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.<p>So I was wandering, what are your favorites? The stuff that you loose a night to, when finding it?
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.<p><a href="https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...</a>
If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole.<p>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.<p><a href="https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.148441/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14...</a><p>I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.
The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows.<p>Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are.<p>1: <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/</a><p>2: <a href="https://tvtropes.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tvtropes.org/</a>
Always an amazing read for me<p><a href="https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republic-of-congo-lubumbashi-to-kinshasa.50799/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...</a>
<a href="https://tcrf.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tcrf.net/</a> — it’s cool to get a window into the creative process
chinacat's massive thumbprint lsd story from shroomery.org<p><a href="https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1427364/page//fpart/all/vc/1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1...</a>
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).
<a href="https://www.are.na/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.are.na/</a> as a network of connected channels.<p>Random example channel: <a href="https://www.are.na/krish/visions-of-the-web" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.are.na/krish/visions-of-the-web</a>
The Digital Antiquarian has a _lot_ of interesting writing about the early history of video gaming and home computing. <a href="https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/</a> has the full list of posts, starting from the beginning of the blog; the history they cover is mostly in chronological order.
Old maps and stuff related to some places I go often.<p>I've found old bottles and to date them I started looking for archives of old newspapers. Worst use of my time, haha
<a href="https://theforest.link/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theforest.link/</a><p>this site redirects you to random cool websites.
The Bobbit Worm Chronicles: <a href="https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chronicles.84173/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chro...</a><p>tldr: a guy spends a LONG time trying to kill a bobbit worm in his fish tank