40 Chilling Wikipedia Rabbit Holes That Are Fascinating, Disturbing, And Impossible To Stop Reading (New Pics)

"Rainfall was so heavy that reports were received of birds drowning in trees and of survivors having to cup hands around their mouth and nose in order to breathe through the deluge... It was 'the probable maximum rainfall which meteorologists compute to be theoretically possible.'".

Disappearance of Susan Powell: "Computer images seized turned up 4,500 images of Susan taken without her knowledge, including close-ups of specific body parts."

Mary Agnes Moroney was kidnapped as a toddler. In 2023, it was found that Mary died in 2003 at age 75 under the name Jeanette Burchard. Her kidnapper was never found.

“You'd better not be taking me anywhere I don’t want to go." This was part of the recording Amber Tuccaro took on her phone while talking to an unknown man she accepted a ride from in 2010. 2 years later her skeletal remains were found in a field several miles from where she’d hitchhiked.

Lawrence Joseph Bader was a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio who disappeared on a fishing trip on March 15, 1957. Eight years later he was found alive in Omaha, Nebraska working as a local TV personality named "Fritz" Johnson.

Cannibalism in Africa -The victims were often playing children or lonely travellers. In earlier times, when slavery was still an accepted institution, young children purchased from other regions were sometimes deliberately fattened, "kept in pens" much like animals, before being "k****d and baked".

The Donner Party were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. They spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive.

In 2012, a worker at Bumble Bee Foods, a mass producer of canned tuna and other foods, was k****d when he was accidentally locked in an industrial oven.

Missy Bevers was a fitness instructor who was k****d while setting up for a class inside a church. The case became famous for cctv footage showing a person wearing a swat team uniform walking through the church before Missy arrived.

TIL that in 1996, the captain and flight engineer of a colombian cargo flight decided to prank their novice first officer by giving him control of the plane and shutting off two engines. The plane stalled immediately after takeoff and crashed into a neigbourhood, k*****g 22 people.

Yobai (“night crawling’) was an ancient Japanese mating custom, wherein men were allowed to sneak into the rooms of young unmarried women at night.

The Green Children of Woolpit: "After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from a land where the sun never shone, and the light was like twilight."

Samuel More was an English man who, in 1616, accused his wife of adultery. Doubtful of the paternity of their 4 young children, he conspired to get rid of them behind her back. He would eventually succeed, with only 1 of the children surviving their journey as indentured servants on The Mayflower.

Hyatt Regency walkway collapse- 114 people were k****d and 216 injured when two walkways made of glass and concrete (weighing about 64,000 lbs.) collapsed onto a tea dance that was being held in the atrium of the hotel. There had been about 1,600 people in attendance.

Christopher Dorner was a LAPD officer who went rogue after allegedly being fired from his job for reporting excessive force. He retaliated against the police and their families, along with civilian casualties by the LAPD.

On January 16, 1942, 33-year-old actress Carole Lombard won a coin toss that determined she and her group would return home from a war bond tour by plane instead of by train. Their flight wound up crashing into a mountain outside Las Vegas, k*****g all 22 onboard, including 15 U.S. Army soldiers.

Spring Heeled Jack was a figure of myth and legend during the Victorian period in England. It was claimed he could easily jump over walls and had a very devil- like appearance.

Cleveland balloonfest '86, with 1.4 million balloons and 2 deaths.

In 2015 two trains on the Smiler roller coaster collided going 20 miles an hour. Multiple people were severely injured and a few required leg amputations. Prior to this the ride had experienced many setbacks and other incidents.

A man was recording a copy of Shine On You Crazy Diamond when an earthquake hit. The recording starts to bump as the shockwave arrives then the audio switches to the rumble of the earthquake along with the voices of the scared people inside the house.