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
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Creepy Wikipedia: The Life And Death Of The Collyer Brothers And Their “Mystery House”
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”
Creepy Wikipedia: The “Mowing Devil” Pamphlet, Crop Circles, And “Strange News out of Hartford-shire”
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”
Creepy Wikipedia: The Black Paintings Of Francisco de Goya
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
Creepy Wikipedia: The 1885 Chicago Cholera Epidemic That Never Actually Happened
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
Creepy Wikipedia: Phantom Social Workers
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
Creepy Wikipedia: The Burning Of Bridget Cleary
Previously: Spontaneous Human Combustion. Today's Wikipedia Tale of Terror might be a familiar one to you. It's about Bridget Cleary — a young Irish woman who met a terrible fate at the hands of Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Burning Of Bridget Cleary
Creepy Wikipedia: Spontaneous Human Combustion
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