Creepy Wikipedia

Creepy Wikipedia: Émélie Sagée And Her Mysterious Doppelganger

June 2, 2025 by Lucia

Previously: Book Curses. The Wikipedia page for “Émilie Sagée” is perhaps inaccurately named: Although the young woman in question is often identified with this name, the original source for her Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Émélie Sagée And Her Mysterious Doppelganger

November 18, 2024 by Lucia

Previously: Mercy Brown, Vampire. What’s the best way to make sure library books make it back onto the shelves from whence they came? Fines? Late fees? Chaining books to the shelves so they can’t Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Book Curses, The Medieval Way To Make Sure Library Books Get Returned

March 11, 2024 by Lucia

Previously: Hot Montauk Monster Summer. Mercy Brown wasn’t a vampire. Not really — not even though she’s filed under the page title “Mercy Brown Vampire Incident” at Wikipedia. She was simply a Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Exhumation Of Mercy Brown And The New England Vampire Panic

July 17, 2023 by Lucia

Previously: “IPodders.net.” If the title of this week’s creepypasta, “Object In Stagnation Consciousness,” reads like the title of a Wikipedia page, there’s a reason for that: The story centers Continue Reading > about Creepypasta Of The Week: “Object In Stagnation Consciousness,” A Wikipedia Horror Story

June 26, 2023 by Lucia

Previously: Oscar The Therapy Cat. There’s a truly astonishing array of “weird nature” pages on Wikipedia — the kinds of pages that prove that the truth is often stranger than fiction. One of my Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Montauk Monster Mystery Of 2008 (Or, Hot Montauk Monster Summer)

November 29, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: The Final Voyage Of The Bluebelle. This week’s Creepy Wikipedia subject is more heartwarming than spooky — although I’d argue that it’s still spooky-adjacent, hence its inclusion here Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Oscar The Therapy Cat, Omen Of Death And Provider Of Comfort

July 26, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: Ong’s Hat. (CW: Homicide, suicide.) When Captain Julian A. Harvey was found drifting in a small dinghy on the open sea on Nov. 13, 1961, no one had any reason to doubt the story he Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Final Voyage Of The Bluebelle

June 14, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: Mike The Headless Chicken. If you search for “Ong’s Hat” on Wikipedia, you’ll find not one, but two different articles. That’s because when we talk about Ong’s Hat, we talk about two Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Ong’s Hat, New Jersey vs. Ong’s Hat And The Incunabula Papers

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