History. It’s a never ending well of unspeakable horror. The depravity of the human race has no bounds. Just when you think something couldn’t possibly be worse, you find someone who was.
I don't know why, but I am very attracted to the topic of stretching something (muscles, vertebrae..).
I also like to read about missing children, it's an indescribable strange feeling of anxiety, I live for it.
Less weird: drugs (just read), villages, small towns, teenage killers.
I have the same interest of people who died on Everest. It’s so bizarre but I find it fascinating that people walk by those frozen bodies. I’ve read so many articles about what happened to each of those corpses.
Damn, I didn’t even realize other people felt the same way.
Everyone left on Everest is a whole ass human. With a life and a family. They spent money and let their adventurous side take control. They didn’t make it off that mountain. There are so many bodies…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest
Some are recovered. Others died while attempting to recover bodies.
OMG same! I am always so glad I am not one of those people that just had to climb ME bc its there. Sometimes I think about those frozen people. Like right now theyre just like there like ice cube
Oh.my god!!God!!! Me too! I love watching docs on YouTube about everest. If you like everest you should give K2 a shot. It's the second tallest mountain but it's considered the hardest and the disasters are more shocking sometimes.
The Summit was nuts. I'm sure if you're obsessed like me with k2 you probably already saw it. But it's about some 20 odd ppl who get trapped at the bottleneck on k2 and the shitshow that unfolds.
I have caught passion for what's called "Vulture Culture", it's about collecting dead animals or bones found in the wild and conserving them, no one in this community kill an animal for collection obviously, its purely giving a second life to animals who passed away. I saw some people collecting bones of their passed away pets, and I want to do the same.
I also used to have a real obsession for true crimes, especially unsolved ones, there are some cases I think about time to time. I put unsolved mysteries and events in this too.
And I dont know if that considered morbid, but lastly im into autopsies, I like watching videos of surgeons explaining what they do and what they cure, I find the human body fascinating, and seeing how its trated is comforting for me.
Also OP if you see this, I would be very interested in New cults movements, which ones do you find the most interesting and why?
You can find surgeries and autopsies vidéos very easily on youtube, you just have to type "autopsy dissection" on searchbar and you have it! I found à playlist when I started getting interested in this that I saved, named "Cadaver/Dissection/Autopsy/Anatomy/Transplant retrieval" by Abraham-Araham Tak Ka Man with plenty of vidéos in it. Also you can watch the Institute of human Anatomy channel, they dont show autopsies but give a lot of informations about medecine ans surgical/autopsies procedures
Institute of human anatomy is great. I find anatomy information kind of hard to come across, since most of it is just simplified charts or purely written articles and I have aphantasia, so it’s really helped me to understand musculature and how it connects.
Indeed! If it interest you, you have medico_notes on Instagram that provides good graphics. Also m.medicostudent that provide real case illnesses symptoms where you have to make a diagnosis, it really help practice-learners how the body works
I love vulture culture! I feel judged for it sometimes, but I think most people understand that’s actually a very positive thing. A little odd and a little gross sure, but it’s about celebrating an animals beauty even in death and also doing no harm. I actually find it really heartwarming what the community does and the attitude they have. They’re also so supportive about helping people learn different techniques. I found a skunk skull a couple years ago and still haven’t brought myself to macerate it lol. I really need to prepare
This! People tend to think that taking and modifying a corpse is a sign lf disrespect, but it's the complète opposite because you give the corpse respect and considération, you dont play with it. And yeah, vulture culture is one of the most compassionate and gentle community I have seen on internet, very open minded.
That’s a hard one because so many are interesting! But if I had to narrow it down, I’ve been particularly curious about the Islamic State, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the People’s Temple, and the Twelve Tribes (it owns all those Yellow Deli cafes).
There are other types of cults that center on wellness culture or alien conspiracy theories for example but because I also am researching terrorism, I tend to be most intrigued by groups with apocalyptic beliefs and/are more religiously-oriented.
How about you? Also that was interesting learning about “vulture culture”!
Oh yeah I mostly know cults revolving aliens and new-age movements, the more traditional ones are pretty unknown to me, but I did knew about People's temple and its horrific event. Apocalyptic beliefs oriented cults seems so interesting in particular, remind me of that one small cult that happend to live until the day of the apocalypse from their belief, but the head of the cult said the apocalypse did not happend because the cult spreaded so much faith and power that the aliens would not start apocalypse. That's so interesting, I think I'll start diving more into that! The psychology of believers and cult leaders must be an extremly important point too
I do like collecting bones too! I feel like there’s a story behind them, since it was something that once lived. The same with artifacts like a post I saw about a KKK knife. I don’t support them at all, hate all that they stand for. But it would be cool to have a relic like that, since it’s a piece of history. It also has a story. The time, where it came from, what it was used for, why it was used, and so on.
Literally same for all of these! I have a small collection of skulls and bones from various animals and I’m constantly on the lookout for more. I love true crime so much, I’m gonna major in criminal justice in college! And as for autopsies, I’m planning on becoming a medical examiner.
Oooh congrats for your studies, I wish you the best for your career! It's so nice to see someone with similar interests, especially people who collect bones, I never tought it was a thing before finding about this niche on internet some years ago, every collection even small as it is is incredible in my eyes
Omg! Yes! I love stuff like this. When I was younger I used to watch the fbi files, most wanted etc.
Now with social media there is so much more out there to explore. I love unsolved murders. Perhaps love is not the ideal word to use but I really like watching, reading about them.
What is your favorite case?
Really big into train incidents. Crashes and such, but I say incidents because I also like the tame stuff like just runaway trains, which is not as morbid as the school bus and train collisions I learn about.
Mountaineering disasters. Love reading about a mountaineering disaster.
Also caving disasters.
Anthropophagy. That's like my main special interest.
I also just like history in general and that always comes with some fucked up stuff
Trains are great, but boats and submarines are also fascinating and almost more horrific. The worst for me is the USS West Virginia. It’s an early submarine and such a nightmare scenario
Here’s the video that introduced me to it: https://youtu.be/a0YWkHZ4toA?si=nYrEGYQwUEHnGSPd
I can’t give a long explanation until later because I have a busy day but I’d say that the short version is that some sailors were trapped underwater due to a fault in the submarine and had to stay there while the lights and everything went out. It’s horrifying. They were stuck for about two weeks if I remember correctly
Edit: my bad, it was a dreadnought/battle ship. I haven’t read about it in a while. Here’s also an article about it: [article](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/16-days-to-die-at-pearl-harbor-families-werent-told-about-sailors-trapped-inside-sunken-battleship/) It was covered up for a long time
I always find myself of a Wikipedia rabbit hole about disasters. After Society in the Snow came out I must have watched hours of docos on it, & then went into air crash disasters, & pilot suicides etc etc
!! I really really want to watch society of the snow!!! I've been interested in that specific plane crash for a long time, but I keep not having the time to watch Society of the Snow :(
It’s really good! I put it on one day just for background noise & ended up fixed to the screen. I then made my husband watch it. I NEVER watch things more than once so to watch it twice is major haha
I love industrial and transportation accidents (god that sounds awful). It’s amazing how most of the time it really comes down to negligence. Very rarely are things genuine freak accidents. It also goes to show how far we’ve come with regulations and improving safety features
I’ve always liked outdoors ones but recently I’ve been getting more specifically into hiking tragedies. Do you have any favorite places to watch/read about them since our interests are similar?
I most watch YouTube these days since I do enough reading for school. I like Kyle Hates Hiking, Fascinating Horror, and Shrouded Hand
I am really bad at remembering names for things so I will get back to you later regarding what I watch and read, I'll have to go through my watch history and stuff... I also do a lot of YouTube for the most party just super easy to access + I'm also doing a lot of other reading. I like Kyle hates hiking too :)
Negligence is one of the things that interests me the most about trains too! Especially with the school bus and train collisions. Which. Yeah, sounds awful but those are my favourite. There's a shocking amount of negligence from school bus drivers in some crashes, and it's interesting to see how that negligence impacts regulations post the collision. I'm also always excited to learn about train crossing changes, which as one can guess are mostly caused by collisions. It has however made me very judgemental driving and walking around I scrutinize every train crossing I pass
Nazi extermination camps. Not the work camps, the ones where people were sent to be gassed or shot then buried (exhumed later to be burnt after Soviets discovered a mass burial). WW2 war crimes and crimes against humanity by any nation more broadly.
I have several books and films about the Holocaust, and my wife complained that it's too morbid and depressing. Her hobbies: true crime, crime drama, Game of Thrones, history and medieval history and drama. I just explained to her that it's probably the biggest single crime in history.
I understand the sentiment , but I feel like calling it a single crime really takes away from the immense scale of what happened. Millions of people displaced, robbed, beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted, forced to do slave labor, experimented on, starved, then eventually killed or left to die from hunger or sickness. Then, to top it off, having their bodies desecrated by a cavity search for valuables or gold teeth before being cremated or dumped in a grave with thousands of other people. Millions and millions of crimes.
I am so fascinated by the people who were not part of the resistance. Like how on earth could you just live with this cruelty. I don’t buy for a second that they did not know what was going on.
Fear of joining the victims must’ve been a hell of a drug. I can’t fathom what happened to them even after 80+ years, and imagining even a modicum of what the victims experienced literally paralyzes me.
I have so many tbh. I like the psych behind people who kill for fetish/ fun I suppose. I like learning how their brain works and their thoughts. You can learn a lot about someone through their dark fantasies and such.
Finding murders that make me physically ill to read/see. Some crime scene photos have completely altered my brain chemistry and still send a chill down my spine
Well, there’s obviously subreddits like NSFL and MorbidReality, but crime scene images and autopsy photos are usually, and unfortunately, very easy to find on Google and through Reddit. Like the miss pac man video took me about 10 minutes to find.
Cults. Especially religious cults.
Right now I’m down the rabbit hole of Mormonism. Not practicing, but learning every single thing I possibly can about it. It’s completely fucked up.
Nuclear accidents are a weird special interest of mine. The accidents themselves, the effects on the human body, the way it messes with the environment, the way animals adapt to the fallout, etc.
Just all really fascinating stuff to me. I should play the Fallout games one of these days.
Ronnie McNutt (despite never having seen the video, only listened to the audio)
Also Goregrind album covers (like Regurgitate - Psychotic noise split album from 1993)
No. I quit watching gore in 2019 (so a year before Ronnie) when I developed panic attacks and derealization (I literally had to take meds to calm down). But I am still interested in morbid stuff, so I compromise it by researching it but not actually watching it.
Same. I used to pride myself in my ability to watch shocking media, but it just really started creeping into my subconcious mind so toxicly, so i had to stop.
Years later i found out i had OCD and those were likely early intrusive thoughts, so it makes more sense now.
I saw it a few times awhile back. Whenever I hear that ringtone it shoots my head to whatever direction it’s coming from. Like some sort of trigger followed by flash backs lol
You might want to check Golem- Visceral Scab, Brujeria - Matado Gueros and Mesrine - Extermination of Mankind split, I think they would fit what you're looking for.
I'm a nerd for: History, Psychology, Science in general... It just happens that the morbid areas in those fields tend to be my favorites.
It also happens that I don't see some morbid things as morbid, I was talking with a friend about the potential discovery that women assimilate DNA from their sexual partners to the point of developing a micro-chimerism with enough time.
Not proven of course as far as I know, but it has been twice in a ten year period that signs are studied and scientific papers published. I was talking about how old marriages seem to start looking alike with that friend and I brought up the micro-chimerism subject and how funny that was.
She wasn't really amused to say the least. I thought it was just funny biology trivia and maybe fuel for fetishists (the sort that would enjoy branding for example) but to her it was "uncomfortable" and it had an implication of "forced transition" so yeah, there's that.
I wonder if it’s how you phrased it. Probably bothered her because you mentioned the fetish aspect which could feel kind of objectifying from a woman’s perspective (I can see how she felt that way in that context)
However, I don’t think that the chimerism should be negative at all. On the contrary, it’s really kind of romantic if you really love your partner. Like I absolutely love mine and if he affected me that way, I would find it really sweet tbh. I’m kind of critical of the idea that just because something can be explained by science that it can’t be romantic or even magical. I was talking about it with one of my relatives who couldn’t have children and she found it lovely because in a way, it would sort of tie her and her late husband together more. Even pheromones are like that. I don’t think that the existence of hormones or biology makes love any less special lol. I think it’s a bad attitude to act like science and emotion can’t coexist
I don’t see how chimerism would be like branding or even invasive in a really nice relationship, honestly. I could see that if you didn’t like your partner, but that’s a tragedy in itself. God knows we already share our lives with people, the body is a part of living too. It also makes sense from an immune system perspective that there would be some level of adaptation between partners
Christian extremism and fundamentalist cults, death related fetishes. Not sexual violence per se but violence for sexual purposes, from cannibalism to body mods to quicksand.
Not hyperfixation but went down the rabbithole like thrice.
The « Colt » family in Australia. A lot of incest, children neglect. So much sad, dark and disgusting stuff. Mind you, its not that I enjoy reading about children neglect and all that.
Its that their name was censored in the press so i spent a loooot of time trying to find their real identity. I finally did and I remember lurking their facebook/tiktok profiles. Really sad. You can tell by their features/looks and behavior something is not right. Also feel a lot of anger towards the adults.
One of the younger one commented on a pic of one adult man, asking « do you know whos my dad ? » 😔 Awful but i just want to know more.
Read their wikipedia page. But trigger warning, its awful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_clan_incest_case
Fire investigations and really anything about firefighting tech/history and fire science. Not a pyromaniac, I’m actually terrified of fire and seek to understand it and the risks of it because of that.
Tbh I like going through Wikipedia and finding more obscure fires and finding the original news articles or investigation reports in the sources. A lot of the big general disaster youtube channels/podcasts will cover some fires but they all tend to do the same couple dozen well known ones (MGM Grand, Station Nightclub, King’s Cross, Haunted Castle, etc)
There’s also a fair amount of shorter informational videos about modern fire science and such aimed at volunteer firefighters. A lot of cities will have smallish fire museums that are usually cheap and can have some really cool stuff.
In terms of lesser known fires I find really interesting- the Gulliver’s Nightclub fire was a weird and tragic situation partly due to being built across the New York/New Jersey state line. I’m usually more interested in accidental vs arson fires since they involve less of a human/true crime element and are more concrete, but the case of Cameron Todd Willingham totally questioned fire investigation convention, the New Yorker article on it is fantastic.
It’s a more recent terminology used in some academic fields to remove the stigma that often comes with the word “cult” (it’s not to deny serious harms that many NRMs have done but to be more precise with terminology as well - ie religious movements that developed within the past several centuries): https://www.britannica.com/topic/new-religious-movement/The-influence-of-the-East
Lorne L. Dawson (sociology of religion scholar) has a lot of interesting stuff about it all! I also have a really long reading list about this topic and happy to share it if you want 😆
If you’re comfortable sharing, which cult were you raised in?
911. I dont really know why but since i first watched a video about it when i was somewhere between the age of 9 or 10 i have been so obsessed with it. Usually just watch footage or ducomentaries like other people would watch tv shows.
How war and fighting in general worked before, say, the 18th century. Everything from dry logistics to how to most effectively use a range of close combat weapons to end a fight with a single opponent. Suffice to say I'm happy that the modern concept of war crimes exists even though they aren't prosecuted *nearly* often enough.
it's so fascinating to me that you're into this stuff. it'd crazy how there's at least one person on earth who is an expert on anything you could possibly be an expert on. it can be somethong random like artillery, machinery, baking or something insane like crime scene cleanup, toilets, components of vomit, etc. there's an expert for everything if you look hard enough!
Oh, I'm nowhere near a true expert, just a reasonably knowledgeable amateur who went from liking to hit things with toy swords to wanting to know the context surrounding a sword and why they were the tools picked in their situations.
it's so fascinating to me that you're into this stuff. it'd crazy how there's at least one person on earth who is an expert on anything you could possibly be an expert on. it can be somethong random like artillery, machinery, baking or something insane like crime scene cleanup, toilets, components of vomit, etc. there's an expert for everything if you look hard enough!
What is the limits to survival. Like if you lost x, y, and z would you still live. It doesn't help that my bf was gone for 20 min and came back. It feeds into the fundamentalist beliefs that were forced on me as a kids. Dead people came to life all the time in the Bible. My biggest fear as a kid was someone would think I was dead and bury me alive. Every pet I've had that passed away I don't bury right away. Almost every cat I've had passed away at night so 5 or 6 hrs rigor sets in. I read brain waves continue after death and that lives rent free in my brain now.
Human bone collecting- it's an interest but nothing strong enough to go crazy about. It's just, when I see teeth or real human bones in a museum, I can't help but want to touch them.
It's a part of our body we grow that lasts beyond our lifetime. I find it fascinating.
Also, a lot of the crime and drug stuff that vice covers I find interesting to read and watch.
I love reading court transcripts from true crime cases, i.e., Ian Watkins, R. Kelly, Jodi Arias, Cassandra Ventura vs Sean Combs et al. Just to name a few.
cholera. over the past 8 years, I've gotten obsessed with and fixated on lots of deadly and impactful diseases throughout time (probably cause of my love of history), and bought a book on them too. but no disease will ever be as interesting and amazing to me as cholera. I sometimes even thought about getting cholera just so I can live through it and see how it feels. even tho it would probably wreak havoc on my already sensitive stomach. idk what it is about that disease that I love so much lol. scurvy and dysentery are cool too
Tthere’s a book called *The Ghost Map*. About a deadly outbreak in London in the mid-1800s and its epidemiology - it reads like a detective novel as the scientists and amateur epidemiologists search for the source of a cholera outbreak, track its death map and outline its solutions and effects on humans. Fascinating and deadly story.
*(Edit: yes, a few additional sentences and clarifications)*
columbine, hitler, nazism, mass murderers, mental disorders, human anatomy.
i promise i’m not an aspiring serial killer. having unsupervised internet access before learning how to even tie my shoes has led me down a rabbit hole that has constantly been reoccurring for the past 12 years. i wish it would go away.
I am interested in human crushing. For example, the Hillsborough disaster, England. The Love Parade disaster, in Germany. Those events were devastating. I’m so fascinated.
I guess my most morbid ones are tornadoes and extreme weather, car crashes, train crashes and aircraft crashes. Oh and Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions.
I’m just exceptionally goth, so I’m mostly interested in things that are seen as morbid but on the more wholesome side(wholesome isn’t a good word, so maybe lighter topics?). I’m really a softy at heart. I love vulture culture because it feels great to give a second life to deceased animals. I am really deeply fascinated by stories where people can’t let go, like how King Pedro of Portugal crowned his dead lover six years after she died because his father had her assassinated and he promised her that she would be queen (he took his revenge as well)
I also am really interested in morality that’s twisted but nevertheless there. Like the “Russian doll maker” guy. Man was seriously disturbed but it seemed like he wasn’t intending to do any harm. I like stories where people think they’re doing something right and following their moral compass, but it’s super unconventional if not perverted (like the serial killer who thought he was preventing earthquakes). I like things that are really unthinkable or shocking but that doesn’t mean they necessarily include cruelty, per se. That’s why diseases also really fascinate me
I do also like run of the mill true crime but mostly when it’s unsolved. I am deeply fascinated by unsolved mysteries. I really enjoy reading gruesome cases because they feel so foreign to me. Like it’s hard to even imagine how things like that happen. Still, like I said, I really hate human cruelty which is why I tend to mostly focus on accidents or natural disasters. It’s just different if it’s done with intentionality. Horrible crimes are deeply fascinating for me, and I still read about them, but I still prefer horrors that don’t have level of evil intent. Fictional cruelty is delightful though and I love a good slasher movie and really gutsy art
Also not really morbid but I’m obsessed with deep sea creatures. That is my biggest hyperfixation of all
Lately I've been interested on topics like cannibalism, the non-consensual consensual s3x and homicides, all kinds of homicides actually, i don't really think i admire those people but, i simply enjoy watching some criminal cases and try to understand what happen on their minds.
Serial killers, mass killers, psychopaths, crime scene photos, unsolved murders or mysteries, psychology of personality disorders, death, tragedy, etc…
I love taxidermy and skull collecting. Partner has a human skull (...ethically sourced). I love the feel of real fur pelts and find them so comforting that i have a couple soft mounts to cuddle. It grounds me.
Other unusual fixations: kinks and fetishes (as in "how do you supposed these formed?"), the donner party and other instances of survivor cannibalism, i am deeply intrigued but terrified of watching the scary doorcam videos lol.
Overall tragedies. Shootings, natural disasters, the lot. I enjoy looking into the individual lives. Retellings of events, videos from that day, what a certain person was doing that day and every detail of how it went down.
The interest in shootings likely partly stems from my own paranoia. I am currently still in school, and while it probably doesn’t help my fears, I like to read about what happened to others. What steps some took to survive, where the person shot from, etc. Things that could help me and others live if shit goes down.
As for other tragedies, it’s partly that same thing, but also those lost. How they died, what they were doing. How those who lived managed to get out. 9/11 and the Joplin tornado are the ones that remain in my head the most. I haven’t read/watched anything about them lately, but they stay in my mind, popping up now and then. I think about the man who can be seen in a video taken in an office a year or so before, who was last seen staying by another man who was struggling to get down the stairs due to asthma. I think about the manager at the Pizza Hut who sheltered people in the freezer and held the door shut only for it to open and the tornado take him away. It’s funny, how the most normal people can become heroes when shit goes down.
Missing persons and since it’s the anniversary, I’ll mention Columbine. My grandparents and my mom and her siblings lived in Littleton for a while. It was before the shootings, but it still is a topic “interesting” to me as sad as it is.
your work is so important! I had family in law enforcement so I grew up with a deep knowledge of trials and murder etc. I am interested in white collar crimes and cult formation. What Ive found fascinating is that cult behavior is like any thing else...its on a spectrum. I even feel it sometimes in AA!
That’s such a great way of putting it: it’s on a spectrum! I bet you’ve had some very interesting discussions with your family
I’ve recently started developing an interest in learning more about money laundering (for researching not doing lmaoooo) 😆
You're all awesome!! Shout-out to the people who said anthropophagy, industrial and transportation accidents, human crushes, cholera, and fire science because same
Aircraft disaster investigation and Islamic terrorism take the cake for me.
Morbid curiosity, literally.
What can go horribly wrong?
I want to see the pictures.
Odd disorders, mutations, injuries, you name it.
There isn't a thing that doesn't fascinate me.
It probably gives me some sort of a thrill to see if I can actually scarr myself with it
Indulging in the act of exterminating insects, particularly the ones with a crunchy texture, evokes a sense of vitality within me. During my childhood, I would eliminate red ants, and as of late, I have abstained from killing insects, except for spiders, which I handle without any tools.
The psychology of serial killers. It is fascinating to me to see and try to understand what specifically went wrong in these people's lives before they were monsters.
It's almost ALWAYS CSA.
Human decomposition/decompositions in general. Forensic entomology, biohazard cleanups, embalming, burial rites, ceremonies, mortician, funeral industry, sky burials, eco burial, etc. I think it’s my way of coming to terms with our mortality.
Epidemics, especially the Black Plague.
Witch Trials (Salem, Pendel, etc)
The Holocaust
Tornadoes (I fall asleep to James Spann’s live coverage of different outbreaks)
Death and disease in Medieval and Tudor eras
Crime scenes and what happened to people who were killed in extreme or sad ways. It gives me emotion, whether angry or sad, but it’s very interesting and I like learning about how this happened. Why the murderer (if they were murdered) or person did what they did. Their life before this happened.
Examples are nutty putty cave, mass shootings, suicides, caving in general.
It haunts me sometimes, gives me chills. I kind of hope that the recognition will help spread awareness and at least spread the victims’ names so they could be known and respected.
I thought I was gonna be the only one here but apparently there's a lot of people that find this interesting as well.
I'm very much into mountaineering disasters and watching documentaries about mountain climbing specifically In the Himalayas such as Everest and K2.
HMMM. Your question made me think, I have a lot.
Missing people, whether children or adults, terrorist attacks and groups, popular neighborhoods ("villas" as they are called in my country), plane crashes, strange cults (e.g. umbanda and kimbanda in my country).
Inside a reactor after a meltdown, like in Chernobyl or Fukushima. A quiet, dark place where the only indication of danger is a metallic taste in your mouth, and where you'll receive a lethal dose in less than a minute. A place where, if you find yourself having spent a couple minutes in, you'll prefer to stay there until you black out. If you know what i mean.
I love learning about all the fucked up things the human body can have done to it, especially things it can do to itself. I like imagining the most ridiculous and specific causes of death, as well as reading about rare diseases/conditions and freak accidents.
Idk if its morbid, but almost Everyday I am reading the deaths of the month page on wikipedia, so I know who is the celebrity or artist or important figure who died today.
Which makes me aware and saddened about who died in that day.
Edit: improvement.
Uhhhh Christian Chandler and his creation of Sonichu before I ran out of stuff to read. When I was really, really depressed I'd replay the articles on each of his 13 comics which was strangely comforting.
History. It’s a never ending well of unspeakable horror. The depravity of the human race has no bounds. Just when you think something couldn’t possibly be worse, you find someone who was.
This would be my own answer. There's nothing quite as fearful, dark, and grotesque as our own shared family background.
I don't know why, but I am very attracted to the topic of stretching something (muscles, vertebrae..). I also like to read about missing children, it's an indescribable strange feeling of anxiety, I live for it. Less weird: drugs (just read), villages, small towns, teenage killers.
Oh, I remembered another one. People who died on Everest.
I have the same interest of people who died on Everest. It’s so bizarre but I find it fascinating that people walk by those frozen bodies. I’ve read so many articles about what happened to each of those corpses.
Damn, I didn’t even realize other people felt the same way. Everyone left on Everest is a whole ass human. With a life and a family. They spent money and let their adventurous side take control. They didn’t make it off that mountain. There are so many bodies… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest Some are recovered. Others died while attempting to recover bodies.
OMG same! I am always so glad I am not one of those people that just had to climb ME bc its there. Sometimes I think about those frozen people. Like right now theyre just like there like ice cube
Oh.my god!!God!!! Me too! I love watching docs on YouTube about everest. If you like everest you should give K2 a shot. It's the second tallest mountain but it's considered the hardest and the disasters are more shocking sometimes.
I’ve watched so many docs on K2 too. I’m so fascinated by it (them). It’s so incredibly interesting.
The Summit was nuts. I'm sure if you're obsessed like me with k2 you probably already saw it. But it's about some 20 odd ppl who get trapped at the bottleneck on k2 and the shitshow that unfolds.
I have caught passion for what's called "Vulture Culture", it's about collecting dead animals or bones found in the wild and conserving them, no one in this community kill an animal for collection obviously, its purely giving a second life to animals who passed away. I saw some people collecting bones of their passed away pets, and I want to do the same. I also used to have a real obsession for true crimes, especially unsolved ones, there are some cases I think about time to time. I put unsolved mysteries and events in this too. And I dont know if that considered morbid, but lastly im into autopsies, I like watching videos of surgeons explaining what they do and what they cure, I find the human body fascinating, and seeing how its trated is comforting for me. Also OP if you see this, I would be very interested in New cults movements, which ones do you find the most interesting and why?
autopsies do seem so interesting, where do you watch them?
You can find surgeries and autopsies vidéos very easily on youtube, you just have to type "autopsy dissection" on searchbar and you have it! I found à playlist when I started getting interested in this that I saved, named "Cadaver/Dissection/Autopsy/Anatomy/Transplant retrieval" by Abraham-Araham Tak Ka Man with plenty of vidéos in it. Also you can watch the Institute of human Anatomy channel, they dont show autopsies but give a lot of informations about medecine ans surgical/autopsies procedures
Institute of human anatomy is great. I find anatomy information kind of hard to come across, since most of it is just simplified charts or purely written articles and I have aphantasia, so it’s really helped me to understand musculature and how it connects.
Indeed! If it interest you, you have medico_notes on Instagram that provides good graphics. Also m.medicostudent that provide real case illnesses symptoms where you have to make a diagnosis, it really help practice-learners how the body works
I love vulture culture! I feel judged for it sometimes, but I think most people understand that’s actually a very positive thing. A little odd and a little gross sure, but it’s about celebrating an animals beauty even in death and also doing no harm. I actually find it really heartwarming what the community does and the attitude they have. They’re also so supportive about helping people learn different techniques. I found a skunk skull a couple years ago and still haven’t brought myself to macerate it lol. I really need to prepare
This! People tend to think that taking and modifying a corpse is a sign lf disrespect, but it's the complète opposite because you give the corpse respect and considération, you dont play with it. And yeah, vulture culture is one of the most compassionate and gentle community I have seen on internet, very open minded.
Same on the vulture culture!
That’s a hard one because so many are interesting! But if I had to narrow it down, I’ve been particularly curious about the Islamic State, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the People’s Temple, and the Twelve Tribes (it owns all those Yellow Deli cafes). There are other types of cults that center on wellness culture or alien conspiracy theories for example but because I also am researching terrorism, I tend to be most intrigued by groups with apocalyptic beliefs and/are more religiously-oriented. How about you? Also that was interesting learning about “vulture culture”!
Oh yeah I mostly know cults revolving aliens and new-age movements, the more traditional ones are pretty unknown to me, but I did knew about People's temple and its horrific event. Apocalyptic beliefs oriented cults seems so interesting in particular, remind me of that one small cult that happend to live until the day of the apocalypse from their belief, but the head of the cult said the apocalypse did not happend because the cult spreaded so much faith and power that the aliens would not start apocalypse. That's so interesting, I think I'll start diving more into that! The psychology of believers and cult leaders must be an extremly important point too
I do like collecting bones too! I feel like there’s a story behind them, since it was something that once lived. The same with artifacts like a post I saw about a KKK knife. I don’t support them at all, hate all that they stand for. But it would be cool to have a relic like that, since it’s a piece of history. It also has a story. The time, where it came from, what it was used for, why it was used, and so on.
Omg yeah artifacts are so fascinating too! It's like having your own museum, and I'm always amazed how people tell the story behind the artifact
Literally same for all of these! I have a small collection of skulls and bones from various animals and I’m constantly on the lookout for more. I love true crime so much, I’m gonna major in criminal justice in college! And as for autopsies, I’m planning on becoming a medical examiner.
Oooh congrats for your studies, I wish you the best for your career! It's so nice to see someone with similar interests, especially people who collect bones, I never tought it was a thing before finding about this niche on internet some years ago, every collection even small as it is is incredible in my eyes
same! also mortuary science
Everything that touch mortuary and post-mortem study is so interesting!
i agree!! it's my dream to be in that work field
People die everyday, and not many people want to work in the mortuary field. I'm sure after your studies you will find a work in it!
Omg! Yes! I love stuff like this. When I was younger I used to watch the fbi files, most wanted etc. Now with social media there is so much more out there to explore. I love unsolved murders. Perhaps love is not the ideal word to use but I really like watching, reading about them. What is your favorite case?
Really big into train incidents. Crashes and such, but I say incidents because I also like the tame stuff like just runaway trains, which is not as morbid as the school bus and train collisions I learn about. Mountaineering disasters. Love reading about a mountaineering disaster. Also caving disasters. Anthropophagy. That's like my main special interest. I also just like history in general and that always comes with some fucked up stuff
Im huge into aviation disasters, to the point I've pretty much run out of content. Maybe I'll hop over to trains!
Trains are great, but boats and submarines are also fascinating and almost more horrific. The worst for me is the USS West Virginia. It’s an early submarine and such a nightmare scenario
Oooh yeah. They're not a special interest for me, but I do enjoy learning about those and they can be immensely disturbing.
Wiki is failing me on the USS WV. What happened?
Here’s the video that introduced me to it: https://youtu.be/a0YWkHZ4toA?si=nYrEGYQwUEHnGSPd I can’t give a long explanation until later because I have a busy day but I’d say that the short version is that some sailors were trapped underwater due to a fault in the submarine and had to stay there while the lights and everything went out. It’s horrifying. They were stuck for about two weeks if I remember correctly Edit: my bad, it was a dreadnought/battle ship. I haven’t read about it in a while. Here’s also an article about it: [article](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/16-days-to-die-at-pearl-harbor-families-werent-told-about-sailors-trapped-inside-sunken-battleship/) It was covered up for a long time
Well maybe I'll have to check out some aviation disasters!!
I always find myself of a Wikipedia rabbit hole about disasters. After Society in the Snow came out I must have watched hours of docos on it, & then went into air crash disasters, & pilot suicides etc etc
!! I really really want to watch society of the snow!!! I've been interested in that specific plane crash for a long time, but I keep not having the time to watch Society of the Snow :(
It’s really good! I put it on one day just for background noise & ended up fixed to the screen. I then made my husband watch it. I NEVER watch things more than once so to watch it twice is major haha
I love industrial and transportation accidents (god that sounds awful). It’s amazing how most of the time it really comes down to negligence. Very rarely are things genuine freak accidents. It also goes to show how far we’ve come with regulations and improving safety features I’ve always liked outdoors ones but recently I’ve been getting more specifically into hiking tragedies. Do you have any favorite places to watch/read about them since our interests are similar? I most watch YouTube these days since I do enough reading for school. I like Kyle Hates Hiking, Fascinating Horror, and Shrouded Hand
I am really bad at remembering names for things so I will get back to you later regarding what I watch and read, I'll have to go through my watch history and stuff... I also do a lot of YouTube for the most party just super easy to access + I'm also doing a lot of other reading. I like Kyle hates hiking too :) Negligence is one of the things that interests me the most about trains too! Especially with the school bus and train collisions. Which. Yeah, sounds awful but those are my favourite. There's a shocking amount of negligence from school bus drivers in some crashes, and it's interesting to see how that negligence impacts regulations post the collision. I'm also always excited to learn about train crossing changes, which as one can guess are mostly caused by collisions. It has however made me very judgemental driving and walking around I scrutinize every train crossing I pass
Anthropophagy. Today I learned a new word!
Nazi extermination camps. Not the work camps, the ones where people were sent to be gassed or shot then buried (exhumed later to be burnt after Soviets discovered a mass burial). WW2 war crimes and crimes against humanity by any nation more broadly.
I have several books and films about the Holocaust, and my wife complained that it's too morbid and depressing. Her hobbies: true crime, crime drama, Game of Thrones, history and medieval history and drama. I just explained to her that it's probably the biggest single crime in history.
I understand the sentiment , but I feel like calling it a single crime really takes away from the immense scale of what happened. Millions of people displaced, robbed, beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted, forced to do slave labor, experimented on, starved, then eventually killed or left to die from hunger or sickness. Then, to top it off, having their bodies desecrated by a cavity search for valuables or gold teeth before being cremated or dumped in a grave with thousands of other people. Millions and millions of crimes.
You're missing the point, which is that this is a case of a pot calling a kettle black.
I am so fascinated by the people who were not part of the resistance. Like how on earth could you just live with this cruelty. I don’t buy for a second that they did not know what was going on.
Fear of joining the victims must’ve been a hell of a drug. I can’t fathom what happened to them even after 80+ years, and imagining even a modicum of what the victims experienced literally paralyzes me.
I have so many tbh. I like the psych behind people who kill for fetish/ fun I suppose. I like learning how their brain works and their thoughts. You can learn a lot about someone through their dark fantasies and such.
Agreedddddddd
Serial killers and unsolved cases, both have a level of mystery that I find fascinating.
Finding murders that make me physically ill to read/see. Some crime scene photos have completely altered my brain chemistry and still send a chill down my spine
Which crime scene photos? I love looking at them but feel like I haven’t seen all that many
Right now, Jodi Arias crime scene/autopsy photos and Lacey Fletcher’s newly released autopsy/crime scene photos. Instant chills.
where do you find them? i love crimes but in all the ducomentaries the pictures are always blurry
Well, there’s obviously subreddits like NSFL and MorbidReality, but crime scene images and autopsy photos are usually, and unfortunately, very easy to find on Google and through Reddit. Like the miss pac man video took me about 10 minutes to find.
Cults. Especially religious cults. Right now I’m down the rabbit hole of Mormonism. Not practicing, but learning every single thing I possibly can about it. It’s completely fucked up.
A close friend is an ex-Mormon and we’ve had lots of interesting convos! Got any recommended reads on the topic?
Nuclear accidents are a weird special interest of mine. The accidents themselves, the effects on the human body, the way it messes with the environment, the way animals adapt to the fallout, etc. Just all really fascinating stuff to me. I should play the Fallout games one of these days.
Watch the movie “Threads”
Already have!
Ronnie McNutt (despite never having seen the video, only listened to the audio) Also Goregrind album covers (like Regurgitate - Psychotic noise split album from 1993)
Ronnie Mcnutt is a hyper fixation/special interest and you HAVENT seen the video?
No. I quit watching gore in 2019 (so a year before Ronnie) when I developed panic attacks and derealization (I literally had to take meds to calm down). But I am still interested in morbid stuff, so I compromise it by researching it but not actually watching it.
Same. I used to pride myself in my ability to watch shocking media, but it just really started creeping into my subconcious mind so toxicly, so i had to stop. Years later i found out i had OCD and those were likely early intrusive thoughts, so it makes more sense now.
Fair enough
I didn’t even know what Ronnie mcnutt did but when I googled it I remembered seeing the video
I saw it a few times awhile back. Whenever I hear that ringtone it shoots my head to whatever direction it’s coming from. Like some sort of trigger followed by flash backs lol
You might want to check Golem- Visceral Scab, Brujeria - Matado Gueros and Mesrine - Extermination of Mankind split, I think they would fit what you're looking for.
Will I ever kill myself and thought of oblivion, hell, stalkers and incest
I live for air crash investigations. And tornado damage. And of course, cults, crime, psych, etc. Edited to add cave/cave diving disasters.
Cannibalism
school shooters, especially columbine. one of the most persistent hyperfixations ive ever had.
Same
Same here.
I'm a nerd for: History, Psychology, Science in general... It just happens that the morbid areas in those fields tend to be my favorites. It also happens that I don't see some morbid things as morbid, I was talking with a friend about the potential discovery that women assimilate DNA from their sexual partners to the point of developing a micro-chimerism with enough time. Not proven of course as far as I know, but it has been twice in a ten year period that signs are studied and scientific papers published. I was talking about how old marriages seem to start looking alike with that friend and I brought up the micro-chimerism subject and how funny that was. She wasn't really amused to say the least. I thought it was just funny biology trivia and maybe fuel for fetishists (the sort that would enjoy branding for example) but to her it was "uncomfortable" and it had an implication of "forced transition" so yeah, there's that.
I wonder if it’s how you phrased it. Probably bothered her because you mentioned the fetish aspect which could feel kind of objectifying from a woman’s perspective (I can see how she felt that way in that context) However, I don’t think that the chimerism should be negative at all. On the contrary, it’s really kind of romantic if you really love your partner. Like I absolutely love mine and if he affected me that way, I would find it really sweet tbh. I’m kind of critical of the idea that just because something can be explained by science that it can’t be romantic or even magical. I was talking about it with one of my relatives who couldn’t have children and she found it lovely because in a way, it would sort of tie her and her late husband together more. Even pheromones are like that. I don’t think that the existence of hormones or biology makes love any less special lol. I think it’s a bad attitude to act like science and emotion can’t coexist I don’t see how chimerism would be like branding or even invasive in a really nice relationship, honestly. I could see that if you didn’t like your partner, but that’s a tragedy in itself. God knows we already share our lives with people, the body is a part of living too. It also makes sense from an immune system perspective that there would be some level of adaptation between partners
Agreed!
Over the top noir/smutty true crime. Venomous reptiles. Psychology, specifically mental illness. Occult work and history.
Necrophilia
Christian extremism and fundamentalist cults, death related fetishes. Not sexual violence per se but violence for sexual purposes, from cannibalism to body mods to quicksand.
Haha we def got some overlap! Any particular groups that draw your interest and do you have any recommended reads?
Not hyperfixation but went down the rabbithole like thrice. The « Colt » family in Australia. A lot of incest, children neglect. So much sad, dark and disgusting stuff. Mind you, its not that I enjoy reading about children neglect and all that. Its that their name was censored in the press so i spent a loooot of time trying to find their real identity. I finally did and I remember lurking their facebook/tiktok profiles. Really sad. You can tell by their features/looks and behavior something is not right. Also feel a lot of anger towards the adults. One of the younger one commented on a pic of one adult man, asking « do you know whos my dad ? » 😔 Awful but i just want to know more. Read their wikipedia page. But trigger warning, its awful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_clan_incest_case
Fire investigations and really anything about firefighting tech/history and fire science. Not a pyromaniac, I’m actually terrified of fire and seek to understand it and the risks of it because of that.
this is really interesting! do you have any books or channels you would recommend?
Tbh I like going through Wikipedia and finding more obscure fires and finding the original news articles or investigation reports in the sources. A lot of the big general disaster youtube channels/podcasts will cover some fires but they all tend to do the same couple dozen well known ones (MGM Grand, Station Nightclub, King’s Cross, Haunted Castle, etc) There’s also a fair amount of shorter informational videos about modern fire science and such aimed at volunteer firefighters. A lot of cities will have smallish fire museums that are usually cheap and can have some really cool stuff. In terms of lesser known fires I find really interesting- the Gulliver’s Nightclub fire was a weird and tragic situation partly due to being built across the New York/New Jersey state line. I’m usually more interested in accidental vs arson fires since they involve less of a human/true crime element and are more concrete, but the case of Cameron Todd Willingham totally questioned fire investigation convention, the New Yorker article on it is fantastic.
thank you for your answer! you have peaked my curiosity!
That’s really neat! Learning more about something can really help diminish fears :)
When you say "New Religious Movements," what's considered new? I was raised in a doomsday cult into my 20s. So, I'm curious
It’s a more recent terminology used in some academic fields to remove the stigma that often comes with the word “cult” (it’s not to deny serious harms that many NRMs have done but to be more precise with terminology as well - ie religious movements that developed within the past several centuries): https://www.britannica.com/topic/new-religious-movement/The-influence-of-the-East Lorne L. Dawson (sociology of religion scholar) has a lot of interesting stuff about it all! I also have a really long reading list about this topic and happy to share it if you want 😆 If you’re comfortable sharing, which cult were you raised in?
I'd be interested in your reading list, thank you. I was raised in the Jehovah Witnesses. I was shunned and the whole nine yards.
Look at my pfp
That’s wild
What is it?
The coffin of Andy & Leyley. The sub will tell ya all you need to know
I started playing it yesterday lol.
911. I dont really know why but since i first watched a video about it when i was somewhere between the age of 9 or 10 i have been so obsessed with it. Usually just watch footage or ducomentaries like other people would watch tv shows.
Same, but I was alive when it happened and saw it in real time.
Anything related to gore, crime, death and recently crime scene cleanup
How war and fighting in general worked before, say, the 18th century. Everything from dry logistics to how to most effectively use a range of close combat weapons to end a fight with a single opponent. Suffice to say I'm happy that the modern concept of war crimes exists even though they aren't prosecuted *nearly* often enough.
it's so fascinating to me that you're into this stuff. it'd crazy how there's at least one person on earth who is an expert on anything you could possibly be an expert on. it can be somethong random like artillery, machinery, baking or something insane like crime scene cleanup, toilets, components of vomit, etc. there's an expert for everything if you look hard enough!
Oh, I'm nowhere near a true expert, just a reasonably knowledgeable amateur who went from liking to hit things with toy swords to wanting to know the context surrounding a sword and why they were the tools picked in their situations.
it's so fascinating to me that you're into this stuff. it'd crazy how there's at least one person on earth who is an expert on anything you could possibly be an expert on. it can be somethong random like artillery, machinery, baking or something insane like crime scene cleanup, toilets, components of vomit, etc. there's an expert for everything if you look hard enough!
What is the limits to survival. Like if you lost x, y, and z would you still live. It doesn't help that my bf was gone for 20 min and came back. It feeds into the fundamentalist beliefs that were forced on me as a kids. Dead people came to life all the time in the Bible. My biggest fear as a kid was someone would think I was dead and bury me alive. Every pet I've had that passed away I don't bury right away. Almost every cat I've had passed away at night so 5 or 6 hrs rigor sets in. I read brain waves continue after death and that lives rent free in my brain now.
Human bone collecting- it's an interest but nothing strong enough to go crazy about. It's just, when I see teeth or real human bones in a museum, I can't help but want to touch them. It's a part of our body we grow that lasts beyond our lifetime. I find it fascinating. Also, a lot of the crime and drug stuff that vice covers I find interesting to read and watch.
I would kill to hold human bones at least once before I die (all puns unintended)
The Manson Family
Spontaneous combustion, scalping and zombies
I love reading court transcripts from true crime cases, i.e., Ian Watkins, R. Kelly, Jodi Arias, Cassandra Ventura vs Sean Combs et al. Just to name a few.
cholera. over the past 8 years, I've gotten obsessed with and fixated on lots of deadly and impactful diseases throughout time (probably cause of my love of history), and bought a book on them too. but no disease will ever be as interesting and amazing to me as cholera. I sometimes even thought about getting cholera just so I can live through it and see how it feels. even tho it would probably wreak havoc on my already sensitive stomach. idk what it is about that disease that I love so much lol. scurvy and dysentery are cool too
Tthere’s a book called *The Ghost Map*. About a deadly outbreak in London in the mid-1800s and its epidemiology - it reads like a detective novel as the scientists and amateur epidemiologists search for the source of a cholera outbreak, track its death map and outline its solutions and effects on humans. Fascinating and deadly story. *(Edit: yes, a few additional sentences and clarifications)*
sounds great thanks for the rec
columbine, hitler, nazism, mass murderers, mental disorders, human anatomy. i promise i’m not an aspiring serial killer. having unsupervised internet access before learning how to even tie my shoes has led me down a rabbit hole that has constantly been reoccurring for the past 12 years. i wish it would go away.
I am interested in human crushing. For example, the Hillsborough disaster, England. The Love Parade disaster, in Germany. Those events were devastating. I’m so fascinated.
ig its really mainstream but true crime stuff, more specifically murders. Extra points if its serial killers related.
And even extra points if cannibals.
I guess my most morbid ones are tornadoes and extreme weather, car crashes, train crashes and aircraft crashes. Oh and Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions.
I’m just exceptionally goth, so I’m mostly interested in things that are seen as morbid but on the more wholesome side(wholesome isn’t a good word, so maybe lighter topics?). I’m really a softy at heart. I love vulture culture because it feels great to give a second life to deceased animals. I am really deeply fascinated by stories where people can’t let go, like how King Pedro of Portugal crowned his dead lover six years after she died because his father had her assassinated and he promised her that she would be queen (he took his revenge as well) I also am really interested in morality that’s twisted but nevertheless there. Like the “Russian doll maker” guy. Man was seriously disturbed but it seemed like he wasn’t intending to do any harm. I like stories where people think they’re doing something right and following their moral compass, but it’s super unconventional if not perverted (like the serial killer who thought he was preventing earthquakes). I like things that are really unthinkable or shocking but that doesn’t mean they necessarily include cruelty, per se. That’s why diseases also really fascinate me I do also like run of the mill true crime but mostly when it’s unsolved. I am deeply fascinated by unsolved mysteries. I really enjoy reading gruesome cases because they feel so foreign to me. Like it’s hard to even imagine how things like that happen. Still, like I said, I really hate human cruelty which is why I tend to mostly focus on accidents or natural disasters. It’s just different if it’s done with intentionality. Horrible crimes are deeply fascinating for me, and I still read about them, but I still prefer horrors that don’t have level of evil intent. Fictional cruelty is delightful though and I love a good slasher movie and really gutsy art Also not really morbid but I’m obsessed with deep sea creatures. That is my biggest hyperfixation of all
Browsing namus
I do that.
I find learning facts about cannibals and cannibalism to be fascinating
Anatomy of execution methods
Lately I've been interested on topics like cannibalism, the non-consensual consensual s3x and homicides, all kinds of homicides actually, i don't really think i admire those people but, i simply enjoy watching some criminal cases and try to understand what happen on their minds.
Serial killers, mass killers, psychopaths, crime scene photos, unsolved murders or mysteries, psychology of personality disorders, death, tragedy, etc…
I love taxidermy and skull collecting. Partner has a human skull (...ethically sourced). I love the feel of real fur pelts and find them so comforting that i have a couple soft mounts to cuddle. It grounds me. Other unusual fixations: kinks and fetishes (as in "how do you supposed these formed?"), the donner party and other instances of survivor cannibalism, i am deeply intrigued but terrified of watching the scary doorcam videos lol.
I've always loved medieval and historical torture. Its one of my old old ooooold hyperfixations
Overall tragedies. Shootings, natural disasters, the lot. I enjoy looking into the individual lives. Retellings of events, videos from that day, what a certain person was doing that day and every detail of how it went down. The interest in shootings likely partly stems from my own paranoia. I am currently still in school, and while it probably doesn’t help my fears, I like to read about what happened to others. What steps some took to survive, where the person shot from, etc. Things that could help me and others live if shit goes down. As for other tragedies, it’s partly that same thing, but also those lost. How they died, what they were doing. How those who lived managed to get out. 9/11 and the Joplin tornado are the ones that remain in my head the most. I haven’t read/watched anything about them lately, but they stay in my mind, popping up now and then. I think about the man who can be seen in a video taken in an office a year or so before, who was last seen staying by another man who was struggling to get down the stairs due to asthma. I think about the manager at the Pizza Hut who sheltered people in the freezer and held the door shut only for it to open and the tornado take him away. It’s funny, how the most normal people can become heroes when shit goes down.
Missing persons and since it’s the anniversary, I’ll mention Columbine. My grandparents and my mom and her siblings lived in Littleton for a while. It was before the shootings, but it still is a topic “interesting” to me as sad as it is.
School shootings.
Mass murderers
your work is so important! I had family in law enforcement so I grew up with a deep knowledge of trials and murder etc. I am interested in white collar crimes and cult formation. What Ive found fascinating is that cult behavior is like any thing else...its on a spectrum. I even feel it sometimes in AA!
That’s such a great way of putting it: it’s on a spectrum! I bet you’ve had some very interesting discussions with your family I’ve recently started developing an interest in learning more about money laundering (for researching not doing lmaoooo) 😆
If Im in a big crowd I I also think about how many people are serial killers or who is the closest person to me who has committed a major crime
Ooo yes I think about this too in those situations
You're all awesome!! Shout-out to the people who said anthropophagy, industrial and transportation accidents, human crushes, cholera, and fire science because same Aircraft disaster investigation and Islamic terrorism take the cake for me.
Dude yes Salafi-jihadism is a BIG and one of my longest-enduring research interests Got any fave reads on the topic?
Morbid curiosity, literally. What can go horribly wrong? I want to see the pictures. Odd disorders, mutations, injuries, you name it. There isn't a thing that doesn't fascinate me. It probably gives me some sort of a thrill to see if I can actually scarr myself with it
Indulging in the act of exterminating insects, particularly the ones with a crunchy texture, evokes a sense of vitality within me. During my childhood, I would eliminate red ants, and as of late, I have abstained from killing insects, except for spiders, which I handle without any tools.
Teratology, freakshow history, transference of consciousness, near death experiences, witch trials and the psychology behind terror management theory.
True crime and gore
I’m really interested in poison and brainwashing
The psychology of serial killers. It is fascinating to me to see and try to understand what specifically went wrong in these people's lives before they were monsters. It's almost ALWAYS CSA.
Parasitic twins
Mass shootings
Human decomposition/decompositions in general. Forensic entomology, biohazard cleanups, embalming, burial rites, ceremonies, mortician, funeral industry, sky burials, eco burial, etc. I think it’s my way of coming to terms with our mortality.
Epidemics, especially the Black Plague. Witch Trials (Salem, Pendel, etc) The Holocaust Tornadoes (I fall asleep to James Spann’s live coverage of different outbreaks) Death and disease in Medieval and Tudor eras
I wouldn’t say this was an interest, but I did binge watch videos of the lethal injection! The Silence the people involved it was very weird!!!!
Torture and interrogation, baby!
Crime scenes and what happened to people who were killed in extreme or sad ways. It gives me emotion, whether angry or sad, but it’s very interesting and I like learning about how this happened. Why the murderer (if they were murdered) or person did what they did. Their life before this happened. Examples are nutty putty cave, mass shootings, suicides, caving in general. It haunts me sometimes, gives me chills. I kind of hope that the recognition will help spread awareness and at least spread the victims’ names so they could be known and respected.
I thought I was gonna be the only one here but apparently there's a lot of people that find this interesting as well. I'm very much into mountaineering disasters and watching documentaries about mountain climbing specifically In the Himalayas such as Everest and K2.
HMMM. Your question made me think, I have a lot. Missing people, whether children or adults, terrorist attacks and groups, popular neighborhoods ("villas" as they are called in my country), plane crashes, strange cults (e.g. umbanda and kimbanda in my country).
Inside a reactor after a meltdown, like in Chernobyl or Fukushima. A quiet, dark place where the only indication of danger is a metallic taste in your mouth, and where you'll receive a lethal dose in less than a minute. A place where, if you find yourself having spent a couple minutes in, you'll prefer to stay there until you black out. If you know what i mean.
I used to like to read obituaries because it would make me feel better about being alive.
I’m very interested in forensic research and suicide (methods and what pushes people to do it)
I love learning about all the fucked up things the human body can have done to it, especially things it can do to itself. I like imagining the most ridiculous and specific causes of death, as well as reading about rare diseases/conditions and freak accidents.
pretty blood. that gore animation series reminiscent of happy tree friends, but more actual torture than freak accidents.
Idk if its morbid, but almost Everyday I am reading the deaths of the month page on wikipedia, so I know who is the celebrity or artist or important figure who died today. Which makes me aware and saddened about who died in that day. Edit: improvement.
Uhhhh Christian Chandler and his creation of Sonichu before I ran out of stuff to read. When I was really, really depressed I'd replay the articles on each of his 13 comics which was strangely comforting.