The Green Children of Woolpit is a 12th-century English legend about two children with green-tinted skin who appeared in Woolpit, Suffolk. They spoke an unknown language, wore unfamiliar clothes, and only ate raw broad beans. The boy died shortly after, but the girl adjusted, lost her green color, and described their home as a sunless "St. Martin's Land".
(Building on my previous post about Thailand's unsolved tourist deaths - if you haven't read it, start there first. What I'm about to tell you happened five days ago.)
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On the afternoon of April 7, 2026, a hotel housekeeper on Bangkok's legendary Khao San Road walked into room on the fourth floor expecting to clean. Instead, she found two men lying motionless on the floor, and scattered between them, a mysterious white powder.
CPR was attempted. Neither man survived.
The victims were identified as Kruger Anroux, a 30-year-old South African national, and Edvards Strauja, a 38-year-old Latvian national. Hotel staff said the two men, believed to be friends, had checked into the hotel on April 2, meaning their bodies may have lain undiscovered for five days.
Five days. In the heart of one of Southeast Asia's busiest tourist streets. Nobody noticed.
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In the room, detectives found white powder on the floor, close to the bodies. Initial suspicions point to heroin, but there is no definitive clarity yet. The substance has been secured and is being examined in a laboratory.
It is striking that the police found no traces of violence, a struggle, or robbery. As a result, investigators are currently focusing primarily on the possibility of an overdose. At the same time, the official cause of death remains dependent on the results of the forensic investigation and the autopsy.
So we have two men, from two different countries, booked into separate rooms, dead on the floor, with a substance police "suspect" is heroin but can't confirm, and no official cause of death.
But here's the thing that keeps nagging at me:
If this was a simple overdose, why were they on the floor? Why wasn't there drug paraphernalia visible? Why was the powder scattered across the floor rather than contained? And why did it take five days for anyone to notice two guests had gone silent?
I'm not saying it isn't an overdose. But I'm not saying it is either.
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If you read my last post, you already know Thailand has a serious, underdiscussed problem with tourist deaths that don't add up. But 2026 has been on another level entirely.
January 13, 2026 - Joshua Kershaw, 21, Grimsby, UK
Thai police reopened the case of British national Joshua Kershaw, who died in Bangkok in January, found dead in a Sukhumvit hotel just hours after arriving in Thailand for a week-long holiday, after toxicology results revealed high levels of seven different dangerous substances in his body. Police confirmed the case is now being investigated as either murder or manslaughter.
The case drew heightened scrutiny after inconsistencies in initial police handling emerged, with the family alleging problems from the first officer at the scene.
His family confirmed he had a gauze on his arm, suggesting a needle puncture or IV site from a hospital stay he'd discharged himself from that same night, hours before he was found dead. His mother is now urgently trying to identify a mystery woman seen with him in his final hours, whose name is still unknown.
His family had to fight for weeks just to find out he was dead. One theory circulating online is that Thai authorities are concerned about negative publicity impacting their foreign tourism market; arrivals to Thailand in January 2026 were projected to be down by 18%, with outlets noting a continuous flow of negative stories.
December 2025 - Koh Samui, British Tourist Luke, 28
A 21-year-old Thai man denied any involvement in the death of a British tourist at a hotel on Koh Samui, saying he did not provide drugs to the victim, as police continued to investigate whether the case involved a drug overdose or a robbery. That case is still unresolved.
January 2025 - Robby Kinlan, 21, Ireland, Koh Tao
21-year-old Robby Kinlan, an Irish foreign tourist, was found dead at his bungalow resort on January 9th, in the company of friends from the West of Ireland. Police suggested cardiac arrest on a 21-year-old diver with no known health conditions.
And now: two men, on Khao San Road, April 2026.
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I want to be careful here because I don't want to throw unsubstantiated accusations. But the pattern of how these cases are handled is just as troubling as the deaths themselves.
Families finding out their loved ones are dead through Facebook posts. Cases initially closed as "accidents" or "cardiac events" were later reopened after family pressure. Toxicology results that take months to emerge and then reveal something completely inconsistent with the official story. Mystery women and mystery substances that somehow evade immediate investigation.
Thai social media users themselves have questioned the absence of local media coverage of these deaths, noting that stories receive extensive UK and international attention while Thai outlets initially report little, with one theory being that the country is concerned about negative publicity impacting the foreign tourism market.
The Khao San Road deaths happened six days before Songkran, Thailand's biggest tourist festival of the year, when Khao San Road transforms into one of the most crowded party streets on the planet. Hundreds of thousands of tourists were about to descend.
Make of that timing what you will.
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I'll be updating this thread as the toxicology and autopsy results come in. Given what happened with Kershaw, where the "simple overdose" story completely collapsed under forensic scrutiny, I'm not holding my breath for a quick or clean answer.
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Back when I was a child, still living in LA. We went to a Sonic (fast food chain). And it was around the middle of November. We ordered our food and it came with one of those little boxes that would normally have a toy in it. Instead I was given a little comic strip and a golden ticket for the polar express. Our discussion lies with the comic strip. I’m going to try to paint a picture of what it looked like on each of the pages.
The comic strips first page was of a man dressed in a black and white suit with a fedora, and it looked like he was outside what I think was a casino. He grabbed a cigarette from his bag and smoked it. After he did, he then passed out and died. It sat on that scene for a couple of pages after (about three).
The fifth and sixth page showed his funeral. He laid there, hands laid across his chest. And angels came and picked him up.
The rest of the pages showed the man being judged by Saint Peter and being sentenced to one of the afterlife’s (hard to tell which one as you’ll see).
The last and final page showed him praying above hell and he had angel wings and a white robe.
This comic traumatized me as a paranoid Christian kid, and I’m still not able to cross my hands on my chest while laying down.
If anyone can help me figure out what this comic was, I would be most appreciative.
Not all cult leaders begin as influential figures. Some are born in the right place, surrounded by the right system, waiting for the precise moment. Sam Bateman didn't stand out in any way within the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). He had no power, he had no one's respect, but he perfectly understood how the minds of those around him worked, and when he found a crack in that system of brutality, he exploited it without any remorse.
What began as the story of an ordinary man within the FLDS would end up becoming one of the most disturbing and recent cases related to fundamentalist Mormon cults. Manipulation, brutality, power, and a nefarious system that allowed terrible acts against minors to occur.
Video about Samuel Bateman's polygamous Mormon cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG96XK6QKmQ
My landlords found a teddy bear on my car and thought it must have been ours. Thinking this, they put it on our stairs. when we texted them to say thank you for the gift they told us where they found it. My mom lives 2 houses down from my family, so I figured maybe she left it there for my 6yo daughter. Nope. I asked her and she said no. Now I'm left with this mystery and honestly I feel kind of creeped out. Should I be worried?
Lars Mittank, a German tourist, disappeared in Bulgaria in July 2014 after a vacation, becoming famous due to haunting CCTV footage of him fleeing Varna Airport in a panic, leaving all his belongings behind. Days before, he'd been in a fight, sustained an ear injury, and called his mother claiming people were trying to kill him, leading to theories of paranoia, a mental breakdown, or a real threat. Despite extensive searches and online interest, he has never been found, and his case remains unsolved.
