What are the most unsettling Wikipedia articles you know? (lemmy.world)

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Murder cases, freak accidents or articles triggering just good old existential crisis. Give me your worst.

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[-] quixotic120@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths ranges from creepy to absurd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_murders good rabbit hole

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes

Reddit had a sub called creepywikipedia for this kind of thing. It shut down for the protest and stayed shut down. Might be worth recreating by someone more inclined than myself, who is very lazy

[-] _thisdot@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

There exists an article about death during sex and the first notable case is a Pope!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_during_consensual_sex

[-] voidhearts@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

After watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, Alex Mitchell, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure due to what doctors discovered years later, via his granddaughter, was a genetic condition called Long QT syndrome.

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