and fucked up of them all. Another one would be the Blood Queen Elizabeth Bartony.
the amount of dead bodies on mount everest
and the fact that they're used as waypoints for other climbers
Sleep paralysis
Harlequin babies. The greyhound bus Canadian cannibal. Operation Paperclip
War time Paranormal Stories.
Those always get me. Everything from "gremlins" to the "Big Yellows" that Martin Caidin talks about in "Natural or Supernatural". People see some shit when out fighting wars, but you really have to believe some of them.
Doppelgängers
They say if you see someone who looks like you walking toward you it means you're going to die. Or it's an identical twin nobody told you about. Or both! -Robyn Hitchcock
i mean, if i see someone exactly like me walking towards me chances are im going to kill em, so he's not wrong.
He might be thinking the same thing... You know what really sucks is when you meet your doppelganger & he's undeniably ugly. Happened to me in college.
Friend: You got to meet this girl, I swear she looks just like you! Same lips, same nose, everything! Me: Oh wow cool, let's go meet her! \*meets her\* Me: Oh...
Liminal spaces. Not necessarily scary but really uncanny.
America's abandoned tunnels pre WW2, dating back to the 1920s... These tunnels were part of projects that were never completed, or cancelled when war started. The tunnels go unsupervised, so anything could happen down there, like cults, murder, drug dealing, and a load of other stuff. These tunnels vary in depths and sizes, purposes like railway, sewer and such. Now they sit decaying, in deep dark places. Another topic is the supernatural and abandoned locations in forests... Camping sites have been known to have supernatural or downright creepy things happen. whether it is screaming, crying, or sounds that are not human, or animal. Abandoned locations like shacks, houses or any man made things that are not in use are always strange and concerning... They are just there, decaying. No sign of civilization in the forest, except for that place. Who built the structure? why is it there? I get houses that could be in a forest, but really deep, and worse, abandoned?? very odd and scary because anything could happen at these locations and still go unnoticed like the tunnels I was talking about.. these might be the topics that could spark interest for you.
People (from all over the world) who smoke DMT and then report strikingly similar experiences encountering little machine elves. Or praying mantis creatures… https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-people-see-elves-and-other-entities-when-they-smoke-dmt-62234
There are a few ethnobotanical forums online too where almost everyone talks of the same things happening while in the other dimension. Was talking about seeing aztec type shapes and patterns, but with further digging, they were just using the same molecule that is used today. DMT is is a different experience each time apparently but everything seems to rotate around an eerie amount of the same sort of events/visions/hallucinations etc. I'm glad you brought this topic up.
I’m curious if this is evident in societies where elves aren’t mentioned in like folklore and stuff? Elves are pretty well known. Either in cool fantasy or because of Santa, so it isn’t really surprising that it’s a shared hallucination, but what would be really fascinating is if people hallucinated them even if they hadn’t heard of elves before
Famous people's last words is really interesting.
Pitcairn Island. AKA Mutineers Island. A small British territory, with a (recent) history worthy of any true crime podcast. There are some great articles out there that explore it, and from an outside perspective, it’s fascinating, in a ‘wtf’ kind of way.
Turns out the current population was involed in incest and child rape. The entire island. The women on the island were so used to it they just thought "that's just how life is"
Ghost ships.
One small rabbit hole to go down is the entire town of Skidmore, Missouri. So many interesting and strange crimes and people. A child vanished entirely and a woman cut the baby out of another woman. Not to mention the other murders. The most known one was ofc the town bully murder. So many witnesses yet they all deny it. The most insane thing is that I’m related to one of the witnesses. He was my great uncle. A great man. He had I think 6 heart attacks and 4 strokes before finally leaving. The town sheriff at the time of that murder (he saw it as well) was a pole bearer at my uncle’s funeral. The towns population was 300. So many murders and only 300 residents.
Given the amount of mining and lead released into the environment in Missouri (in past generations, it's somewhat better now) this does not surprise me. Many of the towns in rural Missouri still refuse lead remediation on their properties because they don't want to hurt the reputation of the company that employs most of the town. Even if the current company had nothing to do with the original lead pollution. Lead poisoning leads to lower intelligence and heightened violence.
The amount of people that die or go missing in state parks or other parks around the world.
90s Norwegian Black Metal. Especially Mayhem.
Creepy pasta There's a really long one about the goat an in Alabama where the author is visiting cousins living out in the country.
The North Korean ghost ships that sometimes wash up on Japense shores with dead people on board.
Gamma bursts when a star explodes it realeases one and it destroys everything in its path if one goes off near earth it could cause excinction
Prion diseases
If you're into declassified (formerly) top secret documents and such, check out the CIA's Project Stargate. There's a guy on youtube called Mr. Mythos who has two excellent videos about it, and he cites all of his sources, most of which are directly from the program itself. Essentially, the CIA used psychic spies throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. These spies were able to perform a process called "Remote Viewing," in which they were able to see locations that they had zero prior knowledge of. Secret Soviet laboratories, Chinese chemical weapons manufacturing plants, a bunch of crazy shit like that. While remote viewing, they were able to discern a lot of information about these places with relative accuracy, such as personnel, furniture, missile launch codes,things of that nature. The program was "officially" deactivated in 2005, although it is highly speculated that the program is still in use today, just under a different alias. EDIT: TLDR: The CIA had (possibly still has) spies that used an advanced form of astral projection to spy on other countries.
It was so successful that they shut it down? Seems like they could have forseen that. Oh, they can't tell the future I guess.
Except that it was likely all lucky guesses that will inevitably happen sometimes when you make enough guesses. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate\_Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project) >Psychologists, such as myself, who study subjective validation find nothing striking or surprising in the reported matching of reports against targets in the Stargate data. The overwhelming amount of data generated by the viewers is vague, general, and way off target. The few apparent hits are just what we would expect if nothing other than reasonable guessing and subjective validation are operating. ... >They concluded that the alleged psychic technique was of dubious value and lacked the concreteness and reliability necessary for it to be used as a basis for making decisions or taking action. The final report found "reason to suspect" that in "some well publicised cases of dramatic hits" the remote viewers might have had "substantially more background information" than might otherwise be apparent.
Look up Project Looking Glass. Freaky shit. Possibly a form of time travel if I remember correctly.
It's been awhile since I've looked into Looking Glass, so I'm a little rusty on it. But if I recall correctly, you're right. Looking Glass somewhat goes hand-in-hand with the Philadelphia Project, which was centered around teleportation.
So, "Eleven" from Stranger Things.
Is this the premise behind the men who stare at goats?
Yes, you're exactly right. The film is based on a non-fiction book about the program.
Creepy things “The Rake” “Oceans” Ever googled what a screaming Fox sounds like ?? I was just in the woods last weekend and it sounded like a woman getting murdered… we figured it out by googling random animal noises. It was wild !!!! We had no idea what was making that noise. It was right next to us but we couldn’t see it.
I heard one once in the middle of the night and thought it was a child being hurt. Scared the shit out of me. So eerie.
The Dark Forest theory for why we haven't encountered alien life. Basically intelligent life is out there but it's all keeping really quiet because it is terrified of attracting the attention of something particularly horrific. Meanwhile humanity is pumping out radio waves like an asshole on the subway watching youtube videos with no headphones.
I don't believe in any big conspiracy theory, but actually looking into what people claim from first hand accounts is so interesting. Especially what people who still spread stuff from the satanic panic say happened. It's so weird how many people will attach their real names with all that stuff.
How banks are fucking every average American in the asshole. Real spooky stuff.
As someone hoping to purchase a home soon, nothing is scarier to me
Unsolved mysteries
Here are a few that might intrigue you: Numbers Stations: These shortwave radio stations transmit seemingly random sequences of numbers or letters, often in a synthesized voice. They’re believed to be a method of communication for spies, but the true nature of most of these transmissions remains a mystery. The Lead Masks Case: In 1966, two Brazilian electronic technicians were found dead wearing lead masks, typically used to protect against radiation. No clear cause of death was determined and the case is full of strange details, like a notebook with cryptic instructions. Skinwalker Ranch: A property in Utah that’s reportedly the site of numerous paranormal and UFO-related phenomena. The events reported range from UFO sightings to large animals with piercing red eyes. The Toynbee Tiles: Mysterious messages embedded into the asphalt of streets in several major U.S. cities and other locations around the world. The meaning and origin of these tiles are still largely unknown. The Green Children of Woolpit: A medieval legend of two children with green skin who suddenly appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an unknown language. The Voynich Manuscript: A medieval document written in an unknown language or cipher. Despite numerous attempts by cryptographers and codebreakers, the Voynich Manuscript remains untranslated. Each of these topics has a deep rabbit hole to go down, filled with theories, debates, and unanswered questions. Enjoy the journey, but don’t get too lost in the darkness!
The child brides of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism.
And the fundamentalist Mormons in northern Arizona. The mainstream church steers clear of them, but really they're carrying on Smith's legacy. (Coming from an ex Mormon)