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

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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:
WOPTF · 18/07/2022 21:42

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 20:36

@WOPTF you will also like Danielle Kirsty's youtube channel then! Make up and murder - who would have thought it!

BTW, my absolute fave youtube channel is 60mins Australia - covers every topic known to man!

Thank you! Off to look now 🙂

Lacedwithgrace · 18/07/2022 21:43

OP I love you

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 21:44

@Lacedwithgrace thanks! Love you too!

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Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

catinboots123 · 18/07/2022 21:46

Fake Paul McCartney is my absolute fave.

My friend sent me down it a few years ago and I was cursing her at 4am on a work night when I found myself comparing the earlobes of some random dude in a blurry photo with those of Sir Paul

ClemmyTine · 18/07/2022 21:47

Do we find these on YouTube?

Thank you.

IGotItInTheSales · 18/07/2022 21:51

Urban exploration site

28 days later

IGotItInTheSales · 18/07/2022 21:52

Websleuths

NAMUS

Lawpages

All rabbit hole websites

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 18/07/2022 21:52

I came on to say urban exploration

The history of British holiday camps too - if you like social history and faded seaside glamour

@mumsnet surely a candidate for classics?

fizzywat · 18/07/2022 21:55

Some are web searches, some are YouTube.

Foreign properties for sale.
Train journeys
How to find the boost button on the Shark cordless since I lost the manual
How to fix my bluetooth hearing aids.
How and when to sow, plant, divide and cut back plants.
How to get rid of a wasp nest that's in the eaves. I don't mind them but there is a constant stream all day long and I do not want anyone hurt.
How to interpret my long list of blood test results.

That chapter You tube as already mentioned.
Our tribe of many. The woman has 10 kids and homeschools them, and they are holy people, but not overtly so. Living a normal life in the burbs.
The National Gallery, interpretation of paintings. I could watch this all night
Dark History.

Am off soon to watch yt videos of mad people who are walking the Camino de Santiago in this heat.

And so much more, and so little time....

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 21:57

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin ooh, I am honoured, thank you!

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Lovelystuff · 18/07/2022 21:57

This is great! Thank you 🙏

Planetearthisscrewed · 18/07/2022 22:00

So many topics! Thank you xx

Nstarr · 18/07/2022 22:01
Star
FelixMadrigal · 18/07/2022 22:01

Phenomenal 👏

AnonymousHippopotamus · 18/07/2022 22:11

The Russian Sleep Experiment.

I came across it down a rabbit hole that started with me googling 'can you die from lack of sleep'. I had quite severe PND and insomnia at the time. Dark days, but fascinating (and horrifying) reading.

SleepingAgent · 18/07/2022 22:12

Thanks OP!

Greenkitten · 18/07/2022 22:14

Thanks!!

AnonymousHippopotamus · 18/07/2022 22:15

catinboots123 · 18/07/2022 21:46

Fake Paul McCartney is my absolute fave.

My friend sent me down it a few years ago and I was cursing her at 4am on a work night when I found myself comparing the earlobes of some random dude in a blurry photo with those of Sir Paul

I believe there's a theory about Avril Lavigne having been replaced too, but that's more WTF, who cares 😁

Somuchgoo · 18/07/2022 22:20

Eels, especially international illegal eel smuggling, and their weird lifecycle

Mosuo society - the kingdom of women.

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 22:26

I was also pretty obsessed with:


  • the Thai football team cave rescue

  • the boy in Australia who ate a slug, was paralysed then died

  • families with loads of kids like Duggars and Radfords

  • watching old clips of Neighbours/Oprah Winfrey/Jerry Springer on youtube

  • monster rats in London - people take their dogs out to kill them

  • extreme eaters

  • leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses

  • prison tattoos

  • the SAS

  • sinkholes

  • stonehenge

  • Pompeii

  • people who defraud casinos - "card counting"

  • savants (like the rain man)

  • space shuttle disasters

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HMSSophia · 18/07/2022 22:31

You OP are a Star

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 22:35

I also like Doomsday stuff - like that Yellowstone is overdue to erupt!

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ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 22:37

And Operation London Bridge - what happens when the Queen dies :-(

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HelgaGPataki · 18/07/2022 22:44

Love this! Was also desperately scanning the list to check that cruise ship disappearances made the cut (the hours I've spent on this!!). Thank you.

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 22:47

I just added the cruise ships things today when I read it on another post!

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