Wikipedia was launched in 2001 and has been growing at different rates ever since. As of October 2025, its English version has over 7,080,000 articles. However, not all of them are safe for work.
Last week, Reddit user Herequeerandgreat asked people to share the most disturbing entries they’ve stumbled upon in the online encyclopedia. Whether it’s due to the Halloween season or some internal human morbid curiosity, the discussion has caught on.
We went through thousands of comments and hand-picked the controversial ones, on the off-chance you’re looking for a topic for your next rabbit-hole deep dive. Proceed at your own risk.
“War Crimes” in general. Then “Japanese War Crimes”.
I like to think that I have a pretty strong stomach. I have a morbid curiosity. I enjoy horror and true crime..and I’ve seen more gore/shock images than I ever should have, but the descriptions and photos of what happened there made me physically ill when I first encountered them.
The fact that Japan as a whole has never really had to recognize or reckon with what happened there and in other places makes me really upset. Yes, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific war crimes in themselves…but they don’t erase Japan’s guilt. You can be both a victim AND a perpetrator.
Sandy Hook Elementary.
Reflxing:
Still can’t believe that happened and how it caused absolutely no change. 6 year olds are so little.
“Unit 731.” I thought I’d seen dark stuff before, but that one genuinely made me close my laptop and go for a walk.
But as Wikipedia’s database is growing, so is people’s skepticism toward online resources. Earlier this year, a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults found that only 41% of them believe the content they consume online is accurate, fact-based, and created by a real human.
Another 78% agree that the internet has “never been worse” when it comes to differentiating between what’s real and what’s artificial.
Social media posts (48%), news articles (34%), and chatbots (32%) are the top three most suspected sources when it comes to AI-generated or misleading content.
I can’t stand The Nutty Putty Cave and the story. Horrible and devestating tale. Just reading the story makes me claustrophobic.
Josef Friztl is up there.
ManMan36:
I remembered hearing that name somewhere and decided to look it up. I wish I didn’t. Good god he might be one of the most evil people alive.
Stingray-556:
How the hell didn’t the wife find out what was going on in the basement in 24 years, not a week but 24 whole years.
War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
The fact that this kind of barbarism exists in modern societies while russians openly threaten to cross european borders after Ukraine falls.