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Weird Wikipedia Pages

Here's my list of unusual wikipedia pages, complete with some blurbs. Most of these links were discovered by myself, with the rest being contributed by Lutzbug, a fellow connoisseur of bizarre happenings. I first came across this idea on a website called Korsse, which has a weird wikipedia section of its very own. I was just so fascinated by it that I just couldn't help but make one for this site.


Disclaimer

A good handful of these pages are disturbing and/or nauseating in nature. Eating while you look at these links is not only unwise, but liable to make you explode. You have been warned. Jokes aside, I've got some extra things to tell you, just before you go scrolling down:

  • Pages with photos of disease or medical gore are marked with this "⚕" symbol; the Rod of Asclepius.
  • Pages with photos of human or animal corpses are marked with this "🕱" symbol.
  • Pages with sexual or pornographic content are marked with this "⚤" symbol.

A

Name Corny Blurb
Absurdism What if life was perhaps, just a little bit, silly?
Affair of the Sausages The discourse that started a religious reformation.
Allerton Oak The oldest oak in Northwest England.
Alitta virens Looks like a centipede, actually a worm.
Alpenglow That reddish glow the sun casts onto peaks and horizons.
A Modest Proposal Poor? Sell your children as delicacies for the english nobility.
🕱 Amorphous globosus Fuck it, we ball.
Amorphophallus titanum Stupendous but stinky.
Angel of Grief That one tombstone.
Anglo-Zanzibar War The shortest war in recorded history.
Animal pound Where everyone who hotlinks from this website will go.
Anomalocaris "Abnormal shrimp" indeed.
Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Why hardback books are objectively better.
Anting (behavior) No, it's not anteater-fishing.
Apophenia When your brain makes nonsensical connections.
Argonaut The octopus with a shell.
Arniston (East Indiaman) A shining example of naval incompetence.
Artist's Shit Exactly what it says on the tin.
Asterism That star-shaped gleam on precious gemstones.
Attitude (Heraldry) The pose a heraldric figure is drawn in.
Aventurescence The glittery look in artificial gemstones.
Azoth The stuff. No, not the film. The stuff.


B

Name Corny Blurb
Bal des Ardents What's cooking? These guys.
Balneotherapy The pseudoscientific belief that a nice bath can cure your ails.
Bambi Effect When not all animals are loved equally.
Banquet of Chestnuts An interesting dinner-party.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center The supercomputer inside a chapel.
Barnacle goose myth Money doesn't grow on trees, but geese do.
Barnum Effect Why people can fall for silly pseudoscience stuff.
Baskerville Effect When heart-attacks allegedly happen more often on unlucky days.
Battle of the Eclipse The ancient battle ended by an eclipse.
Beast of Gévaudan A beast, none the least.
Behenian Fixed Star Some funky medieval astrology.
Beringer's Lying Stones Fake fossils made to ruin a guy's career.
Big History "What kind of history do you like?" "Yes".
Biogenous Ooze The leftovers of the ocean.
Bioindicator Living litmus paper.
Biscione One of the coolest heraldric motifs I know.
Black Assize of Exeter 1586 Where everyone who hotlinks from this website will go.
Black swallower The handbag of the sea.
Blanet Black holes have friends.
Blood as food Vampires love this page.
Blood Falls One of the most metal phenomenons of all time. Literally.
Blok Globule Teeny globs of nebula.
Blue hour Those times in the day when everything goes blue.
Bongcloud Attack Not what you think it is.
Bonnacon Dare to brave its bowel movements?
Book curse Best used on comically embarrassing personal diaries.
Boötes Void Gendervoid people, come get your gender goals.
British Rail sandwich The British version of those airplane food jokes.
⚤ Breast-shaped hill Where I post from.
Busby's_stoop_chair A haunted chair said to curse anyone who sits on it…to death.
Buttered cat paradox A slippery one.
Byne's Disease The bane of natural history archivists everywhere.


C

Name Corny Blurb
Cabinet of curiosities Museums before museums.
Cairn A meaningful pile of stones.
⚤ Catullus 16 A lavicious latin poem.
Capitoline Wolf The most famous statue of Rome's fuzzy momma.
Carcinisation Fuck it, crab.
Carrington Event If this thing happens today you won't be able to read this page!
Carnyx TEEEET!
Carnography A fancy term for very gruesome films.
Casu Martzu A perfectly normal cheese.
Cat fugue A fugue allegedly composed by a cat.
Caves of the Mendip Hills Some interesting english caves.
Cello scrotum Bepenised ones, rest easy, this malady's not real.
⚤ Cerne Abbas Giant A very…endowed hill figure.
Chained Oak You can’t escape now, you devil.
Chess annotation symbols Use these for your own nefarious schemes.
Chess on a really big board Because normal chess is so last century...
Chlorine Trifluoride Local chemical too angry to die.
Chromotherapy The pseudoscientific belief that some pretty colours can cure your ails.
Chrysolina cerealis One of the most beautiful beetles.
Clachan Bridge Wanna cross the Atlantic Ocean in a matter of minutes? Now you can.
Cobra Effect When policies have comically-unintended results.
Cock ale It's made of chicken, you perverts!
⚤ Cockle Bread Bread done by bums.
Coffin birth Death does funny things to the pregnant.
Coffin Stone Here lies this...ummm...
Colleoni This heraldry has balls.
Conger cuddling Eel-slapping, the event.
Cooksonia The first vascular plant.
Corpse road Roads for transporting the dead.
Cosmic Calendar Normal calendars are so last 100 million years ago.
Cosmic latte The colour of the universe couldn’t be any more disappointing.
Craniopagus parasiticus Worst hat ever.
Crappit Heid Scotland's fetish for stuffed flesh rears its head again.
Creeper and Reaper The first computer worm and its destroyer.
Crisp Sandwich One of the few british meals that isn't a complete culinary atrocity.
Crooked Forest "Okay, one more drink and we can all go ho-".
Cross Bones A medieval-era graveyard for the outcasts of society.
Cryptophasia The secret languages that twins make up.
Cursus Some funky neolithic trenches.
Custom of the sea When seamen have to eat seamen.


D

Name Corny Blurb
Dancing mania The medieval era was so disease-ridden that dancing itself joined the roster.
Dark Nebula This nebula is as thick as pea soup!
Death and the Maiden (motif) The motif of a young woman being pinched by a skeleton.
Death and the Mother Yoink, my baby now.
⚤ Death during consensual sex What if you wanted to come, but it was actually time to go?
Deep Blue (Chess computer) The chess-playing computer.
Defenestrations of Prague When people get thrown out, literally.
Devil's Footprints The Devil supposedly landed in Devon.
Digesting Duck The automaton that dines.
Dimples of Venus Those squishy bumps above your bum.
⚕ Diprosopus Let's face the facts, these guys have two.
Dispersion Mmmm…colours.
Divination Bones Bones to tell the future with.
Dolmen Megaliths for the dearly missed.
Doughnut Sandwich When normal sandwiches just don't cut it.
Dowsing The pseudoscientific belief that you can find stuff in the ground with funky sticks.
Dracaena cinnabari The tree that bleeds.
Dule tree British hanging trees.


E

Name Corny Blurb
Earth-grazing fireball When the earth has a close shave.
Eaves-drip burial Better than burying a dog alive?...
Edward Legge When promotion is posthumous.
Elephant of Henry III The first elephant in England since 43 AD.
Ellen Blight The “Lion Queen” is dethroned in a most hairy way.
Engastration Makes my arteries clog just looking at it.
Epomis The beetles that eat frogs.
Erdstall Unknown tunnels with an unknown purpose.
Erfurt latrine disaster German nobles ate shit and died.
Eternal flame Fires that don't stop burning.
Eucalyptus deglupta These trees are far out, man.
🕱 Experiments in the Revival of Organisms Soviet scientists try to do a little necromancy.
Extremes on Earth Sunglasses, skateboard and cap not required.
Eyes (Cheese) Those holes in cheeses.


F

Name Corny Blurb
Failed Supernova When stars go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
⚤ Fascinus Cock worship, literally.
Fatal insomnia The diabolical offspring of prions and sleep deprivation.
Feather Tights Clothes for the celestials.
Feedback Corporate-approved cannibalism.
Flemish Giant rabbit The bunny that's not bun-sized.
Flies' Graveyard British self-deprecation strikes again.
Folly Buildings designed for show, and not much else.
Footsies That thing couples do with their legs.
Foxfire One of nature's many bioluminescent mushrooms.
Frog battery Real life frankenstein-antics.
Frankin's lost expedition There's snow trip like this one.
Franz Schmidt German executioner decides to take up writing.
Fucking_Grove,_Bristol One of the many unfortunate names a place can have.


G

Name Corny Blurb
Gamma-ray burst Outer space's answer to the atomic bomb.
Garden Hermit A friend to go with your flowers.
Gastrolith Free pebble!
Gef A supposedly talking mongoose.
Gegenschein That little bright spot in the night sky.
Gelert Too good of a boy for this cruel world.
Gemonian Stairs Anyone know how to translate "Yeet" to latin?
Geomancy Telling the future with the soil.
Giraffe weevil Traded the typical weevil snoot for a comically long neck.
Glass frog Don't drop it!
Glyphoglossus molossus The inflatable frog.
Geomancy Telling the future with the soil.
Gongoozler A person that likes to stare at canals.
Götz von Berlichingen One of the most metal guys I know. Literally.
Gowk Stane Scottish standing stones.
Graveyard poets Gothic revival before gothic revival?
Greeble (psychology) People can recognise faces, and these things.
Great Famine of 1315 The first domino of the medieval decline conga-line.
Great Red Spot What that big spot on Jupiter actually is.
Greek Fire Napalm before napalm.
Greenland shark Has the longest known lifespan of all the animal kingdom.
Guerrilla gardening When rebellion takes seed...literally.
Gynandromorphism Intersex beasties.


H

Name Corny Blurb
Hagfish Get slimed, loser.
Hairy frog That's not even the weirdest part about this guy.
Hallucigenia Spines or spindly legs? You decide...cause science is stumped.
Hannah Twynnoy Another big cat mishap, starring one silly barmaid.
Hand of Glory You've got to hand it to them.
Happy99 Happy new year!
Hedgehog Flavour Crisps Cadbury Dream this, white Maltesers that...I'm not having it!!!
Hericium erinaceus A very pettable mushroom.
Hellmouth The entrance of hell…with style.
He never married “This man was a raging homosexual”.
Herepath Old English military roads.
Hidden face May be watching you take a tinkle.
Highgate Vampire Vampire hysteria: 1970’s England edition.
History of lions in Europe This page isn’t lion.
Hobby tunneling Dungeon Keeper in real life.
Hollow-Face Illusion When our brains mistake the insides of masks for their outsides.
Horse Burial If human burials don't tickle your funny bone...
Horseshoe crab Not a horse, not a shoe, and get this...not even a crab!
Hot Chocolate Effect When hot drinks make funny noises.
Human Placentophagy Is it or is it not cannibalism? You decide.
Hundatorra A bronze-age era village.
Husum Red Pied Protest pig.
Hydnellum_peckii The fungus that bleeds.
Hydra Effect When some things just can't die.
Hydromancy Telling the future with water.
Hydrus (legendary creature) It's incredible to be inedible.
Hypernova Dramatic exits, the natural phenomena.


I

Name Corny Blurb
Impact events on Jupiter Who says that earth gets to have all the fun?
Irreversible binomial Why we say things the way we do.
Island gigantism When island-living has some big effects...


J

Name Corny Blurb
Jeremy (Snail) A special snail.
John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland A special english nobleman.


K

Name Corny Blurb
Kaspar Hauser Tragic youth or teller of tall tales? You decide!
Kasparov versus the World One chess champion vs 50,000 people.
Kindlifresserbrunnen That one Swiss fountain sculpture of a man eating live babies.
Kiwa (crustacean) Hairy frogs, hairy crabs, this is madness! Madness!


L

Name Corny Blurb
Last meal "I'll have a..."
Latin obscenity The Greco-Roman grocery list of vulgarities.
🕱 Lazarus sign That spooky jolt that corpses like to do.
Lazarus taxon Not dead, just hiding.
Leo Belgicus Map of western europe, but make it a lion.
Leucochloridium paradoxum The flatworm that makes snails kill themselves.
Ley Line A proposed (and pseudohistorical) explanation for the alignment of particular landmarks.
⚤ LGBT Slang From argot to all over the world.
Link rot Is it on your website?
List of ancient oceans Where the seas used to be.
List of animals displaying homosexual behavior In nature, nothing's unnatural.
List of botched executions Even more horrifying than normal executions.
List of cakes I know, not very weird...But those culinary pages are rabbit holes!
List of common false etymologies of English words All the times you've fooled yourself.
List of common misconceptions All the silly things that people believe.
List of English-language expressions related to death I think we have a bit of an obsession.
List of examples of convergent evolution All the times nature said "Let's do that again!".
List of extant pinfolds in Cheshire A comically specific page that I had to feature.
List of fallacies For your next flamewar or an upcoming dinner-table fiasco.
List of hors d'oeuvre All the starters before your main meal.
List of human disease case fatality rates Now you can finally know how boned you are.
List of largest known nebulae Even crazier spacedust!
List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom All the places you cannot have beans on toast.
List of non-water floods Who says floods have to be natural disasters?
List of paleocontinents Feel like shit, just want them back.
List of people who have been pied Yes, this is a real list on Wikipedia.
List of unusual deaths The deaths of all time.
List of reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom Now serving Beans-on-Ghost.
List of Sandwiches The sandwich showcase, some sensible...some silly.
⚤ List of sexually active popes The page that makes catholics cry.
List of shortest-reigning monarchs The elusive speed-run category that you never knew about.
List of vampiric creatures in folklore It's the mash! It's the Monster Mash!
List of works based on dreams When dreams do come true.
🕱 Lithopedion When fetuses decide to turn into stone.
Lithops The plants that look like stones.
Lloyds Bank coprolite The biggest load of shit I've ever seen.
London tornado of 1091 Plagues, famines…tornado. Oh, Medieval London…
Long Barrow Some funky neolithic tubes.
Lord Uxbridge's leg A famous dismembered leg.
Love Dart Sorry Cupid, nature did it first.
Lunar Effect A belief that the moon can make people do stuff.
Lychgate Those gateway arches for churchyards.


M

Name Corny Blurb
Magnetar A very spicy meatball.
Maggot farming No creature is safe from our clutches.
⚕ Maggot therapy Gross but good for you.
Major Oak A major oak.
Man-eater These guys want man-meat.
Macropinna The genus of transparent-headed fish.
Macquarium Mac Aquatics.
Mantis shrimp The shrimp with the piston punch.
Mary Toft Supposedly gave birth to a rabbit.
Marzipan Pig Pig without the pork in it.
Maxwell's Demon Don't mind me, I'm just trying to disprove the second law of thermodynamics.
Medici lions Two famous roman-era lion statues.
Medieval hunting Hunting, medieval style.
Medieval Warm Period That warm time in the medieval era.
Metaspriggina The first fish.
Micropsia A condition that makes things look tiny.
Milbenkäse The slightly less wriggly version of Casu Martzu.
Milesian tale Horny Greco-Roman tales lost to time.
Moonbow Rainbows made by moonlight instead of sunlight.
Moon dog The moon has friends.
Moon illusion The moon’s tendency to fool us.
Mortality salience The awareness of one’s inevitable death.
Moss Lawn The best lawns.
Murder stone Stones that mark where murders happened.
Mutillidae The family of fuzzy wasps.
Mutiny on the Bounty A Royal Navy fiasco that spiralled so out of control that a whole new island got settled.
Myrmecoleon The medieval bestiary's very own antlion, which makes pretty pearls instead of eating ants.
Myxozoa The littlest guys.


N

Name Corny Blurb
Nábrók Necronomiknickers.
NightMare (scareware) One of the first pieces of malware specifically designed to scare you.
Nuclear Pasta A funny name for the stuff in the crusts of neutron stars.


O

Name Corny Blurb
Oarfish These guys supposedly started off the whole "sea serpent" thing.
Official Table of Drops A guide for hanging.
Oliver Cromwell's head A famous mummified head.
Onfim This 12th century boy's homework doodles turned him into a posthumous icon.
Opabinia Middle Cambrian animal that murders things with its trunk.
Ortolan bunting A cute bird subjected to the most ungodly form of predation.


P

Name Corny Blurb
Paedophryne amauensis The world's smallest frog.
Paint Drying An experimental 10 hour film designed to torment the BBFC…as they so deserve.
Pareidolia When your brain sees human faces in random things.
Panopticon This evil thing.
Pantheon A heraldric cervine-vulpine beasty.
Panther A mythical big cat with a fancy coat and a tendency for stuffing its face until it conks out.
Paradox of Enrichment One of the ways you can mess up an ecosystem.
Pascal's wager “You should probably believe in God…just in case.”
Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass A device based off the idea that snails have telepathic powers.
Pelican eel Gulp!
⚤ Phallic Architecture Penises for the public.
Phaistos Disc Unknown Bronze-Age disc with an unknown language.
Pheidole The ants with unusually large heads.
Physalaemus nattereri Who needs eyes on the back of your head when you can have them on your bum?
Piss Christ Made artistic pisstory.
Pitchcapping A hot, sticky way to go.
Pizzle A name for an animal's penis.
Philosopher's stone The alchemical Elixir of life itself.
Placozoa The simplest animals on earth.
Platymma Not to be confused with Magcargo.
Ploughman's Lunch Ye olde meal.
Prisoner's cinema Those colours you can see when it's dark.
Prosopometamorphopsia A condition that messes up how your brain sees human faces.
Pseudobiceros hancockanus A flatworm with a a funny name.
Pulsar The cosmic answer to the disco ball.
PSR B1620−26 b One of the oldest known planets.
Pygmalion Effect When emotions define success.


Q

Name Corny Blurb
Quake Not just the ones on earth, either.
Queen Alexandra's birdwing The world's largest butterfly.
Queen Elizabeth Oak A thick tree.
Quintus Fulvius Lippinus The original snail-farmer; we can probably thank him for escargot.


R

Name Corny Blurb
⚕ Rachischisis An incompatible-with-life condition that leaves the spine wide open.
Rafflesia The giant flower that smells like a rotting corpse.
Reality Checkpoint Vibe check.
Richard Dadd One of the most fascinating painters I know.
Ring of Fire And it burns, burns, burns...
Robert Liston The fastest surgeon in the west.
Roland the Farter Nobody’s above a good fart joke. Nobody.
Roopkund A lake full of skeletons.


S

Name Corny Blurb
Sacred Grove Some very special bits of earth.
Saint Guinefort France's very own Gelert.
Šakotis The cake that's a tree.
Scaly-foot gastropod Snails with scales.
Scunthorpe problem God help you if you're from Bitchfield, Penistone, Shitterton, Twatt, or-
Separatio Leprosorum The ceremony thrown for lepers.
Servilia's Pearl The most valuable gem of all time.
⚤ Sheela na gig An especially lascivious grotesque.
Shell Grotto Mysterious subterranean shell chamber with no leads to its origins.
Shitterton One of the many reasons why english place names get teased so much.
Silbury Hill A nice chalk mound.
Simnia Spelta A sea snail that changes colour depending on what it's eating.
Sino-Roman Relations One of the wildest crossovers in the ancient world.
Sol Invictus The syrian sun god that allegedly helped ancient Rome go from pagan to christian.
Spectral bat The largest carnivorous bat.
Speyer wine bottle Potion of Instant Death Disease.
Stargazy Pie Forever gazing up to whatever cruel god let this happen to them.
Star Jelly Maybe we can have a little unexplained gelatinous substance, as a treat.
Swansea Devil A giggly devil statue that got the last laugh.
Sweating sickness The mysterious terror that plagued Tudor England.


T

Name Corny Blurb
⚕ Tache noir de la sclerotique Corneal Clouding's freakier cousin.
Tempest prognosticator The weather forecast, starring several frightened leeches.
⚕ Teratoma A tumour with tu-much.
Testicles as food There's balls in your mouth, and then there's this.
Thatcher Effect When upside-down faces give your brain a hard time.
Thatcher's Techbase Doom 2 mod where you have to send Margaret Thatcher back to hell.
The Broomway Appearances decieve...
The Dead Lovers A double painting of a couple, one side alive, the other side as a lovely pair of festering corpse people.
The Great Bovine Pestilence That time medieval England saw a ton of its cattle drop dead.
The Great Thunderstorm STRIKE!
The Hum That mysterious rumble you sometimes hear.
The King of the Cats His moggy majesty.
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh A ballad about a princess that gets turned into a dragon.
Theloderma corticale Goblins, come get your mascot.
The Many Faces of Jesus The blasphemy to end all blasphemy...if it actually existed.
⚤ The Miracle of 1511 The time Brussels was seized by the urge to make pornographic snowmen.
The Tale of Two Lovers A guy in the 14th century writes an erotic story...that man? The future Pope Pius II.
The Triumph of Death It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more?
Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene All the real ones we've lost.
Timeline of natural history Show this to small children when they ask where babies come from.
Timeline of prehistory From stone age to tome age.
Third man factor When you’re experiencing unholy amounts of trauma and you swear there’s a guy with you.
Thunderegg Boiled to perfection.
Timeline of the far future Existential dread machine or soothing blanket for your brain? You decide!
Thomas Macarte A one-armed lion tamer that died in the ring.
Tiktaalik "This is the guy that tipped over the string of dominos that would lead to us doing taxes" - Lutz.
Tipu's Tiger An om-nom-nom machine.
Tor_(rock_formation) A big rock formation.
Turritopsis dohrnii The immortal jellyfish.
Triprion spatulatus I know there's some shovelheads in this worl but this is getting a bit silly now.
Trout tickling Coochie coochie coo.
Turra Coo Protest cow.


U

Name Corny Blurb
Unchambered Long Barrow Some funky neolithic tubes...minus the stone chambers.


V

Name Corny Blurb
Vanitas A motif about the transience of life and the dominance of death.
Vedius Pollio The evillest Equestrian.
Venous hum The sound blood makes.
Vestal Masturbation T-shirt Goes nicely with a DVD of The Devils.
Volcanic winter of 536 “Was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year.”


W

Name Corny Blurb
Wardian Case The prototype of the terrarium.
Watching-Eye Effect Pictures of eyes do stuff to our brains.
Weaver ant The ants that build giant leaf nests.
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A paper on what it means to be something else.
White Hole The alleged opposite of a Black Hole.
Who put Bella down the Wych Elm? That time a skeleton was found in a tree.
Will O' the wisp English ghost lights.
Wild man Some cultures have this thing for fuzzy guys.
Wolffia arrhiza The world's smallest vascular plant.
Wolf of Ansbach The time a man-eating wolf was dressed up like a person and gibbed.
Wonders of the East Anglo Saxon book on the supposed fauna of the far east.
Worm Charming The unexpected sequel to snake charming.
Worship of heavenly bodies The many ways you can love the stars.


Z

Name Corny Blurb
Zombie (computing) Dawn of the digital dead!
Zombie taxon Not to be confused with the Lazarus taxon.


Numerical

Name Corny Blurb
101 Uses for a Dead Cat Some morbid cartoons about just that.
1985 Austrian diethylene glycol wine scandal One of the many reasons why I don't drink.
3C 321 This galaxy is a hole new beast.
3D Monster Maze The first survival horror game.
52 hertz whale The loneliest whale.


Now what?

Well, that's all for now! If you'd like to contribute any pages, please let me know. I'll only take pages that are off the beaten path, nothing too common knowledge. I will also not take pages about detailed cases of abuse, especially towards animals and children. Thanks for reading, and maybe consider compiling a weird wikipedia page of your very own?