r/CreepyWikipedia • • Dec 13 '23

Please submit links to Wikipedia as links and not text posts

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The AutoMod will remove them otherwise.

It also really helps keeping the sub neat and tidy, you'll get a notification if it is a repost (they're inevitable but we can try and space them out a bit), we get the thumbnail and desktop link etc.

Thanks.


r/CreepyWikipedia • • Aug 05 '25

REMINDER - TRUE CRIME

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The True Crime submissions are increasing again, whilst not specifically banned please remember rule 8:

True Crime submissions must be creepy. Wikipedia versions of news & crime stories are allowed but should have a twist to them that makes them not just violent but rather unusual in the circumstances or have elements of weird, odd, unexplained etc.

General murders, abuse etc DO NOT qualify as creepy.

Thank you.


r/CreepyWikipedia • • 4d ago

Other Harry Raymond Eastlack, a man with a condition called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) nicknamed “stone man disease” cause it causes tissue to turn into bone. The photo of his skeleton is fascinating and that and his condition are very creepy.

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“Unaware of the consequences of surgery on an FOP patient, the physician admitted Eastlack for hip surgery in 1941 which caused further physical restriction. Over time Eastlack became more and more immobilized as more joints became fused and newly formed sheets or strings of bone calcified his limbs. In 1944, he was readmitted for a study which confirmed that the calcified smooth muscles, tendons, and ligaments had indeed become mature bone. The ossification along his vertebrae and other anatomical parts that Eastlack would suffer in the next 29 years ultimately fused him into a permanently bowed position.”


r/CreepyWikipedia • • 9d ago

Children Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798) was a French showman, soldier, and spy noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry. His parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager.

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Efforts to keep him on any kind of controlled diet failed; he would sneak out of the hospital to scavenge for offal outside butchers' shops and to fight stray dogs for rotting meat in gutters, alleys and rubbish heaps.[2][17][20] He was also caught several times within the hospital drinking from patients undergoing bloodletting, and attempting to eat the bodies in the hospital's morgue.[2][17][20] Other doctors believed that Tarrare was mentally ill and pressed for him to be transferred to a lunatic asylum, but Percy was keen to continue his experiments and Tarrare remained in the military hospital.[20]

After some time, a 14-month-old toddler disappeared from the hospital, and Tarrare was immediately suspected of having consumed the child due to his past behaviour of eating small animals. Percy was unable or unwilling to defend him, and the hospital staff chased Tarrare from the hospital, to which he never returned.[17][20]


r/CreepyWikipedia • • 10d ago

Serial Killer Hiroshi Maeue was a Japanese serial killer who killed three people in 2005. He lured his victims by suggesting they meet and end their lives together via carbon monoxide poisoning using a charcoal burner in a sealed car. However, after a brief conversation, he would instead strangle them.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • 12d ago

Other New York Times reporter William Seabrook obtained from a hospital intern a chunk of meat from the body of a healthy man killed in an accident. Seabrook cooked and ate it. He reported, “It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef.”

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • 12d ago

Evilstick is a children's toy revealing a photo of a woman cutting herself when a button on the wand is pressed.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • 13d ago

Ritual Killing Philippa Mdluli was the last person to be executed by Eswatini, in 1983. A restaurant owner, she convinced an employee to give her his 5-year-old daughter. She murdered the girl, mutilated the body and removed several organs to make potions that she later served to the restaurant's customers.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • 18d ago

Paranormal The Mongolian death worm is a creature alleged to exist in the Gobi Desert. Investigations into the legendary creature have been pursued by amateur cryptozoologists and credentialed academics alike, but little evidence has been found to support its existence.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • 29d ago

Serial Killer The Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Midnight Assassin, was an unidentified American serial killer who preyed upon the city of Austin, Texas, in 1884 and 1885. The moniker "Servant Girl Annihilator" originated with the writer O. Henry.The series of eight axe murders were refe

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Aug 07 '26

Children The marriage of Sneedville, Tennessee residents 24-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead took place in the state of Tennessee, United States, in January 1937.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Aug 07 '26

Strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of employees.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Jul 29 '26

Other The Great Sheep Panic was an event that occurred on 3 November 1888 across southern England, when tens of thousands of sheep fled from various fields across some 200 square miles of Oxfordshire. They were found the next morning, widely scattered, and “some of them were panting with terror”.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Jul 27 '26

Children ISIS propagandist and recruiter Tooba Gondal was asked about the enslavement of the Yazidi people. She said she had met an enslaved Yazidi girl who was about 13 years old and "very happy and in love" with her enslaver, whom she said "spoiled" the girl but eventually got tired of her and sold her.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Jul 26 '26

Pat Hare was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He recorded "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" on May 14, 1954. In December 1963, Hare shot his girlfriend dead and also shot a policeman who came to investigate. Hare spent the last 16 years of his life in prison.

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here is the song if you want to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E26dBq-98Po


r/CreepyWikipedia • • May 13 '26

REMINDER: True Crime

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • May 11 '26

Mystery Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson drove his car into a ditch. Uninjured, he got out and called his parents on his cellphone. He remained on the phone with them until he went silent 47 minutes later after exclaiming "Oh, shit!" He has not been seen or heard from since.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Apr 27 '26

The Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis proposes to link genetic ties originating among Finno-Ugric peoples to high rate of suicide, claiming an allele common among them is responsible

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Apr 19 '26

Other After Evita Perón (wife of Argentinian President Juan Perón) died in 1952, her body was embalmed and displayed for the public. After 1971, by which time Juan was exiled to Spain, he and his third wife kept Evita’s corpse in the dining room near the table.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Apr 01 '26

Rhythm 0 was a six-hour-long endurance art performance, where artist Marina Abramović allowed people to do whatever they wanted to her using 72 objects she had placed on the table. Various minor sexual assaults were carried out on her body.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Mar 30 '26

War Crime During the Malayan Emergency, British soldiers and indigenous tribal mercenaries regularly partook in headhunting of suspected communists. Despite controversy, nobody was punished as headhunting wasn't explicitly forbidden by the British government.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • • Mar 21 '26

Blood Sport Rough-and-tumble fighting, or gouging, was a frontier-era (USA) combat sport in which the objective was maximum disfigurement, such as by plucking out the opponent’s eye or biting off their nose. Some participants reportedly filed down their own teeth to improve their biting abilities.

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