this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
35 points (90.7% liked)

Creepy Wikipedia

3945 readers
9 users here now

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

image

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

image

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
decadentrebel
[email protected]
35
Michael Larson - "Press Your Luck" contestant who won over $100,000 because he was able to notice the flashing lights pattern (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by decadentrebel to c/creepywikipedia
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] son_named_bort 9 points 1 year ago

The creepy thing was that he was only 35 or so when he was on the show. He looked so much older. It probably didn't help that his stated occupation was retired ice cream truck driver.