Creepy Wikipedia

Creepy Wikipedia: The Heaven’s Gate Cult

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 Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Homicidal Sleepwalking

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

May 31, 2017 by Lucia

The truth often really is stranger than fiction, and the creepy parts of Wikipedia prove it. Weird history, scientific oddities, otherwise unclassifiable Things that you wouldn’t believe actually Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Christine And Lea Papin, The Murderous Maids Of France

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