u/drkmatterinc

Hi everyone,

I’m u/drkmatterinc, and I’m the new moderator of r/FascinatingAsFuck.

This community’s been quiet for a while, and I’m excited to help bring it back to life. My goal is to make it a welcoming, active, and well-moderated place for sharing the strange, beautiful, ingenious, odd, and extraordinary things that make the world fascinating.

I’ve added a new set of rules to clarify what belongs here, reduce spam and low-quality content, and keep discussions focused and respectful. Please take a moment to review them before posting or commenting.

This is just the beginning. In the coming weeks, I’ll be exploring new ideas for the subreddit, including recurring features, community discussions, and other ways to make r/FascinatingAsFuck more active and engaging. As the community continues to grow, I’ll also be recruiting additional moderators to help keep the subreddit well-managed.

I’d also like the community to help shape what comes next. Your thoughtful feedback, suggestions, and ideas are welcome, so please share what you’d like to see from the subreddit.

Thank you for being here and for taking part in this community’s fresh start. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can build together.

Here’s to a fascinating new chapter!

-Dark

In 2022, Slovak ice swimmer Boris Oravec nearly died after he lost sight of the exit while swimming beneath a frozen lake. Trapped under the ice and running out of air, he survived by finding the safety rope and following it back to his team.

In 2013, cook Harrison Okene was trapped nearly 100 feet underwater after his tugboat capsized off Nigeria and sank to the ocean floor. For almost three days, he survived in a tiny air pocket until divers searching the wreck for bodies found him alive.

Billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay a $17M ransom for his kidnapped grandson. After the kidnappers mailed the teen’s severed ear to Getty, he agreed to pay $2.2M, the most he could write off on his taxes. He loaned the remaining $800K to his son at 4% interest.

In 1999, Waffle House waitress Tonda Dickerson was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10 million dollars. She was later sued by her coworkers for a share, sued by the man who gave her the ticket, kidnapped by her ex-husband, and shot him in the chest while attempting to escape.

In 2013, cook Harrison Okene was trapped nearly 100 feet underwater after his tugboat capsized off Nigeria and sank to the ocean floor. For almost three days, he survived in a tiny air pocket until divers searching the wreck for bodies found him alive.

In 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, leaving his face disfigured. He and his family believe Moscow ordered the attempt as he pushed for closer ties with Europe. Despite this, Yushchenko survived and won the presidency that year.

In 2008, Brazilian priest Adelir Antônio de Carli strapped himself to a plastic chair lifted by 1,000 helium balloons, hoping to break a world record and raise money for charity. Tragically, a storm blew him over the Atlantic, where he vanished while trying to figure out how to operate his GPS.

Joy Milne claimed she could smell Parkinson’s disease. Scientists tested her with 12 T-shirts: 6 from Parkinson’s patients and 6 from healthy controls. She correctly identified all 6 patients and also flagged one “healthy” person. Months later, that person was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

In 1999, 23-year-old Hong Kong hostess Fan Man-yee was abducted, held captive, and tortured for a month inside a Tsim Sha Tsui apartment. When police searched it, they found her skull sewn inside a Hello Kitty mermaid doll.

At 8, Christina Santhouse had the right half of her brain removed after suffering up to 150 seizures a day. Doctors warned she might never live independently. Christina later got her driver’s license, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees, bought a home, and became a speech pathologist.

In 2014, Navy veteran Chad Oulson was shot and killed in a Florida movie theater after a retired police captain confronted him for texting his babysitter during the previews. Eight years later, a jury acquitted the shooter under Florida self-defense law.

Jeanne Louise Calment, the oldest verified human in history, celebrated her 122nd birthday on February 21, 1997. She passed away that August at 122 years and 164 days. She was also the last living person to have met Vincent van Gogh, whom she described as rude, ugly, and reeking of alcohol.

In 2015, Glenna Duram shot her disabled husband Marty five times, then shot herself in the head. She survived and claimed amnesia. A year later, Marty’s parrot, Bud, helped crack the case by repeating what his family believed were his final words: “Don’t f***ing shoot.”

In 2004, Peter Porco was struck 16 times with an axe while sleeping. He woke up badly bleeding but seemingly unaware, then followed his usual routine: got out of bed, got the paper, locked himself out, used a spare key, got back in, and collapsed dead. Doctors say brain damage left him on autopilot.

In 1994, Gloria Ramirez became known as the “Toxic Lady” after 23 hospital workers got sick while treating her in a California ER. A nurse fainted, a doctor suffered liver damage, and several staff members were hospitalized. To this day, no one knows exactly why.

Joshua Maddux vanished in 2008. Seven years later, his mummified body was found upside down, folded inside the chimney of an abandoned Colorado cabin. Authorities ruled it an accident.

“Radium Girls” painted glowing watch dials with self luminous paint, licking their brushes to keep a sharp tip. No one told them the paint was radioactive. The radium settled into their bones, rotting their jaws from the inside. The condition became known as radium jaw.

After years of silence, BTK serial killer Dennis Rader asked police if a floppy disk could be traced back to him. They assured him it was safe, so he mailed them one. Deleted data on the disk exposed Rader’s identity, and he was immediately arrested.

In 1867, hunters in India found a young boy living alone inside a jungle cave. Dina Sanichar walked on all fours, growled like a wolf, ate raw meat and gnawed bones to sharpen his teeth. He never learned to speak, and his story later became the real-life inspiration for Mowgli from The Jungle Book.

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