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Post by hi224 on Oct 3, 2018 14:30:26 GMT
Reading about the Hinterkaifeck murders and Dyatlov Pass is unsettling actually.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 3, 2018 16:28:44 GMT
Anything about the more infamous serial killers like H.H. Holmes, Jack the Ripper, and there's a new one I'm reading that's utterly chilling called The Man from the Train. It's related to the Villisca Axe murders.
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 3, 2018 19:51:27 GMT
Countess Bathóry is truly gruesome. Of course I’ll also agree with politicidal on Holmes and Jack, and with you on Hinterkaifeck. Just saying, for pure evil and horror, there is, of course, the Holocaust. |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 3, 2018 20:12:17 GMT
Countess Bathóry is truly gruesome. Of course I’ll also agree with politicidal on Holmes and Jack, and with you on Hinterkaifeck. Just saying, for pure evil and horror, there is, of course, the Holocaust. Wasn't Bathory the lady who drugged court contemporaries and sort of blackmailed them as well. |
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Post by MCDemuth on Oct 3, 2018 20:20:12 GMT
Yes, whatever was behind the Dyatlov Pass "Incident" does seem to be a very scary phenomenon to encounter... I would never want to encounter the evil psychopath that murdered Elizabeth Short AKA "The Black Dahlia"... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia |
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 4, 2018 18:14:08 GMT
A few:
The Katyn massacre
Albert Fish
John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the Clown
Ed Gein
The Boston strangler
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Post by hi224 on Oct 5, 2018 6:04:36 GMT
A few: The Katyn massacreAlbert Fish John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the Clown Ed Gein The Boston strangler yeah the fucking Soviets were real assholes, which is an understatement but yeah. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 8, 2018 3:44:24 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Feb 22, 2021 7:14:10 GMT
bump for even crazier 2021 updates. WP air force went into stand down mode as preparation for fully engaged warfare... i.e. Soviet sorties suddenly stopped over Europe, & NATO if I'm reading correctly was getting legit worried about that being a sign of inevitable combat. It's weird reading about this stuff as if it's fearful news, when the facts were merely classified all these years - the events haven't changed or suddenly altered the course of history, we've simply not realized the extent of things until decades later.
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Post by JHA Durant on Feb 22, 2021 9:13:10 GMT
The Khamar Daban Incident.
A modern day Dyatlov Pass incident, but this time with a survivor. Her account of what went down is frightening.
One of the most disturbing things I've ever read was something about a Soviet scientist who accidently infected himself with Marburg Virus in 1988. He was isolated and monitored until his ultimate death. They then determined that the virus had a lethality of 97%. They took lung tissue samples, isolated a particular strain that could be turned into a biological weapon, placed these samples into vials and sent them off to labs in various other Warsaw Pact nations. To this day, no one knows what became of those vials.
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Post by Morgana on Mar 20, 2021 8:32:36 GMT
A few: The Katyn massacre Albert Fish John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the Clown Ed Gein The Boston strangler I read a book about Albert Fish - it almost made me sick. He was one perverted sicko, and what he did to his victim's family was beyond belief.
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Post by Morgana on Mar 20, 2021 8:35:27 GMT
Since most people are mentioning serial killers:
Elizabeth Bathory
Gilles de Rais
Vlad Tepes
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Post by politicidal on Mar 20, 2021 14:52:00 GMT
Since most people are mentioning serial killers: Elizabeth Bathory Gilles de Rais Vlad Tepes Hell, we hadn't even gotten to the dictators and tyrants yet. 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 20, 2021 18:54:57 GMT
Aside from the obvious horrors of the 20th Century? The Armenian Genocide, The Holodomor, The Holocaust? One I learned about not too long ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_campThe Croats at Jasenovac were brutal. That place might have been worse than Auschwitz or Treblinka |
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Post by hi224 on Mar 20, 2021 19:24:37 GMT
Since most people are mentioning serial killers: Elizabeth Bathory Gilles de Rais Vlad Tepes Hell, we hadn't even gotten to the dictators and tyrants yet. What was the monarch who would drug her political enemies and blackmail them after having them participate in sex?. |
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Post by politicidal on Mar 20, 2021 22:43:07 GMT
Hell, we hadn't even gotten to the dictators and tyrants yet. What was the monarch who would drug her political enemies and blackmail them after having them participate in sex?. News to me, but sounds like one of Catherine's kinks.
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Post by clusium on Mar 21, 2021 2:56:19 GMT
A few: The Katyn massacre Albert Fish John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the Clown Ed Gein The Boston strangler Here's a few more for ya, koskiewicz: Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka, Bruce McArthur.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 21, 2021 4:12:56 GMT
Aside from the obvious horrors of the 20th Century? The Armenian Genocide, The Holodomor, The Holocaust? One I learned about not too long ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_campThe Croats at Jasenovac were brutal. That place might have been worse than Auschwitz or Treblinka
I'm bumping this one. I learned about Jasenovac many years ago thanks to Youtube's recommendations, never heard of it before, went down to the library, checked the entire WWII section, not one damn thing. THE biggest concentration camp, think they said it was the size of 6 other camps put together, 800,000 prisoners, only 80 people survived it, and NOBODY remembers it.
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Post by hi224 on Mar 21, 2021 4:20:30 GMT
Aside from the obvious horrors of the 20th Century? The Armenian Genocide, The Holodomor, The Holocaust? One I learned about not too long ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_campThe Croats at Jasenovac were brutal. That place might have been worse than Auschwitz or Treblinka
I'm bumping this one. I learned about Jasenovac many years ago thanks to Youtube's recommendations, never heard of it before, went down to the library, checked the entire WWII section, not one damn thing. THE biggest concentration camp, think they said it was the size of 6 other camps put together, 800,000 prisoners, only 80 people survived it, and NOBODY remembers it.
Breaks my heart, damn 80.... |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 21, 2021 4:28:46 GMT
Aside from the obvious horrors of the 20th Century? The Armenian Genocide, The Holodomor, The Holocaust? One I learned about not too long ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_campThe Croats at Jasenovac were brutal. That place might have been worse than Auschwitz or Treblinka
I'm bumping this one. I learned about Jasenovac many years ago thanks to Youtube's recommendations, never heard of it before, went down to the library, checked the entire WWII section, not one damn thing. THE biggest concentration camp, think they said it was the size of 6 other camps put together, 800,000 prisoners, only 80 people survived it, and NOBODY remembers it.
I read a few books about the Holocaust in the past and I never heard of Jasenovac until I stumbled across it in Wikipedia. Detailed, well written book about the camps and not one mention of it. I knew about the Ustase and that the Croats mistreated the Serbs after Yugoslavia but not to that degree. And it falls through the crack of history because it's not really part of the Holocaust. Not many Jews were massacred at Jasenovac. Sad to say but a lot of atrocities from the Second World War are somewhat triviliazed, Unit 731, Jasenovac, Nanking, except when Iris Chang's book came out.
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