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The original intent of “assuming crash positions” on an airplane by tucking your head between your knees was not for safety, but for identification purposes. Officials realized that in the event of a crash, the passengers would all be assumed dead and the mayhem and fires would render identifying bodies impossible. Therefore, they suggested putting your head between your legs in order to best preserve your dental records to later identify your body for your family and records.
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There was a serial killer named Albert Fish. He wrote letters to his victims’ parents to tell them how good their children tasted.
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The last day of Konerak Sinthasomphone’s life. A 14 year old Laotian-American, kidnapped and drugged, and repeatedly raped. At some point during this terrible exchange Konerak managed to wake up a little bit, to the point where he could stand. He managed to break free, and ended up on the city streets completely naked with blood running from his anus.
Milwaukee police are called by two women, who find this boy completely dazed and confused. A large, well mannered blonde man walks up and casually tells these women that this is, in fact, a 19 year old Asian boytoy of his who drank much too much. The two women, Sandra and Nicole, are not buying this shit. They wait for the police.
The PD show up, there are two officers. These women are in hysterics, and the blonde man has remained cool as a freezer. He offers to take the boy back to his house, and tells them the same story about how this is a 19 year old boytoy who drank too much and stumbled outside. Despite the bleeding from his anus, and being COMPLETELY unable to speak a coherent sentence to let the officers know something was very, very wrong, the police officers actually offer to drive the blonde man and his “boytoy” back to his apartment.
The officers walk in, and it smells absolutely terrible. The boy is mumbling the entire time, and looking at the police with a discombobulated look. They digress, and see that the house is well kept, and looks completely normal. They leave the boy in Jeffery Dahmer’s custody. Can you imagine what he felt seeing the back of the heads of those policeman leave the apartment? What they also left was three skulls in the freezer, two skulls picked clean in his closet, and a drum filled with acid containing a penis and another head. That shit is fucking creepy.
What they also left was the decomposing body of another boy, Tony Hughes(?) (who was killed three days earlier), one room away from where they were standing. Immediately upon the officers leaving Dahmer beat the boy fatally. Afterwards he raped the corpse. He went on to kill another day; and all this despite the two women having a bad feeling, calling the FBI, and inquiring further AFTER the first incident.
How was Dahmer caught? Another boy broke free of the haze of drugs that he left them in and wandered down the street naked and bleeding, this time with a broken handcuff on his wrist. This one was much more coherent and led them straight to Dahmer. His final kill count was 17 people, all of them men and boys, and all of them were either cannibalized or dismembered.
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At any moment, at any time, in the next five minutes or the next thousand years, Earth could be hit by a Gamma Ray Burst which would extinguish most, if not all life on the planet.
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San Fernando Massacre
It was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico. The kidnapped victims were killed and buried in 47 clandestine mass graves.
Female victims were raped and able-bodied male victims were forced to fight to the death with other hostages, similar to a “gladiator fight from ancient Rome,” where they were given knives, hammers, machetes, and clubs to find recruits who were willing to kill for their lives.
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Banned in every country in the world, there are still more slaves today than ever before in history.
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That most people will blindly follow authority regardless of the reprecussions to other human beings. Mostly anything done in the Milgram Experiments. It still bothers me how far regular human beings will go just because someone says to.
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If a man dies face down he will get an erection after death….
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There is a brain-eating amoeba called the Naegleria fowleri. It is found in warm bodies of fresh water, such as ponds, lakes, rivers, and hot springs. It is also found in soil, near warm-water discharges of industrial plants, and unchlorinated or poorly chlorinated swimming pools. It is also responsible for 33 deaths in the US. The fatality rate is 99%.
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South American bot flies that basically bite you and larva that are on the fly get deposited into your flesh and they hatch inside your body and eat their way out. there was a case of a man biten behind the ear and was kept up at night by the baby larva eating the flesh inside his head.
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Right now as you read this, millions of tiny creatures are eating, living, fucking and shitting all over your face.
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Capgras syndrome. A certain kind of brain damage severs the connection between your visual cortex and the emotional center of your brain, but the link to your higher cognitive areas are intact. You can see your own mother (or anyone important to you), know for a fact that she looks identical to your mother, but something will feel “off” and you will be convinced she is an imposter.
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If you’re attacked by a bear it won’t try to kill you like other predators would, it’ll just start eating.
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The Colombian serial killer Pedro Alonso Lopez, who is known as the Monster of the Andes, raped and murdered over 300 girls from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. However, after he was caught and imprisoned for 18 years, he was put in a psychiatric hospital. There he was reviewed, declared to be sane and was set free, in spite of his blatant avowal that he fully intends to kill again.
Since he was released in 1998, nobody knows where he is or what he’s doing.
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That this condition exists. Patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome may see small people and animals, bright moving shapes or distorted and scary faces. Many people call this syndrome a portal to a parallel reality.
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The Bermuda Taxi Coincidence. Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was knocked down by a taxi and killed in Hamilton, Bermuda – and it was the same taxi with the same driver, carrying the same passenger, that killed his brother Neville in July the year before. And both brothers were riding the same moped and died, aged 17, on the same street, police said.
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When I was a child, I distinctly remembered seeing a small, dark figured man cross my fairly wide neighborhood street in 3 quick jumps, something that would have been impossible for even a tall person to do. Two more slightly related instances this memory reminds me of:
My bedroom window was a good 10 feet (3 meters) off the ground and one night I was going to bed and looked out the window for a moment only to see another dark figure’s head pass by my window, the eyes of which were easily visible above my rather tall window.
The last “sighting” I ever had was a bit later on, maybe a few months. I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom and looked in the mirror. The angle I was standing at gave me a good view of the living room, in which, for a brief moment, I swear I saw a glowing white, 8 foot tall guy inside the living room. I only saw him for just a moment because it scared the bejeezus out of me and I ran and forced my dad to check every room in the house before I would calm down.
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People buy and sell children as sexual toys.
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My brother and I used to stay in my grandmother’s house in rural Ireland, very isolated, not even a pub nearby. It was a small house, my grandmother slept upstairs and my brother and I shared a bedroom downstairs. I slept in a bed next to the window and he slept on the otherside of the room. One night at about 2am I was woken up by someone knocking on the window, very quick repetitive knocks, definitely a person, but i was too paralysed with fear to even turn my head. The knocking stopped after about 7 or 8 minutes. It happened again about 3 months later but this time my brother wasn’t there, again I was so frightened I didn’t move or look out the window. Flash forward 10 years, I’m at my grandmothers wake (funeral) and I get talking to the neighbours most of which I’ve never met before, bizarrely i remember the knocking and mention it to them in a joking kind of way not thinking much of it. Turns out one of the neighbours 19 year old sons suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and used to go wandering at night, the same year that I heard all the knocking he burned down a large barn and a field of corn before hanging himself from a tree.
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There was a woman named Joyce Vincent who died in her apartment in 2003 and wasn’t found by anyone until three years later. The only reason anyone found her is because a police officer smelled the stench, of which her other neighbors had ignored, and finally entered the apartment to find her body.
That’s terrifying to think that even if you’re sociable and well-liked that you can be forgotten that easy in death.
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A Russian doctor named Leonid Ivonavich Rogozov was on an expedition to Antarctica with other researchers. During the expedition he started experiencing stomach pains which eventually became unbearable. He had determined that his appendix had burst and needed to have it removed. Being the only medical doctor on the expedition, he was forced to remove his own appendix. He also refused anesthetic since he thought it would effect his focus.
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Some tumors can contain pockets of hair, teeth & very rarely, grow more complex organs such as eyes, feet, hands as well as other limbs.
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A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same day the donor did.
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In rare instances, gas created due to decomposition of the body after death, a has enough pressure to cause a decomposing pregnant women to expel the fetus. Known as Coffin Birth.
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There’s a small island called Ilha de Queimada Grande off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil, that is home to the highest concentration of Golden Lancehead Vipers, one of the most venomous species of snake in the world. The island is so densely packed with these snakes that there are up to 5 per square meter of the island. The island is so deadly, that the Brazilian Navy bans civilians from the island. Apparently there was only a lighthouse keeper who lived on the island with his family, but they did not survive long. After a while, snakes crawled through their windows. Panicking, they ran outside into the forrest where they were confronted with thousands of more snakes, and were bitten numerous times running through the forest, eventually dying. Oh also, the Golden Lancehead Vipers are unique to this island alone, and its venom causes your flesh to rot off your bones. Some fucked up shit.
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If you are a ghost believer, I saw a page on facebook share about an island in Italy which was the site of: wars, a deportation site for plague victims, and an asylum. It is supposedly SO haunted that the Italian government will not allow public access to it.
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When I was about 25 yrs old, my mother had to have major surgery to clean out the artery in her neck. Naturally we were all very worried about her. side note My 11 year old sister had a hamster . So fast forward to about a week or so after her surgery, whole house is filled with family as mom recoups on the couch. Lil Sister comes up to me cuz she is upset that her hamster is “all wet” I go to investigate… apparently while the whole family was in the hospital/worried about mom, nobody cleaned the hamsters cage. Lil Hammy had gotten a parasite that literally ate through his entire midsection, when I looked in the cage all the fur was rotted away from him belly/chest and the reason he was “all wet” was due to that hole…. I could see his little hamster ribs, and his grey little heart beating….every time he took a drink from the water bottle, the water was pouring out of this rotted out hole in his body. The image of it still haunts me to this day. Sorry for how long this is, I literally just joined reddit like 4 and half minutes ago….
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Ebola…This virus literally liquifies your organs, makes you sweat blood/cry tears of blood, and essentially excrete yourself to death.
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Your body has more foreign/bacterial cells on and in it right now than cells containing your own DNA.
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Get 12 pieces of bond paper and try to rip it off.
That same amount of force is also enough to rip the ear which is about 7 pounds.
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Dead bodies are used as landmarks for climbers on Mount Everest.
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The most unsettling fact that I know is not some conspiracy, but science. After the big bang, all matter and energy in the universe started expanding from one point. well, it was evidently discovered that the universe has reached escape velocity from itself. That is, that the gravitational pull of all matter in the universe cannot pull hard enough to bring it all back together. What does this mean? It means that all things will play out, energy-wise. Eventually, all the matter in the universe will use up all the potential energy, and just drift apart forever. Everything will die. And this existence only happens once.
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The 300 richest people in the world have more combined wealth than the 3 billion poorest people in the world.
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Remnants of the cold war, “Number Stations” were created by government agencies to send coded messages/other information around the world to agents. Many number stations continue running to this day, and can be found on shortwave radio.
Some of them are creepy children’s songs from the 40’s, other ones are just a person reading off numbers all day. According to urban legend, a country (I believe it was russia) had a bunch of weapon systems configured to listen to a number station. If the number station vanished for a long enough period of time, then the weapons would be launched. Russia openly admitted that they don’t even know where every single cold war launch site is hiding, and though they have tried their best to shut down all of them, it is believed a few may still be in operation. For this reason, the number station continues to be broadcast to this day to keep any of the unfound/unknown bunker sites from launching.
It is believed by some that if this particular number’s station ever went offline for more than a few days, it would mean nuclear armageddon. And they are all aimed at various locations in the US.
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The lonomia caterpillar is a caterpillar whose poison can cause internal bleeding of the brain and other organs just by brushing against your skin.
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Anesthesia has no effect on some patients during surgery.
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I found this out a few weeks ago, but apparently a woman’s uterus can grow hair and teeth. It’s not harmful to the woman in any way, but… it’s a thing that actually happens sometimes.
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There was a serial killer who took an unlocked front door as an invitation to come into people’s house and kill them. There are probably more killers out there with that same philosophy, and it’s very easy to forget to lock your door.
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As a part of my profession, I carry around a decent sized jar cyanide every day in my bag. I’m essentially carrying around a jar of death. People next to me on the street or in class have no idea what they’re sitting next to (unless they also have a jar of it in their bag).
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The United States and Russia have enough VX Nerve gas in their arsenals to wipe out all life on the face of the earth multiple times over. The fact that there have been incidents of the gas leaking makes this even more worrisome.
Sleep tight everyone!
