Wikipedia Pages That Will Keep You Up At Night

Herringsucks Published 10/27/2014

If you're ever having trouble staying awake, just look up some of these wikipedia pages. We can guarantee you won't sleep for days.

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Joyce Carol Vincent 15 October 1965 c. December 2003 was an English woman who is notable because her corpse lay undiscovered in her London bedsit for about two years.Vincent died of unknown causes around December 2003.9 She was an asthma sufferer, and an asthma attack, or complications surrounding her recent peptic ulcer, have been suggested as a possible cause of death.12 Her remains were described as "mostly skeletal" according to the pathologist, and she was lying on her back, next to a shopping bag, surrounded by Christmas presents she had wrapped but never delivered.6 It is not known to whom the presents were addressed, and the police report regarding the case has been disposed of.13
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The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster or the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an alleged unidentified extraterrestrial or cryptid reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States on September 12, 1952.
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The Taman Shud Case,note 1 also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 a.m., 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after a phrase, tamam shud, meaning "ended" or "finished" in Persian, on a scrap of the final page of The Rubaiyat, found in the hidden pocket of the man's trousers.
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Scaphism, also known as the boats,1 was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death that was described by the Persians' archenemies, the Greeks. The name comes from the Greek 963954940966951, skaphe, meaning "anything scooped or hollowed out".
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Rat kings involve a number of rats intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, or feces - or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails. The numbers of rats joined together can vary, but rat kings formed naturally from a large number of rats occur more rarely.
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The Cotard delusion also Cotard's Syndrome and Walking Corpse Syndrome is a rare mental illness, in which the afflicted person holds the delusion that he or she is dead, either figuratively or literally yet said delusion of negation is not a symptom essential to the syndrome proper. Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicates that the denial of self-existence is a symptom present in 69 percent of the cases of Cotard's syndrome yet, paradoxically, 55 percent of the patients might present delusions of immortality.
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The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl 10611086108310721090-10571103109310991083, a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain. The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass 1055107710881077107410721083 1044110310901083108610741072 after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov 10481075108610881100 104411031090108310861074.
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Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive accidentally or intentionally. The victim may accidentally be buried by others in the mistaken assumption that they are dead. Intentional burial may occur as a form of torture, murder, or execution it may also occur with consent of the victim as a part of a stunt with the intention to escape. Live burial is said to be one of the most widespread of human fears.1
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June and Jennifer Gibbons born 11 April 1963citation needed were identical twins who grew up in Wales. They became known as "The Silent Twins" since they only communicated with their immediate family. They began writing works of fiction but turned to crime in a bid for recognition. Both women were committed to Broadmoor Hospital where they were held for 14 years.
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The most gruesome murder case in the history of Germany, this is the frightening tale of the Gruber family, who were found slaughtered in their own farmhouse by a violent pickaxe murderer. When the Munich police stepped into the Bavarian farmhouse on April 4, 1922, they were met with the horrifying sight of six cadavers adorning a room bathed in blood, their only clue, a pair of ghostly footprints and a plethora of paranormal activities that had broken loose months before.
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Black Eyed Children
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Tarrare c. 1772 1798, sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry his parents could not provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and a whole basket full of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer.
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Tarrare c. 1772 1798, sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry his parents could not provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and a whole basket full of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer.
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UVB-76, also known as The Buzzer, is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz.12 It broadcasts a short, monotonous About this sound buzz tone helpinfo, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day.2 On very rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.3 It has been active since sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when the first reports were made of a station on this frequency.14 Its origins have been traced to Russia, and although several theories with varying degrees of plausibility exist, its actual purpose has never been officially confirmed and remains a source of speculation.5
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The Pope Lick Monster is a legendary part-man, part-goat1 and part-sheep2 creature reported to live beneath a Norfolk Southern Railway trestle over Floyd's Fork Creek, in the Fisherville area of Louisville, Kentucky.23
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Benjaman Kyle is the pseudonym adopted by a man who has dissociative amnesia. He was discovered unconscious on August 31, 2004, in Richmond Hill, Georgia,12 and is believed to be about 64 years old.3 He had been unable to obtain employment without a Social Security number.4 He is the only American citizen officially listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known.5
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Locked-in syndrome LIS is a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. Total locked-in syndrome is a version of locked-in syndrome wherein the eyes are paralyzed as well.1 Fred Plum and Jerome Posner coined the term for this disorder in 1966.
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List of Reported UFO Sightings
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A shadow person also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, particularly as interpreted by believers in the supernatural as the presence of a malevolent entity.1
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Clinton Road New Jersey
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Coffin birth, known in academia by the more accurate term postmortem fetal extrusion,12 is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a deceased pregnant woman as a result of the increasing pressure of intraabdominal gases. This kind of postmortem delivery occurs very rarely during the decomposition of a body. The practice of chemical preservation, whereby chemical preservatives and disinfectant solutions are pumped into a body to replace natural body fluids and the bacteria that reside therein, have made the occurrence of "coffin birth" so rare that the topic is rarely mentioned in international medical discourse.

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Joyce Carol Vincent 15 October 1965 c. December 2003 was an English woman who is notable because her corpse lay undiscovered in her London bedsit for about two years.Vincent died of unknown causes around December 2003.9 She was an asthma sufferer, and an asthma attack, or complications surrounding her recent peptic ulcer, have been suggested as a possible cause of death.12 Her remains were described as "mostly skeletal" according to the pathologist, and she was lying on her back, next to a shopping bag, surrounded by Christmas presents she had wrapped but never delivered.6 It is not known to whom the presents were addressed, and the police report regarding the case has been disposed of.13
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The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster or the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an alleged unidentified extraterrestrial or cryptid reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States on September 12, 1952.
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The Taman Shud Case,note 1 also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 a.m., 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after a phrase, tamam shud, meaning "ended" or "finished" in Persian, on a scrap of the final page of The Rubaiyat, found in the hidden pocket of the man's trousers.
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Scaphism, also known as the boats,1 was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death that was described by the Persians' archenemies, the Greeks. The name comes from the Greek 963954940966951, skaphe, meaning "anything scooped or hollowed out".
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Rat kings involve a number of rats intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, or feces - or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails. The numbers of rats joined together can vary, but rat kings formed naturally from a large number of rats occur more rarely.
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The Cotard delusion also Cotard's Syndrome and Walking Corpse Syndrome is a rare mental illness, in which the afflicted person holds the delusion that he or she is dead, either figuratively or literally yet said delusion of negation is not a symptom essential to the syndrome proper. Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicates that the denial of self-existence is a symptom present in 69 percent of the cases of Cotard's syndrome yet, paradoxically, 55 percent of the patients might present delusions of immortality.
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The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl 10611086108310721090-10571103109310991083, a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain. The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass 1055107710881077107410721083 1044110310901083108610741072 after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov 10481075108610881100 104411031090108310861074.
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Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive accidentally or intentionally. The victim may accidentally be buried by others in the mistaken assumption that they are dead. Intentional burial may occur as a form of torture, murder, or execution it may also occur with consent of the victim as a part of a stunt with the intention to escape. Live burial is said to be one of the most widespread of human fears.1
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June and Jennifer Gibbons born 11 April 1963citation needed were identical twins who grew up in Wales. They became known as "The Silent Twins" since they only communicated with their immediate family. They began writing works of fiction but turned to crime in a bid for recognition. Both women were committed to Broadmoor Hospital where they were held for 14 years.
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The most gruesome murder case in the history of Germany, this is the frightening tale of the Gruber family, who were found slaughtered in their own farmhouse by a violent pickaxe murderer. When the Munich police stepped into the Bavarian farmhouse on April 4, 1922, they were met with the horrifying sight of six cadavers adorning a room bathed in blood, their only clue, a pair of ghostly footprints and a plethora of paranormal activities that had broken loose months before.
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Black Eyed Children
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Tarrare c. 1772 1798, sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry his parents could not provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and a whole basket full of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer.
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Tarrare c. 1772 1798, sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry his parents could not provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and a whole basket full of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer.
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UVB-76, also known as The Buzzer, is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz.12 It broadcasts a short, monotonous About this sound buzz tone helpinfo, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day.2 On very rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.3 It has been active since sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when the first reports were made of a station on this frequency.14 Its origins have been traced to Russia, and although several theories with varying degrees of plausibility exist, its actual purpose has never been officially confirmed and remains a source of speculation.5
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The Pope Lick Monster is a legendary part-man, part-goat1 and part-sheep2 creature reported to live beneath a Norfolk Southern Railway trestle over Floyd's Fork Creek, in the Fisherville area of Louisville, Kentucky.23
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Benjaman Kyle is the pseudonym adopted by a man who has dissociative amnesia. He was discovered unconscious on August 31, 2004, in Richmond Hill, Georgia,12 and is believed to be about 64 years old.3 He had been unable to obtain employment without a Social Security number.4 He is the only American citizen officially listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known.5
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Locked-in syndrome LIS is a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. Total locked-in syndrome is a version of locked-in syndrome wherein the eyes are paralyzed as well.1 Fred Plum and Jerome Posner coined the term for this disorder in 1966.
19.
List of Reported UFO Sightings
20.
A shadow person also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, particularly as interpreted by believers in the supernatural as the presence of a malevolent entity.1
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Clinton Road New Jersey
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Coffin birth, known in academia by the more accurate term postmortem fetal extrusion,12 is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a deceased pregnant woman as a result of the increasing pressure of intraabdominal gases. This kind of postmortem delivery occurs very rarely during the decomposition of a body. The practice of chemical preservation, whereby chemical preservatives and disinfectant solutions are pumped into a body to replace natural body fluids and the bacteria that reside therein, have made the occurrence of "coffin birth" so rare that the topic is rarely mentioned in international medical discourse.