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Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

• Nicholas_C 3y ago
  If only StumbleUpon was still around...
• caravan778 3y ago
  why nobody mentions conspiracy theories? i think its a great mental exercise
• altdataseller 3y ago
  Mentour Pilot series in YouTube explaining what happened behind many airplane crashes
• orbz 3y ago
  The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows. Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are. 1: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ 2: https://tvtropes.org/ https://tvtropes.org/
  • DylanSp 3y ago
    And you can combine them - the TV Tropes for the SCP Foundation is one way to find SCPs to read! Browse the Nightmare Fuel pages [1] for horror, or the Funny pages [2] for a more comedic approach. 1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SCPFoundation https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SCPFoun... 2: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SCPFoundation https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SCPFoundation
• mkbkn 3y ago
  Askreddit subreddit
• japhyr 3y ago
  The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
  • bombcar 3y ago
    DVGs is fine for the hoi polli but the real connoisseurs are all about Bill Ewasko (finally located).
    • mapmap 3y ago
      Does Tom have recent writings on this? I could only find news articles from 2022.
      • bombcar 3y ago
        You have to go to YouTube and some of the other people searching. This is a good one: https://youtu.be/2J9wsJb8P1Y https://youtu.be/2J9wsJb8P1Y (Part one is good too, but part two is the theorizing one)
• cpach 3y ago
  https://www.folklore.org/ https://www.folklore.org/
• runjake 3y ago
  If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole. The premise is "What's the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere?". It has everything from Bigfoot, to Old West stuff, to UFOs, to cultists, to dead bodies. https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.148441/ https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14... I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.
• hnthrowaway0328 3y ago
  Actually archive.org has a tons of interesting stuffs. I downloaded all Dragon magazines and many ADND 2e modules so that once I semi-retired I can convert some modules into computer games, given that we have an appropriate engine then (Neverwinter nights is a good one but it's going to be too old 15 years from now).
• saintradon 3y ago
  cicada 3301 is up there
• Lammy 3y ago
  https://tcrf.net/ https://tcrf.net/ — it’s cool to get a window into the creative process
• CrypticShift 3y ago
  https://www.are.na/ https://www.are.na/ as a network of connected channels. Random example channel: https://www.are.na/krish/visions-of-the-web https://www.are.na/krish/visions-of-the-web
• AK42 3y ago
  Ask.metafilter.com is a good one
• FreezingKeeper 3y ago
  Always an amazing read for me https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republic-of-congo-lubumbashi-to-kinshasa.50799/ https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...
  • kriberg 3y ago
    Holy bananas, what an adventure. Thanks for linking this :)
  • ledauphin 3y ago
    wow.
• smada 3y ago
  chinacat's massive thumbprint lsd story from shroomery.org https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1427364/page//fpart/all/vc/1 https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1...
• is_true 3y ago
  Old maps and stuff related to some places I go often. I've found old bottles and to date them I started looking for archives of old newspapers. Worst use of my time, haha
• DylanSp 3y ago
  The Digital Antiquarian has a _lot_ of interesting writing about the early history of video gaming and home computing. https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ has the full list of posts, starting from the beginning of the blog; the history they cover is mostly in chronological order.
• DarrisMackelroy 3y ago
  The Bobbit Worm Chronicles: https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chronicles.84173/ https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chro... tldr: a guy spends a LONG time trying to kill a bobbit worm in his fish tank
  • anakaine 3y ago
    I found myself trying to remember the name of this recently. Thank you!
• deleted 3y ago
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• shoebham 3y ago
  https://theforest.link/ https://theforest.link/ this site redirects you to random cool websites.