28 Strange Events That Got Swept Under The Rug
The news cycle is an ever-churning buffet of chaos, panic and the right kind of snappy headlines to grab your attention and get your palms sweaty. That is, unfortunately, what sells. But the thing about an endless supply of panic-inducing news is that each "alarming" headline is quickly drowned out by a chorus of others.
Rarely do we ever think back to the "big news" that, somehow, seems to have flown under the radar since it was first reported or been swept under the rug without much of an update -- despite the seeming insanity of the initial headline. Down below are 30 strange events that people are surprised the public seemis to have forgotten about.
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The leader of Scientology's wife vanished after an argument in 2005, nobody knows what happened to her.
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The Phoenix lights. My whole immediate family and tons of people on the street we lived on saw the aircraft come overhead. We all stood there speechless and terrified until it passed then the whole block freaked out. Nobody will ever convince me it was flairs. We all saw the outline and structure of the craft clearly. It was so big and slow it was amazing it was staying in the air. My hair still stands on end even thinking about it right now.
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Nobody seemed to remember Ukrainian passenger flight being shot down by the Iranian government last year.
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Starting last summer there have been unidentified snipers taking out random cars on different parts of I-10 in New Orleans and nothing has come of it and nobody’s really talking about it. I mean, gang and drug violence, neighborhood drive-bys, and the occasional Bourbon shooting are one thing to ignore, but interstate snipers? Does nobody find that interesting? It’s still happening.
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In my hometown, there was some sort of audit and it found that 8 million dollars of taxpayer money were missing. It's a conspiracy now.
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T.I. and his wife have allegedly drugged and r*ped over 30 victims, according to 30+ allegations. If you google T.I. it doesn't even come up unless you specifically search for it.
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The metric ton of Covid relief money that was given to companies, that was misappropriated and will never be paid back, and is only marginally being analyzed/investigated.So it’s all on the US taxpayers
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Boris Johnson lockdown parties, he was on the verge of being forced out of the office and then, oh there's a war now we've got other stuff to worry about
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Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult (in the US). This is data we didn't give them permission to access, they simply automatically collect it.They are still in business.In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people.That's out of roughly 210 million adults at that time.That's 70% of the adult population whose data was lost.That's more than likely every single household in the US.
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I am pretty surprised how no one really reacted when the Navy, and pentagon said UFOs were real and we don’t know what they are, or have anything that can really match and fight them.Not saying it’s aliens and UAP instead of UFOs.
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A bit random. But there was a meteor over Scotland that blazed through the sky, slowed right down, and changed direction. That was pretty weird.
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Donald Rumsfeld announcing that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 *Trillion* dollars, the night before 9/11
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On November 2 the FEC decided that foreign individuals, corporations, and governments can fund ballot measures in the US because they're "not technically elections". This is a staggeringly big deal that was pretty much immediately swept under the rug.
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The Las Vegas shooting. The worst mass shooting in America’s history. Dozens passed away. Hundreds injured. No one has any idea why this random dude stockpiled weapons and went on a mass murder spree. Or why he ended when he did.We all just collectively went “I guess we’ll never know” and then forgot about it.
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Shortly after fans held a massive "Beyoncé Mass" worshipping the pop singer, she purchased a large church in Louisianna. Haven't heard anything else about these masses or what she decided to do with the church. But it has always bothered me
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Beyonce sang at a private concert for the Gaddafi family in 2008. The only reason why I know this is because it was a footnote in a sociology book about the power dynamics in government neglected regions.
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Kind of random but last summer it got to be 50 degrees Celsius in greater Vancouver bc (the highest recorded temperature in Canada ever) and the next day the city of Lytton burned down. It was a phenomenon called a heat dome. It was really scary because no one ever thought it could get that hot here, and a ton of people passed away because only about 60% of places have AC. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through. No one talks about it at all anymore and that is terrifying to meEdit: I have been reminded numerous times that Lytton is not greater than Vancouver. Temps in greater Van were measured in the mid ’40s but with humidity, it felt more like 50. I stand corrected. Extreme weather nonetheless, especially as many places like kitchens and warehouses do not have a/c and temps in those places skyrocketed. My townhouse in south surrey measured in the upper 40s on the top floor. I also have had several people tell me that this is still discussed by people in their lives, I was just stating that I don’t hear of it at all, personally.
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I saw a news report about people attacking and eating people like they were zombies. 12 hours later nothing about it, not even a retraction. This was about 12 years ago. I just figure they fixed zombies really fast.
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The Metcalf sniper attackSome unknown gunmen utilizing military tactics attacked a California power substation under cover of night. The attack included cutting targeted telecommunication lines beforehand.As far as I've ever been able to tell, they never figured out who did it or why. Or they did make arrests and the media didn't bother to follow up.
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The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Casey Kasem(the original voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo)
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