Murder cases, freak accidents or articles triggering just good old existential crisis. Give me your worst.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths ranges from creepy to absurd
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_murders good rabbit hole
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes
Reddit had a sub called creepywikipedia for this kind of thing. It shut down for the protest and stayed shut down. Might be worth recreating by someone more inclined than myself, who is very lazy
After watching the “Kung Fu Kapers” episode of The Goodies, Alex Mitchell, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England, laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure due to what doctors discovered years later, via his granddaughter, was a genetic condition called Long QT syndrome.
Yikesssssssss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes
I‘m from the EU, but it unsettles me to know about how willing the US government and other interest groups there are to do violence to the workers to keep them in line. Whenever anyone from here brings up “why don‘t they strike for healthcare” etc, I think of this. We got a government and companies which are less willing to straight up shoot us to force the rest back to work. That helped I imagine.
Europe had similar battles in Glasgow, the boat attack in Sweden, etc.
The failure of fascism and threat of communism helped a lot. I.e. in Sweden many aristocrats lost investments in Germany, and there was a bigger push for compromise after the war. Meanwhile the Marshall Plan poured a lot of money into Europe (in return for ousting Communists from government in Italy and France).
Sweden also had Ådalen In short 5 people got killed by the military during a protest, and afterwards we shaped up the country big time, to ensure it never happened again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_Erres_massacre
The details are horrific.
All supported by the USA too.
Guess who trained those Guatemalan commandos? It was a program run by the CIA out of Border Patrol facilities, largely staffed Border Patrol staff since they could speak Spanish.
So now you have refugees fleeing Guatemala’s history of intense violence, being abused at the border and turned away by the very same agency that destabilized their country to begin with.
The US has so much fucking blood on its hands and owes so many reparations to the rest of the world for the damage it’s done.
The US prosecuted any American citizens involved in this. The US supports many small nations and without that support, many fledgling nations would fully collapse and be far worse off.
I don’t live in a world where perfection is possible. In a war torn country, there will always be individuals who will do evil shit. Even on the more good side. Do you think not a single Ukraine soldier has not done something immoral or illegal? Yet we support them.
I wish there were no conflicts in the world but we need to grow up and realize there will be serious misconduct. And that is the cost of trying to encourage stability. The thing I take away from this is that the US did prosecute any of their citizens that were involved in this. As they should.
Do you think not a single Ukraine soldier has not done something immoral or illegal? Yet we support them.
This isn’t the winning argument you think it is…
The US should stop playing world police. And usually it was for propping up United Fruit, etc. with dictatorships, not actually helping those small nations.
You think there would be security in the Middle East if the US stepped fully away? It is silly to think Russia and now China would be fully in control of most of those countries as well as South America. I suspect in an alternate universe, the world likely would have experience WWIII by now if the West just let other major powers do what they want.
Do you think there would be as many problems in the Middle East if the US hadn’t stepped in there begin with?
I think it’s the world superpowers’ responsibility to defend us from each other, and especially from the US. They have destroyed so, so many regimes.
And it’s ironic that you mention World Wars when both of them started on Western soil between Western countries. It’s not obvious to me that what we need is more Western countries.
Government mind control programs.
I always found these Wikipedia articles underwhelming, but listening to the CBC podcast and behind the bastards episodes on the specific victims of the program and how the scientists at McGill intentionally destroyed their brains purely through psychological torture is incredibly heart wrenching.
Also interesting that there’s evidence that the Unabomber was a victim of some of the mkultra program.
I agree, the Wikipedia articles on MKUltra definitely have a somewhat conservative (not politically) take.
The Unabomber connection is also interesting. Have you read the book CHAOS by Tom O’Neill? It makes a very good case that Charles Manson and the Family may have also been involved (as subjects) with MKUltra and COINTELPRO.
I came to post exactly that. The proven and acknowledged aspects of MKUltra are frightening, without even getting into the conspiratorial accusations.
The page on the Church Committee is a great starting point for learning more about similar covert projects.
COINTELPRO in particular is very frightening.
Obligatory relevant xkcd
That second incident is pure Dudes Rock territory - absolutely insane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay
It’s about a hypothetical event in quantum field theory that potentially can erase the entire universe as we know it.
Do we know for sure if the fine structure constant is actually constant now? That could stop atoms from existing. iirc
This is always the one I go to to really freak people out. The idea that there’s no way you can influence it so you shouldn’t actually worry about it takes a while to set it.
There’s also no way for us to see it coming. Once it happens somewhere in the universe it will approach us at light speed destroying everything in its path. The moment we have a chance to even learn about its existence it will kill us faster than the billionaires in the sub.
I mean, I’m kind of okay with that? We all die eventually; I would rather mine be going from “alive” to “not” all at once, without the “prolonged illness and/or other suffering” phase in the middle.
Maybe not unsettling, and not a particular article but an interesting, possibly existential crisis thing is if you click the first link in any wiki artical that is:
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not in itallics
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Not in parenthesis
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And is in the article itself.
And you keep doing that as it takes you through articles it will almost always end up at the philosophy article.
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Torture and murder of Junki Furuta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
If you’re even remotely claustrofobic you should probably stay out of this one.
The internet historian has a great video on Nutty Putty Cave.
That video is actually about sand cave, not nutty putty. Still worth a watch though.
Damn you’re totally right, I guess I confused it with the other cave that demands human sacrifice.
Jesus that was horrifying…
That’s definitely one of his better videos!
And the article couldnt help but squeeze in some anecdotes about some helpful cultish Mormons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injured another dive tender.
excerpt:
Investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the crescent-shaped opening measuring 60 centimetres (24 in) long created by the jammed interior trunk door.Came here to post this. The blood boiling was particularly unsettling.
Stomach turning and NSFL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray
Saw his nickname and noped the fuck out.
Fuckin hell dude. Also, I found the names weird - Elephant butte, truth and consequences.
Shit and vomit inducing wiki for me was rose west’s wiki:
Imagine all of exitence ceases to exist and humans decide to refer to it as the “Big Slurp”
The entry for the Daytlov Pass Incident comes to mind.
Ok, I might need a minute to scroll through my bookmarks
Edit, ok, here we go (this is just from my bookmarks and what feels most “unsettling” to me. I could sit here and link for hours to more things I have “saved” in my head, but I’ll leave it at this for now):
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List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
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I have quite a few pages on serial killers, but this is probably more efficient than listing individuals: List of serial killers by number of victims
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A handful of individual cases though:
Murder of Junko Furuta
Murder of Sylvia Likens
Murder of James Bulger
Murder of Shanda Sharer
Hart family murders -
On the larger scale:
List of genocides
List of massacres
Blackbirding
Zong massacre
Home Children
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On the existential front:
List of impact craters on Earth
Observable universe and Cosmological horizon which make you realise that the endless and abundant expanse of space we see is only a tiny little portion of the actual universe.
The people who dissapeared between 1910 and 1970 however arent very interesting
Yeah, I just noticed that too, not really sure what happened there lol
Looking at it now the post 1970 one isn’t right at all, will edit op
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