We asked the BuzzFeed Community for the scariest Wikipedia pages they’ve ever read. Here are the nightmare-inducing results.
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"She recorded the torture of children with her husband. Thank god she ignored her lawyer’s advice, because she had the opportunity to plead down to being an accessory. She would only have served 8 years."
"She was responsible for the Moors Murders alongside Ian Brady. She was truly an evil sick monster who had no remorse for her actions."
"I first read her Wiki over a decade ago and still think about it to this day."
"She was an elderly woman who took in boarders and then drugged and dismembered them."
"She claimed to be a psychic and predicted deaths of neighborhood dogs with shocking accuracy (yikes). She poisoned and killed three husbands and three neighborhood children. She 'psychically predicted' each of their deaths."
"Every time she talked about murdering her husbands she would giggle earning her the nickname 'The Giggling Nanny'."
"She was also known as 'The Reading Baby Farmer'. There is no way of knowing how many innocent babies she strangled and dumped in a river."
"Karla participated in the rape and murder of several girls, including her little sister."
"She opened a sanitarium to lure in victims with the promise of curing their ailments and then starved them to death!"
"The story creeped me out when I first heard it, and it still leaves me unsettling."
"Fred and Rosemary West were sexual sadists who killed a confirmed 12 women including one of their daughters and then threatened the other kids with the same fate."
"She was an English nurse who murdered a number of toddlers for attention."
"Other female serial killers tend to target the vulnerable type (children, the elderly or the sick) or people they know well. This wasn't the case for Dennehy as she purposely set out to kill men, apparently for a laugh."
"She poisoned her husbands by slipping arsenic into her famed peanut butter milkshakes. She got the dosage wrong on her last attempted murder, and he wound up not dead but in the hospital, where they found he had arsenic in his bloodstream. She’s awaiting execution on death row in North Carolina."
"She and her husband Alvin kidnapped, raped, tortured then killed two women. They injected Drano and Liquid Plumber into them."