Visual Birth and Death

Here is a world map with a simulation of birth and death in real time.  It is worked out using real data to give a realistic view of how many people are coming and going and at what pace.

The Birth and Death Site

Skyway Bridge

This website keeps a check on the Skyway Bridge in Florida.  It has a very high rate of suicides and here you can find a live report of the attempts, success and saves of the people going there to jump.  It does make for grim reading but hey, that's what this blog is about.

www.skywaybridge.com

If this is something you find interesting though, there is also a documentary called The Bridge which can be found on Netflix.  This is about the same kind of thing but at The Golden Gate Bridge.

The Bridge wiki

Tamam Shud - A Mystery Corpse

At 6:30 am on the 1st of December 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton beach near Adelaide, Australia.  

He had no identification and a public appeal brought no information on the man at all.  To this day no one knows who he was or why he was dead on the beach.  When an autopsy was performed no cause of death could be found.

A re-enactment of how and where the man was found.

His pockets contained a used bus ticket from the city, an unused second-class rail ticket from the city to nearby Henley Beach, a narrow aluminium American comb, a half-empty packet of Juicy Fruit chewing gum, an Army Club cigarette packet containing (the different brand of) Kensitas cigarettes, and a quarter-full box of Bryant & May matches.

One month later a suitcase was also found at the train station and is believed to have belonged to him.  This still didn't give any clue as to who he was.  The case contained:

■ Red checked dressing gown

■ Red felt slippers, size 7

■ Undergarments - four pairs

■ Pyjamas

■ Four pairs of socks

■ Shaving kit containing razor and strop, shaving brush

■ Light brown trousers with sand in cuffs

■ A screwdriver

■ A cut-down table knife

■ A stencilling brush

■ A pair of scissors

■ A sewing kit containing orange Barbour's brand waxed thread

■ Two ties

■ Three pencils

■ Six handkerchiefs

■ Sixpence in coins

■ A button

■ A tin of brown shoe polish, Kiwi brand

■ One scarf

■ One cigarette lighter

■ Eight large envelopes and one small envelope

■ One piece of light cord

■ One shirt without a name tag

■ One yellow coat shirt (a shirt with an attached collar)

■ Two airmail stickers

■ One eraser

■ One front and one back collar stud

■ Toothbrush and toothpaste

Months after he was found, someone going back over the case found a small scrap of paper in the fob pocket of his trousers.  It said Tamam Shud in print, which is Persian for either ended or finished and it was identified to be ripped from a book.  It was worked out that the book was Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a book of 12th century poetry.  

A man heard of this case and the book.  He came forward with a copy of the book that he had found tossed in to the back of his car the night before the man was found.  The back page was missing where this phrase would have been printed.  On the inside of the books back cover they found indentations from hand writing which showed a code that has never been deciphered.

WRGOABABD
MLIAOI
WTBIMPANETP
MLIABOAIAQC
ITTMTSAMSTGAB

There have been many people working on this case and it has spanned out all over the world.  There are many theories and some possible ideas on who he might have been but there is nothing solid anywhere.  This is still now considered a great mystery and we will probably never know who he was, why he was there or what it all means.

Elisa Lam - The girl in the water tank

On February 19th 2013 the naked body of 21 year old Elisa Lam was found in the water tank on the roof at The Cecil Hotel in LA. Residents had been complaining that the water was running slow, had an odd taste and was looking a little brown so the tank was checked and there she was.

She was last seen alive on January 21st and once she was found they checked over the video from the lift and found this.  No one has been able to pin down exactly what she is doing or why but the theories are all over the net.  The most accepted one is some kind of mental episode due to her background with depression and bipolar disorder and the four medications she was taking for it.  It was ruled that she died of accidental drowning which they do believe was most likely self inflicted.

There are still a lot of questions around the case though as to how she managed to get up there to the roof, how she managed to get in the tank and how she managed to drown in it unassisted.  Some people believe there is someone unseen in this video that is the cause of her freak out while others have suggested demonic possession.  There are even conspiracy theories about her being involved in something to do with Tuberculosis research as the vaccine for it is called Lam-Elisa.  Thoughts?

Lost in the Catacombs

By now you will have noticed that I do like to share the work of others.  I do love the YouTube creators and like to promote the work they do.  So here is another guy I like to watch, Rob Dyke.  Here he is covering a story I have read about a few times and find chilling.  I personally think this video is real and that the guy in it most likely met a horrid end.  I won't bother telling you the story as Rob does it so well.  So just get settled in and watch.

Bjork's would be killer - failed but still tragic

This video is a very long one and a very harrowing one.  I remember this is the news when it all came out.  A guy who was suffering some kind of metal break down had decided that he loved Bjork so much and hated black people so much that it was unacceptable for her to be seeing Goldie.

He decided this was a good reason to send her an acid bomb in the post and then kill himself.  He filmed many, many hours of footage of himself setting everything up and then even filmed the final act.  His body was found along with all the evidence of what he had done in enough time to stop the package reaching Bjork.

The man who did this was named Ricardo Lopez and it's very clear he needed help and a lot of it.  This video is a compilation of his videos to show the main parts of what he captured.  It runs for 104 minutes and yes I have sat through every moment of it.  I can't embed it here, it won't accept the code but the link is below.  

LiveLeak video, Ricardo Lopez

Deep web videos

The deep web is full of strange and horrifying things.  There are lots of videos that have been pulled from the deep side to the top by people who spend time searching around but the worst of it has to be cut out.  These people often do report anything they find that is illegal and just down right sick.  

I have already shown you the Blank Room Soup video and linked SomeOrdinaryGamers.  This video has been made by Mr. Nightmare who is also a great source of creepy info on YouTube.  In this episode he does show you Blank Room Soup and does explain some of the strange facts behind the video, but then he goes on to show you five more.  Some of these are not shown due to the question over it's actual existence or the graphic nature.  He instead explains these videos to you.  These do get pretty bad so proceed with caution.

Another Youtuber that I really like is TakeDownMan.  In this video he does let you watch the things he has found on the deep web without talking over it.  A couple of them are repeated from before but you get a more clear view.  Also find below a short interview with Goddess Bunny in more recent times.  Bunny is the one seen  dancing in the Illuminati video.