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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

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TheRealKatnissEverdeen · 18/07/2022 22:51

@ChinBristles I'm a bit peed off with you for this list! I knew I shouldn't have opened the thread but the title was too enticing and it's not disappointed. I've got work to do the next few days and I've already taken a screenshot to work my way through the list 💆🏾‍♀️

Sparklingbrook · 18/07/2022 22:57

Not seen them in the lists but vocal coaches critiquing singers?

Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy ( he's v cheesy but interesting)
Beth Roars
Justin Hawkins Rides Again (similar not a vocal coach, but he explains composition of songs and chords etc.)

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:00

I just wanted to say it occurs to me that there are still people living affected by some of these crimes/missing people. I'm not suggesting this list is just some kind of light entertainment. Some of these tragedies/crimes/perpetrators/miscarriages of justice need to be kept in the public eye/discussed so we can learn and do better.
I hope no-one finds my list insensitive, apologies if so.

OP posts:

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Namechangerr1 · 18/07/2022 23:03

👏 👏 👏😁

takeitandleaveit · 18/07/2022 23:06

Tristan da Cunha

EllieQ · 18/07/2022 23:08

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:00

I just wanted to say it occurs to me that there are still people living affected by some of these crimes/missing people. I'm not suggesting this list is just some kind of light entertainment. Some of these tragedies/crimes/perpetrators/miscarriages of justice need to be kept in the public eye/discussed so we can learn and do better.
I hope no-one finds my list insensitive, apologies if so.

Well yes, I think having ‘hot cars and children being left in them’ is really distasteful. That’s not ‘keeping an investigation in the public eye’ - it’s disturbing to have that in the same list as ‘Finland doesn’t exist’. Ghoulish, even.

DiscoBadgers · 18/07/2022 23:10

The Donner Party
sankebetsu incident
The lives of early female doctors
Janet Parker
Evelyn Nesbit
bog bodies

bluebellsandcustard · 18/07/2022 23:12

Fabulous!!!

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:19

@EllieQ I appreciate your sentiment and apologise for any offence.

It's an interesting phenomenon though, how parents can just "forget" about their child. It's something I've only been reading about recently. And actually there's research atm on how to stop it happening - a) by letting people know it DOES happen and b) to make an alert system in cars or with nurseries when kids don't arrive.

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LemonSwan · 18/07/2022 23:23

A user on here sent me on a fascinating journey just a few days ago.

The Rosenhan experiment.

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:24

It's also an interesting legal debate - to what extent, if any, should you be punished if you "forget" your child and leave them to die? And how do we stop abusive parents using this as a get-out-of-jail-free card?

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ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:25

@LemonSwan sounds right up my street!
Wish I could remember the name of the experiment where half were chosen as "prisoners" and half as "guards" and they had to stop the experiment cos guards abused prisoners! Showed just what's in a label!

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ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:30

Oh, Stanford Prison Experiment!

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Ohmydayssilleople · 18/07/2022 23:31

The Chilean miners in 2010 kept me awake watching TV around the clock!!

BlossomWood · 18/07/2022 23:31

The voynich manuscript is an intruiging rabbit hole

Also the life of Nikolas Tesla and his inventions

WheelofLife · 18/07/2022 23:36

The Scottish trunk road gritter tracker. Obviously more fun in winter. I didn’t know that all the gritter trucks had names like Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and The Snowclaimers :)

DiscoBadgers · 18/07/2022 23:38

Ghost towns
caving accidents
mine disasters
diving accidents

Thehouseofmarvels · 18/07/2022 23:41

Thanks for this !

Amybelle88 · 18/07/2022 23:47

One of the best threads ever created!

Out of curiosity, OP, have you read up on all of these topics?

Going to lose myself down a rabbit hole...

girlwhowearsglasses · 18/07/2022 23:48

Ooh 🙋‍♀️
russian identical twins- one in space and one on earth

girlwhowearsglasses · 18/07/2022 23:49

Oh and London Underground abandoned stations and lines

ChinBristles · 18/07/2022 23:51

@Amybelle88 thanks! I can retire after this!
No, I'm working through the list in a haphazard way. We need another lockdo...no, don't say that!

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karenm51 · 18/07/2022 23:52

Great list!!

I will submit Morgellons disease, and also the JCS YouTube channel - fantastic if you like criminal psychology

tapdancingmum · 18/07/2022 23:53

Replying so this saves in my 'threads I'm on' bit. I need something to get through the next 6 weeks or so 😃. Some.of these I am familiar with and some I have no idea so off I go. Wish me luck 🤣

LK1972 · 19/07/2022 00:44

SausagePourHomme · 18/07/2022 20:36

oh oh oh I have the perfect thing;

upscaled and colourized video from over 100 years ago - they are AMAZING. It's like time travelling.

see this from Denis Shiryeav

Wow, these are amazing, thanks!

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