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Note: This post contains graphic descriptions of death and mentions of sexual assault.

Comments were pulled from this Reddit thread.

"Police conducted numerous searches around the areas where Brandon disappeared, including in fields and along the banks of the Yellow Medicine River, but they've never turned anything up."

"One of the theories is that the pilot had accidentally inverted himself without realizing, and was seeing his own light reflection when he got closer to the water line. It’s hard to imagine flying upside down without realizing it, but spatial disorientation is a serious phenomenon."

"The initial autopsy said that she had died from a blow to the head and was alive before entering the cistern. Her father got a second autopsy done that found she had been raped and killed. Police then did a THIRD autopsy and said that she had died a few days before she was found and had been suffocated, but not raped."

"I barely understood any of this at the time because I was so young. I just remember there being this fear surrounding the water and cancer. Learning as an adult how bizarre and statistically rare this incident was, and that we still don’t really know what caused it, makes it a lot creepier."

"Two EXTREMELY UNUSUAL events emerging at essentially the same time in two small communities, both next to military bases, and both remaining unexplained, is an unreal coincidence to me. That alone doesn’t prove the military bases caused them, but I have a hard time believing the timing and similarities were unrelated."

"Logically, my brain says, 'It's just always been. There was never a start, and there will never be an end,' but everything on Earth, even the Earth itself, has had or will have a start and an end, so how can the universe be any different? Fascinating, but incredibly difficult to even comprehend."

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