Missing 411 | The Feral People Theory | Into Thin Air

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• RY

  @ryanclay959 · 3 years ago (edited)

  As for feral people who are crazy cannibal who eat other people who cross their path, in America we call them Politicians.

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• SI

  @sierratree93 · 3 years ago

  I live in the Appalachian mountains, and one time I did see a wild looking naked man run out of the woods along the side of the road and scream. But I think he was just an unfortunate person experiencing meth psychosis.

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• IN

  @in_the_vortex · 2 years ago

  As someone who lives on the edge of the Appalachian mountains, the wrong turn movies, maybe not the murders, but actually turning on a random road out here WILL get you lost

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• EM

  @emskalicky8275 · 3 years ago (edited)

  About 8/9 years ago there was a real case of a “feral” family of about 40 people in the Blue Mountains in Australia - genuinely a very tragic case of abuse, incest, neglect over several generations. I remember it really struck me how a family and especially their children, grandchildren, etc can fall through the cracks like that.

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• JU

  @justinbabin209 · 3 years ago

  The fact that he had to distinguish between downtrodden people and feral makes me think there's more stupid people out there then it'd like to think 🤣

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• BX

  @BX138 · 2 years ago

  "Saskettes" always makes me think they're Bigfoot's backup singers.

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• JA

  @jamesparrott5554 · 3 years ago

  it would be weird for our government to commit genocide against indigenous Americans but leave a population of "feral" people untaxed and undisturbed

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• FI

  @finnhoff2655 · 3 years ago

  The forest people are really just the friends we made along the way

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• HA

  @hardcorehunter7162 · 2 years ago

  "Only a few months of near starvation"  I like how casual that is said, like oh only a few months of being in the mountains hiking in a blizzard with canvas shelters, and drinking impure water. If people around you are dying of the elements, and they're of similar shape you're in. It may be a good indicator to start eating the dead.

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• CO

  @coteezy86 · 3 years ago

  My father bought a newly built lake house in a new development in shady shores Texas on lake Lewisville in 1977..he met a 91 year old man living and fishing with very rudimentary scavenged items in some thick army Corp land behind his new development..he approached him and started a discussion and said this guy clearly hadn't spoke to anyone in some time..he was dirty and disheveled but started speaking well though and said he just wanted to be left alone..my father was 21 and was fishing a few weeks later and noticed him and brought him some fish he'd caught..he noticed he had been digging this hole with a scavenged piece of old barn tin..my father asked if he needed a shovel and brought him one..he dug him a hole covered it and made him a shelter and stayed through the winter...he got to talking with him about his story and turned out he was very mentally sound..his wife had died 7 years before and they were married like 62 years..he just kinda gave up and dug a house on the army Corp land because he had served in ww1 and felt he was obliged to do so..the  developers had ran him off and filled in his home to build the little developement...my father offered numerous times to come stay in his house but he refused..he did come walking up after an apparent confrontation of some sort..he asked if he could dig a hole on some of my dad's land..he helped him dig it and he stayed there for about 6 months..he was busy working in the defense industry and one day the few possessions he had were gone and so was he..he said he was completly mentally sound and in realy goodshape for his age..he just had been living alone and wanted to be left alone..not exactly ferril but thought it was interesting espicaly given this was 12 miles north of downtown dallas..imagine what could be possible out in rural Appalachia

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• WI

  @winry2357 · 3 years ago

  I love Tucker and Dale vs Evil specifically because it turns the “evil hillbilly” trope on its head. Fantastic horror comedy.

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• KA

  @kathyrawlings8614 · 2 years ago

  My Dad was stationed in the Philippine Islands in WWII and he used to tell me this gruesome story about some Japanese soldiers that were trapped there. Dad said these Japanese soldiers were hiding out and killing American soldiers. When they found them and realized what they were doing it was unbelievable. They were eating the America soldiers. One of them was a Japanese general and he told the men that captured them that there was nothing better tasting than human flesh. Dad talked about the pile of bones and the dog tags. It was a horrible story and it messed up my Dad. I remember when I was a kid how he used to jump out of bed and I could hear him running through the house. He would get in his truck and drive all night. But he saw a lot of messed up things. But yes I believe that kind of sick stuff happens.

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