What are the most unsettling Wikipedia articles you know?

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

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
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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Human experimentation with Syphilis without their knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study?wprov=sfti1

Government mind control programs.

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

I always found these Wikipedia articles underwhelming, but listening to the CBC podcast and behind the bastards episodes on the specific victims of the program and how the scientists at McGill intentionally destroyed their brains purely through psychological torture is incredibly heart wrenching.

Also interesting that there's evidence that the Unabomber was a victim of some of the mkultra program.
I came to post exactly that. The proven and acknowledged aspects of MKUltra are frightening, without even getting into the conspiratorial accusations.

The page on the Church Committee is a great starting point for learning more about similar covert projects.

COINTELPRO in particular is very frightening.

CreepyWikipedia specialized in collating unsettling Wiki entries, but they are one of the few indefinite participants in the blackout.

I made a Lemmy alternate over here: !creepywikipedia@lemmy.world.

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !creepywikipedia@lemmy.world.
Cool! Thx very much!

Ok, I might need a minute to scroll through my bookmarks

Edit, ok, here we go (this is just from my bookmarks and what feels most "unsettling" to me. I could sit here and link for hours to more things I have "saved" in my head, but I'll leave it at this for now):

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Bonus addition in edit: List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
Feral child
I have quite a few pages on serial killers, but this is probably more efficient than listing individuals: List of serial killers by number of victims
A handful of individual cases though:
Murder of Junko Furuta
Murder of Sylvia Likens
Murder of James Bulger
Murder of Shanda Sharer
Hart family murders
On the larger scale:
List of genocides
List of massacres
Blackbirding
Zong massacre
Home Children
Starlight tours
On the existential front:
List of impact craters on Earth
Observable universe and Cosmological horizon which make you realise that the endless and abundant expanse of space we see is only a tiny little portion of the actual universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Shadow_Etched_in_Stone
Human Shadow Etched in Stone (人影の石, hitokage no ishi)[2] is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the residue of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. It is also known as Human Shadow of Death[1] or simply the Blast Shadow.

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

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

The details are horrific.

All supported by the USA too.

EDIT: The US + Israel provided the weapons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraín_Ríos_Montt#Support_from_US_and_Israel

Guess who trained those Guatemalan commandos? It was a program run by the CIA out of Border Patrol facilities, largely staffed Border Patrol staff since they could speak Spanish.

So now you have refugees fleeing Guatemala's history of intense violence, being abused at the border and turned away by the very same agency that destabilized their country to begin with.

The US has so much fucking blood on its hands and owes so many reparations to the rest of the world for the damage it's done.
The US prosecuted any American citizens involved in this. The US supports many small nations and without that support, many fledgling nations would fully collapse and be far worse off.

I don't live in a world where perfection is possible. In a war torn country, there will always be individuals who will do evil shit. Even on the more good side. Do you think not a single Ukraine soldier has not done something immoral or illegal? Yet we support them.

I wish there were no conflicts in the world but we need to grow up and realize there will be serious misconduct. And that is the cost of trying to encourage stability. The thing I take away from this is that the US did prosecute any of their citizens that were involved in this. As they should.
- Do you think not a single Ukraine soldier has not done something immoral or illegal? Yet we support them.
  
  This isn't the winning argument you think it is...
  
  The US should stop playing world police. And usually it was for propping up United Fruit, etc. with dictatorships, not actually helping those small nations.

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

It’s about a hypothetical event in quantum field theory that potentially can erase the entire universe as we know it.

This is always the one I go to to really freak people out. The idea that there's no way you can influence it so you shouldn't actually worry about it takes a while to set it.
- There’s also no way for us to see it coming. Once it happens somewhere in the universe it will approach us at light speed destroying everything in its path. The moment we have a chance to even learn about its existence it will kill us faster than the billionaires in the sub.

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

Obligatory relevant xkcd

Effects of climate change

If you're even remotely claustrofobic you should probably stay out of this one.

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

The internet historian has a great video on Nutty Putty Cave.

https://youtu.be/nnI_oZKxzl0
- That video is actually about sand cave, not nutty putty. Still worth a watch though.

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

explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injured another dive tender.

excerpt:
Investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the crescent-shaped opening measuring 60 centimetres (24 in) long created by the jammed interior trunk door.

Stomach turning and NSFL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray

Saw his nickname and noped the fuck out.
That link better stays blue. What is it about?
- A sicko that tortured and assaulted women.
Fuckin hell dude. Also, I found the names weird - Elephant butte, truth and consequences.

Shit and vomit inducing wiki for me was rose west's wiki:

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

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

I know this isn't the most disturbing Wiki article out there, but this is the creepiest one I know of that I can stomach. Also, it's an interesting case, despite its morbid and eerie nature.

It was an avalanche. Oddly enough, they figured that out based on how the snow was generated in Frozen.