My apologies for the Strange Company HQ staff. The publishing of a new post always makes them a bit rowdy.
What the hell is Australia's tektite field?
Who the hell were the Pilgrims?
This week, we may have hit peak Russian Weird.
The Cleveland Torso Murderer. Despite the headline, I think a lot of people have heard of him.
A recently discovered Nazi shipwreck might--might--contain looted treasure. Or it might not.
The saga of Springheel Jack.
The case of the anomalous 115,000 year old footprints.
The ghosts of Dent's Palace.
Some vintage Cockney Cats.
A case of formal facial mutilation from Anglo-Saxon England.
Was Charles Lindbergh behind his son's kidnapping? (I've read a lot about the Lindbergh case--it's one of my top historical rabbit holes--and while I'm convinced Hauptmann was innocent, I'm agnostic on the Lindbergh-did-it theory. On the other hand, ol' Charles really was a cold bastard.)
Did Neanderthals live in caves?
An engineer trained his cat to be a firefighter. If you know any engineers, this will not surprise you.
More from our "Pushing back human history" file.
How Looty the Pekingese went from Beijing to Queen Victoria's court.
A woman who was...how can I put this? Twins from the waist down. With illustrations. Yup, it's Thomas Morris time again.
A 13 year old serial killer.
17th century autograph collecting.
How Victorian Parisians enjoyed their Sundays.
Why sparrows and cricket games just don't mix.
Frank Sinatra and the Bobby Sox riot.
The fall of the Hearst magazines.
A missing woman's unusual reappearance.
Yet another case where a wife goes missing after--according to the husband--storming off after a fight with him. No comment.
Victorian female detectives.
The history of the smallpox vaccine.
The strange case of the Baghdad batteries.
I've mentioned this before, but here's another reminder that crows are damn smart.
Homosexuality in 17th century England.
Royal mourning fashion.
That time we tried to fight the Japanese with radioactive foxes.
More on George Bridgetower, violin prodigy.
A tribute to Paddy, heroic wartime pigeon.
The bizarre Shoebox Murder.
An Immanuel Kent joke book reads pretty much the way you'd think.
A couple's mysterious murder.
The history of mashed potatoes.
Virginia City, silver mining boomtown.
Witchcraft werewolf trials in the Netherlands.
How Agatha Christie stayed relevant.
The man who owed his life to a beetle.
The tragedy of the bookseller's son.
A notorious UFO abduction story.
Reconstructing the face of an ancient child mummy.
Alan Turing and the fairy circles.
That 's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll answer one very weird phone call. In the meantime, here's a pleasant bit of Haydn.
mummy in tree: fake news https://athrillingnarrative.com/2013/07/12/the-stuff-of-legend/
ReplyDeletePickles, the cat at the Tower of London, had a circle on his flank like my Tungsten did. Pickles had to have been orange...
ReplyDeleteAnd the Russian creature called Organism 46-B... Do you mean there were 46 other 'organisms' (if you include 46-A...)?