Along similar lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_(China)

Folks in China sought to replicate a beautiful Austrian town.

That's pretty popular thing to do in China

There's another vice about a model Manhattan that no one moved into, so there's just a completely vacant Manhattan replica near Beijing.

My favourite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-begin-to-fill

Disco Demolition Night

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night

July 12, 1979.

Mix a losing season of baseball for the White Sox, a double header for the Tigers in Chicago, popular local DJ, and awesome plan...

"...anyone who brought a disco record to the ballpark would be admitted for 98 cents. Dahl was to blow up the collected records between games of the doubleheader."

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That was awesome. I love Life's too Short so that was quite the surprising cameo to me.

Wow I had no idea thanks for the read!

Love that show so much. Their interactions are gold.

This scene from AIA had me howling.

Lazarus just got released from prison.

Beaumont children disappearance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumo..._disappearance

I'm not from Australia, but this is apparently one of the country's most famous cold cases, dating from 1966. Three children are playing at the beach, and eye-witnesses suggest that they befriended a tall blonde man. They disappear and haven't been heard from since. No bodies, no evidence, and no firm leads.

There's a lot of interesting theories and proxy stories about other abductions and murders. There are 4 main suspects, including "The Family," a group of men believed to be involved in the murder of 5 boys.

Thanks, never heard of that. Interesting stuff.

Who'd of thought it...

Casefile podcast covered this case as well.


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Which esp? I can't see it.

quoting about the psychic thing...

Yeah, that seemed to be all over the police shows back in the 90s. Unsolved Mysteries (telling real-life mysteries) seemed to mention a psychic for everything.

Never looked into it, but I guess hiring psychics was a major police thing to do for a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapp..._Brian_Shaffer

Last night before spring break. Med student caught on camera entering bar, cameras show he never leaves the bar and is never seen again.

Sorry confused it with the other beach episode.


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Unresolved podcast did a 2 parter on the Beaumont children case.

Damn, this is pretty weird. There must be a limited amount of ways you can disappear inside a bar.

These quotes are important though

So it isn't certain that he ever entered the bar again and it's possible that they didn't see him leave if he did re enter.
I'd really like to see the camera footage.

The most interesting part is that one of the people he went to the bar with, "Florence", refuses to take a lie detector test.

Florence is his best friend, Steve or whatever, the guy he went out with that night.

I'd guess he either didn't go back into the bar (possible given what you wrote up there), or he left out the back private door. The back opened to a construction that the police say would be difficult to get through for someone sober and impossible for someone intoxicated, but there has to be some chance he left there.

No clue what happened to the guy from there though.

Odd case indeed.

I think the most likely scenario would have to be that he never went back inside and drowned. OTOH, his body should wash up at some point, right?
There was a case in Hamburg recently with odd circumstances. His drowned body was found after about 3 months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_face_murder_theory

Theoretical serial killer wandering around the midwest drowning drunk college males. IMO, most of these deaths were accidents but there is a serial killer in La Crosse, WI.

I went to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as an undergrad and lived there for a year doing my pharmacy school rotations so i remember these cases. There were 8 UWL male students that drowned, with no witnesses, between 1997-2007 (and it looks like 2 since). That's a lot of unwitnessed drownings in a town of 50k. The peculiarities of La Crosse's riverfront make accidental drownings pretty unlikely imo. The Mississippi is huge and obvious and Riverside Park has a flood control levy of giant sharp boulders. You'd have to be pretty determined to swim by yourself in the dark to climb/fall through all that. You'd be beat up but the victims always show no signs of trauma. Most people in La Crosse think it's a serial killer but the police are either dumb or in on it (seems unlikely imo).

Is it just a coincidence that this sounds like Mystic River?

There's also probably 'The Pusher' in Manchester. But seems far-fetched.

Yeh I was just about to mention that one. 61 deaths between 2008 and 2014 is pretty mad. I was living in Manchester and it was never that big of a deal.

Amsterdam gets about 7-15 dead bodies a year in the canals according to different sources (and some 20 more in lakes, rivers, ditches, swimming pools, and garden ponds) so it probably isn't that mad. ~3/yr are presumed to have fallen in while peeing.