Tell me the most shocking or fascinating internet rabbit hole you fell down

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For me recently its been two things.

First was about one aspect of the Moors Murders I didn’t know about - how the 16 year old brother in law of Myra Hindley was wrongly implicated in the murders and although it’s doubtlessly down to him that countless other children were saved, the impact of what he saw and was accused of had a horrible domino effect of his and his wife’s entire lives. I knew about the murders but I didn’t know this was a key aspect of the case.

The other was the conspiracy theories about the Princess Of Wales and seeing just how far people are going to peddle absolutely horrific lies about her, and how much doctoring of photos is being used to ‘prove’ the lies. It was really grim.

Whats one of those rabbit holes you’ve fallen down and it’s stayed with you?

Yes the Andrew Gosden case is so sad and definitely a rabbit hole with all the CCTV footage of him initially and then then absolutely unforgivable police cock up.

K ultra only and I really mean only brings up coffee machines for me. I swear I have the shittest Google ever when it comes to finding juicy stuff and the safe search etc is off...
I miss the old Internet days. 😂

You should look at the chemical plant theory for the pyramids

Sorry that should be MK ultra link to wikki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

This is a great rabbit hole thread about US search and rescue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iocju/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/

David Smith wrote a book about his involvement - 'Witness', with Carol Ann Lee.

David Icke. I don't remember him as anything other than a turquoise wearing eccentric so I decided to read a bit into him and why he went from sports commentator to conspiracy theorist.
Big mistake, there's a never-ending load of really crazy theories. The one that really stays with me is how he says he saw Ted Heaths eyes change to all black and then back to normal eyes 😳

Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.

One of the most remote settlements on earth as I recall. Utterly fascinating.

How the song American Pie references so many sub cultures

@MinnieCauldwell it's so sad isn't it? His dad is still really active on social media trying to draw attention to other missing people and does interviews etc. quite regularly.

He looks so broken 😞

The Angelmakers of Nagyrev. A syndicate of peasant women in a grindingly poor Hungarian village in the 1910s, lead by a Romany wise woman and midw-fe, conspired to bump off their often violent, abusive, alcoholic husbands and/or newborns they were unable to feed due to their own starvation or lack of available foodstuffs.

Arsenic was made from flypaper.

Went on for about 20 years, estimates 40 - potentially 200 victims.

Here is a good place to start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Makers_of_Nagyr%C3%A9v

Cannibalism is another I can read about for hours.

The Titanic-Olympic swap theory. In essence, that the Titanic didn’t sink, the Olympic did because the ships were swapped in an insurance swindle.

The Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon disappearance. Something seriously bizarrre in that case, and the photos are haunting.

Anything to do with the Titanic or the Loch Ness monster.

Britney spears' Instagram page conspiracy

Semi-aquatic ape theory. Very plausible, yet shut down by academia.

I've always found this interesting and a classic example of academics prioritising dissing each other over genuine free thinking (especially if there's a woman / feminist viewpoint to diss). I'm not saying I agree with all the proponents of it and every argument, but I can't see how it doesn't have a part to play in human evolution, as humans are so clearly more aquatic than other apes, and there are other primates who have evolved aquatic abilities.

My ex is in a related field and was always so unnecessarily rudely dismissive about it, instead of dismantling it honestly and rationally. Interestingly he would have the same attitude if I ever made suggestions or asked questions about his work. It definitely came across as a terror of a woman making a good point.

So creepy!

The lost cosmonauts. Haunting, in the most literal & sad sense of the word

The Nutty Putty cave

Urban explorers (like Urbandoned)

Any unsolved mystery

Fake Melania has me fascinated too!

There's a YouTube channel called The why files that's a really good watch too

UAP's, crash retrieval programmes, reverse engineering. David Grusch.

His whole concert was a satanic ritual. Read up on it. There's so much evil in the music industry.

Turned out to be made up? They were fiction. They were presented as fiction. r/nosleep is a creative writing subreddit. Did people actually believe the magical staircases in the woods were real?

Ley lines, fascinating BS, coincidence or are they some sort of alien space craft landing guide... and then there is the earth energy theory on top.