Wikipedia has proven itself the eternal saviour of lazy college students everywhere, but aside
from putting door to door encyclopaedia salesmen out of a job this website is also handy if
you're looking to traumatise yourself and become a jabbering, emotional wreck.
Because while much of Wikipedia can be described as unreliably useful, there are some pages
whose sole purpose is to give you the kind of nightmares even Freddy Krueger would take
a pass on.
From a deadly Death Metal Band and a super stinky river through to cannibal killers and
a rollercoaster of quite literal doom, here is our list of the ten most disturbing Wikipedia
pages.
Number 10: The Euthanasia Coaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
If you were dying from an incurable disease and you wanted to go out on your own terms,
would you choose to end it all via the end of a needle in some dingy clinic in Switzerland,
or on a kickass rollercoaster that twists your brain into custard?
The wiki page for the Euthanasia Coaster describes in detail a hypothetical roller coaster designed
to help passengers end their own lives.
Envisaged by a PhD candidate at London's Royal College of Art, a ride on this thing would
involve a 500 metre drop, several sharp turns and the infliction of 10 g's of force at several
points during the ride.
This design means that passengers would black out and die due to a lack of oxygen to the
brain, and it was even imagined to have a special area for the unloading of corpses
between rides.
How considerate.
Number 9: The San Fernando Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_San_Fernando_massacre
In 2011 a Mexican drug gang called Los Zetas took nearly two hundred people hostage on
a bus in the region of San Fernando, and everything about this case, from its discovery to the
way people were killed will chill you to the bone.
The massacre reportedly took place gradually between the 24th and 29th of March, when several
buses were hijacked in San Fernando, but the authorities only knew something bad had occurred
when a huge amount of suitcases and baggage went unclaimed at various depots.
Eventually the police managed to find the people who had been captured, and over the
course of two months 193 people were found buried in mass graves across San Fernando.
The killings shocked the nation and indeed the world, but even more horrifying revelations
were yet to come, courtesy of two testimonies by anonymous members of the Los Zetas gang.
They told of how the bus drivers were made to mow down their own passengers, with many
of those on board also forced to fight to the death in gladiator-style combat.
The winners, if you can call them that, were then press-ganged into working for Los Zetas,
and if you really don't want to sleep tonight, just take a look at the story of one if the
massacre's alleged survivors.
Number 8: Mayhem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhem_(band)
Mayhem were a black metal band from the Norwegian city of Oslo…although when I say were that's
not strictly true…because what makes their Wikipedia page particularly disturbing is
the fact that they still are a band, which is surprising, considering the gruesome things
they've gotten up to in the past.
Their story contains tales of on-stage self-mutilation, Satanism, severed sheep's heads, racism, murder,
cannibalism and even someone's corpse being used for an album cover.
This band put out an album just three years ago, and they still tour to this day.
So would you be tempted to go see them?
I would, but I'd probably need to hold my mom's hand the whole time.
Number 7: The Tale of Armin Meiwes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
Armin Meiwes was the infamous German cannibal killer whose victim, Bernd Jurgen Armando
Brandes, voluntarily offered up his severed penis for Meiwes to prepare and consume…which
he did.
His Wikipedia page covers the exact method used to remove Mr Brandes own personal bratwurst,
and if anything I think hearing about the initial failed attempt is worse than knowing
it was cut off in the first place…because Meiwes first tried to remove his victim's
penis by chewing it off like a dog.
Upon reading you'll also learn that Meiwes, who remains incarcerated, believes there are
around 800 cannibals operating in Germany undetected.
His page also says that he is now a vegetarian, and that he becomes eligible for parole in
2017.
I'm not sure which one of those things is the scariest.
Number 6: Alien Hand Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
Alien Hand Syndrome is the term used to describe someone who feels as if one or more of their
limbs are acting beyond their control, and the Wikipedia page for this bizarre condition
contains some seriously creepy examples.
One patient described how her hand would take a cigarette out of her mouth after her controllable
hand had put it there, and another experienced a similar situation whereby her alien hand
would constantly unbutton her blouse while she was trying to get dressed.
But one of the freakiest stories was documented by scientists Doody and Jankovic, who observed
a woman whose hand would frequently pinch her nipples.
To combat this she named her hand Baby Joseph when it was acting in this rude, playful manner,
and if you click some of the reference links you can find out even more about this decidedly
disturbing woman.
But even though such behaviour is linked to incidents of brain damage, you can't stop
your imagination running wild imagining what these bizarre alien hands might have been
capable of.
Number 5: Jonestown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
The Jonestown commune was a settlement of people established in northwestern Guyana
by religious cult leader Jim Jones, who, in 1978, convinced 918 of its residents to commit
suicide.
A third of its victims were children, and until September 11th 2001 the Jonestown Massacre
marked the largest single loss of life from a deliberate act in American history.
The Wikipedia page for this event covers it in great detail, but the reason it makes our
list for the most disturbing entries is due to the presence of an audio tape hosted on
the page itself.
You can quite clearly hear the cries of infants throughout this gruesome recording, and at
44 minutes long, the tape also includes Jones' confession that he had arranged the murder
of Congressman Leo Ryan, and that those present should see to it that their children are killed
before its consequences are felt.
Number 4: Penis Removal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_removal
All you need to know about the Wikipedia page on Penis Removal is that it contains a picture,
a picture that is now permanently seared into my memory.
I think I need a hug.
Number 3: The Hinterkaifeck Farmstead Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders
The Gruber family were a quiet bunch who lived on a small farm in the German region of Bavaria,
consisting of farmer Andreas, his wife Cazilla, their daughter Viktoria and her children Cazilla
and Josef.
There was also a maid present called Maria Baumgartner who had begun to work for the
family on March 31st 1922, but in the weeks prior to Maria joining them the Grubers noticed
something strange going on.
Tracks in the snow started to appear around mid-March, with these footprints heading in
one direction and one direction alone - from the forest and towards the farm.
Andreas Gruber told his neighbours that he had also started to hear sounds in the night,
as if someone were walking around in the attic, and as well as this a set of house keys mysteriously
disappeared, with Andreas Gruber also discovering an unfamiliar newspaper which nobody in the
house had purchased.
On April 4th the Gruber family and their maid were found in the barn, each one of them decapitated,
with evidence pointing to a mattock as the murder weapon.
It also seems likely that the killer stayed in their home for several days post-murder,
and that Cazilla, the youngest child, had been the last one to perish.
Number 2: Coffin Birth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_birth
This is another one we're just gonna let you check out for yourself, but if for some reason
you've ever wondered what happens to a baby when a pregnant lady dies…here's your answer.
Number 1: The Great Stink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
If you were to believe everything you see in the movies then you might think that Victorian
London would've been a pretty cool place to live.
There were Penny Farthing bicycles going down cobbled streets, hot ankle and opium action,
moustachioed gentlemen getting into pub brawls, and of course the mysterious case of Jack
The Ripper; who seems like a dapper fellow if not a little unhinged.
But when you read about the Great Stink of 1858, this rose-tinted vision of Victorian
London takes on a distinctly browner hue, because between July and August of that year
the city's balmy summer caused the River Thames to stink like never before, thanks to a combination
of industrial run off and a whole heap of good old human faeces.
Just reading about the sheer volume of filth present in the 19th Century Thames is enough
to put you off your dinner for life, and with its Wiki page including all manner of rhymes,
illustrations and disgusting tales, it's something you may not wish to read on a full stomach
either.
And that's our list.
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