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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/whirlingbervish on 2025-11-25 04:28:34+00:00.
My 5 year old is a voracious reader and I feel so grateful that she just kind of figured out how to read with basically no learning curve. (End humble brag.) She reads a lot of series chapter books but this weekend at the library I thought, lets venture more into the nonfiction, as she's been interested in random facts about animals and the human body and such.
I saw a Ripley's book and thought that would be a real treasure trove of weird facts. Which it is! What I didn't realize is how filled with creepy old pictures it would be...like charred human limbs and people buried alive creepy. And calling it nonfiction is a bit of a stretch.
Anyway, I took it away after glimpsing a couple pages, but the damage was done. Queue a long night of nightmares and tears.
TL;DR I let my kid read Ripley's Believe it or not and possibly traumatized her. I might hold off on introducing the Guinness Book of World Records just to be safe.