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JibbaJabberwocky posted:Sorry if this got poster earlier and I missed it. A while back those Missing 411 stories were posted here and really caught my attention. I just found someone made a documentary on a few of those stories and its available on Youtube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEA9-mEOZtA You can go deep down the Missing411 rabbit hole on YouTube. I followed it past disappearances, right over Sasquatch territory, through alien abduction, to wendigos and skinwalkers, until I hit literal demons (who might also be aliens). Essentially, be careful to always keep an eye on the line between the factual disappearances and folklore. The folklore is fun as gently caress, though.
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Inceltown posted:Stolen from another thread The great thing about following links to awful newspaper stories is that invariably the recommended links to other stories are even worse: 
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Something in my brain has been broken for a while now, but I can’t help but feel weird that one reaction I had to this news story was “Huh. Her tattoo looks like Dr. Rockso’s high school senior photo.” Police in Colorado are asking for the public’s help in identifying a victim and suspect after a body was found in a suitcase in a dumpster.
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Oct 18, 2019 15:51
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Pirate Radar posted:Pedo priest island How weird would it be if there were actually an island populated entirely by pedophile priests for the last seventy years? I wonder how many there would be by now.
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Oct 18, 2019 16:38
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OutOfPrint posted:You can go deep down the Missing411 rabbit hole on YouTube. I followed it past disappearances, right over Sasquatch territory, through alien abduction, to wendigos and skinwalkers, until I hit literal demons (who might also be aliens). If folks want an interesting and entertaining look at the Missing 411, the What If? Podcast covers it in episodes 24, 46, 47, 68, 69, 104, and 141. An honorable mention for episode 80 where they go to the Mile High Mystery Conference and David Paulides and his cop stache threatens to kick them out for trying to record from the back of the room. They go from "this is really weird and freaky" to "David Paulides might be cherry picking and presenting urban legends" to "David Paulides is full of poo poo and actively makes poo poo up while refusing to say its all because of interdimensional Bigfoot when he clearly thinks its all because of interdimensional Bigfoot" Each episode is self contained and you can listen in any order, but going on order gives a really nice metanarrative that they clearly didn't plan.
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Pope Guilty posted:A woman who escaped China's concentration camps told Haaretz her story and it's some early years of the Holocaust poo poo.
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OutOfPrint posted:I followed it past disappearances, right over Sasquatch territory, through alien abduction, to wendigos and skinwalkers, until I hit literal demons (who might also be aliens). I feel like the rational answer to the cause for the disappearances and deaths are likely a combination of the environment (including wildlife) and human foul play. But there always seem to be nutters who go completely off the deep end and end up at demonic aliens. Something that stuck with me is many reports state remains were found far from where they went missing or well into inhospitable landscapes and the investigators are always scratching their heads saying "this was hard for me there's no way a child could have done it." But drat, kids are really loving zesty and they can easily get themselves to areas that would make a 50 year old policeman's knees cry out for the sweet relief of death. There has to be foul play involved in some of them but I feel like getting lost and succumbing to the elements is likely the cause of death for most of the cases.
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:I feel like the rational answer to the cause for the disappearances and deaths are likely a combination of the environment (including wildlife) and human foul play. But there always seem to be nutters who go completely off the deep end and end up at demonic aliens. I think the vast majority of these cases are completely natural, because, after all, forests have a lot of places to hide a body, especially when the victim is scared, panicked, and trying to find shelter to hide in prior to dying. Some of the more extreme examples seem suspicious to me that maybe there is something unaccounted for causing them, but then again my idea of wilderness is the woods I used to find porno mags in when I was a kid, so there are most likely completely rational explanations that I don't know enough about hiking, camping, and general outdoorsy stuff to consider. Ah, who am I kidding, it's skinwalkers.
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Brawnfire posted:How weird would it be if there were actually an island populated entirely by pedophile priests for the last seventy years? I wonder how many there would be by now. 
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Yeah, I think there's a few cases that are legitimately headscratching (the Yuba City 5 comes to mind) but most are a series of bad decisions, none of which are in and of themselves fatal, but when done in sequence put someone in a life threatening situation they couldn't get out of (Death Valley Germans come to mind). I think folks also generally underestimate what folks are capable of doing when in a life threatening situation vs. what they can normally do when things are running fine. I've got problems in my back and one of my legs, I walk with a limp most of the time, and standing up for more than 15-20 minutes is not fun. I can walk normally for about 5 minutes without pain. Last summer, through a series of decisions that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, I ended up alone several miles from my car with no phone or water on a 100 degree day. Now, I wasn't in real danger. I ran across enough folks that if I wasn't afraid of dying or even passing out really, but it was still an insanely stupid position I put myself in, and there wasn't any one decision that, in the moment, was really stupid. Just a big chain of small, bad decisions. Also, I was able to push way, way beyond what I would have thought my back and leg could handle on nothing more than fear and adrenaline. I figure a lot of the Missing 411 folks do similar things, even if they're kids or the elderly. The human body has an insane ability to keep going when mortal danger is around.
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Oct 18, 2019 22:30
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Brawnfire posted:How weird would it be if there were actually an island populated entirely by pedophile priests for the last seventy years? I wonder how many there would be by now. I mean they’re not all priests but... https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103569364
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Yeah, not to be the one saying Santa Claus isn't real, but Missing 411 is best treated as a creepypasta. Which is fair, since if I remember right some of those forest ranger creepypastas got wrapped in at some point. The thing that struck me, after someone pointed it out, is that people don't grasp just how quickly you can end up in straight up wilderness. This is the story of a hiker who went missing and died on the Appalachian Trail that always struck me. She was only 2 miles off of the trail and they think the search dogs came within 100 yards of her camp multiple times. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/hiker-who-went-missing-on-appalachian-trail-survived-26-days-before-dying Until they found her body, the story was just a woman disappearing in the woods without a trace.
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If you don’t know who Kurds are, how the US just hosed them over, or what white phosphorus does (hint: it can burn through your bones while you’re still alive and water/sweat/blood makes it even hotter), take a few minutes to check those out, then come back to read how Turkey is suspected of using white phosphorus against Kurdish civilians in Syria [TW for image of a young boy with badly damaged skin], in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. I’m glad that, in these last days of humanity, I get to spend so much time posting with goons. It’ll be like the band on the Titanic but shitposting instead of music.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah, not to be the one saying Santa Claus isn't real, but Missing 411 is best treated as a creepypasta. Which is fair, since if I remember right some of those forest ranger creepypastas got wrapped in at some point. Nobody in this thread is taking 411 seriously. But yeah it's ludicrously easy to get turned around in places you aren't familiar with or without an obvious landmark to orient yourself toward. There's no difference between being lost 3m or 3km from rescue if you start walking in the wrong direction.
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Busket Posket posted:If you don’t know who Kurds are, how the US just hosed them over, or what white phosphorus does (hint: it can burn through your bones while you’re still alive and water/sweat/blood makes it even hotter), take a few minutes to check those out, then come back to read how Turkey is suspected of using white phosphorus against Kurdish civilians in Syria [TW for image of a young boy with badly damaged skin], in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Turkey has also resolved to genocide more Armenians. So you know. Like someone.
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Wasabi the J posted:Turkey has also resolved to genocide more Armenians. So you know. Like someone. Bad move. Trump actually listens to Kim Kardashian.
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Busket Posket posted:If you don’t know who Kurds are, how the US just hosed them over, or what white phosphorus does (hint: it can burn through your bones while you’re still alive and water/sweat/blood makes it even hotter), take a few minutes to check those out, then come back to read how Turkey is suspected of using white phosphorus against Kurdish civilians in Syria [TW for image of a young boy with badly damaged skin], in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. gonna go out playing nearer my god to thee using only armpit farts and a kazoo
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Wasabi the J posted:Turkey has also resolved to genocide more Armenians. So you know. Like someone. Turkey: "Let's genocide some Armenians. Haha there was no genocide we would never do that jk… Unless?"
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Solice Kirsk posted:2011 reg dates aren't allowed to be sarcastic either.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I mean they’re not all priests but... Oh.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I mean they’re not all priests but... Pitcairn's population is on a nosedive and is pretty hostile to immigration (and I can't imagine many people want to move to paedophisland) so in a generation or yep it'll be empty again.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I promise you, nobody with a 2011 reg date has ever attempted humor. can confirm. i saw that story of the 5 inches of blood in someone's basement on facebook and thought it was an onion article. i'd never heard of this one before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jean_Welden paula welden disappeared in 1945 while on Vermont's "long trail." one theory is that UFOs took her.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I promise you, nobody with a 2011 reg date has ever attempted humor. Posting to check my own regdate eta ah gently caress
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DemonDarkhorse posted:can confirm. I mean, it basically has to be UFOs doesn't it? Lost in the woods at night...pfffft, that's as far fetched as someone thinking a bigfoot kidnapped her.
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Brawnfire posted:This thread is terrible for my mental health I can't stay away for long, but I do occasionally unbookmark it for sometimes weeks at a time just to be sure I don't wind up hurting myself. If I'm in a good place it's great horror, if I'm in a bad place it can quickly descend to "humanity isn't worth sticking around for" Fortunately I have both a therapist and a dog.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I can't stay away for long, but I do occasionally unbookmark it for sometimes weeks at a time just to be sure I don't wind up hurting myself. If I'm in a good place it's great horror, if I'm in a bad place it can quickly descend to "humanity isn't worth sticking around for" Need to get you a bird too 
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Solice Kirsk posted:I mean, it basically has to be UFOs doesn't it? Lost in the woods at night...pfffft, that's as far fetched as someone thinking a bigfoot kidnapped her. Ufologists are the conspiracy equivalent of hoarders. Unexplained lights? UFO. Unexplained disappearance? UFO. Lost time? UFO. Mysterious figures skulking around? Covering up a UFO. Jesus? Alien. Angels? Aliens. Bigfoot? Shows up in areas with UFO activity. Hearing voices? Alien communication. Media critical of Donald Trump? Trying to discredit him before he discloses UFOs (any day now...) Everything is aliens.
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If I'm up to speed on Might&Magic lore angels are actually robots, demons are aliens
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Kitfox88 posted:Need to get you a bird too I want a bird so bad... I can't because of my folks but if that ever changes, I'll finally have to choose between a cockatiel or budgies.
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This thread introduced me to The Seed waaaaay back when, so I'd like to share my latest mini doc covering it: https://youtu.be/M0XY2AI3ABI
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StrixNebulosa posted:I want a bird so bad... I can't because of my folks but if that ever changes, I'll finally have to choose between a cockatiel or budgies.
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fauna posted:quail I will never be powerful enough to take care of a flock of quail
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StrixNebulosa posted:I want a bird so bad... I can't because of my folks but if that ever changes, I'll finally have to choose between a cockatiel or budgies. As someone who’s owned both, go for a cockatiel. Mine learned tricks and whistled the Andy Griffith theme, where my budgies just shrieked like assholes. The Golden Gael posted:This thread introduced me to The Seed waaaaay back when, so I'd like to share my latest mini doc covering it: https://youtu.be/M0XY2AI3ABI This is real good. You’re good at these.
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Busket Posket posted:As someone who’s owned both, go for a cockatiel. Mine learned tricks and whistled the Andy Griffith theme, where my budgies just shrieked like assholes. Yeah, it's pretty rare for a cockatiel to mimic speech but they can whistle a tune great. The pair of ones I had growing up would take bars from the various tunes they knew to warble out their own compositions. They're pretty easy to take care of too. Mostly just preventing them from chewing things up for fun (they'll tear apart your keyboard or shred your important documents if you let them) and constantly refilling their water dish because they keep making GBS threads in it. E: whoops, this isn't the bird thread. Turns out I'm the one with all the brain diseases after all. buddhist nudist has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:I want a bird so bad... I can't because of my folks but if that ever changes, I'll finally have to choose between a cockatiel or budgies. I have troubles managing myself so a pet is no way but yeah I vicariously live through bird crazies thread in PI. It’s unnerving how intelligent the little bastards are while still being relatively dumb
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