There was a time I was absessed with prehistory, I also checked some things about medieval times, greece and romans, egyptians, etc. But there were just random curiosities (example: people used to brush teeth with coal and urine, yes you read right)
Hiroshima. I visited there a few weeks ago and as an American, it feels odd going to a place like that. The Peace Park Memorial is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once.
The administration of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Epic shit show. Of all the psychopathic 20th-century dictators, Saddam didn’t have nearly the highest body count, but I think he was the most sadistic. His sons were just as evil.
The Mexican Revolution. Every few months it comes back into my head and I try to go digging for it. There just isn’t enough good english-language material on it and my Spanish suck to bad to try to translate with any confidence.
I get sucked into the 9/11 footage every September. I remember watching the people jump from the burning buildings and hearing the thuds on live tv the day of.
The holocaust. I’m German(my parents immigrated from Germany and I’m fluent in German), but my family doesn’t really talk about the holocaust. So I research it myself a lot.
Chernobyl for me. I’ve gone down a rabbit hole so many times, and pick up something new every time, and it’s always fascinating. Industrial catastrophes are a fixation for me, and that is the largest one to ever occur.
Bolshevik revolution and the Romanovs. We covered it in high school and something inside me just sprang to attention. I’m not even Russian, I just can’t stop researching the Romanovs and their family dynamics.
I’ve been in a YouTube wormhole for months learning about the slave ships, how they were sold, their daily lives, diets, living quarters, abuse, breeding, torture etc.
It’s just so profoundly wrong, I find it hard to believe it went on for so long. All for cotton, sugar and tobacco.
Shipwrecks in general. Started with the Titanic, now I’ve watched countless documentaries and read articles and listened to survivors stories from every ship sinking I can find. Lusitania. Britannic. Arctic. Atlantic. Eastland. Costa Concordia. Edmund Fitzgerald. Sea Diamond. And so many more.
Not one event. Trying to wrap my head around sociology and incorporation of ideologies from the Greeks. I’m learning I’m stuck on B.C. era. I believe that maybe there are answers or inspiration for new ideologies regarding the state of the current world and the future. Hopefully something new, cause this rinse and repeat stuff is insanity!
9/11… literally happened 3 days before I was set to leave for freshman year of college, where I pretty much lived in a bubble for 4 years. After graduation, it seemed like the world was a different place.
Even though there’s not much new to learn more than 20 years later, I still find myself watching every new documentary on it or just watching NIST footage on Youtube. Growing up in the late 80s and 90s, it seemed like America was full of optimism and I still find it fascinating that a small group of 19 men kind of took that all away.
The Information Collapse in 2026 and the ensuing chaos , with its various warring factions. I keep revisiting the period because it makes no sense yet seems totally unavoidable. Just as if a critical mass was reached in the late “information age”. It’s a shame what happened but humans repeated these cycles every hundred years or so. Sadly this one was their last.
Anything involving the CIA overthrowing some shit that was absolutely not their business. Banana Republics especially are just crazy to me. That whole section of history was not that long ago and was absolutely skipped over in my history classes at least. To me, it highlights the danger of letting big business get too powerful and turning capitalism into dictatorship.
No, this is not an isolated incident, there are multiple events.
The poor farm and insane asylum.
Confederate soldiers.
Even as recently as the 90’s 68 unclaimed dead from the heat wave.
I don’t really go out of my way to keep looking, but I get little glimpses of historical stories and places and can’t help but dig deep and suddenly we’re in mass grave territory again.
Not an event persay, but the Hindenburg and history of airships fascinate me. The difference in comfort between airships and fixed-wing flight was like night & day. If it had been allowed to mature, international travel might have been vastly different.
The New Order Regime. I’m obsessed with it because my dad lost his dream and his garage after some party member decided they didn’t like him competing. It still bothers me.
The last Russian royal family— Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexis. From incredible privilege to violent extinction, they were a family that was overtaken by extraordinary circumstances. There are so many family photos, official portraits to view, you really get a sense of them as people. I started reading about them in the late 70s, long before their remains were found. It was one of the biggest historical mysteries. I always wonder why Nicholas didn’t at least get the girls out when there was still a chance.
The Lincoln assassination. Since 2nd grade. I feel like I had a previous incarnation in which it was a monumental event for me. Lincoln has been my favorite president since childhood, but now that I’m a grown woman with a thing for villains, John Wilkes Booth fascinates me as well. Stopped at the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL on a road trip a few weeks ago; it was wonderful and the staff really take pride in the history they present.
For me, it’s Italian organized crime in America from the formation of the five families and the commission by Lucky Luciano until the mob was gutted by RICO in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I’m just fascinated by the power these guys had at the turn of the century. Obviously, this isn’t a particular event, but I can’t get enough.
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The end of the Soviet Union
I will never know enough about Dan Cooper.
My YouTube algorithm somehow served me a 9/11 video a couple days ago, and I’ve been watching them ever since.
How we stole America
World War 2.
The Great Dying extinction event.
Mutiny on the Bounty’s aftermath
There was a time I was absessed with prehistory, I also checked some things about medieval times, greece and romans, egyptians, etc. But there were just random curiosities (example: people used to brush teeth with coal and urine, yes you read right)
It’s gotta be going back to 9/11 every year
How Americans reelected trump
The holocaust
The Dance Epidemic. What was thaaat?!
Nazi Germany. It’s insane to me. The holocaust and everything.
Hiroshima. I visited there a few weeks ago and as an American, it feels odd going to a place like that. The Peace Park Memorial is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once.
The administration of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Epic shit show. Of all the psychopathic 20th-century dictators, Saddam didn’t have nearly the highest body count, but I think he was the most sadistic. His sons were just as evil.
9/11, Oklahoma Bombing, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Those are my big four.
The Holocaust
When the ziggy zoggas got lost in the Zam zaddy
The Bali 9
The Holocaust
Titanic
The Tudor era is fascinating to me. Read a lot of books about it.
90s MLB and NBA players reminiscing on the old days.
The Nanking event. It’s just so inhumane and atrocious I can’t stop thinking about those poor innocent people.
Ghengis khans death and where he is buried
The Troubles
Tudors, specifically Anne Boleyn and other Tudor women.
The station nightclub fire
Titanic and 9/11
WWI
The Holocaust
MK Ultra
The Civil War. Mostly about Gettysburg.
The story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes and was stuck there for 2 months. The details are mind boggling.
Jesus
I always come back to the Zodiac killer
The Tudor dynasty
Hurricane Katrina
The Donner Party
The age of discovery. Seems to be the bridge between medieval times and modern times. Very interesting stuff going on!
World War 2
Jonestown. Have to admit it
Battle of Stalingrad.
3rd century crisis from Rome when the emperors personal guards kept stabbing emperors
The Mexican Revolution. Every few months it comes back into my head and I try to go digging for it. There just isn’t enough good english-language material on it and my Spanish suck to bad to try to translate with any confidence.
WW2 and King Henry VIII era
Oklahoma City Bombing
I get sucked into the 9/11 footage every September. I remember watching the people jump from the burning buildings and hearing the thuds on live tv the day of.
The holocaust. I’m German(my parents immigrated from Germany and I’m fluent in German), but my family doesn’t really talk about the holocaust. So I research it myself a lot.
Selena’s death. This story is very tragic and heartbreaking. 💔😭
Eastern Front – WW2
The start of nuclear programs in the world, starting with the US.
Our lady of angels school fire.
Russias play with Crimea
Trump will do the same to Canada, Alberta specifically
The Chernobyl Explosion.
Lately? WW II – wife says… Are you still watching the Nazi channel? (Military channel on Pluto) Fascinating shit there.
Tartaria & the lost city of Atlantis
Iron age – I’m interested in how the old testament ties in with known history.
Chernobyl for me. I’ve gone down a rabbit hole so many times, and pick up something new every time, and it’s always fascinating. Industrial catastrophes are a fixation for me, and that is the largest one to ever occur.
The Titanic and Pompeii
Killing fields
Always blows my mind that this happened when I was a teenager and never heard a peep about it…
Bolshevik revolution and the Romanovs. We covered it in high school and something inside me just sprang to attention. I’m not even Russian, I just can’t stop researching the Romanovs and their family dynamics.
Lake Nyos disaster. What other total surprise natural disasters lay in waiting for us to tragically discover?
The Rendlesham Forest incident. 🛸
Nazism
Imperial Japan invading China in WW2. The R*pe of Nanking and similar events i often read about.
The disappearance of the Roanoake colony.
Austro-Hungarian parts of World War I. Those people had no business fighting a war. Most of their soldiers hated them.
JonBenet Ramsey
America in the 1960s
Abiogenesis
The invention of the escalator.
Surfside condominium collapse in Miami, Parkland
Pompeii
Titanic
Chernobyl, and the El Reno tornado.
Nuclear accidents and tornadoes in general.
So indiscriminate… both of them.
MH 370
Columbine
Donner Party.
Oklahoma City bombing.
Khmer Rouge
The Donner Party, if you couldn’t tell.
The peopling of the Americas
Invasion of Normandy on D Day. My dad landed on Omaha Beach on D Day, and lived and fought in the mud in France for 2 years.
American Slavery
I’ve been in a YouTube wormhole for months learning about the slave ships, how they were sold, their daily lives, diets, living quarters, abuse, breeding, torture etc.
It’s just so profoundly wrong, I find it hard to believe it went on for so long. All for cotton, sugar and tobacco.
The murder of Aiden Leos and how the driver subverted the law
Ww1
WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING HAVING A BROKEN HEART OVER JEFF?!
JFK & MLK assassinations. There is a great book called Hellhound on his Trail about the search for James Earl Ray that reads like a thriller.
Titanic
Waco and Ruby Ridge
Pre-history. When early modern humans encountered Neanderthals.
Andy warhols factory era
Shipwrecks in general. Started with the Titanic, now I’ve watched countless documentaries and read articles and listened to survivors stories from every ship sinking I can find. Lusitania. Britannic. Arctic. Atlantic. Eastland. Costa Concordia. Edmund Fitzgerald. Sea Diamond. And so many more.
Not one event. Trying to wrap my head around sociology and incorporation of ideologies from the Greeks. I’m learning I’m stuck on B.C. era. I believe that maybe there are answers or inspiration for new ideologies regarding the state of the current world and the future. Hopefully something new, cause this rinse and repeat stuff is insanity!
Waco and OKC
Operation Mincemeat. Ewen Montagu was the coolest man ever to be on earth.
The life and times of Casimir Pulaski
the donner party, chernobyl etc
Dyatlov Pass Incident
Atlanta Child Murders
Not too obsessive but watching the film ‘The Bounty’ got me in the rabbit hole of the topic of the mutiny of the Bounty and the aftermath of it.
9/11… literally happened 3 days before I was set to leave for freshman year of college, where I pretty much lived in a bubble for 4 years. After graduation, it seemed like the world was a different place.
Even though there’s not much new to learn more than 20 years later, I still find myself watching every new documentary on it or just watching NIST footage on Youtube. Growing up in the late 80s and 90s, it seemed like America was full of optimism and I still find it fascinating that a small group of 19 men kind of took that all away.
The Information Collapse in 2026 and the ensuing chaos , with its various warring factions. I keep revisiting the period because it makes no sense yet seems totally unavoidable. Just as if a critical mass was reached in the late “information age”. It’s a shame what happened but humans repeated these cycles every hundred years or so. Sadly this one was their last.
Chernobyl
Zodiac
Menendez brothers.
The growth and subsequent fall of the Roman Empire.
Their legacy still lives on millenia later with our judicial systems, political systems, etc.
Anything involving the CIA overthrowing some shit that was absolutely not their business. Banana Republics especially are just crazy to me. That whole section of history was not that long ago and was absolutely skipped over in my history classes at least. To me, it highlights the danger of letting big business get too powerful and turning capitalism into dictatorship.
Mass graves in Chicago.
No, this is not an isolated incident, there are multiple events.
The poor farm and insane asylum.
Confederate soldiers.
Even as recently as the 90’s 68 unclaimed dead from the heat wave.
I don’t really go out of my way to keep looking, but I get little glimpses of historical stories and places and can’t help but dig deep and suddenly we’re in mass grave territory again.
The American Space Program. Seems like our highest point in exploration. Lots of technology and amazing people were discovered by this endeavor.
Unit 731 is so fascinating. America gets absolutely no education of biochemical warfare/human experiments past the holocaust.
Not an event persay, but the Hindenburg and history of airships fascinate me. The difference in comfort between airships and fixed-wing flight was like night & day. If it had been allowed to mature, international travel might have been vastly different.
The New Order Regime. I’m obsessed with it because my dad lost his dream and his garage after some party member decided they didn’t like him competing. It still bothers me.
The last Czars of Russia
The Ancestral Puebloans
Weimar Republic
Vietnam War, Primarily the secret war with MACV-SOG.
And the Franklin Expedition(1845-????)
The Whiskey Rebellion. First and last time a US president led troops in the field.
The 1996 Everest Disaster
The Titanic and British royal history.
The last Russian royal family— Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexis. From incredible privilege to violent extinction, they were a family that was overtaken by extraordinary circumstances. There are so many family photos, official portraits to view, you really get a sense of them as people. I started reading about them in the late 70s, long before their remains were found. It was one of the biggest historical mysteries. I always wonder why Nicholas didn’t at least get the girls out when there was still a chance.
Bronze Age Collapse
The OJ Simpson case.
The Lincoln assassination. Since 2nd grade. I feel like I had a previous incarnation in which it was a monumental event for me. Lincoln has been my favorite president since childhood, but now that I’m a grown woman with a thing for villains, John Wilkes Booth fascinates me as well. Stopped at the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL on a road trip a few weeks ago; it was wonderful and the staff really take pride in the history they present.
The American Civil War. Endlessly fascinating.
Black plague
For me, it’s Italian organized crime in America from the formation of the five families and the commission by Lucky Luciano until the mob was gutted by RICO in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I’m just fascinated by the power these guys had at the turn of the century. Obviously, this isn’t a particular event, but I can’t get enough.
The US Civil war. I got to visit Gettysburg not long ago and was in a state of perpetual nerdgasm.
Gettysburg itself is a nice little town too. Not as tourist trappy as you’d expect.