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Dissapointed Owl posted:I need that book. It sure is! In fact, you can get a paperback version of it for a reasonable price - but frankly I'd go for the hardcover. Photobooks cry to have the photos printed large and in your face. As a photographer, I find the most moving part of a story to be the photos, if they accompany it. This had me bawling. What an amazing woman.
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I know Serial was posted few pages back.. but this seriously needs more attention. Just give the first episode a listen, if you hate it then you hate it, but I promise you will get sucked right in to this clusterfuck of "holy poo poo how did this kid get convicted for killing this girl?". This American Life has been hosting a podcast called Serial for the past few weeks - the concept came about because a journalist found this case that just... didn't make sense and decided to dig further and further, and the more she researched the more things didn't come up aces. http://serialpodcast.org The case is that of Adnan Syed. Here's the blurb they have on their page about the story: quote:On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t. This case has so many layers, from the teachers interviewed having their comments about how all students are twisted, to a streaker finding the body, to random witnesses popping in and out all over the place. On top of the podcasts themselves, there are also extensive blog posts that are PACKED with extra information and files, maps, pictures, call logs, etc. that have come up throughout the investigation. That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 18:59 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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For the past week I've been absolutely devouring this podcast that I think a lot of readers of this thread will like - and so I'll also recommend a first episode to start with, because it pertains to a "mystery" that's... not really a mystery, so much as a tragic circumstance, but there is still some mystery involved. The podcast is "Thinking Sideways" - http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/ The particular episode I recommend starting with is their one concerning the case of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, that happened just around a year ago - two Dutch nationals were on holiday in Panama, made a string of bizarre and very bad decisions and ultimately died because of them. The scary and unnerving part of this story comes in to play when their belongings are found and they're able to pull records off of their cellphones and their camera - all of which was found neatly packed away into their backpack, obviously implying that after the series of strange photos found on the camera were taken, at least one of them was still alive and coherent enough to pack it all back up. http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/lisanne-froon-and-kris-kremers/#comments Enjoy. 
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I know that Dyatlov pass is a huge favorite in threads like this, and last night I was listening to a podcast and it got me to thinking about something that's always sort of bugged me about the entire story - the fire that was found under the cedar tree where branches were broken off. Maybe someone else will have found some explanation that I've not been able to find. Let me preface this entire thing by saying that I personally think it was some sort of avalanche or ice shift and they got spooked, but this particular part of the situation is really the big "unsolved mystery" to me personally. According to the Wikipedia article, the fire was under a cedar tree and many branches were broken off of said tree, the location of which was not greatly near the campsite but there is no actual distance listed for how far the camp and the tree/fire is from each other. That being said, there were a few bodies found between the camp and the tree, and there is measurements for each of them listed in distance from the tree/fire. The longest body-to-tree measurement listed is 630 meters, which leads one to conclude that since that person is listed as being "between" the two points, then the camp is at least 630 meters away from the tree. 630 meters is 2067 feet - which is only a bit short of half a mile. If the fire that was found was the fire that the hikers built as their evening campfire, wouldn't they have also made their tents in that same wooded, and therefore also protected area? Also the fact that if they walked that far for the campfire negates the argument that Dyaltov didn't want to backtrack and that's why they pitched their tents on the slope where they did. So, then, as it is assumed - when they scattered in the night, they must have built the fire, right? That's what's the accepted belief as far as I understand. But... they were all naked except for a few scraps of clothing, listed as underwear and a few torn scraps found on the other people down in the ravine. That leads me to ask the question, then: how did a group of mostly naked people start a fire in wet snow in the middle of night while naked and panicked? Is there any explanation at all for this? I've never seen anything mentioned that says they found even something as basic as flint and steel on one of the bodies, much less a lighter or something else - and it seems like that would be a significant thing to mention if it was on the people in the ravine, since they were reported as having taken the clothing from the others when they had died.
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tower time posted:According to Dead Mountain (which is a great book on the incident I would definitely recommend) Georgy and Dereshenko were in the habit of sewing matches into their clothes in order to keep them dry. It's probably lucky they got a fire going at all, but then cedar can be lit even when quite damp. Perhaps, but one of the points that's made is that they were all mostly, if not completely in some cases, naked or in underwear. Though... I suppose the best garment to sew something in to keep them dry might be underwear, but that seems like they could still get damp from sweat and so on. Thanks for the book recommend, I'll definitely give it a read.
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Yes, I am aware people with hypothermia tend to undress. But the "story" as it goes is that the only clothing found was a few scraps on one or two, and that the rest of their garmets were in the torn up tents. My prior statement was about where matches may have been stashed - possibly in underwear, which was the only consistent article of clothing that each hiker had on. I mean... I dunno. Like I said, I think that either an avalanche happened, or maybe the snow/ice just shifted and they spooked and ran thinking there may be an avalanche coming, then they couldn't find their way back in the cold and dark. The only "mystery" to me is that fire.
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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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bonestructure posted:Many words Thank you for this amazing write-up. As I mentioned before, this case has been one of those that stuck with me ever since I first heard about it. I can't even begin to imagine their terror there in the pitch-black jungle, predators lurking in the dark unseen. Utterly terrifying. If they had gone in search of that bird, I hope they at least got to see it. 
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I can't post a link right yet because I'm on my phone, but does anyone remember all those bodies they found a while back in the sand dunes / on the beach up around Long Island? I remember at the time they released very little details except that the bodies were all in various states of decomp, and they implied it could be the long-time dumping spot of possibly more than one serial killer. Has there been anything else about that? Anyone know?
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Here's a callback to a thread favorite! The Station nightclub illegally had no sprinklers in the building. As a result, over 100 people died when a fire broke out during a show on February 20, 2003. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) re-created the disaster, both with and without sprinklers, to illustrate differences in the temperature and spread of the flames. Original raw footage of the fire for the unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzfq9Egxeo NIST without sprinklers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxiOXZ55hbc NIST with sprinklers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1EWVR1iP8
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This level of badness at Photoshop pisses me off so much. Who the gently caress actually pays these people? Here's a palate cleanser after all this awful death and child molestation and.. urk. More creepy and unnerving! Less shithead humanity awfulness, we already know we're doomed! Park Rangers Describe Creepiest Things They've Seen
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Don't worry if you don't feel like reading the whole Underwood transcript, the whole video of the interview is online. So... enjoy listening to this creep describe his sickening poo poo. Part 1: http://newsok.com/kevin-ray-underwood-part-1/multimedia/video/1456276961 Part 2: (Starts at the Carls Jr. employment talk) http://newsok.com/multimedia/video/1456276966 Part 3: http://newsok.com/multimedia/video/1456302798 That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 22:44 on May 24, 2016 |
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We have several versions of the "child rehabilitation camps" here in western NC. One is less than 5 miles from my house, way back up in a mountain valley. While not quite as extreme as The Seed, they are still loving atrocious. My mom used to do child transport/escort for them - basically when the kid is pulled from the home in the middle of the night, they've got a guard with them until they reach the camp - that was her job. She only did it for a few years and when I found out about it, I educated her about what kind of things went on in those camps (specifically, this one touts that it can ~un-gay childuns~). She got a new job pretty fast after that.
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Well, I don't know how the "rehabilitation camps" elsewhere works, but this is what I know about the local one. Basically, the parents will call the camp and say they have a kid that's painting their nails black / listening to too much emo music / a little gay / WHATEVER it is that makes parents think this is a good idea, and a date is arranged without the kid's foreknowledge. On that day, usually late evening / early night, the escort shows up and the parents + escort go into the kids room and say, "Hey little Johnny you need to pack a weeks worth of clothing you're going to camp SURPRISE!!!" and usually a huge fight ensues. Sometimes a therapist is also involved with this as well, depending on the situation. The escort is almost always some manner of police officer - when my mom did this she was sheriff reserve. Then, the escort drives / flies with the kid to the camp (usually driving distance, I think my mom only had to fly once when she was doing it). She told me that once they were on the road the kids usually kind of accepted their fate, and would basically tell them that as long as they cooperated that she didn't give a gently caress. Honestly, she would break the rules a little and let them have whatever food they wanted or smoke if they did, until they got close to the camp because I think she probably felt too much like she was dealing with her super duper problem child (me) the whole time. Anyway, then they get there and it's out of the escort's hands. The camp here has a very structured day - it's basically just like going inpatient at a mental health program, only in a camp setting. There are counselors and therapists and I'm 99% sure they have the faculties to prescribe and mess with medications etc, and the kids have to do group therapy daily and if they're cooperative they work their way up through being allowed to go on hikes and other "fun" poo poo. Honestly though  , it sounds pretty miserable, but it definitely doesn't seem as bad as the poo poo in that The Seed video. Then again, as I mentioned earlier, I know this place also deals with un-gaying kids and I have literally no idea what that entails and I'm sure it's a loving nightmare for any kid to go through. :|edit: Ok, well maybe the place here doesn't actually do the gay-away thing anymore. This is them: http://www.suwscarolinas.com/ That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 05:46 on May 30, 2016 |
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In what crazy world do you get arrested for wearing a shirt. OH RIGHT SORRY MURRICAN PRIVILEGE SPEAKING. 
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The "Jesus Camp" specific movement is known as the Charismatic Movement and is closely related to Pentecostalism. Most people in the south are familiar with Pentecostals because of some of their more wacky, sometimes niche beliefs like the handling of venomous snakes, speaking in tongues, and "holy rolling". (As an aside, my grandparents are Pentacostal... or at least, were when they were in better health and could drive themselves to the nearest church that's about an hour away. Some of the stories that my gran has told me of things going on in their services terrify me - for instance one woman was thrashing on the ground and was left under a pew for the whole service because they thought that God was on her. Turns out she had epilepsy and got so worked up she had several seizures all in a row.) Personally, I find this entire offshoot of belief pretty drat unnerving on it's own. Like... I mean... what? Ok, go grab that venomous snake, it's all good this one line in this book says it's ok and it won't bite you if you believe enough? Sure, right, got it. So all this Jesus torture camp stuff got me to wondering - do things like this exist in other religions and places in the world? I mean, clearly in certain Muslim areas there are even worse punishments for the "girls that just want to be a hairstylist" types ie: being thrown in a pit and stoned to death by all the men in their village but like.. What about Hindus? Tao/Shinto/other Asiatic religions? Or is it the fact that the core belief system / nature of the beliefs in Christianity are structured in a way that this is a uniquely American Christian thing? I feel like it must be, because we're the only country that's rich enough to pay someone to do this poo poo to our children. Also, here is a link with some more really  accounts of kids that were sent to one of these places: https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/q6is0/in_september_2009_after_admitting_to_my_parents/ edit: Damnit, as soon as I hit post I found this subreddit, which is a goldmine of horror for stories of survivors. https://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/ https://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/comments/17y4pr/american_companies_torturing_teens_for_profit_you/ That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 01:48 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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FalloutGod posted:Have there been any incidents where kids get out once they turn 18 just to come back and murder a bunch of people at these places? Kids flip their poo poo being bullied at school I can't imagine these camps don't breed killers. The first thing that came to mind was the dude that did the 2011 shootings in Norway, but that was a politically sponsored camp and he was just mad over Muslims. And anyway, it seems like if you try to go any sort of legal route these shithole places have the grounds to protect themselves. quote:http://powelltribune.com/news/item/14918-owners-of-clark-treatment-facility-sue-detractors-for-libel So... It doesn't really seem like there's any protection, period. The best you can hope for is that your friends find out what happens, educate themselves, and that they somehow manage to educate your parents - which is the purpose of the subreddit linked in the previous post. It's all a drat shame and my heart breaks for these kids because I know I was || close to being one of them, too.
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Little semi-development in the Jon-Benet Ramsey Case, I guess? quote:http://ktla.com/2016/06/23/suspect-in-death-of-jonbenet-ramsey-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/
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Aesop Poprock posted:Here's one about a young socialite in late 1800s Paris whose mother and brother ended up locking her in a room in her house for 25 years for daring to try and marry a lawyer they disproved of. There is nothing quite as unsettling as that look that people who have been through horrible, unspeakable things, get in their eyes.
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With all this talk of open, uninhabited spaces (which creep me right the hell out, by the way,) I remembered something I saw a few days ago that this thread might enjoy. It's photography of the confirmed wrecks of the Franklin expedition, and goddamn they are quite eerie.  warning: there are photos of mummified, dessicated, but shockingly well preserved bodies in here.https://m.imgur.com/a/Kllgz I can't imagine what the last few folks that were alive there were feeling, having traveled so far, suffered so much, and made so many sacrifices... Just to know you have hours until you too will die hopeles and alone, bearing the burden of the things you did in the name of survival.
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WickedHate posted:though I guess that explains why mummies are thought of as so rare nowadays. Mummies themselves aren't that rare, honestly - it's just that the more elaborate royal burials are scarce and that's what people think of first when they hear the word mummy. Things like King Tut et all aren't what they used for the paint (though I'm certain some really important historical artifacts were destroyed for it, possibly even royalty.). Mummification in Egypt was the trend for hundreds of years and pretty much everyone had /some/ degree of it done, but most were poor and basically didn't have large amounts of the presumed bitumen (spoiler: probably not actually bitumen) in them. That just made them have to use even /more/ mummies to make the paint. The "bitumen" is the key ingredient here, and frankly it was a bit misunderstood through history. Here's a pretty good write up on it: http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brown.html That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 01:12 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Are personal unnerving stories ok in this thread? I related this story in a different thread, but it kind of feels like it fits here. My long and strange nightmare of 15 years of internet stalker- turned- real life stalker psychopath. The woman that has been doing these things is a notorious internet trainwreck and unfortunately she's just smart enough to cause real, lasting damage. Sigh. Trigger warning for rape accusations and kind of graphic death threats.  http://brainmurk.tumblr.com/post/151603563235/myinternetstalkingnightmare That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 19:33 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:You make furry art lol. Shocking, I know right? Clearly that invalidates this entire years long hellish misery that an insane psychopath has drug me through.
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Solice Kirsk posted:How does it pay? Not as much as it should, based on how some people react to it. But oh well.
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:There's another thread in this very subforum where people freaked out for multiple pages about a furry porn art pic in which a dog-man's teeth were all red rocket dog dicks, and guess what. The harassed furry artist in this thread draws stuff like that, every day, lol I don't actually. I haven't "done" furry art in years except for the odd piece of gift art here or there for a friend. It was something I was into when I was a stupid teenager, but surprise. I grew up. I went to school and got education in graphic design and photography, and photography is my main focus these days. vaguely posted:imo still caring about furries in tyool 2016 is way sadder than being one but oh well Seriously.
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Basically it seems like the Aboriginal equivalent of a voodoo hex. They sing you to curse you, which basically makes awful poo poo happen to you until you have either (assumedly) made restitution through suffering or you die.
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This was a big thing this past week, with a few twists and turns and a surprising plot twist. I really would like to stress that you should read to the end of this before sleuthing for reasons I hope will be clear. Who Is Tammygirl? About a week ago a thread turned up on /r/UnresolvedMysteries with the title "Tammy Loper "Tammy Girl" Facebook Page: What is really going on here? (post now removed, cached here: https://webcache.googleusercontent....n&ct=clnk&gl=uk The OP says: quote:Came across this Facebook profile today after seeing it discussed in a group I'm in. It doesn't take long to realize that the profile is about as creepy as it gets. Many overly photoshopped photos of a woman named "Tammy" and the page is supposedly a tribute page by her husband Scott. Something isn't right here. Tammy is supposedly in the military but there's also many strange photos of her from various times and places. Some of the photos on the page are clearly not even of Tammy but tagged as her. So who is the woman featured on this "tribute" page? Why are all of the photos so heavily and terribly edited. The language used in the posts is unsettling. Something doesn't add up. When reading this post, even without going to the Facebook profile of "Tammygirl", the whole situation sounds sketch as hell, doesn't it? Here are a few of the... 'beauty modified' photos that are included on the page in an album: https://m.imgur.com/a/2Y9Vd So this gets posted around a few places, and naturally people become concerned - be that out of genuine worry for 'Tammy' or just by the rush of the 'chase' in an unfolding case that on the surface is lining up to look like this dude may have injured or killed this woman and is now controlling her Facebook to make it seem as if she's still alive. A day goes by, and the story spreads to multiple Facebook groups for true crime podcasts. The 'public' get involved, and at that point people begin touching the poop. Plebs start doxxing these people and posting the info around, mass +friends requests go to the account, and a large handful of people actually phone the home of the Lopers trying to get ahold of Tammy to 'check on her wellbeing'. They contacted family, and it turns out no one has spoken to Tammy since 2014. Around this point the Reddit thread goes down for the doxxing, and it stirs even MORE fervor about the case. 'Tammy' is said to work in top secret security clearance at the Pentagon, how could she have such a public and risque profile people ask? Why is there no record of her receiving any of the service metals she claims? The Facebook page gets removed. Then comes back. Then is disabled and restored about 8 more times over a several day period. On the third day of this absolute poo poo storm that had now moved off of various true crime Facebook groups and into it's very own dedicated group, someone says they finally called the police so go do a wellness check and get eyes on Tammy. Surprise, she's fine and mad as hell that the internet won't leave her and her husband alone. This is why I'm not linking her page, but I guess if you really care enough you can find it on your own. She's gone through and removed all the strangely Photoshopped pictures... And this is her own words.   So in conclusion: the unnerving part of this story is that a couple with a very strange kink got stalked and harassed by literally thousands of internet strangers because of bad Photoshops.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:I came across this article today about a fire that burned so hot the fire hoses were essentially shooting steam at it. Six firefighters got trapped and died as a result of the maze-like conditions inside the abandoned building. I had the unique experience a few years back while going through photojournalism classes to get to go to a couple of our region-wide EMT/Rescue/Fire training weekends. Most of the stuff was pretty tame classroom stuff, but the culmination of the firefighting portion always ends with a controlled live burn of a condemned/donated for destruction home.  These guys are all crowded around watching this room as it rolls over. All of these are of the flashover, as the entrire house just sort of combusted all at once. I have a deep mortal fear of fire, and I hear the sound of this in my nightmares very, very often.     If you know a firefighter thank them for what they do. In almost all rural areas these services are staffed by a large majority of volunteers.  Nothing can describe the feeling of being THAT CLOSE to a flashover, when suddenly it's like a the oxygen is (literally) sucked out of the air and literal fire tornados blow out of a house, roof falling in as fire gushes out of everywhere. Doing those training weekends was one of the most exhilarating things I've done in my life, and I was there strictly as a photographer. That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 23:22 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Alereon posted:Huh, so it turns out the US has one of the worst fire death rates in the industrialized world, and it's currently over twice that of the UK, where wood construction is unknown. This is something that I've found odd. My best friend is Scottish and when she comes to visit she ways comments on how flimsy US houses seem to be, and when stuff is in the news like huge tornados she can never seem to fathom why people would build their houses out of wood. I wonder if there's been studies done on what lead to the 'split' between styles of building. I think there's definitely a weird cultural perception of object permanence involved in the whole thing.
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Avshalom posted:this has probably been posted before but this is such a long thread and it's definitely been a while. the search for the famous september 11 falling man, the wtc employee in upside-down freefall who was for a long time completely anonymous even though he was one of the most enduring images of the attack There's a pretty good documentary about it, where the family pretty much identifies him by the clothing he was wearing. His name is Jonathan Briley, and he was an audio technician at Windows on the World. It's even said in the article that you mentioned that it's widely believed that that is who this man was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqKEF34rpU Edit: adding this as an addendum because I hate double posting. St. Roch is a 14th-century French pilgrim who is said to have tended to and healed victims of the plague. Historically it has been believed that depictions of him with a bubo on his upper thigh represented the fact that he supposedly became ill himself with the plague while tending patients... However there is now a somewhat new - and personally in my opinion much more accurate - theory on his mystery leg wound, which has been pieced together from this painting that was done of the saint in the 14th century.  You see, for many years people believes that... Thing... Was just an artistic representation of pus or mucous. But now there are new studies that suggest that St. Roch was infected with the Guinea Worn. Guinea worm is a parasite that has existed for at least 3000 years, but almost certainly has been around longer than that - there have been remains of worms found in Egyptian mummies, and they are mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus, dating from 1550 B.C.. If you take it for truth, it's suggested that guinea worm was the "firey serpent" that inflicted the Jewish people as they wandered in the wilderness in the Bible. Guinea worm doesn't actually enter the body as a worm it's life cycle "starts" as a larva that floats in stagnant or still water, waiting to be injested. When a human drinks them in, they quickly mature in the stomach and bowels and then "burrow" through the body - often into lower extremities. The site where the worm lays up becomes fevered, burning and painful. The natural human inclination is to soak a pained foot in the water, and that's what the guinea worm depends on. When it senses being nearby or in the water, it painfully bursts through the skin and releases thousands of larvae to repeat the cycle. It sounds just loving awful doesn't it? In 1986 there were 3.5 MILLION cases of guinea worm worldwide annually. Thankfully, technology and the ability to help from those with the means turned toward this issue... And Jimmy Carter founded an institute with the goal of eradicating guinea worm from existence. In 2006 there were approximately 11,000 cases across six countries in Africa. In the entire year of 2016 there were a total of 25 infections worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4kQWvUv_Ns This is an awful, painful, and frankly quite terrifying parasite / disease that used to incapacitate and kill people, and we are on the verge of literally wiping it off the map. Guinea worm is expected to be the second such disease to be completely eradicated, behind smallpox. More info: https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 07:14 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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Here Be Monsters is up there for great stories on usually pretty unnerving topics. Love + Radio can also be pretty unnerving, but most of their stuff is more human interest. L+R's The Red Dot is a jumping off point - it's... Upsetting, but so, so good. (NWS/NMS warning: dude ardently defending pedophilia) That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 04:48 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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A good episode of LPOTL for understanding the 'taking away any power/levity that psychos/killers/whatever' have is their manifestos episode. At least, I thought so and enjoyed them taking the piss out of Elliot Rodgers et all.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/mommy-dead-and-dearest-doc-what-we-learned-w482263 I caught this one a few days ago. I thought the interview with Gypsy now that she's free of her mother's influence are just... Very striking. She could have been a completely normal and healthy human being but for her mother's insane interference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1abIF2cPI
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