This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Cats of Halloween!
Where the hell is the head of William Mons?
Where the hell is the grave of Virginia Dare?
Watch out for Green Jean!
Watch out for those mud monsters!
Watch out for those haunted toilets!
The Great Balloon Riot.
Poe was not a fan of urbanization.
This might be the skull of the oldest known tsunami victim.
The ghostly love story that inspired forest conservation.
If you're going to be a robber, you should at least be polite about it.
Some helpful tips for keeping away witches. Of course, considering that Halloween is just around the corner, you might not want to.
George III's Golden Jubilee.
Skeleton folklore.
This is your chance to live in Lizzie Borden's house.
Having a few friends over for dinner, Gilded Age style.
Mystery Fires in Malaysia.
How to amass a fortune from salt.
Poe as a critic. (Incidentally, if you've never read any of his reviews, do check them out. The guy was a hoot. People never believe me when I tell Poe was really a humorist and satirist, not a "horror" writer, but it's true.)
A ghost from 19th century Los Angeles.
Tangled up in blue ghosts.
Napoleon's Kindle.
Locusta, the first known serial killer.
Cocaine and Mark Twain.
The rather scary world of Victorian hairspray.
Mothman and the collapsed bridge.
14th century Court of Chivalry records.
The haunted Hollywood Reporter building.
What it's like being a professional fake Amazon reviewer.
Adolf Hitler, cryptozoologist.
Remembering the 1918 influenza epidemic.
The galaxy's loneliest cemetery.
As a connoisseur of Weird Wills, I love this one.
According to science, you don't exist.
The Countess, the spider, and a cure for gout.
"At once the case was clear; he had two bladders." Or, Sentences I Never Thought Would Appear On My Blog.
The mystery of the Cornell Pumpkin.
The first salaried female journalist.
What would the WLD be without those regular "rewriting human history" links?
And, finally, this week in South African Weird: a hospital has an unusual post-op case.
And that's a wrap! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a celebrated ghost-hunter's Halloween-Gone-Wrong. In the meantime, here's a spot of Beethoven.
The article about Virginia Dare and the lost colonists is interesting, but shows how circumstantial all these beliefs are. People are convinced that there are people buried in a certain spot, but no one has exhumed any graves; they believe that a group of Indians are descended from colonists and cite little more than the way they talk. I’ll have to wait for some more substantial proof.
ReplyDeletePoe as a humorist? Sorry but I've read 'Some Words with a Mummy' and Edgar was no humorist.
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South African Weird: a hospital has an unusual post-op case.
ReplyDeleteSome people just don't like hospital food.
Never Bet the Devil Your Head.
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