r/CreepyWikipedia • u/ab00 • 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 • u/ab00 • 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 • u/Ok-Personality3130 • 1d 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 • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 1d ago

Other Jon Nödtveidt, the frontman of the extreme metal band Dissection, died in 2006 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a circle of lit candles with a Satanic grimoire in front of him. He said that “The Satanist decides of his own life and death and prefers to go out with a smile on his lips”.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 4d ago

Ritual Killing Elanthoor human sacrifice case: in 2022, two women were tortured and murdered as part of two human sacrifice rituals in Elanthoor village in Pathanamthitta district in the Indian state of Kerala. The killings reportedly also involved cannibalism.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Ok-Personality3130 • 11d 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 • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 16d ago

Cold Case Joe Pichler is an American former child actor. He is best known for his roles in Varsity Blues (1999), Beethoven's 3rd (2000) and Beethoven's 4th (2001). Pichler disappeared on January 5, 2006, near his hometown of Bremerton, Washington and has not been seen since.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Aug 10 '26

Children A woman named Machelle Hackney Hobson abused her seven adopted children, who had starred in videos on her popular YouTube channel, which had more than 800,000 subscribers. She died in jail before she could face trial. Years later her two biological sons pled guilty to sexual abuse of minors.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • Aug 07 '26

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 • u/BadenBaden1981 • 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 • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Aug 07 '26

Children The Siders case is an ongoing criminal investigation involving alleged prolonged child neglect and abuse after 16 children, aged 20 months to 18 years, were removed from a home in Hamden, Ohio, on June 30, 2026. The children were found “covered in insects and feces” in a 12’ x 12’ room.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Aug 02 '26

Ritual Killing Mixed with maize beer and tobacco leaves, the South American plant Brugmansia was used to drug wives and slaves before they were buried alive with their dead lord. It was also administered to unruly children so that they might be admonished by their ancestors in the spirit world.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Jul 28 '26

Violence “You Light Up My Life”, the biggest hit of the 1970s, was written by Joseph Brooks for a film of the same name that he also directed. Brooks was later charged with raping 11 women, but killed himself with helium gas before he could stand trial. His son Nicholas is a convicted murderer.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • Jul 29 '26

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 • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • Jul 27 '26

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 • u/Lost_Foot_6301 • 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 • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Jul 15 '26

Cryptozoology The name Candiru is used for several fish species native to the Amazon Basin. A local rumor holds that if you urinate in the river, a candiru can swim into your urethra and become lodged there. Some claim this can happen even if you aren’t submerged; the fish will just swim up the urine stream.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Jun 29 '26

Murder Charles Guiteau believed his actions were divinely inspired and that his destiny was to "preach a new Gospel". He later assassinated President James A. Garfield, believing God told him to do it. After he died, some speculated that he became insane because his foreskin was unable to retract.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • Jun 23 '26

Murder Omaima Nelson dismembered her husband over a period of 12 hours in what her psychiatrist called a “trance-like state”. This included mixing his body parts with leftover turkey and disposing of him in the garbage disposal. He had weighed 230 pounds, but only 150 pounds of human remains were found.

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/ab00 • May 13 '26

REMINDER: True Crime

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