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🗓️ 11 October 2024
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A mysterious website gets conspiratorial in 2009.
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0:00.0 | A quiet mystery. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is a ghost town. Lots of spooky stories are circulating the internet, especially at this point in the year. |
0:26.0 | And let's be real, today will be a little bit more of the same. |
0:30.0 | But more than ghosts or vampires or mummies or whatever more than any of that I find disturbing a good internet mystery something that stays with me long after all the candy is eaten and horror films are watched. |
0:45.2 | Today on Ghost Town, a disturbing tale of an internet mystery with conspiracy |
0:50.7 | missing identities, secret servers, and my favorite, |
0:54.3 | purvy bad internet takes. All part of the case of the Lake City Quiet Pills. |
1:00.9 | Before we even get into what the Lake City quiet pills are, we have to go back a bit |
1:07.0 | to a Reddit user called Religion of Peace, or referred to in this podcast, R-O-P or Milo. |
1:14.7 | Religion of Peace was a co-moderator for one questionable |
1:17.7 | subreddit called Jailbate. |
1:19.9 | As you might imagine, the Jailbate |
1:21.8 | Subretit posted photos of young women of questionable age. |
1:26.7 | Nauseatingly, this Sub-reddit was wildly popular, so much so that after a particularly |
1:31.9 | illuminating segment aired on CNN in 2011 about the |
1:35.0 | subreddit's popularity, investigations into the community caused the exposure and exile |
1:40.7 | of the subreddit's original creator and other Co- Moderator Violet Acres. |
1:47.0 | But let's get back to 2009. |
1:49.5 | Religion of Peace spent a lot of time on Reddit not only helping moderate the jailbates |
1:53.6 | subreddit but giving his two cents about military service sex violence |
1:58.0 | atheism and railing against the liberal news machine he also posted a lot about programming the interior works of |
2:04.9 | works of computer programming and D-Day. |
2:07.9 | Religion of Peace claimed to be an old military vet even though at the time |
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