Cats everywhere would like to interrupt this regularly scheduled Link Dump for a very special message.
What the hell is this Neolithic statuette?
What the hell were the Wollaton Park gnomes?
What the hell did Lincoln sound like?
Why the hell did rich young Englishmen go on the Grand Tour?
Watch out for those Irish meteors! Or are they robots?
Watch out for those tree werewolves!
Nessie has a twin!
The remarkable Library of Congress card catalog.
The avant-garde artist hidden by the Iron Curtain.
Fiddling the expense books in Georgian England.
Norman Mailer's fatal mistake.
A novel way to become telepathic.
Fairies in 1930s Ireland.
The myth of the "German corpse factory."
The people who never forget.
The best article about magnetized cockroaches you'll read all week.
Why you wouldn't want to walk around 1820s Vienna.
Clara Coffin's Fortean road trip.
When fiction becomes fact.
Legendary 19th century murders.
The sad tale of "The Italian boy."
Some wicked medieval women.
How to fight magic with magic.
A colonial memoir.
Ancient Egyptian footprints.
Taking a poltergeist to court.
The woman who scooped the world about WWII.
The beginnings of the English Civil War.
The ever-popular cuckold's horns.
The ever-popular Abelard and Heloise.
Some romantic gravestones.
An 1871 UFO.
Sophie Dawes: smuggler's daughter, courtesan, aristocrat, and poisoner. My kind of girl.
The search for King Tut's secret chamber.
Ancient Pueblo people and the Golden Ratio.
The strange case of the Welsh UFO.
Valentine's Day leads to a breach of promise case.
Valentine's Day can be the death of you.
A Valentine's Day love story. Featuring syphilis.
Medieval love spells.
Some vintage poker anecdotes.
A California poltergeist.
This week's Advice From Thomas Morris: Quails and beer. Good for whatever ails you.
Interesting theory of how places can affect the mind--and vice versa.
A rather horrible way to make yourself invisible.
The Victorian art of Valentine's Day rejection.
A scandalous 1850s novel.
The ever-popular Vinegar Valentines.
Oh, okay.
The execution of Silly Mary and Country Kate.
That time Marcel Proust appeared in someone's home movie.
The birth of the King Arthur legends.
A how-to guide for Victorian hangmen.
A colorful French counter-revolutionary.
The above-average average man.
Winston Churchill writes about UFOs.
A brief history of spanking machines.
One of the Web's weirdest archives.
And...that's that for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll be looking at a tragic case of lost identity. In the meantime, here's one of my all-time favorite newsreels.
The Michigan werewolves was a creepy story. It's funny just that one man saw the creatures - and thrice, too. I'd rather encounter the happy little gnomes dressed like policemen. Or maybe not.
ReplyDeletePound for pound, I think the gnomes are way creepier.
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