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Back to the Lost Cosmonauts, I got pretty spooked a while back now after listening to this- (SFW, just creepy as all heck.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sgc1I9sjfc Apparently it is a cosmonaut in her last moments before the ship ran out of oxygen and burnt up on re-entry. It was recorded by these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers To this day the Russians deny knowing anything about it and the spooky, scared disembodied voice remains nameless. ETA- Good Fortean Times article here ----> http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1302/lost_in_space.html Rondette has a new favorite as of 19:09 on May 18, 2014 |
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Literally Kermit posted:Number Stations Have you heard of Webdriver Torso? It's got people all a flutter at the moment....random 15 second videos of red and blue shapes, and an obnoxious tone. Over 77,000 of them, and no one really seems to know their purpose..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyJYzhVcCY https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLiV4WJfkTEHH0b9PmRklw
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Loving the bog bodies....back to missing people for a second, the whole wiki page is a great read... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously
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Talking of claustrophobia and caves, check this video of a guy getting stuck. It's not graphic or anything but gives you an idea of how pant-shittingly terrifying getting stuck in a cave is. Getting Stuck in 'The Tube' - Lost Johns Cave: http://youtu.be/hS_aMAlAaeU
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http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/09/angry-ghost-chases-after-car-in-lancashire-5015310/ The Blackburn Ghost! Kind of amusingly creepy. I think I would have ran it over.
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HUMAN FISH posted:Motel of the Mysteries is pretty funny. It depicts an archaeologist from 4022 studying a normal motel room (and other things). Here is a section! http://teachers2.wcs.edu/high/shs/sharonb3/By%20the%20Waters%20of%20Babylon/Motel-of-the-Mysteries-Macaulay.pdf I had a copy of it that I gave to my sister as a present, I kind of wish I had kept it for myself. David McCauley is an awesome illustrator - I own a book called 'Unbuilding' which is a fictional account of a rich Arab prince who buys the Empire State Building and has it dismantled. It is all drawn with Rotring pens and is a little bit mind-blowing (especially for me who is a budding illustrator with a fondness for Rotrings.) 
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Ozz81 posted:AKA "stereotyping" - which in itself is ridiculous and leads people to do the exact opposite of what they *should* do. Case in point, any time the media has brought up pedophiles or sexual predators, they always have some actor that looks like a creepy, grizzled weirdo (as if you could tell a pedo from any regular person walking the street). Then another news story comes along and it's the guy that lived next door and was super friendly, didn't have a criminal record, and was as generic looks-wise as anyone could get. Same goes for other crimes too, most times it's the person someone least expects, and it's because we've effectively been brainwashed to believe that criminals fit a certain mold and can be pointed out on looks alone. Check this out, a public service film from the sixties which basically states homo=paedo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijbovskICjk
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C.M. Kruger posted:Saudi airliner catches on fire mid-flight, the crew and passengers asphyxiate before they can get the doors open after landing.  quote:Saudi officials subsequently found two butanestoves in the burned-out remains of the airliner, with a used fire extinguisher near one of them. Previously, some airlines used to allow passengers to use butane stoves on board. However, current aviation regulations forbid them.
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Here's a thing- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_and_Sabina_Eriksson quote:Ursula and Sabina Eriksson are Swedish twin sisters (born 1967) who came to national attention in the United Kingdom in May 2008 after an apparent episode of folie à deux (or "shared psychosis"), a rare psychiatric disorder in which delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another, which resulted in a series of bizarre incidents on the M6 motorway and the subsequent murder of Glenn Hollinshead of Fenton, Staffordshire. There was no evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved in the incidents on the M6 or the death of Hollinshead.[1][2][3] A lot of this was filmed by a TV crew who were on scene, there was a documentary about it too....the footage of her running into the motorway and into the path of an articulted lorry is on Youtube, around the 1:20 mark. It's not particularly graphic but it's still pretty disturbing to see. (edited out coz it is the same video as the one I posted below) Here is the doc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTpFWiEx3eo Rondette has a new favorite as of 11:13 on May 27, 2015 |
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quote:His high scores are unknown The biggest tragedy.
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Thanks to whoever linked the Thinking Sideways podcasts (about the two Dutch girls in the jungle), I have been going through the archives and it's an absolute trove of strange and creepy stories. http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/
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Alain Perdrix posted:I was confused earlier, because I thought TS was one of the conspiracy theory podcasts – if TS is into straight-up debunking the dumber theories and coming out with the likely scenarios, I'm gonna love the hell out of it. Yeah it is more like that. They go through the more (you might say) mundane scenarios and it is all done with pretty clear eyes. That doesn't stop them taking the piss out of aliens and chupacabras theories. They have covered some great topics I had never heard before too, like the immortal Count of St.Germain http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/the-count-st-germain/
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Chicken Butt posted:I did my own investigation and discovered this horrifying figurine in the walls.  This was in the bathroom wall.
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UnkleBoB posted:Thanks for this. Read it over my workday. I was familiar with the case, but it is nice to have an in depth article. I drive past that boat ramp twice a day going to and from work. I was absolutely glued to it. It's really rare for me to actually gasp out loud and laugh out loud and so on when reading stuff, but this did. It's haunted me all day.
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queserasera posted:This book never fails to creep me out every time I read it. Urban legends in graphic novel form! I have that! And a few of the others, they're a brilliant series of books based around spooky topics, all done in comic form by different artists. The Big Book of Freaks is excellent, I lent my copy to someone though and never got it back 
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funmanguy posted:Parents bought this for me my 10th birthday. I read this when I was 10, because they would try anything to get me excited about reading. Your parents sound a bit like mine. "Eh, she likes comics and spooky things" And that's how I ended up with a tape of Christopher Lee reading Edgar Allen Poe stories for my 8th birthday.  This is my collection of Big Books. The Urban Legend and Unexplained ones are probably my favourites, but they are all very entertaining. Got to get my Freaks book back though! That is the best. Rondette has a new favorite as of 05:38 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Not bad, but you're no James Joyce. one for Facebook, I feel. 
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quote:In November 1941, at George Washington University Hospital, a wide-awake Rosemary followed a doctor’s instructions to recite songs and stories as he drilled two holes in her head and cut nerve endings in her brain until she became incoherent, then silent This bit gets me every time. Poor woman
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Kaizoku posted:I'm having trouble finding a source from the time, but all of those plastinated body exhibits that were the rage a few years ago were being looked into as probably being bodies of falun dafa prisoners. There was the 'Bodies' exhibition in NYC in 2009 that had a sign up RIGHT AT THE END saying that the bodies used were of Chinese prisoners. I was wandering round thinking it weird that when you remove the skin from a body, we all look Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition This exhibition was not affiliated with Gunter Von Hagens, who I think has a pretty big waiting list of volunteers.
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Sarcopenia posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Hazzard Those diary entries are worse when you know the writer died at her hand
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benito posted:At the intersection of football hooligans and newspapers comes the Millwall brick: an improvised weapon made out of newspaper devised after stadium police started confiscating anything that could possibly be a weapon in the 1960s. I think I first learned about it in Bill Buford's Among the Thugs, recommended to me by an anthropology professor. That Wiki mentions Polo Mints being used as a weapon. WTF. 
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Enos Shenk posted:I've been in a crowd crush before, and that poo poo is terrifying. We were in Boston once on vacation for the 4th of July and went down to see the fireworks, I went for a walk and took a wrong turn and ended up right in front of the bandshell. At one point I was so crushed in my feet were off the ground and I could barely breathe. There was an article a few years ago, I think it would have been 2009, the twentieth anniversary, which had survivor accounts. They were absolutely harrowing, and I remember reading it on the train and nearly crying. I can't imagine anything worse than what those people went through. http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/docs/LCS000001110001.pdf Read it and weep. Awful. Rondette has a new favorite as of 19:18 on Nov 22, 2015 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:I don't know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire is pretty traumatic as well considering it's a combination of a crush and being horribly burned to death with no hope of escape. I saw the video someone had taken once and seeing a wall of human beings stuck in the doorway screaming before they're consumed by flames was one of the worst things I've ever seen on the internet Oh drat, yeah. My mind had wiped this one. Regarding that Bradford fire (I have never heard about this, I was 5 at the time so I guess my parents protected me from that.) quote:Eric Bennet (Australian tourist) had put a ciggarette down to stamp it out and saw it catch fire on rubbish beneath the stand, he had tried to put it out with coffee but was unsuccessful. Just get people to watch the man walking around engulfed in flames next time someone moans that they can't smoke at events anymore. That commentator did a remarkable job too, pretty impressive to keep calm with that going on around, while you can feel the heat of the fire on your face. Rondette has a new favorite as of 15:38 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Zero One posted:For about 2 years I had the Hillsborough 30 for 30 on my DVR. I watched part of it but could never bring myself to finish it. I just finished it a few moments ago, I started watching it yesterday afternoon but I kept having to turn it off and listen to some music or something because yeah, it's harrowing as gently caress. I thought it would get 'easier' once it got past the breakdown of the day, but the aftermath and obfuscation of truth by the media and police was just as shocking. I was 9 when Hillsborough happened so I was aware of it and of course the aftermath, but that documentary showed just why the people of Liverpool hate the Sun newspaper and the police so much. Christ. It's a total pro-watch, but I can't say I'd recommend it in one whole go. My soul couldn't take it. Edit- I see David Duckenfield copped for it in the end http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31928476 quote:The Hillsborough police match commander has agreed his failure to close a tunnel "was the direct cause of the deaths of 96 people". It's funny (well not funny but you know what I mean) to think, had two officers not pranked a junior officer, none of this would probably have ever happened. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/07/most-experienced-police-commander-prank-transfer-hillsborough-disaster quote:The South Yorkshire police chief superintendent who had experience of commanding football matches at Hillsborough was transferred 19 days before the 1989 FA Cup semi-final, shortly after officers in his division played a brutal "prank" on a probationary constable involving a gun. EDIT- By the way, thanks to whoever mentioned those 30 for 30 docs, despite not really having that much of an interest in sports, there are some really interesting looking documentaries in there. I'm just starting the OJ one. Rondette has a new favorite as of 12:42 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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theflyingorc posted:
Jesus yeah, pretty sure at least two of the people in that picture are dead.
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This thread has made me much more aware of my surroundings at gigs and crowded places now. I always check for the nearest exits and keep an eye out for smoke, and also stay on the periphery of any crowds and bail if it gets too tight. Thanks thread, for teaching me about personal safety in the most disturbing way possible!
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Is this really happening. The Holocaust trump card. We might as well close the thread then because nothing can beat the Holocaust! Please can we stop arguing over this because I really like this thread and when we say 'I can't imagine anything worse than being crushed to death by other people' we are saying it speculatively and of course there are many many other equally horrible ways to die like being trapped on a ghost plane or gassed or operated on while you're still alive or burnt to death or bisected by a train or drowned by mud in a suit of armour or starved or lost in a wilderness etc etc Jesus H Christ. Oh yeah, crucified too.
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benito posted:I wonder if it has anything to do with this upcoming event, which I think is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived. "An armed society is a polite society,” he continued. “We love freedom and we’re trying to make more freedom.”
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pookel posted:OK can we go back to gun chat now, tia Jezz, that site has some doozies quote:December 11th, 2010 Headsman
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Is that a serious real book? Because it sounds like a spoof, I mean come on!
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pookel posted:I know a guy who used to be a small-town reporter - small enough that he was also a photographer. He's a kind, sensitive guy. Always concerned about the right thing to do and concerned about the welfare of the people in the news stories he writes. He told me about a car wreck he covered as a reporter. The car was full of teenagers driving recklessly at night, and they'd gone off the road and rammed into something - I can't remember what, maybe a building? - at high speeds while one kid had her head stuck out a window. The results were gruesome, as you might imagine. He was taking a million pictures, as you're taught to do, getting up close, trying different angles, zooming in on key focal points of the scene, when he glanced up and noticed the parents of the girl whose head had been crushed standing there glaring at him. He quit taking pictures and made a point of not using any of the graphic ones he'd taken. Go and watch Nightcrawler also, This guy sounds a bit like the character at the very start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8kYDQan8bw
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There's a really good documentary I saw on Netflix about the National Enquirer, 'Enquiring Minds'. Some of the stories and pictures they had in that magazine in the early days (think 40s-50s) would not have looked out of place on Rotten.com. They even 'touched up' the gore, it was pretty eye opening. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4139412/ Trailer- with some potential   gore from ye olde dayshttps://vimeo.com/111859845
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There was also Louis Wain (Victorian artist famous for his cat illustrations) and his descent into schizophrenia, although the fact that these pictures represent his mind's journey has been all but debunked now after the realisation that the doctor who ordered the pictures possibly had no idea of the true chronology. http://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/ quote:The five pictures are by Victorian artist Louis Wain who painted cats through the whole of his life and continued through periods of intense psychosis. I've seen a couple of the 'schizo' drawings at an exhibition. They were way smaller than I was expecting, and also on the backs of jotters and other bits of paper. I found this weirdly touching. Hell, I think if you pieced some of my illustrations together from the last 5 years in the right order you could make it look like I was going nuts too. Rondette has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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Just read a great article about this woman who got into recreating murder scenes which look like the most hosed up dollhouses possible. They were used to train detectives about evidence gathering in the mid Twentieth century. quote:C onvinced by criminological theory that crimes could be solved by detailed analysis of visual and material evidence, and drawing on her experiences creating miniatures, Frances Glessner Lee constructed a series of crime scene dioramas, which she called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. http://www.deathindiorama.com/index.html
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Zipperelli. posted:Netflix had a documentary on this woman, or at least the crime scene diorama thing. As I recall, it was pretty good... Can't remember the name of it though Thanks for the heads up. It's on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMqLHJRQdU VVV I wanna MAKE em! I bet you could sell those to a good price. VVV Rondette has a new favorite as of 22:50 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Poor girl. I found a video too, I haven't fully watched it but needless to say it is probably depressing and disturbing as gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Oirc8xOwg
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I was watching a 'Top 5 spooky otherworldly travellers' video on Youtube this morning and this story popped up.quote:One of the most perplexing events of the 20th Century did not involve flying saucers, conspiracy theories, a criminal act, or even strange creature sightings. It took place on a seemingly normal day in one of the most tedious, mundane places one could imagine: Airport. Yet to this day, no one knows exactly what happened there, or why one average business traveler became the heart of an enigma largely forgotten by our modern world. http://weekinweird.com/2014/05/20/man-without-country-mystery-man-taured/ I love poo poo like this, I wonder (if it is actually real at all) what it was all about. And what that passport looked like.
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Someone I know messaged me on FB saying I was in this video. I am. Number 8! That picture keeps popping up all over the internet and it's hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXyURZe0fE
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fun hater posted:i thought that meant you were the weird little goblin thing and i was about to demand a lot of answers from you MAYBE I AM
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RNG posted:Seems like the right thread for some Stephen King short stories. I have no idea what this site is, but google turned it up. 'The Raft' always freaked me out as well as 'Survivor Type' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_(short_story) I think my dad let me read Skeleton Crew when I was way too young, I must have been about 9.
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