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It was written as history on clay tablets, and it reads like science fiction, not typical mythology. There was another planet, which sometimes comes closer to Earth, and these beings (not god's, just beings who live there) came to Earth, and we're mining, but it was hard, so they created humans to do it, and a bunch of other stuff. There is a list of kings, and the time of their reign, and the later ones are historical or in biblical times, but the earlier ones have reigns of 1000s of years. Weird stuff.
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Humans are naturally wired to be curious, which is why a strange discovery or an unanswered question can keep us searching long after we are meant to close our browser. Psychologists call this the information gap, the space between what we know and what we want to know.
When we realize there’s a missing piece, we feel drawn to find out more. That’s how one strange fact can lead to another, then another, until we’re researching something we never planned to look up.
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It was fascinating and terrifying to get a detailed look into the mind of an untreated paranoid schizophrenic. But the rest of the website was the rabbit hole. The whole site was a bunch of different paranoid schizophrenics claiming the government had implanted tiny devices in their bodies.
Some of the most interesting discoveries happen when we’re looking for something else entirely. You might be researching an old mystery and stumble across a forum discussing a completely unrelated topic, only for that new subject to grab your attention.
This is known as information encountering, and it describes finding unexpected information that turns out to be interesting or useful. It’s one of the many reasons why one random link can send you down a completely different path from the one you started on.
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The cult of Rolex and other ridiculously expensive watches is insane.
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Some topics hold your attention because you genuinely want to understand them. A recent study examining how adults explored online information found that the time they spent engaging with material was more closely related to their curiosity.
Think about spending an hour reading about an obscure historical event or trying to understand a bizarre phenomenon. When a subject really grabs you, you want to get to the bottom of it, and one interesting detail can keep you reading far longer than you expected.
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It’s such a fascinating mess, and the fraudster in charge ended up going to prison for a few years because of it. Unbelievably, he went right back to scammin’ after he was released. He tried to run a Fyre Festival 2 in 2025. Dude’s dependent to scammin’.
The internet can make it quite hard to stop investigating because there’s always another intriguing claim waiting to be explored, especially if you’re a curious cat like me. One page leads to a theory, that theory leads to a discussion, and someone in the comments mentions a detail you have to look up.
Research on curiosity and uncertainty suggests that unanswered questions can make us more eager to seek information, even when not knowing the answer feels uncomfortable.
This combination is why mysterious stories and strange discoveries can be so compelling. We want to know what happened, and leaving a question unanswered can feel like being unable to scratch an itch in your brain.
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The debate lasted 3 years, with more than 15k comments between them (and they were not small comments). Days after days, they kept at it while no one was watching, even on days like Christmas Eve or the new year, they still responded to each other multiple times on the same exact subject.
The funny thing is that often times, they would get to talk about their lives randomly in-between arguments, sometimes to boast that they had a better wives than the other, sometimes to prove a random point about the other personality. At one point, they probably got to know each other better than their friends, they even wished a happy new year to each other despite insulting each other on the Christmas Eve just before.
It lasted until someone randomly stumbled upon it and decided to share what he found on the website general forum.
There was also another such case where two individuals debated for 7 months in another comment section about the fall of SEGA in the same manner. Someone digging through the messages found that at one point, one of the two guy admitted that his gf cheated and left him because he was too busy responding to other when his gf wanted to sleep with him.
Who knows how many random year lasting debates like that still happen today? Until someone randomly find them.
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It wasn't that well-known online yet when I fell into that rabbit hole. I think it's a fascinating topic.
Online posts can contain useful clues and personal experiences, but they can also include wild speculation or claims repeated so often that people mistake them for facts. That’s why it helps to approach even the most intriguing questions with an open mind and a little healthy skepticism.
Follow the clues, look for reliable sources, and see whether the evidence holds up before deciding what to believe. The best rabbit holes leave you with something genuinely interesting to learn, rather than a collection of unverified claims.
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Its a sci-fi world building community project that’s been going on for 15+ year and holy hell is it good. Pretty hard sci-fi but also frigging cool. I go back every 6-12 months to see updates and such and it’s constantly growing.
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An interesting thing about the internet is that you never know where one curious click will take you.
What’s the deepest rabbit hole you’ve ever fallen into, and what did you discover at the bottom? Tell us in the comments. We want to know what kept you clicking long past your bedtime!
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