1y ago

Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar

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Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

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1y ago

Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar

www.bbc.com /news/articles/cg6766nzx39o

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Me: I am sure the headline is clickbait and the story is not that weird.
reads story
Me: W...T...F?????
- Mr Bin Omran told his rescuers he had at times seen his family from his prison, but claimed he had been unable to call out for help “because of a spell that his captor had cast on him”, local media reported.
  i uh... huh.
  
  We have no idea about the conditions he lived in, but i think 26 years is easily enough time to turn a humans brain into complete goo. You can make a human believe anything with that sort of timeframe.
  You can see that from the most extreme forms of military training. You take a human that has empathy and a fear of death and you just completely eliminate those things from that persons entire existence.
  
  He was only 19 when he was stolen and may not have had a science based education.
  Reminds me a bit of the Jaycee Duggard case, she ended up interacting with lots of people without telling them that she was being held by a kidnapper.
  
  Bad translation/cultural interpretation? Maybe they meant something along the lines of "if I spoke he would have hurt my family" which is a verbal phrase that holds power over him, sort of like a spell.
- Why did you think it was clickbait ?
- TIL what a sheepfold is.
He was only 200 meters from home and it took them twenty six years to find him? I just looked up what a "sheep fold" was and it's just a simple sheep pen.
This story can't be real.
- Most of the people who lived in the same building as Dahmer had no idea he was killing, dismembering, and even eating his victims in the same building as them.
  Josef Fritzl managed to hide his daughter in a secret room in his basement, with his wife convinced she had ran away. She gave birth down there six times and her mom, just above her head, was completely unaware.
  
  What the actual fuck
  
  I read the whole Wikipedia entry.
  What the actual fucking fuck.
- He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn't look as hard as they otherwise would.
  
  That's not what confuses me, the dude didn't try to escape for 26 years even though he was only being held in a sheep pasture?
- There's the idiom "return to the fold" which means come back to a group, but aside from that I don't think many non-farmers know that meaning of fold.
- Did you read the article? He disappeared during a war.
  
  So? He was 200 meters (650 feet) away from home in a sheep pen for twenty six years.
Mr Bin Omran told his rescuers he had at times seen his family from his prison, but claimed he had been unable to call out for help “because of a spell that his captor had cast on him”, local media reported.
- Something tells me the victim had mental issues - which doesn't make him any less of a victim.
  
  Could be, a lot of the slavery cases in the UK and Ireland seem to be like that.
I want to know more about this part.
Mr Bin Omran told his rescuers he had at times seen his family from his prison, but claimed he had been unable to call out for help “because of a spell that his captor had cast on him”, local media reported.
Reminds me a bit of the Fritzl case from Austria
- I've heard of this one but never took the time to read through it untill now. All I have to say is hope he rots in hell.
  
  If there is a hell it was made for people like him.
- Holy cow that story is horrible. Seems like it probably influenced the 2022 horror movie >!Barbarian!<
  
  I just watched that movie, it was pretty decent imo
My guts tell me this has something to do with it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Algeria
- Possibly, the article implies it just had to do with the civil war in the 90s. Why do you think homosexuality was a factor?
  
  A 35 year old man kidnapped a 19 year old man and kept him hidden for 26 years. I would be shocked if there WEREN'T a sexual aspect to the story.
i guess this guy has no opinion of being released.
Articles are weird bro.

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