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The Ghost In My Machine

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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

Creepy Wikipedia: The 1885 Chicago Cholera Epidemic That Never Actually Happened

July 8, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: Phantom Social Workers. At the beginning of August in 1885, a terrible storm descended upon the city of Chicago — a storm that dumped more than five inches of rain on the city in less Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The 1885 Chicago Cholera Epidemic That Never Actually Happened

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: 1885 Chicago cholera epidemic, body horror, cholera, Creepy Wikipedia, myth, urban legends, Wikipedia

A person reaching out. They are blurry

Creepy Wikipedia: Phantom Social Workers

April 22, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: The Burning of Bridget Cleary. (CW: Child abuse, abduction.) In the 1980s and ‘90s in both the United Kingdom and the United States, a terrifying rumor was passed around in parenting Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Phantom Social Workers

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: abduction, bogus social workers, children, Creepy Wikipedia, phantom social workers, true crime, Wikipedia

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