The Prophecy of the Popes is a controversial and widely debate series of cryptic Latin phrases that are believe to predict the successiveness of Roman Catholic Catholic Vicar of Christ .
Have you ever found yourself awake, unable to sleep, and scrolling down a deep internet rabbit hole on Wikipedia? Well, many people have, especially on the CREEPY Wikipedia pages. In fact, here are some that were so creepy that people onReddit, as well as ourBuzzFeed Community, just HAD to share them:
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1.The horrifyingmurder of Cara Knott, who was killed by a police officer:
2.Armin Meiwes, who gained international notoriety as the “Cannibal of Rotenburg”:
3.The cryptic and unsettlingProphecy of the Popes, a controversial and widely debated series of cryptic Latin phrases that are believed to predict the succession of Roman Catholic popes:
4.The injury of gymnastElena Mukhinathat left her paralyzed:
5.Black-eyed children, a kind of urban legend that will leave you feeling creeped out.
6.The death of actorCarole Lombardand a group of Army soldiers:
7.The unsettling “screaming"Mummies of Guanajuato:
8.TheDisappearance of Asha Degree, who went missing on Feb. 14, 2000, in Shelby, North Carolina under strange circumstances:
9.The tragic case ofAeroflot Flight 593that crashed because of an innocent accident:
10.David Parker Ray, known as the “Toy Box Killer,” an American kidnapper, serial rapist, and suspected serial killer:
11.TheDisappearance of Brian Shafferwhich remains unsolved:
12.The earthquake you can hear during a recording of Pink Floyd’s"Shine on You Crazy Diamond”:
13.The Posthumous Beheading ofMata Hari:
14.TheMurder of Helle Crafts, which inspired the movieFargo:
15.Smile mask syndrome, which sounds like the premise of a horror film:
16.ThePersian Princess, a mummy sold on the black market:
17.TheDisappearance of Jamie Fraleywho was sick with stomach flu and last heard from at the hospital before telling a friend “someone” was picking her up there.
18.TheKilling of Henryk Siwiak, the last person killed in New York on 9/11:
19.Sogen Kato, thought to be Tokyo’s oldest man:
20.Eben Byers, who drank bottles of radium-spiked tonic:
21.TheKids for Cash scandal:
22.Lizzie Borden, who was widely suspected of brutally killing her father and stepmother with an axe.
23.The practices ofCarl Tanzlerwho became obsessed with a woman, embalmed her, and lived with her corpse:
24.Blanche Monnier, who was secretly held captive by her mother:
25.Fred and Rosemary West, a serial killer couple who committed some of the most heinous crimes:
26.The deadly and highly unethicalGuatemala syphilis experiments:
27.The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusionin the ’80s, which creeped the heck out of people at the time and remains unsolved to this day:
28.Joyce Vincent, whose corpse was found in a London apartment after she’d reportedly been dead for more than three years.
29.Ultimate fate of the universe, which will mess with your head:
30.The deadlyBalloonfest ‘86in Cleveland, Ohio:
31.Project MKUltra, a human experimentation program created and run by the CIA from the 1950s to the ’70s.
32.The disappearance of Maura Murrayin New Hampshire, which remains unsolved:
33.June and Jennifer Gibbons, aka “The Silent Twins”, whose wild story inspired a 2022 film:
34.The Hinterkaifeckmurders, a gruesome and still-unsolved multiple homicide that took place in Germany in March 1922:
35.The Villisca axe murders, a gruesome and still-unsolved mass killing that took place in Villisca, Iowa, on the night of June 9–10, 1912:
36.Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, a convicted child molester and suspected serial killer with cannibalistic tendencies:
37.Charles Domery, whose story has been documented as one of the most extreme instances of polyphagia (excessive hunger) in medical history:
38.Karl Patterson Schmidt, who recorded his own horrible death from a snake bite:
39.List of unusual deaths, which is fascinating and terrifying at the same time:
40.Finally, the very sad term"endling":
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