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Category:Filmed deaths in sports - Wikipedia

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No big text crawl in this post. Just a really creepy and morbid thread of athletes who died on camera, including Silver King and Perro Aguayo Jr.

 

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Buddhafield (new religious movement) - Wikipedia

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Buddhafield is a new religious movement in the United States. It began in the 1980s in Hollywood, and continues in Hawaii today, often recruiting through yoga studios. The group has been described as a cult by some former members.

The leader of Buddhafield is a man previously known as Michel, Andreas, The Teacher, or Reyji, born Jaime Gomez.[1][2] He was once known to wear nothing but swim briefs and eyeliner.[3] He is featured in the documentary film Holy Hell directed by Will Allen. He is also featured on the Netflix series How to Become a Cult Leader (season 1 episode 3 entitled "Reform Their Minds").

Gomez voiced his anxieties to his then-follower Will Allen after the Waco siege.[5] Allen pinpoints this as the moment when Gomez's paranoia began.[5] Gomez left his followers for six months to find a new location for the group.[5] Gomez also began to undergo increasing amounts of plastic surgery around this time, as well as recommending his female followers undergo similar procedures.[5][6] Gomez also attempted to get followers to report on each others' perceived transgressions.[2] He kept one follower from seeing her father before he died, and encouraged another to get an abortion, claiming religious reasons.[6]

Many allegations have been made against Jaime Gomez, most notably sexual abuse of his male followers.[3] His victims have said that they had their confessions in their weekly hypnotherapy sessions used against them.[5][6] Gomez also used the AIDS crisis to instill fear in his gay male followers to frighten them into staying.[6] The group has been described as a cult by some former members.[6]

He'd "hypnotize" his followers then sexually assault them because he's a defective loser. Needed to move across an ocean just to get away with all his bullshit.

 

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1947 Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornado outbreak - Wikipedia

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From April 9–11, 1947, a significant tornado outbreak produced catastrophic effects over portions of the southern Great Plains, in the contiguous United States. The outbreak generated at least 12, and possibly 17 or more, tornadoes, many of which were significant. On Wednesday, April 9, a series of related tornadoes spawned by a single supercell, dubbed the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, swept through the U.S. states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Most of the damage and nearly all of the deaths are still blamed on one large tornado, known as the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornado, that traveled 98 mi (158 km) from Texas to Oklahoma, beginning over the South Plains. This event, up to nearly 2 mi (3.2 km) in width, was often compared to the Tri-State tornado, because it was originally thought to have left a 198-to-221-mile-long (319 to 356 km) path, was similarly large and intense for much of its path, and was also retroactively rated F5 on the modern-day Fujita scale, but it is now believed to have been part of a 125-to-170-mile-long (201 to 274 km) family of nine or 10 tornadoes.[nb 1]

Cleanup in the region was made more difficult because of cold and snow that followed the tornado. Four-year-old Joan Gay Croft and her sister Jerri were among refugees taking shelter in a basement hallway of the Woodward hospital. As officials sent the injured to different hospitals in the area, two men took Joan away, saying they were taking her to Oklahoma City. She was never seen again. Over the years, several women have come forth saying they suspect they might be Joan, although none of the claims have been verified. She is likely deceased.

Always a crazy story to hear about that it's entirely possible that she was kidnapped and killed after a devastating tornado.

 

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Billups Neon Crossing Signal - Wikipedia

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The Billups Neon Crossing Signal was an experimental grade crossing signal installed at a dangerous Illinois Central crossing on Mississippi Highway 7 (now Mississippi Highway 332) in Grenada, Mississippi.

The signal was installed in the mid-1930s by inventor Alonzo Billups over growing concern due to numerous collisions at the crossing involving trains and motor vehicles. Unlike anything likely seen around the country at the time, the Billups signal was a large gantry spanning the highway and was likely the first such use of a gantry-style crossing of the type now in relatively common use. Upon approach of a train, a giant alternating blue and red neon sign lit up with the words "STOP - DEATH - STOP" beneath a skull and crossbones. Flashing neon arrows indicated the direction that oncoming trains were traveling and an air raid siren (civil defense siren) in lieu of bells provided aural warning. As a backup, standard railway flashers were mounted below the neon sign. The signal was known locally as the "Skull and Crossbones."[1]

The onset of World War II brought about a scarcity of neon, which, when coupled with maintenance problems with the signal (often manifesting themselves in the siren sounding continuously until a crew arrived to stop it), meant that no further signals were produced. The prototype later had standard railway crossing signals installed alongside it until it was removed entirely around 1970, in which the standard signals replaced it entirely.[1]

In the 2020s, Lionel has made models of the Billups Railroad Crossing for O-gauge toy train layouts.[2]