Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

54 points by adminu 2 years ago | 26 comments

I am collecting my favorite internet rabbit holes on my website (https://ph-uhl.com/links/internet-rabbit-holes/) and went through my old lists but I think I lost a few of the good ones.

So I was wandering, what are your favorites? The stuff that you loose a night to, when finding it?

japhyr 2 years ago |

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

bombcar 2 years ago | |

DVGs is fine for the hoi polli but the real connoisseurs are all about Bill Ewasko (finally located).

mapmap 2 years ago | | |

Does Tom have recent writings on this? I could only find news articles from 2022.

runjake 2 years ago |

If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole.

The premise is "What's the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere?". It has everything from Bigfoot, to Old West stuff, to UFOs, to cultists, to dead bodies.

https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14...

I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.

orbz 2 years ago |

The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows.

Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are.

1: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

2: https://tvtropes.org/

DylanSp 2 years ago | |

And you can combine them - the TV Tropes for the SCP Foundation is one way to find SCPs to read! Browse the Nightmare Fuel pages [1] for horror, or the Funny pages [2] for a more comedic approach.

1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SCPFoun...

2: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SCPFoundation

FreezingKeeper 2 years ago |

Always an amazing read for me

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

kriberg 2 years ago | |

Holy bananas, what an adventure. Thanks for linking this :)

ledauphin 2 years ago | |

wow.

Lammy 2 years ago |

https://tcrf.net/ — it’s cool to get a window into the creative process

cpach 2 years ago |

https://www.folklore.org/

smada 2 years ago |

chinacat's massive thumbprint lsd story from shroomery.org

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1...

hnthrowaway0328 2 years ago |

Actually archive.org has a tons of interesting stuffs. I downloaded all Dragon magazines and many ADND 2e modules so that once I semi-retired I can convert some modules into computer games, given that we have an appropriate engine then (Neverwinter nights is a good one but it's going to be too old 15 years from now).

CrypticShift 2 years ago |

https://www.are.na/ as a network of connected channels.

Random example channel: https://www.are.na/krish/visions-of-the-web

DylanSp 2 years ago |

The Digital Antiquarian has a _lot_ of interesting writing about the early history of video gaming and home computing. https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ has the full list of posts, starting from the beginning of the blog; the history they cover is mostly in chronological order.

is_true 2 years ago |

Old maps and stuff related to some places I go often.

I've found old bottles and to date them I started looking for archives of old newspapers. Worst use of my time, haha

shoebham 2 years ago |

https://theforest.link/

this site redirects you to random cool websites.

altdataseller 2 years ago |

Mentour Pilot series in YouTube explaining what happened behind many airplane crashes

saintradon 2 years ago |

cicada 3301 is up there

DarrisMackelroy 2 years ago |

The Bobbit Worm Chronicles: https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chro...

tldr: a guy spends a LONG time trying to kill a bobbit worm in his fish tank

anakaine 2 years ago | |

I found myself trying to remember the name of this recently. Thank you!

Nicholas_C 2 years ago |

If only StumbleUpon was still around...

caravan778 2 years ago |

why nobody mentions conspiracy theories? i think its a great mental exercise

mkbkn 2 years ago |

Askreddit subreddit

AK42 2 years ago |

Ask.metafilter.com is a good one