Creepy Wikipedia

Death of Hedviga Golik - extreme case of unattended death

Jack Ketch - 17th century public executioner famed for his botched executions

Vessel - Climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards closed in 2021 after four people died by suicide

Christina Grimmie - The Voice contestant and YouTuber killed by fan in a murder-suicide

Élan School - abusive and controversial boarding school and behavior modification program

1858 Bradford sweets poisoning - sugar adulterated with gypsum (containing arsenic) killed 20, sickened 200, and changed the laws on food adulteration.

Oskar Dirlewanger - regarded as perhaps the Nazi regime's "most extreme executioner"

Sarco pod - 3D-printed assisted suicide "sarcophagus"

Judica-Cordiglia brothers - captured recordings of doomed Soviet cosmonauts in their final moments, supposedly

Reptilian conspiracy theory - belief that shape-shifting reptilian humanoids have global influence

Viktor Bout - AKA Merchant of Death - weapons smuggler

Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines - "Radio Genocide", played a significant role in inciting the Rwandan genocide

Jadovno concentration camp - local ravines used as mass graves. Death toll still uncertain.

Gibbeting - public display of dead or dying criminals in a hanging structure

Air Florida Flight 90 - Real life example of Iron Man's "icing" problem

1593 transported soldier legend - 16th century time traveler?

Humanzee - hypothetical offspring of humans and chimps

Jenny Haniver - Modified ray or skate carcass made to look like a demon or dragon

Fiji mermaid - 19th century mythical hodgepodge first exhibited by PT Barnum

Bob Crane - Hogan's Heroes actor whose public image suffered due to the suspicious nature of his death and posthumous revelations about his personal life

2024 Lebanon pager explosions - 12 people are killed and more than 2,750 others injured by compromised pagers that simultaneously exploded

Mütter Museum - a 19th century style cabinet museum displaying medical artifacts and oddities

Travis (chimpanzee) - mauled and ate parts of his owner's friend. Wild animals are not pets.

Thalidomide scandal- the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever"

Funeral rites of the Torajan people- includes the yearly exhumation and grooming of the deceased

Killing of Henryk Siwiak - The last person killed in New York on 9/11 although not a victim of the terror attacks earlier that day

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - torture and execution center established by the Khmer Rouge, now a museum

Sodder children disappearance - Five of the nine children, ranging in age from 5 to 14, vanished during a house fire in 1945

Mummy brown- ground up mummies used as pigment

Death of Cindy James - long term unsolved stalking case with an ugly ending

Anatomical Machines- 18th c. models for the study of human anatomy

Leonarda Cianciulli - butcher, baker, soapmaker

Ortolan bunting - Songbird dish that is meant to be eaten with a towel draped over the diner’s head

Upright Jerker

Dried cat- good luck talisman for new buildings

Collyer brothers - hoarders killed by their own house

Maman (sculpture) - giant dang 30 foot spider

Coffin birth- what it says on the box

Anneliese Michel - exorcized to death