20 Wikipedia Articles You Should Not Read Alone In The Dark
#1
Bloop : The "Bloop" refers to a loud, unexplained underwater sound that could be heard at a distance of over 3,000 miles. It has been theorized that it might be caused by icebergs, but no one is certain. Also, it turns out there are a lot of unidentified sounds in our world including one called the "Upsweep" that can be heard here.
#2
Murder of Junko Furuta : This is maybe the most horrifying and gruesome murder of all time.
#3
Sedlec Ossuary : Located in the Czech Republic, the Ossuary is a Roman Catholic chapel that is decorated with the bones of least 40,000 people.
#4
Roanoke Colony : This colony is also called the Lost Colony because in 1587, its colonists just disappeared without a trace.
#5
Joyce Vincent : The dead body of Vincent was discovered in her London home...two years after she died. She was found next to Christmas presents yet to be wrapped and the television was still on.
#6
Carl Tanzler : Two years after her death, a man named Carl Tanzler exhumed the body of a woman he was obsessed with and lived with her corpse for the next seven years until being discovered by relatives. He used coat hangers and wires to keep her body intact and made "skin" out of plaster of paris and silk.
#7
Flatwoods monster : The Flatwoods monster refers to a tall, black creature that was seen by residents of Flatwoods, West Virginia in 1952. Many believe the Flatwoods monster to be extraterrestrial in origin.
#8
List of alleged aircraftUFO incidents and near misses : We are not alone.
#9
Rat king (folklore) : This is supposedly what happens when rats get stuck together with blood and feces and their tails get tied.
#10
Capgras delusion : People suffering from this condition believe that someone close to them, like a family member, spouse, or best friend, has been replaced by an identical impostor.
#11
June and Jennifer Gibbons : June and Jennifer were identical twins who remained mostly silent and became convinced that the only way they could lead a normal life was for one of them to commit suicide. They decided that Jennifer should die, and she did, although the cause of death remains a mystery.
#12
Anesthesia awareness : Anesthesia awareness refers to when a patient is aware of what is happening to them during surgery. Although unable to move or communicate, some patients feel everything that is happening to them.
#13
UVB-76 : For the last forty years, a mysterious radio transmission has emitted a buzzing sound occasionally interrupted by a man speaking in Russian. Its purpose is unknown
#14
Voynich manuscript : An early 15th century codex written with over 170,000 distinct glyphs that appears to describe strange fauna and recipes.
#15
Alien hand syndrome : Like its name would suggest, sufferers of this syndrome have no control over one of their hands and some even have to restrain it from doing things.
#16
Dyatlov Pass incident : In 1959, nine seasoned hikers died for no apparent reason.
#17
Benjamin Kyle : Benjamin Kyle is the name of a man with no memory of who he is. There are no records of who he is and no one has ever been able to determine his identity. He has the unique distinction of being the only American ever to be officially "missing" despite not actually being missing.
#18
Coffin birth : Coffin birth is the name for what occurs after a pregnant woman dies and the fetus is pushed out of the vagina by a buildup of internal gases.
#19
Pripyat : This Ukrainian city has been abandoned since the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
#20
Starchild skull : This skull was found in Mexico in the 1930s.
