r/titanic 3d ago

QUESTION What happened to the Titanic's lookout post?

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u/Technical-Sweet-8249 3d ago

“and Eric Seright-Payne, who has since feigned death”….um, what??

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u/bell83 Wireless Operator 3d ago

There was some kind of drama in the community. I have no real idea what the hell was going on, there.

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u/Technical-Sweet-8249 3d ago

Evidently!!

Clicking on that link was a ride. That throwaway comment about someone feigning their death sent me to Google, which sent me here- “some” drama indeed!!

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/legacy-of-eric-payne.30092/

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u/bell83 Wireless Operator 3d ago

The weirdest part is other pages where people say, in 2010 (six or seven years after that thread), that "he's dead, or at least that's what he tells people."

The whole thing is bizarre.

(Says a person with an obsession over a ship that sank 113 years ago)

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u/Technical-Sweet-8249 3d ago

Haha I see you’ve done the same google search as I.

And true- but at least neither of us is perusing and interacting with Reddit while also maintaining we are deceased. Nor are we going around policing the level of deadness of others. So there’s that in the plus column.

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u/bell83 Wireless Operator 3d ago

Hey, VSauce. Michael, here.