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Wikipedia was launched in 2001 and has been growing at different rates ever since. As of October 2025, its English version has over 7,080,000 articles. However, not all of them are safe for work.
Last week, Reddit user Herequeerandgreat asked people to share the most disturbing entries they’ve stumbled upon in the online encyclopedia. Whether it’s due to the Halloween season or some internal human morbid curiosity, the discussion has caught on.
We went through thousands of comments and hand-picked the controversial ones, on the off-chance you're looking for a topic for your next rabbit-hole deep dive. Proceed at your own risk.
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#1
"War Crimes" in general. Then "Japanese War Crimes".
I like to think that I have a pretty strong stomach. I have a morbid curiosity. I enjoy horror and true crime..and I've seen more gore/shock images than I ever should have, but the descriptions and photos of what happened there made me physically ill when I first encountered them.
The fact that Japan as a whole has never really had to recognize or reckon with what happened there and in other places makes me really upset. Yes, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific war crimes in themselves...but they don't erase Japan's guilt. You can be both a victim AND a perpetrator.
S Bow 2 months ago
Read Unbroken, one mans first hand account of being one of their prisoners of war. It's harrowing.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
It's horrifying. The part about the duck made me sick. I couldn't watch the movie version of it.
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Batwench 2 months ago
My Bampi was a POW on the Burma Railway inWW2. He never spoke of what happened to him but he utterly loathed the Japanese and refused to by anything from a Japanese company.
lise duhamel (That_U_Scully) 2 months ago
Yes, they're both victim and perpetrator, they've also changed. They're an ally now and they behave as such, everyone can learn and change.
Gebidozo 2 months ago
In order to learn and change, you first need to show genuine remorse for your crimes. Japan hasn’t.
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Pink Lady 2 months ago
I knew someone who was a Japanese POW and he had the most awful PTSD or as they called it in those days 'shell shock'. The poor man was very frail and in and out of a psychiatric hospital . He had no finger or toenails because they had ripped them out and they never regrew. Some of the things his wife told me he'd had done to him were horrific. They should have been held to account just as the Germans were. They were probably worse.
JokerMan774 2 months ago
Wouldn't call dropping the b**b a war crime. After k*****g 6 million civilians brutally, I'd say they had it coming.
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#2
Sandy Hook Elementary.
Reflxing:
Still can’t believe that happened and how it caused absolutely no change. 6 year olds are so little.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Look up Dunblane school shooting in the UK. After that trustworthy gun owners were literally queuing up to hand in their hand guns for the amnesty as the law was being changed. British people wanted to protect small children from being shot in the face more than they wanted to keep their guns. We haven’t had a school shooting since.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 2 months ago
Same here, Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1996. Not a school shooting but a mass shooting. Gun reform was immediately passed by the government of the time (thank you, Mr Howard - our then PM) and there has been no mass shooting here since.
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JB 2 months ago
A mass shooting took place there. Many people deny that it happened. Those people have lost court cases (like the human gas bag Alex Jones)
Boris Long-Johnson 2 months ago
Ah a few school shootings is worth it for the 2nd amendment, or so someone said
#3
"Unit 731." I thought I’d seen dark stuff before, but that one genuinely made me close my laptop and go for a walk.
JB 2 months ago
Japanese station for chemical research and human experimentation during the war.
Gadaffi Duck 2 months ago
This is as disturbing, if not more so than the r**e of nanking.
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Gebidozo 2 months ago
It’s a horrible shame that Japan hasn’t properly apologized for those heinous crimes. Japan committed some of the worst acts humans are capable for in WW2. Germany apologized for the H*******t. Japan still diminishes or outright denies the crimes. Shame!
Angrywolf 2 months ago
Its even worse, When America found out about unit 731 they where given a choice: Get everybody who worked at the camp arrested and in jail, But then they would destroy all the research and every thing they had gathered (A lot of our modern medical knowledge is coming from the horrible tests they did at unit 731) The other option they gave was letting every single person who worked there get of scot fee, no repercussions what so ever. And they would hand over all their data. You can guess what they chose. The only thing they did was make unit 731 a museum.
Load More Replies...But as Wikipedia's database is growing, so is people's skepticism toward online resources. Earlier this year, a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults found that only 41% of them believe the content they consume online is accurate, fact-based, and created by a real human.
Another 78% agree that the internet has "never been worse" when it comes to differentiating between what's real and what's artificial.
Social media posts (48%), news articles (34%), and chatbots (32%) are the top three most suspected sources when it comes to AI-generated or misleading content.
#4
I can’t stand The Nutty Putty Cave and the story. Horrible and devestating tale. Just reading the story makes me claustrophobic.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
I feel the worst for his poor wife. She was pregnant at the time and was waiting outside the cave while they tried to rescue him. 😥
Rika 2 months ago
To me, it's a case of FAFO. His last hours must have been terrifying but I can't really feel sorry for him: if I had a pregnant wife at home, it wouldn't come to my mind to go squeeze myself in a cave for "fun".
Upstaged75 2 months ago
He didn't do it on purpose. He was mistaken about where he was. He'd been there before and thought it was a different passage.
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atticus 2 months ago
I don’t understand why this gives people panic attacks, because it’s a very easy thing to avoid
Earonn - 2 months ago
Yeah, I'm more anxious about things that could happen to me - and against some of them I cannot protect myself.
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my sox are in flux 1 month ago
I read about it once and.......no. No no no no no. Not reading it again, not looking at the picture, not thinking about it, no.
#5
Josef Friztl is up there.
ManMan36:
I remembered hearing that name somewhere and decided to look it up. I wish I didn't. Good god he might be one of the most evil people alive.
Stingray-556:
How the hell didn't the wife find out what was going on in the basement in 24 years, not a week but 24 whole years.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
He would go on holiday abroad, leaving his daughter and her family alone for weeks at a time.
Bur* 2 months ago
She raised some of her own grandchildren. I agree, there's no way she didn't know.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 2 months ago (edited)
I recall Jimmy Carr commenting that a journalist had labelled Fritzl the worst ever Austrian - and observing that there was one who was somewhat worse. Still pretty horrendous though, almost impossible to understand that mindset.
Mia Chapman 2 months ago
I remember I found it out by watching a video for the game My Eyes Deceive, it’s a game based off of it. I remember after I finished the video I started crying and I wanted to throw up, and as a teenage girl I have to say that this is every females greatest fear
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
Not a serial killer. Arguably something much worse.
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War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
The fact that this kind of barbarism exists in modern societies while russians openly threaten to cross european borders after Ukraine falls.
Those polled believe that 50% of the news stories and articles they come across online have some element of AI, whether it be images or the actual written content.
But perhaps the most concerning part of the results was that less than a third (31%) of respondents are confident in their ability to differentiate whether, for example, a product or service review was written by an AI or an actual human being.
#7
Little bit of a different flavour from the rest of these:
Timeline of the Far Future
I defy you to read through the whole thing for the first time and not end up disturbed.
vampire-mom:
I actually find this stuff really comforting. I spend so much time worrying about the damage we are doing to the earth that the knowledge that someday human beings will be extinct and the earth will heal and give rise to new species and the cycle will begin a new really settles something in me. even knowing the earth itself will die and its atoms will join the fabric of the universe in a new way and then the universe itself will die before another big bang happens and we get to do it all over again just feels right to me.
Anonymouse 2 months ago
Read "Earth Abides", or think about 2020 - during the pandemic - the earth heals pretty quickly without man mucking about... I think there was an article in Omni magazine that discussed how quickly evidence of man would disappear - less time than you would think!
Caffeinated Ape 2 months ago
Oh yeah that article scares me. Nothing to do with what vampire-mom was saying, just that the sheer scale of time and space and nothingness kind of gets to me.
Amy Force 1 month ago
this is nothing new; we have our time here on this planet, and it is limited, like all other species; it will end eventually, giving way to new species to take our place... and so on, and so on. just means the world and its way marches on. Earth will always find a way to maintain its Balance. I think it's So arrogant of humans to actually believe that we can do something to *Stop* it. Try as we might... we will fail. that's the way its meant to be.
amy lee 2 months ago
I don't think you have to hate humanity to hate what we're doing to the earth. I am amazed and awed by the progress we have made as a species in the last 100 years. I am gutted by the cost of the progress and devastated that we are the problem. It's a sad fact that we will bring about our own extinction and will be taking out most life on earth with us.
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#8
List of youngest mothers. No longer exists on wiki. Makes sense since you couldn’t protect the names of the children.
Minute-Phrase3043:
I remember this. Stumbled upon this as a teenager. I was horrified to see the list. And that was when I didn't know as much about the damage pregnancy would cause them. I never want to look at that list again.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I read a book about the Australian doctor Catherine Hamlin who cared for a lot women in Ethiopia who had fistulas from challenging births. One reason they got them was the lack of medical in remote regions, but another big contributing factor was that many were married as soon as they got their period and were impregnated straight away. Though they are able to get pregnant, many young women's bodies are not ready to give birth. Their hips aren't wide enough (among other things) and they often have 'impacted' labours. Sometimes days of labour with no birth, and no medical care. This puts so much pressure on their vaginas they tear and can lead to both bladder and bowel incontinence. Dr Hamlin performed hundreds of surgeries to repair these fistulas, sometimes fixing decades of damage. This was mostly girls of 12-14 in labour, so I don't want to even think about how much worse it is for even younger girls.
Lavender Myst 2 months ago
Yes, but generally you need some info to go off of, as well as state who you are, and why you wish to obtain the information and often pay a fee as well. Its a bit more of a prossess then just googling a complied list that strips away all anonymity anonymously for entertainment purposes.
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Fatal insomnia is my pick.
Medium-Escape-8449:
Every time I have trouble sleeping for like one night I convince myself it’s this.
Chicken Mitten 2 months ago
I was once up for four days, after losing my job and healthcare, massive stress. I thought I'd have to check myself into a hospital unit. The scariest thing I've ever been through.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
2 days. Just couldn't sleep. Nothing dramatic was happening. I have a variety of sleep problems, but that was terrible.
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 2 months ago
They touched on this in an episode of Special Victims Unit. It seems to be centered on a couple of families in Italy.
Rika 2 months ago
It's an extremely rare disease and it's hereditary, you don't catch it like a cold. Another perk is that you're gonna die quickly when you get the symptoms but they can happen at any age. In short, even if you're a carrier, you have a pretty good chance to die of other causes before the disease happens.
SummerVeE 2 months ago
I wonder how much sleep deprivation it takes to become fatal. What about moms of newborns? They wake up, need changing, breastfeed for 40 minutes, pump milk for another 20 minutes, fresh clothes and bath for baby, change baby again, put baby to sleep, wash baby clothes and sterilize bottles, mom showers, baby is now awake again... And repeat and repeat for months on end! I was full on hallucinating & couldn't tell reality from dreaming. Maybe - Maybe -- got a half hour cumulative sleep every other day. It definitely took a huge toll and caused permanent damage to my body!
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
I once did 'no sleeping' for the 40 hour famine, and it honestly wasn't that bad, but since then I've learned how much damage lack of sleep can do. Now, if I don't take one of two of my meds, it's impossible to sleep, and it's pretty torturous.
#10
The history of notable Defenestrations is oddly as entertaining as it is disturbing….
Gunný Petersen 2 months ago
I totally with all my heart agree with you on this one!
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YakFactory 2 months ago
Do you think he could help the Orange Menace to defenestrate?
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Esmeralda Villalobos 2 months ago
I've always been fascinated that English has a word for the act of k!lling someone by throwing them from a window.
Andrew Keir 2 months ago
English has stolen so many words and phrases from other languages that it now has a variety of words for just about everything and anything. Which makes it one of the most difficult languages to learn completely.
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
The first cases of windows leading directly to the Blue Screen of Death.
Russia is a stark example of how even states can exploit online information systems to manipulate public perception. Researchers have documented how Russian operatives used a network of automated sites, known as the Pravda network, to flood the internet with propaganda targeting Western audiences beyond the war in Ukraine.
The operation extended to Wikipedia as well. Russia's human contractors edit articles to include links to Pravda network sites, exploiting the platform's credibility and the fact that many AI systems give special weight to Wikipedia content. Because Wikipedia serves as a trusted source for AI training data, these manipulations allowed false narratives to spread further and faster, affecting the answers that chatbots provided to users on topics such as the Ukraine conflict. (Experts warn that this approach is highly scalable and inexpensive compared with traditional influence operations. The same methods could be used by other actors—from political operatives to commercial competitors—to skew AI outputs in their favor.)
So the bottom line is that, even though it's fun to click around Wikipedia and fall down rabbit holes, at the end of the day, each of us is responsible for verifying the information we consume.
#11
Cyclopia. It's a birth defect in which the brain fails to divide into two hemispheres. It's incompatible with life, as babies with Cyclopia are either stillborn or [pass away] shortly after birth. As the name implies, these babies have only one eye, and some of them don't even have a nose.
Gebidozo 2 months ago
I’m a Christian, but I think that the strongest argument against the existence of God is this: if there is an omnipotent, benevolent God, how can he allow such things to happen? I don’t have the answer, and I don’t envy any theologian who tries to give one. I can only desperately believe and fervently hope that those poor creatures will immediately go to heaven after they die. Maybe they are angels sent in a horrible disguise to awaken our moribund compassion.
tameson 2 months ago (edited)
I'm an atheist, but I can still give you an answer to that question. If God exists, he does not directly intervene in the lives of humans. He set creation in motion and did not intervene after that. That is what deists believe, including people like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
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I believe the David Parker Ray.
Wikipedia page used to contain the audio file for his tape he would play to his victims. I know for certain there are snippits of the transcript still on there and just reading his words are absolutely disgusting.
I also had a year long phase when I was like 16 where I was really interested in historical fires and human crushes. But those are stories that have made me more aware of my surroundings, I am much more cautious in crowds, and it's also very interesting to see how tragedies force safety innovation. For example, the Victoria Hall crush in 1883 lead to the invention of push bars on doors.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
I really wish there was some way for people to give a brief idea of what happened, so I wouldn't be so tempted to google the info myself.
zatrisha 2 months ago
David PR is the toy box killer, he played tapes to his victims in which he described what he would do with them - in great detail
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hannahbahngswife 2 months ago
This Wikipedia page disturbed me so much. He'd play a tape describing to his victims what he will do in detail, had a mirror on the ceiling so the victims could see what he was doing, and had his dog r**e them, among others.
hannahbahngswife 2 months ago
r.a.p.e Bored Panda. How coward can one be to censor a word like that?
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seagull (she/her) 1 month ago
it's so strange to think that there are people like this who can do this without feeling guilty for their actions - people like this don't view others as human beings. the human mind if baffling and absolutely terrifying
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 2 months ago
Is this the guy who tortured women in his 'toy box' in Truth or Consequences, NM?
#13
There may be far worse, I don't dive into wiki like I used to but Peter Scully's is one of the worst I've read.
Edit: Apologies to anyone who has already read it and a little shook or upset. But a PSA moving forward there is quite a lot of triggering things in this so read at your own discretion.
Diligent-Tomato-6288:
Peter Scully/ Daisy's destruction
Glaring reminder that we are actually in hell.
Gebidozo 2 months ago
He tortured and r***d little children, made videos of that, and sold the videos online. Thousands of people bought them and made him rich. One of the children was 18 months old. I’m against capital punishment, but not in this case. We are in hell, and demons are real.
amy lee 2 months ago
I don't want him to face capital punishment. I want him to live a very long life with the general prison population knowing what a monster he is.
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The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
D**n it. Can someone please give me a tame explanation so I don't have to look this up? 😫
fuxfux 2 months ago
There is no way to give a tame explanation of what he did to little children.
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Pittsburgh rare 2 months ago
I don't want to read it,so can anyone confirm if this steaming pile of s**t in human form has died horribly or is about to?
tameson 2 months ago
Not yet. But he, and his major accomplice, will definitely both die in prison in the Philippines.
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T*****e CSA r**e and first degree m****r on a little baby girl. And he made her dig her own grave. Poor precious soul 😪
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Junko Furuta, extremely graphic.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
Disgusting. The mother of one of her captors actually peed on Junko's grave because she "ruined her son's life". 🙄😡
Auntriarch 2 months ago
Gives you an insight as to how he turned out like he did
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Pittsburgh rare 2 months ago
A bunch of them were jakuza kids, or so l read. Really hard to go against
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David 2 months ago
Japan has such a low crime rate because the police are jokes who lets face it dont give a f**k And the kids are f****d they suffer no consequences and never will Reminds me of when japan turned that s***o cannibal into a celebrity with his own cookbook
#15
Albert Fish by a MILE.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
The Albert Fish xray. And the recipe he gave once he was caught. He targeted poor black children at a time when the racist police did not give a d**n. When he went after a white girl then the police did their jobs.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
I started reading about him years ago and only got a little way through the article before my urge to vomit (a physical urge, not a figurative one) made me stop.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 months ago
This was so disturbing. And they actually had him at Bellevue at one point but then let him go. I've never read anything so depraved.
#16
The Extinction Events is pretty chilling when you get to the sixth one.
#17
Adam Britton
When I read about his crimes, I truly almost vomited. I was in a dark daze for a while.
Rude_Literature7886:
I hope he never makes it out of jail.
Upstaged75 2 months ago (edited)
I hadn't heard about him until now. He's in jail for besti@lity and animal @buse.
Ace 2 months ago
Err, and dissemination of "the worst type" of child ab.use pornography.
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#18
I don’t think anybody will read this far down but once I accidentally read the whole entry on the Donner party and it gave me nightmares.
Mel in Georgia 2 months ago
Visited Donner Pass in California and got the historical account. The slow agony of starvation, sickness and hypothermia was horrifying to hear about - can't imagine (and don't want to) what it felt like.
#19
Ian Watkins (Massive trigger warning for CSA).
jarred_pard:
Ian Watkin‘s wiki is bad but tame compared to the actual court transcripts (do not read unless you want to be seriously disturbed and a little [messed up] from the experience)
Upstaged75 2 months ago (edited)
He was the one who was recently k!lled by other prisoners while in prison. He was there for attempting to r@pe several infants, among other awful things.
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
Oh, was he the one that was lead singer of a band in the US?
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Criminals tend to have a code of... Ethics? Edit: In reply to Upstaged75's comment
#20
Nanjing. Not from China but really feel for them.
#21
The Byford Dolphin (incident). Goes into the description of the rig in the beginning. You’ll need to look at the incidents and accidents section for the disturbing part.
ReleaseExternal:
I’ve seen the footage of this incident. It happened so quickly. I can’t imagine being stuck in that situation, hoping for rescue that would never come. Absolutely heartbreaking and a disgraceful choice on the company's part.
Upstaged75 2 months ago (edited)
There's NO FOOTAGE of this event. That person must be thinking of the other accident when the dive bell detached from the ship and the divers ran out of air before they could be rescued. The Byford incident was a decompression explosion caused by human error when someone didn't follow the correct procedure. The poor divers died a horrible death - one of them was forcibly dismembered because he was sucked through a crack in the door.
#22
The wiki page for Fred West always makes for a pretty disturbing and lengthy read.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
I recently watched a documentary about the timeline of the police investigation, and saw footage of him helping the police find where the bodies were. He was so unperturbed that the people around him all knew what he had done and just being matter of fact. It was very odd. Like he just had no grasp of his victims as actual living people with their own lives and feelings, but rather like showing someone where the water stopcock is.
Ace 2 months ago
Many psychopaths are incapable of feeling guilt, incapable of empathy, incapable even of shame, such that they can't really see anything wrong with what they did.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
I'm South African and even we saw the news footage of the cops digging up their garden. I've read numerous books and Net pages about the case, and it's horrific. And yes, Rose was a willing participant. She murd3red one of the kids herself - can't recall if it was Charmaine or Heather. Thank goodness the British courts didn't buy her ploy to blame it all on her husband.
Auntriarch 2 months ago
Some of my colleagues worked on this case. It was apparently perfectly clear that Rose was no victim.
Load More Replies... Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
Read biographies on many a killer, his was one of the worst, he sa'd his own children and k****d one of them.
#23
King Leopold, Congo Free State, Rubber Terror, Unit 731.
Gebidozo 2 months ago (edited)
The crimes of the Belgian authorities in Congo, condoned by King Leopold, are among the worst atrocities of the European colonial rule in Africa. The genocide of the Herero people, carried out by the German authorities in Namibia, belongs there as well. For some reason people rarely mention that. People generally tend to know less about Africa than about other continents.
Apatheist Account2 2 months ago
Surprising, I was given the impression that all the bad things that happened in colonies were Britain's fault...
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I read about what Leopold and the Belgians did to the Congolese a long time ago and I really don't want to remember.
#24
Paul Bernardo.
GEF110F14F15:
Here’s a terrifying fact for you; Paul Bernardo is allowed parole hearings. No one in their right mind would ever let that sick monster outside his cell ever again but the fact that the idea of him walking around in the outside world was even considered should scare anyone.
Brazen 2 months ago
They let his ex-wife out, and that's a huge tragedy of justice if I ever saw one. She's just as sick, or perhaps even more sick than he is for what she allowed to happen to her sister.
Sarah 2 months ago
Police cocked it up. Offered her a plea deal they couldn’t renege on. Before realising she was just as culpable as he was . Huge police error
turk 2 months ago
Her lawyer had the tapes of her participating in the crimes.
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Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris.
Odd_Environment_3001:
What Shirley Lynette Ledford went through is one of the worst things I've ever read. I sincerely hope she and the other victims are resting in utmost peace. Something about this case got me -- usually pretty good at keeping mental barriers up but reading about what happened to her has seriously haunted me for months.
Pittsburgh rare 2 months ago (edited)
Oh god. I was scrolling to see if someone mentioned them. That wiki entry HAUNTED me for months as well. I have a daughter who was a similar age at the time. Apparently there are transcripts of that tape, but I won't go near them ever.
#26
Years ago I read the entire page for the Columbine. That was pretty upsetting.
JB 2 months ago
The movie Elephant - which depicts this shooting - is both great and terrible at the same time.
#27
Genie the little feral girl is pretty bad.
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 2 months ago
There's a book about her. It's so sad. If she is still alive, she's in her 60s now.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 months ago
Wow! What a fascinating case. I wonder what was wrong with her father. He sounds psychotic. It's impressive she was able to learn so much after being so completely devoid of stimulation.
#28
*HIV/AIDS denialism*.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
The blood of all the South African women who died are on your hands, Thabo Mbeki, you arsehole.
#29
Probably not the ‘most’, but I read the entry on Vlad the Impaler and think about it more often than I’d like to.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Dracula (based on Vlad) k****d fewer people over centuries than Vlad did on many days.
Analyn Lahr 2 months ago
He was psychotic for sure. Though how much of that was always in his nature or a result of his childhood is debatable. Maybe a mixture. And don't quote me but I think he's admired and popular in Romania and/or Transylvania today.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
We had to study Dracula in year 7, and in conjunction Vlad the Impaler. I was much more interested in the later, which my friends found disturbing for some reason.
#30
Ted Bundy. Couldn’t sleep after that. Just shocking what humans are actually capable of, although I hardly consider him human, more of a demon from hell.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
I have read about serial killers that make Ted Bundy look like a nice man.
Tropical Tarot 2 months ago
He was our local serial killer in North Florida Convicted of a 12 yo girl's death. My high school English teacher was at Florida State at the time. Her sorority door was locked but they found his fingerprints there. Her tennis partner wasn't so lucky.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
I was pre-teen when he started his spree up here in Washington and I remember my friends and I were so glad that we didn't have long straight hair, parted in the middle.
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 2 months ago
He gave a fairly accurate psychological profile of the Green River Killer.
#31
Howard Dully and his life as a childhood lobotomy survivor.
Linda Roy 2 months ago
I blame her father for allowing it. I'm surprised Freeman wasn't sued by that family
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Fred & Rose West, followed by Jimmy Savile.
Truely horrendous things done.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
Jimmy Savile died before it all came out. What is very disturbing is his connection with Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
KazzaHazza 2 months ago
And he had keys to the hospital! W*F? How many other pervs did he let in? What a c**t
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Fortunately only Rose is still alive and from what I hear, she is suffering immensely. Good.
Natalia 2 months ago
Suffering how? I have a relative who was in the same prison and Rose is treated pretty well
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The holdomor.
Gebidozo 2 months ago
Holodomor. Russian authorities still deny it ever happened. Plenty of Russian people either deny it, or admire Stalin and believe that the mass murders committed by him were “necessary”.
Andrew Keir 2 months ago
Thinking that mass murders in the past, which still permitted us to be born/survive, were somehow 'necessary' is a blatant case of the survivor effect. "We didn't die, so it's all right." A close relative of survivor bias, I think.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
And my grandfather was one of only two people to document it. He even published a book with photos. Search and the pictures you'll get are his, Alexander Wienerberger.
#34
Youngest mother, Lina Medina. I have no words for it. (edited for clarification, youngest mother covers it better than childbirth).
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
And had a son like 30 years after her first child.
Load More Replies... Rika 2 months ago
She's still alive and always refused to tell who the father was. Lots of people assume she was r*ped by a family member but others think it was consensual s*x with her boyfriend (who was about 10 at the time and they might've just played doctor without understanding what s*x even was)
#35
Marie Delphine LaLaurie’s is up there.
Pheebs 2 months ago
Wiki overview for those of us who aren’t psychic: “Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy, more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and suspected serial killer who tortured and m******d enslaved people in her household.”
Jude Corrigan 1 month ago
No,sadly. She was real and barbaric to her enslaved workers.
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#37
Dean Corll.
Mel in Georgia 2 months ago
He SAed and k!lled a minimum of twenty-nine teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973.
Melissa Hollowell 2 months ago
And groomed his victim to do the same. Not making an excuse, just a offering a reason.
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Rick Jones 2 weeks ago
We have horrendous people here in BC! I Live 4 miles away from a farm where someone almost decapitated a couple, d**g dealers. While there they had 3 show up for d***s. Yep, executed in the barn together. Thats derailing me enough.
#38
The Hypothetical explanations for the paradox heading of the Fermi Paradox page always gives me a sense of existential dread with the sheer number of progressively more unhinged and desperate attempts at trying to explain it:
> * Extraterrestrial life is rare or non-existent
> * Extraterrestrial intelligence is rare or non-existent
> * Extraterrestrial intelligence is relatively new
> * Periodic extinction by natural events
> * Intelligent alien species have not developed advanced technologies
> * It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself
> * Only one intelligent species can exist in a given region of space
> * Civilizations only broadcast detectable signals for a brief period of time
> * Alien life may be too incomprehensible
> * Expansionism is not the cosmic norm
> * Alien species may have only settled part of the galaxy
> * Alien species may isolate themselves in virtual worlds
> * Artificial intelligence may not be aggressively expansionist
> * Lack of resources needed to physically spread throughout the galaxy
> * Information is cheaper to transmit than matter is to transfer
> * Other species' home planets cannot support industrial economies
> * Intelligent alien species have not developed advanced technologies
> * Developing practical spaceflight technology is very difficult or expensive
> * Humans are not listening properly - Radio signals cannot be straightforwardly detected at interstellar distances
> * Humans have not listened for long enough
> * Intelligent life may be too far away
> * Intelligent life exists buried below the surfaces of ice planets
> * Advanced civilizations may limit their search for life to technological signatures
> * Everyone is listening but no one is transmitting
> * Alien governments are choosing not to respond
> * Communication is dangerous
> * Earth is deliberately being avoided
> * Earth is deliberately being isolated
> * alien life is already here, unacknowledged and/or deliberately concealed.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
All you need is a clear understanding of the size of our galaxy compared to the universal speed limit, and then consider how very, very recently we've been able to listen. And listen on media so primitive that most civilizations would have abandoned them within a couple of centuries (a miniscule amount of time). We don't even know what to look for!
Apatheist Account2 2 months ago
Not true, there's a pretty clear consensus that the hydrogen line is a good place to start, and it's likely that other intelligent species would come to the same conclusion. The most important point is that we've only had radio for just over 100 years, compared with the millions of years since a random event that allowed mammals to take over from the dinosaurs. There's maybe 10,000 stars within 100 lightyears, so the odds on contact are pretty low. Unless a species invents faster than light travel, we won't hear from anyone for a long time.
Load More Replies... Gebidozo 2 months ago
Earth is deliberately being isolated. We are too horrible for any benevolent race of sentient beings to contact. We are in a quarantine, undergoing a necessary test. The first phase of the test is peaceful cooperation between ourselves. We keep failing that. C.S. Lewis gave that explanation in his groundbreaking science fiction work, the Space Trilogy.
comfort the lame 2 months ago
> * points to ponder. > * why did I read all that? > * headache.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
The fact that we have not been visited by alien intelligent life can either be a denial or an affirmation of the existence of alien intelligent life.
Andrew Keir 2 months ago
If any Panda has hours available to dig deep into the research mentioned in the Wikipedia link, it's both creepy and very informative. Thoroughly recommended.
#39
The pages on child marriage laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States.
#40
Hisashi Ouchi (yes, an unfortunate last name) is pretty disturbing. He suffered from severe radioactivity poisoning and his body fell apart while doctors tried to keep him alive for 12 weeks.
AnnaB 2 months ago
The doctors practically begged the family to let him go, but they were insistent that the doctors keep trying.
Angela C 2 months ago
I'd haunt the shít out of my family if they did that to me
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#41
Evil billionaires biographies described as philanthropists.
David Paterson 2 months ago
Bill and Melinda Gates saved the world from Malaria. Against considerable opposition I might add. Billionaires can be philanthropists.
Bailey 2 months ago
Problem is though, rather than money being collected by governments and directed where needed, a small number of people are able to accrue incredible wealth, and use that based on their own whims and opinions. Combating Malaria is obviously a good thing, however it's been shown their programs in Africa have created a brain drain from local health services, and as these doctors are only permitted to discuss illness related to the vaccinations, there are increases in other disease. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation also manages it's investments based on maximum return, investing in companies that are increasing pollution, poverty and exploitation in the same countries they are working on their "pet" issues in.
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#42
Armin Meiwes, went down this rabbit hole from the song "Mein Teil" from Rammstein. By far the most disturbing Wikipedia page I've read, similar feeling to coming across a 4chan post.
Na Schi 2 months ago (edited)
I think G A shouldn't have been downvoted, as Meiwes and his victim indeed consumed the victim's pënis. Although it was not as delicious as they both had hoped.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
There's an IT Crowd episode that plays on this called "Moss and the German". It's very good.
#43
V-coding. It describes what often happens when you place trans women in men's prisons. You could probably guess what happens, but it is worse.
lise duhamel (That_U_Scully) 2 months ago
This isn't true, its quite clear that trans women suffer far more than trans men in prison environments.
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#44
French-Canadian cult leader Roch Theriault.
#45
Adolfo Constanzo is pretty tough. Basically did everything people imagined Satanists did.
#46
Marc Dutroux.
Raven/Bunny 2 weeks ago
Dutroux is "rotting" in prison, but for what I heard, he gets special treatment. I think the worst thing is his partner and accomplice being released. She was as guilty.
#47
Dardeen family. Read at your own risk.
#49
I was looking for Albert Fish and Junko Furuta and they were stated. Horrific reads embedded in my brain for all time. Not sure if stated yet, but the Hello Kitty case - Fan Man-Yee in Hong Kong.
#50
Most definitely Udag Hussein. Guy was an absolutely terrible person who shouldn’t have gotten away with any of the things he did.
Dee Rutherford 2 months ago
Merely a spelling error. Give the guy a break.
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The page on cannibalism.
Andrew Keir 2 months ago
Which one of us , if at the Brenner Pass, would have voted to starve to death?
#52
Most recent? Wikipedia entry about Yu Menglong. What it revealed about the people who effectively owned him is just awful.
#53
A lot of the listed ones are definitely up there.
One that’s tangentially rough is punk rock figure GG Allin. His early life is succinctly disturbing.
#54
Tarrare.
This is nowhere near as bad and evil as most of the ones posted here, but it is disturbing in its own way. This man was basically a real-life ghoul.
#55
Not the most, but definitely disturbing is the one on Élan School, especially if you read the comic book by Joe Nobody who allegedly went through the institution.
#56
The Franklin Expedition.
James Twong 2 months ago
The Terror was a good TV series (albeit with supernatural elements) about the Franklin expedition. The sense of isolation is terrifying. Also very interesting is the related tale of John Torrington.
Linda Roy 2 months ago
I was looking forward to that series and watched until the demonic polar bear showed up. Nope. With a shot of eye roll
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Pheebs 2 months ago
Wiki: “ Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile who k****d six people in Sacramento, California, between December 1977 and January 1978. He was nicknamed the Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains.”
#60
Perhaps not as graphic or as consequential as the others mentioned here, but for it was the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot in 1980. Just reading how it all went down really stuck with me.
#61
MK ultra. Never trust your government, kids!
KazzaHazza 2 months ago
MK Ultra sounds like a really bad rap name! Next to Luton Massive.
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
One can be very successful in politics precisely by gaining the trust and loyalty of people not in their right minds.
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The Norweigan black metal band "Mayhem" Wikipedia page had me reading for hours its a series of wth after wth.
#64
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago (edited)
Ah! Googled him and I get it now...
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Dyatlov Pass incident. It’s creepy because no one fully knows what happened.
Rika 2 months ago
Vodka happened. They were exhausted, starving, and one of the last photos they took shows a vague figure looking like a yeti. They all passed out drunk and woke up to the sound of an avalanche but they went into mass psychosis thinking it was the yeti and ran out. When they came to their senses, they were already too far from the camp and died of exposure. Now, it's true no one will ever know what happened but I personally think the mass psychosis theory is a lot more believable than the idea they were zapped by a spaceship.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
Or radiation or targeted by escapees from a g***g that were two other options presented in the tv series Dead Mountain
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Election of 2000 in the state of Florida.
ChironXII:
Yeah, that one's kinda lost the punch of realizing democracy was basically just a gentlemen's agreement all along, due to recent history, unfortunately.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
To be fair to the Founders, they could not anticipate Florida. You can't even anticipate Florida in hindsight.
Tropical Tarot 2 months ago (edited)
They tested several voting precincts in Palm Beach Florida from 2024. More people voted than were registered. And Republicans got a 5-6% boost in votes electronically that did not carry over to a hand count of ballots. The machines were lying or programmed to lie. Please do a Google search and read the articles. It's involved but it has been confirmed.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Then why did the GOP fight against a recount all the way to the Supreme Court?
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The Wikipedia page for ‘adulthood.’ Way darker than expected.
#70
Harlequin ichthyosis.
Don't look it up if you want to still have eyes.
Kerry Borthwick 2 months ago
Looked it up wish I hadn't now all I can feel is sadness for those babies suffering
#71
Early life section for any CEO.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 months ago
Someone has issues with CEOs, I believe. It's treatable in most cases.
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What do you think ?
Gavin Johnson 2 months ago
The paedophile formally known as Prince Andrew. When that all makes its way into the sunlight it’ll be both tragic and interesting. The Royal Family enabled his nefarious ways and QEII will rightly be outed as a hateful individual for bankrolling his evasion from justice. They are toxic.
Pittsburgh rare 2 months ago
I didn't even read a lot of those but the comments alone made me feel sick. Enough internet for today
Tyranamar Seuss 2 months ago
I read some. Very disturbing. Good you saved yourself and did not read this c**p.
Load More Replies... Natalia 2 months ago
That poor woman, how the hell does someone come to terms with that happening to them?
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Saeyoul Akiyune 2 months ago
The Toy Box Killer - if not the wiki page itself, definitely the recordings
David Paterson 2 months ago (edited)
I avoid disturbing Wikipedia pages, the worst I've come across are the pages on the Rwanda Genocide and its continuance in the Congo up to the present day.
Gavin Johnson 2 months ago
The paedophile formally known as Prince Andrew. When that all makes its way into the sunlight it’ll be both tragic and interesting. The Royal Family enabled his nefarious ways and QEII will rightly be outed as a hateful individual for bankrolling his evasion from justice. They are toxic.
Pittsburgh rare 2 months ago
I didn't even read a lot of those but the comments alone made me feel sick. Enough internet for today
Tyranamar Seuss 2 months ago
I read some. Very disturbing. Good you saved yourself and did not read this c**p.
Load More Replies... Natalia 2 months ago
That poor woman, how the hell does someone come to terms with that happening to them?
Load More Replies... Saeyoul Akiyune 2 months ago
The Toy Box Killer - if not the wiki page itself, definitely the recordings
David Paterson 2 months ago (edited)
I avoid disturbing Wikipedia pages, the worst I've come across are the pages on the Rwanda Genocide and its continuance in the Congo up to the present day.
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