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Clarington Grey posted:The Murder of Shanda Sharer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-kzuZ7Dwc At about 5:30 one of the killers comes face-to-face with the mom/sister of Shanda.In-loving-tense. Mom's self-control is unparalleled.
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Zebrabutt posted:no one ever watch. I agree, curiosity got the better of me a couple years ago, and watching that video is probably my greatest regret. Countless goatses and rotten dot coms couldn't have prepared me for the feeling I had after watching it on a late night. Anyway, here's some more unnerving wiki pages for when you're finished watching that video: Probably pretty well known, but disturbing nonetheless, a mass suicide considered the worst non natural atrocity before 9/11 and origin of the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown It's a pretty lengthy article, the meat of it is the Deaths in Jonestown section. Also a download link to an audio file of Jim Jones' final sermon. I think I downloaded it once many moons ago, but chickened out and deleted it before getting past the first sentence. And a city known for having a metric poo poo-ton of twins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A2ndido_God%C3%B3i Thought to have been caused by being the lucky city that Josef "the Angel of Death" Mengele (a disturbing article in its own right) went to after fleeing Nazi Germany. I swear the page used to be longer than that with a picture of all the twins there, though it's still an interesting read.
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I didn't even check, I just assumed it would be another one of those links that I'd click and regret forever, and I've finally learned that lesson. Ten thousand times bitten, twice shy, I guess.
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toanoradian posted:It does however, lead me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty_murder, which is incredibly disgusting. Wikipedia posted:The three men were convicted of manslaughter because the remains could not identify exactly how she died. Manslaughter? loving hell, sometimes I really don't understand the justice system. I mean Jesus Christ that's hosed up. 
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NaDy posted:Manslaughter? loving hell, sometimes I really don't understand the justice system. I mean Jesus Christ that's hosed up. China's justice system is... interesting. You can literally get away with murder if you pay off the family of your victim.
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Lonely Virgil posted:China's justice system is... interesting. You can literally get away with murder if you pay off the family of your victim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild
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While we're talking about monetary value of life, the EPA and other federal agencies have their own values of a human life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Estimates_of_the_value_of_life From a policy and economics standpoint it makes perfect sense why there is a need for a dollar amount of a life, but it's still pretty unnerving. I doubt many people would be against spending $8 million to save someone trapped in a cave or something, but there are probably more people who would oppose spending $8 billion enforcing regulations that would statistically prevent a thousand deaths.
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Lately things have been slow at work so I've been reading about disasters (mostly aviation). The plane crashes here are some that have stuck with me, mostly because they are human caused as opposed to mechanical malfunctions. Maybe don't read these if you have a fear of flying (sorry for the length): Helios Airways flight 522 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522) Ground engineer screws up a routine repair resulting in the passengers and crew passing out at 12,000 ft. Pilots also ignored the oxygen warning as the pressure dropped in the plane. With the pilots passed out the plane flies on autopilot until it runs out of fuel and crashes into a mountain. 121 are killed. Two F16s are scrambled and can see the pilots and passengers slumped over in the plane as it's flying with the oxygen bags dangling above them. A flight attendant who just began flying lessons wakes up moments before the crash and tries to regain control of the plane but it's too late. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771) A PSA airline employee is fired, gets pissed off and boards a plane with a revolver. He breaks into the cockpit and shoots the pilots and one off duty pilot who was a passenger, then nose dives the plane into the mountains. Everything is captured on the cockpit voice recorder. 43 are killed. PSA Flight 182 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182) Pilots of a fully loaded 727 fail to notice a Cessna directly in their flight path as they approach for landing. The planes collide and the 727 crashes into a San Diego neighborhood. Everyone on the 727 and Cessna die (137) and another 9 are killed on the ground when the plane impacts. The CVR transcripts always creep me out. Some horrifying eye witness accounts are here: http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/06/16/psa-crash-1978/ Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120) Rear tire explodes on takeoff and catches on fire. Pilots inexplicably raise the flaming landing gear into its retracted position. The tire fire rapidly spreads throughout the back of the plane, destroying control capabilities and compromises the airframe. The bottom of the plane is eventually weakened by the fire to the point that passengers can be seen falling out of the bottom as the pilots try to make an emergency landing back at the airport. The pilots completely lose control and all 261 on board are killed. Last one : EgyptAir Flight 990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990) At cruising altitude the pilot of the 767 goes to the bathroom leaving the copilot in charge. The copilot repeatedly says "I rely on God" as he turns the engines on idle and points the nose of the plane down. The pilot eventually comes in from his bathroom break and the copilot shuts off the engines all together. By himself the pilot cannot correct the nose dive and the plane reaches a speed of almost mach 0.9 before hitting the water. All 217 on board are killed. Non-aviation: Goiânia accident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident) Idiots raid an abandoned radiotherapy office and steal an intensely radioactive piece of equipment. They eventually break open the equipment and hand out the deadly caesium chloride source to friends and family like it's candy. Several adults and a child die from the radiation another 249 are exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Sankebetsu brown bear incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident) Crazy rear end bear in Japan terrorizes a town killing 7. The event effectively transforms the village into a ghost town, some of the survivors go on to be professional bear hunters as revenge.
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slow_twitch posted:
"On September 13, 1987, the guard in charge of daytime security, Voudireinão da Silva, did not show up to work, using a sick day to attend a cinema screening of Herbie Goes Bananas with his family." Best detail included in any article posted yet.
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slow_twitch posted:Lately things have been slow at work so I've been reading about disasters (mostly aviation). The plane crashes here are some that have stuck with me, mostly because they are human caused as opposed to mechanical malfunctions. Maybe don't read these if you have a fear of flying (sorry for the length): I've spent many a day horrifying myself with these lists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll I'm surprised you didn't include the Tenerife airport disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster - two fully loaded 747s (Pan Am and KLM) collide due to fog/no radar/poor communication during takeoff and landing (respectively). 583 fatalities, only 61 survivors. This is the reason that all tower controllers in the world must speak fluent English and all tower communication is in English. Nearly 600 people in one accident. 
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Suzuki Method posted:This was literally posted TWO posts above you. Sorry, I just get very incensed when it comes to Dyatlov Pass Incident, so I needed a quick excuse to post.  To make up, the Bronze Age Collapse is pretty creepy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse Basically, between pretty much all Greek and Middle-Eastern civilization outside of Egypt just collapses during the transition between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Highly advanced city-states, nations and cultures are laid to waste during a century and a half. The few remnants of writing that remain are apocalyptic in tone: Wikipedia posted:My father, behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities(?) were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops and chariots(?) are in the Land of Hatti, and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka?...Thus, the country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that came here inflicted much damage upon us. Of course, the proposed explanations make it sound kind of boring, but that's mysteries for you. BravestOfTheLamps has a new favorite as of 23:16 on Dec 14, 2012 |
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Fatal Familial Insomnia. A super-rare, incurable brain disease that causes death by insomnia. Sleeping pills only make it worse.quote:One of the most notable cases is that of Michael Corke, a music teacher from Chicago, Illinois. He began to have trouble sleeping almost immediately after his 40th birthday in 1991; following these first signs of insomnia, his health and state of mind quickly deteriorated as his condition worsened. Eventually, sleep became completely unattainable, and he was soon admitted to the state hospital. Medical professionals, at first unsure of the nature of his illness, initially diagnosed multiple sclerosis; in a bid to provide temporary relief in the later stages of the disease, physicians induced a coma with the use of sedatives, to no avail as his brain still failed to shut down completely. Corke died in 1992 a month before his 41st birthday, by which time he had been completely sleep-deprived for six months.
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Whimskey posted:Fatal Familial Insomnia. A super-rare, incurable brain disease that causes death by insomnia. Sleeping pills only make it worse. Scary sleep related disorders creep me the gently caress out. Moreso after Long Dream. Junji Ito, so uh  e: For content, I've been hugely fascinated (or rather deeply humbled and terrified, I suppose) by Krakatoa ever since I learned about it from The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, of all things. Krakatoa Wikipedia posted:The Krakatoa volcanoes erupted and exploded in 1883, causing massive tsunamis and killing an estimated 36,417 people, while simultaneously destroying over two-thirds of Krakatoa island. The explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history, with reports of it being heard up to 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from its point of origin. The shock waves from the explosion were recorded on barographs around the globe. Wikipedia posted:The most notable eruptions of Krakatoa culminated in a series of massive explosions over August 26–27, 1883, which were among the most violent volcanic events in recorded history.   
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TheChaosDunk posted:Probably pretty well known, but disturbing nonetheless, a mass suicide considered the worst non natural atrocity before 9/11 and origin of the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" But they didn't actually drink Kool-Aid, they drank Flavor Aid. 
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Arrath posted:
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded is a pretty good book on the eruption and the social effects thereof, if you're interested in reading more about it.
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slow_twitch posted:Sankebetsu brown bear incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Man-eaters Included are a tigress and leopard that each killed an estimated 400-some people.
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Joramun posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_medical_experiments SimianNinja posted:Likewise: 
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TheHistoryChannel posted:This one is less scary than all the horrible poo poo posted but its un-nerving that if you get arrested you might be locked up with someone like this. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson_(prisoner)#section_2_
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Toriori posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-kzuZ7Dwc Wow, I felt that boiling rage. It made me nervous.
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Lonely Virgil posted:China's justice system is... interesting. You can literally get away with murder if you pay off the family of your victim. That's Hong Kong, not China. In '99. Sounds to me like less corruption, and more those times where the occasional nutcase slips through the prosecution-defense system. Content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta Oh hey, I was on the ground floor of this. I even vaguely remember hearing about his stupid attention seeking exploits on these forums a few years back. The unnerving thing was I never expected internet psychos to actually escalate to what they were threatening.
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Lord Lambeth posted:Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded is a pretty good book on the eruption and the social effects thereof, if you're interested in reading more about it. Awesome, I'll check that out, thanks.
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This thread is awesome, I've killed a few hours today just reading stuff off of Wikipedia. Serial killers, cult leaders, unsolved mysteries, gruesome stuff, it's really fascinating, I just have to keep saying to myself that it's not weird. People like scary movies, right?slow_twitch posted:Sankebetsu brown bear incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident)  Content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia MS Estonia sunk in the Baltic sea in 94, claiming 852 lives. Apparently the bow doors(?) broke and gulped in water, but the conspiracies around it are pretty interesting. Everything from weapons shipments escorted by the US army to mysterious un-lit rescue boats leaving the sinking wreckage, or a collision with a submarine or even a sink orchestrated by the mafia/secret service. These all sound kinda far-fetched at first, but after the official investigations all diving has been banned around the accident area. After the victims' families requested for the ship and bodies to be lifted up from the depths for proper land burial of the victims and throughout investigation for the cause of the wreck, the Swedish government opted to cover the sunken ship in a concrete casing. According to the wiki page they have dumped thousands of tons of pebble on top of the site, but I don't think it's been encased. The associated governments have interfered with independent researchers trying to figure it out. I don't think we'll ever know what really happened. 
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junan_paalla posted:I don't think we'll ever know what really happened. Considering that there had been several less fatal incidents with bow visors on passenger ferries in the preceding years, we know exactly what happened: flawed design, lacking maintenance/inspection, and a general disregard for safety. (There was at least one incident where the captain returned to port and flat out refused to reembark until the visor was welded shut.) Also, draconian UFO dracula-obamas from Mu. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 12:47 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Pretty much anything related to the Cold War is scary, but this page in particular gets me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle I think it's the matter-of-fact caption on the testing image that looks like something out of a science fiction movie.  "Testing of the Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles, all eight (ten capable) fired from only one missile. Each line represents the path of a warhead which, if it were live, would detonate with the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-style weapons"
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U.T. Raptor posted:Along those lines: And were both killed by the same man.
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The plot synopsis for the movie "A Serbian Film" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film I feel like I should be arrested just for reading the Wikipedia page about this movie.
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snucks posted:One of the most hosed up and frustrating things about these is how fruitless and unnecessary all of these experiments were. With the exception of the hypothermia stuff, these people died in horrible horrible ways for no good reason I recall the data, at least from Unit 731's hosed up experiments, was collected and used by the US for biological and medical research. However, they granted the guys in charge of the unit with immunity from prosecution. One even became a CEO of a medical company. Completely hosed up, I know. But, medical data was at least gathered, if that makes you feel a bit better. Still, the guys in charge of that unit are/were sick fucks and forever will remembered as such. Content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis_experiments_in_Guatemala What's this? Oh, just a government program where they infected/failed to treat unknowing people with syphilis. You know, to study the effects and progression! Nothing wrong that, no sir.
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Glasgow Kiss posted:Content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment On a similar subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_medical_experiments_in_the_United_States Just some of the highlights: quote:From 1913 to 1951, Dr. Leo Stanley, chief surgeon at the San Quentin Prison, performed a wide variety of experiments on hundreds of prisoners at San Quentin. Many of the experiments involved testicular implants, where Stanley would take the testicles out of executed prisoners and surgically implant them into living prisoners. In other experiments, he attempted to implant the testicles of rams, goats, and boars into living prisoners. quote:From 1946 to 1953, at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, in an experiment sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Quaker Oats corporation, 73 mentally disabled children were fed oatmeal containing radioactive calcium and other radioisotopes, in order to track "how nutrients were digested". The children were not told that they were being fed radioactive chemicals and were told by hospital staff and researchers that they were joining a "science club". People are (rightly) appalled at WWII era human experimentation in Nazi Germany and Japan, but some seriously hosed up things also went on in the US, even well after the war.
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Zebrabutt posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov You warn them about the Denpropetrovsk Maniacs video but not the videos of Vladimir Demikhov's two headed dogs? I mean, yeah, they're not as disturbing as seeing someone be brutally murdered but they're still pretty hosed up. For the curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZThr3POlQ&t=1m11s (it's prob a little NMS if seeing living two headed dogs freaks you out)
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The Mentalizer posted:For the curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZThr3POlQ&t=1m11s (it's prob a little NMS if seeing living two headed dogs freaks you out) Less scary and more unnerving, the most extreme points of the Earth list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Earth I find it unnerving how people can live in these really remote locations. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen Also something about how small and limited our global living space is yada yarda
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The Mentalizer posted:You warn them about the Denpropetrovsk Maniacs video but not the videos of Vladimir Demikhov's two headed dogs? I mean, yeah, they're not as disturbing as seeing someone be brutally murdered but they're still pretty hosed up. Oh, holy butts, I thought that's what he was talking about before. The clip that floored me was the living, disembodied head. I'm pretty sure it was from the same source. Yeah, gently caress that.
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slow_twitch posted:Goiânia accident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident) Wikipedia posted:[Alves] inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.  Can you imagine what would have happened if he'd succeeded?Here's by far the most unnerving article I've ever read: Hinterkaifeck A family of five along with a maid living on a farm in rural Germany are brutally murdered one day in 1922 with a pickaxe. The police never found the murderer. But what makes it so unnerving are some of the details. A few days before the murders, the father found a trail of footprints in the snow leading from the forest nearby to the farm but no footprints leading back. There were also footsteps in the attic and a strange newspaper the father found one day. In retrospect, all were signs of a crazy person sneaking onto your farm to lie in wait and murder you in your sleep but it was 1922 so maybe things were different back then and people let crazy would-be murderers wander freely in and out of their homes. The police theorized that four of the family members were lured out to the barn one by one and were brutally murdered. Then the killer went into the house and murdered the toddler (  ) and the new live-in maid who had literally arrived hours earlier to start her job. I read this article when I was working alone on a late shift one night and it really got to me.
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Nothing? Radioactive materials don't explode like nuclear bombs (or do anything special) when heated. However I'm completely mystified about why he thought that he found gunpowder or why he thought gunpowder would glow.
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BattleMaster posted:Nothing? Radioactive materials don't explode like nuclear bombs (or do anything special) when heated. I'm completely mystified why he thought that he found gunpowder though or why he thought gunpowder would glow. Oh, I thought they might burn and give off giant amounts of radiation.
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utada posted:Oh, I thought they might burn and give off giant amounts of radiation. If it was flammable and he ignited it it wouldn't increase its radiation output but it would introduce a potential hazard in that your lungs don't take kindly to radioactive particles being lodged in them.
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The Mentalizer posted:You warn them about the Denpropetrovsk Maniacs video but not the videos of Vladimir Demikhov's two headed dogs? I mean, yeah, they're not as disturbing as seeing someone be brutally murdered but they're still pretty hosed up. I did not know any of this was medically possible now, let alone whenever that was filmed.
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OhAreThey posted:The plot synopsis for the movie "A Serbian Film" Oh christ. I am not one for shock movies but a small part of me wants to hunt down an uncensored version just to see what's up.
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