9 Dark Wikipedia Pages to Creep You Out

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  @CommonInternetLurker · 5 years ago

  We studied Genie's case extensively at uni when I was studying to be a teacher. Her real name is Susan Wiley, and while she was in foster care, the progress she made with the linguists unfortunately backslid, mainly because her numerous foster parents didn't even try to help her with her communication. She was also briefly returned to her mother (which is shocking in and of itself) and basically returned to her pre-rescue state. It just breaks my heart that she improved so much and because of money, all that hard work was for nothing. It should be noted as well that Genie's linguistics tutor, Prof. Susan Curtiss, wanted to become Genie's legal guardian when the funding was revoked, because they'd formed a mother/daughter bond during their sessions and they both really cared for each other, but the request was denied.

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• JA

  @jackgill7014 · 5 years ago

  “Unlike that girl, he grew up and graduated” lmao bruh

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• GA

  @gabrieljordan8015 · 5 years ago

  I remember a couple years ago I truly believed I was developing "fatal insomnia" because I was trying to kick my addiction to opiates. It's a level of physical and psychological pain that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I'm glad I'm clean now and been getting a normal night's sleep since then.

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• FI

  @fireaza · 5 years ago

  " Joseph Stalin and His Antics" sounds like the name of an old-timey surf rock band.

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• IM

  @imjustthere8624 · 5 years ago

  I love how often the pace on Wikipedia articles will shift suddenly. Like the 3rd paragraph could be "Career in fashion" and the 4th could be "Rape allegations and arrest" and the transition is so seamless.

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• ST

  @StitchesAndLollipops · 5 years ago

  the L’Inconnue de la Seine has kind of a beautiful twist to it since her face has been used for cpr training dummies, even though she drowned she indirectly has helped probably millions of people learn how to help save others from that

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• ST

  @stephvloss3625 · 5 years ago

  "Winnie the Pooh would have a field day with this one" Jesus christ lazy

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• IT

  @itsgrace717 · 5 years ago (edited)

  The fatal insomnia one is particularly scary to me because a good friend of mine had a bout of severe insomnia a year or so ago. He couldn't sleep for several days and eventually had to go to the hospital to be induced to sleep. He's okay now thankfully, and it seems to have been caused by stress from work rather than a genetic condition. It was so scary when it happened, I can't even imagine how he must have felt.

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• CO

  @cognitohazard3 · 5 years ago

  “do you want to be buried or cremated?”<br>“i want to be ✨mellified✨”

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• CA

  @CakeoftheMews · 5 years ago

  All I cared about was the fact that Genie seems to be doing alright. That poor woman... I hope she lives a full and happy life.

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• KI

  @kieranwalker6072 · 5 years ago (edited)

  &quot;He said he never dug up anyone that expressly told him that they didn&apos;t want to come back&quot;. You know I actually believe that... 😂

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• AM

  @Amoreyna · 5 years ago

  The part about Genie&apos;s story that will forever piss me off even more than the extreme abuse of her childhood (and that&apos;s up there with rage-inducing, to begin with) is that she was used as a science experiment to prove very rigid ideas about language. <br><br>Due to her upbringing, she lacked any real exposure to language during the normal years most children learn to speak. She was seen as the &apos;forbidden experiment&apos; - something that they couldn&apos;t in good conscience due to a child (i.e. raise them in a silent environment with no language exposure) - and would allow them to show that there was supposedly a limited window in a child&apos;s life to learn language, lest it would be lost forever. They viewed this as the beginning of puberty as the shutting of this window, even though the human brain continues to develop for around another decade.<br><br>The most aggravating factor was that they ignored the complications and consequences of her extended abuse. She was starved and suffered continuous physical/emotional trauma to the extent that her entire development was stunted and part of her brain was shrunk. She was in no means &apos;the forbidden experiment&apos; that had been so desperately sought after. Instead, she was a frightened, wounded child who still found joy in life (she loved classical music and it&apos;s theorized she could hear neighborhood kids practicing during her confinement in the afternoons, for example). The linguists pointed to her inability to correctly use grammar while ignoring her ability to communicate through other means the ideas, emotions, needs, and wants people use language for and held her up for years as the masterwork of their hypothesis. And after they were done, they left her to rot, along with the state that did the unspeakable and gave her back to her mother who continued to not treat her well and caused her to backslide more. <br><br>I sincerely hope the people involved are haunted by their poor decisions for the rest of their lives and that she has at least some peace at this time.

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