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    The Creepy & The Strange

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    I prefer shit that's weird and real. Like numbers stations. No hint of the supernatural about them, but we can only wonder what agents of state are doing with these codes. Whatever it is, it ain't pretty.

    Here's an awesomely creepy video that montages an FCC emergency broadcast system test with a beautifully unnerving image and recording of the Swedish Rhapsody numbers station. Watch it with the lights off and headphones up high.

    Sounds like a frequency test for a radio station? nothing interesting about it. I recall before q96(now rock radio)_started they played a tape of the moon landing on a loop for months before it went on air.

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    The Creepy & The Strange

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    Posted · Edited by THE KING

    Aokigahara Forest

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    Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.

    What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?

    More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.

    The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.

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    Also skulls.

    Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like "Life is a precious thing! Please reconsider!" or "Think of your family!"

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    "If you commit suicide here, bears will poop on your corpse."

    In the 70s, the problem got national attention and the Japanese government began doing annual sweeps of the forest in search of bodies. In 2002, they found 78. But who knows how many they missed? In all likelihood there probably is a hanged person somewhere in Aokigahara on any given day. You can see some of them here. WARNING, NSFS (Not Safe For Soul).

    By the way, if an entire dark forest full of hanged corpses wasn't bad enough, a few years ago some people noticed that a lot of the dead in Aokigahara probably had cash or jewelry on them. Thus began the proud Japanese tradition of Aokigahara Scavenging where people are running around the Death Forest, looking for dead guys to loot.

    Bit like Gloomy Sunday

    http://en.wikipedia....i/Gloomy_Sunday

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    Gloomy Sunday

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search For the film Gloomy Sunday, see Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod."Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933, as Vége a világnak (End of the world)[1], with alternate Szomorú vasárnap (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsomoruː ˈvɒʃaːrnɒp]) (Sad Sunday) lyrics written by László Jávor. The original lyrics depicted a war-stricken Hungary and a silent prayer to God. Jávor's lyrics are a mourning to a lost lover and a pledge to commit suicide to meet said lover again in the afterlife.[2]

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    • 1 Billie Holiday
    • 2 Urban legends
    • 3 Performers
      • 3.1 Recorded versions

      [*]4 In popular culture[*]5 See also[*]6 References[*]7 External links

    [edit] Billie Holiday

    Though recorded and performed by many singers, "Gloomy Sunday" is closely associated with Billie Holiday, who scored a hit version of the song in 1941. Owing to unsubstantiated urban legends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, "Gloomy Sunday" was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" in the United States. Seress did commit suicide in 1968, likely due to depression and trauma caused by his imprisonment and his mother's death in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War rather than a song, but most other rumors of the song being banned from radio, or sparking suicides, are unsubstantiated, and were partly propagated as a deliberate marketing campaign.[3] Possibly due to the context of the Second World War, though, Billie Holiday's version was banned by the BBC until the turn of the century.[4]

    [edit] Urban legends

    There have been several urban legends regarding the song over the years, mostly involving it being allegedly connected with various numbers of suicides, and radio networks reacting by purportedly banning the song. However, most of these claims are unsubstantiated.[5]

    In January 1968, Rezső Seress, the original composer, committed suicide in Budapest; he survived jumping out of a window, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire. His obituary in the New York Times mentions the song's notorious reputation :

    "Budapest, January 13. Rezsoe Seres, whose dirge-like song hit, "Gloomy Sunday" was blamed for touching off a wave of suicides during the nineteen-thirties, has ended his own life as a suicide it was learned today. Authorities disclosed today that Mr. Seres jumped from a window of his small apartment here last Sunday, shortly after his 69th birthday.

    The decade of the nineteen-thirties was marked by severe economic depression and the political upheaval that was to lead to World War II. The melancholy song written by Mr. Seres, with words by his friend, Ladislas Javor, a poet, declares at its climax, "My heart and I have decided to end it all." It was blamed for a sharp increase in suicides, and Hungarian officials finally prohibited it. In America, where Paul Robeson introduced an English version, some radio stations and nightclubs forbade its performance.

    Mr. Seres complained that the success of "Gloomy Sunday" actually increased his unhappiness, because he knew he would never be able to write a second hit.

    "The New York Times, January 14, 1968, [6]

    In 1997 Billy Mackenzie, vocalist with Scottish band The Associates (who recorded a cover of Holiday's version in 1982), committed suicide near his father's home in Dundee.

    The codifying of the urban legend appears in an article attributed to "D.P. MacDonald" and titled "Overture to Death", the text of which has been reproduced and disseminated countless times online. According to the website of Phespirit the article was originally published by the 'Justin and Angi' site to augment their now defunct "Gloomy Sunday Radio Show". Their introduction to the article reads:

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    The Creepy & The Strange

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted · Edited by THE KING

    1. Chernobyl - Most people know of Chernobyl on this website and I believe there is still a topic floating about somewhere on it.

    2. The Door to Hell in Uzbekistan. As far as I know, the Russians found a cave whilst digging that was filled with a gas too toxic for humans to enter, so they decided the best possible thing to do was set it on fire. And it's been burning away ever since. 35 years to be exact.

    3. Polybius - The video game that turns you mad. No-one actually knows if this video game exists and many people have actively went out to prove that it doesn't exist. I'll let you decide if you read up on it. The Simpsons even spoofed it.

    Number 3 is tame in comparison to the others, but what else is there that's just not quite right? (Que someone saying me.)

    Don't know about everything on this video but I can 100% assure you that the cat story at the start is true, I always thought it was just my cat till I so this.

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    The Creepy & The Strange

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    1. Chernobyl - Most people know of Chernobyl on this website and I believe there is still a topic floating about somewhere on it.

    2. The Door to Hell in Uzbekistan. As far as I know, the Russians found a cave whilst digging that was filled with a gas too toxic for humans to enter, so they decided the best possible thing to do was set it on fire. And it's been burning away ever since. 35 years to be exact.

    3. Polybius - The video game that turns you mad. No-one actually knows if this video game exists and many people have actively went out to prove that it doesn't exist. I'll let you decide if you read up on it. The Simpsons even spoofed it.

    Number 3 is tame in comparison to the others, but what else is there that's just not quite right? (Que someone saying me.)

    http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/03/25/darvaz-the-door-to-hell/

    as for polybius,if memory serves I remember something about this from the early 80s, Im sure it was a stupid video games which had stobe lighting effects and hypnotic swirls etc ... and gave people sore heads and made them sick, hence the legend that people went mad!!!!

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