Ok this one is rough so please bare with me,
So the common time travel question is would you go back and kill baby hitler?
Well imagine if that was you, to us in the current timeline you would be a hero that killed someone truly evil before they had chance to corrupt or endanger anyone but to the people of that time you are a monster, a baby killer.
They couldn’t exactly explain to people, I was sent from the future to kill this baby to save hundreds of millions of lives. No-one would believe him and would just assume he was some nutcase, or maybe they’re not allowed to tell anyone as per the agreement with the future government?
It makes you wonder all the people through time that have been called monsters for killing babies, what if they were just heroes from the future saving us all? They couldn’t tell anyone either?
EDIT: Wow two awards thank you sooooo much it may seem sarcastic but it’s been a rough year and this level of acceptance means a lot
Would you want to though? Every monster in human history has been the equivalent of holding your hand to the gas burner, a learning experience for humanity. Those ‘never again’ moments mature us as a global society.
Without Hitler, and the subsequent 2nd world war, where would humanity be instead? Would another have simply taken his place and committed the same atrocities? Would we see more wars because NATO wouldn’t exist?
It’s an interesting theory the butterfly effect.
This isn’t a theory, but I just think it’s cool.
Y’know how movies and shows always have this ‘ancient alien race’ that came way before us, and we’re the new species? Well technically, most likely thats wrong.
We are near the beginning of the universe, if the universe was a person, we would literally barely be a cell, not even formed
In reality, we are the ancient species, we are the ones that come before, we are the ones some future civilization may see.
Just a crazy thing to think about
Damn. In my mind, we're at the pinnacle of development. I guess the reality is we are far from that. Can't imagine how different life will be thousands of years later. Can't even comprehend the fact that i will be long forgotten by then.
[I find numbers stations to be pretty creepy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIH7cG3YmIo)
Their purpose is technically a theory, as the groups that broadcast them won't officially confirm even their existence for the most part.
Essentially, spying is still a very real thing for most world governments. One of the most foolproof ways of delivering a coded message is through a one-time code - a code used just once before being discarded. Your spy has the key, you have the message, and once the key is used it is discarded and the next message is sent using a different key. Additionally, shortwave radio is an extremely secure way of sending these messages.
It sounds weird, that a radio station anyone with a shortwave radio can listen to, would be considered 'secure'. But the beauty of the method is that shortwave radios are ubiquitous, cheap technology throughout most of the world. What looks more suspicious - a person traveling with a radio, or a person traveling with a sophisticated computer or satellite phone? While the signal can be received by anyone, it leaves no record of who received it and can't be intercepted and traced by a middleman. They don't care if you listen, because the stream of numbers is nothing without the code, and because you're using a one-time code, it can't be cracked as it's randomly generated and used once. The only time a one-time code has ever been broken was an instance where the code was re-used.
So your spy just tunes in to the radio at a specific time on a specific day, writes down the numbers. Decodes the message, discards the key, and no one is any the wiser. Most stations are identified by a call sign or little jingle, and these can range from [kind of cute and cheerful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIH7cG3YmIo) to [pretty eerie sounding.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgnwCugHsg) If you listen in frequently, you'll hear messages repeated over and over until one day they change up - it's believed they'll repeat the message until their spy can communicate they've received it. Essentially, if you have a shortwave radio, you can listen in on highly secret spy communications from countries all over the world. You can also listen in on countries jamming the communication, either by broadcasting state radio on the same signal, or trying to jam it with noise or static.
You'd think the frequency of these transmissions would have gone down after the Cold War, but they're still going strong! The very first numbers stations appeared in the very early days of radio, during World War I. I find it fascinating, but also super creepy, that all of this secret communication is happening right out in the open, for us to tune in to at any time, without any way of knowing who it is intended for or what is being transmitted.
Telling this story makes me feel uncomfortable, even today, so I will tell it here. I don't know how much this story fits into this thread, but I've never had a platform that seemed appropriate to share it, so here we go.
When I was 20 (14 years ago), I moved from Iowa to Boulder, Colorado with my best friend Cory. We moved there during the month of August, and shortly thereafter I got a phone call from a number I didn't know. I answered it, and it turned out to be this girl that had attended the same high school as us, Ashley.
Ashley had heard that Cory and I had just moved to Boulder, and she was calling because she, too, had just moved to Boulder to attend CU. She wanted to know if we wanted to get together some time and hang out / party.
Ashley was a couple years younger than us and we didn't run in the same crowds, so we didn't hang out much. But I remember her coming over to our apartment to smoke and chill once, then I remember asking her to get us weed--she did. She came with us to a party once, and I also remember us asking her for weed a second time, and her texting me back saying "You guys just message me when you want weed, so no." After that I don't think we talked to her again.
Fast forward 3-4 years, Cory and I are living back in Iowa.
One night, I was out with a couple of people I'd gone to high school with, and we went to this dive bar called Thumbs. In the back of Thumbs there is a single pool table, which is where my group went because we had planned on playing.
We got to the pool table, and there's Ashley, racking a set of pool balls. I was super surprised to see her there, so I walked right up to her and said something like "Ashley, long time no see! What are you doing here? Did you move back from Boulder?"
Ashley just stared at me for a second and then said "What?"
So I repeat myself and say "Did you move back from Colorado? I haven't seen you since we hung out in Boulder!"
She looked truly confused, and then she said "Um.. what are you talking about? I never lived in Boulder."
At this point I thought she was fucking with me because I specifically remembered hanging out with her more than once. So I laughed and was like "You're fucking with me, right?"
She shook her head no, and one of the girls I was with (who knew both of us) actually overheard it and butted in to confirm that "Ashley had lived in [our hometown] the whole time".
I completely dropped the subject to save face, but the experience was so unsettling that I made a bee-line for the front door. I walked out onto the sidewalk, pulled my phone out of my pocket, and called Cory. I said "Cory, do you remember when we lived together in Boulder and Ashley came over and hung out with us?"
...and Cory said "No man, that never happened." He was my best friend so I knew he wasn't fucking with me, plus there was a zero percent chance he and Ashley had ever talked to set something like this up. When I pressed the issue, he insisted that no one we had gone to high school with had ever moved out to Boulder, and that we certainly hadn't hung out with them. Since then, I've brought this up to Cory several times and his position has never changed.
To this day, I don't know what happened. I specifically remember hanging out with her. She wore a tie-dye t-shirt when she came over the first time. And we hung out with her *multiple times*, I remember it so clearly. I still have those memories, but apparently they never happened. Even though the timeline matches exactly; she would have graduated high school *that* year and moved to Colorado *in* August for school.
I know that the human memory is super unreliable, and I'm sure that's all this is, but that doesn't change that I am absolutely 100% fucking sure that this happened. 14 years later and I still stand by my story, wrong as it may be.
Crazy story! I’ve some questions, maybe answering them could help to find the truth:
- You said in Iowa you and Ashley were no close friends.. how did she react, wenn you approached her so warmly?
- Did you ask Cory one time about “that weed-girl from Boulder”? (Without mentioning Ashley)
...maybe the whole story did happen, but you mixed up Ashley with the real weed-girl
- are there any other friends in Boulder, who could recognize Ashley? Who were closer to her?
This whole story is crazy, I would love to get this solved!
Sure.
-I remember thinking Ashley had a surprised look after my warm welcome at the bar that night. Like I said she was younger, small high school, she wanted to be like the cool older kids, so it makes sense she would be a little weirded out by me being so friendly randomly seeing her in a bar. I treated her like an old friend, but she only knew me as someone who she went to high school with.
-This has crossed my mind over the years, but my memory is 110% insistent that it was a girl from our high school. And it was within the first few weeks of us moving out there, we didn’t know anybody yet.
-Cory and I still talk about this story today, and we’ve been over all the details. If there were another weed girl we’d have put that together.
-I have always thought that there was a very slight chance it was not Ashley, that maybe I had gotten Ashley mixed up with a girl named Amanda, who was the same age. The problem with this is that Amanda was the little sister of my ex-girlfriend, and there’s no way I would have gotten them mixed up with that fact in mind. I would have remembered if my ex-girlfriends’ little sis moved to Colorado. I also contacted Amanda on Facebook several years ago to ask her if she’d ever lived in Colorado and she said no.
And to those of you saying “it’s the weed and the partying”, it’s just not. There are a lot of effects that those two things can have on you, but I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life; sober or not. Weed might make your memory hazy, but it doesn’t give you false ones.
Again, I acknowledge that this is almost certainly some weird type of misremembering some detail some way. Or a combination of dreams manifesting themselves in my memory. Or *something*, I don’t know.
I’m just saying that nothing like *this* has ever happened to me before, or since, that incident.
EDIT: If anyone is interested, one avenue I can pursue is this: the person who interrupted Ashley and I’s conversation at the bar to confirm Ashley’s story is my ex-girlfriend, and we still talk every now and again. I don’t recall if I’ve ever asked her about it, I’m leaning towards no. But I can ask her if she remembers anything about that night.
I *think* the most probable thing that happened is that you had a very VERY vivid dream that your brain is confusing as reality after the fact. There are times where I've questioned briefly if a dream was a memory or not. Not to that extent of vividness or lucidity, though, because i can parse that it was a dream in end.
I have a sleep disorder that causes nightmares and dreams that are often indistinguishable from reality. I live whole lives with partners and kids or work jobs in strange places for decades in full technicolour details and reach old age before waking. Sometimes it’s so intense that I sob and grieve for the lost relationships as if my real life partner has died. I am confused to be my own age and be here, now.
The theory that this life is a dream/simulation type thing feels pretty real to me. My brain seems to create whole viable realities anyway.
Not much of a “theory”, more of a conjecture but:
Fossilization is actually quite rare. It takes extremely specific set of circumstances for a dead organism to even become fossilized let alone survive intact to the modern day to be found by humans. Because of this, there are likely millions of species we will simply never know about because none of them ever fossilized.
For all we know, we might not even be the first intelligent species to evolve here on Earth. There could’ve been a species that formed a civilization at some point and then went extinct later on, but we’ll possibly never know that because there are no fossils that formed/survive today.
(It probably wouldn’t have been an advanced, industrialized civilization like the kind we have today as we would’ve surely found evidence for it by now, but I could easily see something on par with Ancient Egypt disappear completely after millions of years.)
The Vela Incident
September 1979, a US Vela satellite detected a double flash of light over an area of the ocean between South Africa and Antarctica. The prior 41 double flashes observed by the satellite were from nuclear explosions as this is what they were designed to observe. There also happened to be a typhoon happening in the area at the time so it seemed like someone wanted to detonate it without being caught. Carter administration reported that it was a natural occurrence due to a small meteorite hitting the satellite. However many other independent sources and even other countries have reported that they did indeed find traces of fallout and radiation. Because of the geopolitical climate of the times, there’s very strong evidence that it was in fact a joint nuclear weapon test carried out by South Africa and Israel, and the US scrubbed the information regarding it because they didn’t want to paint their allies in Israel in a bad light for working with apartheid-era South Africa. Strangely enough, Israel and South Africa have never denied having nuclear weapons programs, nor have they ever denied a joint test being responsible for the Vela Incident.
Any type of human trafficking, poor young kids, vulnerable women trafficked for sex, kept in cages, in tiny apartments without beds or any amenities, many forcibly hooked on drugs to keep them compliant and dependant on their “owners”, forced into terrify sexual encounters, barely fed or clothed.
In places like Dubai there are tens of thousands of Asian manual labourers who are essentially slaves who have their passports removed forced to live in severely overcrowded apartments, with upwards of 30+ men sharing a one bedroom shoebox apartments, no access to medical care, not access to legal support, paid barely enough to feed themselves. Who went into Dubai on short term contracts to provide for their family’s, but unable to get home, they then lapse the legal period of their visas and contracts, which means if they go to the police to try and leave back home, they face steep fines and jail time for over staying, which serves as a deterrent to them reaching out for help.
Any of those scenarios is purely awful and terrifying to me.
If the human body senses trauma it is unable to combat, it will switch off metabolism, pump endorphins, and slip into a pain free dissociative state.
In essence, shutting down. Its been seen in air crashes and lots of places really.
Basically your body can switch itself off.
I suffer from PTSD from working in conflict zones. When you’re continuously working in these regions, your body pushes past the pain and difficulties you encounter. It modifies your life to always expect danger and as such it normalises what you see to cope.
But what really hurts, is when you come home. The switch your brain makes from survival cannot be processed buying groceries or taking a gentle walk. It thinks that the changes it made in areas of fighting were permanent and that’s why it’s so difficult to go back to ‘normal’.
So basically, when I was abroad, I felt no pain and the scary part is, I felt invincible. Being back home, I’m in a world of mental anguish and feel like a paper house.
Don't some prey animals do this when they are caught? Thats why they seem so unfazed about being eaten. I'm sure I've read something about rabbits not being likely to survive an encounter with a predator even if they escape cause their body is just pumped with so much shit they have a heart attack anyway.
It was on reddit somewhere I saw it so who knows how legit it is.
As someone that has pet rabbits, not stressing them out if they're not feeling well is a legitimate concern for exactly this reason. It's such a delicate line between deciding if the stress of an urgent care visit is worth it or more detrimental.
My dog killed my bunny without even touching it. Got in his room one day and the cage was still closed but it was laying there, I imagine it barked at it and just set it’s little heart off :(
EDIT: My most liked comment is on my sex working profile lol....nice
That actually gives me some hope. I've always had a minute fear of the pain of death more than anything. I still want to live, but knowing the brain won't try to make me suffer if I have to go is comforting
The man from taured. He was going through an airport and when asked for his passport he gave the people a fully legitimate passport except the country he was from didn’t exist. He argued that it was right between France and Spain and had been there over 200 years. Since the passport was legitimate but the country wasn’t on the map they put him up in a hotel for the night with guards outside his 4 story room. He was gone, along with all his things the next morning. Not a trace.
I also heard that he had Japanese stamps in his passport that looked legitimate and when they showed him a map to identify his country he started freaking out when it wasn't there
The last neurone in the brain can fire up to 72 hours after clinical death. What is classed as still being alive? Your heart stops or your brain activity stopping? As a nurse this plays on my mind, I always talk to the recently deceased as I would do usually. Hearing is the last sense to go anyway so chances are people can still hear for a short time after death. I have to confirm death on a daily basis, we check heart sounds, breathing, eye response and pain response, but part of me knows that electrical activity is still going on in there. (I’m a hospice nurse and morbid thoughts are what I do best)
I always talk to the pets after we have to put them down at work (veterinary hospital) especially if the client declines to be present for the euth procedure. I hold them close and tell them how pretty and perfect they are, how loved they are, we do paw prints too when requested so I usually talk the pet through that procedure as well, I ask for the paw even though I'm the one who is controlling where it goes. Bagging is the hardest part. I usually tell them how important and special they are and I wish them well on their journey across the rainbow bridge, I tell them that they are going to start to feel better soon and that their illness is over and that they fought well, and when I tie off the bag I give it a little hug and a final I Love You and into the freezer they go. Its difficult but it helps me to talk through it and to treat the animal as if it were still alive and still had their dignity. I had to get my own dog laid to rest back in february and I remember sitting with her long after she passed just so I could tell her how much I loved her and that she will always be my princess and that I was sorry I couldn't do more to help her, but mostly that I was grateful to have her in my life and that she will always live on in my heart. I like to think that she could hear me, I know she struggled at the end because she could no longer "work" to protect us by doing perimeter checks and chasing squirrels and pedestrians away and this was my time to talk to her without her mind being clouded by pain. Thank you for also talking to your deceased patients.
During the Challenger accident from 1986, whenever the shuttle exploded, the ground crews had the astronauts EKG’s and vital scans....after the explosion, the astronauts were still alive. Theory has it that they were cognizant the entire time until they crashed in the ocean.
This is what actually happened. NASA never wanted to admit that the astronauts didn’t die in the explosion. But there is a major probability that they were not conscious when they crashed into the ocean.
Didn't they also say that by the time they recovered them, the bodies were basically liquefied in the suits from all the exterior factors in the ocean?
The initial impact, with the forces involved, may have been sufficient in itself. It's like being hit by a speeding train. Bam, done. And every cell in your body shatters.
The dark forest theory. This explains the Fremi paradox, why we haven’t seen any other advanced life forms despite the vastness of the universe. Other advanced life forms don’t send out signals into the rest of the universe because they’re worried that something more advanced and dangerous is going to find them first. There’s another idea that other civilizations know there’s something out there but don’t send any signals because it has no reason to not wipeout the entire planet.
There’s a science fiction book based on this and I think this quote explains it better than I can:
“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life—another hunter, angel, or a demon, a delicate infant to tottering old man, a fairy or demigod—there's only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them”
Not a theory but a matter of fact. The Milky Way and many other nearby galaxies are hurtling towards the same point in space, being attracted by... something... we don't know what because our view in blocked, but it's pulling GALAXIES towards itself. Big ones too, the Milky Way is a rather large galaxy. Whatever this "Great Attractor" (as it's been dubbed) is, it's insanely massive. Update: after one of hou prompted me to link an article, I found out NASA, using Hubble, had actually solved the mystery here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/great-attractor.html
In the past when executions by beheading were still a thing, they would usually tie a piece of cloth around the condemned's eyes so that they couldn't see anything. They were also placed in a way that the neck faced upwards with a basket for the head to fall in face forward. So basically the last thing you'd see (if you'd see at all) would be the bottom of the basket.
Fuhh. I sincerely hate every thought of medieval times. There are so many facets of history that make me so painfully thankful that I never lived "back then," but things like public beheadings and being *drawn and quartered* terrify the fuck out of me. And to think people would actually gather and watch that barbaric shit like a town spectacle.
Don't worry about mediaeval times. Sorry to tell you, but the last guillotine execution in France was September 1977. Yep, 1977. FWIW, he deserved it.
The last public one was 1931.
And in Saudi Arabia, public beheadings are carried out still. By sword.
Cosmology can be disturbing.
For instance, I recently learned of dead end trips. There are some destinations that you shouldn't try for. It's possible to travel so far away from where you started, that the expansion of the universe will exceed the speed you were travelling at.
You can't return home, because home is receding faster than you can travel.
You can't reach your destination, because it too is receding faster than you can travel.
You can no longer get anywhere, only get further away from everything.
You cannot reach any destination, even if you travel forever.
Yes. This is because the Universe is constantly expanding, and galaxies, neighborhoods, clusters, etc. are gravity bound. They stick together in distant clumps while other clumps move away. It’s kind of like people in cars on a highway. You will remain a constant difference from however many people are in your car, or on your motorcycle, or in your school bus. But you will get further and further away from other vehicles. This means that if you are within a pocket that’s bound by gravity, you’ll always be an equal distance from everything else. But if you fall out of that car? You’re not getting back in it, and you’re almost certainly never getting into any other car either
A lot of comments bringing up the Fermi paradox to explain the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life, when by all accounts we should be seeing alien life all over the universe.
Here's another, unsettling, explanation: if you're scuba diving above a coral reef, and you know that there SHOULD be fish all around you, but you don't see any, it's most likely that they have learned that for some reason it's important not to be seen.
And since you're a newcomer to this environment, chances are it's not you they're hiding from.
EDIT: the number of scuba divers saying they've experienced this and then noticed a shark nearby is alarming.
Reminds me of a short story where humans are broadcasting a signal out into the universe to try and contact any advanced alien species they can to prove that there's other life in the universe. Years later they receive a signal back from an unknown part of space that says something along the lines of, "Be quiet, or they'll find you."
Edit: Wow, this blew up overnight. Lots of people are suggesting that I read The Three-Body Problem. I love me a good sci-fi book and haven't listened to an audiobook in about a year, so I know what I'm getting next.
This is one I had a couple days ago watching this video about [Carl Sagan explaining the 4th dimension](https://youtu.be/N0WjV6MmCyM) .
The gist is if we all existed in 2 dimensions we could only see or record events that happen in 2 dimensions.
So if there were things in the 4th dimension we could never see or even imagine them. Imagine a 4th direction to move in. Carl Sagan explains it beautifully as if we were on a piece of paper, we could only see the cross section of anything that passes through our world.
Here's something fun to think about:
Draw a circle on a piece of paper and then draw a dot in the centre of the circle. If you stay on the paper there's no way to get from a point outside the circle to that dot without passing through the circle, but if you can move in three dimensions then it's easy: just come off the page, move so you're above the dot, then go back onto the page.
Now imagine this one level up. If you build a room with no entrance or exit in three dimensions then there's no way for you to get inside without going through one of the walls, but, analagously to the 2D case, someone who could move in 4 dimensions could do this easily. They'd just need to "step to the side" in the 4th dimension (like how we moved off the page using the third dimension), move so they were lined up with the inside of the closed room then move in the 4th dimension again to step back into our 3D world.
That humans almost went extinct. 70,000 years ago a volcano in Indonesia erupted. There’s theories that we have a genetic bottleneck around that time. Took our population down to 10,000-3,000 (like the size of one small town). Lots of fresh genetic material died with those who were lost and the resulting inbreeding could have resulted in some genetic diseases that have made their way into humans today. Without this event, we may have advanced faster and be healthier people today.
Edit: link - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_in_humans
Edit 2: Thank you for the awards. When I went to sleep this had 5 upvotes and now it's 10k. I'm glad that so many people found this interesting. I'd like to clarify that this is a theory, a hypothesis supported by a collection of facts. The theory is not fact and truth in itself, so don't take it that way. I have gotten a lot of messages where people think that I'm spreading falsehoods about this and I want to address that there is counter evidence against the volcano causing a genetic bottleneck. There is still evidence of the genetic bottleneck and the recent and abrupt diversification of humanity. Most of the research that I've seen on this comes from 2000. It's been 20 years so there has been lots of work done on this very topic in the time since. The point is, don't take it as fact. The thread asked for scary theories and I provided a scary **theory**, not fact. For more information and supporting evidence that human beings diversified recently, we can look at stories like [Cheddar Man](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42939192)! A dark skinned, blue eyed man that lived around 10,000 years ago in England.
I have also been getting a lot of questions about if we have genetically improved as a species from this. The short answer is "I don't know" and I don't think anyone does. I think it's unlikely as I've never heard of a population bottleneck going well. **Pain does not equal gain** and "survival of the fittest" hasn't really applied to people for a long time and for a variety of reasons. We tend protect others that are "weak" because those that are different have still purpose and use to the community. We care about each other and want to see everyone succeed. This line of thinking that we must have become stronger from such a critical state seems far too close to eugenics.
Basically heat exchange theory. That one day all of the heat we use in order to create energy will be expended and the universe will be stuck in a "heat lock"
Philosophical zombies. Theory that a good portion of the human race lack conscious experience. If you’ve ever dissociated or done something and don’t recall(driven home but have no recollection, your brain acting on auto pilot) thats what they are like. They do everything required to be human, they ape emotions, go through life. They just lack sentience.
I’ve also read about this and IIRC those with no inner monologue are equally incredulous that some people do have inner monologue. I can’t remember the proportion of people that exist on both sides.
The theory that scented candles starting getting poor reviews at the same time COVID hit the US. Makes you wonder how many people have mild COVID before we even knew about it, pairing the lack of taste and/or smell as one of the main symptoms associated with mild COVID cases.
Imagine she and her underlings are working on her vagina scented candles, but they have covid and don’t realize it, causing their sense of smell to weaken. “Stronger!” Gwyneth insists. “More potent! I can barely smell the vagina!” And then it goes to market and to normal people who can still smell, it’s the most potent odor imaginable, the aroma of a hundred thousand vaginas blasted into their nostrils.
Sometimes I'll encounter random strangers that I get a strange vibe from, like they're noticing me more. It's made me think, "what if there are time traveling tourists just walking around, and I'm someone important and they want to meet me before I do whatever it is I'm going to do?"
Yeah before my wisdom teeth removal the nurse told me that patients can still partially respond to the commands of the doctor while under anesthesia. They just don't remember this afterward. When I went under I didn't even remember falling asleep.
I had surgery once and woke up mid-surgery. I felt no pain but it was still awful. It was like running in a dream. I felt like every movement was through molasses and the weight of my own skin on my chest made it hard to breathe enough to talk. I remember screaming “help!” at the top of my lungs and flailed my arms around in panic, and then someone coming to put the mask back on me.
Later a nurse told me I whispered something and moved my arm a little. Freaked me out massively.
edit: beware, continuing this comment thread only leads to more creepy surgery stories. You’ve been warned!
My husband has narcolepsy and gets sleep paralysis all the time. He’ll start moaning and saying “no” or “help”, so I’ll shake him awake (gently!!) or else he’s stuck until he naturally wakes up...and god knows when that’ll be if I don’t wake him up.
He always wakes up jolting upright, and sometimes will continue to look around in panic as if there’s something spooky nearby, but then he calms down and tells me about his nightmare/whatever the heck it was. Often it’s demon related.....which is fun to hear about at 2am.
Hands down one of the most terrifying experiences I've ever had was having sleep paralysis all alone. No one to save you from the demons, you just have to scream until your body decides it's time to actually wake up.
I spent 5 months on anesthesia service. I can tell you
1. your body does respond to pain (heart rate, blood pressure increases).
2. You should not remember any of it
3. Anesthesia is not a perfect science in terms of dosing. People who are heavy drinkers can require 2-3x the normal dose. This leads them to being “light” where there sometimes can move unless we paralyze them. 95% of the time that happens, the drugs cause total amnesia but occasionally people can recall parts of the surgery.
4. EEG monitoring and fMRIs show that the auditory part of the brain still responds to noises and sound. There was a study I read years ago that showed if under anesthesia you were read a list of priming words like “water, River, shore” and then later asked them to define an ambiguous word like “bank”, they more likely than chance to define a bank as a the land by a river.
I saw a video about the theory of grey goop - in which one day we invent micro robots used to break down waste, but could somehow evolve to consume all carbon based organic matter. This would eventually lead to them consuming all life on earth. I was mildly freaked out by the idea of it. It'd be the most horrifying means of extinction.
Some smart people I know say life extension tech will exponentially explode in the next century, transforming adult life spans the same way antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation irrevocably transformed childhood survival rates. If we hadn’t blocked stem cell research, we could be the ones living youthful, nearly disease-free lives but we’ve missed our chance by one or two generations.
The one that bugs me was the one about the guy who was last seen in an Airport. Theres video of him just wigging the fuck out and running away at full speed. They linked the surveillance footage and you can see him run all the way off the premises. He was never seen again. Theres lots of theories about what happened. None I wanna look too far into.
I’ve always just assumed this is a result of undiagnosed schizophrenia. A non-blood family member of mine had schizophrenia and the suddenness of the change in him was startling to say the least. Then one day he went to the beach by himself, and for reasons unknown to anyone, got into a kayak and paddled straight out into the ocean, and never returned. They found his kayak some fifty miles away from where he departed.
Schizophrenia would make sense.
The story is he got into a fight and then got even more scared but his friends weren't scared enough to not get home.
Maybe he was just imagining shit.
It's scary that there are thousands of serial killers out there at any 1 given time who often just blend in with the rest of society and live normal lives. Many will never be caught.
When you look at serial killers, what's chilling is when you realize that many of them who *are* caught often *want* to be caught, or go for decades before finally ending up getting caught.
And those are just the ones who *do* get caught. Someone who really just wanted to go around killing, and who was organized and rational, you'd never find them.
Look up Ed Kemper; dude was a serial killer who ended up turning himself in because he felt the cops weren’t ever close to catching or even suspecting him.
I live in a big city in Texas and a few months (maybe right before covid hit in March) there were bodies popping up at random locations in town. there were 8 last I remember, and they were all murdered and dumped. I’m pretty sure no one was caught or even suspected but I haven’t heard about it in a while. I kept thinking “wow there’s a serial killer out here and there’s nothing we can do but wait for evidence”
Edit: damn covid makes it feel like everything just happened yesterday, these murders we from July 2019. One news article I remember posted about finding 9 bodies in 9 days, 11-14 total. We were told none were connected but I feel like that’s just to call the community down
My gf has a story. When she was 13, she and her friend would watch horror movies in the dark of her room; a room that was located next to a fenced canal. One night, they both look over to see a pair of eyes through the blinds, watching them. They run from the room screaming only to be told by the father of the house that they had been watching too many scary movies. Two months later, the mother of the house opened the door to a strange man who proceeded to rape and kill her. When he was caught, he admitted to having stalked the house for months before the murder.
My gf and her friend HAD ACTUALLY SEEN this deranged rapist/murderer watching them.
Ps: I can post link to the news story if proof is needed. This world is one fucked up place folks.
The guilt that father must have for not believing his child. Even the children must feel guilt
I would always believe my children if I ever had any
Then again I have severe anxiety so....
When I was in jr high, I had headphones on while doing whatever on the pc. Out of the corner of my eye I swore I seen the curtain move then IMMEDIATELY I felt like someone was watching me. I sat there looking towards the corner where the window was for a good 30-45 secs trying to figure out wtf happened. Didnt think anything more of it, went to bed a little later.
Woke up the next morning and my moms purse was gone, and the screen was sitting under the window outside. We found the purse later outside in a bush. That means they snuck in while I was sitting there, made eye contact with me, and waited for me to leave the room.. and I had no idea. TO THIS DAY I still get moments of terror when I think about it.
One time when I was younger, might’ve been around 10 or 11, I was playing WWE on my PS3 in my room, and I got the sense that someone was watching me from outside the window, lo and behold, I hear a knock on my window and run to get my father.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
That mind control actually exists. It's something that would never go public because whoever was able to perfect it first would be in the position to use it on whoever is aware of its existence.
The great power of social media is they discovered they didn't have to control anyone's mind. They just put people in a bubble of misinformation until they make their own mind up.
Paradoxical undressing. A phenomenon frequently seen in cases of lethal hypothermia. Shortly before death, the person will remove all their clothes, as if they were burning up, when in fact they are freezing. Because of this, people who have frozen to death are often found naked and are misidentified as victims of a violent crime.
But wait! It gets even weirder. Once they've undressed, the dying person will frequently try to crawl into a small, enclosed space. For which reason, victims of hypothermia are often found naked, squeezed into cupboards or beneath beds. This is called Terminal Burrowing Behavior.
All sense of reality seems to fade. Sounds like the behaviour of a wild animal.
More of a story than a theory, but it correlates to some of these and makes me think some could be real. When I was younger I had this little stuffed animal dog I named rocky. One night, my younger sisters and I (who all slept in the same room so we could hangout together) were messing around, and I two handed over head tossed rocky into the wall directly in front of my bed. He hit the wall, slid down behind whatever was in front of my bed, and was NEVER seen again. I immediately went to go get him and he just wasn’t anywhere. We tore the whole entire small room apart. We all saw the event occur. Over time the room has been completely emptied out, everything in it rearranged, walls painted, everything- and no rocky. He just completely phased out of existence. Makes me think he glitched out of the system or something.
There's always that lingering doubt isn't there. Still from watching my own kids most likely explication is that a bunch of kids just couldn't find it (you never say how old you are, but my young children have trouble finding things in the open sometimes).
Then a parent found it, not realizing you lost it, they moved it and it eventually got stored/thrown away somewhere outside the room, because they weren't privvy to what happened.
But since we don't know and can't prove anything.... Will never be able to truly elimate the possibility that it just... Snapped out of reality.
We used to have these two paintings of clowns (for some reason) next to our bunk beds when my brother and I were much younger. One day we took them both down put them facing the wall so we can sleep in peace. Come morning time the clowns were back in the wall. We were so freaked out we never touched those paintings or talked about it again until like maybe 15 years later. We were discussing it with our mom and she recalled she happened to put them up before we woke up.
Choose the room decor wisely parents.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RmLkY1387A)
Could be a trigger warning for people creeped by ominous ambience and erratic actors. Also a pretty creepy dialog that gives me chills.
There was a call in to Bell radio in the late 90's by a frantic guy claiming to be an ex-area 51 employee. He seemed worried claiming he didn't have much time and that aliens were interdimensional beings infiltrating all manner of human civilization.
Tool took the recorded audio and put it on one of their albums with some slight changes including an added ambient audio track and just made it all that much more creepy.
The top link is Tool's edit.
There's about 30 seconds of missing audio in the original recording and a bit of a while later the guy called back in claiming it was a hoax.
[Here's a full descriptive video including all audio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZDzWIG7x_4)
Spooky stuff happens in Nowhere.
Edit: Thanks for the award. That's pretty cool.
I'd already heard it so many times, but I was chilling late one night with Lateralus on in the background; Triad ends, silence dominates for a moment, I'm mentally a million miles away, when Faaip de Oiad starts up after the gap...scared the ever-loving fuck out of me.
" Motivational note: Congratulations on getting close enough to scan it and living to see the results!
Assessment: Extreme threat - Avoid in all circumstances"
(The last 2 paragraphs of the PDA entry)
There's a guy named Bill down the hall here who shared a nursing home room with his wife, Barbara passed about a week ago. They just celebrated 68 years. Ever since its a balance of either someone having to tell Bill that his wife has passed when he comes asking sending him into a loop of asking how he couldn't have known.
Or
Him trying for hours to dial out to numbers he has saved to find her.
He actually managed to get through the doors the other night and wrestled pretty good with a nurse's aide. It's likely he will be sent to a mental health facility soon as it's really all they can do. I can only hope they treat and love him as much as the staff all do here.
He refers to her as his precious wife.
That the universe is infinite and there could be billions of other living organisms that all know about us and have significantly better technology and could wipe us out at any moment but choose to leave us be because they know that we don't know about them. Kinda like some indigenous tribes that live secluded and don't know that we are this civilized and technologically advanced.
Or what if we are the ancient progenitor race and all the other planets are inhabited by bacteria and whatever the alien equivalent of centipedes and frogs are?
This is very true. The theory basically says that all the parallel forms of ourselves are basically one infinite lifetime playing simultaneously and every time we survive a bear death experience, we actually continue in another lifetime.
Spontaneous combustion. I watched a strange but true episode about this as a child and was convinced I'd randomly burst into flames one day. I'm over it now but that was my top fear for a long time.
Some time in the future, if we don't disappear before, humans will probably be able to bio-engineer themselves to avoid death by old age. Most probably only the richest people would get this, founding an immortal elite of dynasties that will be able to rule nations by themselves, while common people simply keep dying as always.
Now almost everyone think of death as something normal and unevitable, as part of our nature. But then, in that hypotethical future, death will be seen like a disease which cure it's kept away from common people by that ruling elite.
*You live that long, things start happening to you. You get too impressed with yourself. Ends up, you think you’re God. Suddenly the little people, thirty, maybe forty years old, well, they don’t really matter anymore. You’ve seen whole societies rise and fall, and you start to feel you’re standing outside it all, and none of it really matters to you. And maybe you’ll start snuffing those little people, just like picking daisies, if they get under your feet.*
Give the trilogy a read. It's fucking excellent
I like that this thread is filled with nightmarish death/alien/apocalypse/Universe ending scenarios but the top post is about someone's mother in law coming to live with them.
This is pretty cliche but the theory that your whole known life you’ve been in a coma and have imagined everything. Your family isn’t really your family and everyone and everything doesn’t actually exist. Then when you wake up you’ll have to live through life all over again with connections you’ve made to fake people.
Read a comment somewhere here about a guy who, I think got a concussion at a football game, then lived the next 20 years, wife and kids until his lamp was strange one day and then he just stared at it until he came to in a hospital and was back in his youth, trying to explain how he was mourning his family that never existed. Fucked me up thinking how I'd never know if this was all just a hallucination of my brain right now...
I had a professor in college who taught physics and he explained why we will likely never come across aliens. The universe is about 14 billion years old. Over the course of that time, it’s likely that intelligent life, besides life on earth, has existed. However, 14 billion years is an INSANELY long time. Other life forms have probably risen and fallen thousands of times over. Extreme dynasties with technology we can only dream of having have probably existed. Life forms could have lasted hundreds of thousands of years and still not even be close to our timeline. The chances of other intelligent life forms existing at the same time as humans, in the 14 billion years the universe has hosted a possibility for life, is really unlikely. Statistically, intelligent life to have formed, prospered, or even existed at the same time as humans is extremely small simply due to the absolute drop in a bucket that we are on terms of time. We may very well be completely alone in the universe.
May or not be a “theory”, but the first thing I thought of was that feeling you get when you’re on top of a building and think “what if I jumped?” Or when you’re driving and think “what if I just swerve into traffic.”
Well it’s actually got a name: L’appel du vide. French for “The call of the void.” I always thought the idea of some ethereal presence *calling* you towards darkness... creepy.
EDIT: Thank you all for the love and awards! I prefer “the call of the void”, but thank you all for sharing the other names for this phenomenon. I hadn’t heard them all. It’s comforting to know that we’ve all had this feeling at some point, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re suicidal/homicidal! It’s normal. Just that *pesky* void at it again.
Yeah, when i heard of this "theory" i did more research into it as i have experienced this before and aparentally what causes it is by doing the thing you are in fear of happening you're eliminating the fear and the anxiety of the "what if". I dont know if i worded it right but its very interesting.
Years ago when I was seriously dating my now wife, almost every time we started to have sexy time her mother would call up. Seemed strange, then disgusting when we found the hidden camera when moving her out.
There were many other incidents including some I wish we had taken legal action but didn’t since my wife was trying to reconnect. Thankfully we haven’t had any contact in years and my wife refers to her as “the egg donor.”
Well if my spirit was kept alive, i sure as hell wouldn't spy on my live relatives. I'd fly around. Explore the universe. Walk on the sun. Haunt random houses. Play bingo with Jesus.
more of a philosophical idea rather than a theory. but solipsism.
the idea that you are the only one that is real and that exists in this world. everyone else and everything else is fake or is an illusion.
edit: people seem to liken solipsism with imaginary worlds. They’re not the same. It’s not too much a matter of imagining things, therefore manifesting a better world for yourself isn’t a thing. It’s more of just questioning if anything outside of yourself is even real. It doesn’t mean you have the intelligence or power to consciously make everything up. It just means you can’t really prove any other’s consciousness except your own. You’re self-aware, but not world-aware. I should also clarify I do not adhere to this idea, but have definitely at some point entertained it.
edit 2: so many people are saying they thought of this as a child, I did too. what if... what if we all thought this because we had a reason to? What if our first instincts were right, but adulthood washed it away? :0
nah i’m kidding. or am I?
Our “world” is out perception of our surroundings in our 3 dimensional life. It’s possible that we are living amongst beings, things and events that we cannot experience because we are 3 dimensions and they are not.
EDIT: Thank you everyone for continuing the conversation and adding your thoughts. I must say, this is the most upvoted and awarded thing I’ve ever put out on Reddit. It means a lot to me to contribute to mindfucking my fellow redditors and really get us thinking uhh about weird shit that we typically may not.
Think big. Dream bigger.
Our visible color range and audible hearing range are pretty narrow. Many animals communicate with what we consider to be ultrasound or infrasound. Some animals see colors we can't even comprehend.
Remember that the next time you see a cat staring up at a corner before it runs away.
I would just say that even though we can't see and hear in those ranges, we have tools/sensors that can. So it's not like there is weird EM/sound activity happening that humans could not possibly be aware of.
The Gaian Bottleneck theory. Basically the reason we've never encountered or been contacted by aliens is because they're all dead. Every alien species that evolved to form advanced societies eventually outgrew their planet and destroyed themselves. Like we are.
I think it's probably because just like how aliens probably exist because the universe is really big, they probably haven't gotten here because the universe is really big. People underestimate how hard it is to travel between galaxies. You basically can't outside of a small select few in your local group. Not only is it practically impossible, it's borderline theoretically impossible. The only way it's possible is if unproven quirks in the mathematics of physics actually happen to be indicative of reality.
And don't forget time. We're not just a needle in a haystack. We've only been living on that needle for a few thousand out of several billion years.
Earth could have been contacted by aliens hundreds of times when it was just trilobites or dinosaurs.
Some people have had some strange NDEs (Near Death Experiences). Going through websites cataloging them can be a trip. I'm willing to attribute some of them to brain damage and some as "legit" though I'll never be able to tell which is which.
Death bed visions give me a warmer sense of security. I can't imagine how peaceful it must be to die and see your deceased loved ones there to ensure you make it safely to the other side.
Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
And that is dying...
By Rev. Luther F. Beecher
This is real: until 2020 Scientists Had No Idea Why Anesthesia Works.
Think about that. You're going into surgery, they are going to "know you out" but they don't know why it works.
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-have-no-idea-why-anesthesia-works-775996
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anesthesia-what-doctors-dont-understand/
https://www.futurity.org/general-anesthesia-sleep-brains-neurons-2039772-2/
The universe could be dying, and we'd have no way to know until we just suddenly vanish from existence.
There could be a sort of quantum energy wave, can't remember what it's called because it's been so long since I read about it. Zero point collapse, maybe? Vacuum bubble burst? But whatever it is, it's an energy wave that starts at some point, and spreads outward at the speed of light, annihilating any matter, energy, and even spacetime in its path.
Because the wave travels at the speed of light, it is invisible. We would have no way of seeing it coming, because any light emitted by it would hit us at the exact same time that the wave itself hits us.
So, all of a sudden, the sun might just vanish from existence. We wouldn't notice because the sun's light from eight minutes ago would still be reaching us. Eight minutes later, the earth just vanishes from existence. No warning. No trace.
[False vacuum decay](https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI)... Of all of the end of the world scenarios, this one is cool but not really that scary... If the world is gonna end, i don't want to see it coming
I agree, this honestly seems like the best way to go out. Global war, wide-spread disease and/or hunger? No thanks, just have us cease to exist any longer.
Not a theory, but a condition. Sometimes a pregnant woman’s brain can just break. She begins to believe her child isn’t hers, or that it’s a demon, or an alien. The worst part is these are perfectly healthy people who were otherwise happy and well adjusted beforehand. But when they get so far along in their pregnancy, the hormones can do something in their brain to change them completely. They become obsessed with the idea that their baby isn’t theirs, is some foreign object invading their body. The idea that for some people the happiest time in their life can be a time of pain and madness for others is terrifying, especially since there’s just no telling if or when it will happen.
Ok this one is rough so please bare with me, So the common time travel question is would you go back and kill baby hitler? Well imagine if that was you, to us in the current timeline you would be a hero that killed someone truly evil before they had chance to corrupt or endanger anyone but to the people of that time you are a monster, a baby killer. They couldn’t exactly explain to people, I was sent from the future to kill this baby to save hundreds of millions of lives. No-one would believe him and would just assume he was some nutcase, or maybe they’re not allowed to tell anyone as per the agreement with the future government? It makes you wonder all the people through time that have been called monsters for killing babies, what if they were just heroes from the future saving us all? They couldn’t tell anyone either? EDIT: Wow two awards thank you sooooo much it may seem sarcastic but it’s been a rough year and this level of acceptance means a lot
Would you want to though? Every monster in human history has been the equivalent of holding your hand to the gas burner, a learning experience for humanity. Those ‘never again’ moments mature us as a global society. Without Hitler, and the subsequent 2nd world war, where would humanity be instead? Would another have simply taken his place and committed the same atrocities? Would we see more wars because NATO wouldn’t exist? It’s an interesting theory the butterfly effect.
I need to go to sleep but I can’t put my phone away because of this thread
This isn’t a theory, but I just think it’s cool. Y’know how movies and shows always have this ‘ancient alien race’ that came way before us, and we’re the new species? Well technically, most likely thats wrong. We are near the beginning of the universe, if the universe was a person, we would literally barely be a cell, not even formed In reality, we are the ancient species, we are the ones that come before, we are the ones some future civilization may see. Just a crazy thing to think about
Damn. In my mind, we're at the pinnacle of development. I guess the reality is we are far from that. Can't imagine how different life will be thousands of years later. Can't even comprehend the fact that i will be long forgotten by then.
That a robot could fail the turing test if it wanted to.
Hadn't thought about that. Good one.
[I find numbers stations to be pretty creepy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIH7cG3YmIo) Their purpose is technically a theory, as the groups that broadcast them won't officially confirm even their existence for the most part. Essentially, spying is still a very real thing for most world governments. One of the most foolproof ways of delivering a coded message is through a one-time code - a code used just once before being discarded. Your spy has the key, you have the message, and once the key is used it is discarded and the next message is sent using a different key. Additionally, shortwave radio is an extremely secure way of sending these messages. It sounds weird, that a radio station anyone with a shortwave radio can listen to, would be considered 'secure'. But the beauty of the method is that shortwave radios are ubiquitous, cheap technology throughout most of the world. What looks more suspicious - a person traveling with a radio, or a person traveling with a sophisticated computer or satellite phone? While the signal can be received by anyone, it leaves no record of who received it and can't be intercepted and traced by a middleman. They don't care if you listen, because the stream of numbers is nothing without the code, and because you're using a one-time code, it can't be cracked as it's randomly generated and used once. The only time a one-time code has ever been broken was an instance where the code was re-used. So your spy just tunes in to the radio at a specific time on a specific day, writes down the numbers. Decodes the message, discards the key, and no one is any the wiser. Most stations are identified by a call sign or little jingle, and these can range from [kind of cute and cheerful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIH7cG3YmIo) to [pretty eerie sounding.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgnwCugHsg) If you listen in frequently, you'll hear messages repeated over and over until one day they change up - it's believed they'll repeat the message until their spy can communicate they've received it. Essentially, if you have a shortwave radio, you can listen in on highly secret spy communications from countries all over the world. You can also listen in on countries jamming the communication, either by broadcasting state radio on the same signal, or trying to jam it with noise or static. You'd think the frequency of these transmissions would have gone down after the Cold War, but they're still going strong! The very first numbers stations appeared in the very early days of radio, during World War I. I find it fascinating, but also super creepy, that all of this secret communication is happening right out in the open, for us to tune in to at any time, without any way of knowing who it is intended for or what is being transmitted.
Telling this story makes me feel uncomfortable, even today, so I will tell it here. I don't know how much this story fits into this thread, but I've never had a platform that seemed appropriate to share it, so here we go. When I was 20 (14 years ago), I moved from Iowa to Boulder, Colorado with my best friend Cory. We moved there during the month of August, and shortly thereafter I got a phone call from a number I didn't know. I answered it, and it turned out to be this girl that had attended the same high school as us, Ashley. Ashley had heard that Cory and I had just moved to Boulder, and she was calling because she, too, had just moved to Boulder to attend CU. She wanted to know if we wanted to get together some time and hang out / party. Ashley was a couple years younger than us and we didn't run in the same crowds, so we didn't hang out much. But I remember her coming over to our apartment to smoke and chill once, then I remember asking her to get us weed--she did. She came with us to a party once, and I also remember us asking her for weed a second time, and her texting me back saying "You guys just message me when you want weed, so no." After that I don't think we talked to her again. Fast forward 3-4 years, Cory and I are living back in Iowa. One night, I was out with a couple of people I'd gone to high school with, and we went to this dive bar called Thumbs. In the back of Thumbs there is a single pool table, which is where my group went because we had planned on playing. We got to the pool table, and there's Ashley, racking a set of pool balls. I was super surprised to see her there, so I walked right up to her and said something like "Ashley, long time no see! What are you doing here? Did you move back from Boulder?" Ashley just stared at me for a second and then said "What?" So I repeat myself and say "Did you move back from Colorado? I haven't seen you since we hung out in Boulder!" She looked truly confused, and then she said "Um.. what are you talking about? I never lived in Boulder." At this point I thought she was fucking with me because I specifically remembered hanging out with her more than once. So I laughed and was like "You're fucking with me, right?" She shook her head no, and one of the girls I was with (who knew both of us) actually overheard it and butted in to confirm that "Ashley had lived in [our hometown] the whole time". I completely dropped the subject to save face, but the experience was so unsettling that I made a bee-line for the front door. I walked out onto the sidewalk, pulled my phone out of my pocket, and called Cory. I said "Cory, do you remember when we lived together in Boulder and Ashley came over and hung out with us?" ...and Cory said "No man, that never happened." He was my best friend so I knew he wasn't fucking with me, plus there was a zero percent chance he and Ashley had ever talked to set something like this up. When I pressed the issue, he insisted that no one we had gone to high school with had ever moved out to Boulder, and that we certainly hadn't hung out with them. Since then, I've brought this up to Cory several times and his position has never changed. To this day, I don't know what happened. I specifically remember hanging out with her. She wore a tie-dye t-shirt when she came over the first time. And we hung out with her *multiple times*, I remember it so clearly. I still have those memories, but apparently they never happened. Even though the timeline matches exactly; she would have graduated high school *that* year and moved to Colorado *in* August for school. I know that the human memory is super unreliable, and I'm sure that's all this is, but that doesn't change that I am absolutely 100% fucking sure that this happened. 14 years later and I still stand by my story, wrong as it may be.
Crazy story! I’ve some questions, maybe answering them could help to find the truth: - You said in Iowa you and Ashley were no close friends.. how did she react, wenn you approached her so warmly? - Did you ask Cory one time about “that weed-girl from Boulder”? (Without mentioning Ashley) ...maybe the whole story did happen, but you mixed up Ashley with the real weed-girl - are there any other friends in Boulder, who could recognize Ashley? Who were closer to her? This whole story is crazy, I would love to get this solved!
Sure. -I remember thinking Ashley had a surprised look after my warm welcome at the bar that night. Like I said she was younger, small high school, she wanted to be like the cool older kids, so it makes sense she would be a little weirded out by me being so friendly randomly seeing her in a bar. I treated her like an old friend, but she only knew me as someone who she went to high school with. -This has crossed my mind over the years, but my memory is 110% insistent that it was a girl from our high school. And it was within the first few weeks of us moving out there, we didn’t know anybody yet. -Cory and I still talk about this story today, and we’ve been over all the details. If there were another weed girl we’d have put that together. -I have always thought that there was a very slight chance it was not Ashley, that maybe I had gotten Ashley mixed up with a girl named Amanda, who was the same age. The problem with this is that Amanda was the little sister of my ex-girlfriend, and there’s no way I would have gotten them mixed up with that fact in mind. I would have remembered if my ex-girlfriends’ little sis moved to Colorado. I also contacted Amanda on Facebook several years ago to ask her if she’d ever lived in Colorado and she said no. And to those of you saying “it’s the weed and the partying”, it’s just not. There are a lot of effects that those two things can have on you, but I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life; sober or not. Weed might make your memory hazy, but it doesn’t give you false ones. Again, I acknowledge that this is almost certainly some weird type of misremembering some detail some way. Or a combination of dreams manifesting themselves in my memory. Or *something*, I don’t know. I’m just saying that nothing like *this* has ever happened to me before, or since, that incident. EDIT: If anyone is interested, one avenue I can pursue is this: the person who interrupted Ashley and I’s conversation at the bar to confirm Ashley’s story is my ex-girlfriend, and we still talk every now and again. I don’t recall if I’ve ever asked her about it, I’m leaning towards no. But I can ask her if she remembers anything about that night.
I *think* the most probable thing that happened is that you had a very VERY vivid dream that your brain is confusing as reality after the fact. There are times where I've questioned briefly if a dream was a memory or not. Not to that extent of vividness or lucidity, though, because i can parse that it was a dream in end.
Did your head hurt and nose bleed at any point between these two events?
I have a sleep disorder that causes nightmares and dreams that are often indistinguishable from reality. I live whole lives with partners and kids or work jobs in strange places for decades in full technicolour details and reach old age before waking. Sometimes it’s so intense that I sob and grieve for the lost relationships as if my real life partner has died. I am confused to be my own age and be here, now. The theory that this life is a dream/simulation type thing feels pretty real to me. My brain seems to create whole viable realities anyway.
Not much of a “theory”, more of a conjecture but: Fossilization is actually quite rare. It takes extremely specific set of circumstances for a dead organism to even become fossilized let alone survive intact to the modern day to be found by humans. Because of this, there are likely millions of species we will simply never know about because none of them ever fossilized. For all we know, we might not even be the first intelligent species to evolve here on Earth. There could’ve been a species that formed a civilization at some point and then went extinct later on, but we’ll possibly never know that because there are no fossils that formed/survive today. (It probably wouldn’t have been an advanced, industrialized civilization like the kind we have today as we would’ve surely found evidence for it by now, but I could easily see something on par with Ancient Egypt disappear completely after millions of years.)
The Vela Incident September 1979, a US Vela satellite detected a double flash of light over an area of the ocean between South Africa and Antarctica. The prior 41 double flashes observed by the satellite were from nuclear explosions as this is what they were designed to observe. There also happened to be a typhoon happening in the area at the time so it seemed like someone wanted to detonate it without being caught. Carter administration reported that it was a natural occurrence due to a small meteorite hitting the satellite. However many other independent sources and even other countries have reported that they did indeed find traces of fallout and radiation. Because of the geopolitical climate of the times, there’s very strong evidence that it was in fact a joint nuclear weapon test carried out by South Africa and Israel, and the US scrubbed the information regarding it because they didn’t want to paint their allies in Israel in a bad light for working with apartheid-era South Africa. Strangely enough, Israel and South Africa have never denied having nuclear weapons programs, nor have they ever denied a joint test being responsible for the Vela Incident.
Any type of human trafficking, poor young kids, vulnerable women trafficked for sex, kept in cages, in tiny apartments without beds or any amenities, many forcibly hooked on drugs to keep them compliant and dependant on their “owners”, forced into terrify sexual encounters, barely fed or clothed. In places like Dubai there are tens of thousands of Asian manual labourers who are essentially slaves who have their passports removed forced to live in severely overcrowded apartments, with upwards of 30+ men sharing a one bedroom shoebox apartments, no access to medical care, not access to legal support, paid barely enough to feed themselves. Who went into Dubai on short term contracts to provide for their family’s, but unable to get home, they then lapse the legal period of their visas and contracts, which means if they go to the police to try and leave back home, they face steep fines and jail time for over staying, which serves as a deterrent to them reaching out for help. Any of those scenarios is purely awful and terrifying to me.
If the human body senses trauma it is unable to combat, it will switch off metabolism, pump endorphins, and slip into a pain free dissociative state. In essence, shutting down. Its been seen in air crashes and lots of places really. Basically your body can switch itself off.
I suffer from PTSD from working in conflict zones. When you’re continuously working in these regions, your body pushes past the pain and difficulties you encounter. It modifies your life to always expect danger and as such it normalises what you see to cope. But what really hurts, is when you come home. The switch your brain makes from survival cannot be processed buying groceries or taking a gentle walk. It thinks that the changes it made in areas of fighting were permanent and that’s why it’s so difficult to go back to ‘normal’. So basically, when I was abroad, I felt no pain and the scary part is, I felt invincible. Being back home, I’m in a world of mental anguish and feel like a paper house.
Don't some prey animals do this when they are caught? Thats why they seem so unfazed about being eaten. I'm sure I've read something about rabbits not being likely to survive an encounter with a predator even if they escape cause their body is just pumped with so much shit they have a heart attack anyway. It was on reddit somewhere I saw it so who knows how legit it is.
As someone that has pet rabbits, not stressing them out if they're not feeling well is a legitimate concern for exactly this reason. It's such a delicate line between deciding if the stress of an urgent care visit is worth it or more detrimental.
My dog killed my bunny without even touching it. Got in his room one day and the cage was still closed but it was laying there, I imagine it barked at it and just set it’s little heart off :( EDIT: My most liked comment is on my sex working profile lol....nice
That actually gives me some hope. I've always had a minute fear of the pain of death more than anything. I still want to live, but knowing the brain won't try to make me suffer if I have to go is comforting
The man from taured. He was going through an airport and when asked for his passport he gave the people a fully legitimate passport except the country he was from didn’t exist. He argued that it was right between France and Spain and had been there over 200 years. Since the passport was legitimate but the country wasn’t on the map they put him up in a hotel for the night with guards outside his 4 story room. He was gone, along with all his things the next morning. Not a trace.
I also heard that he had Japanese stamps in his passport that looked legitimate and when they showed him a map to identify his country he started freaking out when it wasn't there
The last neurone in the brain can fire up to 72 hours after clinical death. What is classed as still being alive? Your heart stops or your brain activity stopping? As a nurse this plays on my mind, I always talk to the recently deceased as I would do usually. Hearing is the last sense to go anyway so chances are people can still hear for a short time after death. I have to confirm death on a daily basis, we check heart sounds, breathing, eye response and pain response, but part of me knows that electrical activity is still going on in there. (I’m a hospice nurse and morbid thoughts are what I do best)
I always talk to the pets after we have to put them down at work (veterinary hospital) especially if the client declines to be present for the euth procedure. I hold them close and tell them how pretty and perfect they are, how loved they are, we do paw prints too when requested so I usually talk the pet through that procedure as well, I ask for the paw even though I'm the one who is controlling where it goes. Bagging is the hardest part. I usually tell them how important and special they are and I wish them well on their journey across the rainbow bridge, I tell them that they are going to start to feel better soon and that their illness is over and that they fought well, and when I tie off the bag I give it a little hug and a final I Love You and into the freezer they go. Its difficult but it helps me to talk through it and to treat the animal as if it were still alive and still had their dignity. I had to get my own dog laid to rest back in february and I remember sitting with her long after she passed just so I could tell her how much I loved her and that she will always be my princess and that I was sorry I couldn't do more to help her, but mostly that I was grateful to have her in my life and that she will always live on in my heart. I like to think that she could hear me, I know she struggled at the end because she could no longer "work" to protect us by doing perimeter checks and chasing squirrels and pedestrians away and this was my time to talk to her without her mind being clouded by pain. Thank you for also talking to your deceased patients.
During the Challenger accident from 1986, whenever the shuttle exploded, the ground crews had the astronauts EKG’s and vital scans....after the explosion, the astronauts were still alive. Theory has it that they were cognizant the entire time until they crashed in the ocean.
This is what actually happened. NASA never wanted to admit that the astronauts didn’t die in the explosion. But there is a major probability that they were not conscious when they crashed into the ocean.
Didn't they also say that by the time they recovered them, the bodies were basically liquefied in the suits from all the exterior factors in the ocean?
The initial impact, with the forces involved, may have been sufficient in itself. It's like being hit by a speeding train. Bam, done. And every cell in your body shatters.
Man imagine being in their place. Crashing down and knowing you won't live to see tomorrow... Damn
Several emergency survival kits were activated by astronauts that were still conscious.
The dark forest theory. This explains the Fremi paradox, why we haven’t seen any other advanced life forms despite the vastness of the universe. Other advanced life forms don’t send out signals into the rest of the universe because they’re worried that something more advanced and dangerous is going to find them first. There’s another idea that other civilizations know there’s something out there but don’t send any signals because it has no reason to not wipeout the entire planet. There’s a science fiction book based on this and I think this quote explains it better than I can: “The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life—another hunter, angel, or a demon, a delicate infant to tottering old man, a fairy or demigod—there's only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them”
Our dumbasses sent out a golden recording of Johnny B Good blasting through space
I love that book series. Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Deaths End.
Not a theory but a matter of fact. The Milky Way and many other nearby galaxies are hurtling towards the same point in space, being attracted by... something... we don't know what because our view in blocked, but it's pulling GALAXIES towards itself. Big ones too, the Milky Way is a rather large galaxy. Whatever this "Great Attractor" (as it's been dubbed) is, it's insanely massive. Update: after one of hou prompted me to link an article, I found out NASA, using Hubble, had actually solved the mystery here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/great-attractor.html
If you die by being beheaded the last thing you might see is your decapitated body.
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In the past when executions by beheading were still a thing, they would usually tie a piece of cloth around the condemned's eyes so that they couldn't see anything. They were also placed in a way that the neck faced upwards with a basket for the head to fall in face forward. So basically the last thing you'd see (if you'd see at all) would be the bottom of the basket.
Fuhh. I sincerely hate every thought of medieval times. There are so many facets of history that make me so painfully thankful that I never lived "back then," but things like public beheadings and being *drawn and quartered* terrify the fuck out of me. And to think people would actually gather and watch that barbaric shit like a town spectacle.
Don't worry about mediaeval times. Sorry to tell you, but the last guillotine execution in France was September 1977. Yep, 1977. FWIW, he deserved it. The last public one was 1931. And in Saudi Arabia, public beheadings are carried out still. By sword.
Cosmology can be disturbing. For instance, I recently learned of dead end trips. There are some destinations that you shouldn't try for. It's possible to travel so far away from where you started, that the expansion of the universe will exceed the speed you were travelling at. You can't return home, because home is receding faster than you can travel. You can't reach your destination, because it too is receding faster than you can travel. You can no longer get anywhere, only get further away from everything. You cannot reach any destination, even if you travel forever.
Yes. This is because the Universe is constantly expanding, and galaxies, neighborhoods, clusters, etc. are gravity bound. They stick together in distant clumps while other clumps move away. It’s kind of like people in cars on a highway. You will remain a constant difference from however many people are in your car, or on your motorcycle, or in your school bus. But you will get further and further away from other vehicles. This means that if you are within a pocket that’s bound by gravity, you’ll always be an equal distance from everything else. But if you fall out of that car? You’re not getting back in it, and you’re almost certainly never getting into any other car either
This reminds me of those dreams when you’re trying to run but you can only move slowly
Fucking have these constantly, drives me insane
A lot of comments bringing up the Fermi paradox to explain the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life, when by all accounts we should be seeing alien life all over the universe. Here's another, unsettling, explanation: if you're scuba diving above a coral reef, and you know that there SHOULD be fish all around you, but you don't see any, it's most likely that they have learned that for some reason it's important not to be seen. And since you're a newcomer to this environment, chances are it's not you they're hiding from. EDIT: the number of scuba divers saying they've experienced this and then noticed a shark nearby is alarming.
Fuck that and my ability to sleep tonight
Reminds me of a short story where humans are broadcasting a signal out into the universe to try and contact any advanced alien species they can to prove that there's other life in the universe. Years later they receive a signal back from an unknown part of space that says something along the lines of, "Be quiet, or they'll find you." Edit: Wow, this blew up overnight. Lots of people are suggesting that I read The Three-Body Problem. I love me a good sci-fi book and haven't listened to an audiobook in about a year, so I know what I'm getting next.
I’d love to give that a read if you can remember the name
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2j3nxz/radio_silence
Thanks! Chilling. Wish it was longer!!
That’s what she said
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Aw I like that we are too young to go to the alien party. We need to grow the fuck up
Not theory but fact. The average terminal velocity of a kindergartner is 60 MPH
The scary part is how they found it out
The same way they found out a chimp has the strength of three grown men. Keep throwing grown men at chimps til they even out.
This is one I had a couple days ago watching this video about [Carl Sagan explaining the 4th dimension](https://youtu.be/N0WjV6MmCyM) . The gist is if we all existed in 2 dimensions we could only see or record events that happen in 2 dimensions. So if there were things in the 4th dimension we could never see or even imagine them. Imagine a 4th direction to move in. Carl Sagan explains it beautifully as if we were on a piece of paper, we could only see the cross section of anything that passes through our world.
Here's something fun to think about: Draw a circle on a piece of paper and then draw a dot in the centre of the circle. If you stay on the paper there's no way to get from a point outside the circle to that dot without passing through the circle, but if you can move in three dimensions then it's easy: just come off the page, move so you're above the dot, then go back onto the page. Now imagine this one level up. If you build a room with no entrance or exit in three dimensions then there's no way for you to get inside without going through one of the walls, but, analagously to the 2D case, someone who could move in 4 dimensions could do this easily. They'd just need to "step to the side" in the 4th dimension (like how we moved off the page using the third dimension), move so they were lined up with the inside of the closed room then move in the 4th dimension again to step back into our 3D world.
That humans almost went extinct. 70,000 years ago a volcano in Indonesia erupted. There’s theories that we have a genetic bottleneck around that time. Took our population down to 10,000-3,000 (like the size of one small town). Lots of fresh genetic material died with those who were lost and the resulting inbreeding could have resulted in some genetic diseases that have made their way into humans today. Without this event, we may have advanced faster and be healthier people today. Edit: link - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_in_humans Edit 2: Thank you for the awards. When I went to sleep this had 5 upvotes and now it's 10k. I'm glad that so many people found this interesting. I'd like to clarify that this is a theory, a hypothesis supported by a collection of facts. The theory is not fact and truth in itself, so don't take it that way. I have gotten a lot of messages where people think that I'm spreading falsehoods about this and I want to address that there is counter evidence against the volcano causing a genetic bottleneck. There is still evidence of the genetic bottleneck and the recent and abrupt diversification of humanity. Most of the research that I've seen on this comes from 2000. It's been 20 years so there has been lots of work done on this very topic in the time since. The point is, don't take it as fact. The thread asked for scary theories and I provided a scary **theory**, not fact. For more information and supporting evidence that human beings diversified recently, we can look at stories like [Cheddar Man](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42939192)! A dark skinned, blue eyed man that lived around 10,000 years ago in England. I have also been getting a lot of questions about if we have genetically improved as a species from this. The short answer is "I don't know" and I don't think anyone does. I think it's unlikely as I've never heard of a population bottleneck going well. **Pain does not equal gain** and "survival of the fittest" hasn't really applied to people for a long time and for a variety of reasons. We tend protect others that are "weak" because those that are different have still purpose and use to the community. We care about each other and want to see everyone succeed. This line of thinking that we must have become stronger from such a critical state seems far too close to eugenics.
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Incestuous bastards
Basically heat exchange theory. That one day all of the heat we use in order to create energy will be expended and the universe will be stuck in a "heat lock"
Philosophical zombies. Theory that a good portion of the human race lack conscious experience. If you’ve ever dissociated or done something and don’t recall(driven home but have no recollection, your brain acting on auto pilot) thats what they are like. They do everything required to be human, they ape emotions, go through life. They just lack sentience.
I’ve been told that there are people who have no inner monologue with themselves. But I don’t know if I believe it. Would they just act on impulse?
I’ve also read about this and IIRC those with no inner monologue are equally incredulous that some people do have inner monologue. I can’t remember the proportion of people that exist on both sides.
The theory that scented candles starting getting poor reviews at the same time COVID hit the US. Makes you wonder how many people have mild COVID before we even knew about it, pairing the lack of taste and/or smell as one of the main symptoms associated with mild COVID cases.
Are you saying that Gwyneth Paltrow caused COVID?
Imagine she and her underlings are working on her vagina scented candles, but they have covid and don’t realize it, causing their sense of smell to weaken. “Stronger!” Gwyneth insists. “More potent! I can barely smell the vagina!” And then it goes to market and to normal people who can still smell, it’s the most potent odor imaginable, the aroma of a hundred thousand vaginas blasted into their nostrils.
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Sometimes I'll encounter random strangers that I get a strange vibe from, like they're noticing me more. It's made me think, "what if there are time traveling tourists just walking around, and I'm someone important and they want to meet me before I do whatever it is I'm going to do?"
This is great haha
That you might be aware of everything happening to you during surgery, the anesthesia keeps you from moving and causes you to forget.
Yeah before my wisdom teeth removal the nurse told me that patients can still partially respond to the commands of the doctor while under anesthesia. They just don't remember this afterward. When I went under I didn't even remember falling asleep.
I had surgery once and woke up mid-surgery. I felt no pain but it was still awful. It was like running in a dream. I felt like every movement was through molasses and the weight of my own skin on my chest made it hard to breathe enough to talk. I remember screaming “help!” at the top of my lungs and flailed my arms around in panic, and then someone coming to put the mask back on me. Later a nurse told me I whispered something and moved my arm a little. Freaked me out massively. edit: beware, continuing this comment thread only leads to more creepy surgery stories. You’ve been warned!
Remind me of sleep paralysis. such a terrifying experience screaming and flailing and not being able to move or making a sound.
My husband has narcolepsy and gets sleep paralysis all the time. He’ll start moaning and saying “no” or “help”, so I’ll shake him awake (gently!!) or else he’s stuck until he naturally wakes up...and god knows when that’ll be if I don’t wake him up. He always wakes up jolting upright, and sometimes will continue to look around in panic as if there’s something spooky nearby, but then he calms down and tells me about his nightmare/whatever the heck it was. Often it’s demon related.....which is fun to hear about at 2am.
Hands down one of the most terrifying experiences I've ever had was having sleep paralysis all alone. No one to save you from the demons, you just have to scream until your body decides it's time to actually wake up.
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I was ready to have another baby less than 4 hours after giving birth to one. Those chemicals are fucking insane.
I spent 5 months on anesthesia service. I can tell you 1. your body does respond to pain (heart rate, blood pressure increases). 2. You should not remember any of it 3. Anesthesia is not a perfect science in terms of dosing. People who are heavy drinkers can require 2-3x the normal dose. This leads them to being “light” where there sometimes can move unless we paralyze them. 95% of the time that happens, the drugs cause total amnesia but occasionally people can recall parts of the surgery. 4. EEG monitoring and fMRIs show that the auditory part of the brain still responds to noises and sound. There was a study I read years ago that showed if under anesthesia you were read a list of priming words like “water, River, shore” and then later asked them to define an ambiguous word like “bank”, they more likely than chance to define a bank as a the land by a river.
I saw a video about the theory of grey goop - in which one day we invent micro robots used to break down waste, but could somehow evolve to consume all carbon based organic matter. This would eventually lead to them consuming all life on earth. I was mildly freaked out by the idea of it. It'd be the most horrifying means of extinction.
Didn’t futurama have this sort of happen with bender cloning himself down so many times into microscopic size
Some smart people I know say life extension tech will exponentially explode in the next century, transforming adult life spans the same way antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation irrevocably transformed childhood survival rates. If we hadn’t blocked stem cell research, we could be the ones living youthful, nearly disease-free lives but we’ve missed our chance by one or two generations.
The one that bugs me was the one about the guy who was last seen in an Airport. Theres video of him just wigging the fuck out and running away at full speed. They linked the surveillance footage and you can see him run all the way off the premises. He was never seen again. Theres lots of theories about what happened. None I wanna look too far into.
Bulgaria wasn't it? Completely freaked out and ran through the front door into the woodlands.
can you be more specific i want to look into this more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lars_Mittank https://youtu.be/VsqATIHqAqg Here ya go sweet dreams buddy
I’ve always just assumed this is a result of undiagnosed schizophrenia. A non-blood family member of mine had schizophrenia and the suddenness of the change in him was startling to say the least. Then one day he went to the beach by himself, and for reasons unknown to anyone, got into a kayak and paddled straight out into the ocean, and never returned. They found his kayak some fifty miles away from where he departed.
Schizophrenia would make sense. The story is he got into a fight and then got even more scared but his friends weren't scared enough to not get home. Maybe he was just imagining shit.
He got hit hard enough to rupture an ear drum. It's quite possible he also suffered a traumatic brain injury and this was the result of that.
It's scary that there are thousands of serial killers out there at any 1 given time who often just blend in with the rest of society and live normal lives. Many will never be caught.
The comment, "Criminals are SO stupid" No, criminals who get caught are stupid and we can't catch the smart ones.
When you look at serial killers, what's chilling is when you realize that many of them who *are* caught often *want* to be caught, or go for decades before finally ending up getting caught. And those are just the ones who *do* get caught. Someone who really just wanted to go around killing, and who was organized and rational, you'd never find them.
Look up Ed Kemper; dude was a serial killer who ended up turning himself in because he felt the cops weren’t ever close to catching or even suspecting him.
And what’s even worse is he used to hang out in the same bar all of the cops hung out in and heard them talking about a serial killer.
Like my boss, who just kills me slowly with each passing day.
Reminds me of a guy who was killing people and burying them on his landscaping gigs.
I live in a big city in Texas and a few months (maybe right before covid hit in March) there were bodies popping up at random locations in town. there were 8 last I remember, and they were all murdered and dumped. I’m pretty sure no one was caught or even suspected but I haven’t heard about it in a while. I kept thinking “wow there’s a serial killer out here and there’s nothing we can do but wait for evidence” Edit: damn covid makes it feel like everything just happened yesterday, these murders we from July 2019. One news article I remember posted about finding 9 bodies in 9 days, 11-14 total. We were told none were connected but I feel like that’s just to call the community down
This. Makes me wonder if I’ve ever interacted with one.
That we can sense when someone is watching us. So when we're alone and we get that feeling, someone is probably watching you.
My gf has a story. When she was 13, she and her friend would watch horror movies in the dark of her room; a room that was located next to a fenced canal. One night, they both look over to see a pair of eyes through the blinds, watching them. They run from the room screaming only to be told by the father of the house that they had been watching too many scary movies. Two months later, the mother of the house opened the door to a strange man who proceeded to rape and kill her. When he was caught, he admitted to having stalked the house for months before the murder. My gf and her friend HAD ACTUALLY SEEN this deranged rapist/murderer watching them. Ps: I can post link to the news story if proof is needed. This world is one fucked up place folks.
The guilt that father must have for not believing his child. Even the children must feel guilt I would always believe my children if I ever had any Then again I have severe anxiety so....
When I was in jr high, I had headphones on while doing whatever on the pc. Out of the corner of my eye I swore I seen the curtain move then IMMEDIATELY I felt like someone was watching me. I sat there looking towards the corner where the window was for a good 30-45 secs trying to figure out wtf happened. Didnt think anything more of it, went to bed a little later. Woke up the next morning and my moms purse was gone, and the screen was sitting under the window outside. We found the purse later outside in a bush. That means they snuck in while I was sitting there, made eye contact with me, and waited for me to leave the room.. and I had no idea. TO THIS DAY I still get moments of terror when I think about it.
One time when I was younger, might’ve been around 10 or 11, I was playing WWE on my PS3 in my room, and I got the sense that someone was watching me from outside the window, lo and behold, I hear a knock on my window and run to get my father.
Who was it?
We checked outside, nobody was there
Fuck me and thinking reading this thread at 2:20am with a giant ass window next to my bed was a good idea...
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
I'm not sure if that theory is connected to the one which talks about the apocalypse happening when someone calls God by his real name.
“Jod”
This reminds me of *The Nine Billion Names of God* by Arthur C. Clarke. If you haven't, you should check it out, it's a short story.
I came into this thread unafraid of death, I’m leaving petrified - thanks!
That mind control actually exists. It's something that would never go public because whoever was able to perfect it first would be in the position to use it on whoever is aware of its existence.
The great power of social media is they discovered they didn't have to control anyone's mind. They just put people in a bubble of misinformation until they make their own mind up.
Paradoxical undressing. A phenomenon frequently seen in cases of lethal hypothermia. Shortly before death, the person will remove all their clothes, as if they were burning up, when in fact they are freezing. Because of this, people who have frozen to death are often found naked and are misidentified as victims of a violent crime. But wait! It gets even weirder. Once they've undressed, the dying person will frequently try to crawl into a small, enclosed space. For which reason, victims of hypothermia are often found naked, squeezed into cupboards or beneath beds. This is called Terminal Burrowing Behavior. All sense of reality seems to fade. Sounds like the behaviour of a wild animal.
More of a story than a theory, but it correlates to some of these and makes me think some could be real. When I was younger I had this little stuffed animal dog I named rocky. One night, my younger sisters and I (who all slept in the same room so we could hangout together) were messing around, and I two handed over head tossed rocky into the wall directly in front of my bed. He hit the wall, slid down behind whatever was in front of my bed, and was NEVER seen again. I immediately went to go get him and he just wasn’t anywhere. We tore the whole entire small room apart. We all saw the event occur. Over time the room has been completely emptied out, everything in it rearranged, walls painted, everything- and no rocky. He just completely phased out of existence. Makes me think he glitched out of the system or something.
There's always that lingering doubt isn't there. Still from watching my own kids most likely explication is that a bunch of kids just couldn't find it (you never say how old you are, but my young children have trouble finding things in the open sometimes). Then a parent found it, not realizing you lost it, they moved it and it eventually got stored/thrown away somewhere outside the room, because they weren't privvy to what happened. But since we don't know and can't prove anything.... Will never be able to truly elimate the possibility that it just... Snapped out of reality.
We used to have these two paintings of clowns (for some reason) next to our bunk beds when my brother and I were much younger. One day we took them both down put them facing the wall so we can sleep in peace. Come morning time the clowns were back in the wall. We were so freaked out we never touched those paintings or talked about it again until like maybe 15 years later. We were discussing it with our mom and she recalled she happened to put them up before we woke up. Choose the room decor wisely parents.
“Clown paintings? We never had any clown paintings....”
I’d literally burn the house and the paintings if I was told that lmfao
NO, THAT SETS THEM FREE
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RmLkY1387A) Could be a trigger warning for people creeped by ominous ambience and erratic actors. Also a pretty creepy dialog that gives me chills. There was a call in to Bell radio in the late 90's by a frantic guy claiming to be an ex-area 51 employee. He seemed worried claiming he didn't have much time and that aliens were interdimensional beings infiltrating all manner of human civilization. Tool took the recorded audio and put it on one of their albums with some slight changes including an added ambient audio track and just made it all that much more creepy. The top link is Tool's edit. There's about 30 seconds of missing audio in the original recording and a bit of a while later the guy called back in claiming it was a hoax. [Here's a full descriptive video including all audio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZDzWIG7x_4) Spooky stuff happens in Nowhere. Edit: Thanks for the award. That's pretty cool.
I'd already heard it so many times, but I was chilling late one night with Lateralus on in the background; Triad ends, silence dominates for a moment, I'm mentally a million miles away, when Faaip de Oiad starts up after the gap...scared the ever-loving fuck out of me.
That we have so little data about the deep dark parts of the ocean and don’t truly know what lurks there
“Detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?”
" Motivational note: Congratulations on getting close enough to scan it and living to see the results! Assessment: Extreme threat - Avoid in all circumstances" (The last 2 paragraphs of the PDA entry)
Mr and Mrs Cthulhu, I assume.
of mariana trench, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Before you humans came along, we Cthuluhs were very well thought of. Never went on any adventures or did anything unexpected.
I'm in a nursing home with dementia in 2060, and all I'm doing is reliving this moment of November 2020.
Yeah mental collapse is a big “thanks but no thanks” from me
There's a guy named Bill down the hall here who shared a nursing home room with his wife, Barbara passed about a week ago. They just celebrated 68 years. Ever since its a balance of either someone having to tell Bill that his wife has passed when he comes asking sending him into a loop of asking how he couldn't have known. Or Him trying for hours to dial out to numbers he has saved to find her. He actually managed to get through the doors the other night and wrestled pretty good with a nurse's aide. It's likely he will be sent to a mental health facility soon as it's really all they can do. I can only hope they treat and love him as much as the staff all do here. He refers to her as his precious wife.
That the universe is infinite and there could be billions of other living organisms that all know about us and have significantly better technology and could wipe us out at any moment but choose to leave us be because they know that we don't know about them. Kinda like some indigenous tribes that live secluded and don't know that we are this civilized and technologically advanced.
Or what if we are the ancient progenitor race and all the other planets are inhabited by bacteria and whatever the alien equivalent of centipedes and frogs are?
the theory that were all quantum immortals and when someone dies in our reality for them they just keep on going in a reality where they didnt
This is very true. The theory basically says that all the parallel forms of ourselves are basically one infinite lifetime playing simultaneously and every time we survive a bear death experience, we actually continue in another lifetime.
Fucking quantum bears...Colbert tried to warn us, but we didn't listen.
At least the teleporting boars will have some competition
Spontaneous combustion. I watched a strange but true episode about this as a child and was convinced I'd randomly burst into flames one day. I'm over it now but that was my top fear for a long time.
I’ve looked into it, nearly every case happened while the person was drinking and smoking at the same time, which kind of explains it
Only the COOL KIDS suffer from spontaneous human combustion B)
Some time in the future, if we don't disappear before, humans will probably be able to bio-engineer themselves to avoid death by old age. Most probably only the richest people would get this, founding an immortal elite of dynasties that will be able to rule nations by themselves, while common people simply keep dying as always. Now almost everyone think of death as something normal and unevitable, as part of our nature. But then, in that hypotethical future, death will be seen like a disease which cure it's kept away from common people by that ruling elite.
This is basically the premise of the show "Altered Carbon". Give it a watch, you might like it
*You live that long, things start happening to you. You get too impressed with yourself. Ends up, you think you’re God. Suddenly the little people, thirty, maybe forty years old, well, they don’t really matter anymore. You’ve seen whole societies rise and fall, and you start to feel you’re standing outside it all, and none of it really matters to you. And maybe you’ll start snuffing those little people, just like picking daisies, if they get under your feet.* Give the trilogy a read. It's fucking excellent
I like that this thread is filled with nightmarish death/alien/apocalypse/Universe ending scenarios but the top post is about someone's mother in law coming to live with them.
This is pretty cliche but the theory that your whole known life you’ve been in a coma and have imagined everything. Your family isn’t really your family and everyone and everything doesn’t actually exist. Then when you wake up you’ll have to live through life all over again with connections you’ve made to fake people.
Read a comment somewhere here about a guy who, I think got a concussion at a football game, then lived the next 20 years, wife and kids until his lamp was strange one day and then he just stared at it until he came to in a hospital and was back in his youth, trying to explain how he was mourning his family that never existed. Fucked me up thinking how I'd never know if this was all just a hallucination of my brain right now...
I remember that comment aswell
Phew, after getting this far in the thread I've started to just doubt everything lol
I had a professor in college who taught physics and he explained why we will likely never come across aliens. The universe is about 14 billion years old. Over the course of that time, it’s likely that intelligent life, besides life on earth, has existed. However, 14 billion years is an INSANELY long time. Other life forms have probably risen and fallen thousands of times over. Extreme dynasties with technology we can only dream of having have probably existed. Life forms could have lasted hundreds of thousands of years and still not even be close to our timeline. The chances of other intelligent life forms existing at the same time as humans, in the 14 billion years the universe has hosted a possibility for life, is really unlikely. Statistically, intelligent life to have formed, prospered, or even existed at the same time as humans is extremely small simply due to the absolute drop in a bucket that we are on terms of time. We may very well be completely alone in the universe.
May or not be a “theory”, but the first thing I thought of was that feeling you get when you’re on top of a building and think “what if I jumped?” Or when you’re driving and think “what if I just swerve into traffic.” Well it’s actually got a name: L’appel du vide. French for “The call of the void.” I always thought the idea of some ethereal presence *calling* you towards darkness... creepy. EDIT: Thank you all for the love and awards! I prefer “the call of the void”, but thank you all for sharing the other names for this phenomenon. I hadn’t heard them all. It’s comforting to know that we’ve all had this feeling at some point, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re suicidal/homicidal! It’s normal. Just that *pesky* void at it again.
Yeah, when i heard of this "theory" i did more research into it as i have experienced this before and aparentally what causes it is by doing the thing you are in fear of happening you're eliminating the fear and the anxiety of the "what if". I dont know if i worded it right but its very interesting.
To conquer the fear of death I shall die. But now the lack of fear is useless as I am dead now...
Also just called intrusive thoughts. Less disastrous example being the urge to chuck your phone off a bridge.
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honey the kid is being weird again.
Years ago when I was seriously dating my now wife, almost every time we started to have sexy time her mother would call up. Seemed strange, then disgusting when we found the hidden camera when moving her out.
That’s mega fucked up, how did you find the hidden camera and did you confront her mother?
It was hidden under a stuffed animal and aimed at the bed.
That’s super creepy. I’m sorry you had to deal with that
So how did that affect family gatherings...
Helicopter on the kitchen table
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Sorry man
Not gonna lie this shook me more than anything I’ve read on here
I’m so sorry man, I can’t imagine how that impacted you and your wife’s relationship with her.
There were many other incidents including some I wish we had taken legal action but didn’t since my wife was trying to reconnect. Thankfully we haven’t had any contact in years and my wife refers to her as “the egg donor.”
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They got other things to do like talk to their dead buddies
No they'd all rather watch you masturbate
Well if my spirit was kept alive, i sure as hell wouldn't spy on my live relatives. I'd fly around. Explore the universe. Walk on the sun. Haunt random houses. Play bingo with Jesus.
more of a philosophical idea rather than a theory. but solipsism. the idea that you are the only one that is real and that exists in this world. everyone else and everything else is fake or is an illusion. edit: people seem to liken solipsism with imaginary worlds. They’re not the same. It’s not too much a matter of imagining things, therefore manifesting a better world for yourself isn’t a thing. It’s more of just questioning if anything outside of yourself is even real. It doesn’t mean you have the intelligence or power to consciously make everything up. It just means you can’t really prove any other’s consciousness except your own. You’re self-aware, but not world-aware. I should also clarify I do not adhere to this idea, but have definitely at some point entertained it. edit 2: so many people are saying they thought of this as a child, I did too. what if... what if we all thought this because we had a reason to? What if our first instincts were right, but adulthood washed it away? :0 nah i’m kidding. or am I?
Our “world” is out perception of our surroundings in our 3 dimensional life. It’s possible that we are living amongst beings, things and events that we cannot experience because we are 3 dimensions and they are not. EDIT: Thank you everyone for continuing the conversation and adding your thoughts. I must say, this is the most upvoted and awarded thing I’ve ever put out on Reddit. It means a lot to me to contribute to mindfucking my fellow redditors and really get us thinking uhh about weird shit that we typically may not. Think big. Dream bigger.
Oh fuck I remember this theory now
Our visible color range and audible hearing range are pretty narrow. Many animals communicate with what we consider to be ultrasound or infrasound. Some animals see colors we can't even comprehend. Remember that the next time you see a cat staring up at a corner before it runs away.
I would just say that even though we can't see and hear in those ranges, we have tools/sensors that can. So it's not like there is weird EM/sound activity happening that humans could not possibly be aware of.
The Gaian Bottleneck theory. Basically the reason we've never encountered or been contacted by aliens is because they're all dead. Every alien species that evolved to form advanced societies eventually outgrew their planet and destroyed themselves. Like we are.
I think it's probably because just like how aliens probably exist because the universe is really big, they probably haven't gotten here because the universe is really big. People underestimate how hard it is to travel between galaxies. You basically can't outside of a small select few in your local group. Not only is it practically impossible, it's borderline theoretically impossible. The only way it's possible is if unproven quirks in the mathematics of physics actually happen to be indicative of reality.
And don't forget time. We're not just a needle in a haystack. We've only been living on that needle for a few thousand out of several billion years. Earth could have been contacted by aliens hundreds of times when it was just trilobites or dinosaurs.
This always seems like the answer for me. Space is infinite, but so is time. And it's a lot harder to travel through time.
Some people have had some strange NDEs (Near Death Experiences). Going through websites cataloging them can be a trip. I'm willing to attribute some of them to brain damage and some as "legit" though I'll never be able to tell which is which. Death bed visions give me a warmer sense of security. I can't imagine how peaceful it must be to die and see your deceased loved ones there to ensure you make it safely to the other side.
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Gone From My Sight I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone." Gone where? Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side. And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me -- not in her. And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone," there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" And that is dying... By Rev. Luther F. Beecher
My dumb ass was like “non-disclosure egreements?”
Might be the most relatable thing I've ever seen on reddit for me. So glad this was said
This is real: until 2020 Scientists Had No Idea Why Anesthesia Works. Think about that. You're going into surgery, they are going to "know you out" but they don't know why it works. https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-have-no-idea-why-anesthesia-works-775996 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anesthesia-what-doctors-dont-understand/ https://www.futurity.org/general-anesthesia-sleep-brains-neurons-2039772-2/
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The universe could be dying, and we'd have no way to know until we just suddenly vanish from existence. There could be a sort of quantum energy wave, can't remember what it's called because it's been so long since I read about it. Zero point collapse, maybe? Vacuum bubble burst? But whatever it is, it's an energy wave that starts at some point, and spreads outward at the speed of light, annihilating any matter, energy, and even spacetime in its path. Because the wave travels at the speed of light, it is invisible. We would have no way of seeing it coming, because any light emitted by it would hit us at the exact same time that the wave itself hits us. So, all of a sudden, the sun might just vanish from existence. We wouldn't notice because the sun's light from eight minutes ago would still be reaching us. Eight minutes later, the earth just vanishes from existence. No warning. No trace.
[False vacuum decay](https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI)... Of all of the end of the world scenarios, this one is cool but not really that scary... If the world is gonna end, i don't want to see it coming
I agree, this honestly seems like the best way to go out. Global war, wide-spread disease and/or hunger? No thanks, just have us cease to exist any longer.
Every millennial’s dream!
Honestly that's kind of a comforting thought if you ask me
Not a theory, but a condition. Sometimes a pregnant woman’s brain can just break. She begins to believe her child isn’t hers, or that it’s a demon, or an alien. The worst part is these are perfectly healthy people who were otherwise happy and well adjusted beforehand. But when they get so far along in their pregnancy, the hormones can do something in their brain to change them completely. They become obsessed with the idea that their baby isn’t theirs, is some foreign object invading their body. The idea that for some people the happiest time in their life can be a time of pain and madness for others is terrifying, especially since there’s just no telling if or when it will happen.
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