My favourite is probably 1999. [Spoiler warning], I grew up in Canada at a time when the high profile case of Michael Dunahee's disappearance caused parents to

My favourite is probably 1999. [Spoiler warning], I grew up in Canada at a time when the high profile case of Michael Dunahee's disappearance caused parents to act much more protectively of their children, effectively the death of socially healthy, independent outside play for many kids. This happened in the same city where "Michelle Remembers" allegedly took place. It feels oddly cathartic to me, to hear this story of an actual satanic kidnapper, in Canada, at this time. Maybe because I wish to believe that the stifling protection that our parents tried to offer was justified. I dunno. People are weird about parents. What pisses me off, is someone else tried to write a "sequel" to where Mr. Bear actually carries out the kidnapping of Michael, or a similar real world case. Exploiting a real kidnapping to try to create an ARG out of a real disappearance is sick. Some people complained about the RPG Y2K's plot recreating the case of Elisa Lam shot for shot, but going all "this actually happened ooOOoo my spooky story could be reeeeeeal" is another order of magnitude. At best it'll gum up real tip lines and private investigations with posts by LARPers and kids. The name reminds me of my 1st grade teacher, saying the year name emphatically every day, "Nineteen Ninety Nine" as she'd write it on the white board. And now here we are, "Twenty Twenty Two!"... I think it will be 1013 years before the year name is that fun to say again.