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30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Japan's SOS sign incident. Everything about it is weird and disturbing.
FrankSonata: For those who haven't heard of this one:
In 1989, some hikers got lost in Northern Japan. A search quickly began of the mountains in the area where they'd been, and helicopters found a huge "SOS" sign made from logs on a mountainside, visible from the air.
The missing hikers were found 2-3km away, and were successfully rescued. But when asked, they knew nothing about the SOS sign. They didn't make it.
It appeared another hiker also happened to be lost in the same area, so another search was conducted. Near the sign they found human skeletal remains, as well as a backpack containing personal items, including ID. It was Kenji Iwamura, a 25-year-old man who had gone missing 5 years earlier, and was a known hiker.
Records of aerial photos showed that the SOS had been there for at least two years, but no-one had seen it until other hikers happened to get lost in the area. And clearly it was too late for Kenji by then.
But analysis of the bones indicated a woman, so they weren't Kenji's. Yet there were no matching records of missing women in the area. Who was the mysterious woman who'd died, what happened to Kenji, and why did she have all his stuff?
The backpack also contained a cassette tape player, with the music of one of the tapes partially recoded over. It was a man saying he was lost on the mountain, unable to climb through the thick vegetation, and asking for help from anyone who listened. He didn't mention his name. Kenji's parents listened to it, but due to the poor quality (it had been lying in a backpack on a mountain for years) they couldn't say for sure if it was Kenji or not. Kenji's friend did confirm the tape was likely his, since it was music he had liked.
There are conspiracy theories that Kenji is still alive, that he was abducted, kidnapped, that the taped voice is an impersonator, that the woman is a spy, etc.
Analysis years later showed the bones were actually male, as far as can be ascertained. Weather damage and poor forensic work caused the initial error. (Of course, some people maintain that this is a coverup)
In all likelihood, Kenji died on the mountain, and the bones, belongings, and voice recording are all him. By coincidence, his SOS sign was only found years after he'd died, when other people got lost in a nearby area. Just a sad story of someone who died alone in the wilderness. But people love all the uncertainties, and get carried away, when really it's just tragic.

Milo022012 , Unknown Report

Final score:

83points

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Beak Hookage 1 month ago

Wherever he is now, it's nice to imagine that he's glad that at least his SOS saved others.

12points

There’s something undeniably captivating about scary experiences—be it a chilling horror movie, or a bizarre conspiracy. To understand why we’re so drawn to them, Bored Panda reached out to experts at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University.

Mathias Clasen, co-director of the Lab, and author of A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies, told us what inspired him to study fear and horror. “As a teenager, I became deeply fascinated with scary fiction—books and movies, mainly. I would devour Stephen King novels and chain-watch slasher movies,” he recalled. Despite the shivers running down his spine, he couldn't help but wonder why he was so drawn to experiences that made him want to keep the lights on at night. “It isn’t just me, of course. The majority of people enjoy a scary experience every now and then,” Clasen noted.

According to Clasen and his colleagues, scary content offers a unique chance to play with fear in a controlled environment. “We are curious creatures, and we have evolved to find pleasure in learning about the world—and scary content lets us learn about the darker sides of it,” he explained. It’s this curious paradox that pushes us to explore fear while generally steering clear of it in our everyday lives.

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into My TikTok algorithm showed me a video of the worst motel in Georgia. I looked up the reviews and found one left by a young homeless guy clearly struggling with mental health / addiction that was living at the motel. It said the guy had left 200+ reviews. I clicked on his page and realized that he wrote reviews every day at every place he went to. Many were "they helped the homeless" or "they wouldn't give me food and I'm starving. F**k this place." I was basically able to see every place the guy stopped for almost two years. I went back to look further at the seedy motel reviews and the guys dad left one saying that he was grateful his son had a roof over his head. It crushed me. I don't remember the name of the motel but I was crying at 4 am.

thatduderalph , Hanawasthere Report

Final score:

63points

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Pyla 1 month ago

Now this is a rabbit hole.

23points

Elisabeth Fritzl’s story.

to put it brief, her father imprisoned his own daughter in a self made bunker/prison, and kept her for over 24 years. In that time, she had 7 children, was r**ed nearly every single day, and Elisabeth’s dad was soon imprisoned for life, and caught because Elisabeth needed to take one of her kids to the hospital.

yea. don’t look at the details, please.

SeA1nternaL Report

Final score:

57points

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Captive 1 month ago

The mother claimed she didn't know. Screw you lady, you absolutely knew

65points

Omniwing , Encyclopædia Britannica Report

This idea resonates with Reddit user Xxxbigfootisreal_, who started the thread on disturbing rabbit holes. Bored Panda connected with him, and he shared, “As I was exploring the smartschoolboy9 case, I became extremely curious about whether there were other disturbing cases out there.” His search led him to dark, harrowing tales that fueled his curiosity about the more sinister aspects of life.

Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral scientist at the Recreational Fear Lab, discussed the various motivations behind our consumption of scary content. “Some people enjoy the adrenaline rush they get from feeling afraid. We call these adrenaline junkies. Others don’t particularly like feeling afraid but enjoy overcoming their fear—these are the white knucklers. Finally, some use scary content to work through difficult emotions, known as dark copers.” This classification highlights the variety of reasons people are drawn to horror and fear.

Clasen pointed out that engaging with scary content can actually be beneficial. “Playing with fear can help you develop resilience. It’s sort of like an inoculation,” he explained. “When you watch a scary movie or step on a roller coaster, you’re actively engaged in regulating your own emotions.” This practice helps us learn to handle stress and fear more effectively in real life.

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Bots will downvote me into oblivion and I won't be believed, but up until around 2005, if you looked up 'Balfour accords' on Encyclopedia Brittanica's website, it was shocking how much it disclosed. Even at the time the Wikipedia article and the Encyclopedia Brittanica's article were very different. It described how the Ottoman Empire, and the whole Middle East was carved up, and their oil was largely given to the conquering powers, IE France, Britain, US. "BP" only exists because it was founded as a company that was taking Middle Eastern war spoils (oil) and selling it through England. The borders of the countries as they are now are because that's how the west decided them to be. And they were purposely carved out in a way to prevent Persia from ever re-uniting.

The articles today hint at this and if you dig deep enough you'll find all this to be true, but back in the day the history was laid out in a very stark, obvious manner, and having read that and living today, I can see clearly the erasure of what really happened by way of framing.

Final score:

53points

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Zoey Bear 1 month ago

Bored Panda, you have some explaining to do. /jk

25points

heartcitybarber , cottonbro studio Report

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into The Nuremberg Trial documentary. Not a modern documentary. The actual documentary made back after WW2 when they took the National Socialists to trial. Actual footage used in court. It's absolutely rough. Yet free in wikipedia where it's been out in HD. Amazon has it in the original pixilated form. IDK which is worse.

Final score:

51points

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Pyla 1 month ago (edited)

They were the worst.

9points

Scrivner supported this, saying, “Experiencing fear in a safe setting allows us to practice regulating it.” However, both researchers caution that too much fear can have the opposite effect. Clasen emphasized the importance of finding that “sweet spot” of fear—if a movie or experience is too intense, it can lead to negative feelings, rather than the intended enjoyment.

The “paradox of horror” shows that being scared can actually be enjoyable, especially when framed as recreational fear. Clasen pointed out, “We learn something about the dangers of the world. We learn something about our own responses: What does it feel like to be afraid? How much fear can I take?” This engagement with horror serves as a critical tool for personal growth and self-discovery.

Incorporating scary content into our lives can take various forms—horror movies, true crime podcasts, or unsettling Reddit threads. Finding your comfort zone is key: start small and gradually increase the intensity of what you consume. Clasen suggests beginning with lighter horror, like children’s films that have spooky elements.

Exploring these experiences with friends often enhances the fun. Clasen emphasizes that recreational fear is usually a social activity. “Few people go to watch scary movies or run through haunted houses alone,” he said. Experiencing fear together can amplify the thrill and create memorable moments.

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into I used to follow high fashion models in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Frida Gustavsson, Sasha Pivovarova, Vlada Roslyakova, Olga Sherer, Snejana Onopka (as you can see, I gravitated toward the Slavic models, mainly)--those were my favorites. I was looking up runway photos of either Roslyakova or Sherer and stumbled upon a blog "congratulating" one of the models in a candid photo for enjoying a breakfast of black coffee and a cigarette. The caption was, "We approve."

That was the day I learned that there was such a thing as a "pro-ana" community, or "thinspo." This was the opposite of a support group--unless your understanding of a support group was supporting each other's addictions and unhealthy coping mechanisms. They exchanged "tips" like sprinkling black pepper on lettuce to make you think you were eating more than you actually were. It was... frightening.

Edit: typo.

Schneetmacher , Annushka Ahuja Report

Final score:

45points

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Huddo's sister 1 month ago

There was a huge investigation into the impact of 'thinspiration' by Australian journalists a few of years ago. One major point was that all someone had to do is watch one video or picture connected to weight loss etc and the algorithm (like most things on social media) would bombard you with more. Teenagers were particularly susceptible to this and many developed eating disorders because of it.

22points

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Definitely not the most outright disturbing but still incredibly disturbing and more inexplicable was the existence of the monkey hate community. And they’ll just sit around watching videos of baby monkeys commenting s**t like “next you gotta put that f****r in the microwave and watch him squeal”. The part that’s really confusing to me is how these people woke up one day and said “f**k monkeys in particular” Since it really does seem to be specific to monkey for them.

thiccemotionalpapi , Pixabay Report

Final score:

44points

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BTDubs 1 month ago

There are people in my county who take a particular delight in hurting apes and primates. It's like it's as close as they can to hurting a person, without hurting a person and it scares the c**p outta me.

44points

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Fatal caving accidents. Nutty Putty, but also Floyd Collins too (don't Google these). Learned way more than I care to and it only ensured I will never go caving, at least not in caves tight enough to get trapped forever.

comeallwithme , Rainer Eck Report

Final score:

43points

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Lost Panda 1 month ago

*Goes to lookup Floyd Collins*

27points

#10

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Definitely the Russian scientist that sewed the top half of a dog to the back/neck area of another larger dog to see how long it would live. Like some human centipede [nonsense].

LadyThrashALot , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

42points

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Just stopping by 1 month ago

Disgusting 😡

32points

CatherineM1267 , Pryscila Colasso Report

#11

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into One of the most disturbing rabbit holes I stumbled into was reading about abandoned, haunted amusement parks around the world. What started as an innocent curiosity turned into hours of looking at eerie photos, creepy backstories, and even watching videos of people exploring these decaying, forgotten places. It left me with chills, but I couldn't stop digging deeper!

Final score:

42points

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Brigitte 1 month ago

When I hear "abandoned amusement park" I always immediately think of that ferris wheel in Pripyat (Chernobyl).

22points

#12

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Hisashi Ouchi.

In 1999, the nuclear plant at Tokaimura had a radioactive accident, and Hisashi was the closest victim to the incident. It happened during the purification process of uranium oxide. There were 3 victims in total.

Hisashi survived despite being exposed to the largest amount of radiation on record.

And the Japanese kept him alive. Against his will. For 83 days.

It is the most painful, extended death I have ever read. They could have humanely ended his life.

But they kept bringing him back. To experiment. Despite all the injuries, skin loss, burns, and organ failure.

Do not read about it if you are weak/sensitive to graphic details.

Onautopilotsendhelp , ENERGY.GOV Report

Final score:

40points

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Beak Hookage 1 month ago

I looked into this one once, and the doctors get way too much blame in all this. The family wanted him to survive and he himself was very set on making it too. If anything it just draws the blame away from the real villains in this story: the astoundingly irresponsible fools running the power plant whose negligence allowed the accident to happen in the first place.

40points

#13

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Datura trip reports rank pretty high. I've had bad trips on psychedelics, but nothing even remotely as f****d up as what people experience on deliriants like datura.

On psychedelics, no matter how crazy it gets, you at least know you're tripping. The s**t you see is clearly just overlaid on reality - you know you're hallucinating. That's not the case with datura. From what I've read, the s**t you see doesn't look psychedelic at all - it looks real. You might not even realize you're tripping.

Your dead grandpa is really in the room talking to you. Your friend is really getting brutally [attacked] in front of you. The giant spiders are really crawling all over you. It's all 100% real as far as you can tell.

Since you have no connection to reality, you can get into serious trouble or even die. You might think you're fighting a demon and then get arrested for assaulting a random person in a park. All bets are off with that s**t.

Oh and also it lasts several days.

paraworldblue , David Garrison Report

Final score:

39points

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Savahax 1 month ago (edited)

*orders* Jokes aside, this "Engelstrompeten" as my friend called it is exactly what this post is saying. He said he saw a friend walk into the room real as it gets and he exploded. His pack of cigarettes was endless. He said at some point he took all cigarettes out, closed the pack, and when he opened it again it was full. He did this dozens of times and had a massive pile of cigarettes on the table. He could grab them and smoke them and everything. Unreal

22points

#14

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into The leg found at the OKC Bombing site.

Nutshell: A random leg was found in the aftermath of the OKC bombing back in '95. They identified the leg, and exhumed the corpse it belonged to. Only problem? He was already buried with two legs. Except one wasn't his. They swapped his leg, and set to work trying to find the owner of the other leg. DNA testing failed to find out who it belonged to.

...So whose leg was it? Nearly 30 years later, we have no clue. Some say it was a widely believed *third* accomplice to the bombing.

Jack-of-Hearts-7 , Isaac Taylor Report

Final score:

38points

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Savahax 1 month ago

So that's where I left it 🤔

19points

#15

Stumbled upon an antivaxxer group once …. the sheer tin foil hat stupidity was utterly astounding.

kip707 Report

Final score:

37points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Did you find out which essential oils you needed to protect yourself?

35points

#16

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into On Reddit there used to be yearly thread for a while talking about supernatural experiences of Sailors. It was such a fantastic read . Every couple of years if I am bored and travelling I love to re-read them.

mmIastro , Germannavyphotograph Report

Final score:

36points

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JimSteve 1 month ago

Saint Elmo's Fire is a really interesting phenomenon and its been happening for centuries. Not actually supernatural but its still pretty cool.

15points

zed2point0 , Gonichi Kimura - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Report

#17

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Ant walking alligators.

Survivors of nuclear bombings. Very NSFL stuff.
The "alligator people" bit refers to their skin being so charred and cracked it looked like reptile skin, and their lips and eyes melted away, making them look like some sort of human-reptiles
The "ant-walking" bit is separate, referring to how they aimlessly followed each other around, crawling on all fours due to their ruined limbs, all while making a neverending murmuring noise as they tried to scream but had too damaged vocal cords and throats
The more detailed descriptions are probably worse than what you're imagining, but the veracity is also somewhat questioned. The book that describes all this was later withdrawn by the publisher for having several factual errors, exaggerations, using bad sources, etc.

Final score:

36points

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Zero Costa 1 month ago

barefoot gen is a very good manga about the attacks, loosely based on the author's own experience through the bombing of Hiroshima. it's a real hard read though

9points

Practical_Airline_36 , Angel Aroca Escáme Report

#18

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Artifacts from Spanish inquisition Era. A couple of Books supporting their beliefs was enough to make one puke. Then they brought out various "devices" and the explanation scarred me for life. Can't believe that humans came with such seriously effed up things to be used on someone. I used to hate humans in general but had a little faith in humanity. After watching the documentary in wayback machine i doubt nothing much has changed. There were also 77 pages fully filled with the names of the victims and the name of the priests who "handled" them. It was a french documentary from 90's and I was just curious about Spain's history, very dark stuff that almost nobody outside Europe/Spain knows about.

Final score:

36points

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JimSteve 1 month ago

I didn't expect that

29points

Square_Ad8710 , United States Coast Guard Report

#19

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Watching the new videos about the TitanSub that was destroyed last year. While I have zero sympathy for the owner who was knowingly breaking the rules, dying in that sub, I feel bad for the crew that he conned into going.

One video that I watched last night suggested the possibility that they knew they were in danger and was trying to raise up to safety when they imploded and it wasn't a quick thing, like they knew for approximately a minute that they were moments away from instant death, but the death was so sudden and so violent that no one knew it happened, human brains don't work fast enough to process an implosion at that speed. .

Final score:

34points

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JimSteve 1 month ago

He should've known better. They all deserved better

21points

ope_sorry_there , cottonbro studio Report

#20

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Deep diving into the toy box killer, the tape he plays to his newly kidnapped victims is pretty disturbing even just reading the transcript. .

Final score:

32points

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Pencil McGovern 1 month ago

Can we just take a moment to admire the *extraordinary* courage and fortitude of Cynthia Vigil and Kelli Garrett? They were two of his victims who survived and somehow found the strength to actually testify, in gruesome detail, against him in open court. Without their bravery, he may easily have gone free.

12points

#21

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into The logistics of crowd crushes.

bagginshieldz , Manuel Joseph Report

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30points

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Bob Brooce 1 month ago

"Logistics"? As if somebody deliberately planned it and ordered the necessary supplies? I think the word the OP was looking for is "mechanics".

34points

#22

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Diphenhydramine addiction.

No part of it sounds enticing, yet it's still abused. I don't know that I've seen any other d**g related sub be so adamant about avoiding it at all costs.

glitteryvomit: diphenhydramine is what began my descent into drugs. I had insomnia veeeery young and my pediatrician suggested Benadryl to my mom. I began sneaking obscene amounts the older I got. I didn't think twice about it. eventually it got worse but you know life decisions xyz.
sober from pills (it got to benzos/etc) for 7/8 years now. OTC pill abuse is an issue most day to day people don't see.

White_Dynamite22 , Alex Green Report

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27points

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Just stopping by 1 month ago

I have never heard of this with allergy pills. I’ve been taking Benadryl since I was a child and it’s never been like this. And yes I have severe allergies so I have to take some form of allergy medicine no matter what.

11points

_dontjimthecamera , RainbowUnicorn0228 Report

#23

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into I spent one night reading all about staircases in woods stories and was thoroughly creeped out, only to discover the next day that the stories were all fake.

Final score:

27points

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digitalin 1 month ago

I LOVE these stories, even though they're fake. It's juuuuuust believable enough to be spooky.

12points

#24

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into I saw someone mention Junko Faruta so I looked her up.

Edit: The worst part was, I had no context before looking. I can’t remeber the exact circumstances, but it was a Reddit post that someone casually mentioned her name but as a missing person or something far leas than what it was. Certainly not the horrors that poor women went through and what happened after. But it was almost a casual mention. The only reason I looked her up was because I thought the name was quite unusual and rather interesting. So I was just wondering if she was famous in Japan or something to look up while being bored and meandering around Reddit. Little did I know…. This was quite awhile ago. Her name comes up frequently now, but it was almost unknown (internationally, I am sure it was well known in Japan) at the time.

VeryOddNaw: F***ed up thing is some of the guys who did that are still walking the streets without a care in the world, I have seen some people spam Junko’s image in there accounts though but still I want them dead or behind bars forever.

Drachenfuer , MART PRODUCTION Report

Final score:

25points

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Bob Brooce 1 month ago

Was that intended to leave us curious or send us on our own searches? A 17yo was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered, and it went on for 40 days. Perhaps the most f****d up thing about it is that it's not even exceptional in terms of what some sickos have done.

35points

Agitated-Mechanic602 , differentially_kelly Report

#25

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into That girl with munchausens that picked her legs to the bone so she could be a double amputee.

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24points

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Zero Costa 1 month ago

is that munchausens? there's a syndrome where people want to self amputate etc

14points

#26

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Raw isis and cartel execution videos

I deeply regret both.

scarlettvvitch , Anna Shvets Report

Final score:

24points

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Libstak 1 month ago

Not even curious Bout this, why would you watch such things?

24points

#27

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Looking up my physical symptoms… i have health anxiety.

GladDingo88 , Ryutaro Tsukata Report

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24points

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Kangaroo 1 month ago

I was recently introduced to the concept of “intellectualizing.” -“Intellectualization is a defense mechanism in which people reason about a problem to avoid uncomfortable or distressing emotions… By channeling mental energy into a logical assessment or abstract discussion, an individual can avoid painful emotions or remain distanced from beliefs that challenge their sense of self.”

8points

#28

I got sucked into the world of creepy pasta stories and ended up staying up nights reading about haunted websites and urban legends. It was eerie and I had to take a break to clear my mind!

GeneralMarkNaird Report

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23points

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Bob Brooce 1 month ago

Doesn't seem creepy at all, if you ask me. pasta-66f6...f-jpeg.jpg

21points

#29

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into When eugenia cooney was on twitch. I was disturbed but curious about how she was able to be like that. I would watch her streams every once in a while and ask simple and vague questions that she would sometimes read. Just wild to me a human can live like that.

New_Present4993 , eugeniacooney Report

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20points

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Lee Banks 1 month ago

A (beautiful) friend looks like this naturally. (Genetic condition) It pains her every time a little girl says she wishes she were "that skinny". Encouraging ed is despicable.

20points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#30

The Sreberencia Massacre, which led to reading transcripts from the Hague war crimes trial. Absolutely horrifying.

afarkas1 Report

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20points

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El Dee 1 month ago

The human race learns nothing from the past. 30 million civilians murdered by the Nazis in WW2 horrified the world - but not enough to stop doing these things..

10points

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#31

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into What iv’e been kinda freaked out by recently is eating disorder twitter (#edtwt) and self harm twitter (#shtwt). Both communities overlap with eachother a lot and it’s insane to me seeing a large community of people ENCOURAGE eachother in this behavior. They have their own inside jokes, share routines, trauma dump, share compliments. They also take pictures of and document everything. You can scroll through profile timelines and see conditions worsen as their mental health descends. It’s honestly just a pretty disturbing thing to see from an outside perspective.

N3SSDOGG , Marten Bjork Report

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11points

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#32

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Elan school was quite the rabbit-hole for me. Schools —if you can call them that— like these are f****d up and should not exist imho. 😟.

Ytrog: A "school" where children with diﬀiculties are sent to and it is an abusive hell basically.

Ytrog , Tahir Osman Report

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11points

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detective miller's hat 1 month ago

This was all the rage in the 90s. I had friends that were sent to these places - "schools", wilderness "camps", etc. The troubled teen industry is pure evil, but it still exists.

5points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#33

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into It's probably not that exciting but learning EVERYTHING Diddy did and we just let that s**t slide for decades. Also, seeing how many celebs are involved oooooh s**t so glad I'm not one of those people who has a Parasocial relationship with celebrities lol. It's awful and the stuff that's coming out now is only the tip of the iceberg. I feel like this is just old news being brought to light.

I can't stand Justin Bieber or Usher but damn, Diddler f****d them up.... like sent Usher to the hospital for a torn a*****e when he was younger.... s**t is f**kkkked.

Inevitable_Client237 , Arthur from Westchester County north of NYC, USA Report

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11points

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Kit Black 1 month ago

Yeah, the documentary on this a few years from now is going to be ~Diddy? Yes He Did~

12points

#34

Pimple picking / extractions at 3 am!

Lady_Boudicca Report

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10points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

This one sounds grossly interesting to be fair.

11points

#35

Soft White Underbelly.

RealAnise: While SWU is often disturbing, I wouldn't put it in the same category as all of this other stuff. It's basically hundreds of videos of people discussing their lives, their work, their trauma, their experiences-- [escorts], addicts, that kind of thing.

Agape_Lovecat1313 Report

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9points

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El Cucuy 1 month ago

Their series on an inbred family in West Virginia is ghastly.

3points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#36

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into A couple of medical conditions I had to study after I learned a loved one was suffering from at least one of them. Doing it out of curiosity is one thing, but when you're forced to do so in order to either improve your health or make it less serious... oh s**t.

MissSara101 , Anna Tarazevich Report

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9points

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#37

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Secret societies consumed my life for like 5 years.

Senior_Low_2145 , Christina Morillo Report

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9points

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JimSteve 1 month ago

E Clampus Vitus, America's most obscure "secret society"

5points

#38

I landed in a telegram channel where people were manipulating or blackmailing underage girls to post nude pictures/videos and cut themselves with razors, including cutting themselves with the abusers name. It was an open channel with a deceptive name. Discord apparently has similar channels but they get banned faster there.

I uninstalled telegram shortly after that.

varateshh Report

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9points

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CanadianDimes 1 month ago

You didn’t report it?!

11points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#39

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into That 19 year old girl that married an ~80ish year old man and live tweeted as he was on his deathbed.

CoupleinAmerica , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

8points

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JimSteve 1 month ago

That is so disrespectful, she probably just did it for his inheritance

3points

Upper_Rent_176 , Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News Report

#40

30 People Reveal The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes They’ve Fallen Into Jfk assassination.

Final score:

8points

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JimSteve 1 month ago

I was wondering how long it would take before this popped up

5points

Traditional_Lock9318 Report

#41

The guy who jumped from the cruise ship in the Bahamas got eaten by sharks. The subreddit is pretty interesting, after going down the rabbit hole, I'm convinced you can see sharks in the video.

Final score:

8points

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Pyla 1 month ago (edited)

Wait, his friends video tape it? I thought it happened at night. DAMN! Now I have to look. OK went to look. Maybe there are sharks, but calling it "shark infested" is like calling a forest "tree infested" It's their home.

2points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

#42

It actually happened recently. My friend and I were planning our trip to Japan on discord and looking at Google Maps, just seeing how far away we were actually travelling. We stumbled across some VERY weird islands, with VERY weird names. We came across this one island that had an airport, a church, and the names were extremely weird like 'banana' or something. The images you see from people using that location weren't real photos and the website to the church looked extremely fake. We dove a little into the history and just saw more and more weird s**t. The funny part is, you can't even see it normally on the map, you literally have to zoom in so much just for it to even appear.

Edit
HI
Banana
CIA airport code, LOL
weird reviews

It appears to be real, but goddamn this was funny at the time.

Myth6- Report

Final score:

7points

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#43

Doomscrolled through BestG+r3's self-delete tag until the site ran out of articles for that tag or the site itself was shut down.
Found some.. interesting.. stuff. Like that Indian family that offed themselves, by hanging, to communicate with a dead relative, thinking they'll just back to life and untie eachother from their binds and nooses.

One tragic article that I remember very clearly was just video, of a woman - a mother of two or three - streaming her by hanging while her children cried and wailed around her. One of the children, seemingly too aware of what their mama is doing, tried to lift her up but to no avail.

a-hardcode-life Report

Final score:

7points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

I need to stop reading this thread.

25points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

#44

When I had around 13~14 years old I was browsing in the deep web and ended up reading a blog about how to invoke demons, but it said that I would go to hell if I tries then I never tested due the fear lol.

marcussacana Report

Final score:

6points

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#45

Tabs vs spaces.

Just_Shallot_6755 Report

Final score:

6points

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Pyla 1 month ago

Now this is a rabbit hole I can get behind.

1point

Defiant_Handle_506 Report

#46

The JimJack336 Mystery.

TL:DR - Secretive wealthy man who uses a niche sim racing community as a cover for possibly money laundering or other financial mysteries that utilize shell companies.

Full explanation (Warning: Long and super mysteriously weird)

My favorite internet mystery that actually got me into internet mysteries is the JimJack336 Mystery. It is about a secretly wealthy person who goes by the name of JimJack336. He is known by that name because he had a Reddit account almost a decade ago with that name.

He was involved in a niche sim racing community and he helped create mods and content for it along with setting up modding groups for other members to team up and create mods with. He did this for a few years until he randomly went inactive one day.

This all sounds innocent and pretty ordinary until it was recently discovered that he was actually a wealthy secretive person who used the sim racing community for nefarious purposes that coincided with his use of offshore shell companies. The niche sim racing community had members suddenly come out and reveal that JimJack336 created the groups and the groups were actually named after his shell companies. This happened because several members from different groups found out that their groups were formed by the same guy named JimJack336 and no one really knew who he was or what happened to him or why he did all this.

The users also found connections between the modding groups and actual real life shell companies, especially one being named “Full Throttle LTD” and being based in the British Virgin Islands. (Look up the company on ICIJ)! There was so such drama in the community that the higher ups of the community had to ban discussions about JimJack336 so that the entire community won’t get derailed. They had to get the members of the modding groups to stop talking about it and to move on from all of it in order to focus on making mods for the community.

This led people to post about JimJack336 on many other subreddits and social medias like r/RBI, r/subredditdrama, etc, and it even spread to 4chan, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and even a well known news agency wrote an article about it. However mysteriously many of the Reddit posts got taken down by Reddit admins for unclear reasons. The 4chan thread got taken down quickly and the news article was deleted in a single day. It wasn’t even Reddit mods taking down the posts, it was Reddit admins themselves.

And Google and Bing deliberately hide search results of JimJack336 and information relating to him. However a search on DuckDuckGo reveals a lot of information that aren’t available on Google or Bing. This made it obvious that the major search engines were deliberately concealing search results.

Additionally a month or two later, the niche sim racing community suffered a massive Reddit account ban wave and it involved the JimJack336 Reddit account (which was inactive for several years) along with several other modding group accounts to get suspended on the same day. That ban wave revealed that JimJack336 had control of several Reddit accounts and now the theory is that he got Reddit admins to suspend all the accounts so that people investigating the mystery would have more difficulty in doing so.

People in the community theorized on why some wealthy guy would create modding groups named after his shell companies in a niche sim racing community. Is it to use the sim racing community as a front? Is it to conceal money laundering?

Whoever JimJack336 really is, it is so f*****g weird that someone would use a niche community dedicated to a sim racing game as a front cover for their mysterious offshore shell company business. And whatever they’re trying to do, they definitely put so much effort into actually staying in the shadows and getting Reddit admins and the large search engines to take down posts about him and his activities.

Final score:

1point

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G A 1 month ago

I don't understand a word of this

17points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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#47

Still in said rabbit hole but learning how torture has evolved and how we have given out the death sentence I’ve even looked up pictures of people that have been decapated I have even given my self Chinese water torture that was a fun 5 hours.

JuicyOrangelikesjsal Report

Final score:

-11points

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G A 1 month ago

Balls you have. You'd be dead.

7points

Kyiv-born, Vilnius-dwelling writer with a suitcase full of curiosity. My Master's in International Communication fuels my love for exploring different stories. Whether I'm putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), you might catch me out and about with my film camera, cycling around, or on a quest for the perfect coffee spot. Occasionally seen trying to find inner peace on the yoga mat.

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I am a Visual editor at Bored Panda, I'm determined to find the most interesting and the best quality images for each post that I do. On my free time I like to unwind by doing some yoga, watching all kinds of movies/tv shows, playing video and board games or just simply hanging out with my cat

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What do you think ?

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Well this lot has cheered me right up. All good now for a day at work...

22points

JimSteve 1 month ago

I was going to thank BP really sarcastically for this thread but I guess I really have only myself to blame for looking at it in the first place

21points

BTDubs 1 month ago

Thanks I hate it

17points

Freya the Wanderer 1 month ago

Time to decompress with funny kitten videos

11points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

If you're wondering why people even look into this stuff, I can tell you why I've done it on many occasions, and it's because I have a certain fascination with dark and twisted things coupled with a particularly ghoulish curiosity. I sometimes end up regretting it, but I just can't seem to help myself. Dark and forbidden things have always had a certain allure, but some of us lean more into that than others.

6points

Kangaroo 1 month ago

Morbid curiousity is an interesting trait many humans have, including myself :)

4points

Myoviridae 1 month ago

Aaaaaaaannnnndddd now I will go watch Downton Abbey at the suggestion of a friend. It apparently has very sarcastic humor and I need a break from awful humanity after this thread.

4points

Pencil McGovern 1 month ago

For me it was after I read the auto-biography "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully. (The title says it all.) I just couldn't wrap my mind around it and needed to find out everything I could. Deepest rabbit hole I've ever been down.

2points

KillerKiwi 1 month ago

Well that was f****d

2points

JayWantsACat 1 month ago

If you think the monkey haters are unhinged, go to the anti-dogs forum on Reddit and see what true unhinged is.

2points

BatPhace 1 month ago

I'm old. We got internet when I was 13ish? A friend's older brother dared us to look at a site called bangedupdotcom (I don't know if it still exists and I don't want to test it). Said it had super cool and funny videos and pictures. Horrific stuff. Suffice to say it made me not go back on the internet for a solid while and I got over my crush on the older brother real quick

2points

Kangaroo 1 month ago

LOL I have stories of friend’s older brothers tricking us into going to weird/creepy websites too. In the early days of the internet we all had to beware the Friend’s Older Brother 😂

1point

TheNewJenBrady 1 month ago

Mine was reading the Wikipedia article about the Donner Party. I grew up in California and learned about them in school ,had been to Donner lake and thru the summit many times but had no idea of the horror that group experienced in detail. Inexperience, naivety and plenty of bad luck resulted in so much horrific, tragic suffering for all of them. I can't fathom an end like that. So yeah, be cautious if you read the article

1point

two-sided llama 1 month ago

I’m really interested in internet mysteries, especially Reddit. One interesting one is u/yayvideogames ( which has been solved) .

1point

Monica G 1 month ago

Very long time ago, a site with amateur porn had a "worms" section, beside b********y. I couldn't even venture to peak. Eww.

0points

Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 month ago

Various rabbit holes on the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust. What I find worst is how many contenders for second-worst historical place for Jews (after Poland/Lithuania in WW2--Poland murdering 90% of its 3 million Jews, alone responsible for raising the death rate in Europe from 55% to 66%, and Lithuania arguably worse but with much fewer casualties; Poland has also passed legislation stating effectively that it's illegal to say Poles collaborated with Nazis) is full of so many contenders. In the path of the Crusaders? Late Tsarist Russia? Black Death? Aftermath of Bar Kokhba? Khmelnytsky uprising (seriously, read about it)? the Inquisition? There are so many contenders, and that's what scares me. It would be one thing if it was one genocide. A one-off. But it wasn't. Massacres that arguably rose to genocide level are a constant backdrop to Jewish history. (Seriously, read the Wikipedia 'Timeline of antisemitism'. Don't skip the 19th/20th century timelines either.)

0points

Alexa Gori 1 month ago

Э речі у світі набагато страшніше. Не в Інтернеті, в реальному житті. Поряд з вами. Ви просто не бажаєте цього бачити і ковзаєте в всесвітньої дупі в пошуках страхіть. Розкрийте очі!

0points

My O My 1 month ago

Well well well, into various rabbit holes I followed. Nothing much shocking anymore after the tape transcriptions of the toy box murderer. Especially as he has a certain similarity to a relative of mine

0points

Savahax 1 month ago

Roko's basilisk. You're welcome

0points

Pittsburgh rare 1 month ago

I'm not googling that. I've learnt my lessons

7points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Well this lot has cheered me right up. All good now for a day at work...

22points

JimSteve 1 month ago

I was going to thank BP really sarcastically for this thread but I guess I really have only myself to blame for looking at it in the first place

21points

BTDubs 1 month ago

Thanks I hate it

17points

Freya the Wanderer 1 month ago

Time to decompress with funny kitten videos

11points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

6points

Kangaroo 1 month ago

Morbid curiousity is an interesting trait many humans have, including myself :)

4points

Myoviridae 1 month ago

Aaaaaaaannnnndddd now I will go watch Downton Abbey at the suggestion of a friend. It apparently has very sarcastic humor and I need a break from awful humanity after this thread.

4points

Pencil McGovern 1 month ago

2points

KillerKiwi 1 month ago

Well that was f****d

2points

JayWantsACat 1 month ago

If you think the monkey haters are unhinged, go to the anti-dogs forum on Reddit and see what true unhinged is.

2points

BatPhace 1 month ago

2points

Kangaroo 1 month ago

LOL I have stories of friend’s older brothers tricking us into going to weird/creepy websites too. In the early days of the internet we all had to beware the Friend’s Older Brother 😂

1point

TheNewJenBrady 1 month ago

1point

two-sided llama 1 month ago

I’m really interested in internet mysteries, especially Reddit. One interesting one is u/yayvideogames ( which has been solved) .

1point

Monica G 1 month ago

Very long time ago, a site with amateur porn had a "worms" section, beside b********y. I couldn't even venture to peak. Eww.

0points

Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 month ago

0points

Alexa Gori 1 month ago

0points

My O My 1 month ago

0points

Savahax 1 month ago

Roko's basilisk. You're welcome

0points

Pittsburgh rare 1 month ago

I'm not googling that. I've learnt my lessons

7points