- There's an infinite amount of knowledge
that's available to be learned on the internet,
especially a seemingly innocuous website like Wikipedia.
So much good information is on there,
so much positive, happy things to learn.
However, it might surprise you to learn
that there are some Wikipedia pages
that are beyond the opposite of rainbow and sunshine,
some that are straight up beyond creepy.
(eerie piano music)
Here are the 10 creepiest Wikipedia pages
you shouldn't read.
Number 10 is Unit 731.
The Wikipedia page describing Unit 731
makes for a chilling and difficult read.
Unit 731 was a Japaneses facility specializing in biological
and chemical warfare research during World War II.
Some claimed at the time that Unit 731
was researching chemical compounds,
but the truth was harrowing.
It was discovered that Unit 731's primary mode of research
was to experiment on live human beings.
This included cultivating dangerous diseases,
such as the plague, and then injecting these diseases
directly into unwilling participants.
The scientists at Unit 731 would then study up close
how the plague and other diseases
ravaged the bodies of the prisoners.
Thousands of men, women and children
were brutally killed there, only for the scientists
to be rewarded after the war and secretly welcomed
into the United States to share their expertise.
Number nine is Maura Murray.
Wikipedia is lettered with terrifying descriptions
of real life disappearances.
One of the most chilling describes
what happened to Maura Murray.
In February of 2004, Maura informed her boss
and her professors where she was studying
that she had to attend a family emergency,
so she would have to take at least a week off.
She then crashed her car on February 9th,
on a country road with no cellphone reception in Hampshire.
A bus driver passed and asked if she needed assistance,
but Maura pleaded with the driver to drive on.
When the driver drove on and finally had cellphone service,
he phoned the police and alerted them to the crash.
The police found the car, but there was no sign of Maura.
But most interesting of all is that there was
no family emergency in the first place.
To this day, no one knows what happened to Maura.
Number eight are The Hands Resist Him.
The Wikipedia page exploring The Hands Resist Him case
will give you sleepless nights.
In 1972, artist Bill Stoneham painted a picture
knows as The Hands Resist Him.
The painting shows a young boy
standing in front of a glass-paneled door.
Next to him, there's a life-sized doll of a girl standing.
Behind both of these figures, pressed against
the dark glass, are many ghostly hands.
In the year 2000, the painting was put up for auction
after the original owner of the piece died.
According to the seller of the painting,
there was a curse attached to the ominous picture.
They claimed that the hands that pressed
against the glass moved, and that sometimes
the young boy and the doll would leave the painting
to haunt those nearby.
Stories still persist that the painting and its inhabitants
continue to terrorize anyone who dares buy the picture.
Number seven is the mellified man.
The mellified man Wikipedia page
is a rabbit hole you do not want to go down.
Mellified man is a horrific delicacy
which was used as a powerful medicine
hundreds of years ago in China,
and there are rumors still that the practice
had not completely died out.
Mellified man involves steeping a human body in honey
so that the flesh would take on a sweet taste.
Bizarrely, this process of mellification
often began before death.
The person to be mellified would either be forced
or volunteer to eat nothing but honey prior to their death.
The diet itself would eventually prove fatal.
After this, the body would be placed
in a stone coffin filled with honey.
It would then be left to rot for a hundred years.
The body and the honey would melt down
into a sweet substance which would be then sold
as a health food in street markets.
Read up on this at your own peril.
Number six is Genie.
Genie was born in 1957 in California.
At just 20 months of age, her father concluded
that she was mentally deficient.
Instead of seeking out treatment,
her father locked her in her room.
She was never allowed to leave,
spending her nights strapped to a bed
and her days strapped to a child's toilet.
Genie experienced the first 13 years
of her life in that room.
When Genie was finally discovered,
not only did it shock the neighborhood surrounding her home,
but it shocked the world.
No one even knew that she had existed.
Although Genie soon learned limited language,
the sheer trauma that she had suffered
meant that she ended up moving
from foster home to foster home,
from treatment facility to treatment facility,
never knowing the joy of growing up,
which every child should experience.
Number five is Mayhem.
The Norwegian band Mayhem's Wikipedia page
makes for some twisted reading.
Founded in Oslo in 1984, the band
was part of the black metal scene.
Their live performances were notorious.
The band would often mutilate their own bodies
as they performed, scarring themselves in a twisted form
of entertainment for those who enjoyed
the darker side of the black metal scene.
In 1991, their vocalist took his own life,
leaving behind a note which described
how he did not believe that the life he was living was real.
Some now believe that the vocalist, known as Dead,
was suffering from Cotard syndrome,
where a person believes that they are already dead.
One of the band members took a picture of the suicide note
and then used it in promotional material,
causing further controversy and anger.
Number four is June and Jennifer Gibbons.
June and Jennifer Gibbons grew up together
in Wales in the 1960s and '70s.
They were identical twins that became known
as the silent twins.
The reason for this is that they only communicated
with each other and no one else.
They even developed their own language,
which no one else could understand.
After being unsuccessfully separated,
the twins spent several years in isolation together,
living primarily in their bedroom.
They would make stories and elaborate plays
using a cast of dolls.
After committing a number of crimes,
the girls were sent to a psychiatric hospital
where they spent 14 years still refusing
to speak with anyone.
Jennifer then passed away due to
an unexplained inflammation of the heart.
Immediately, June began speaking,
claiming her sister had voluntarily died to set her free.
Number three is the Goiania accident.
The Wikipedia page for the Goiania accident is shocking.
The incident took place on September 13th, 1987
in the Brazilian city of Goiania.
There's not much out there that's creepier
than an abandoned hospital, but one such building
in Goiania harbored a dark secret.
Though the building was crumbling,
inside there remained radiotherapy materials
which were highly radioactive.
As locals explored the hospital
looking for anything of value,
they found the materials and removed them
not knowing what they were.
Four people subsequently died,
and over 100,000 people were later
checked for radiation contamination.
Out of those, 249 locals were suffering
from severe radiation poisoning.
During the cleanup operation, entire levels
of topsoil in the city had to be removed,
and many homes were demolished and abandoned.
Number two is stone man syndrome.
Stone man syndrome is one of the most horrific diseases
known to mankind, and the Wikipedia page
will send a shiver up your spine.
The disease hijacks the body's ability to heal,
using its regenerative capabilities to cause damage.
It's a connective tissue disease
and affects tendons, muscles and ligaments.
Sufferers of stone man syndrome
further the disease by moving.
Each movement causes tiny tears in the body's joints,
which usually self-repair.
However, instead, stone man syndrome causes tissue
to grow bone and other stone-like materials.
Any injury can prove catastrophic,
as the joints of the body are filled with these materials,
locking them in place forever,
turning the person into a living statue.
There's no known cure, and any attempt
to remove the material from a person's body
only speeds up the process.
And number one is Idilia Dubb.
The events surrounding Idilia Dubb's last moments
are laid out in her Wikipedia page.
Idilia was a 17-year-old Scottish girl
who was holidaying in Germany in 1851.
While exploring an abandoned castle,
she fell and found herself trapped inside.
No one knew she was there,
and her family returned to Scotland heartbroken.
In 1860, one of the towers was being repaired
when workmen found a skeleton near the top of the tower.
With it, they discovered her diary,
which recorded her nightmarish end.
She had climbed up the tower,
when a set of rotten stairs collapsed.
She wrote that she was confident she would be rescued,
as when she waved out of an open window at passers-by,
they waved back.
However, no one came, and she wrote
of trying to jump from the tower in desperation,
but in her weakened state she was unable to move.
10 Wikipedia pages that will give you
nightmares if you read them.
Highly recommended that you don't,
but something tells me that a few of you will look these up.
Sweet dreams.