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When I learned about that as a kid I was genuinely scared I could spontaneously combust at any time. Ball lightning was another thing that scared me (and I recall one of the weird old books at my library claiming that ball lightning is what causes spontaneous combustion).
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Speaking of Bierce, I was downright furious when I learned that the supernatural story of a farmer who vanished while walking toward his wife and children and could later be heard yelling for help in the same field but never seen, a story told as true in multiple books on the unexplained that I checked out from the library as a child, was actually just the plot of Bierce’s story “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field” and plagiarized from it wholesale.
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coronatae posted:Couple years ago I was on vacation in Maine at the edge of a lake and had the brilliant idea to binge the Not Hot But Spicy archive right around bedtime. I couldn't fall asleep for half the night, then around 4AM when I was in a light, fitful doze I was suddenly startled awake by the sound of a loon laughing. My rear end was really sore the next day because I'd apparently been clenching my buttcheeks in terror all night Is this the story behind your avatar?
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I AM GRANDO posted:Speaking of Bierce, I was downright furious when I learned that the supernatural story of a farmer who vanished while walking toward his wife and children and could later be heard yelling for help in the same field but never seen, a story told as true in multiple books on the unexplained that I checked out from the library as a child, was actually just the plot of Bierce’s story “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field” and plagiarized from it wholesale. I have fond memories of being scared shitless by probably the same books. Blowing my mind here. Wish I remembered the titles, I'd love to see how much total bullshit I believed.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Speaking of Bierce, I was downright furious when I learned that the supernatural story of a farmer who vanished while walking toward his wife and children and could later be heard yelling for help in the same field but never seen, a story told as true in multiple books on the unexplained that I checked out from the library as a child, was actually just the plot of Bierce’s story “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field” and plagiarized from it wholesale. Brad Steiger was one of the most prolific paranormal writers back in the day and in his STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES he write up Bierce's disappearance AND recaps a few Bierce stories like above, without saying they're fictional lol.    Book also goes over real missing child Donald Lee Baker, who's used nowadays by David Paulides for his "Missing 411" exploitation cases.
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Brawnfire posted:I remember when my girlfriend and I moved into our first apartment together, I had a couple days there alone before she moved in. Back in the day, my then-girlfriend (now wife) and I were watching the first episodes of Marble Hornets as they came out. We had just watched one that was fairly creepy, and I went to use the terlet. When I got back, she was gone. I don't really believe in supernatural poo poo in most cases, but I sure did at that moment. I called out for her, and then hopped in my truck and drove around the condo complex. I tried calling her phone, and for some reason, at that very moment my cell phone service shat itself, and just turned into garbled static. I was calling a friend of mine, all like "Tara's gone, I can't get her on the phone, she just vanis--" and at that point she ran out by the truck, flagging me down. Turns out, she had been hiding behind the curtains, and I freaked out so quickly she didn't even have the chance to pop out and scare me. And that's the story of why she's not allowed to prank me anymore (her decision, not mine)!
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Ah, early Marble Hornets is some fond memories of spooky poo poo. A lot of it really comes down to classic 'bump in the night' kind of horror, but they did it pretty well.
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an owls casket posted:Back in the day, my then-girlfriend (now wife) and I were watching the first episodes of Marble Hornets as they came out. We had just watched one that was fairly creepy, and I went to use the terlet. When I got back, she was gone. I don't really believe in supernatural poo poo in most cases, but I sure did at that moment. I called out for her, and then hopped in my truck and drove around the condo complex. I tried calling her phone, and for some reason, at that very moment my cell phone service shat itself, and just turned into garbled static. I was calling a friend of mine, all like "Tara's gone, I can't get her on the phone, she just vanis--" and at that point she ran out by the truck, flagging me down. lol holy poo poo haha . thats cold. thats the kind of thing i would be internally furious about for years but never let on to my partner that it bothered me (because it is so stupid to be mad)
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Cat Wings posted:this incident in Colorado (CN: child death). This is a deeply weird article. The story is sad and there is some mystery, but the weirdness comes from the writing. It's like every person mentioned got to write several paragraphs about themselves and the result is something that reads like a number of people putting themselves in the middle of someone else's tragedy.
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May 11, 2024 00:42
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Does anyone remember the lady a few years ago who got accused of making deepfakes of cheerleaders and got crucified for it? Looks like she was at least mostly innocent: https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-fake-after-all
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Desert Bus posted:Does anyone remember the lady a few years ago who got accused of making deepfakes of cheerleaders and got crucified for it? quote:When The Daily Dot, a tech news website, looked into the deepfake claims in May 2021, and asked Reiss about the methods he had used to establish that the videos had been digitally altered, he admitted he had relied on his “naked eye”, adding, “We hope Mrs Spone during the course of the preliminary hearing or trial will enlighten us as far as what her source and intent was.” oh
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Wow, the evidence was "I've seen a lot of shops in my time" and "look at these pixels".
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I remember being a really little kid, like younger elementary school, and seeing something on TV about flying rods. I was completely convinced they were real and going to fly into me, and my mom finally had to tell me if they didn't fly into other things they wouldn't fly into me, because she couldn't explain they weren't real.
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PetraCore posted:I remember being a really little kid, like younger elementary school, and seeing something on TV about flying rods. I was completely convinced they were real and going to fly into me, and my mom finally had to tell me if they didn't fly into other things they wouldn't fly into me, because she couldn't explain they weren't real. 
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May 13, 2024 17:58
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Rods, aka skyfish, aka what flying bugs look like when filmed on video https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optical_phenomenon)
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May 13, 2024 18:27
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They're real but they exist in a spectrum unseeable to the human eye, they are also intangible.
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Flying rods are my favorite cryptid! I can't find it just now, but I've seen an article proposing that they are the modern descendants of the ancient sea predator Anomalocaris, which had similar undulating side fins.
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Gaius Marius posted:They're real but they exist in a spectrum unseeable to the human eye, they are also intangible. wait I've seen From Beyond, things are about to get really horny and hosed up in here
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ah, early Marble Hornets is some fond memories of spooky poo poo. A lot of it really comes down to classic 'bump in the night' kind of horror, but they did it pretty well. What happened to that in the end? I found the first series gripping (even bought the DVD!) but I seem to remember gaps between episodes getting longer and longer and I eventually gave up on it.
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Gambrinus posted:What happened to that in the end? I found the first series gripping (even bought the DVD!) but I seem to remember gaps between episodes getting longer and longer and I eventually gave up on it. a kid got stabbed in the finale
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Can someone post that story, I'm pretty sure from elise the great, about the guy that had a stroke(?) in the fridge, and (don't click the spoiler unless you're okay with really gross things) his dementia-riddled mom and his cats ate him?
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Korremar posted:Can someone post that story, I'm pretty sure from elise the great, about the guy that had a stroke(?) in the fridge, and (don't click the spoiler unless you're okay with really gross things) his dementia-riddled mom and his cats ate him? It was deffo from elise but hosed if I can remember what exact thread. A pyf one about medical experiences professionals had maybe? I remember reading the post in 2016 while in the hospital for an abscess I'd gotten and decided to binge that thread to see people who had it worse than me at the time. 
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Most likely it was in the health care stories thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3837778&perpage=40&pagenumber=1&noseen=1
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ScienceSeagull posted:Flying rods are my favorite cryptid! I can't find it just now, but I've seen an article proposing that they are the modern descendants of the ancient sea predator Anomalocaris, which had similar undulating side fins. There was a whole thing about theorised airborne ecosystems for a while, during early photography and aviation. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about it. Also random note, watch Nope.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ah, early Marble Hornets is some fond memories of spooky poo poo. A lot of it really comes down to classic 'bump in the night' kind of horror, but they did it pretty well. The creators were goons too iirc. These forums not only invented Slenderman, it also basically invented Analog Horror ten years before it became A Thing. I choose not to acknowledge the influence of Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity because reasons.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:The creators were goons too iirc. This forum invented like half the trends of the modern internet, and successfully capitalized on 0% of that, which is the reason it remains one of the only good places for Posters to Post.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:This forum invented like half the trends of the modern internet, and successfully capitalized on 0% of that, which is the reason it remains one of the only good places for Posters to Post. I just remembered the Wyoming Incident started here too. Yeah, we 100% invented that genre.
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R.L. Stine posted:relive the excitement of goon proto-creepypasta Mmmm, that's the stuff I bought an account for. Thank you, I missed these.
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drat, I haven't thought or heard about Rods in years. Kinda nostalgic actually.
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People pretty quickly figured out what they actually were was bugs and birds or other moving objects in the background of early photographs, the ones where everyone has to sit still for like a minute to take properly. But of course you know what people are like.
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Korremar posted:Can someone post that story, I'm pretty sure from elise the great, about the guy that had a stroke(?) in the fridge, and (don't click the spoiler unless you're okay with really gross things) his dementia-riddled mom and his cats ate him? 
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Found the elise the great story, you'll need archives I think https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469571&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=3#post427104383
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Korremar posted:Can someone post that story, I'm pretty sure from elise the great, about the guy that had a stroke(?) in the fridge, and (don't click the spoiler unless you're okay with really gross things) his dementia-riddled mom and his cats ate him? coronatae posted:Found the elise the great story, you'll need archives I think That link doesn't go to the post, this one should work. Will need archives access. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3469571&pagenumber=48&perpage=40#post427104383
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very easy to read and not hard on the eyes at all if you don't have archives if i were to go back and make a pdf and epub and poo poo of all the stories, categorized and indexed and linked, would that be kosher? it's not my work obviously but it would be a shame to lose them, they were some of my favourite threads too
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maybe also a modernized site so there's easier options to find the one you're looking for and sort them or whatever. would people want that
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Elise had a blog for a while. Title was End of Shift Report. Look for that and see if the story is there before you reinvent the wheel.
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I AM GRANDO posted:I guess the most mysterious song on the internet (“Ulterior Motives”/” Everybody Knows That”) has been definitively sourced to a 1986 photographic film, Angels of Passion: I got really excited when I first started reading your post then bummed it wasn't the actual the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. It's fascinating that one still hasn't been identified.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Elise had a blog for a while. Title was End of Shift Report. Look for that and see if the story is there before you reinvent the wheel. i mean everything, a compilation of all the spooky or creepy goon stories in one place, that's also easy to navigate. and not just the annual ghost story threads, there are a ton of lesser known ones
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