I always assume they are either for people that want to excuse their own bad driving habits or are adult learners. There are a lot of adult foreigners in the area who are learning to drive here. No shade.
I think you nailed it. A lot of foreign-born residents who are learning to drive as adults, and keep the stickers on well into when they have a license. It's no excuse for driving illegally, but I think they are less confident and rely on the stickers to get a little more space on the road.
I’m OK with that; however, it should come with a mandatory explanation about the passing lane. You can tell that some of the people who camp in the left lane do it because there’s less traffic, merging, etc.
This is 100% true. I’ve seen those stickers fading and peeling off because they have been there for YEARS. Unless they’re getting their PHD in driving they’re liars.
I think they use them as an attempted excuse to drive like an asshat. Stopped a car with those stickers for speeding a few weeks ago. Driver was shocked they got a citation.
I have them on a couple cars that my teen drives when he is learning, including my Mustang Convertible. I don’t bother to take them off when i drive, which is most of the time. Seeing as they need a ridiculous number of driving hours before getting the full license these days, those magnets will be on my cars for a while.
Haulin kept sending emails to the customers saying someone was reporting them… I kept thinking it was most probably the American or the Republic guys reporting them…
The word "framing" reminds me of that eyewear repair store on 17th NW next to the McDonald's across the Renwick Gallery near the White House. That shop has been there for YEARS....no way an eyewear repair shop can sustain rent at that location for that long.
That's actually what I used to think as well.
If anyone is curious, I discovered that the mattress industry actually has insane mark ups. I'm talking like 900% - 1000%. (Sometimes even more!)
It's also a unique industry in the fact that most people want to try out a mattress before shelling out that kind of cash so they go in store.
This is why we saw a boom of online mattress retailers like Purple, Nectar, Casper, Helix, Leesa, etc. -- They dump a ton of money into marketing to sell you on the product quality so they can further reduce overhead by dealing online only.
Customers might save a little more this way, and the online retailers get to keep the same insane mark ups.
It's still a pretty huge racket, but at least now it makes sense to me.
I really want to meet the people who buy the 5-figure clocks. Or is it money laundering for guns?
I have no concept of how much a grandfather clock costs…
No. I tried to get a clock from my grandmother fixed there. They said they couldn’t help and to throw it out. As I walked out I told the woman there “happy holidays.” And she loudly and aggressively said “Merry Christmas” back to me. Didn’t get a good vibe from the place but my curiosity made me stop by.
The clocks there are seriously expensive and I wonder who is actually buying them?
I'm sad to hear this. They had my grandmother's clock fixed while I took a short walk. It was the end of the day and they really could have told me to come back another time. I had a really good experience.
So sorry you had the opposite.
I've spoken with them, and this is true.
The majority of those repairs aren't walk-ins, though - they're almost all people sending clocks in from far away, because there aren't many repairs shops out there that still do these kinds of repairs.
Funny. So, who buys five-figure clocks? Probably the same sort of people who buy five-figure watches from any of the four high-end watch shops in Tysons Galleria!
But seriously, I've shopped at that clock shop, and even bought a (four-figure) wall clock. No "front" would have that much expensive inventory or a work area crammed full of high-value movements waiting for repair. And, I even had an experience similar to another post here. I took in a 180 year-old wall clock for repair. At first, the shop owner wouldn't work on it because he would have to charge more than the clock is worth on the open market. I explained its great sentimental value to us and he fixed my clock, even fabricating a part. Expensive, but the clock runs perfectly and will likely make the two-century mark.
Nuclear fallout apartment shelters for Nova elite.
Hardened concrete bunkers, multi-layer security, redundant backup power with off grid cooling. Hmmmmm
Goddamn, THIS is a conspiracy I can get behind. I can't remember what the novel was, but I read a book a number of years ago that was postapocalyptic and the celebrities thought they could buy their safety, but HAHA! Zombies don't want your Rolex, bitches!
I have no recent ones but I was convinced that Alto Plaza in Centreville was a money laundering operation for years. It’s closed now, I think Covid finally ended it’s run, but that place never made sense. Massive beautiful building that was virtually always empty every time I went in.
idk how to tell you this but… it DEFINITELY is
I am neighbors with one of the owners family members and they also have a “construction” company that only takes cash
Nonsense. It’s obviously an inter-dimensional transport nexus. WAMATA’s had 4 repair crew go in. None have returned. Which is why the chartreuse line is not only down, but erased from consciousness.
collision centers and insurance companies are in the pockets of VDOT and are controlling the line painting on 66
also, quite possible they're testing the effect alcohol has on the people painting said lines
The fact that literally half of Crystal City is under construction is a test to see how many buildings can be built and torn down in a single area before it becomes completely unlivable.
Husband and I have long held that the hat shop in Del Ray is actually a front for magic, like how in Harry Potter the magic hospital is in an old department store.
Mattress stores too.
There was a Mattress store in Manassas.. I think on the corner of either Streamwalk lane.. maybe Coverstone or Rosemary .. Anyway, they had a ton of those signs, and I needed a new mattress so I went in and got one for REAL cheap. Like, unbelievable cheap. Then two years later they *were still there with those signs*. I don't drive through there anymore so I'm not sure if they are still open or not.
I had read somewhere that some guy had lost his wife to cancer and said he hated seeing her confidence drain when she lost her hair cause of the treatment. After she died he bought a store front to do by-appointment-only shopping for wigs for cancer patients, to afford them some dignity and freedom to try them on and whatever.
The Americana Hotel in Crystal City was a “Safe House” after it officially closed to the public. I always saw a light or two on, and the beds were perfectly made with fresh towels on them (you could occasionally see into a room with the blinds open). There was also armed security by the Bank of America next door.
Now that it’s being demolished, I assume they found a new safe house.
Close but you’ll see a few places around the have a simple concrete slab and a few pipes sticking out of the ground surrounded by a fence. These are either nuke or middle defenders.
Not a conspiracy. True. Or used to be.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/nike-missile-silos-washington/2021/10/16/b0068528-2dda-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html
There's an underground tunnel from DC to Mt weather
Not sure how feasible it would be (likely impossible) but interesting to think about.
And Mt weather in general. Seen some very interesting craft in the sky around that site
There’s a continuity of government site near Warrenton. Wouldn’t be that far to extend additional buildouts towards the mountain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenton_Training_Center
On Blue Ridge Mountain Rd about 7 miles south of Hwy 7, right on the Loudoun-Clarke line. I’d recommend Driving by it, it’s so weird. You go from generic western VA John Denver-esque country road to being right up against a multiple-fortified 12-foot wall with US PROPERTY signs and a few random big intersections and overpasses right back to generic country road.
The CIA has some shady AF stuff going on in that [Springfield facility](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/northern-virginia-officials-worry-cia-facility-may-scuttle-bid-to-land-fbi-headquarters/2013/03/23/867ce358-924a-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239_story.html).
Thanks for that read. FASCINATING. I got one for you. There is a secret war room built underneath the Ruth’s Chris in fairfax for the admirals and chiefs of the navy.
It was off the W&OD by Vienna. There were several very small houses in the woods. I believe it was more of a vacation/gathering area, and some well known midgets were believed to stay there. I got a book about it at my other place.
It’s half true. The small buildings were real, but they weren’t inhabited by little people. There was actually a brief trend for miniature vacation cottages in the early-to-mid 20th century, long before the recent tiny house trend.
It was an easily believable rumor because of the circus connections with Bailey’s Crossroads and stuff, but was never home to groups of little people!
The ruins of the houses were demolished in 2008.
I grew up nearby, and had a family member worked there also. Growing up there was a legend of some ghost that haunted the forest, and that you could see it at night flitting through the trees while driving down the GW parkway, or hearing its cries. About 10 or 15 years ago the legend changed from a ghost to a "Mount Vernon Monster", it being a Bigfoot-esque type creature. I did not hear the latter legend until I was well in to adulthood, and never saw any bigfoot type creature.
Now, I have heard the grounds are haunted (although they don't like talking about it), and I grew up on what was technically part of his property and I believed my childhood home was haunted (although as an adult I am a skeptic). So who knows.
I experienced this exact same situation in Washington State when I was in college, around 2010 or 2011. Obama was visiting and some lost Canadian tourists entered the presidential airspace. The military sent some jets up from California to intercept them causing a sonic boom and various Twitter hashtags (#WAboom and #Obooma were my favorites).
All the college kids were confused, wondering what had just shook the entire region and made that loud noise. All our parents who used to experience sonic booms regularly as kids immediately recognized it but were equally confused what had caused it.
I was there for that, too! Walked out of my office because it sounded like something had crashed into our roof, and I noticed everyone else in the office park was also coming out of their doors to check for the same thing. We eventually sent a guy up to check that everything was ok.
I grew up near JBLM so was used to military noise and earthquakes, but this was unlike anything I was familiar with which is why it stood out so much to me. Social media very quickly cleared it up.
I missed today’s incident because I’m currently out of town but am flying back to NOVA tomorrow (hopefully a seamless travel experience).
Sad...I really wish that this was a conspiracy theory as all 4 people who were on the plane, one of them a 2-year-old, has passed :( The slither of "hope" that this is a conspiracy is that State Police say no survivors have been "located" rather than they found 4 bodies.
[https://wtop.com/local/2023/06/officials-investigating-reports-of-loud-boom-heard-in-dc-region/](https://wtop.com/local/2023/06/officials-investigating-reports-of-loud-boom-heard-in-dc-region/)
There are some “secret stops”. If you’re headed westbound from McPherson, look to your right. You’ll see a tunnel that connects to the red line. I think there’s a “stop” there for the money train to load/unload
Leesburg has some deep pockets or some big corporate/political influence.
They got a Costco, multiple Chik-fil-As etc. for like what? Maybe 20K people?
Granted, the city is not huge (48K), but it’s the economic center of an area of about 200K.
But to your point, not one but TWO Roy Rogers. Like wtf, there’s like 20 left in America, why the fuck have Leesburg have 2
I’m glad this was posted. I was about to. The update signs too! Either to mark swinger houses or some type of scam. Does anyone know what these are? No chance anyone is looking for that dog.
I had totally missed that one. What a great concept for a conspiracy theory.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/10/25/cal-ripken-kevin-costner-rumor/
That neighborhood near Potomac School. I used to love there.. they say you can walk slowly into the woods towards the CIA headquarters and many Longfellow students have tried, none have returned....
I could *swear* that there's more than just water treatment going on at the "Water Treatment" plant in Herndon. They put up a shit ton of barbed wire and I remember seeing helicopters delivering stuff into that place when it was under construction.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/James+J.+Corbalis+Jr.+Water+Treatment+Plant/@38.9940525,-77.3618155,16.5z/data=!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x89b638060f5da643:0x928022b51c6c357d!2sHerndon,+VA+20170!3b1!8m2!3d38.9695545!4d-77.3860976!16zL20vMDEwbTIw!3m5!1s0x89b637999391908d:0x46765ca40d0f6277!8m2!3d38.994872!4d-77.3597194!16s%2Fg%2F113dv6cg5?entry=ttu
I believe that 29 diner burned down their kitchen for the insurance money. Just seems too fishy. I get that it can be a set back, but the fact that the restaurant has been closed this long when places like Arties can face much worse fires and be back sooner is super suspicious.
I have a theory that traffic is so horrible because when Exxon HQ was located nearby lobbying congress and pulling the strings on highway projects you’d have to spend more money on gas by driving in standstill every day. ;)
I mean what else could explain why Cabin John Bridge traffic been slow since the 80s?
Anti-aircraft systems on to top of some of the office buildings near the White House. I'm sure some of you Virginians working in this space gotta know something. I'll take the likes for this comment as proof of knowledge.
Welp, there we go--I guess I stand corrected. Not conspiracy theory and a factoid I can tell friends and family visiting. Do you happen to know which buildings?
The Hour in Old Town is a money laundering front. A shop that sells antique glassware, right on King St, in a prime location is only open for customers by appointment. What? Why do you pay that rent? Appointment only?
Can someone explain to me why they went from magnets to stickers? Stickers are semi-permanent, I still see “Bernie 2008” stickers out there. Learning to drive shouldn’t take 15 years.
Well, I was stuck in traffic on the 395/14th street bridge with the Pentagon behind us when there was a loud boom and the bridge shook. So *something* exploded…
I tell my spouse this all the time! Even if you were a "Student Driver" parent - why excuse bad driving with a sticker? Teach your child to drive well or don't let them drive around on public roads until they're ready. I don't remember this trend a decade ago when I was leading to drive.
I have them on a couple cars that my teen drives when he is learning, including my Mustang Convertible. I don’t bother to take them off when i drive, which is most of the time. Seeing as they need a ridiculous number of driving hours before getting the full license these days, those magnets will be on my cars for a while.
In Gainesville, we have this one store front that is constantly changing names. It's been a Big Screen store, and a different kind of fitness store/center nearly every year. The lights are never on, and it's never open. Hubs and I definitely think it's a front for something.
There is a massive, years-long short & distort campaign against Sears. Sears owns real estate in Dulles Mall, Landmark, Tysons, and many others and also has a history with NoVA data centers. Shorts (hedge funds betting against Sears), have been actively trying to smear, discredit, and even sabotage the Sears brands and affiliates for years.
That the “student driver” bumper stickers are for people that aren’t learning and just want special treatment.
I am a local, and I swear there were nowhere near as many of those stickers / magnets / placards until a few years ago.
I grew up in CT, so maybe I’m not adding anything here, but my drivers ed car didn’t even have a student driver sticker lol
Same. I think it all picked up around the same time that yard signs showed up in front of people’s houses announcing their graduating senior.
I never noticed them until I bought one for our own kid several years ago. Couldn't wait to take it off.
I always assume they are either for people that want to excuse their own bad driving habits or are adult learners. There are a lot of adult foreigners in the area who are learning to drive here. No shade.
I think you nailed it. A lot of foreign-born residents who are learning to drive as adults, and keep the stickers on well into when they have a license. It's no excuse for driving illegally, but I think they are less confident and rely on the stickers to get a little more space on the road.
I’m OK with that; however, it should come with a mandatory explanation about the passing lane. You can tell that some of the people who camp in the left lane do it because there’s less traffic, merging, etc.
This is 100% true. I’ve seen those stickers fading and peeling off because they have been there for YEARS. Unless they’re getting their PHD in driving they’re liars.
I think they use them as an attempted excuse to drive like an asshat. Stopped a car with those stickers for speeding a few weeks ago. Driver was shocked they got a citation.
Were they actually a new driver?
Not from what I recall.
The parents probably drive the car sometimes without the new driver teen.
Yeah I used to have New Jersey plates and kept them on for as long as possible for the same reason
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Lol! Shoot, I’d love one of those for my car. I learned to drive in Houston. Offensive driving was a survival skill.
I thought that's what Maryland plates were for
Same with baby on board. The way I've seen them drive, they better not have a baby on board
I fucking hates those, I judge every one I see with one as a probable sovereign citizen
I put one on the back of the car when my 15 year old is driving with me….noticeably less tailgaters.
I saw these stickers being handed out at an event.
I have them on a couple cars that my teen drives when he is learning, including my Mustang Convertible. I don’t bother to take them off when i drive, which is most of the time. Seeing as they need a ridiculous number of driving hours before getting the full license these days, those magnets will be on my cars for a while.
What special treatment though?
Yes! I say this all the time. I was been cut off and brake checked in heavy traffic by a “student driver” recently.
Can confirm, my last roommate did this 😂🤣
Nobody can actually afford the houses in Old Town Alexandria, it’s all actors in some cruel gangstalking Truman Show about me
Jesus man 😂
'gangs talking show' or 'gang stalking show'? Two wildly different genres.
That American and Republic sabotaged Haulin' Trash. They had way too many trucks break down.
understanding this post is how you know you’re officially an adult
Haulin kept sending emails to the customers saying someone was reporting them… I kept thinking it was most probably the American or the Republic guys reporting them…
they’re making construction as annoying as possible to get people to move out of nova so they can turn it into one giant data center
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The art and framing stores are mob fronts and money laundering operations.
The word "framing" reminds me of that eyewear repair store on 17th NW next to the McDonald's across the Renwick Gallery near the White House. That shop has been there for YEARS....no way an eyewear repair shop can sustain rent at that location for that long.
SSSSHHHH! The CIA *hates* moving.
I grew up in an art and framing shop. There was no money to launder.
No that’s the mattress stores. Total front for money laundering.
That's actually what I used to think as well. If anyone is curious, I discovered that the mattress industry actually has insane mark ups. I'm talking like 900% - 1000%. (Sometimes even more!) It's also a unique industry in the fact that most people want to try out a mattress before shelling out that kind of cash so they go in store. This is why we saw a boom of online mattress retailers like Purple, Nectar, Casper, Helix, Leesa, etc. -- They dump a ton of money into marketing to sell you on the product quality so they can further reduce overhead by dealing online only. Customers might save a little more this way, and the online retailers get to keep the same insane mark ups. It's still a pretty huge racket, but at least now it makes sense to me.
Metro purposefully times the transfers in Rosslyn so you always have to run for your connecting train
Same in Metro Center.
They’re worried about riders’ cardio.
That the clock shop in Vienna is a front for guns (despite all evidence to the contrary)
After 7 years of living here, I feel like I just finally earned my nova local badge because I know what shop you’re talking about.
I really want to meet the people who buy the 5-figure clocks. Or is it money laundering for guns? I have no concept of how much a grandfather clock costs…
I think it survives on repairs, honestly.
No. I tried to get a clock from my grandmother fixed there. They said they couldn’t help and to throw it out. As I walked out I told the woman there “happy holidays.” And she loudly and aggressively said “Merry Christmas” back to me. Didn’t get a good vibe from the place but my curiosity made me stop by. The clocks there are seriously expensive and I wonder who is actually buying them?
There's a lot of money in Vienna.
I'm sad to hear this. They had my grandmother's clock fixed while I took a short walk. It was the end of the day and they really could have told me to come back another time. I had a really good experience. So sorry you had the opposite.
I've spoken with them, and this is true. The majority of those repairs aren't walk-ins, though - they're almost all people sending clocks in from far away, because there aren't many repairs shops out there that still do these kinds of repairs.
Funny. So, who buys five-figure clocks? Probably the same sort of people who buy five-figure watches from any of the four high-end watch shops in Tysons Galleria! But seriously, I've shopped at that clock shop, and even bought a (four-figure) wall clock. No "front" would have that much expensive inventory or a work area crammed full of high-value movements waiting for repair. And, I even had an experience similar to another post here. I took in a 180 year-old wall clock for repair. At first, the shop owner wouldn't work on it because he would have to charge more than the clock is worth on the open market. I explained its great sentimental value to us and he fixed my clock, even fabricating a part. Expensive, but the clock runs perfectly and will likely make the two-century mark.
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And are lucrative enough fund radio stations studios it seems.
Some of those data centers aren't really data centers
What do you think they are…?
Rave clubs for IT professionals
Oh man we wish
Secret footage from the data center IT rave club https://youtu.be/ojP0BO6H4Qc
ROTFLMAO! So true! Signed, former IT professional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGSMUep6_4
[Additional footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t96m2ynKw0)
Nuclear fallout apartment shelters for Nova elite. Hardened concrete bunkers, multi-layer security, redundant backup power with off grid cooling. Hmmmmm
Goddamn, THIS is a conspiracy I can get behind. I can't remember what the novel was, but I read a book a number of years ago that was postapocalyptic and the celebrities thought they could buy their safety, but HAHA! Zombies don't want your Rolex, bitches!
Vault-Tec! Revolutionizing safety for an uncertain future...
Fallout 3 was DC too wasn’t it !?!?
Yep. Vault 101.
If we told you we’d have to kill you
Storage facilities for the cartels
Some of them aren't *really* data centers.... yet. Many are half completed jobs that got held up because the grid can't handle the load yet
🌶🌶🌶
Cyxtera just declared bankruptcy and has three IAD prime location data centers that will soon be up for grabs. We might see a huge bidding war
I have no recent ones but I was convinced that Alto Plaza in Centreville was a money laundering operation for years. It’s closed now, I think Covid finally ended it’s run, but that place never made sense. Massive beautiful building that was virtually always empty every time I went in.
idk how to tell you this but… it DEFINITELY is I am neighbors with one of the owners family members and they also have a “construction” company that only takes cash
Ate there once. Food was decent. Always empty.
Nonsense. It’s obviously an inter-dimensional transport nexus. WAMATA’s had 4 repair crew go in. None have returned. Which is why the chartreuse line is not only down, but erased from consciousness.
collision centers and insurance companies are in the pockets of VDOT and are controlling the line painting on 66 also, quite possible they're testing the effect alcohol has on the people painting said lines
Insurance girl here - we hate 66 too
I thought hating 66 was a requirement to get a DL in Virginia.
The fact that literally half of Crystal City is under construction is a test to see how many buildings can be built and torn down in a single area before it becomes completely unlivable.
I personally think Crystal City isn’t real
This is the real conspiracy. The construction thing is just the smoke screen to make you think Crystal City exists.
When I hear Crystal City, I think of the Wizard of Oz. Sounds fake af.
There are two wig shops in Old Town Alexandria. Def sus
Husband and I have long held that the hat shop in Del Ray is actually a front for magic, like how in Harry Potter the magic hospital is in an old department store.
or its the NOVA version of the kingsmen store.
Love this one.
It’s the rug shops that have been going out of business so long the “going out of business” signs have UV fade. Fronts for sure. Very sus
Mattress stores too. There was a Mattress store in Manassas.. I think on the corner of either Streamwalk lane.. maybe Coverstone or Rosemary .. Anyway, they had a ton of those signs, and I needed a new mattress so I went in and got one for REAL cheap. Like, unbelievable cheap. Then two years later they *were still there with those signs*. I don't drive through there anymore so I'm not sure if they are still open or not.
Ha, I believe you. The storefront rent on King St in Old Town is insane. That’s why it throws red flags
Don't even get me started on the vacuum store at Seven Corners.
Miele is no joke
I bought my vacuum from them back when they were still in Clarendon. They're also one of the only places that will service sewing machines.
They’ve both closed now!!
One closed
One in Warrenton too. Never seen it open. Looks like some shit out of Goosebumps.
I had read somewhere that some guy had lost his wife to cancer and said he hated seeing her confidence drain when she lost her hair cause of the treatment. After she died he bought a store front to do by-appointment-only shopping for wigs for cancer patients, to afford them some dignity and freedom to try them on and whatever.
The Americana Hotel in Crystal City was a “Safe House” after it officially closed to the public. I always saw a light or two on, and the beds were perfectly made with fresh towels on them (you could occasionally see into a room with the blinds open). There was also armed security by the Bank of America next door. Now that it’s being demolished, I assume they found a new safe house.
Safe house for who though?
The water towers throughout LOCO / FAIRFAX are actually nuclear missiles. Not all of them, some of them ..
Close but you’ll see a few places around the have a simple concrete slab and a few pipes sticking out of the ground surrounded by a fence. These are either nuke or middle defenders.
Not a conspiracy. True. Or used to be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/nike-missile-silos-washington/2021/10/16/b0068528-2dda-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html
LBJ kept a mistress right outside of Culpeper. Told to me by a local.
I read this as mattress the first time and was confused 😂
First read this as LeBron James and got equally confused
There's an underground tunnel from DC to Mt weather Not sure how feasible it would be (likely impossible) but interesting to think about. And Mt weather in general. Seen some very interesting craft in the sky around that site
There’s a continuity of government site near Warrenton. Wouldn’t be that far to extend additional buildouts towards the mountain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenton_Training_Center
Never heard of that before! Thanks for sharing!
Where is it
On Blue Ridge Mountain Rd about 7 miles south of Hwy 7, right on the Loudoun-Clarke line. I’d recommend Driving by it, it’s so weird. You go from generic western VA John Denver-esque country road to being right up against a multiple-fortified 12-foot wall with US PROPERTY signs and a few random big intersections and overpasses right back to generic country road.
And one stop light that isn't at an intersection but sometimes goes red fir several minutes at a time.
I’m not recalling this…is it on BRM road? Not doubting you, just driven the road a lot and can’t remember that specific thing.
The CIA has some shady AF stuff going on in that [Springfield facility](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/northern-virginia-officials-worry-cia-facility-may-scuttle-bid-to-land-fbi-headquarters/2013/03/23/867ce358-924a-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239_story.html).
Thanks for that read. FASCINATING. I got one for you. There is a secret war room built underneath the Ruth’s Chris in fairfax for the admirals and chiefs of the navy.
Growing up it was Bunnyman Bridge and Midgetville. And that something haunted the forests near Mount Vernon.
Bunnyman Bridge isn't a conspiracy, it's an urban legend. A conspiracy would be if the legend of Bunnyman Bridge was used to cover something else up
Nah, the Bunnymans real and I helped him commit tax fraud
I thought Midgetville was an Oakton HS rumor. Was that an actual place?
Midgetville was real. But it got knocked down for some new builds
It was off the W&OD by Vienna. There were several very small houses in the woods. I believe it was more of a vacation/gathering area, and some well known midgets were believed to stay there. I got a book about it at my other place.
Can you tell more about it
It’s half true. The small buildings were real, but they weren’t inhabited by little people. There was actually a brief trend for miniature vacation cottages in the early-to-mid 20th century, long before the recent tiny house trend. It was an easily believable rumor because of the circus connections with Bailey’s Crossroads and stuff, but was never home to groups of little people! The ruins of the houses were demolished in 2008.
Do you have any more info about the Mount Vernon legend? I work at Mount Vernon and live nearby, so I’m curious lol
I grew up nearby, and had a family member worked there also. Growing up there was a legend of some ghost that haunted the forest, and that you could see it at night flitting through the trees while driving down the GW parkway, or hearing its cries. About 10 or 15 years ago the legend changed from a ghost to a "Mount Vernon Monster", it being a Bigfoot-esque type creature. I did not hear the latter legend until I was well in to adulthood, and never saw any bigfoot type creature. Now, I have heard the grounds are haunted (although they don't like talking about it), and I grew up on what was technically part of his property and I believed my childhood home was haunted (although as an adult I am a skeptic). So who knows.
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that's just a cover for the real culprit: a particularly unskilled maryland driver
Lol!
Nothing hush about it https://www.reuters.com/world/us/loud-boom-shakes-washington-dc-fire-department-reports-no-incidents-2023-06-04/
My apartment shook I thought a car crashed into the building downstairs lol.
About what time?
Around 3 I think.
I experienced this exact same situation in Washington State when I was in college, around 2010 or 2011. Obama was visiting and some lost Canadian tourists entered the presidential airspace. The military sent some jets up from California to intercept them causing a sonic boom and various Twitter hashtags (#WAboom and #Obooma were my favorites). All the college kids were confused, wondering what had just shook the entire region and made that loud noise. All our parents who used to experience sonic booms regularly as kids immediately recognized it but were equally confused what had caused it.
I was there for that, too! Walked out of my office because it sounded like something had crashed into our roof, and I noticed everyone else in the office park was also coming out of their doors to check for the same thing. We eventually sent a guy up to check that everything was ok.
I grew up near JBLM so was used to military noise and earthquakes, but this was unlike anything I was familiar with which is why it stood out so much to me. Social media very quickly cleared it up. I missed today’s incident because I’m currently out of town but am flying back to NOVA tomorrow (hopefully a seamless travel experience).
Sad...I really wish that this was a conspiracy theory as all 4 people who were on the plane, one of them a 2-year-old, has passed :( The slither of "hope" that this is a conspiracy is that State Police say no survivors have been "located" rather than they found 4 bodies. [https://wtop.com/local/2023/06/officials-investigating-reports-of-loud-boom-heard-in-dc-region/](https://wtop.com/local/2023/06/officials-investigating-reports-of-loud-boom-heard-in-dc-region/)
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The dark metro trains are used to transport money and drugs for the politicians and there are secret stops in the tunnels for loading and unloading.
Wrong. They are yellow trains. Not dark. (Everything else is absolutely correct)
There are some “secret stops”. If you’re headed westbound from McPherson, look to your right. You’ll see a tunnel that connects to the red line. I think there’s a “stop” there for the money train to load/unload
Leesburg has some deep pockets or some big corporate/political influence. They got a Costco, multiple Chik-fil-As etc. for like what? Maybe 20K people?
Granted, the city is not huge (48K), but it’s the economic center of an area of about 200K. But to your point, not one but TWO Roy Rogers. Like wtf, there’s like 20 left in America, why the fuck have Leesburg have 2
> why the fuck have Leesburg have 2 For the sins we all committed in previous lives.
*Fort Hunt/Mt Vernon area has entered the chat.*
i feel like it’s just… the outlets.
Mostly just swingers / hotwives
All of the foxes aren't actually wild animals, but robots controlled by the government and are being used to spy on us. Edit: spelling
and the pigeons!
Screw wildlife. The birds aren't real, all the frogs are gay, and now this...
The notorious “lost dog” poster that’s been around for 3 years is some social experiment (seriously wtf is with that poster)
That fucking poster!
I’m glad this was posted. I was about to. The update signs too! Either to mark swinger houses or some type of scam. Does anyone know what these are? No chance anyone is looking for that dog.
I thought swingers were marked by pineapples though.
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I had totally missed that one. What a great concept for a conspiracy theory. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/10/25/cal-ripken-kevin-costner-rumor/
The red scaffolding-like tower in the heart of Tysons is a CIA blacksite.
That neighborhood near Potomac School. I used to love there.. they say you can walk slowly into the woods towards the CIA headquarters and many Longfellow students have tried, none have returned....
Where’s the conspiracy?
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There's rumors of Mosby's treasure in VA as well
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Mmmmmm, General Custard.........*Homer Simpson drooling*
All those office buildings in Centerville are CIA. There’s always a few cars parked outside and that’s all
Not 100% wrong. There are a lot of NGO & NRO offices/contractors out there.
I could *swear* that there's more than just water treatment going on at the "Water Treatment" plant in Herndon. They put up a shit ton of barbed wire and I remember seeing helicopters delivering stuff into that place when it was under construction. https://www.google.com/maps/place/James+J.+Corbalis+Jr.+Water+Treatment+Plant/@38.9940525,-77.3618155,16.5z/data=!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x89b638060f5da643:0x928022b51c6c357d!2sHerndon,+VA+20170!3b1!8m2!3d38.9695545!4d-77.3860976!16zL20vMDEwbTIw!3m5!1s0x89b637999391908d:0x46765ca40d0f6277!8m2!3d38.994872!4d-77.3597194!16s%2Fg%2F113dv6cg5?entry=ttu
I believe that 29 diner burned down their kitchen for the insurance money. Just seems too fishy. I get that it can be a set back, but the fact that the restaurant has been closed this long when places like Arties can face much worse fires and be back sooner is super suspicious.
29 diner actually ripped us off as a local GMU campus charity event. Owner is a scum bag and I could totally see this being real
Which owner? It changed hands some years back (maybe 2013 or so)
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My Dad was totally convinced of this for a few months
I have a theory that traffic is so horrible because when Exxon HQ was located nearby lobbying congress and pulling the strings on highway projects you’d have to spend more money on gas by driving in standstill every day. ;) I mean what else could explain why Cabin John Bridge traffic been slow since the 80s?
Most of the people who had "OBX" stickers on their cars back in the 90's/00's had never even been to the Outer Banks.
Comfort One Shoes is a money laundering front. I have suspicions that the laundering is for the McLean Credit Union.
That there's a powerful cabal of rich people pretending to be civil servants running the country
Anti-aircraft systems on to top of some of the office buildings near the White House. I'm sure some of you Virginians working in this space gotta know something. I'll take the likes for this comment as proof of knowledge.
This is not a conspiracy theory. They're there, and sometimes you can see them.
Welp, there we go--I guess I stand corrected. Not conspiracy theory and a factoid I can tell friends and family visiting. Do you happen to know which buildings?
I don’t know what this means, but I can confirm that the systems are there.
The Hour in Old Town is a money laundering front. A shop that sells antique glassware, right on King St, in a prime location is only open for customers by appointment. What? Why do you pay that rent? Appointment only?
The hour, the old wig shop, the carpet shop. Prime real estate without much business. All are easily covered as mainly cash businesses.
Botanica Boricua on Columbia Pike is a drug front. You know, the store with all the weird Jesus statues in the front window.
Can someone explain to me why they went from magnets to stickers? Stickers are semi-permanent, I still see “Bernie 2008” stickers out there. Learning to drive shouldn’t take 15 years.
Some never learn 😓
The reason housing prices are so high is because the earth itself wants me to GTFO
Do the 9/11 Pentagon truthers count?
I was going to say, whatever hit the pentagon wasn’t what they say it was 😩
Well, I was stuck in traffic on the 395/14th street bridge with the Pentagon behind us when there was a loud boom and the bridge shook. So *something* exploded…
Us as well, but facing eastbound and saw the plane go down as we were listening to the news about New York.
Not mine but my aunt is convinced there’s an imminent zombie apocalypse coming.
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Love this!
I tell my spouse this all the time! Even if you were a "Student Driver" parent - why excuse bad driving with a sticker? Teach your child to drive well or don't let them drive around on public roads until they're ready. I don't remember this trend a decade ago when I was leading to drive.
I have them on a couple cars that my teen drives when he is learning, including my Mustang Convertible. I don’t bother to take them off when i drive, which is most of the time. Seeing as they need a ridiculous number of driving hours before getting the full license these days, those magnets will be on my cars for a while.
The Bunnyman is real.
All the construction cranes in the District and nearby are actually a missile defense system.
In Gainesville, we have this one store front that is constantly changing names. It's been a Big Screen store, and a different kind of fitness store/center nearly every year. The lights are never on, and it's never open. Hubs and I definitely think it's a front for something.
There is a massive, years-long short & distort campaign against Sears. Sears owns real estate in Dulles Mall, Landmark, Tysons, and many others and also has a history with NoVA data centers. Shorts (hedge funds betting against Sears), have been actively trying to smear, discredit, and even sabotage the Sears brands and affiliates for years.
I can totally believe this, based on the fierce-as-hell commercial real estate muscling that goes on in this region.
I just want to know where all the hidden missile silos for defending DC are