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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by a beauty contest winner: Love in a Mist, 1910's Most Beautiful Cat in the World!
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| "The Sphere," March 19, 1910, via British Newspaper Archive |
Murder within a religious sect.
In the year 1110, the Moon disappeared. Blame volcanoes.
The truth behind the notorious "Philadelphia Experiment."
A New York cat walks the plank. Don't worry, it ended happily.
The carouser and the astronomer: one of those odd historical "ships that pass in the night" stories.
The ghosts of the British Museum.
Telecommunication in the Napoleonic era.
How a plague changed 1896 Bombay.
The Space Animal Theory.
The Ten Minute Alibi. (Spoiler: it didn't work.)
The legend of the "A3 ghost crash."
Some fairy tale heroines.
The 18th century Ladies of Covent Garden.
Drinking advice from the Renaissance.
Medicinal pears.
Antarctic UFOs.
The long history of trepanation.
Warning: if you don't want to read about an elephant's tragic death, skip to the next link.
Elizabeth Woodcock's snowy end.
A 19th century political scandal.
When Grandpa's ghost turns out to be the Devil.
In search of giants.
A haunted schoolhouse.
What Shakespeare had to say about plague.
Giant economy-sized UFOs.
A real-life "Lord of the Flies."
A mysterious mass grave of ancient sloths.
That time when Venus was habitable.
Ancient methods for storing food.
Book recommendations from ghosts.
Some details about Madame Récamier.
A quarantine from 700 years ago.
Spring cleaning in the old days.
Ancient Egyptian wigs.
Call this one Revenge of the Virus.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the time Martians destroyed their space probe.
A teenage prank that took on a life of its own.
Found: the oldest evidence for modern humans in Europe.
The archival Florence Nightingale.
Another look at ol' Flo.
The nurse who brought death.
You want to know how much Covid has dominated the news? The Pentagon essentially confirmed the existence of UFOs and nobody blinked an eye.
So, let's talk astral projecting witch hunters.
The execution of a slaveowner.
The mysterious sheep deaths of Skull Valley.
The water monsters of Wales.
That wraps things up for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at a uniquely puzzling death. In the meantime, here's a bit of Corelli:
Thanks for the coincidental coach ride link and for Kate Forsyth's article.
ReplyDeleteMy theory of the Surrey ghost crash: the dead man had had an accomplice who was able to get away. After several months went by with the car and body still undiscovered, the accomplice placed a call to the police to report a crash. He probably didn't realize the police would be able to tell that it wasn't a recent crash.
ReplyDeleteI recall seeing the turn of the 19th century semaphore towers in "The Count of Monte Cristo". I wondered why they hadn't been put up all over the world. I thought it a very clever idea.
ReplyDeleteA possible explanation for the US Navy UFOs - "LIPF":
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