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Smile .jpg - Smile Dog If the internet had a cursed hallway with doors you should never open, Smile .jpg would be one of them.
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This infamous image, better known as Smile Dog, is one of the internet's most bone -chilling creepypasta legends.
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It all started with a file, an old grainy jpeg of a dog.
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But not just any dog, this one has human -like teeth, glowing eyes, and a blood -red background.
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cute kind of smile.
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According to the legend, the image originated from a floppy disk mailed to a woman named Mary E who was researching paranormal phenomena.
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After viewing the image, she began having vivid nightmares and spiraled into paranoia and a mental breakdown.
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Eventually, she took her own life, allegedly leaving only a note, smile, God loves you.
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What makes smile .jpg so disturbing People report headaches,
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seizures, and even hallucinations after seeing it.
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Forums are filled with users begging others not to search it.
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Some even claim it shows up in inboxes or hidden links, whispering in dreams.
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Spread the word.
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Rap .mp3 or Memphis Rap Sigils There's a photo floating around the internet called rap .mp3,
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and no, it's not a sound file, it's an image.
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of a man, shirtless and sweaty, staring straight into the camera with cold, almost lifeless eyes.
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He's surrounded by strange hand -drawn symbols, think crosses, triangles, occult -looking squiggles, all scrawled in black marker across the walls.
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The caption simply reads "rap .mp3" and the internet lost its mind.
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People started calling it the Memphis Rap Sigils, tying it to the dark,
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horrorcore rap, a niche music scene known for lyrics about death, satanism, and ritualistic violence.
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Some speculated that the symbols were part of actual sigil magic where drawings are believed to summon spirits or manifest evil.
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Others thought it was a real crime scene and the man in the image was a murderer.
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Others believed he was the victim.
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And then there were those who thought the whole photo was cursed.
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The point is that no one could explain where it came from or
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The only thing people knew for certain was that when you look at it, it just feels wrong.
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Like you've accidentally walked in on something you were never meant to see.
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The Vulture and the Little Girl, Sudan, 1993.
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One of the most haunting and disturbing photos ever to spread across the internet is the Vulture and the Little Girl.
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It was taken in 1993 during the Sudan famine by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter, and once you see it, it burns into your memory.
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The photo shows a frail, starving little girl collapsed on the ground, barely alive, while a vulture lurks just feet away, waiting.
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Yes, waiting.
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As if the bird knew her time was almost up.
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The image was captured Eod Sudan, and it quickly became a symbol of the horror and helplessness of famine.
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But what made it truly eerie wasn't just the photo, but what came after.
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People online began asking if the girl survived and why the photographer didn't try to help her.
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Kevin Carter claimed she managed to crawl away, but her exact fate was never confirmed, and that ambiguity made things even darker.
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According to the story, some said he waited 20 minutes to get the perfect shot before chasing at all.
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Carter won that Pulitzer Prize in 1994, which made the speculations worse because people started saying he had traded compassion for a Pulitzer.
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Sadly, just months later, overwhelmed by guilt, trauma, and backlash, he died by suicide.
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His final note hinted at the horrors he had witnessed and couldn't unsee.
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The Tragedy of Blanche Monnier letter stating that a starving unmarried woman was locked up in Madame Monnier's home.
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The Monniers were a well -respected conservative family of noble blood, so they were definitely not the sort that would do something like this.
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Regardless, the police still stormed into the house and were shocked to find an emaciated woman surrounded by old food, excrement, insects, and vermin.
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Her name Before then, Blanche had the world at her fingertips.
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She was beautiful, from a wealthy family, and attracted wealthier suitors.
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But the only man Blanche was interested in was a poor lawyer.
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For Blanche's mother and her brother Marcel, this was the ultimate disgrace to the family.
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So Blanche was taken to a tiny room in the attic and chained to the bed.
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For the next 25 years, they mournfully told everyone that the lovely Blanche had disappeared, even long after her beau died.
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By the time Blanche was rescued, she was 56, weighed a mere 25 kilograms, and had gone mad.
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Blanche's mother was arrested, but died 15 days later.
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Her brother was convicted at first, but was acquitted because he was considered mentally incompetent.
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And there was Blanche would live for 10 more years before dying in a psychiatric hospital.
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Tomoko in the Bath, Japan, 1971.
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At first glance, the photo looks deceptively calm.
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A mother gently holds her daughter in a bath, both their faces unreadable, one tender, the other blank.
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But once you know the story, the image becomes a haunting,
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tragic, and deeply unsettling picture known She suffered from severe mercury poisoning,
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aka Minamata disease, caused by industrial wastewater dumped into the sea by the Chiso Corporation.
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Thousands were affected, but Tomoko's case was one of the most extreme.
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A photo taken by Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer W.
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Eugene Smith in 1971, was meant to show the human cost of unchecked corporate greed, and it did.
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It did it too well.
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The photo went viral decades later, resurfacing on creepy forums and disturbing images lists across the internet.
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Because the photo doesn't just document illness, it feels possessed.
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The light is soft, the water is still, but there's something eerie about the way Tomoko's body folds into her mother's arms.
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invisible and beyond us.
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Then came the urban legends.
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Whispers started to circulate that the photo was cursed and people who stared at it too long felt a strange sadness.
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The photo was eventually pulled from circulation by Tomoko's family who said it had been misused.
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By then, it was already too late.
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Annalisa Michel and the Exorcism Death In 1976,
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two Roman Catholic priests Ernst Ault and Arnold Renz went on trial.
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And it's not for the reason you think.
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The two were involved in the death of Enneliese Michel who had starved to death during a 10 -month long exorcism.
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Enna grew up in a devout Catholic family in West Germany, but when she turned 16, Enna started having seizures.
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And by 20, she was on heavy psychiatric medication for psychosis and depression.
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Even with the drugs, Anna ate insects and drank her urine off the floor.
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Once, she bit the head off a dead bird.
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But the final straw was when she told her family that she was hearing voices.
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They took her off the meds and approached the Roman Catholic Church for an exorcism.
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It was approved, and for the next 10 months,
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Ernst Alt and Arnold Renz exorcised Anna while she spoke in a deep, growling voice. on her knees.
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When the kneeling caused some of her bones to break, they didn't stop or even treat her wounds.
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They just continued with the rituals.
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By this time, Anna had stopped eating and weigh just 33 kilograms.
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67 exorcisms later, she died of dehydration and malnutrition.
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Anna was just 23 years old.
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Her parents and the two Roman Catholic priests were found guilty of negligent homicide.
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parents never served time because they had suffered enough.
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Anatoly Moskvin, the doll collector.
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Anatoly Moskvin was known for many things.
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Brilliant journalism, renowned historian, and linguistic expert.
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Some even called him a genius.
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But in 2011, the Russian man would come to be known by another name, the creepy man who collected dead girls.
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It started when the police received several reports about graves being robbed at cemeteries in and around the city
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in Novgorod in Russia.
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After staking out cemeteries for two years, in 2011, they caught Anatoly digging up a grave.
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When they searched the apartment he shared with his parents, they quickly realized that this wasn't your run -of -the -mill grave robbery.
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There were life -sized dolls all over the apartment.
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A 45 -year -old man having life -sized dolls is pretty weird, but what makes Anatoly's case special is that they were the mummified remains of human girls.
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And he didn't stop there.
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Anatoly attached buttons or toy eyes into their empty eye sockets so that they could watch cartoons with him.
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Some of the bodies had music boxes in their chests so that when he touched them, they would make sounds.
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He even kept doll -making manuals and maps of local cemeteries.
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done right under his parents' noses.
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They just thought he liked making big dolls and thought nothing of it.
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29 corpses were found in the apartment.
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The youngest was three, the oldest, 25.
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Anatoly was diagnosed with a form of paranoid schizophrenia and has been confined to a psychiatric clinic since, freeing the dead to rest in peace.
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The Andes Plane Crash, Survival at 70 Days.
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rugby union team chartered the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 to take them to Chile for a match.
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But their plans were forever changed
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when the co -pilot Lieutenant Colonel Dante La Guarrara made a fatal mistake
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that would end with the plane crashing on a remote icy mountain in Argentina.
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Of the 45 passengers on board, 33 remained alive although many were critically or seriously injured.
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Aircraft took off in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay to search for the missing flight, but couldn't find them because the blanket of white snow kept them hidden.
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As the weather worsened, the rescue teams called off the search, convinced that no one could have survived.
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So imagine the shock when 70 days after the plane disappeared, two of the survivors, Nando Porrado and Roberto Canesa,
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trekked 50 miles to Chile with the news that there were still more survivors in the mountains.
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Over the next two days, the Chilean Air Force would find and rescue 16 survivors ones.
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The story of their survival shocked the world, but not as much as what they had to do to survive.
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At first, they made do with the food they had brought, but when they ran out, they resorted to the unimaginable, eating the flesh of the people who died.
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A picture they took shows what looks like a human spine.
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The media went crazy, and families who lost their loved ones in the crash were livid.
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Rumors swirled around that the survivors might have eat their dead came from.
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Eventually, the outrage died down.
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It certainly helped that Pope Paul IV sent a telegram to the survivors sanctioning their actions.
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The remains of the 29 who died were buried at the crash site.
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15 were mere bones, while 13 bodies were found intact.
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The Dylan Redwine Case On November 19, 2012, police received a missing persons report from Elaine Hall.
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Her son, Colorado to seen her soon -to -be ex -husband, Mark, on a court -ordered visit.
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The following morning, Mark left home to run some errands, and when he got back, the 13 -year -old was gone.
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Father and son didn't have a great relationship, so people didn't think much of it when Mark said Dylan had run away.
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Then, months later, Dylan's body was found eight miles from Mark's home.
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By then, a lot of people were suspicious of him.
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He didn't join in the search for Dylan, and he had told an ex -wife mountains were the best place to get rid of a body.
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He also told his older son, Corey, that Dylan's head needed to be found to determine the cause of death.
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Mark and Elaine had also appeared on Dr. Phil, where Mark flat out refused to take a polygraph test.
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The police did a more thorough search of Mark's home and truck and found traces of Dylan's DNA.
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He was arrested and sentenced to 48 years.
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However, the question on everyone's lips was why?
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Why did Mark kill his 13 -year -old son?
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Well, back in 2011, Corey and Dylan found some disturbing pictures of Mark on his laptop.
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He had on a wig, was wearing women's lingerie, soiled diapers, and even eating human waste from said diaper.
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Dylan had planned to confront him during his visit and had asked Corey to send him the pictures.
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Faced with this humiliation, Mark had killed his own son.
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Maybe in a fit of rage, maybe to keep him quiet.
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The Murder of Lisa Holm These yellow tiles were the last thing Lisa Holmes saw before she took her last breath.
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Lisa Holmes was a 17 year old working a summer job at a coffee shop in Blomberg, Sweden.
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On the night of June 7, 2015, she texted her father that she had ended her shift and was heading home on her moped.
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But Lisa never made it back.
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Hours later, when her father came to check what was holding her up, he found her moped still there with a key in the ignition.
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But no Lisa.
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For five days, hundreds of volunteers flooded the area searching for Lisa.
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They slowly found bits of her things.
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Her cell phone case and license.
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All pointers that Lisa might still be in the area.
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a neighboring farm.
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Then a suspicious man showed up and told them the area had already been searched.
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They didn't believe him and continued their search.
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Lisa's jacket and helmet were soon found in a nearby barn.
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They eventually worked their way to a nearby work shed.
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In one of the closets, they found Lisa's body with a rope around her neck.
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The teenager had been hanged by the neck in the barn before her body was hidden in the work shed.
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DNA evidence on Lisa's body and the
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old lithuanian nareas belevichus the same man who had tried to
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derail the search nareas's computer contained a lot of pornography
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and there was evidence that he watched the girls in the coffee shop from his room
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and checked on them nareas was sentenced to life in prison
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but he wasn't there long he got beaten up by other inmates was drenched in hot water
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and in 2022 fatally stabbed by another inmate Robert Pickton, the pig farmer killer.
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When Canadian police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms at the Pickton pig farm on February 6, 2002, they expected to find weapons,
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pigs, and maybe one or two weird things.
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After all, David and Robert Pickton were known for hosting wild parties on the farm.
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What they didn't expect to find were the personal belongings of a missing woman.
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They executed another search warrant on the property, but this time they found much skulls,
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hands, and feet, bloody clothing belonging to a victim, a jawbone and teeth, and a garbage can with human remains.
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By the time they were done, they had found the DNA of missing women.
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Some of them were prostitutes, others were drug users.
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Robert Pickton had murdered 33 women between 1995 and 2001.
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Robert put the actual number at 49 and had told an undercover detective
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What was crazy about this case was how normal Robert looked and was.
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On the outside, he seemed like the quiet Picton brother.
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He got rich selling parts on his farmland to property developers
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while working diligently as a full -time farmer on his family's pig farm.
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Behind closed doors, Robert lured women to his farm, handcuffed and killed them before getting rid of their bodies.
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And the way he did it would definitely disgust you.
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He told one person that he ground them up and fed them to his pigs.
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But there's also evidence that Robert may have ground up human flesh
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and mixed it with pork that he sold to the public.
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The serial killer got a taste of his own medicine in 2024 when he died from a fatal heart attack behind bars.

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Ключевая лексика этого видео

Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:

СловоПроизношениеЗначение
survivor существительное/sɚˈvaɪvɚ/вы́живший, оста́вшийся в живы́х
doll существительное/dɑl/ку́кла, ля́лька
disturb глагол/dɪˈstɜːb/меша́ть, беспоко́ить
exorcism существительное/ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪ.zəm/экзорци́зм, изгна́ние нечи́стой си́лы
vulture существительное/ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/гриф, стервя́тник
psychiatric прилагательное/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/психиатри́ческий
curse существительное/kɝs/прокля́тие
eerie прилагательное/ˈɪɚi/стра́нный, жу́ткий
kilogram существительное/ˈkɪləɡɹæm/килогра́мм, кило́
moped существительное/ˈmoʊ.pɛd/мопе́д
starve глагол/stɑɹv/голода́ть, умира́ть от го́лода
haunt глагол/hɔnt/посеща́ть, навеща́ть
famine существительное/ˈfæm.ɪn/го́лод
seizure существительное/ˈsi.ʒɚ/захва́т, взя́тие си́лой
insect существительное/ˈɪn.sɛkt/насеко́мое, бука́шка

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

СловоЗначение
call off глаголотзывать, отменять
die down глаголутиха́ть, ути́хнуть
dig up глаголоткопа́ть
run away глаголсматываться, убега́ть
run out глаголзака́нчиваться, зако́нчиться
show up глаголобъявля́ться, объяви́ться

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Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делаетare filled · are believed · was cursed
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предметеthose who thought · people who stared · man who collected

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  • Звуки «sh» и «zh»: seizure /ˈsi.ʒɚ/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, flesh /flɛʃ/, caption /ˈkæp.ʃən/, compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/
  • Длинные слова — следите за ударением: exorcism /ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪ.zəm/, psychiatric /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/, cemetery /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, undercover /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/

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  2. Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
  3. Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как survivor, doll, disturb.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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