GotMeHooked

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 1h ago

In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was taken by four teenage girls in Indiana and put through hours of abuse overnight. By morning, they sprayed her with Windex, told her, “You’re not looking so hot now, are you?” and set her on fire.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 18h ago

In 2009, 29-year-old nurse Toni Lee Sharpless left a late-night gathering near Philadelphia after arguing with a friend about whether she was okay to drive. She pulled over, made her friend get out & drove off alone. Toni and her car have never been found.

3.2k Upvotes

226 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/TheMirrorUS • 23h ago

Kirstie Scothern, 29, suffers from a medical condition that has left her unable to pee since 2021 — but doctors still don't know what's wrong with her

themirror.com

616 Upvotes

75 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/SkipBoringMag • 8h ago

China’s AI bubble may have already popped. Around $480 billion has been wiped from the market, with the AI-heavy STAR 50 falling roughly 40% in less than four months.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 1d ago

In 2015, a woman was sexually assaulted by Stanford student Brock Turner while unconscious behind a dumpster. After Turner received a six-month jail sentence, her victim impact statement went viral, and Chanel Miller revealed her identity after years of being known publicly as "Emily Doe."

16.4k Upvotes

793 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/TheExpressUS • 23h ago

Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado given hero's welcome after near-year in exile

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r/GotMeHooked • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 1d ago

Dr Death, Aribert Heim. A concentration camp doctor at Mauthausen, he would return to civilian life after the war. The unsubtle approach of investigators after the war, led him to correctly deduce that he was wanted for his crimes and he vanished, never to be apprehended.

200 Upvotes

29 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 2d ago

In 2005, 30-year-old Annie Börjesson went to Prestwick Airport in Scotland to fly home to Sweden. She was inside for less than five minutes, suddenly walked back out & was found dead on a nearby beach the next day. Years later, Sweden classified key details about her death as secret.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/tyrion2024 • 2d ago

In 2007, Barbara Bolick was hiking about 25 feet behind her hiking partner Jim Ramaker at the Bear Creek Overlook in Montana when Jim looked forward (away from her) for about 45 seconds. When he looked back, she was gone. No trace of her has ever been found and authorities ruled out foul play.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/tyrion2024 • 3d ago

When a woman preparing to move was going to throw out a painting that had hung in her kitchen for years, her family called in an expert to appraise it. This led to a specialist authenticating it as a 13th-century work by Cimabue, who had only 15 known works in the world. The work sold for $26.8m.

841 Upvotes

17 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/Born-Cranberry-189 • 3d ago

Family raises concerns after man's body found in hospital bathroom 14 days after he left ER

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118 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 3d ago

In 2019, Lori Vallow got deep into doomsday beliefs and started saying some people around her had become “zombies” taken over by dark spirits. Eventually, she and Chad Daybell started using that label for her own children too. Not long after, both kids disappeared.

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183 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/SkipBoringMag • 3d ago

MIT has the world's largest public collection of science fiction. Anyone can browse the MIT Science Fiction Society's library, and anyone can become a member to borrow books.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 4d ago

The actor who played Furio in the Sopranos spotted an incorrectly labeled painting at an auction. He purchased it for $68,000 and later had it correctly appraised for $10 million.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 5d ago

This is one of the last images of 15-year-old Olga Galtseva. In 1996, she was found barely alive inside the apartment of Russian serial killer Alexander Spesivtsev after being held there for a month. She told police what happened before dying from her injuries.

4.4k Upvotes

414 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/bojackworld • 4d ago

In 1961, American nurseries began commercially selling Bradford pear trees, prized for their beautiful white blossoms and rapid growth. However, their flowers quickly became notorious for their strong semen-like odor. Today, efforts are being made to remove the trees from public parks.

718 Upvotes

164 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 5d ago

In 2009, seventeen year old Brittanee Drexel slipped out for a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach after a fight at home. She left a friend’s hotel to walk back alone and disappeared halfway along the route. Her phone pinged hours later in a remote marsh. She vanished without a trace.

1.7k Upvotes

204 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/TheExpressUS • 6d ago

Mystery clawed beast sparks panic after attacking farm animals before vanishing

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109 Upvotes

13 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 7d ago

Mary Bell, the daughter of a teenage mother who worked in prostitution, was 11 when she committed crimes against two small boys in Newcastle that horrified the country. She was sent to a youth detention centre, moved to an open prison, and briefly escaped in 1977.

3.9k Upvotes

372 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 6d ago

In 2004, 53-year-old Oakey “Al” Kite rented out the basement of his Colorado home to a man calling himself Robert Cooper. Days later, Al was found dead there, with signs he had been restrained and violently attacked.

1.0k Upvotes

87 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/TheExpressUS • 7d ago

Conjoined twin influencers die while preparing for life-changing surgery

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840 Upvotes

26 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 7d ago

Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible, both 16, vanished after a sleepover at the Freeman home in rural Oklahoma. By morning, the house was on fire, Ashley’s mom had been shot & her dad was found in the ruins. The sheriff’s department treated the girls like suspects.

2.8k Upvotes

264 comments

r/GotMeHooked • u/TheMirrorUS • 7d ago

The world's most terrifying runways are some of the trickiest for pilots because of steep cliff edges, high winds and tight paths - with waivers and specialist training required

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29 Upvotes

3 comments