And spontaneous human combustion
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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Ah, for me, it was acid rain.
Oh, are you referencing Stop Drop and Roll?
No not at all. This was the kind of thing that would keep me up as a child. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion
Such a weird generational thing. I grew up with that same fear. I don't even know what started it? Ripley's maybe? I know I remember seeing pictures of it in some book.
I was thinking Repo Man.
Due to an ungodly amount of rain making water rise up from the underground, we have had a couple of actual quicksand incidents along the coast here in Denmark. Fortunately no fatalities as far as i know. But that childhood fear of quicksand has suddenly become very real around here...
Don't forget 
Seriously tho, have we solved the mystery of the Bermuda triangle?
There is no mystery, there are no more planes going down there than average.
So a debunked then?
What about all those ships that went missing, then appears months later with no one on board? Is that just a hoax?
I mean it’s near typical hurricane paths. Back before we could see hurricanes on satellite we were probably much less aware of them; at least insofar as their current size and power and direction.
Could be ships that got hit with a rogue wave, swept crew away? Remaining crew abandoned into lifeboats, possible also wrecked by high seas or just too far out to be rescued/ discovered?
Are there even significantly more shipwrecks described like this or is it like it happened twice in a vast area of the ocean known for huge waves and hurricane activity before we had radar or GOES?
It's an extremely high traffic area. A lot of ships and planes go down because there's a lot there.
Holy shit. I flew to St Lucia last year. I thought our flight path down the coast and across the islands was to abide by flight safety regulations to not be so far away from a run way, and to avoid the massive hurricane. Now that I've done my own research, it's obvious that our flight path was determined to avoid the Bermuda triangle
what i love about this phenomenon is that it kind of debunks these things, like yeah if these things were actually real (i mean quicksand is real but you're almost guaranteed to never encounter it) they WOULD be a big problem and thus their reality would be quite uncontroversial.
Kids just haven't really developed the concept of talking about things as if they're real despite not actually believing in them, so to them if people talk about something surely they have to think it's real!