My lemm.ee variant
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Daniel V. Jones - Cancer and HIV-positive patient frustrated over his HMO coverage, ended a live televised stand-off with police by burning his car/dog and shooting himself
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Setagaya family murder - Unsolved murder of Japanese family whose assailant remained in the family's house for several hours to eat ice cream and use the potty before disappearing
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Krystian Bala - Polish intellectual accused of murder in part because of details in his violent novel
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Kai Tak Airport - Major international airport closed in 1998 where planes literally almost crashed constantly due to right-hand turn over the city
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world D.C. sniper attacks - Two snipers terrorized the Washington, D.C. area on Oct 2002, killing 10 people and critically injuring three
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Somerton Man - Unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on Australia's Somerton Park beach
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Freedomites - Group of zealots who broke away from a Russian Christian group and moved to Canada, leading nude protests in the streets in the early 1900s as well as committing bombings in the nude
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Cymothoa exigua - Parasite that severs the blood vessels in the fish's tongue causing it to fall off then attaches itself to the remaining stub and becomes the new tongue
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Amorphophallus titanum - Flowering plant known for its rotting corpse odor
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world The Vulture and the Little Girl - Photograph of a famine-stricken boy who had collapsed in the foreground with a hooded vulture eyeing him from nearby
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Dead (musician) - Former singer of black metal band Mayhem known (among other things) for his suicide photo being used as an album cover
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Brazen bull - Life-sized bull-shaped statue that was hollow so victims could be locked inside its stomach and roasted alive
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Chantal Lavigne - Died in July 2011 from hyperthermia and multiple organ dysfunction following an esoteric sweating ritual
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Garry Hoy - Threw himself against the glass to prove to students that the windows on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Peshtigo fire - Large forest fire on October 8, 1871 that occurred on the same day as (and killed more than) the Great Chicago Fire
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Manchineel - The world's "most dangerous tree", so toxic that standing under it during rain will cause your skin to burn and blister
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world The Lesser Key of Solomon - anonymous grimoire on demonology compiled during the 17th century
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Pseudacteon - genus of flies known to migrate into the ant head during parasitic larval stage and after 2 weeks the fly emerges through the ant's mouth
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Schwedentrunk - method of torture and execution in which the victim is forced to swallow large amounts of foul liquid such as excrement
Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world Codex Gigas - the world’s largest preserved medieval manuscript containing a large, full-page portrait of the Devil
There's a good movie about them called Lords of Chaos. Dead has a small but central role in it that's well-portrayed by Val Kilmer's son.