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Creepy Wikipedia: The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

February 25, 2019 by Lucia

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

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

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

August 23, 2017 by Lucia

Previously: "Gamer." A creation of One Page Wonder’s Stories to Read Alone at Night, “Annora Petrova” (which is technically just called “Annora”) is a familiar sort of tale; it’s reminiscent of Continue Reading > about Creepypasta of the Week: “Annora Petrova”

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