Curated specimens of rabbit hole. Recorded with dignity. Mostly.
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: youtube.com, recommended sidebar
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Wikipedia, first-link chains
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Assorted online forums
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: wikipedia.org, any article
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: TVTropes.org, wiki founded 2004
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Collaborative fiction, New Jersey Pine Barrens, late 1980s
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Online forum theory, popularized circa 2021
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Embedded in street asphalt, dozens of North American cities, since 1980s
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Search engines and symptom checkers, worldwide
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: English Wikipedia, meta-index page
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: scp-wiki.net, collaborative fiction project
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Originated on 4chan's /x/ board, 2019
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: timecube.com, personal website of Gene Ray
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Anonymous puzzle postings, 2012-2014
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: International Flat Earth Research Society, founded 1956
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Named by Fiona Broome, 2009
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Ural Mountains, Russia, February 1959
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Uintah County, Utah
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Elbert County, Georgia (destroyed 2022)
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Big Ear Radio Observatory, Ohio, August 1977
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: San Francisco Bay Area, mailed 1969-present
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Satirical wiki, encyclopediadramatica.online
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Parlor game, originated 1994
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: CIA program files, declassified 1977
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Alternate reality game, 2004
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: YouTube web series, 2009-2014
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Guerrilla art campaign, Italy, 2008
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: English Wikipedia, community-curated index page
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Played via Wikipedia hyperlinks, worldwide
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Denver, Colorado, since 1995
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Anonymous imageboard, founded 2003
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Recovered from a shipwreck off Antikythera, Greece, 1901
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Lewis Carroll, 1865 (Macmillan & Co., London)
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Coined by psychiatrist John Todd, 1955
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow, 1967
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Warner Bros., 1999
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: David Lindsay-Abaire play, 2010 film adaptation
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Holly Madison memoir, HarperCollins, 2015
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Merriam-Webster, 'Words We're Watching,' 2019
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Something Awful forums, created by Eric Knudsen, 2009
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Waukesha, Wisconsin, 2014
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: YouTube web series/ARG, 2017–2019
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Global social-media panic, 2018
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Reported originating in Russia, 2016
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: YouTube Kids, term coined 2017
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Reddit r/findbostonbombers, Boston, 2013
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Term popularized 2020, added to major dictionaries
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: The New York Times, hosted by Kevin Roose, 2020
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Originated on 4chan, October 2017
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Comet Ping Pong, Washington D.C., 2016
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Flat Earth Society and YouTube communities
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Popularized by Bill Kaysing's 1976 book
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Elbert County, Georgia, erected 1980, destroyed 2022
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Term coined by Fiona Broome, 2009
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Children's book series by Stan and Jan Berenstain
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Confused with the 1996 film Kazaam, starring Shaquille O'Neal
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: The Beatles fan rumor, originated 1969
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Formalized by philosopher Nick Bostrom, 2003
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Proposed by Heribert Illig, Germany, 1991
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Founded by Peter McIndoe, 2017
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Circulated online and in classrooms since the 1990s
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Usenet joke posted by Achim Held, Germany, 1994
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Big Ear radio telescope, Ohio State University, 1977
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia, installed 1990
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Sent to California newspapers; cracked 2020
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Bedford County, Virginia, pamphlet published 1885
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Letter from Edward Elgar to Dora Penny, 1897
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Philadelphia streets and beyond, since the 1980s
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: WGN-TV / WTTW, Chicago, November 22, 1987
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: NOAA Pacific hydrophone array, 1997
CLASS: Rabbit HoleRECORDED AT: Shortwave frequency 4625 kHz, believed to originate near Russia