Withdrawal Plans posted:

From "The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American 80s" by Paul Slansky:

9/10/1986

Director John Landis reveals the hitherto-unguessed-at depths of his immaturity when, following the hostile testimony of a witness, he blocks her exit with his outstretched legs and makes her climb over him.

5/29/1987

(He is acquitted) "My wife and I are still in a daze," exults John Landis, two days later to USA Today. "I'm having lox and bagels by the pool."

6/25/1988

John Landis invites the jury that acquitted him of involuntary manslaughter to a private screening of his new Eddie Murphy film "Coming to America". He does not offer to fly them in by helicopter.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Strongylocentrotus posted:

Honestly, this isn't even the craziest theory people have put forward. In the Death Valley Germans case, some internet people theorized that the missing family had somehow been vanished by the US Government for getting too close to a military facility.

All I can figure is that a.) the ranger was lazy/negligent and really not watching the parking lot as he went past, b.) the ranger had poor eyesight, or c.) he lied about even going out to search and sat twiddling his thumbs at HQ the whole time.

Strongylocentrotus posted:

It would explain almost everything, except there's the troublesome business of the cellphone ping received on that Sunday morning. Apparently, according to the physics of it and what Verizon told the investigators, the phone must have been within ~10 miles of a certain cell tower in Joshua Tree National Park. It must have also been turned on at the time the ping was sent. Which raises the question of why his phone stopped pinging after he called his girlfriend on Thursday morning, and then it suddenly pings, just once, briefly, from within the park and the vicinity of the cell tower, three days after his initial disappearance.

The lack of pings in the intervening period had to be because the phone was either off or out of range of any towers. He probably turned the phone off after he called his girlfriend, but then what? Why were there no pings until that final, lone ping from within a remote part of the park?

If he staged his disappearance, he went to great lengths and did an incredible job manufacturing misleading evidence.

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On February 19, 1979, five men from the Hawaiian island of Maui – Benjamin Kalama, Ralph Malaiakini, Scott Moorman, Patrick Woesner, and Peter Hanchett—went on a fishing trip on a vessel called the “Sarah Joe”. The boat and its crew all vanished after a terrible storm hit the area. It would seem obvious that the five men probably got lost at sea and drowned, but things got really weird in 1988 when pieces of the “Sarah Joe” were found on an island over 2000 miles away.

An unmarked shallow grave was also found on the island where the remains of Scott Moorman were buried under a pile of rocks. However, no trace of the other four men was found, so if they were the ones who buried him, what happened to them afterward? And if they didn’t bury him, then who did? To make things even weirder, this island had apparently already been searched a couple years beforehand and no one found the pieces of the Sarah Joe or the grave at that time. The fate of the four other missing men and the mystery of how Scott Moorman was buried remains unsolved.

Atmus posted:

I used to process worker's compensation claims. Machinery, Glass, and Tomfoolery were the biggest sources of claims. 'Lifted too much' and 'Tripped' were waaay off in the distance.

Comstar posted:

Although Listverse seems to be quite happy to quote stories about mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis, two I found were 10 mysterious cases involving unidentified people and 10 Mysterious Disappearances of Multiple People interesting. The best one is The Crew of the Sarah Joe.


The story dosn't mention if it was only supposed to be a 3 hour tour.

El Estrago Bonito posted:

The suggested theory by several places is that they were found somewhere else by Asian fishermen and buried there. The body was buried with a stack of paper and foil which is a tradition in a lot of Asian cultures. I suspect all of them died pretty soon after drifting off and eventually the boat marooned itself on a sandbar or atol (which is why the survey didn't find the grave) where it was found by fishermen. They probably assumed by the fact that the boat was for short distances and since it was found in an area populated by Asian fishermen that the corpse was also an Asian fisherman and so they buried him in the local style next to the sea on whatever larger landmass was close and then never told any government or national body about it because they assumed he was a local. And they didn't find that much of him either, when whoever found him discovered him he might have been not much more than a few bones in the bottom of a boat.

FrozenVent posted:

Debris moves around at sea quite a lot; there's been cases of navigation buoys carried away by ice from the St Lawrence River popping up a few years later in Ireland or what not.

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

The thing that bugs me most about those kind of wrecks? Often no effort is made to clean up the pavement. An intersection near my parents' house was smeared with some poor motorcyclists' dried blood for over a year after he was wiped out by some idiot running the stop sign.

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A significant percentage of patients also describe floating, disembodied faces that squirm into their field of vision at random times. These often have wide, unblinking eyes; prominent teeth; and features reminiscent of a stone gargoyle.

Images of people are a common occurrence, though familiar faces are seldom seen. Most of the apparitions are strangers, although there are many reports of grieving people seeing their deceased loved ones during such hallucination episodes. These phantom people normally wear pleasant expressions on their faces as they loiter in eerie silence, and they make frequent eye contact with the viewer. Curiously, a great number of these imaginary characters are described as wearing hats, sometimes along with elaborate costumes.

Although these strikingly realistic images are usually non-threatening, they cannot be easily banished. Often variations of the same images appear repeatedly, but the items are seldom anything with any particular emotional meaning. In fact, they are frequently mundane items such as trucks or trees, though there are reports of dramatic scenes involving such things as funeral processions and dragons. The subjects of these visions are sometimes life-sized, but it is not uncommon for the hallucinations to appear in miniature, an effect called "lilliput hallucinations," named after the small Lilliputian people from Gulliver's Travels. Less frequently, visions will appear larger-than-life.

benito posted:

Content: Charles Bonnet Syndrome. If you have vision loss, you can start hallucinating things that aren't there. Particularly people. Small, creepy people in costumes who constantly make eye contact. From the drat Interesting article:

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A significant percentage of patients also describe floating, disembodied faces that squirm into their field of vision at random times. These often have wide, unblinking eyes; prominent teeth; and features reminiscent of a stone gargoyle.

a kitten posted:

All the things in this thread where your brain just stops working correctly unnerve the living hell out of me.

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On 6 July 2002 Dele and his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, along with skipper Bertrand Saldo, sailed from Tahiti on Dele's catamaran, the Hukuna Matata.[3] Dele's brother, Miles Dabord (born Kevin Williams), was the only person involved in the voyage who was seen or heard from after 8 July 2002, when the last of three satellite phone calls from the voyage was made.[3] Dele and Karlan had previously kept regular contact with their banks and family members. On 20 July 2002 Miles Dabord brought the boat into Tahiti; he was alone aboard the vessel.[7]

On 5 September 2002 police used a sting operation organized by Dele's family and friends to detain Dabord in Phoenix, Arizona. Dabord had forged his brother's signature in order to buy US$152,000 worth of gold under his brother's name. He had used Dele's passport as identification.[8] Mexican police later found that Dabord had been staying at a hotel in Tijuana, Mexico. Two days before the Hukuna Matata, which had been registered in Tahiti under another name, was found off the coast of Tahiti with its name plate removed and some possible bullet holes patched. About the same time, Dabord phoned his and Dele's mother, Patricia Phillips, telling her that he would never hurt his brother and that he could not survive in prison.[9]

The FBI became involved in the investigation along with the French authorities and concluded that Dele, Karlan and Saldo were probably killed and then thrown overboard, or forced to walk off the boat into the ocean, by Dabord. Given that the bodies were likely dumped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it would be highly unlikely that the three would ever be found.[2][8]

Dabord, the only first-person source of information regarding the case, intentionally overdosed on insulin and slipped into a coma. On 27 September 2002 Dabord died in a California hospital. In his account of events, Dabord said he and his brother had fought, that Karlan had been accidentally hit and died when her head struck part of the boat. The captain Saldo had wanted to report her death and a panicked Dele had killed him; Dabord then shot his brother in self-defense, threw the bodies overboard and subsequently fled back to the U.S.[3] After Dabord's suicide, officials did not expect to find much more regarding the case. A memorial service was then held for both Dabord and Dele.

Dabord and Dele were frequently at odds with each other. After Dabord's death, his lawyer and lifelong best friend, Paul White, was questioned regarding his client but gave little information about what happened. Dabord had said that he knew for sure that Dele and Karlan were in French Polynesia, but not much more other than that he was trying to help Dele.[8]

Strongylocentrotus posted:

The ranger's reports are trickier to explain. Apparently he was part of the search and had details about the missing hiker's car at the time he was driving through the park; that is, he knew to look out for a white sedan belonging to the missing person. The Juniper Flats parking lot is highly visible from the road, so it's baffling that the ranger never noticed the car on any of the 4 passes of the lot that happened between Friday PM and Saturday AM. All I can figure is that a.) the ranger was lazy/negligent and really not watching the parking lot as he went past, b.) the ranger had poor eyesight, or c.) he lied about even going out to search and sat twiddling his thumbs at HQ the whole time.

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The effects of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disease which causes damaged soft tissue to regrow as bone. Sufferers are slowly imprisoned by their own skeletons.

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At the time of his death his body had completely ossified; even his jaw locked up, leaving him able to move only his lips.

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The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) (/kæpˈɡrɑː/, US dict: kăpgrâ′) [1] is a disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend,spouse,parent,or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome,a class of delusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people,places,or objects (usually not in conjunction). [2] It can occur in acute,transient,or chronic forms. Cases in which patients hold the belief that time has been "warped" or "substituted" have also been reported.

Henchman of Santa posted:

If you want some interesting sports weirdness, check out the story of Bison Dele, who was most likely murdered by his brother.


SI did a very compelling and detailed longform piece that can be found here.

Azran posted:

Shope Papilloma Virus

Generates keratinous carcinomas that pop through the rabbit's head, making the poor bastard eventually die since he can't eat. This led me to look for human papilloma virus, and holy poo poo, I'm so glad I have only a couple of small formations on my arm pit which are really hard to notice, because

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Someone literally brought this up at random at a party to me. Was it you? The mom comes off extremely bad in this.

Jonathan Yeah! posted:

Is this how the Jackalope legend formed?

Jonathan Yeah! posted:

Is this how the Jackalope legend formed?

Jonathan Yeah! posted:

Is this how the Jackalope legend formed?

Your Gay Uncle posted:

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras%27s_syndrome


Although it was never officailly diagnosed, but I think my brother might have had this. Once his schitzophrenia began to manfifest he became convince I was actually a nanobot colony, and that our mom was a series of clones.

Your Gay Uncle posted:

I've never filed a worker's comp claim, do they really have "Tomfoolery" as an option as to why the worker got hurt?

Wild T posted:

Still not very creepy though, right? It's just a hole that some people have died in, like an inverted underwater Everest. That's before you watch Yuri Lipski's helmet camera video. Diving experts dissect the events as he becomes disoriented, wanders deeper and deeper into an underground cave and eventually collapses and dies a hundred meters below the surface. At one point, he makes a noise that sounds very much like 'help.'

1stGear posted:

This is pretty much exactly when you get trained to qualify as a scuba diver, every instructor, every book, and every course will continually repeat "Always dive with a buddy, always dive with a buddy, ALWAYS DIVE WITH A BUDDY JESUS."

Atmus posted:

I think 'Mishap' was the actual selection, but Tomfoolery was in the description of a guy that lost an eye at a meat packing plant because he and his coworkers decided to have a snowball fight, but with ground beef instead.

FrozenVent posted:

Stuff like the guy filling a water bottle with bleach and chugging it?

Strongylocentrotus posted:

The lack of pings in the intervening period had to be because the phone was either off or out of range of any towers. He probably turned the phone off after he called his girlfriend, but then what? Why were there no pings until that final, lone ping from within a remote part of the park?

Tea Bone posted:

gently caress! Did this actually happen? What happened to the guy?