u/blue_leaves987

▲ 1.6k r/GotMeHooked

In 1996, 19-year-old Kristin Smart got drunk at a college party and left with Paul Flores, a student women on campus called “Chester the Molester.” She was never seen again.

u/blue_leaves987 — 7 days ago

🔥 Hot ▲ 17.8k r/GotMeHooked

This is 13-year-old Abby Williams, photographed by her best friend Libby German, 14, on the Monon High Bridge. Hours later, both girls vanished. Their bodies were found the next day in the woods, arranged in an unusual scene.

u/blue_leaves987 — 16 days ago

🔥 Hot ▲ 7.0k r/GotMeHooked

This is the last known photo of Travis Alexander, taken in the shower shortly before he was brutally killed by Jodi Arias in 2008 in a case that would become one of America’s most infamous true crime stories.

u/blue_leaves987 — 17 days ago

▲ 561 r/GotMeHooked+1 crossposts

These are some of the children who went missing from Nithari in Noida. Their families kept going to the police, but they were brushed off or told the children had probably run away. Then in December 2006, human remains, clothes & other belongings were found in a drain nearby.

u/Electronic-Exam7677 — 13 days ago

▲ 309 r/GotMeHooked

In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes for a school experiment.

u/blue_leaves987 — 27 days ago

▲ 1.6k r/GotMeHooked

This is the last photo of the Chundawat family together before all 11 members took their own lives during a ritual inside their Delhi home on July 1, 2018.

u/blue_leaves987 — 28 days ago

▲ 4 r/GotMeHooked

In 1998, 8-year-old Maddie Clifton was killed by a 14-year-old neighbor and hidden under his waterbed for a week. Police searched the home during that time but failed to find her.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 232 r/GotMeHooked

Japan built flood-control shafts large enough to fit the Statue of Liberty. The system can pump 200 cubic meters of water per second and is used only about seven times a year, yet it prevented an estimated ¥148.4 billion in flood damage during its first 18 years.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

🔥 Hot ▲ 5.2k r/GotMeHooked

In 1989, Patricia Meehan caused a head-on crash while driving the wrong way on a Montana highway. She climbed over a fence, stood silently staring at the scene, then walked into an empty field and disappeared. Despite more than 5,000 reported sightings, she has never been found.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 1.4k r/HolyShitHistory

More than 400 years ago, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built a working submarine and navigated it beneath the River Thames. Around 1620, he even took King James I of England along for an underwater ride, making James the first monarch to travel in a submarine.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

🔥 Hot ▲ 5.1k r/ObliviousBenson+2 crossposts

This is Amore Wiggins. After she was found in 2012, she remained unidentified as “Opelika Jane Doe” for 11 years. All that time, her mother had no idea what had happened to her and kept paying child support to the father who had custody of her.

u/ObliviousBenson — 1 month ago

▲ 960 r/HolyShitHistory

At Florida’s Dozier School for Boys, children as young as 5 were chained to walls, hog-tied and brutally whipped. Survivors also said staff forced boys to fight each other while guards watched and placed bets.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 463 r/HolyShitHistory

The man credited with inventing the office cubicle actually designed it to give workers more freedom and space. Robert Propst later watched companies shrink his idea into rows of tiny boxes and called the result “monolithic insanity.”

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 3.3k r/GotMeHooked

In Sweden, a man heard roaring coming from his neighbor's garden and discovered a moose stuck in an apple tree, apparently drunk after gorging on fermented apples. Firefighters had to saw off the branches of the tree to free it, and the animal simply passed out on the lawn to sleep it off.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 1.5k r/GotMeHooked

A motorist spotted smoke rising from woodland in West Sussex, where police found missing teacher Jane Longhurst’s burning body. She had spent 35 days folded inside a cardboard box, later moved to a storage unit. It became one of Britain’s most disturbing rabbit holes.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 1.2k r/GotMeHooked

In 2021, college football player Isimemen Etute discovered that someone he had met on Tinder and already had sex with was actually a man. He beat him so severely that nearly every bone in his face was broken. A jury still found Etute not guilty.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 369 r/GotMeHooked

Before the atomic age, steel carried almost none of the man-made radioactive contamination that came later. Scientists eventually began salvaging old shipwreck steel for sensitive detectors, and some experiments even used 2,000-year-old Roman lead recovered from the sea.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

🔥 Hot ▲ 6.1k r/GotMeHooked

In 1998, three children walking through a Frankfurt tunnel passed a man crouched over something on the ground. Hours later, police realized they may have unknowingly walked past the person behind the Tristan Brübach case, one of Germany’s most disturbing rabbit holes.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

▲ 3.5k r/GotMeHooked

In 2025, 19-year-old twins Naazir and Qaadir Lewis were found lying side by side near the top of Bell Mountain, both with gunshot wounds to the head. Police later ruled their deaths suicides.

u/blue_leaves987 — 1 month ago

🔥 Hot ▲ 6.8k r/DamnThatsReal+1 crossposts

In parts of the Congo Basin, children were treated as a delicacy, and enslaved children were deliberately fattened before being used as food.

u/NoEffort3162 — 1 month ago

In 1996, 19-year-old Kristin Smart got drunk at a college party and left with Paul Flores, a student women on campus called “Chester the Molester.” She was never seen again.

This is 13-year-old Abby Williams, photographed by her best friend Libby German, 14, on the Monon High Bridge. Hours later, both girls vanished. Their bodies were found the next day in the woods, arranged in an unusual scene.

This is the last known photo of Travis Alexander, taken in the shower shortly before he was brutally killed by Jodi Arias in 2008 in a case that would become one of America’s most infamous true crime stories.

These are some of the children who went missing from Nithari in Noida. Their families kept going to the police, but they were brushed off or told the children had probably run away. Then in December 2006, human remains, clothes &amp; other belongings were found in a drain nearby.

In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes for a school experiment.

This is the last photo of the Chundawat family together before all 11 members took their own lives during a ritual inside their Delhi home on July 1, 2018.

In 1998, 8-year-old Maddie Clifton was killed by a 14-year-old neighbor and hidden under his waterbed for a week. Police searched the home during that time but failed to find her.

Japan built flood-control shafts large enough to fit the Statue of Liberty. The system can pump 200 cubic meters of water per second and is used only about seven times a year, yet it prevented an estimated ¥148.4 billion in flood damage during its first 18 years.

In 1989, Patricia Meehan caused a head-on crash while driving the wrong way on a Montana highway. She climbed over a fence, stood silently staring at the scene, then walked into an empty field and disappeared. Despite more than 5,000 reported sightings, she has never been found.

More than 400 years ago, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built a working submarine and navigated it beneath the River Thames. Around 1620, he even took King James I of England along for an underwater ride, making James the first monarch to travel in a submarine.

This is Amore Wiggins. After she was found in 2012, she remained unidentified as “Opelika Jane Doe” for 11 years. All that time, her mother had no idea what had happened to her and kept paying child support to the father who had custody of her.

At Florida’s Dozier School for Boys, children as young as 5 were chained to walls, hog-tied and brutally whipped. Survivors also said staff forced boys to fight each other while guards watched and placed bets.

The man credited with inventing the office cubicle actually designed it to give workers more freedom and space. Robert Propst later watched companies shrink his idea into rows of tiny boxes and called the result “monolithic insanity.”

In Sweden, a man heard roaring coming from his neighbor's garden and discovered a moose stuck in an apple tree, apparently drunk after gorging on fermented apples. Firefighters had to saw off the branches of the tree to free it, and the animal simply passed out on the lawn to sleep it off.

A motorist spotted smoke rising from woodland in West Sussex, where police found missing teacher Jane Longhurst’s burning body. She had spent 35 days folded inside a cardboard box, later moved to a storage unit. It became one of Britain’s most disturbing rabbit holes.

In 2021, college football player Isimemen Etute discovered that someone he had met on Tinder and already had sex with was actually a man. He beat him so severely that nearly every bone in his face was broken. A jury still found Etute not guilty.

Before the atomic age, steel carried almost none of the man-made radioactive contamination that came later. Scientists eventually began salvaging old shipwreck steel for sensitive detectors, and some experiments even used 2,000-year-old Roman lead recovered from the sea.

In 1998, three children walking through a Frankfurt tunnel passed a man crouched over something on the ground. Hours later, police realized they may have unknowingly walked past the person behind the Tristan Brübach case, one of Germany’s most disturbing rabbit holes.

In 2025, 19-year-old twins Naazir and Qaadir Lewis were found lying side by side near the top of Bell Mountain, both with gunshot wounds to the head. Police later ruled their deaths suicides.

In parts of the Congo Basin, children were treated as a delicacy, and enslaved children were deliberately fattened before being used as food.

These are some of the children who went missing from Nithari in Noida. Their families kept going to the police, but they were brushed off or told the children had probably run away. Then in December 2006, human remains, clothes & other belongings were found in a drain nearby.