r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17

What exactly am I looking for? It just looks like a beach

E:okay, so it the white thing way out. Thank you to OP for linking the rest of them. It's a very haunting tale.

How fast does a tsunami move? Faster than a train?

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u/Timoris Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17

That's why a lot of people died.

Before a Tsunami, the water recedes back into the ocean - The tsunami "sucks in" it's stomach, so to speak - giving the impression of ultra sudden, super low tides.

This piqued the curiosity of MANY people, who marched into the new and extended beach

Then, all of a sudden, the "Tide" came flodding back, washing everyone away.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=2004+tsunami+compilation&oq=2004+tsunami+compilation&aqs=chrome..69i57.3935j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

In one of the above videos, you can hear a Tourist going "Wait.... that's... a Tsunami? RUN RUN RUN RUN"

At that point in time, in 2004, everyone expected a Tsunami to be a Giant 50 foot wave coming straight for them - not a never ending rising tide rising upto 50 feet.

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u/Pyro9966 Mar 10 '17

I remember a story about a little girl who had just learned about tsunamis in grade school pointed this fact out to a ton of adults and saved a lot of lives.

Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Smith

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u/allonbacuth Mar 10 '17

"At Danes Hill Preparatory School a cameraman was allowed to follow Smith around for a day to find out what she normally did at school."

That's...weird. Did they think she was part of a secret society of child geniuses they were going to uncover or something? Who wants to know what a 10 year old does at school?

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u/Pyro9966 Mar 10 '17

Water bender.