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And spontaneous human combustion

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Ah, for me, it was acid rain.

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Oh, are you referencing Stop Drop and Roll?

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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

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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.

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I was thinking Repo Man.

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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…

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Don’t forget

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Seriously tho, have we solved the mystery of the Bermuda triangle?

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There is no mystery, there are no more planes going down there than average.

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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?

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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?

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Lemmino has a wonderful video about it if you want to know more.

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It’s an extremely high traffic area. A lot of ships and planes go down because there’s a lot there.

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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

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