Creepy Wikipedia

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Lake Nyos disaster - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 years ago by WillardHerman to c/creepywikipedia

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[–] tipicaldik 8 points 2 years ago

daaaaaaamn... it's like Mother Nature shook up a big deadly soda-pop 😲

[–] decadentrebel 3 points 2 years ago

The image of the suffocated cattle used to be the default thumbnail for this article and always gave me the chills when I first read this many years ago.

[–] Jordan117 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder if this inspired the very creepy opening to the Jim Crace novel "The Pesthouse."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Insane! Whole village went to sleep to never wake up...