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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

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

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