"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, December 27, 2019

Weekend Link Dump

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn, 16th c.



This week's Link Dump is hosted by our New Year Cats!










What the hell was the Tic Tac UFO?

A classic disappearance: What the hell happened to Dorothy Arnold?

A re-interpretation of the famed "Earthrise" photo.

New Year's Day in early 19th century New York.

An archaeologist meets an ancient epilepsy demon.  Think of the Indiana Jones movie that would make.

An 18th century independent woman.

The laboratory with an invisible Bigfoot.  Yes, it's in California.

The creepiest house in Los Angeles.  Not Strange Company HQ, believe it or not.

Using DNA to rewrite human history.

This year's biggest archaeological discoveries.

The past decade as seen from space.

An exorcism turns deadly.

The execution of a relative of Shakespeare.

Ancient humans were around a whole lot longer than the "experts" thought.

The Case of the Disappearing Stars.

Here at Strange Company HQ, we look at this headline and laugh.

The occasionally murderous life of Zoe, Empress of Constantinople.

Nothing to see here; just a cemetery full of mutant white-eyed cockroaches.

Mass tragedies and the paranormal.

Christmas Eve with the ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots.

A play about a Poe story omits the Poe story, and more theatrical links.

The nastiest book reviews of 2019.  

An East End cat adjusts to Christmas.

A brief history of winter traditions.

The disappearance of a murderer.

Archaeologists find a vampire.

Fortean firefighting.

Christmas in New York, circa 1910.

A 17th century Christmas play.

Medieval author seeks a patron.

And thus ends our final Link Dump of 2019.  See you on Monday, when Harry Houdini meets a fake medium.  Hilarity ensues.

Happy New Year from Strange Company HQ!

2 comments:

  1. All best wishes for you in 2021,

    Although that means horrific deaths, hideous murders, ironic but terrible medical accidents and the rest.

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  2. The article about Schrodinger, the Spitalfields cat, reads like a digest of most cats' efforts to adjust themselves, not unwillingly to a safe and happy life.

    And the article on the 'murder house' in Los Angeles surprised me by not mentioning that the house was lived in by George Arliss; I noted it only in the sales advertisement. Some collectors of tales of the unusual are not as eclectically knowledgeable as those at Strange Company.

    (And the cats dancing to the playing of a bassoon is something I wouldn't mind seeing. Without the worship of the devil going on, I mean.)

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