Happy Friday the 13th!
I grew up hearing of a Friday the 13th in February as the unluckiest possible occurrence. But I can't remember where that superstition came from? And looking it up, I see nothing about it happening in February being particularly unlucky? My memory is that it's not a "true" Fri
The Russian Sleep Experiment - Creepypasta
Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas-based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn't kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This wa
The Yowie: Australia's Bigfoot?
"Deep within the tangled eucalyptus forests of the Great Dividing Range lives a legend that has outlasted European settlement by millennia. The Yowie, Australia’s answer to Bigfoot, is a towering, bipedal enigma that occupies the space between ancient folklore and modern cryptozo
Change my mind: 99% of cryptids are either hoaxes or weird animals misidentified
I don't get what the motivation behind hoaxes is, though
Just realized I've never watched the X-Files
Even though it looks right up my alley. Do I just start from episode 1? Or is it the kind of show I can just pick an episode?
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Since /spooky is featured today, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention a few other related communities. /creepy /bizarre A lot of crossover between the content at /spooky, /creepy, and /bizarre. @zera has done a great job at setting a good tone, and posts a lot of great write-
Sometimes I go out driving late at night, just to get my fix of spooky vibes
Something about the headlights fighting back the dark. The usually busy highways, now empty. And if I do see another car, what could they possibly be up to at 3 in the morning? Suspicious.
Feature idea: AI image detection
Say if a post contains an AI image, there could be a little notice below it that says something among the lines of "Digg detected this image as being created by AI". Totally neutral, it doesn't have to suggest that it's good or bad. A few potential problems:I assume software
If I was the king of digg
I'd put a banner at the top of the page that says "This is the beta", a link to a mission statement or something, a link to a changelog/roadmap, a link to FAQ's. ~60px, goes away when you scroll, dismissable. Would cut down on a lot of (understandable) repeat questions/complain
They're Made Out of Meat
"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's imposs
Have you ever experienced anything paranormal?
Every single friend that stayed the night at my house growing up swore up and down that it was haunted. They claimed they heard out of place knocking, that they'd place something down and then find it somewhere totally different, and just overall weird vibes. And I mean EVERY s