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Post shit like this. I find reading about this stuff super interesting This article has a short bit about the "Highway Of Tears" which is a 800km stretch of highway between two moderately sized communities. In between these two small cities is quite a few native reserves. Along this stretch of land more then 24 woman have gone missing since 1969. No cases have been solved but bodies have been found along the highway. Along this highway are many signs saying to not hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers. "A series of unsolved murders and disappearances of young women has earned the route the nickname the "Highway of Tears" along the 800 km (500 mi) section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert.[1] It is unknown how many women have been killed or have suspicously disappeared since 1969, but some estimate the number could be as high as 32. By October 2007, Project E-Pana, an investigation by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) examining the similarities among these murders and disappearances, determined that 18 of them show enough similarities to be linked. These are the unsolved murders and missing-persons files that are collectively called "The Highway of Tears" case. As the result of a symposium held in Prince George in March 2006, aboriginal Canadians along the route are advocating better rural bus service that would help reduce the number of young native women hitchhiking. In addition, spurred on by native leaders, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is officially investigating the unsolved murder or disappearance of nine women between the ages of 14 and 25 since 1974, most of whom were hitchhiking along Highway 16. As of August 28, 2009 Police have converged on a property in Isle Pierre, in rural Prince George to search for remains of Nicole Hoar, a young tree planter who went missing on Highway 16, on June 21, 2002. The property was once owned by Leland Vincent Switzer who is currently serving a prison sentence for the 2nd degree murder of his brother. The RCMP are also searching the property for the other missing women from the Highway of Tears. One of the victims found alongside the highway, 16-year-old Ramona Wilson, was a subject of a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, entitled Finding Dawn.[2][3]" And here is a website about the highway. -[link]- 
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amishburrito
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In the winter of 1959, nine university students died mysteriously while hiking in the Ural mountains' Dyatlov Pass located in the former Soviet Union. Details never leaked out to the public until well after the fall of the iron curtain due to the unusual circumstances contained in the report. The bodies of the hikers were found not far from their camp, which had been nearly destroyed. Investigators followed footprints to what looked to be the site of a small bonfire and the first two bodies. Inexplicably they were clad only in their underwear despite the bitter Russian winter, as if some force drove them from their camp before they could even dress. Three more were found in another location, looking as if they were trying to return to their doomed camp after their companions succumbed to hypothermia. None of the bodies were dressed for winter, some without even shoes, others with only strips of cloth on their feet torn from the clothing of the already dead. If the circumstances were unusual, the autopsy proved to be completely bizarre. One of the students had major fractures to his skull, and another two had their ribs completely smashed. No external wounds or trauma were found. Medical experts compared the injuries to a high-speed car crash, stating it would be impossible for another human being to create injuries of their type without an external wound. Another camper, a young woman, had her tongue missing. While investigators initially suspected foul play, no footprints were found near any of the bodies other than the students' own. Adding to the mystery, the bodies were all shown to have high levels of radioactive contamination. Nine years after the incident in the Ural mountains another group of hikers were found dead, this time in the Caucasus. The incident occured in late summer this time, however many similarities presented. The hikers' campsite was found destroyed and the campers forced to flee with little or no provisions. Rather than being spread out, the bodies were all found within a dozen yards of each other in a nearby clearing. The scene was described as horrifying by police. The bodies were positioned as if thrown at great speed, postured as if their bones had been smashed to splinters. The results of the medical investigation was immediately sealed by the Soviet government. Again, each of the six bodies presented with high doses of radiation, despite a normal background radiation level around the site of their deaths. During autopsy, the medical examiner discovered that the initial description of the hikers' bones being smashed was incorrect. Their entire skeletons were entirely missing, despite having no external wounding whatsoever. High levels of calcium and other nutrients were found in their blood and surrounding tissues, as if something had somehow rapidly liquified the bone. Crime scene photos also revealed that the clearing the bodies were found in was not natural. Topographic maps taken only months before had shown the area to be a lush forest. Entire trees had been smashed to splinters in a path more than twenty meters wide and over a two hundred meter area. Edited Sat Feb 19 2011, 11:17AM |
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-[link]- The forest is a popular place for suicides, reportedly the world's second most popular suicide location after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.[2][3] This popularity is often attributed to the 1960 novel Nami no Tō (波の塔?) by Seichō Matsumoto,[4][5] which ends with two lovers committing suicide in the forest. However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara dates from before the novel's publication, and the place has long been associated with death: ubasute was practiced there into the 19th century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of those left to die.[6] Since the 1950s, more than 500 people have lost their lives in the forest, mostly suicides,[3] with an average of approximately 30 counted yearly.[7] In 2002, 78 bodies were found within the forest, replacing the previous record of 73 in 1998.[8] In 2003 the rate climbed to 100, and in recent years the local government has stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to downplay Aokigahara's association with suicide.[6] The high rate of suicide has led officials to place signs in the forest, in Japanese and English, urging those who have gone there in order to commit suicide to seek help and not kill themselves. The annual body search, consisting of a small army of police, volunteers and attendant journalists, began in 1970.[9] Aside from those intending to die there, the dense forest and rugged inaccessibility has attracted thrill seekers. Many of these hikers mark their routes by leaving colored plastic tapes behind, causing concerns from prefectural officials for the ecosystem of the forest.[10] |
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these are wicked interesting. where do you find them? i sometimes stumble upon cool wikipedia entries about random cool things/events and want more | ||
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