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I've made a list...internet rabbit holes

187 replies

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 20:03

Evening all,

I've taken the liberty of going through all previous threads I could find and have made the following list which I hope keeps you all occupied if you're anything like me and finding it too hot to do anything!

But let me know if I've missed anything!

FACTUAL:
Aborigines
Amish
Bunkers
Cemeteries eg Highgate
Cults
Conjoined twins
Cryptocurrency
Dark Web – illegal stuff. Part of the deep web
Eccentrics – Great British, esp aristocrats
Fat Acceptance
Ghost tube stations – London underground
Gymnastics
Hiroshima/Nagasaki nuclear bomb
Hoarders
Hot Cars – when people forget to drop kids off
Imber – lost town
Letters of Last Resort (on submarines)
Melungeons
Morecambe Bay/sinking sand
Munchausen’s by proxy
Deep South
Opus Dei
Paternoster Lifts
Plague
Progeria
Primordial Dwarves
Presidential briefcase with the button
Russian Royal Family
Stockmarket Crash 1920s/1980s
TV idents/1980s/90s TV adverts
Tribes – undiscovered eg North Sentinel
Torture – mediaeval eg death by crushing
Victorians – eg memento mori photos
Workhouse
Complex regional pain/trigeminal neuralgia – suicide disease

NATURE
Sharks
Crocodiles
Bears: polar, grizzly, black/brown (Timothy Treadwell, Grizzly Man)
Box/Irukandji Jellyfish
Tsunami (tidal waves)
Volcanos
Remote destinations eg Arctic/Siberia

CONSPIRACY THEORIES
700-950AD didn’t happen
Area 51 (weapons, crashed UFOs and aliens)
Bermuda Triangle
Bigfoot
Chem-trails
Crisis Actors
Crop circles
David Kelly
Denver airport
Devil’s footprints
Dyatlov Pass mystery
Elmer McCurdy body
False flags
Flat Earthers
Finland doesn’t exist
Fort Knox, Kentucky – contains gold reserves, stolen treasure, drugs and UFOs
Green children of Woolpit
Illuminati
Maroni murders
Marilyn Monroe – suicide or murder?
Missing people – see below
MK Ultra mind control
Moon Landings
Murder Hotel, Chicago
Nelson Mandela effect (false memories)
Numbers Radio stations/ Codebreaking eg Bletchley Park
Overtoun bridge – dog suicides
Paul McCartney replaced
Phone no: 0888-888-888 – every user died
Pyramids built by aliens
Roswell
Spontaneous human combustion
Spring heeled Jack – old legend
Spy in a bag
Tamad Shud – unidentified corpse
Tarrare – ate weird things
Time-slips
UFOs

CRIMES
Aileen Wuornos
Alistair Wilson banker shot in Nairn
Amanda Knox
Beverley Allitt
Black Dhalia – a doctor did it, he had dirt on police & actors (did illegal abortions)
Bible John
Billie-Jo Jenkins
Casey Anthony
Charles Lindberg Baby – did his dad kill him because he was disabled?
Charles Bronson
Charles Manson/Sharon Tate/Helter Skelter
Denis Nilsen
Derek Bentley (pardoned)
Emmett Hill – 14yr old black boy murdered in 1950s for whistling at white woman
Elizabeth Smart kidnap & escape 2003
Fred & Rose West
Jack the Ripper
Jamie Bulger
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jill Dando
JFK/RFK
Joanne Lees & Peter Falconio
Jodi Jones
Jon Benet Ramsay
Joseph Fritzl
John Christie/Timothy Evans – 10 Rillington Place
Junko Furuta – the worst torture I have read
Harold Shipman
Louise Tiffney
Louise Woodward
Mary Bell
Nat Fraser
OJ Simpson
Oscar Pistorius
Otto Warmbier (North Korea)
Ruth Ellis (last woman hanged in Britain)
Ted Bundy
Yorkshire Ripper

CRIME RELATED
Death row final meals/last words
Mafia
Prisons
Witness protection
Cannibalism
Hostage negotiation

MISSING PEOPLE
Loads of ppl disappear from cruise ships
Madeline McCann
Lord Lucan
Amelia Earhart
Amy Lynne Bradley
Beaumont Children
Flannen Isle lighthouse keepers disappearance in 1900.
Marie Celeste

WEBSITES
Google street view – of tourist attractions/remote places/small US towns
Flight Radar website – watch planes all round the world in real time incl military jets

OP posts:
tiredanddangerous · 18/07/2022 20:49

Brilliant! Well done that op! I shall pick something from your list to occupy me throughout the night when I'm too hot to sleep.

Celeryfavour · 18/07/2022 20:52

Best thread idea thread ever!

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 20:53

I'm glad to have been of assistance all!

Obviously there is a whole "sporn" subtopic:
spots, ear wax, tonsil stones, extreme chiropody (toe nails a mile long!)

OP posts:

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

SeaGrassMirror · 18/07/2022 20:55

Incredible list. I’ve definitely lost a good few hours on some of those topics.

Redglitter · 18/07/2022 20:57

Thats my evening sorted 👍🏻

Clarabe1 · 18/07/2022 20:58

This is fab! Thank you so much. God I live an internet rabbit hole!!

ILoveToads · 18/07/2022 21:00

Mr ILoveToads is away tomorrow so that's me sorted for the evening! Thanks OP 😀👍👏

Gruffling · 18/07/2022 21:02

Interesting list, will check it out, thanks!

Loocheeyar · 18/07/2022 21:04

Omg where have I been

so where how do I get started ?

UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 18/07/2022 21:08

Snail trivia is my thing at the moment. Snail sight, do snails get lonely, snails repairing their shells, how to prepare a snail for cooking, snail reproduction… it’s surprisingly fascinating stuff!

ticktock19 · 18/07/2022 21:11

Thank you so much, many hours of fun reading ahead

disappointed101 · 18/07/2022 21:12

Thank you! I love the conspiracy theories!

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 21:13

@Loocheeyar make sure you have drinks and snacks then decide whether to start at the top or just pick one at random!
See you in, eh, due course.

OP posts:
longtompot · 18/07/2022 21:14

Here's one my dh keeps trying to get me to look at bigthink.com/surprising-science/the-dark-forest-theory-a-terrifying-explanation-of-why-we-havent-heard-from-aliens-yet/

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 21:15

@UpToMyElbowsInDiapers i'm obsessed with box jellyfish! Apparently their sting is like the worst thing in the world ever. Even in a coma, you are still screaming.

OP posts:
ToffeeNotCoffee · 18/07/2022 21:22

Ask a mortician (interesting and entertaining)

That Chapter (interesting spoken presentations regarding murders or missing persons. The presenter even does a little dance when it turns out someone was murdered for the insurance pay out !)

Top 5 Unknowns

Explore With Us (EWU)

CC unsolved

Coffee House Crime

Court House Crime

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 21:30

Oh I've seen that channel with the mortician!

My current obsession is literally just learning about every skincare ingredient for my 40yr old skin: retin-a, spf, azelaic, niacidimide, urea, hydroquinone, ceramides, BHA, AHA.

Also obsessed with first aid and self-defence!

And agree with pp re Tudor history.

OP posts:
PancakesWithCheese · 18/07/2022 21:32

Rescuing random dogs and cats. Hours I tell you.

Neverendingdust · 18/07/2022 21:33

I’m slightly addicted to Mrs Crocombe The Victorian cook on YouTube from the English Heritage channel. The dishes she makes are of the era and always look great. I binged them all.

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 18/07/2022 21:34

Chinese foot binding for me.Shock

TeddyTed · 18/07/2022 21:34

Thanks op! This is perfect for the next couple
of nights when sleep will be hard to come by because of the heat…

beltanelove · 18/07/2022 21:37

Excellent

Riverlee · 18/07/2022 21:38

Thank you to your services to mumsnet, and -having-something-to-read-in-hit-weather.

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 21:40

@Riverlee my honour and privilege. I remain, Your Majesty's humble and obedient servant.

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OldTinHat · 18/07/2022 21:42

Fantastic! Thank you! 😘

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