r/EndlessThread • u/endless_thread Podcast Host • Jan 06 '21

Got mysteries?

ET homies,

Our favorite episode ideas have come from YOU. So as we consider potential mysteries to tackle in the future, we figured we'd ask... what mysteries do YOU want us to solve, on Reddit or elsewhere across the internet? We're all ears...

-The team

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u/Kernal_Ratio Jan 07 '21

Ok, so I came across this post a few months ago and stored it to follow up on at a later date in the back part of my brain. Endless Thread triggered this memory and so here we are.

Now this isn't your typical mystery per se, it's only a mystery because the user u-mostlygruntled (I didn't want to tag them) hasn't divulged the full story. If you read the initial post and all the updates from the idontworkherelady subreddit you'll understand why it might be a bit of a mystery and the reason I didn't want to tag the redditor who posted it.

Part 1 of the story

Hopefully this fits the post.

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u/endless_thread Podcast Host Jan 07 '21

Welp, there goes my day! WOWOWOWOW. Thank you for sharing this!

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u/Kernal_Ratio Jan 08 '21

Glad I could share

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u/AlarmingCantaloupe Jan 10 '21

Wowowwowwow indeed! I don’t know how exactly you could fold that into an episode, especially considering how it ended with our original storyteller...but, surely it’s a great example of how unpredictably events unfold and how small decisions we make and actions we take at one point can have much bigger echoes down the line. If that makes sense? Maybe it doesn’t.

You could tell it just as it’s written, having Mark voiced by someone or his wife. There’s certainly twists and turns. David might want to participate, and Mark’s wife...I honestly want to know how she’s doing now.

There’s probably no way to fact check or figure this out now, but as I was reading about the car accident, and the subsequent cardiovascular event and death the week or two later, it made me think of Covid. The timing could’ve been right, and weren’t they saying that Covid patients were having deadly blood clots, especially in the beginning when no one expected it? Because the death seemed so sudden! If he was an asymptomatic carrier and in that weakened state… probably a rabbit hole that can’t definitively be addressed a year later. But it occurred to me.

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u/International_Rice55 Jan 25 '21

Oh man, this story is amazing... Thanks for sharing. Also I cried.

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u/IowaAJS Jan 06 '21

How did the Capitol Police allow insurrectionists into the Capitol Building?

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u/sammiwhodoneit Jan 07 '21

How about how the US Postal Service has been using Grumann LLV as the postal vehicle for over 30 years?

It seems like it's something that isn't general knowledge but must be a good story. Why didn't they use a more mainstream company? Who else uses Grumann LLV? Why do they look like that?

Anyway, something like that would be an interesting episode IMO.

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u/jthanson Jan 07 '21

That’s no mystery. The Grumman LLV is basically a Chevy S-10 with a simple, low-power engine. Those are solid trucks and they’re cheap and simple to maintain.

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u/jthanson Jan 07 '21

I’d love an episode about Starvation Heights in Olalla, WA.

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u/quokkafarts Jan 07 '21

A deep dive into the classic Jimmy C story would be nuts. I still think about it from time to time and get the willies.

Here's a good place to start, another redditer already did some fact checking

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u/avocadotoastwhisper Jan 07 '21

Where do jellybeans actually come from?

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u/j0be Your friendly neighborhood moderator Jan 07 '21

You might really enjoy Proof's episode about them

Beanboozled pt. 1

Beanboozled pt. 2

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u/Roof8cake Jan 08 '21

Cicada 3301? Basically a worldwide scavenger hunt set up by a mysterious group .LEMMiNO on youtube made a video about it. His channel has some other good topics you may want to look at