Creepy Wikipedia

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A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust

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Guidelines:
  1. Follow the Code of Conduct

  2. Do NOT report posts YOU don't consider creepy

  3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only

  4. Please follow the post naming convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis

  5. Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails.

  6. Please refrain from any offensive language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it's in the original article's title).

Mandatory:

If you didn't find an article "creepy," you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you didn't find it creepy

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Upright Jerker (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by idiomaddict@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
 
 

Basically a reverse gallows with a horrible name

The upright jerker was an execution method and device intermittently used in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century. Intended to replace hangings, the upright jerker did not see widespread use and was withdrawn from use by the 1930s.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Plum@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Plum@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
 
 

ba-dum-tiss

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