Deaths and mysterious deaths are not at all the same. Mysterious deaths and vanishings become increasingly rare the higher up the socio-economic curve you climb.

It is not surprising that the FBI did not detect an actual pattern before now, considering the various ways that the entirety of it spent the entirety of 2025.

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platinumrad 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Dying while experiencing nature is "mysterious" but also not uncommon among upper-middle class people. I would bet that the average victim of a backpacking or cross-country skiing mishap is wealthier than average.

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tarsinge 4 days ago | parent [-]

But that's not how "mysterious" is used here. These scientists did not meet their end during an obvious outdoor activity.

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platinumrad 4 days ago | parent [-]

One of them disappeared while hiking with friends. Another two were last seen walking away from home.

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ineedasername 4 days ago | parent [-]

Roughly half the people you'd see walking are "walking away from home". It's not a known risk factor. In fact unless they live near "nature" then being seen walking anywhere at all near their home is pretty reasonable evidence that their disappearance, whatever the cause, is less likely to be "Got lost hiking" or similar.

	▲	platinumrad 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Okay but one of them literally got lost hiking. Two, if you count the cancer researcher that a lot of people online seem to be bundling in for some reason.

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cucumber3732842 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>Mysterious deaths and vanishings become increasingly rare the higher up the socio-economic curve you climb.

Is it? Or is there just more scrutiny when more important people die?

When someone who ain't worth shit OD's nobody takes allegations that they were murdered seriously. When someone who's worth a lot of money ODs, the "they only bought fine cocaine, their dealer never would have cut that shit" allegations get looked into because "more equal animals" is more of a scale than a binary when it comes to this particular issue.