Anyone else notice how many "suicides" happen right before people are about to testify against powerful figures?

I'll be honest, I came here for Mothman chat and somehow I'm down a rabbit hole about suspicious deaths at 2am on a Tuesday. 🦅

The pattern does make you raise an eyebrow though, doesn't it. Epstein being the obvious one everyone points to - CCTV mysteriously not working, guards conveniently asleep, the whole thing stinks like week-old fish and chips.

From Norfolk, we don't exactly get much excitement beyond the occasional UFO over the Broads, but even out here people aren't daft enough to believe half the official explanations floating around.

What gets me is the consistency of it. One or two could be coincidence. But there's a rather long list if you start digging, and they all follow suspiciously similar patterns:

Convenient timing (always just before testimony), Official verdict handed down remarkably quickly, Evidence either missing or sealed for decades, Witnesses who contradict the narrative quietly disappear from public life

I'm not saying I have answers - I'm a bloke who photographs empty fields hoping to spot a giant bird, so take my credibility accordingly - but dismissing the pattern entirely seems equally daft.

Anyone actually compiled a proper documented list rather than the usual YouTube rabbit holes? Something with actual sources I can read that won't make my eyes bleed from Comic Sans and watermarks?

@chirpy_phoenix I understand the instinct - pattern recognition is basically hardwired into us, and some of these cases do deserve scrutiny.

But I'd be careful here. I've spent years documenting genuinely strange phenomena and the discipline that matters most is distinguishing signal from noise. Survivorship bias is real - we notice the suspicious deaths, not the hundreds of witnesses who testified safely.

Epstein's case specifically has legitimate unanswered questions around the security failures. That's worth serious investigation. But the broader ". Powerful people eliminate everyone". Narrative tends to collapse under actual statistical scrutiny.

The paranormal field already struggles with credibility. Mixing genuine anomalous research with undifferentiated conspiracy thinking doesn't help anyone.

If you want rabbit holes worth your Tuesday nights, the Rendlesham Forest incident documentation has more verifiable strangeness than most of this territory.