What question/mystery do you want answered before you pass?

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I think he's in that clump of forest by the moors on the other side from were they found Those poor kid's, There's even pictures That sicko Ian took of myra by that forest, I don't know if they ever searched there.

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MrBiscuitOGravy@reddit

Near an area called Shiny Brook. Riddled with underground streams and subterranean cracks in the bedrock. It is highly unlikely he will ever be found. It is almost certain that he won't be a whole skeleton anymore.

People think all the bodies were well preserved due to being buried in peat, but I believe it was only one of the girls whose body was preserved. All the rest were decomposed.

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Shoddy-Computer2377@reddit

I think he was buried in a part of the moor which was soft and moving ground, meaning the landscape had changed by 1987 when Brady went back there.

The officers with him said he seemed genuinely confused and panicked that he couldn't remember, despite being sure he was in the right place. It's not behaviour they ever saw from him before, or anytime after.

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Fickle_Acanthaceae17@reddit

Are there advanced alien life forms and how close are they to us.

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luker1771@reddit

Claudia Lawrence

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Psycho_Splodge@reddit

I saw someone claim on here in a previous thread that the police reckon she's under the university foundations of whatever they were building at the time

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Stripycardigans@reddit

That's what every taxi driver in York claims. But I've never seen any proof beyond that

The claim is that she's under the swimming pool in the Heslington East campus, and that the foundations for it were laid the morning after she disappeared. Supposedly the police went there to investigate but didn't go any further once they saw the concrete had been laid.

I'm not sure that day old foundations would really stop the police

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Confident_Leg2370@reddit

Ive never heard of the swimming pool thing but I’ve heard the university rumour. What I understand is that the police used ground penetrating radar to see if there were any holes underground in that area and found nothing other than medieval remains, not to mention if she was there, the concrete would set around her body and as it decomposed there would be a huge hole which would cause so many issue regarding structural integrity. I’ve heard allsorts regarding where her body could be though and not many make much sense

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williamshatnersbeast@reddit

They went to the Uni to take some statements etc… once she’d been declared missing but I don’t think the ‘foundations’ theory had got any traction at that point? It was a while later that started cropping up, not the next day. Plus, I’m pretty sure that a huge fuck off buildings worth of concrete foundations is a bit of a ballache to excavate on the off chance some taxi drivers are right.

Classic reddit. Leaving young kids alone is equivalent to being a child killer and covering it up.

I know reddit froths at the mouth at the chance to call the McCann's evil murderers but that was a stupid take even by reddit standards.

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DaveBeBad@reddit

If they hadn’t broke the law (multiple times), their daughter wouldn’t have died.

Their actions didn’t deserve her death, but if they had taken their kids for food - like most parents do - it would never have happened.

They are culpable for her disappearance and likely death.

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Lajxo-@reddit

I really can’t believe that people are disagreeing with you! Crazy behaviour. Regardless of whether they were involved in her disappearance or not, their careless actions caused it. They left their babies to go for a fancy meal/piss up. I feel dodgy even taking the bins outside when my children are home. To leave them for any amount of time on their own is unfathomable.

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LordEmostache@reddit

Yeah, you can very easily tell who has kids and who doesn't by whether they see the issue with what the parents did or not.

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pysgod-wibbly_wobbly@reddit

I had this conversation with my mother , I would never leave mine on their own, and am of the opinion they are negligent and failed to protect their children.

My mother daso On the flip side of this before Madeline McCaan this was fairly normal behavior when on holiday being in holiday resorts creates a false sense of security and that it wasn't a behavior that was frowned upon. And that this innocent is the reason we find it so abhorrent.

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Pale-Remote-39@reddit

I’m not sure if it’s still a thing but I remember at Butlins in the late 80’s or early 90’s there was a kiddy patrol that used to go around the chalets and check on the whippersnappers while mum and dad were down t’pub. If babby started crying or brothers started scrapping they’d come and get the parents lololol.

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Lock them up and throw away the key! If they will eat dinner 200m away then they clearly deserved to have their child kidnapped.

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DaveBeBad@reddit

If they had looked after their child as most other parents do she would never have been kidnapped.

They are on a family holiday, eat earlier and take the kids for the meal. Or hire a babysitter. Or one parent stays at home while the other goes out. That what responsible parents do.

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VeganRatboy@reddit

If they had looked after their child as most other parents do she would never have been kidnapped.

Okay. What's your point? Why do you feel the need to say this?

You clearly think it's their fault that their kid was taken. Why do you need to keep telling the world this, almost 20 years on?

Most parents have left their kid unattended at some point. She was asleep, and they were checking on her every 20 minutes. Yes it's not ideal, but they didn't deserve to have her taken, and they don't deserve for scrotes like you to keep shitting on them for it for so fucking long.

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LambonaHam@reddit

Try to pretend that you are capable of compassion.

Take your own advice.

they don't deserve for scrotes like you to keep shitting on them for it for so fucking long.

Don't they? Do you think the McCann's are on Reddit reading this thread? At what point does it become unacceptable to criticise their actions?

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mumwifealcoholic@reddit

I think there is a cultural element. where I come from it is quite common for kids to be left on their own. To walk to school, to go on hikes, ect. The UK appears to have picked up this "keep the children safe" obsession from the US.

Stranger abductions are EXTREMELY RARE. Despite what the media tells you. The most dangerous people to your kids, are ones they already know and probably love.

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DaveBeBad@reddit

It depends how old you are. I was walking to school by myself from 7. I only ended up in hospital twice after being attacked by older kids.

But that was the 70s and as a parent, there is a big difference between a 4 year old and a 7 year old.

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mumwifealcoholic@reddit

I wouldn't let my 6 years old walk to school alone, although I did. ANd it isn't because I think someone will take him. It is because people drive very selfishly in this country.

When I return to my home country I let my 6 year old take the bus on their own. He can walk to Gran's all by himself. The culture around driving is just different there.

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DaveBeBad@reddit

I didn’t have a choice, dad worked and mum had to take my younger sister half mile in the other direction.

But we didn’t let our kid walk to school until they were 10-11.

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UrbanAlly@reddit

Obviously some folk have never been to a caravan park !

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Dazzling-Event-2450@reddit

It’s a bit far. But you do need to remember, if you did the same, and you were either a single mum, a minority ethnic or had mental health issues, you would have been prosecuted. Fact. White middle class doctors, who get the PR machine up and running straight away, Nada.

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talking_heads_90333@reddit

Please can you point me to the law that factually states a single mum would be prosecuted but a doctor wouldn't

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LambonaHam@reddit

Are you under the impression that all laws are applied with equality and fairness?

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LambonaHam@reddit

Classic reddit. Leaving young kids alone is equivalent to being a child killer and covering it up.

Classic Reddit. Taking a reasonable and benign comment, and then strawmanning it in to ridiculousness...

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wanbeanial@reddit

But no one has said that

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jimmyrayreid@reddit

Leaving the children “home alone” is a criminal offence in the UK -

To the extent these children were left "home alone" is debatable and they we're in the UK.

Most people put their kids to bed and do other things or sit in the garden and - shock - socialise and have a drink.

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KarenFromAccounts@reddit

I was expecting way worse from what people were saying until I watched the documentary. The hotel rooms were literally about 50m away, the other side of the swimming pool. They were within eye shot. Had I been staying there I've have considered it part of the same place. It's more like leaving the kids in the room to go to the hotel bar than leaving kids home alone while you go for a night out

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LambonaHam@reddit

They were within eye shot.

That rules out the possibility of it being anyone else then surely?

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LambonaHam@reddit

To the extent these children were left "home alone" is debatable

It is not. Facts are not debatable.

Most people put their kids to bed and do other things or sit in the garden and - shock - socialise and have a drink.

That's not the same thing as going to the pub down the road is it?

I'm sure having someone to blame makes you feel more in control of your life. But the fact is, life is chaos

Does lashing out like this and embarrassing yourself make you "feel more in control"?

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DaveBeBad@reddit

They don’t go to the pub down the road though where they couldn’t see the hotel room. Or shouldn’t.

Our child is a similar age and we did everything together on holiday. Even if it meant we had to be back in the hotel room early in the evening or eat together. Those are some of the best memories from the holidays.

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MrsBiggusDickus@reddit

My mother did

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jimmyrayreid@reddit

Well done on never making a mistake in your life

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DaveBeBad@reddit

There is making a mistake (And I made plenty) and deciding to break the law. Which they did by their own admittance.

They weren’t just going 2mph over the speed limit or parking 10 minutes too long. They left 3 children by themselves in a hotel room while they went to eat and drink with their friends on multiple occasions. On 4 consecutive nights.

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jimmyrayreid@reddit

UK

Law

Does

Not

Apply

In

Portugal

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DaveBeBad@reddit

It’s also illegal in Portuguese law. Article 138 of their criminal code. They could have faced 3 to 10 years in a Portuguese prison if prosecuted. 🤷‍♂️

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KeremyJyles@reddit

but if it happened on a council estate here they would be prosecuted and face losing their other kids.

It's not taboo, hell it was the standard heavily-upvoted war cry whenever this subject came up until the last few years when people finally started to see that their conspiracy nonsense was dying out in popularity.

I remember no such hue and cry about having social services look into the McCanns

A) Some random creep went in to their apartment, and kidnapped one of their sleeping children, without leaving evidence or alerting anyone.
B) The parents were negligent, medicated their children to sleep whilst they went out and got drunk, Maddy had an accident, the parents (when they eventually decided to check in on their children) panicked and got rid of the body (explaining all the evidence such as dogs alerting to their car).

These two random law-abiding citizens managed to find a place to stow a body that couldn't be found, and cover all traces from the most intense manhunt in history and they weren't even on their own turf.

It's less difficult than you're implying. Take your friends phone, leave it somewhere in a supermarket, ask them to find it. Now widen that out to an entire region.

The idea that their gut reaction, in that circumstance was not only to cover it up, but to do so perfectly, is legitimately fantastic.

It wasn't perfect. They were just wealthy, and connected. That's why no authorities ever investigated them.

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To me, finding one of the best hiding places in history (in a country which isn't your own) isn't a panic response though.

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jimmyrayreid@reddit

Some people do panic in crises. The most likely outcome is that person calms down and admits it.

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thehibachi@reddit

Yeah that’s significantly more likely than a multi-decade fake PR campaign of lies, don’t get me wrong!

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JebEnditis@reddit

I don't think it was intentional but I do think it was them.

I got those vibes too, but people respond to grief and guilt in different ways so i wouldn't read too much into it.

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DirectionProof2374@reddit

I don't think they did it tbh but I also think they should be punished for child neglect. I don't even mind that they left the kids to sleep while checking in on them but they did so while being way to far away. I also think they are idiots and neglectful for not atleast using a baby monitor. I dunno how good they were in 2007 but if the signal wouldn't reach that backs up what I said about being to far away. Lastly the hotel offered a FREE babysitting service that they didn't use?! Like come one at this point just give up your kids cos you obviously don't give a fuck about them. So regardless of whether they had anything to do with it or not their neglectful actions helped someone kidnap a child and do God knows what with her. This then led the government to spend 13.2 million on the case as of 2024. I don't necessarily care what it costs but their laziness and negligence cost the tax payers a fair chunk of money.

Imagine looking down at your dead child and turning to your wife and saying "I think we should dump her in an abandoned well" AND THEN SHE AGREES!

Brilliant!

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YouLostTheGame@reddit

Not to mention they wouldn't have been pushing so hard in the media if they did do it. Surely they wouldn't want the attention?

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Good-Statement-9658@reddit

Everyone's a law abiding citizen until they're not 🤷‍♀️

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jimmyrayreid@reddit

Not really no. The vast majority of criminals are breaking the law and getting expelled well into childhood.

The witch hunt is in no way justifiable. Yeah, they made a mistake which most parents wouldn't have done but the 'punishment' of the situation itself is beyond comprehension, let alone with every tabloid rag and flag shagger piling on.

There isn't a parent in the country who hasn't done something which others would question, and baring very rare exceptions they don't deserve to be subjected to such cruel and prolonged treatment either.

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linksarebetter@reddit

several years late for this daily star level opinion.

So many people living on this dumb rock should be ashamed of themselves , you included.

SecurityTemporary849@reddit

Obviously they didn't find a body if that's what your trying to imply. Must of got confused and thought they smelt a sausage roll. But keep on defending guilty parents if it makes you feel good.

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TheGreatBatsby@reddit

Or... they falsely alerted. Or they alerted to dried blood.

The one that the pilot allegedly ditched in the ocean? There's a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing towards him:

His wife has just left him with their three kids due to his affair which was also on the skids.

He had made no social or professional engagements from the day the flight disappeared.

The plane's satellite transmitter was manually switched off by a crew member.

His home flight simulator with a suicidal flight path that closely matches that actual knowledge flight path until communication was lost.

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penguin62@reddit

IIRC, the flight simulator flight path part is sketchy. Seven coordinates that roughly follow the suspected flight were found on the system but there's no way to link them to a single flight or session. They could be from multiple sessions and totally unrelated to each other.

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spamlettispaghetti@reddit

If you do more than a surface level investigation into Flight 370 you'll find that a lot of the claims about the pilot in your comment are purely media speculation or downright disproven. There is no tangible evidence that the pilot was anything other than a stable, highly skilled and responsible professional.

Personally, I think the 2.5 tons of lithium batteries in the cargo hold setting alight or a hypoxia event are more likely based on the evidence.

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Cheasepriest@reddit

The batteries being set a light would be such a a bizarre thing with such a remote chance of happening, especially happening once and only once is a little unbelievable. Batteries are carried in cargo all the time and we've never seen it happen before or since.

If there was a hypoxia event, that wouldn't explain the pilot knowingly turning off the transponders, and flying in a path that is only detectable briefly on a couple of primary radar stations, in a direction completely counter to the intended destination.

The passengers would have had about half an hour of air. The pilots would have had hours each.

Adding onto this the auto handshake requests the plane gave out to the sat over the south China sea when the main power was turned back on, I think we pretty much can form an idea of what happened.

The debis that's been found even washed up where it would, if the plane went down roughly where the triangulated pings show it did.

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doublemp@reddit

especially happening once and only once is a little unbelievable.

It's happened before

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6

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bonkerz1888@reddit

How do you explain the transponder being manually disengaged?

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Shoddy-Computer2377@reddit

The issue is that Malaysia is a strict Islamic society where this kind of behaviour is very taboo and families tend to live in complete denial, regardless of the evidence.

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ToothDoctor24@reddit

Do you have a link for this information?

As it was published that the pilot and co pilot were well vetted and they didn't suspect any foul play from either of them initially.

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Yeah I feel it’s not exactly a mystery that he did it and flew it into the ocean down there. I wish they had been able to find the exactly spot it went down and plane debris that had sunk under that spot. It would have bought more closure for the families.

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penguin62@reddit

Strongly recommend this Green Dot Aviation video about it.

TL;DW: Pilot most likely hijacked while the first officer was out of the cockpit and flew it into the Indian Ocean.

https://youtu.be/MhkTo9Rk6_4

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Fumbles1988@reddit

An interesting theory I was told was that several governments or more know but no one wants to admit that they have radar technology which expands over that area.

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ToothDoctor24@reddit

You just sent me down a rabbit hole. They've found debris from the plane (3 parts) in the Indian ocean. So likely crashed somewhere there.

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KaidaShade@reddit

Oceans a big place, unfortunately. They've got a pretty solid idea of what happened now, it's just the why and the final resting place of the plane that aren't known

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AltruisticProgram141@reddit

Ohh, Andrew Gosden is a good one.

Some stuff I spend way too long wondering about:

who was the Zodiac killer!?
jack the ripper, too
why is there something and not just nothing?
what happens to consciousness/memory after death?
intelligent alien life anywhere out there?

Obviously the chances of any of these being answered are basically zero, but I love to come into possession of some kind of trove of cosmic knowledge before it's all over

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Death_Binge@reddit

who was the Zodiac killer!?

A few years ago, a Redditor made a post about how their stepdad died and they were cleaning out his belongings, leading them to believe their dad was the Zodiac Killer. This was in San Francisco. I can't find the post though.

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Spider-Thwip@reddit

Existence doesn't make sense at all.

In order for there to be something, at some point, it must have come from nothing.

How come nothing didn't just continue forever.

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AltruisticProgram141@reddit

Yes, this is close to my thoughts process as well. Even if we were to suppose that we were conveniently created by some kind of omnipotent being, surely that being would also have to have come from somewhere?

It actually has me thinking that maybe there's no such thing as 'nothing', and that there has always been something, and that we just came out of a different 'something' somewhere down the line.

It hurts my small brain to think about after a certain amount of time.

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Spider-Thwip@reddit

There always having been something makes no sense either even if its true.

Mc_and_SP@reddit

Unless someone talks, I'm not sure her case will ever be solved.

FJ_815@reddit

But I can't get my had around how Andrew seemingly vanished without trace, even with the huge prevalence of CCTV in London.

They didn't find him on the CCTV at King's Cross until nearly 4 weeks after he went missing, by which time most of the other CCTV from that day from the surrounding areas had been deleted. If the CCTV had been checked sooner then they might have been able to track where he went, but unfortunately that didn't happen.

The Andrew Gosden case has always stuck with me too. I'm about a year younger than him and I remember hearing about his disappearance on the news when I was 13 and thinking that he reminded me of people I knew. I hope that he's alive and well and somehow started a new life, but I know that's probably not the most likely solution.

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Goldenboy451@reddit

The theory put forward in the top comment here has stuck with me as the most plausible explanation for all of the events that took place. Alternatively, his London trip was completely impulsive, and it was random tragedy once he arrived.

Either way, unfathomably tragic.

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Mc_and_SP@reddit

I lean towards his reason for travelling wasn’t linked to his reason for not coming home.

Whether it was to buy a PSP, to see 30STM or to do some sightseeing, I think he met his ultimate fate by bad luck as opposed to premeditation.

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School, library and even local internet cafe computers were checked, nothing came up. Whatever happened to him didn’t involve a computer (his phones are a different story though.)

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nouazecisinoua@reddit

I didn't get a school email address until I was part way through secondary school (probably about 2013 or so).

I'm sure some schools were ahead of the game though.

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kittyvixxmwah@reddit

Really? Huh. My brother started high school in 1999, he had an email address straight away.

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nouazecisinoua@reddit

Wow! We did use email, but were expected to just use our own Hotmail or whatever.

Now I'm wondering if my school was an outlier.

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saccerzd@reddit

Same. I don't recall school giving us email addresses, and I left in 2006. I just used my Hotmail, I'm almost certain of it.

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kittyvixxmwah@reddit

Idk, maybe the IT guy at our school was just a massive nerd!

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Dans77b@reddit

I never had a school email address in 2007. I got an email address when I went to 6th form college in 08, but certainly not in secondary school.

> He chose to buy a single ticket despite the single-and-return being near the same price; He didn't intend to return

Every time the family had previously traveled to London it was to visit his Aunt, they always got a lift back so always got singles, he took the same train at the same time that he would have taken every time he went with family, they said they didnt think him buying a single was anything other than him doing what they had always done, he showed a lot of traits of aspergers which means that sticking to a routine like that wouldnt be unusual, that being said he had skipped school for the first time so clearly not his entire routine was followed so rigidly

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

Thanks, really interesting point that I hadn't considered

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holytriplem@reddit

I was quite similar to Andrew Gosden in a lot of ways when I was that age. In fact, I was about the same age as him when he went missing and at the time I remember thinking something along the lines of "oh shit, the madlad went and actually did it, well good for him"

Based on what I know of the case, I'm pretty sure he was just bored, shy, and sheltered, and wanted to walk away from his life and start again (and also see the world).

I couldn't tell you what happened next though.

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

I agree except I think this is how it started/was intended but a 14yo boy is a lot smarter in his head than he is in real life and something went very bad, very quickly, most likely accidentally and whoever else was involved panicked and got rid of him and so someone out there knows exactly what happened and exactly where he is now and just isn’t saying or is no longer of this earth and we’ll never know.

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douggieball1312@reddit

I was exactly the same age as him and he sounded like the kind of kid I would have got on great with at the time. I hated how his disappearance was completely smothered under the McCann case in the media (especially as it seemed way more mysterious and strange).

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Mc_and_SP@reddit

I’m with Andrew Gosden too - his case is quite possibly the most open in human history. Not a single theory can be ruled in or out based on available evidence (other than grooming via certain computers.)

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pikantnasuka@reddit

Whatever it is they tell the new US President that leaves all of them (yes even the orange one) grey faced and sober and very, very subdued. It cannot just be "these are the nuclear launch codes let me know if you want to end the world", can it?

Also I want to see the letters of last resort the British PMs write, but iirc each is destroyed when replaced by the next so we'll never get to know what each of them said.

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Alecmalloy@reddit

Running the world's most powerful country and economy for four to eight years?

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vinpetrol@reddit

The comedian Bill Hicks hypothesised that they are shown film of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

Go watch Threads. It's one of the most realistic depictions of nuclear apocalypse ever made. The reason they look so serious is because they've just been lectured on exactly how much devastation a nuke can cause. It's grim.

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I'm a huge Manics fan and I'm sure Richey is dead. There are some grim stories about his behaviour on that last tour of Japan and coupled with good lyrics it's really not unlikely that he jumped off the bridge

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Alecmalloy@reddit

Fellow huge Manics fan. Of course, we'll never know 100% for sure, but the lyrics all the way from GT to Holy Bible and again on Journal make it patently clear this is a man who was massively depressed and self loathing. The physical abuse he put himself through only reinforces it. And finding his car at a notorious suicide spot kind of confirms it.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Lyrics on the Holy Bible literally "I want to die in the summertime. I want to die" and that he wants to be so skinny that he "rots from view". I blame the music press at the time, salacious crap about him apparently being seen in Thailand and stuff like that.

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LadyMirkwood@reddit

Manics fan since the 90s, I think he died shortly after he went missing.

Aside from the lyrics and the many issues he was dealing with, his last few weeks confirm to me he took his own life. The band said he seemed to be doing better, seemed lighter and laughed more.

I think that's because he had made his choice.

I just wish the band and his family got some closure.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

What happened to Richey Edwards. He disappeared in 1995 and is presumed dead but I don’t think his body was ever discovered.

People who are depressed, suicidal and go missing near large bodies of water it is kind of a given. He is known to have been sleeping in his car by Aust services, I know the area. From there footpaths take you all along the estuary, there are cliffs and there is a pedestrian crossing on the old Severn Bridge. From there a body would go out to sea as it is rapidly tidal. They can take days to find a body in an inland river. Bit of a mystery still with the Jack O'Sullivan disappearance, he apparently didn't have personal problems was last seen in Bristol near the water but still - a tidal part, they could be in the mid Atlantic.

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conspiracyfetard89@reddit

I think a couple of Sutcliffs victims were found on the other side of Jimmy Savilles fence. Saville had a proper massive house right on the moors, and on the other side of his fence were a load of trees and bushes where they found some victims.

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PabloMarmite@reddit

I think the chances are overwhelmingly likely that he jumped off the Severn Bridge and his body is at the bottom of the sea.

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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

There is a pretty good case that Sutcliffe, once caught, played up the mental illness angle because he knew he was bang to rights and wanted to justify his acts (and potentially preferred to be in a psychiatric facility rather than prison).

He said voices told him to kill, he said he thought all the victims (even the ones who weren't) were sex workers, and he said he killed out of hate and there wasn't a sexual element. The last two are not true or scarcely believable (e.g. some victims he attacked clearly had no connection to sex work).

That's why you gotta have a zone for chucking odd socks so you can pair them again

For some reason in our house, it's on top of a bookcase

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carlovski99@reddit

The egg. Something not quite the same as whatever you define as a chicken, had an egg with an embryo that had a mutation that made it into said chicken definition.

Of course it's almost impossible to draw that line between almost chicken and chicken.

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Dans77b@reddit

The answer of course is the egg. But I don't think there is really a satisfactory answer, because the lines between species on an evolutionary scale are so blurred.

Shoddy-Computer2377@reddit

I strongly suspect he was on the wrong side of the tracks without his friends knowing.

Mr_Emile_heskey@reddit

Houses make strange noises, and the human mind can do funny things, especially at night time. As a health care person who has dealt with a lot of death, when you're dead you're dead. There is no such thing as ghosts. Of course this is just my opinion, and I would enjoy having a civil conversation instead of being downvoted.

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H0vit0@reddit

Yeah i hear you, and in the absence of any actual proof. Ever. I couldn't even really dispute what you're saying. I can only speak to what I experienced and what my family experienced over the course of 40+ years. I believe, but just because I believe doesn't mean I'm actually right lol. If someone came through with an actual logical explanation for things that had happened i wouldn't dig my heels in, and I would actually appreciate a logical explanation for stuff that has happened.

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Mr_Emile_heskey@reddit

Most homes will make a lot of noise, the older they are, the older they will. Wood expanding and retracting, metal doing the same. The human brain hears these but because they're not common sounds, we associate them with the paranormal.

People with even mild brain issues can have life changing issues with speech and motor movement, so when someone dies it's very unlikely with zero brain fiction anyone is going to be running up and down stairs or messing with lights.

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RebeccaCheeseburger@reddit

Oh I’ve had crazy things happen too like you’ve explained that no one would even believe but my friend and brother did witness a lot, but even I kinda doubt my memory.

And now I’m older, and maybe less reactive,I would love to experience that again!

Ghosts don’t seem as prevalent now a days.

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WilkoCEO@reddit

I don't believe in ghosts personally, but here's a story:

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H0vit0@reddit

That's really interesting. Do you know why your mum never felt threatened or scared? My nan wasn't scared because she had been in the house for 40+ plus years so her attitude was very much "if something wanted to hurt us it would have done it by now" so she just cracked on.

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HezzaE@reddit

I can ask her, but I'm guessing from the fact that she told them to go back to bed that she thought they behaved like children, like us!

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Maleficent-Walrus-28@reddit

If they are real then the afterlife sounds shit. Infinite time ahead of you and all you can do is be a minor pest. Ooooh you opened a door, bet you’re glad you chose not to move on.

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hadawayandshite@reddit

Do you not take the fact that there is no evidence of ghosts as answering the question—-it seems they don’t exist

No, I always disliked him. He looks constantly bored.

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lizziexo@reddit

Well I’m part of that chain as I’d never seen him mentioned before and he’s now definitely on my shit list… His Wikipedia controversies section is disgusting.

Walliams attempts to kiss participants, manhandles them, pulls their trousers and underwear down, and simulates anal sex. Volunteers are seen "grappling to keep their genitals covered."

This one is explicitly about him finding teenage boys (16-18) to bring on stage as part of a “skit”

Walliams is seen pulling down the trousers and underwear of young men before he appears to kiss their buttocks and simulate anal sex. The volunteers attempt to keep their clothes on.

Elsewhere in the documentary, Walliams says, "I love cruelty, it's my favourite thing in the world."

When talking about trying to expose Mark Ronson on stage;

"When I put my mind to it, I have the strength of ten men so there's no stopping me. Mark is a cool, calm character. To put him in that position was out of his comfort zone."

The pink minstrel

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WrongCurve7525@reddit

Actually yes, that's a mystery I didn't know I needed to know about until now.

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Utwig_Chenjesu@reddit

How do you get so many clowns in those small cars??

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StationFar6396@reddit

Who murdered Penny Bell

Stabbed over 50 times in broad daylight in a busy car park, and no one saw anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Penny_Bell

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mibbling@reddit

Lindsay Rimer.

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Intelligent_Bug_9456@reddit

I find my self reading about lots of unexplained and unsolved murders, it’s interesting. But I’m really haunted by these too-common UK cases like Lindsay Rimmer. They hit too close to home and there is something much more domestic about them that makes them especially chilling. I think they are just so unglamorous in their tragedy, unlike some of the over blown reporting on international and specifically US crimes of a similar ilk. The sadness I feel for victims is nearly equalled by how sorry I am for those who have to deal with the aftermath. We all go through shit in life but the trauma that the relatives of the victims must bear is another crime again.

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TheHalfwayBeast@reddit

Who was the Axeman of New Orleans and did he do the other axe murders that some people suspect he did?

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tall_lacrosse_player@reddit

The actual fate of Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers - escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and despite numerous leads/clues nothing ever completely watertight solved the mystery.

The film Escape From Alcatraz explains how they did it fairly well but the question is what happened after they left the island the prison is on.

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TheHalfwayBeast@reddit

I choose to believe they escaped and lived long lives on a farm in Brazil.

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miiiiiig@reddit

I used to work in a secondary school. One open evening, the R.E. department had a big piece of paper on the wall and instructions for prospective students to write their 'big' questions on it. There were questions like "Where is god?" and "What happens after we die?"

One kid wrote "Who's got the biggest bum in the world?".

I was young so only really have the details from family.

My parents were divorced and I spent weekends with him. One weekend he didn’t show. My mom took me to his house but no one was there. She still had a key so went in and everything was there, his car and work van on the drive, keys in the bowl by the door including house keys and wallet. This was before mobiles really.

She called my grandparents but they hadn’t heard from him for a few days, nothing unusual.

After about a few more days they reported to the police. I vaguely remember a police officer giving me a pound for sweets.

No activity in his bank accounts, no unusual withdrawals of cash. His work hadn’t seen him for a week or so.

They came up with nothing, they spoke to pretty much everyone he knew, I believe they searched a few areas he regularly went climbing at, but the real confusion was why is everything still at his house and he’s not touching the money in his accounts. The police had no idea and it went cold.

This was 1996. A few years ago I had him declared dead. I held off until both his parents had passed so I didn’t destroy any hope they had.

ToothDoctor24@reddit

I'm really sorry to hear that. Probably a very slim chance but there's a subreddit called r/RBI I think, and I was going through the posts and saw they solved some things based on the user supplying information.

Was his climbing equipment still at the house?

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sparkletigerfrog@reddit

It was a day where two buildings had just been collapsed by aeroplanes, and chaos reigned. Nothing was far fetched or impossible at that point.

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kunstlich@reddit

It was said on air 30 minutes before the building started to collapse.

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ConfusedMaverick@reddit

Various news organisations reported the fall of one of the buildings on 9/11 half an hour before it actually fell

https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-world-trade-center-7-september-11/

Some folk believe this means that the whole of 9/11 was scripted, and this was a mistake in the playout of the script.

Conspiracy theory stuff, basically, but it IS true, and weird, that it was reported in advance.

However, it wasn't the first building to fall, nor was it unexpected (there had been a raging fire in the building) so it isn't so farfetched that a believable rumour was accidentally reported as fact.

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HappyLittleHermit@reddit

Heat softens metal. Metal that is soft is not stable and is more likely to bend under the weight of supporting a large skyscraper. Large structurally unsound buildings are very likely to collapse

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Vladimir_Chrootin@reddit

They didn't know. Here's why:

If you were orchestrating a terrorist attack, there is no move you could make that would be more stupid than telling the world's largest broadcaster, located beyond the reach of US jurisdiction, what was going to happen in advance.

asmeile@reddit

Are you saying you think the shooting was faked?

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deathmetalbestmetal@reddit

Elon is 'campaigning for it to be released' because he's now in a position to be sure that it won't be.

BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

It was interesting.

It convinced me he probably did get away, initially, but I am not convinced the guy they found was him.

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Shoddy-Computer2377@reddit

I believe he did get away... at first. There is a theory that he wanted to "come back from the dead" and return to his old life - at which point his rich friends had him done in.

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middyandterror@reddit

No same, I only had half an eye on it, so wasn't really concentrating, but it seemed like one of the guys was convincing himself more than anything & the other guy was more realistic about it.

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cougieuk@reddit

Good documentary on the iPlayer worth watching.

There's also a BBC Sounds documentary telling the story with more detail of the incident.

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Didn't it used to be (and might still be) one of the places they test experimental aircraft and weaponry? That would explain the security and odd goings on.

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J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A@reddit

It's a military base that tests new designs for fighter jets and other tech.

What was the "tic tac" from the USS Nimitz video.

"Aliens" is a bit much obviously, but it would be nice to have an explanation.

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Tumeni1959@reddit

Came here to see everyone asking "who's Andrew Gosden".

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ZePanic@reddit

What happened to Richey Edwards.

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PabloMarmite@reddit

Unfortunately there’s a lot of evidence that he jumped off the Severn Bridge.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

Is/was there actually intelligent life anywhere else in the universe? If so, what's the closest it's ever been to us (time/distance)?

Who was actually responsible for Epstein's death?

How do we reconcile the ideal of freedom of expression to encourage diversity of opinions and ideas with our society not collapsing under the weight of constant lies and misinformation?

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PaperCutKnuckles@reddit

What is One Piece?

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Dismal_Birthday7982@reddit

Do you mean die?

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Accurate_Prompt_8800@reddit

If Epstein was killed or not

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holytriplem@reddit

Why do people listen to Coldplay?
Will I ever achieve genuine happiness and be fully satisfied with my life?
What the hell is really going on in North Korea?
Will we be able to get to net zero in time?

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PumpkinSpice2Nice@reddit

So there is this man in my home town in my home country that was initially convicted and sent to prison for murdering his whole family unit but he maintained his innocence for years and it was eventually taken to the court here in London (as my home country is part of the Commonwealth) to be retried and the case was found Not Proven and he was let out of prison. Personally it’s my opinion he is guilty. He blames his dad who was one of the murdered and claims it was murder-suicide, but it was never very believable. One (of many things) is the rifle ‘his dad used’ was sitting upright on the ground beside the dads body in such a way it had to have been placed like that. He also sues everyone who so much as mentions his name in a negative light on internet forums.

I would be interested of course in hearing the true account of what happened.

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