What are some good internet Rabbit Holes to fall into during this time of quarantine?

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Hagen · Accepted Answer

Ohhhh man. Been waiting for this day for a long time. Here's my list in no particular order: 1. Dyatlov Pass Incident 2. Voynich Manuscript  3. Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (extremely compelling UFO sighting) 4. MK Ultra 5. Project Northwoods 6. Tunguska Event (One of my faves) 7. Aleph formerly Aum Shinrikyo (Japanese death cult) 8. Skinwalker Ranch 9. The Philadelphia Experiment  10. Japanese Unit 731 (fucking gnarly) 11. Alleged Russian Apartment bombings (false flag attacks in the late 90's) 12. Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11 13. Gulf of Tonkin Incident 14. Project Azorian 15. Bilderberg Meeting 16. Max headroom TV station hijacking  17. Fast Radio Bursts (aliens?! Maybe... but probably not) 18. Nazi Bell 19. Misplaced artifacts (archaeological artifacts are showing up well out of their understood time range in geological areas they shouldn't be in  awesome video ) 20. Pretty much anything to do with Monsanto, but their Roundup is prolific

Eeva-Maria · Answer

Give Lucid Dreaming a shot.

Erminia · Answer

Novels, get off my lawn and go read a book

Isaac · Answer

Watching historical documentaries is pretty good, some of them are on youtube and are 8+ hours long, so you can spend days watching them.

Anica · Answer

LotR wikis. Search one character and then just click on the links. You'll start with someone well known like Gandalf and end with something like a list of people who carried the ring of barahir. Great to build knowledge of the universe and then enjoy the films when you marathon them later this week.

Silke Keller · Answer

https://longform.org/ https://longreads.com Brilliant long articles curated from around the web

Cesar · Answer

Pizza crust. It's easy to make some of the best you've ever had. There is a whole world of crust makers who share their techniques. It can become addicting. You can use the dough to make garlic knots, bread sticks, etc.

FLORINE · Answer

Dungeons & Dragons. Do a Google on Dungeons and Dragons .pdf and you'll find tons of free content. Don't go to WOTC site  they'll charge you for older AD&D content that, IMO, should be free. Then start a campaign. Then play with people online.

Gabriele Moench · Answer

Haribo sugarfree gummy bear Amazon reviews

anela · Answer

Experimental hip hop, Japanese city pop and other genres of music mostly confined to the internet (in the West at least, city pop is still a thing in Japan)

Sirpa-Leena · Answer

Erratas

Diahann · Answer

Fanfiction. You like a certain show/movie/book?  Go read about other peoples interpretations.

Suvituuli · Answer

"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbWcXB0PoqOsAvAdfzWMf0w Fredrik Knudsen makes Videos about certain rabbit holes in a documentary style. I enjoy his videos alot. his videos are called "down the rabbit hole". "

Lotta-Maija · Answer

Did you know that we are actually a hybrid slave race forged by aliens to mine precious metals to repair the atmosphere of their home planet and the great flood was them trying to wash us off the planet because they starting falling in love with us? True story. Now you don't have to watch weeks of movies about the Annunaki.

Almire · Answer

everyone made fun of those rapping clowns for not knowing how magnets work, but i spent like 12 hours watching videos about magnetic fields and apparently NOBODY knows why magnets work the way they do.

Michaeline · Answer

My girlfriend and i watched every single eurovision music video from the last 5 years over the course of 3 days... time well spent. I never knew how amazing the whole competition is. Its like _____ got talent on steroids

Clarey · Answer

"Look up "mario kart music over police chase" on youtube. "

Birgit · Answer

How to grow mushrooms, (not magic mushrooms, pls dont ask it gets anoying) and the different techniques people use for different species.  Also, the rabbit hole of how many chemical products we harvest from fungi, it just sounds stupid to believe in the power of fungus because there is a fine line between it an all the esential oil homeopathic bullshit and cure all products being marketed by MLMs and facebook antivax moms.

Riina-Maria · Answer

Bohemian Grove

Vincent · Answer

North American Dash cam videos

Lurette · Answer

Cargo cults

Ariana · Answer

"I don't know if "good" is the right word, but I can personally spend hours reading about cults. I highly recommend checking out the (still active!) Heaven's Gate website and then falling headfirst into some Wikipedia articles and YouTube videos. "

Kristin Lemann · Answer

An American who contributed more to our lives than just about any other person you've heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank

Erwin · Answer

I dont remember where I got this from, but there's a little game you can do on wikipedia. So you pick two completely random topics, and they have to be unrelated. Then you pick one of the topics and go to that wiki page. On that wiki page, you have to find links that will lead you to other wiki articles. You continue on that cycle until you end up with the other topic you chose. Not only are you passing time, but you're also learning about new things.

Petra Himmel · Answer

Timecube It's time(cube) for a comeback

Aniela · Answer

Not really a rabbit hole but I'm pretty sure Amazon's Audible has an event going on for students that are out of school so they can read.

Eveline · Answer

That hobby you've occasionally entertained. Nearly everyone has one.

KETURAH · Answer

Inescapable porn addiction

Flem · Answer

The GATE program and hearing tests for kids. /x/ has been talking about it a bit.

Brant · Answer

[johnhorse.com](www.johnhorse.com) This historical web site on the Seminole wars and the Black Seminoles has over a days worth of original documents and interesting tangents. I didn't know any of this stuff before I stumbled upon this site

Zack · Answer

Jelle's Marble Runs. Just heard about this madness, and for some inexplicable reason, I'm freakin' hooked.

Elnora · Answer

steve1989mreinfo, it's strangely addicting.

Anie · Answer

http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/

Gigi · Answer

For god sake, we all know its r/unresolvedmysteries

BEULA · Answer

There's this crowdsourced mapping project: https://tasks.hotosm.org/  It's pretty interesting and seems like a useful thing to spend time on

Eldon · Answer

I fell into the Barkley Marathons rabbit hole the other and and it's really interesting. There are awesome documentaries about it on YouTube and it may just inspire you to do something with your life as well!!

Nemi · Answer

YouTube, ScreenRant's Pitch Meeting. 10/10 would recommend. It's the only screenrant content I watch.

Armando · Answer

Bon appetit

Gabriele Schultz · Answer

The Marble Machine X build process on youtube. It's fascinating to watch.

Lew · Answer

Boy, I've been reading so much harry potter fan fic, this writer named northumbrian created a whole in canon expanded universe for decades after deathly hallows and its been a blast reading his stuff. Edit: a word

Uuna · Answer

Look up conspiracy theories, spooky stories, and mysteries on YouTube. Top 5's, Bedtime Stories, and Lazy Masquerade are all really good, and also paranoia inducing. Oh and also Cold Case Detective.

Beauregard · Answer

Spoiler: it's really bad

Kettie · Answer

Looking up abandoned buildings on youtube. There are so many walkthroughs of old dilapidated buildings with people's belongings still inside. It is creepy but morbidly interesting.

Alic · Answer

My favourite one is nazi Germany's war machine. There are things about their organization during war (as regards the army, NOT the ideology), how everything worked, what vehicles they used, generals, battles or strategies that I find very interesting and could end up reading about for hours

Alfonso · Answer

YouTube: Vsauce

caecilie · Answer

Conspiracy theories. Coaat to Coast AM podcasts

Claudio · Answer

The SCP Foundation. It's a bit like what you'd imagine a behind the scenes look at the final scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark would be, i.e. all the other bizarre things that are kept in storage. If you want a simple, non-scary one to start with, 085 is a good one, and 426 is one heck of a lot of fun. If you want some with longer stories, my personal favourites are 093, 1762 and 3008

Bunny · Answer

"Read up about the nazis that escaped to Argentina at the end of WW2. To this day there are multiple all German communities in South America, all descendants of the nazis. And they don't exactly denounce what their grandparents did... Don't know how to time stamp but Tim Kennedy has a show called "finding hitler" where they explored these communities and he talks about it here on joe rogans podcast. Pretty wild Edit: it's around 49:40 in the video that the convo starts "

Birgit Ziegler · Answer

well between MIT and YALE, you can find nearly any course about anything and IT'S FREE AND OPEN to the public and really great.

Annemieke · Answer

Summoning Salt. A youtuber who covers the history of speedrunning games in concrete detail. Even if you don't like speedrunning, you should still take a look at his channel. Here's his video on Choco Mountain to get you started.

AGUEDA · Answer

Scooby Doo I'm watching all of the seasons and different versions of it

Gabriele Richter · Answer

/r/TranscribersOfReddit is a pretty good way to kill some time by writing transcriptions for people who are vision-impaired.

FONDA · Answer

Blender.org and youtube tutorials.

Emmi-Maria · Answer

Science channels. From entertaining to informative, science channels have been my favourite types of channels to binge. Vsauce is one of the best at this. Backyard Scientist, Mark Rober, and SloMo Guys to name a few. And if you're up to a mental challenge, go for really heady, concept, theory-laden channels like PBS SpaceTime and Quantum Gravity Research

Anke Beckenbauer · Answer

Try researching the DuPont family. Not the medical field, innovative part, but the fucked up evil incest haunted house parts. It's hard to find info because billionaires control everything but it's there.

Farrand · Answer

https://www.khanacademy.org/ I recommend this because it's become obvious that part of the problem right now is how many people didn't do well in school (me included, big part of why I love this site), or did not have the opportunity, and thus tune out valuable information they don't understand.  I wish more people took advantage of the fact that scholastic information is free (or close to it, just gotta look for it) online nowadays. Before the internet you had to be lucky enough to afford education, and live in a place where that kind of opportunity was available. Most people in the past didn't get to change their future as easily as we can.

Gjordis · Answer

Modern Russian history. Start reading about Rasputin and then go from there. Good stuff.

Ingram · Answer

Maybe you could find out what's on the second page of google.

Johannes · Answer

"On youtube, I have been viewing this channel named "Horror Stories". Its a collection of short but brief real life horror stories of people who died in the most horrible, unimaginable, and unsuspecting way. No clickbaits, on point story telling. "

Babita · Answer

TV Tropes.

sissel · Answer

If you're into music, there are a ton of great channels on YouTube. Rick beato does a lot of music and song analyses. Alex ball has done some documentaries about Roland, and the prophet synthesizers. All really interesting history and information.  True cuckoo is a dude who has a ton of videos about synthesizers, drum machines and jams. Not to mention tutorials.  There's so much that you can learn. I started with guitar and recently I got into synths and drum machines and YouTube is a great place to get to learn from plenty of talented people. I missed a ton but I guess you can do the exploring yourself.

TONYA · Answer

r/johntitor  In early 2000s, someone began posting on several message boards claiming to be a military time traveller from the year 2036. He arrived in 2000on a stopover for personal reasons  his primary mission was to return to 1975 to recover an IBM 5100 computer which was needed to debug huge computer issues that would arise in his original time. Some have disregarded this as an elaborate hoax. The rub is, there is an anticipated y2k style computer frying event (look up UNIX 2038 problem), and only like 5 people in the world knew the IBM 5100 debugging programming existed, which was later confirmed to be true by someone involved with the project. His stories contained predictions from his timeline, time travel theory, physics of his machine, and even schematics of the time travel device.  All his posts are archived, enjoy your trip down the rabbit hole!

Jaclin · Answer

The Rotten Library - rotten.com/library has an archive of essentially a pre-Wikipedia with hand written articles on weird stuff - cults, murders, etc. it's cross linked so it's easy to get lost, it's a relic of when the web was just scattered information with no real way to find it. The Rotten Library was my teenage introduction to so many oddities that today get reposted on Reddit every few months EDIT: found a mirror: rotten library mirror

Rheta · Answer

So go to Wikipedia and pick a country and look at a history of their leaders. Can be interesting to see a list of them and the politics behind it especially African countries cause they're wild how often they switch and for why.

unn · Answer

My 90s TV This is a fun, novelty website where you can easily lose yourself for hours with nostalgia. Basically it uses YouTube videos to simulate watching TV in 90s and allows you to specify the year you want, along with what categories you want to see when you change channels. There is also a My 80s TV and a My 70s TV

Daveen · Answer

I thought reading about the Death Valley Germans was super interesting and took a good few hours to read and do my own research Edit: if it's asking for a login/password, that means the site is overwhelmed. I know it's frustrating but I didn't realise it would get this much traffic. Try again in an hour or two and it should be fine Second edit: Web archive really comes in handy in these times. http://web.archive.org/web/20200117201303/https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ from u/abc_wtf

Jaana-Kaisa · Answer

I've been down a rabbit hole to make sourdough bread.. I'm fascinated now. I didn't realize how the process works. I saw some lady who's been using the same starter since the 1970s and she got hers from a woman who used hers for the last hundred years. Edit: heck, this thing really blew up. People are asking for links. As I am sure there are thousands, this was what a friend shared with me that started me into this now black hole. Seems like a good lad making bread.

parveen · Answer

I've been getting into reading about quantum mechanics. I figure if the quarantine lasts a year or two I still won't understand any of it.

Vanessa Eberhart · Answer

Normally, I recommend the Wikipedia list of Unusual Deaths. I still do, but with the disclaimer that as we isolate ourselves to protect our physical health, the isolation may be damaging to our mental health. Reading about Unusual Deaths might not be for you right now. If you're good to go, here's the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths?wprov=sfla1 Edit: I am aware of Stephen Whinfrey, who died of asphyxiation after getting his head trapped down a rabbit hole, in 2015. BEWARE!!!

CLORA · Answer

I got really into watching dogs fail splendidly at National agility training competitions. It was great fun.

Sanah · Answer

The Torah is quite the Rabbi hole.

Minna-Mari · Answer

Ah, the old Reddit quarantin-a-roo

Lilia · Answer

Starkid. A theatergroep that produces amazing musicals and put them on YouTube to watch for free.

Kathrin Mueller · Answer

I've personally gained a big interest in Sea shanties. Try learning some music!

JONA · Answer

Looking at what your symptoms are if you get sick is the worst rabbit hole.

Ines Walter · Answer

"True crime. Something about murderers and serial killers are terribly addictive to learn about. The ethics issues of persecuting a mentally ill person/minor as well as the eventual rehabilitation and whether they should ever be released. A truly fascinating field.  Only downside is that I can't talk about these with people I know IRL. Can't imagine telling anyone "oh my hobby? I like murders!" "

STEFFANIE · Answer

Reading court opinions from (insert your state here) Court of Appeals. I've learned so much about the legal system, precedence in proceedings, police interrogation, search and seizures and lots of other things. I've also learned there are some seriously messed up people...more than I could have imagined.

JOVAN · Answer

The entirety of Bionicle lore found here and here

SELINA · Answer

Scp and warhammer 40k(emperor text to speech)

Pepi · Answer

The SCP universe.

Evy · Answer

I always love the opportunity to be able to talk about http://archive.org because it is such a wonderful and free resource especially at a time like now when you're looking for distractions. It has millions of free downloads for music, movies, books, software, etc. One very popular example is that it is home to a very large catalog of Grateful Dead recordings There is also The Internet Arcade where you can play a lot of classic games along with the Console Living Room which is similar. They have access to tons of old PC games too and you can even play the original Oregon Trail online. There's a lot more in their software section too. It also has The WayBack Machine which has archived more than 396 billion web pages saved over time so you can go back and see how websites were years ago. For example, here's reddit on July 25, 2005 a month after it was created.

Alfonse · Answer

"Honestly I just like looking up random shit and people I hear about from tv shows, reddit etc on Wikipedia and digging through connected articles. Like i looked up Kenny Rogers and after a few links ended up on Shel Silversteins page where I learned he wrote Johnny Cash's "A boy named Sue" "

Dorsaf · Answer

Web Serial Novels. There's lots of good ones available for free. I haven't read too many, but I can personally recommend Worm and The Practical Guide to Evil.

KARAN · Answer

Jelle's Marble Runs. Watch the marblelympics.

Westleigh · Answer

the Titanic didn't really sink, instead the Olympic did in an insurance scam ETA: I don't actually believe this, it's just one hell of a theory to read.

Lotty · Answer

lmao a few years ago i couldn't sleep and fell into an oyster shucking rabbit hole and it was a live stream of this lady shucking for pearls with different colors. kinda like an unboxing video but i NEEDED to know what kind of pearls would emerge

Danila · Answer

Chris chan: a comprehensive history Edit: guys this blew up holy shit. Shout out to GenoSamuel2.1 for making a killer series

MAIRA · Answer

I pop into the comment history of u/poem_for_your_sprog every once in a while. The sheer amount of good quality poems being pumped out is pretty damn impressive.

malene · Answer

You could always have a go at the internet's hardest puzzle, Notpron. It's been online since 2004, but only 67 people ever made it through all 140 levels. I've been playing since 2007, am in the 70s now. Edit: Since many people are asking questions, feel free to check out the main site with rules, FAQ, and hints.

Julia Aachen · Answer

One of my favorite things to do is look around on Google Earth at an area you never plan on traveling too. ZOOM WAY IN. And learn about the small villages/communities/cities that live on completely different continents or tiny islands in the middle of nowhere. It's seriously insane how humans are willing to live ANYWHERE.

Adelen · Answer

Cicada 3301

Ritva-Liisa · Answer

Ask a Mortician on YouTube. Entertaining way to learn about the green funeral industry and confront mortality. If you love the darkness, or gallows humor, or are really curious about what happens to your body when you die check it out.

nawal · Answer

Someone in another thread recommended the YouTube channel Geography now.  I have been binge watching it for the past week, really entertaining way to learn about all the countries in the world!

Candan · Answer

Here is a list of a couple hundred small homestead skills to build.  Make a mallet with a branch and a hatchet. A bit of sewing. Make an adobe brick with mud from the backyard. Sharpen knives and tools. Dry some food. (*=edited to fix typos)

tonje · Answer

https://www.edx.org/ for college level courses on almost any topic you can think of. Edit: Since a few people have asked, yes the courses are free, but if you want it certified that you took the course then you have to pay. Otherwise the material itself is free.

Bernetta · Answer

Who remembers stumbleupon.com ? You create an account, choose your interests, then hit the stumble button and all of a sudden you will be shown a cool website that has to do with your interests. Thumbs up if you like that page, thumbs down if you don't. The more you like/dislike the cooler your pages get.

Nelli-Maria · Answer

My saved posts on Reddit- take the time to go back through them and act in some way that reflects why you saved the post in the first place!

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