I've Got A Really Bad Special Interest

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Nonsense!
I see nothing bad in your interest for Manson, Julia_the_Great! I was analysing and studying the Chernobyl catastrophe for a long time - now I have a great number of books and videos and photos in my comp, but I haven't looked them through for several months! I study occultism, but I'm not going to be Yelena Blavatskaya!
If he seems to be an interesting person for you - go ahead, read more and analyse his deeds, but you'll never be him. You'll just know everything about him and find out the reason why he was committing crimes, may be you'll discover a brilliant psychologist in yourself. All the more, you say you don't admire him. So everything is all right with you, he is a person everyone should know about for not doing the same things.

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Don't worry, these kind of obsessions are normal for us. lol

Recently I have been obsessed with the Amityville Horror. I truly believe that most of the story was made up, it is still intriguing. Of course I have to research what age the Lutz family were during their stay at the house, what they say now, how they died, what they look like now, what people are saying now about it, how many people go by the house now, facts about the movies, blah blah blah. lol Same old song and dance, just different subject.

Manson is a mass murderer, not a serial killer. But...they've recently been digging around on the farm where his cult members lived for a time to see if there are any bodies buried in the cornfield. Nothing of any significance has turned up...yet.

Yes, it was proved to be a hoax about ten years ago or so and some of the Lutz family members eventually confessed to it. The motive behind the hoax is still unclear, but the murders that occurred in the house before the Lutz family moved in are true. Made for a good horror movie, though. When I was a kid I had nightmares about the demon Jodie.

I too used to have obsessions such as these, serial killers, mass murders, diseases, Columbine, graves, currently antique medical books where all the knowledge is wrong and the illustrations just fascinate me. I always hid my more gruesome obsessions but now I know there really is nothing to worry about, fascination and interest and obsession like we have is not how problems start, I think its a bit the same as when I'm in the car and there are huge traffic lines because there is an accident on the other side of the road and everyone wants to look. I think my mum calls it chicken necks? Chicken necking? Or some thing like that.

I hope that makes sense, it probably doesn't

I think it's called rubber-necking, maybe you're thinking about rubber chickens?

Ha ha, rubber chickens!

I never understood the joke. What is so funny about a rubber chicken?

Oh yeah. I forgot about the graves. When I was a teen, a friend and I would find really old grave yards where the headstones were so old we had to do rubbings with rice paper and charcoal to read them. As an adult, I lived for a short time in New Orleans. They have amazing cemeteries with the most beautiful mausoleums...much too dangerous to roam around in though.

The comedy of the rubber-chicken is that there is a chicken made of rubber.

Yes I think that's it.

I like roaming cemeteries. It's called "Taphophilia" although for some reason that term sounds a little weird to me. But hey, if it's in wikipedia that means I'm not the only one I enjoy reading the dates, seeing the art and architecture of the stones and mausoleums, and sometimes have even came online to see if I could find the names and what they died from. I want to be a full-fledged paranormal investigator but haven't found anyone that will go with me to reported haunted sites so just research it for now.

I had the same obsession for awhile back in high school when the book first came out (even went to see Vince Bugliosi speak and got my copy autographed). It eventually morphed into an obsession with Beatles music and trivia, which I still have today. I'm as fascinated by the Paul McCartney death hoax as I ever was by Creepy Crawling.

Oh, and as to What's funny about a rubber chicken? What's funny about it, is that there's really NOTHING inherently funny about a rubber chicken, it's an utter and complete non-sequitur in virtually any occasion, with the possible exception of a retelling of THE ARISTOCRATS!. Then a rubber chicken is funny as hell.

i have the same special interest...don't feel so bad i've been interested in him since a disturbingly young age.....but i don't admire him, nor have i ever. i don't think it's a problem.

Wow! I just yesterday developed a manson obsession; both my girlfriend and I are obsessed w/ serial killers. (You might try the 'zodiac killer', there are unsolved cryptography puzzles!)

I don't think there is anything wrong with such a special interest; I believe it is an effort to understand pathology. The same way doctors have a special interest in diseases; the best way to keep a person healthy is to gain a deep understanding of sickness.

I read about them only because, for the life of me, I cannot understand how they do it without having a complete nervous breakdown the first time they kill someone. How do they keep their cool so that no on knows what they are doing and they don't get caught right away? This is the only reason they interest me. Otherwise they worry me because those are the types I attract (predatory types) and I can never tell who I can and cannot trust. Even people who do not normally prey on others might see me as an easy target.
So, have to say, this type of person is scary to me and not the type I would worship.