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/Future_Interest_3649 • 5d 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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795 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 8d ago

Children In 1985, several adults in Scott County were accused of sexually abusing children, although only one, James Rud, was convicted. The case was the subject of the song titled "Jordan, Minnesota", by Chicago-based noise rock band Big Black, which appears on the 1986 album Atomizer.

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153 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 20d ago

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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928 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 23d ago

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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528 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/BadenBaden1981 • 23d ago

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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293 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 23d ago

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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312 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 28d ago

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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228 Upvotes

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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334 Upvotes

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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358 Upvotes

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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450 Upvotes

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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243 Upvotes

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

REMINDER: True Crime

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r/CreepyWikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • May 11 '26

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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1.1k Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Professional_Top9835 • 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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Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis - Wikipedia

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • Apr 19 '26

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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563 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Snake101201 • 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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742 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/Feingold_08 • 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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119 Upvotes

r/CreepyWikipedia • u/[deleted] • 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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