Morbid Stuff that Shouldn't Fascinate You But Does
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I've read about the Rhode Island fire at the Station Nightclub a few times in the past and I'm back on it. I watched the video once and never again, it was horrible. I'm not the sensitive type when it comes to that and can look at pretty much anything without flinching, but that video was horrific. Even so, the events of it are fascinating, there was so much went wrong because of so many people. The stories of the survivors are incredible too.
I feel bad for almost 'enjoying' this story, but it's not that, it just captures me, if that makes sense. So, in the interests of alleviating my conscience, is there anything that grabs you that you feel is a bit wrong?
I feel bad for almost 'enjoying' this story, but it's not that, it just captures me, if that makes sense. So, in the interests of alleviating my conscience, is there anything that grabs you that you feel is a bit wrong?
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Mmm, that is depressing and yet still fascinating.
Last words from death row:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/photogallery/last_words.html
Last meals before execution:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/photogallery/last-meals.html
The mundane like the above makes me sad because words and meals should be just that, mundane. They're precious though at the time.
I feel I have to watch and listen to these things every now and again, purely to remind myself of the horror and enormity of what happened that day.
It's truly haunting.
I've seen this video before. Think of it as an educational tool. If you're in a night club or somewhere similar and you notice a small fire break out .. YOU GET THE **** OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY.
I think that I've seen them so much that I've become immune almost to what's on the screen. Selfishly, I remember more about my own fear when seeing it for the first time. That's pretty awful isn't it?
Yeah, it's not something you forget when you've seen that fire. The speed it spread is unbelievable! To be seeing people just watching the fire and seeming to just do nothing, it must have been shock for a lot of them or they expected someone to just pop over and extinguish it .
Apparently in The Coconut Grove one, many bodies were found in their seats holding their glass
Credit to the guy who asked for a cup of tea with biscuits.
Going out in style.
From what I've read before the 'last meal' is actually a few days prior to the execution, but it's become a kind of tradition to offer it. Also the option of anything you want has the caveat, *as long as it's in the kitchen*
I think that's quite a common one. How, why? It's almost frustrating to be unable to understand how a person can become something like they do.
See, that makes me jealous! I would love to see that. It's not ikky in my mind, but the working of the human body is beautiful. I've seen them on TV, that Dr who used to do his show was great, but to see one in RL would be amazing!
i was absolutely disgusted by it, but almost became obsessed. I have to stop myself from looking up anything about it, as it starts me off again.
Hah, being a boxing fan I've always had an interest in that, being as there were some peripheral boxing characters involved (and some more than peripheral, if some of the transcripts from Bernard O'Mahoney's website are to believed, not that I particularly would).
Don't know if anyone else remembers, but he was a very, very high up colonel in the Canadian Air Force, in charge of a busy base and tipped for the very top - and he was convicted of the brutal murders of two women, sexual assaults of two more and umpteen burglaries where he'd stolen thousands of pairs of knickers.
I was fascinated, I think, because it's hard to imagine a less likely killer and he is clearly not a psychopath.
Horrible case, and scary.
I read the book about the murders in the early-00s after watching the film 'Essex Boys' on TV. Very interesting case.
But then I suppose it comes from the same mindset as finding serial killers interesting as well.
I still can't stop quoting from 'when Louis met Jimmy.' even though I know it is wrong.
'i'm odd, your different. That's not a bad double'
'this is the bed, I call it the alter.' 'do people get sacrificed on the alter?'
'it's not a morbid thing.' 'i never brought up morbid, jimmy'
I have always wondered if he was in the back of the RR or he met them in the lane and got into the back of the car.
But no foot prints in the snow as I recall.
It was such a professional hit and very very fast, no messing.
I still think it was ex SAS but for the deceased in the back, a bit messy.
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/contents.html
It is a history of capital punishment mainly in the UK. Lots of information and stories about executions, executioners, prisoners and much more. Grimly fascinating - well for me any way!
I was in Wandsworth prison about 20 years back and I had the unique experience of actually standing on the gallows platform itself. The execution chamber itself was directly next to the cell where the prisoner was "housed" so when the time came he/she would just have a few feet to walk before it was thank you and goodbye. At the time I was there the cell had been made into a rest room for the prison officers. One of the officers took me next door to show me the execution room and the platform was still there. The beam that held the rope was actually still there too.
I have some very morbid interests. I was up late the other night reading about execution methods, it was fascinating but I couldn't exactly explain why I was so tired the next day to everyone at work without looking like a weirdo.
Also I've lost count of the times I've been up late reading about serial killers that haven't been caught yet, not a good idea when you live alone, every little noise you hear in the night becomes terrifying