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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths ranges from creepy to absurd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_murders good rabbit hole

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes

Reddit had a sub called creepywikipedia for this kind of thing. It shut down for the protest and stayed shut down. Might be worth recreating by someone more inclined than myself, who is very lazy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_Erres_massacre

The details are horrific.

All supported by the USA too.

EDIT: The US + Israel provided the weapons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efra%C3%ADn_R%C3%ADos_Montt#Support_from_US_and_Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes

I‘m from the EU, but it unsettles me to know about how willing the US government and other interest groups there are to do violence to the workers to keep them in line. Whenever anyone from here brings up "why don‘t they strike for healthcare" etc, I think of this. We got a government and companies which are less willing to straight up shoot us to force the rest back to work. That helped I imagine.

Government mind control programs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

Torture and murder of Junki Furuta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay

It’s about a hypothetical event in quantum field theory that potentially can erase the entire universe as we know it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Maybe not unsettling, and not a particular article but an interesting, possibly existential crisis thing is if you click the first link in any wiki artical that is:

• not in itallics

• Not in parenthesis

• And is in the article itself.

And you keep doing that as it takes you through articles it will almost always end up at the philosophy article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injured another dive tender.

excerpt:
Investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the crescent-shaped opening measuring 60 centimetres (24 in) long created by the jammed interior trunk door.

If you're even remotely claustrofobic you should probably stay out of this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave

Effects of climate change

Human experimentation with Syphilis without their knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study?wprov=sfti1

Stomach turning and NSFL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray

Ok, I might need a minute to scroll through my bookmarks

Edit, ok, here we go (this is just from my bookmarks and what feels most "unsettling" to me. I could sit here and link for hours to more things I have "saved" in my head, but I'll leave it at this for now):

• List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910
  List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
  List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
  Bonus addition in edit: List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea

• Feral child

• I have quite a few pages on serial killers, but this is probably more efficient than listing individuals: List of serial killers by number of victims

• A handful of individual cases though:
  Murder of Junko Furuta
  Murder of Sylvia Likens
  Murder of James Bulger
  Murder of Shanda Sharer
  Hart family murders

• On the larger scale:
  List of genocides
  List of massacres
  Blackbirding
  Zong massacre
  Home Children
  starlight tours

• On the existential front:
  List of impact craters on Earth
  Observable universe and Cosmological horizon which make you realise that the endless and abundant expanse of space we see is only a tiny little portion of the actual universe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

Evening, Nexpo!

The entry for the Daytlov Pass Incident comes to mind.

Every medical article on some kind of obscure disorder. You can feel the hypochondria, like "... I have those symptoms sometimes...."

I think it's a prime example of the human drive to be afraid of things, even.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

I know this isn't the most disturbing Wiki article out there, but this is the creepiest one I know of that I can stomach. Also, it's an interesting case, despite its morbid and eerie nature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Shadow_Etched_in_Stone
Human Shadow Etched in Stone (人影の石, hitokage no ishi)[2] is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the residue of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. It is also known as Human Shadow of Death[1] or simply the Blast Shadow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

CreepyWikipedia specialized in collating unsettling Wiki entries, but they are one of the few indefinite participants in the blackout.

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