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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Not in this thread. It's too long a story to post in this thread without being horribly off-topic. And honestly, I really don't even loving want to type it out because just thinking about it still shakes me up to this day. QQ more
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Well, how about that boat that exploded in Texas? It blew up real good.
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In a 2012 man was driving his Subaru Forrester in Seattle and was stopped at an intersection when a silver BMW Z4 convertible pulled up next to him and fired five fatal shots, before speeding off into the night. Was this a case of a brutal gangland slaying, someone seeking revenge, or a fatal misidentification? Nope, the shooter was a married robotics expert who picked his victim at random because he apparently wanted to feel what it felt to kill someone. The shooter was 31 year old Thomasdinh “Dinh” Bowman, and his victim was a 42 year old wine steward that Bowman had never met. Bowman's actions (including after eating dinner at Red Robin with his wife two hours after the murder) were about what you'd expect from someone who researched how to get away with murder on the internet. He had turned off his cell phone GPS ahead of time, dissembled and hid his gun, got rid of his car tires so they couldn't be matched to tread marks at the scene, and drove to Portland to get his shot out passenger window replaced. Police later got a look at his computer and found: quote:“On this computer, the defendant had accumulated hundreds of articles, books, learned treatises, videos, and manuals dealing with how to be an assassin, how to commit murder, ‘snuff’ films, autopsies, methods of committing crimes, marksmanship, gunsmithing, forensic investigation, homicide investigation, and interrogation,” the trial brief says. Fortunately for society Bowman made the mistake of living only 10 blocks away from the murder scene and witnesses gave a description of his BMW that led to his arrest. He was able to afford Seattle Super-Defense Lawyer John Henry Browne who had previous defended The Barefoot Bandit, the guy who massacred all those Afghan civilians, and Ted Bundy. Bowman clearly hadn't planned ahead to to "getting arrested" phase of his scheme, and his defense was a ridiculous claim that he was defending himself against the wine steward's "road rage", including saying that the wine steward was throwing wine bottles at his head and he feared for his life. With his hands on the steering wheel, and Bowman's window rolled up. Bowman got 29 years in jail. This one is especially scary to me as I live not too far from where it happened, and the killer was so well educated, married, with a great car, and just decided why not kill a random guy using what I learned on the internet?
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Groda posted:What the gently caress does this even mean? Luka Magnotta was a Karla Homolka superfan who planted rumors on the Internet about himself being in a relationship with Homolka. Later, he killed a dude, dismembered him, and mailed his body parts to politicians and a school.
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Mojo Threepwood posted:This one is especially scary to me as I live not too far from where it happened, and the killer was so well educated, married, with a great car, and just decided why not kill a random guy using what I learned on the internet? You're not the only one - stuff like this is creepy because it never fits the typical stereotype/profile of someone with a history of violence that would commit the act. Just some random family man decided "welp, let's do some research on killing someone and then go do it randomly". If nothing else, people like this can end up exploiting the typical "profile" that law enforcement has (or that gets perpetuated through media) and either get away completely, or not get caught for a LONG time.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Luka Magnotta was a Karla Homolka superfan who planted rumors on the Internet about himself being in a relationship with He filmed it too. The video is called " 1 man 1 screwdriver" or something. Don't watch it .
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Alistair Wilson was shot and killed on his doorstep in 2004. It remains unsolved and what makes it unnerving is that the police still can't work out a motive. Timeline: Wilsons wife answered the door one evening to a stocky man wearing a baseball cap who asked for him by name. She went to get him, and he had a short conversation with the man before being handed an envelope and going back into the house. He told his wife he didn't know who the man was but went back to the door and was shot three times. The killer took the envelope with him when he fled. The gun was found in a drain a few weeks later by a council worker. Wilson was a local bank manager and it was speculated that he had been pressured into money laundering for a criminal gang. Extensive searches of his work records by a specialist team who presumably know what they're doing turned up nothing. It was then speculated that he had borrowed £50,000 from loan sharks for a business venture, although why he hadn't done this by remortgaging his £250,000 house wasn't clear, and he had £10,000 in his bank account. The police refused to comment, so we don't know if it's bullshit. His wife inherited £140,000 (that money plus half the house) although that seems like a tiny amount to kill someone over and she hasn't remarried and has kept up the grieving wife act for a decade so she's probably genuine. They didn't appear to have any major marital problems and he wasn't mixed up with drugs, gambling or any of that fun stuff. The police apparently have "very limited" information about the envelope he was handed although they refused to comment on it until late last year when they said they may release that information soon. We've all got things going on in our life that, if you used your imagination, could be used as motives for murder. But with this guy every line of investigation has hit a brick wall. It's like someone just picked his name out of the phonebook and went round to shoot him.
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Mojo Threepwood posted:In a 2012 man was driving his Subaru Forrester in Seattle and was stopped at an intersection when a silver BMW Z4 convertible pulled up next to him and fired five fatal shots, before speeding off into the night. Was this a case of a brutal gangland slaying, someone seeking revenge, or a fatal misidentification? Nope, the shooter was a married robotics expert who picked his victim at random because he apparently wanted to feel what it felt to kill someone. WHAT A GREAT CAR
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duckmaster posted:Alistair Wilson was shot and killed on his doorstep in 2004. It remains unsolved and what makes it unnerving is that the police still can't work out a motive. I was going to say something along the lines of "Bankers aren't too popular nowadays" but then I saw 2004. No idea then.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Dyatlov Pass has always fascinated me. I assume the podcast you listened to was Skeptoid? (It hasn't been the same since Brian Dunning sold it Nope - its "Thinking Sideways", which I recommended a few pages back. They specialize in a lot of what this thread is about - unsolved mysteries, strange happenings and so on. Re: the Skeptoid scandal, it really makes me sad because they are educational but now when I listen to them and hear that nonprofit spiel I can't help but get a little grumpy at it. I actually listen to a ton of podcasts that fit the themes of this thread. Maybe when I'm not on my phone I'll do a little writeup and we can have other people add in, and we can make an interesting podcast section for the OP.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Although this has been raised on this thread before, it is worth suggesting you catch this documentary: Watched this on a whim and it owns thanks. You can't trust anything he says but there is a part where Frédéric kind of says there was a point looking back on it all where he realized the family knew it wasn't him from the start. I don't know what to believe. It's obvious though that there's more to the story. Maybe the family used him as a way to deal with grief and guilt from maybe knowing the truth about their dead son? I don't know its all just surreal.
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Ozz81 posted:Anyone else find it kind of silly that it literally starts out with the ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma sound from Friday the 13th? Honestly, the music as a whole is ridiculously over the top.
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Here's a few articles I've had my nose in recently. Bubbly Creek quote:“ "Bubbly Creek" is an arm of the Chicago River, and forms the southern boundary of the Union Stock Yards; all the drainage of the square mile of packing-houses empties into it, so that it is really a great open sewer a hundred or two feet wide. One long arm of it is blind, and the filth stays there forever and a day. The grease and chemicals that are poured into it undergo all sorts of strange transformations, which are the cause of its name; it is constantly in motion, as if huge fish were feeding in it, or great leviathans disporting themselves in its depths. Bubbles of carbonic gas will rise to the surface and burst, and make rings two or three feet wide. Here and there the grease and filth have caked solid, and the creek looks like a bed of lava; chickens walk about on it, feeding, and many times an unwary stranger has started to stroll across, and vanished temporarily. The packers used to leave the creek that way, till every now and then the surface would catch on fire and burn furiously, and the fire department would have to come and put it out. Once, however, an ingenious stranger came and started to gather this filth in scows, to make lard out of; then the packers took the cue, and got out an injunction to stop him, and afterwards gathered it themselves. The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean. ” There's been some improvement over the years. The smell's mostly gone and there's even some fish and plants living there. Who Me quote:Who Me was a top secret sulfurous stench weapon developed by the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II to be used by the French Resistance against German officers. Who Me smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer, humiliating him and, by extension, demoralizing the occupying German forces. The Great Stink quote:Brick sewers had been built in London from the 17th century when sections of the Fleet and Walbrook rivers were covered for that purpose. In the century preceding 1856, over a hundred sewers were constructed in London, and at that date the city had around 200,000 cesspits and 360 sewers. Some of the cesspits leaked methane and other gases, which often caught fire and exploded, leading to a loss of life, while many of the sewers were in a poor state of repair. During the early 19th century improvements had been undertaken in the supply of water to Londoners, and by 1858 many of the city's medieval wooden water pipes were being replaced with iron ones. This, combined with the introduction of flushing toilets and the doubling of the city's population, led to more water being flushed into the sewers, along with the associated effluent. quote:The Building Act 1844 had ensured that all new buildings had to be connected to a sewer, not a cesspool, and the commission set about connecting cesspools to sewers, or removing them altogether. Because of the fear that the miasma from the sewers would cause the spread of disease, Chadwick, and his successor, the pathologist John Simon, ensured that the sewers were regularly flushed through, a policy that resulted in more sewage being discharged into the Thames. quote:The problems with the Thames had been building for several years, and Charles Dickens's novel Little Dorrit—published as a serial between 1855 and 1857—considered that the Thames was "a deadly sewer ... in the place of a fine, fresh river". In June 1858 the temperatures in the shade in London averaged in the mid-30s °C (93–97 °F)—rising to 48 °C (118 °F) in the sun. Combined with an extended spell of dry weather, the level of the Thames dropped and raw effluent from the sewers remained on the banks of the river. The leading article in the City Press observed that "Gentility of speech is at an end—it stinks, and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it". A writer for The Standard concurred with the opinion. One of its reporters described the river as a "pestiferous and typhus breeding abomination", while a second wrote that "the amount of poisonous gases which is thrown off is proportionate to the increase of the sewage which is passed into the scream". quote:..."a Stygian pool, reeking with ineffable and intolerable horrors". Years of suffering and several Cholera outbreaks made the Govt. fume and they finally passed a previous plan that was considered too costly before the smell hit Parliament. I guess that old French quote is true, "La première poule qui chante a pondu l'oeuf."
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Lets talk about Clipperton Island. http://www.damninteresting.com/the-tyrant-clipperton-island/    quote:For a tropical island, Clipperton doesn’t have very much going for it. The tiny, ring-shaped atoll lying 1,000 kilometres off the southwest coast of Mexico is covered in hard, pointy coral and a prodigious number of nasty little crabs. The wet season from May to October brings incessant and torrential rain, and for the rest of the year the island reeks of ammonia. The Pacific Ocean batters the island from all sides, picking away at the scab of land that rises abruptly from the seabed. A few coconut palms are virtually the only thing that the island boasts in the way of vegetation. Oh, and the sea all around is full of sharks. It isn’t much of a surprise that Clipperton Island is decidedly uninhabited. This is where things go bad. quote:In the meantime, Mexico sent over a group of 13 men from their army to guard the island, including a de facto governor by the name of Ramón Arnaud. Wives and servants followed, and a number of children were born on the island in the early 1910s. An American ship was wrecked on the island in 1914; rescue came quickly, and the Americans advised the Mexicans to leave. Arnaud declined; all he did was expel the last remaining Brit from the island, sending the man and his family away with the Americans. With their last employee expelled, Britain stopped paying attention to Clipperton; meanwhile, Mexico was taking increasingly little notice of it themselves owing to a developing revolution in the country. Without any explanation, ships stopped arriving at Clipperton. The tiny community was dependent on the mainland for food and information, and soon their cache of supplies began to dwindle. In this case, no news was bad news. TLDR: Lighthouse keeper takes island of women and children hostage, uses them as private rape camp. He ends up stabbed to death by the women before their rescued by the US Navy.
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/\ /\ /\ That was indeed drat interesting. Thanks for posting!
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Pitcairn Island has a similar history, including everyone from Fletcher Christian (the lead mutineer on the HMS Bounty) to one of his modern descendants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Christian quote:Following the mutiny, Christian attempted to build a colony on Tubuai, but there the mutineers met with conflict with natives. Abandoning the island, he stopped briefly in Tahiti where he married Maimiti, the daughter of one of the local chiefs, on 16 June 1789.[7] While on Tahiti, he dropped off sixteen crewmen. These sixteen included four Bligh loyalists who had been left behind on Bounty and two who had neither participated in, nor resisted, the mutiny. The remaining nine mutineers, six Tahitian men and eleven Tahitian women then sailed eastward. In time, they landed on Pitcairn Island, where they stripped Bounty of all that could be floated ashore before Matthew Quintal set it on fire, stranding them. The resulting sexual imbalance, combined with the effective enslavement of the Tahitian men by the mutineers, led to insurrection and the deaths of most of the men. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004 quote:The remoteness of Pitcairn (which lies about halfway between New Zealand and Peru) had shielded the tiny population (47 in 2004) from outside scrutiny. If present admissions and allegations were to be believed, the islanders had for many decades tolerated what others classify as sexual promiscuity, even among the very young, in line with traditional values of their Polynesian ancestors and contrary to imposed Western values. This included a corresponding tacit acceptance of what is defined in the UK as child sexual abuse. Three cases of imprisonment for sex with underage girls were reported in the 1950s.[6]
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There's a documentary some friends and I watched about something in a similar vein called The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden The best description of the whole mess I've found comes from some site called Rough Guides. quote:In the 1930s, a string of deaths and disappearances among a curious group of European settlers on Floreana – which became known as the Galápagos Affair after the book by John Treherne – made the islands more famous to the contemporary world than even Darwin had done a century earlier. The story began with the arrival in 1929 of two Germans, Dr Friedrich Ritter and his mistress Dore Strauch. Ritter, a determined, vain and deliberately compassionless man, was pumped up on the ideas of Nietzsche and Lao-tze, and had pretensions to being a great philosopher, rather than breadwinner in a suburban Berlin household. Dore fell under his spell as his patient, and they eventually conspired to run off to the Galápagos Islands, no easy holiday spot, but the perfect place to found a dark Utopia and play out the roles of “philosopher-heroes”. Seeing himself as one of Nietzsche’s Übermenschen, Ritter refused to bring a supply of morphine with him, welcoming the test of beating pain “by the power of the will”. He had also had his and Dore’s teeth removed, preferring the reliability of a set of steel dentures – which they shared. He refused to show any love to his mistress, leaving her weeping on the lava when she couldn’t carry their supplies; he wouldn’t even clean Dore’s burn wounds after she’d knelt in red-hot coals. Towards the end he even beat her, but Dore claimed her devotion to him never faltered. EDIT: Though that article doesn't mention the fact that the Wittmers settled there because Heinz read some of Friedrich's crap that somehow got published, or that Friedrich was really pissed that he and Dore wouldn't have the entire island to themselves and went out of his way to make that known to the Wittmers. Or that Margaret Wittmer was Not Okay with her husband just moving the family to literally the middle of nowhere. Seriously, watch the documentary, it's fascinating. Ernie Muppari has a new favorite as of 10:14 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Ernie Muppari posted:There's a documentary some friends and I watched about something in a similar vein called The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden Yeah, it's on Netflix, it's definitely worth watching.
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Nckdictator posted:Lets talk about Clipperton Island. quote:Victor Emmanuel III of Italy finally made up his mind in 1931, awarding Clipperton Island to France. I like stories with a happy ending 
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Ernie Muppari posted:There's a documentary some friends and I watched about something in a similar vein called The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden 
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Thread is currently delivering. More psychopathic island castaways, please.
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KozmoNaut posted:That is some Valhalla Rising-type hosed up poo poo right there Seems like it would make a great movie. There's like 4-5 awesome parts there that I could see legitimate actors being excited to play if it was done right.
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Centripetal Horse posted:Thread is currently delivering. More psychopathic island castaways, please. Have we done the Batavia yet?
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KozmoNaut posted:That is some Valhalla Rising-type hosed up poo poo right there Hopefully it'd be less boring.
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Behavioral Sink What happens when you take rats and set up the grandest utopia that the rats could ever hope for---no worries about food, water, predators, weather and room? Total chaos and destruction, with a dash of a lot of the population not caring about anything anymore except to groom themselves.: quote:Many [female rats] were unable to carry pregnancy to full term or to survive delivery of their litters if they did. An even greater number, after successfully giving birth, fell short in their maternal functions. Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic overactivity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep. The social organization of the animals showed equal disruption. [...] The common source of these disturbances became most dramatically apparent in the populations of our first series of three experiments, in which we observed the development of what we called a behavioral sink. The animals would crowd together in greatest number in one of the four interconnecting pens in which the colony was maintained. As many as 60 of the 80 rats in each experimental population would assemble in one pen during periods of feeding. Individual rats would rarely eat except in the company of other rats. As a result extreme population densities developed in the pen adopted for eating, leaving the others with sparse populations.[...] In the experiments in which the behavioral sink developed, infant mortality ran as high as 96 percent among the most disoriented groups in the population. quote:No small part of this ugly barbarization has been due to sheer physical congestion: a diagnosis now partly confirmed with scientific experiments with rats – for when they are placed in equally congested quarters, they exhibit the same symptoms of stress, alienation, hostility, sexual perversion, parental incompetence, and rabid violence that we now find in the Megalopolis. Here's a larger article about the experiment
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Ernie Muppari posted:There's a documentary some friends and I watched about something in a similar vein called The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden Does it mention what happened to the Wittmer's son, Harry? It doesn't say what happened to him after his initial mention.
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Double Plus Good posted:Does it mention what happened to the Wittmer's son, Harry? It doesn't say what happened to him after his initial mention. The wiki on Floreana covers that part, but it's not very creepy. quote:In 1929, Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch arrived in Guayaquil from Berlin to settle on Floreana, and sent letters back that were widely reported in the press, encouraging others to follow. In 1932 Heinz and Margaret Wittmer arrived with their son Harry, and shortly afterwards their son Rolf was born there, the first citizen of the island to have been born in the Galápagos. Later in 1932, the self-described "Baroness" von Wagner Bosquet arrived with companions, but a series of strange disappearances and deaths (including possible murders) and the departure of Strauch left the Wittmers as the sole remaining inhabitants of the group who had settled there. They set up a hotel which is still managed by their descendants, and Mrs. Wittmer wrote an account of her experiences in her book Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos. A documentary film recounting these events, The Galapagos Affair, was released in 2013. IIRC Harry (or their other kid who was born on Floreana, if forget if one of them died) is one of the people interviewed in the documentary. Actually, I guess these parts of the wiki count as a little unnerving too: quote:Due to its relatively flat surface, supply of fresh water as well as plants and animals, Floreana was a favorite stop for whalers and other visitors to the Galapagos. When still known as Charles Island in 1819, the island was set alight as a prank by helmsman Thomas Chappel from the Nantucket whaling ship the Essex. Being the height of the dry season, the fire soon burned out of control. The next day saw the island still burning as the ship sailed for the offshore grounds and after a full day of sailing the fire was still visible on the horizon. Many years later Thomas Nickerson, who had been a cabin boy on the Essex, returned to Charles Island and found a black wasteland: "neither trees, shrubbery, nor grass have since appeared." It is believed the fire contributed to the extinction of some species originally on the island.
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Rogue Waves are horrifying. Though, can anyone clarify "About one ship is lost every week in the world's oceans, mostly due to poor seamanship or severe weather."? http://www.damninteresting.com/monster-rogue-waves/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqzHNWh_ec0 quote:For centuries sailors have been telling stories of encountering monstrous ocean waves which tower over one hundred feet in the air and toss ships about like corks. Historically oceanographers have discounted these reports as tall tales-- the embellished stories of mariners with too much time at sea. But in the last eleven years scientists have discovered strong evidence indicating that such massive rogue waves do exist. The phenomenon has become the subject of recent scientific study, but their origin remains a mystery of the deep.
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outlier posted:Have we done the Batavia yet? Here ya go: quote:On 27 October 1628, the newly built Batavia, commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, sailed from Texel for the Dutch East Indies, to obtain spices. It sailed under commandeur and opperkoopman (upper- or senior merchant) Francisco Pelsaert, with Ariaen Jacobsz serving as skipper. These two had previously encountered each other in Surat, India. Although some animosity had developed between them there, it is not known whether Pelsaert even remembered Jacobsz when he boarded Batavia. Also on board was the onderkoopman (under- or junior merchant) Jeronimus Cornelisz, a bankrupt pharmacist from Haarlem who was fleeing the Netherlands, in fear of arrest because of his heretical beliefs associated with the painter Johannes van der Beeck, also known as Torrentius. quote:On 4 June 1629 the ship struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island in the Wallabi Group, part of the Houtman Abrolhos off the Western Australian coast. Of the 322 aboard, most of the passengers and crew managed to get ashore, although 40 people drowned. The survivors, including all the women and children, were then transferred to nearby islands in the ship's longboat and yawl. An initial survey of the islands found no fresh water and only limited food (sea lions and birds). Pelsaert realised the dire situation and decided to search for water on the mainland. quote:Jeronimus Cornelisz, who had been left in charge of the survivors, was well aware that if that party ever reached the port of Batavia, Pelsaert would report the impending mutiny, and his position in the planned mutiny might become apparent. Therefore, he made plans to hijack any rescue ship that might return and use the vessel to seek another safe haven. Cornelisz even made far-fetched plans to start a new kingdom, using the gold and silver from the wrecked Batavia. However, to carry out this plan, he first needed to eliminate possible opponents. What makes it even shittier is what happened to that female passenger mentioned earlier, Lucretia Jans: quote:In October 1628, Jans departed the Netherlands on the Batavia to reunite with her husband in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East India Company. On 4 June 1629, the ship foundered upon the reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the Western coast of Australia. The ship's commandeur and its skipper left with a team for Batavia to seek help. Meanwhile, the crew mutinied under the leadership of Jeronimus Cornelisz, with the intent of creating a pirate ship. The women were used as sex slaves, but Cornelisz reserved Jans for himself. Even if she was acquitted, it sucks that she was put on trial and possibly tortured for being "molested" and raped numerous times.
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Nckdictator posted:Lets talk about Clipperton Island. The horrible rape island stuff is crazy enough, but I love that Mexico seized the island from the US by distracting a couple of guys there long enough to hoist the Mexican flag over it, and the US's response was apparently, "Well, fair's fair. Here's the keys."
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Modern ghost ships like the Kaz II are pretty freaky. You'd think it wouldn't happen with all the technology we have, and yet... quote:On Friday, 20 April, the Kaz II was towed into the Townsville port for forensic examination.[4] On 21 April, Police Sergeant Bardell and Sergeant Molloy searched the ship for signs of foul play or third-party involvement; no evidence for this was found. They found the cabin to be neat and tidy apart from some magazines, a piece of newspaper, and a wine cask which were lying on the floor. It was later determined that these items ended up on the floor while the ship was being towed to shore. In the sink were a few butter knives and, on a bench in the galley, a plastic sheath of fishing knives was found. They did not appear to have been used recently. Under Batten's bed, in a sealed container, the investigators found a firearm and some ammunition, none of which was apparently missing. In a drawer they found an additional single bullet of the same caliber.[7] There's several theories to what happened, including a freak wave, but nobody knows for certain and the fact the cabin was tidy just makes it weirder. I was trying to find something about another case with a retired couple that vanished from their yacht in the Atlantic, with (I think) all their valuables still on board, but came up empty handed.
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Anoia posted:Modern ghost ships like the Kaz II are pretty freaky. You'd think it wouldn't happen with all the technology we have, and yet... Well if the video shows them bullshitting on the boat not wearing lifejackets, they probably were hit by a wave they didn't see coming and swept overboard.
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Centripetal Horse posted:Thread is currently delivering. More psychopathic island castaways, please. It's a long read, and more  than , but The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.I guess the things that would make it fit this thread are that everyone went a little crazy from eating food out of cans that had been soldered shut with lead, and they had to eat the sled dogs. 
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For more on the Batavia, read Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash, which goes in all sorts of depth about the characters on the crew, the way the Dutch mercantile system worked, navigation, etc.
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RNG posted:It's a long read, and more For goons wishing to follow up the madness and bravery of human beings in the ant/arctic regions, check out a page dedicated to the subject here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655083  Basebf555 posted:Well if the video shows them bullshitting on the boat not wearing lifejackets, they probably were hit by a wave they didn't see coming and swept overboard. Sounds good only problem is that the ship's interior was undisturbed. Any really large wave would probably have shaken up the interior.  Nckdictator posted:Rogue Waves are horrifying. Good BBC documentary on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVZn46KgTs
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Ernie Muppari posted:
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:For goons wishing to follow up the madness and bravery of human beings in the ant/arctic regions, check out a page dedicated to the subject here: Oh, nice! Lansing's Endurance was what got me interested in Shackleton, I didn't expect it to be such an epic voyage.
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Rabbit Hill posted:Welp, add this fucker to the list of worst humans in history. In the same vein... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQFSzoxFZcQ quote:The two ex-Boy Scout leaders who high-fived and cheered as they toppled over an ancient rock formation in Utah were sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation and a fine — but dodged jail time.
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