It is a common human trait to slow down when passing a car wreck on the highway—a phenomenon known as "rubbernecking." Digital archives of accidents are essentially a high-speed, high-intensity version of this behavior. Psychologists suggest several reasons for this fascination:

Curiosity outweighed his training. He clicked the first file. The Shadow in the Steel

Thiago didn't turn around. He didn't have to. The "cabuloso" nature of Arquivo 193 wasn't that it recorded accidents—it was that it caused them to ensure its archives were never empty.

Human beings have a natural, albeit macabre, curiosity about "cabuloso" events. However, the appeal of Arquivo 193 often lies in the educational and preventative value rather than mere voyeurism. The Chain of Events: