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Creepy Wikipedia

Two black and white portraits of white women, one with dark hair and glasses (Moberly) and one with blonde hair (Jourdain), flanking a portrait of Marie Antoinette.

Creepy Wikipedia: The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, Time Slips, And The Ghosts Of Versaille

January 4, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: Weegee. Have you ever been to the Palace of Versaille? I haven’t — not yet. (Ironically enough, despite being the only member of my family to have studied French, I am also the only Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, Time Slips, And The Ghosts Of Versaille

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Charlotte Anne Moberly, Creepy Wikipedia, Eleanor Jourdain, European history, France, haunted places, hauntings, history, Moberly-Jourdain incident, residual haunting, time slip, time travel, Versaille, weird history, Wikipedia

Creepy Wikipedia: Weegee, Crime Scene Photography, And The Business Of Murder

September 28, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine. When I first stumbled upon the Wikipedia page for the photographer Weegee, who is known primarily for his street shots, documentation of the activity of Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Weegee, Crime Scene Photography, And The Business Of Murder

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Arthur Fellig, Creepy Wikipedia, Crime scene photography, history, photography, Weegee, weird history, Wikipedia

Weaver's Needle, a location in the Superstition Mountains often associated with the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

Creepy Wikipedia: The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, Which May Or May Not Exist

August 3, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: Phantom Clown Sightings. In Arizona, about 40 miles of Phoenix, there’s a mountain range known as the Superstition Mountains. The name is fitting; many stories and tales cling to the Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, Which May Or May Not Exist

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Arizona, Creepy Wikipedia, folklore, hopelessly lost, Jacob Waltz, legend tripping, lost mine, mine, Superstition Mountains, urban legends, Wikipedia

A clown mask lying on the ground

Creepy Wikipedia: Phantom Clown Sightings And The Great Clown Scare Of 2016

June 8, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: Witch Bottles. In the late summer of 2016, something unnerving arrived in Greenville, South Carolina. It was shaped like a clown, but it… didn’t seem like a clown. In fact, it seemed Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Phantom Clown Sightings And The Great Clown Scare Of 2016

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: 2016 clown sightings, clowns, coulrophobia, Creepy Wikipedia, evil clown, fear, Wikipedia, Wrinkles the Clown

A witch bottle and a page from an old book about witch bottles

Creepy Wikipedia: Witch Bottles, Wards, And Protection Against The Unknown

March 30, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: The Collyer Brothers. It’s not uncommon for bottles, jugs, and other vessels to be among the artifacts unearthed at sites long associated with human history — but some of those vessels Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Witch Bottles, Wards, And Protection Against The Unknown

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Creepy Wikipedia, European history, history, North American history, weird history, Wikipedia, witch bottles, witchcraft, witches

Newspaper headline announcing the Collyers' deaths

Creepy Wikipedia: The Life And Death Of The Collyer Brothers And Their “Mystery House”

January 27, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: The Mowing Devil. In 1947, no one had seen the Collyer brothers for years. Not properly, at least; it had, after all, been nearly 15 years since they had boarded up the windows and Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Life And Death Of The Collyer Brothers And Their “Mystery House”

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Collyer brothers, Creepy Wikipedia, Grey Gardens, Homer Collyer, Langley Collyer, mental health, Mystery House, New York, weird history

Cover page of "The Mowing-Devil: Or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire" pamphlet, dated 1678.

Creepy Wikipedia: The “Mowing Devil” Pamphlet, Crop Circles, And “Strange News out of Hartford-shire”

November 18, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: The Black Paintings of Francisco de Goya. In 1678, a curious pamphlet, printed and published quarto-style via woodblock, appeared in England, coming out of Hertfordshire in the Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The “Mowing Devil” Pamphlet, Crop Circles, And “Strange News out of Hartford-shire”

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Creepy Wikipedia, crop circles, demons, devil, Mowing Devil, UFOs, UK, weird history, Wikipedia

Goya's Two Old Ones Eating Soup

Creepy Wikipedia: The Black Paintings Of Francisco de Goya

September 2, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: The Chicago Cholera Epidemic Myth. There are 14 of them: 14 paintings depicting ghoulish figures and desolate landscapes rendered in dark, muddy colors. They have no names — or at Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Black Paintings Of Francisco de Goya

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: art, Black Paintings, Creepy Wikipedia, cursed painting, Francisco de Goya, haunted painting, Wikipedia

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