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I fell down a rabbit hole with this one and couldn’t climb back out, so I ended up making a documentary about it.

In November 2024, 43 rhesus macaques escaped the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, South Carolina — the biggest primate research operation in the country. It made the news as a quirky “monkeys on the loose” story. Local police told people to lock their doors. Most outlets moved on once the animals were recovered.

But the more I dug into the actual records, the stranger it got. The escapees didn’t run — they stayed at the fence line and called back to the ones still inside. Sixteen days later, 22 monkeys in a separate cage died overnight, and the necropsies pointed to carbon monoxide from a heater the company insists was working fine. The CEO went to the newspaper suggesting possible sabotage and called in the FBI. The regulatory response to the whole thing? A warning letter.

I tried hard to keep it factual and sourced — USDA inspection reports, the Post and Courier’s reporting, CDC statements — and to be honest about what’s confirmed versus what’s just claimed. I’m not trying to sell a conspiracy. It’s more that when you lay the documented facts side by side, the amount that’s simply unanswerable is unsettling on its own.
Curious what people here make of it, especially anyone who follows animal-research oversight. Happy to share sources in the comments.

Who is the greatest fighter you can think of that chose to retire.. and after that remained retired without ever coming back to the sport whether sanctioned fight of exhibition?

Hearing the Crawford return made me really realize how hard this is to do for most fighters.. to really be able to walk away

Maybe Andre Ward?

Have you noticed any new cemeteries near you?

Been thinking about how the premature-burial fear travels through local legends, and the Julia Legare story on Edisto is a great case. The core (coma mistaken for death, body found at the tomb door years later) is a common type, but what’s interesting is how it latched onto a physical detail — the mausoleum genuinely has no door — and turned that into “proof.” The door that won’t stay shut keeps the story alive.

Classic Southern haunt but it still gets me. Woman sealed in a mausoleum after being wrongly declared dead, found 15 years later crumpled by the door where she’d tried to get out. Ever since, the marble door reportedly gets thrown open or cracks whenever someone reseals it, so they eventually just left it open. Visitors talk about cold spots and stuff turning up in photos.

Any chance anyone had a chance to see this grave in person? It’s on Edisto Island in South Carolina.

The history that has been kept from us is very interesting

Footage shows what life is really like behind those walls

Location:
Alvin S Glenn Detention Center
Columbia, South Carolina

His specific Y Chromosome dates back over 300,000 years. This pretty much changes everything you were taught in school about the human history.