"...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, November 6, 2020

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


We're proud to say that for the first time, the Link Dump will be sponsored by some of our friends from across the pond!


California's haunted Whaley House.

It's now believed that man's best friend is man's oldest friend.

A Trotskyist spy vs. Joseph Stalin.  Guess who lost.

Eastbury Manor House and the Gunpowder Plot.

The murder that led to the legal Brady Rule.

A Satanic castle in North Carolina.

How Paris celebrated All Saints' Day in 1887.

How the condemned were prepared for the guillotine.

An English recipe for gunpowder.  It's probably best not to try this at home.

Guys, here is something you definitely should not do with a pin.

A reluctant countess.

A look at putting on plays in the 16th century.

More on the Black Loyalists of the Revolutionary War.

A famous UFO event in New Zealand.

Were Neanderthals and humans at war?

Ice Age mining camps.

The biggest heists of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

How to dress like a Victorian maid.

Pepys on the Great Plague of 1665.

The strange Giant's Causeway.

The latest on Denisovan DNA.

A very weird hole in Bulgaria.

The life and mysterious end of Edward V.

The Golden Age of movie theaters.

The hermit of the Hollywood Hills.

The scandalous Madame Moustache.

Three ghost stories from old newspapers.

Burke and Hare's final victim.

A brief history of the Abominable Snowman.

A brief history of ballpoint pens.

The strange case of the Eriksson twins.

A photographer is haunting Europe's abandoned castles.

A handy guide to becoming a werewolf.

Life at sea in the 1860s-era Royal Navy.

The ghosts of Western Kentucky University.

Three much-photographed cats.

An apple pie bites the dust.

That's a wrap!  See you on Monday, when we'll visit a haunted council house.  In the meantime, this week in Russian Weird provides our musical selection.


1 comment:

  1. Though I knew Biro had come up with a successful design for a ball-point pen, I didn't know the mass, popular use of the pen was started so recently.

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