Wait, I recall seeing a movie with somewhat similar plot. I remember, that thing manifested itself as a lightning with vaguely human outline and in the end they've trapped that entity in the ice, but when it escaped in front of everyone some skeptic guy just told "I've seen nothing" and that was it.
OMFG I'm a grown ass woman and I'll STILL get nightmares about that segment! Scared the shit out of me as a kid. When they'd said they'd destroyed the bunkbeds I remember feeling relieved.
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The timing makes sense. While gangway operations would start a couple of hours later, they would have either been in close proximity or already working on docking when she disappeared from her stateroom. It's a bit of an open secret that major players like DCL and RC pay for preferred treatment from port authorities. While customs still boards and clears the vessel, it's usually a very brief and cursory inspection. In my experience the officials rarely left the small gangway/processing area. Customs officials are supposed to check tickets/ID of anyone debarking but this is very easily bypassed. Authorities primarily rely on vessels to self-report their own records/issues at the gangway.
Oh yes the supernatural. I know thing or two about stuff like that. My sister is no joke a magnet for spirits evil or good. She could entire a haunted house and a ghost could easily leave haunting that place to follow her. Apparently she has found some why's to block that shit apparently.
I would never go on a cruise with all the fucked up shit that goes on in those ships. I expressed this elsewhere on the farms and got negrated and called dumb, though. People think that the worst thing that happens aboard cruise lines is the occasional norovirus outbreak and that the really bad shit happens on land in foreign ports (if you leave a designated area or whatever) when it's the ships themselves that are so unsafe. And unless this can be brought out into the open then nothing about the shady coverup practices will change.
Back when Dark 5 was still a decent youtube channel they did a 5 mysterious cruise ship disappearances video that included Amy Bradley. That video plus a bit of my own research forever put me off going on a cruise ship.
The identical image appeared on WMAQ after signoff, 3 or 4 years later.MISSING: JOANNA LOPEZ-CALL: 312-744-5594
That's all the information you'd be given if you managed to catch this obscure, and disturbing broadcast on WMAQ on January 14th, 1989. Well, that, and this low-quality, grainy, and unsettling photo.
No height, weight, age, when she was last seen, where she was last seen, nothing. Just a name, and number. Allegedly, this photo was on screen for hours until it finally went off in the morning when the channel resumed its usually programming.
The exact same broadcast played two years later under the exact same circumstances, albeit with a much shorter duration.
This is all that is known about this case. The number is real, and did at one point lead to the Youth Department of the Chicago PD, but when people called to ask about Joanna, the police informed them that no such person was ever in their database.
In fact, outside of a few threads, and recent videos on the subject, there is no mention of Joanna Lopez* anywhere. No newspapers, no police reports, no school records, no birth certificates, nothing. She's not even in any missing person databases. Scarily, the only proof we have of Joanna's existence are those two eerie broadcasts.
Theories range from this being a prank, to an early ARG, to Joanna being found fairly quickly, and no update ever being posted, and the 1991 broadcast just being a mistake, and so on, and so forth. However, one recent theory suggests that Joanna Lopez is the identity of a Jane Doe that was found murdered in 1994.
The person that murdered her was caught, charged, and sentenced, but he says doesn't who she actually is. All he knows is that he picked her up when she was working as a prostitute.
Admittedly, while this theory possible, the photo, date of the broadcasts, and last name of Joanna lead me to believe that this is not the same person.
The other most popular theory is that Joanna isn't real, and that her, and her subsequent broadcasts were just testing screens that for other real missing people. This would explain the poor quality of the photo, why there's no other info on it about her, why Joanna doesn't seem to exist anywhere outside of it, and why the two broadcasts length times were so bizarre in it of themselves.
It might seem far-fetched, but something similar has been alleged to have happened in Mexico during the early 2000s with the case of Selene Delgado*-another supposedly missing girl with a bizarrely uncanny valley photo that has no record of existing outside of the missing broadcasts that she appears in.
Disturbingly, the channel that broadcasts Selene Delgado's missing photo also distorts her already vaguely unsettling face into horrifying uncanny nightmares for some reason. The channel has a history of doing bizarrely creepy things such as posting weird-ass videos to their twitter in the middle of the night and then deleting them before morning.
No one knows why they do this. More specifically, no one knows why they singled out Selene in particular to mess with. Some say it's so the viewers remember the faces of the other real missing people better, and some people say it's because the channel just likes to shitpost irl which judging from their twitter, seems to be the most likely case.
Whatever it is, Selene and Joanna are completely unknown outside of their respected broadcasts. Despite that someone clearly went through the effort of repeating broadcasts that they were missing, the fact that no other information was ever given about even during those times, and that frankly just how unprofessional, and disturbing those broadcasts were that cast doubt upon the two ever being actual missing persons to begin with. And that's the scariest part, really.
It's one thing to go missing.
It's another thing to go missing, and for your case to be handled so poorly that people doubt that you were ever real at all.
*There is another Joanna Lopez, but it's a different one that isn't relevant to this case
**This Selene Delgado has nothing to do with the viral facebook thing that happened a few years ago
Number stations are military codes. Why would anyone transfer a military code twice on TV in the middle of the night? I am inclined to believe it was a TV hack. As for Delgado - yeah, Mexico has a shortage of missing people, that's why they made this one up. In the same broadcast there are pictures where you can barely see any face features, yet no one gives a shit.
Maybe its just being high but something about this just unnerves me. Great write up.MISSING: JOANNA LOPEZ-CALL: 312-744-5594
That's all the information you'd be given if you managed to catch this obscure, and disturbing broadcast on WMAQ on January 14th, 1989. Well, that, and this low-quality, grainy, and unsettling photo.
No height, weight, age, when she was last seen, where she was last seen, nothing. Just a name, and number. Allegedly, this photo was on screen for hours until it finally went off in the morning when the channel resumed its usually programming.
The exact same broadcast played two years later under the exact same circumstances, albeit with a much shorter duration.
This is all that is known about this case. The number is real, and did at one point lead to the Youth Department of the Chicago PD, but when people called to ask about Joanna, the police informed them that no such person was ever in their database.
In fact, outside of a few threads, and recent videos on the subject, there is no mention of Joanna Lopez* anywhere. No newspapers, no police reports, no school records, no birth certificates, nothing. She's not even in any missing person databases. Scarily, the only proof we have of Joanna's existence are those two eerie broadcasts.
Theories range from this being a prank, to an early ARG, to Joanna being found fairly quickly, and no update ever being posted, and the 1991 broadcast just being a mistake, and so on, and so forth. However, one recent theory suggests that Joanna Lopez is the identity of a Jane Doe that was found murdered in 1994.
The person that murdered her was caught, charged, and sentenced, but he says doesn't who she actually is. All he knows is that he picked her up when she was working as a prostitute.
Admittedly, while this theory possible, the photo, date of the broadcasts, and last name of Joanna lead me to believe that this is not the same person.
The other most popular theory is that Joanna isn't real, and that her, and her subsequent broadcasts were just testing screens that for other real missing people. This would explain the poor quality of the photo, why there's no other info on it about her, why Joanna doesn't seem to exist anywhere outside of it, and why the two broadcasts length times were so bizarre in it of themselves.
It might seem far-fetched, but something similar has been alleged to have happened in Mexico during the early 2000s with the case of Selene Delgado*-another supposedly missing girl with a bizarrely uncanny valley photo that has no record of existing outside of the missing broadcasts that she appears in.
Disturbingly, the channel that broadcasts Selene Delgado's missing photo also distorts her already vaguely unsettling face into horrifying uncanny nightmares for some reason. The channel has a history of doing bizarrely creepy things such as posting weird-ass videos to their twitter in the middle of the night and then deleting them before morning.
No one knows why they do this. More specifically, no one knows why they singled out Selene in particular to mess with. Some say it's so the viewers remember the faces of the other real missing people better, and some people say it's because the channel just likes to shitpost irl which judging from their twitter, seems to be the most likely case.
Whatever it is, Selene and Joanna are completely unknown outside of their respected broadcasts. Despite that someone clearly went through the effort of repeating broadcasts that they were missing, the fact that no other information was ever given about even during those times, and that frankly just how unprofessional, and disturbing those broadcasts were that cast doubt upon the two ever being actual missing persons to begin with. And that's the scariest part, really.
It's one thing to go missing.
It's another thing to go missing, and for your case to be handled so poorly that people doubt that you were ever real at all.
*There is another Joanna Lopez, but it's a different one that isn't relevant to this case
**This Selene Delgado has nothing to do with the viral facebook thing that happened a few years ago
None of the theories make sense to me. Signal hijacking makes the most sense.
Forgive me if it's already been mentioned, but Walker County Jane Doe was officially identified through genetic genealogy sometime last month. Her family have declined to publicly release her name for the time being, though there are rumours floating around saying it may be released this Nov 1st (the 41st anniversary of her murder). All that's known at the moment is that she was 14 years old at her time of death and had a "white Anglo" name with the initials "S. J.". She wasn't even from Texas. Her family claim to have reported her missing, although since no missing person matching her description has ever been found in any online databases, it's thought her file got lost or thrown out over the decades.
More details were released today. Her name was Sherri Ann Jarvis and she was from Stillwater, Minnesota. She was removed from her family's home for truancy and taken into state custody, from which she ran escaped and ran away, never being seen again until she was found in Texas. She apparently wrote her parents a letter telling them she'd come back home, though evidently, she never did. Seems like the poor kid had a tough life.
This is a good one, the full story is included in the book Haunted America and includes some other frightening details. The town is Horicon, WI and the street is Larabee Street (or somewhere nearby) if you want to look at the location.
It's definitely not a reputable source, but this guy seems to think it's some kind of radon contamination. You'd think if that was the case, it would be pretty common knowledge though?
New Jersey so I'd go with mafia, personally. My parents are from New Jersey and that old "joke" about the mafia being all over that state isn't actually much of a joke, it turns out. My guess is that all the people that went "missing" all had connections to a rival faction that got taken out.
