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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

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IGotItInTheSales · 19/07/2022 00:47

Lamont at large on YouTube

He tours American graveyards and looks up random headstones to find out about their lives

The circus graveyard is interesting

BunnyChowLover · 19/07/2022 01:02

What a stunning list, thank you

missing people - Corrie McKeague

Went out on a night out, never to return. It was eventually decided that he went into a wheelie bin and was crushed in the garbage truck (I think. It’s late).

clpsmum · 19/07/2022 01:13

You're a star OP

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

TheVanguardSix · 19/07/2022 01:13

God OP. I rarely say it but… I love you. 💐

Adversity · 19/07/2022 01:22

We saw a Google car a few months ago and I joked we would be on street view and we are :).

PeloAddict · 19/07/2022 01:24

I'm addicted to this YouTube
She doesn't speak or show her face and it's incredibly relaxing, just showing her cooking and daily routines in Japan

https://youtube.com/channel/UC_RDtmUq7RISJ4mFKAhjzTg

ToffeeNotCoffee · 19/07/2022 09:39

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

Yes, there should be an alert system for children not turning up at nursery.

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdmIyRxoT5AhUQSMAKHXmvBpgQFnoECCkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newshub.co.nz%2Fnznews%2Fno-conviction-in-infants-hot-car-death-2015060510&usg=AOvVaw3WY_4pYaxCZ--0rv03XYm2

The local radio station had a weekly promotion where someone would win a tray of sandwiches. They decided to send the sandwiches to the child's nursery as the staff had had a tough week. Geez.......

Keep talking about missing people/unsolved crimes. Keep them in the public consciousness. Anyone wanting it hushed up, these days I'd ask myself why.

Unprecedentedusername · 19/07/2022 09:55

Can I add dancing mania?

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 19/07/2022 10:23

I haven't spotted it on the list so far but i have previously got very lost in Meredith Kercher murder/Amanda Knox case.

WOPTF · 19/07/2022 15:47

PeloAddict · 19/07/2022 01:24

I'm addicted to this YouTube
She doesn't speak or show her face and it's incredibly relaxing, just showing her cooking and daily routines in Japan

https://youtube.com/channel/UC_RDtmUq7RISJ4mFKAhjzTg

Thank you, thank you! Spent a lovely half hour this afternoon watching Nami prepare amazing food and potter about her life.

ouch12345 · 19/07/2022 15:50

Love this OP! Thank you!

BigFatLiar · 19/07/2022 15:57

Don't forget MumsNet on the list, lots of odd stuff there.

Diets
Ancient alien astronauts
Vegetarianism and vegans
There was a school experiment in Palo Alto in the sixties, Third Wave, it's interesting, there was a program 'Americas Nazi Experiment ' may be available for download of on YouTube.

PeloAddict · 19/07/2022 16:01

@WOPTF no problem! I love her channel, find it soothing

AmigoDog · 19/07/2022 16:46

Thank you! x

Tegelflughafen · 19/07/2022 17:07

Missing people - Andrew Gosden
Numerous subreddits - ask me anything - an american search and rescue worker, particularly the staircases in the woods threads
Today I learned
oddly terrifying
Too afraid to ask
Old school cool
Lost architecture
Walkable streets
love love reddit !

ChinBristles · 19/07/2022 17:21

Andrew Gosden's case was in the news again recently. :-(

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PleaseYourselfandEatTheCrusts · 19/07/2022 18:26

Thanks so much! 💓

PleaseYourselfandEatTheCrusts · 19/07/2022 18:41

I was actually going to start a thread asking for this kind of thing but wasn't even sure how to word my request.

ChinBristles · 19/07/2022 22:40

Tonight I'm watching people who die in skydiving accidents where their parachute has been cut - is it suicide or murder?

There's also the phenomenon of "suicide by cop" ie forcing the police to shoot you.

Also that Australian case where it turned out the dingo DID take her baby! (Lindy Chamberlain)

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Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 20/07/2022 00:43

Ooh and the London Victorian cemeteries are fascinating - look up the magnificent seven. You can read all about the lives of the inhabitants - same for the Hollywood cemetaries

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 20/07/2022 00:44

That’s on Wikipedia re the cemetaries

millerpie · 20/07/2022 00:50

I don’t know if you’ve added it but Missing 411 is great, it’s about people that disappear in national parks in the US.

blueshoes · 20/07/2022 01:32

People of Walmart

ChinBristles · 20/07/2022 14:25

My mum has been going on about Missing 411!

Oh, I like the sound of People of Walmart!

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