Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[easytiger123]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island

[shakotan]

gregd said:

shakotan said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvan...
"Centralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005, 9 in 2007, and 7 in 2010 as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962."

Woooahh... it's Silent Hill!

Silent Hill [the location] was based on Centralia.

I visited there earlier this year, it really is that creepy. I was the only person there, apart from traffic driving through.

[Horrocks]

shakotan said:

gregd said:

shakotan said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvan...
"Centralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005, 9 in 2007, and 7 in 2010 as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962."

Woooahh... it's Silent Hill!

Silent Hill [the location] was based on Centralia.

I visited there earlier this year, it really is that creepy. I was the only person there, apart from traffic driving through.

You didn't see any dead miners did you? The movie is terrible but the scenery is brilliant (from my memory).

[BruceV8]

Mr Dave said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Provisi...

Timeline of PIRA actions, shocking how long that list is and it doesnt cover everything.

Thats not even a fraction of it. As part of my MPhil research I'm going through the bomb disposal logs and reports of the early 1970s. There are literally thousands of incidents - and that doesn't include the shootings. When you see just how much went on, its actually a wonder that so few were killed.

[Annuv]

Parrot of Doom said:

If you liked that, you may enjoy this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Written largely by a collaborator of mine on Wiki. Its very, very good.

I read Pistonheads daily, but post rarely. I just wanted to say that this is a great thread, and thanks for the above link - I had never heard of this incident, a truly horrific tale!

[Frankeh]

W333 said:

SC7 said:

W333 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

One of my favourites too

Worst part: "Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue."

Avalanche, surely?
The fact that 2 were undressed seems to point to hypothermia as the last thing you do before you die of hypothermia is strip.
The broken bones and such could have happened while they were transported by the snow.
Broken tent, again the avalanche.
Missing tongue was probably a rat or something.

[petrolsniffer]

Sonic said:

Reminds me of this:

I regulary become a victim of what I call the wikipedia blackhole..

[Jonny671]

petrolsniffer said:

Sonic said:

Reminds me of this:

I regulary become a victim of what I call the wikipedia blackhole..

Yep! I do this for hours on end

[Sonic]

Frankeh said:

W333 said:

SC7 said:

W333 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

One of my favourites too

Worst part: "Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue."

Avalanche, surely?
The fact that 2 were undressed seems to point to hypothermia as the last thing you do before you die of hypothermia is strip.
The broken bones and such could have happened while they were transported by the snow.
Broken tent, again the avalanche.
Missing tongue was probably a rat or something.

If an avalanche would have hit the camp i'd have thought it would have been obvious to the investigators. They said the tent was ripped open from the inside, there were no sign of external wounds, and that they left the camp of their own accord.

[Horrocks]

Annuv said:

Parrot of Doom said:

If you liked that, you may enjoy this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Written largely by a collaborator of mine on Wiki. Its very, very good.

I read Pistonheads daily, but post rarely. I just wanted to say that this is a great thread, and thanks for the above link - I had never heard of this incident, a truly horrific tale!

Im glad you like it! So far, theres been some brilliant contributions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

"The existing fossil evidence indicates that megalodon likely exceeded 18 metres (59 ft) in total length. In 1994, a marine biologist Patrick J. Schembri claimed that the megalodon may have approached a maximum length of 25 metres (82 ft)."

The scale of that shark must have been immense, whenever I watch shark documentaries at home and they come across huge great whites, I cannot imagine what these guys must have been like

[dreamz]

best thread ever.

[911motorsport]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island



According to the nineteenth-century account, the drill or "pod auger" passed through a spruce platform at 98 feet (30 m), a 12-inch head space, 22 inches (560 mm) of what was described as "metal in pieces", 8 inches (200 mm) of oak, another 22 inches (560 mm) of metal, 4 inches (100 mm) of oak, and another spruce layer............

[Fume troll]

Wiki has it's own list of unusual articles, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_art...

Cheers,

FT.

[Snoop Bagg]

Iraq war 2007:

"June 3 - British forces accused of releasing large numbers of man eating badgers in the vicinity of Basra"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_in_Iraq

[911motorsport]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts

Ancient paintings from Val Camonica, Italy are believed to depict forgotten deities; ancient astronaut proponents claim these pictures resemble modern day astronauts despite being painted ca. 10,000 BC.

[Menguin]

SC7 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniac...


The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety because the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet.


And yes the video is quite easy to find, and no you do not want to see it.

Strange, I was reading about this the other day... So so weird. I was reading on Encyclopedia Dramatica (which is bloody weird itself) and they link the video on there.. I opted not to watch it, there are some things I really think are best left unseen (as the infamous cat would attest to).

The very fact that the murders were so horrificly random must've been terrible for the people living around it - people literally being picked at random on the street is literally terrifying.

Edited by Menguin on Tuesday 16th November 12:15

[Ojc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Glocke

Die Glocke (German for "The Bell") is the name of a purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device.

[Frankeh]

Edited by Plotloss on Tuesday 16th November 12:45

[dreamz]

Fume troll said:

Wiki has it's own list of unusual articles, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_art...

Cheers,

FT.

dammit i cant access it

it has the word ling erie somewhere...

dammit i cant access piston heads now...

[vescaegg]

Fume troll said:

Wiki has it's own list of unusual articles, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_art...

Cheers,

FT.

There is no need to show me this while im at work.