Creepy Wikipedia

Creepy Wikipedia: Spontaneous Human Combustion

December 10, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: The Heaven’s Gate Cult. I’ll be honest: I consider the Wikipedia page on spontaneous human combustion to be creepy as much for the image that accompanies it as for the article itself. A Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Spontaneous Human Combustion

September 17, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel. (CW: Suicide.) On March 26, 1997, 39 people were found dead in an upscale, two-story house in the affluent Rancho Santa Fe area of San Diego Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Heaven’s Gate Cult

July 16, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: Dancing Mania & The Dancing Plague Of 1518. (CW: Mental health, abuse. Also, many of the links include disturbing photographs, so click through at your own risk.) If you’ve heard Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The 67 Exorcisms Of Anneliese Michel

May 28, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: Homicidal Sleepwalking. In 1518, a plague struck Strasbourg in the Alsace region of France, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. I’m not talking about the Black Death, though — I’m Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Dancing Mania & The Dancing Plague Of 1518

March 12, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: Overtoun Bridge. Guess what? It turns out that there’s a technical term for the act of killing someone during a sleepwalking episode. It's called homicidal sleepwalking, and the creepy Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Homicidal Sleepwalking, Or The Act Of Killing Someone While You’re Fast Asleep

January 22, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter. (CW: Suicide, terrible things happening to animals, child abuse.) The Wikipedia page for Overtoun Bridge in Scotland begins innocuously enough. Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Overtoun Bridge & The Dogs Who Keep Jumping Off It

September 18, 2017 by Lucia

Previously: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy. On Aug. 21, 1955, 11 people experienced something extraordinary — or at least, they claimed they did: In what became known as the Kelly-Hopkinsville Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

July 24, 2017 by Lucia

Previously: Christine and Lea Papin. Books can be bound in any number of materials: Cloth, wood, leather made from the skin of cows or other livestock, velum, you name it. Anthropodermic Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy — Or, The Practice Of Binding Books In Human Skin