Weekend Link Dump

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

This week's Link Dump is hosted by one of Strange Company HQ's crack team of assistant editors!

A statue that turned out to be a time capsule.

The oldest known human remains in Europe.

Mars is glowing green, because it just had to join in on the general 2020 insanity.

Dr. Beachcombing is back, and he's brought train-hating ghosts with him.

British and Irish midsummer folklore.

Something weird was floating over Japan.

Georgian era mourning etiquette.

Darwin and the earthworms.

A lion cage becomes a cat maternity ward.

Some Anglo-Saxon women who ended their marriages.

A London summer as seen by George Cruikshank.

Murder in Simi Valley.

The world's oldest recipes.

The long strange life of Phoebe Hessel.

Hatch, the dog of the ill-fated Mary Rose.

A mystical blue cemetery.

A life-saving ugly ghost.

What it's like to be attacked by Bigfoot.

The lost treasure of a Burma king.

How to be a fake heiress.

Bows and arrows from 48,000 years ago.

A brief history of soap.

A brief history of plague weddings.

A brief history of popcorn.

A brief history of pickle sandwiches.

One really big freaking dinosaur.

Murder at FoxCatcher Farms.

The last witch to be executed in Sweden.

As I've noted in this space before, crows are damn smart.

I've been saying for some time now that just because scientists can do something, that doesn't necessarily meant they should do it.

In related news:  kids, this is not the year to get all cutesy with nature.

A ghost fetches the dying.

Some important Maya ruins.

Quacking, tooting queen bees.

The gibbet of Inkpen.

Before Ellis Island, there was Castle Garden.

The juggler of Bow Cemetery.

A Peckham Rye Bluebeard.

The hunt for a seasickness cure.

Let's talk Headless Blemmyes.

If you've been feeling a sense of unreality lately, there might be a reason for that.

Florida's most haunted bridge.

The disappearance of Elizabeth Campbell.  (Sadly, I don't think this one is too mysterious.  It seems clear the poor woman hitched a ride with the wrong person.)

Durer and the 16th century fake rhino.

Remember the theory that "Dracula" was inspired by a cholera epidemic?  Here's a refutation of that idea.

Margaret, Duchess of Brabant.

A mysterious cave treasure.

A very bad bridegroom.

A forgotten early film family.


And, to close:  RIP, Bob.

That wraps it up for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the time a poltergeist inspired a lawsuit. In the meantime, as this is National Accordion Awareness Month, let's rock!