Cooper0302 posted:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50073473-76/john-cave-tunnel-josh.html.csp

JacquelineDempsey posted:

There's actually a word for that (and a Wiki article!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

Cooper0302 posted:

Nutty Putty

Cooper0302 posted:

Sorry, here's the rest of it. It gets worse...

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=98989899&itype=NGPSID


I don't know how to post pictures yet, but google images has some nightmare inducing pictures when you search for Nutty Putty Death.

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he loves wide open space," said Emily. "It's so fitting that it's his spot now."

Kurtofan posted:

I wouldn't exactly call it fitting

JacquelineDempsey posted:

There's actually a word for that (and a Wiki article!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

The Endbringer posted:

I can't be the only one who went and checked out their eyes in the mirror after reading that.

JacquelineDempsey posted:

I learned the word waaaay back in high school (80's) art class, when we were doing self portraits, drawn from life in a mirror. The teacher was looking over my drawing, complimenting my work but adding "Y'know JD, when you draw eyes, they don't have whites that go all the way around the iri---" I turn and look up at her --- "OH! Uh, in your case, they do." She told me I had sanpaku and that, according to the Japanese, I was doomed to have bad luck. While my luck has been pretty terrible, I'm not a psycho nutbar, just 'cause I inherited big wide eyes from my dad (who is not a psychotic serial killer, he spends his retirement years cleaning beaches to save sea turtles ) So don't fret if you got the sanpaku goin' on.

JacquelineDempsey posted:

I learned the word waaaay back in high school (80's) art class, when we were doing self portraits, drawn from life in a mirror. The teacher was looking over my drawing, complimenting my work but adding "Y'know JD, when you draw eyes, they don't have whites that go all the way around the iri---" I turn and look up at her --- "OH! Uh, in your case, they do." She told me I had sanpaku and that, according to the Japanese, I was doomed to have bad luck. While my luck has been pretty terrible, I'm not a psycho nutbar, just 'cause I inherited big wide eyes from my dad (who is not a psychotic serial killer, he spends his retirement years cleaning beaches to save sea turtles ) So don't fret if you got the sanpaku goin' on.

Medieval Medic posted:

Come clean, how many hookers do you have buried in your basement?

The Endbringer posted:

I would be a liar if I said that I never once considered going to my own local scientology center, just to see what it was like.

I apologize if that sounded harsher than the tease I meant it to be, my friend.

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Because I know for a fact that if I ever DO check out that ... do you call it a church? Whatever. If I ever do check out that church, I'll probably be unable to escape for hours on end as well.

Because, you know,

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Ursula and Sabina Eriksson are Swedish twin sisters (born 1967) who came to national attention in the United Kingdom in May 2008 after an apparent episode of folie ŕ deux (or "shared psychosis"), a rare psychiatric disorder in which delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another, which resulted in a series of bizarre incidents on the M6 motorway and the subsequent murder of Glenn Hollinshead of Fenton, Staffordshire. There was no evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved in the incidents on the M6 or the death of Hollinshead.[1][2][3]

Cooper0302 posted:

Sorry, here's the rest of it. It gets worse...

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=98989899&itype=NGPSID


I don't know how to post pictures yet, but google images has some nightmare inducing pictures when you search for Nutty Putty Death.

New Leaf posted:

I read both parts of the article. Good god drat. I can't even imagine. I almost want to see a diagram, but part of me knows that is a terrible idea.

Wasabi the J posted:

xtal posted:

more!

Solice Kirsk posted:

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ZNSaq

There ya go. It's a creepy little story, but I never thought it was as good as the internet makes it out to be.

Kurtofan posted:

death fart circus.

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The story tells of an unheard-of new arcade game appearing in several suburbs of Portland, Oregon in 1981, something of a rarity at the time. The game is described as proving popular to the point of addiction, with lines forming around the machines often resulting in fighting over who would play next. The urban legend describes how the machines were visited by men in black, who collected unknown data from the machines, allegedly testing responses to the game's psychoactive effects. Players supposedly suffered from a series of unpleasant side effects, including amnesia, insomnia, stress, nightmares and night terrors. The story tells of how Polybius players stopped playing video games, while one became an anti-gaming activist. The company named in most accounts of the game is Sinneslöschen.

Kurtofan posted:

See also: the death fart circus.

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The New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century across Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, Vermont and other parts of New England. Consumption was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives. Bodies were exhumed and internal organs ritually burned to stop the "vampire" from attacking the local population and prevent the spread of the disease [...]

The infection spreads easily among a family; thus when one family member died of consumption, other members were often infected and gradually lost their health. People believed that this was due to the deceased TB sufferer draining the life from other family members. The belief that consumption was spread in this way was widely held in New England and in Europe.

In an attempt to protect the survivors and ward off the effects of consumption, bodies of those who had died of the disease were exhumed and examined. The corpse was deemed to be feeding on the living if it was determined to be unusually fresh, especially if the heart or other organs contained liquid blood. After the culprit was identified, there were a number of proposed ways to stop the attacks. The most benign of these was simply to turn the body over in its grave. In other cases, families would burn the "fresh" organs and rebury the body; occasionally the body would be decapitated. Affected family members would also inhale smoke from the burned organs or consume the ashes in a further attempt to cure the consumption.

pookel posted:

Please elaborate.

pookel posted:

Please elaborate.

bean_shadow posted:

The arcade game "Polybius". There's no evidence this game existed at all but it's still a creepy urban legend, complete with insanity and shady Men in Black coming around to get information from the machines:.

Tiberius Thyben posted:

I need a namechange.

bean_shadow posted:

The arcade game "Polybius". There's no evidence this game existed at all but it's still a creepy urban legend, complete with insanity and shady Men in Black coming around to get information from the machines:.

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Berzerk is the first video game known to have coincided with the death of players. In January 1981, Jeff Dailey made the Berzerk top-ten list after posting a high score of 16,660 points and suddenly died of a heart attack at age 19 a few seconds after the game was over.[citation needed] One year later in October 1982, Peter Burkowski made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, just a few seconds before dying of a heart attack at age 18. His high scores are unknown.[11]

bean_shadow posted:

The arcade game "Polybius". There's no evidence this game existed at all but it's still a creepy urban legend, complete with insanity and shady Men in Black coming around to get information from the machines:.

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His high scores are unknown

Centripetal Horse posted:

That story was a lot creepier before Google had so thoroughly indexed the internet that you can debunk all the cool myths in like twenty keystrokes. Another favorite creepy video game legend: Killswitch.

El Estrago Bonito posted:

Fun Fact: During that time period in Portland the feds were running a sting operation trying to crack down on illegal gambling rings based in Arcades. They even went as far as installing hidden cameras in cabinets to try and catch drug deals and in one case ran an entire Arcade as a front operation.

muscles like this? posted:

Something that most people probably would be surprised to learn was how pinball used to be illegal in big cities for quite a long time.

Plethora posted:

Aw man, the Killswitch story is just fantastic. The whole idea of the Karvina Corp being this tiny band of rebel game artists in a shithole Soviet-occupied town is crazy romantic.