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Burning Man attendee found in ‘pool of blood’ as cops launch murder probe
nypost.com ^ | Aug. 31, 2025 | Zoe Hussain

Posted on 09/01/2025 4:36:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN

A man was found dead in a “pool of blood” at the Burning Man festival Saturday night – just as a massive human-shaped wooden effigy was being torched in the Nevada desert, according to authorities.

The body was discovered around 9 p.m. when a festival goer flagged down a sheriff’s deputy and reported seeing “a male subject lying in a pool of blood,” the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Sunday.

Authorities are now investigating the death as a homicide.

The grisly scene was uncovered while the “Man,” a towering human-shaped wooden sculpture at the center of the festival grounds in Black Rock City was set on fire, the sheriff’s office said.

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"A man was found dead in a “pool of blood” at the Burning Man festival Saturday night – just as a massive human-shaped wooden effigy was being torched..."

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Gee, if I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist I'd say this looks like a pagan human sacrifice.......but that can't be.......can it? 🤔

1 posted on 09/01/2025 4:36:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Daisy Cutter the whole gathering.


2 posted on 09/01/2025 4:46:15 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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Could well have been. That is, after all, the distinctive essence of the whole thing, isn’t it? Gather thousands of pagans, including a good number who practice witchcraft, dose a large portion of them with hallucinogens, and ya just never know what might go down...


3 posted on 09/01/2025 4:54:10 AM PDT by drwoof
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“pool of blood”

So the guy drowned?

4 posted on 09/01/2025 4:55:37 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Wonder if he was some homel3ss man invited to the festival “for a good time”?


5 posted on 09/01/2025 4:57:18 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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> Gather thousands of pagans, including a good number who practice witchcraft, dose a large portion of them with hallucinogens, and ya just never know what might go down...

A few years ago there was a guy who immolated himself at the burn. Witnesses said he just ran into the flames without hesitation...

Interestingly Nicole Shanahan, who used to be a Burner but now a born-again Christian, wrote an essay about how the festival is more representative of demonic temptation than spiritual community.


6 posted on 09/01/2025 5:06:13 AM PDT by no-s (Caja del Orador, Caja de Papeletas, Caja del Jurado, Caja de Cartuchos ... ya sabes cómo va...)
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First the pagan sacrifice of burning a statue of a man.

Then the human sacrifice of brutally murdering an actual man.

All part of a sick, demonic gathering for self indulgent leftists.


7 posted on 09/01/2025 5:17:41 AM PDT by detective (F)
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I am so sad! 🙄

So anyhow....how’s about those Mets?


8 posted on 09/01/2025 5:20:47 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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I read that the other day. It was long but pretty interesting. He claimed the whole thing was demonic.

Drugs, orgies, and I think she said the general pop there was against Christianity.


9 posted on 09/01/2025 5:25:24 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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Reminds me of the 2016 Gotthard Base Tunnel opening ceremony in Switzerland.....that looked a whole lot like a demonic ritual as well.


10 posted on 09/01/2025 5:34:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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“A man was found dead in a “pool of blood” at the Burning Man festival Saturday night”

I suspect that this man didn’t understand the MEANING of Burning Man.


11 posted on 09/01/2025 6:29:46 AM PDT by BobL
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Given the mess at the BM last year, methinks it would be a good place to avoid this year. Clearly, that the case for at least one attendee.


12 posted on 09/01/2025 6:41:00 AM PDT by econjack
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Drugs, orgies, and I think she said the general pop there was against Christianity.
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Scripture doesn’t leave much ‘wiggle room’....
Matthew 12:30 (NIV):
“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”

Neutrality is not possible....one is either actively aligned with God or opposed to Him.


13 posted on 09/01/2025 6:52:02 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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A very good place and time for a hit.


14 posted on 09/01/2025 6:55:41 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4337938/posts

A lot of them are now in Reno planning how to get home.


15 posted on 09/01/2025 6:58:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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Last year it was a torrential rain storm and now this......you’d think some of these people would begin to realize attending is not the best of ideas.


16 posted on 09/01/2025 7:05:42 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: detective

All part of a sick, demonic gathering for self indulgent leftists.
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There are so many passages in scripture that this satanic event reminds me of.... but I recently stumbled upon Isaiah 44 and this whole chapter talks about ‘burning man’ as written by God and what he thinks of it.


17 posted on 09/01/2025 7:12:11 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: V_TWIN

That event is sounding like The Wicker Man.


18 posted on 09/01/2025 7:16:02 AM PDT by mware
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My impression is that Burning Man has suffered severe brain drain and is a shell of its former self. It used to have a strong tech nerd presence that elevated it above the standard hippy-dipster love fest. Ten years or so ago there was some truly innovative and well designed techno-psychedelia happening there. Now it just looks lazy and dumb.

Then again, I’m just basing this on videos I’ve seen. Does anyone know anyone who’s attended these things and has an inside scoop on the state of Burning Man these days?


19 posted on 09/01/2025 7:20:54 AM PDT by Yardstick
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Or any and all DNC meetings


20 posted on 09/01/2025 7:30:02 AM PDT by al baby (Whoopie Cushion Goldberg )
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