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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's time for this week's Link Dump!
Let the show begin!
What the hell happened to HMS Terror?
If you can't tell the difference between Bangor, Maine and San Francisco, maybe you need to not get out more.
We see dead people. And hear them, too.
The scientist who claimed to be able to raise the dead.
Victorians medicated themselves with cocaine, which certainly explains a lot.
Duke of Wellington, ladies' man.
I'm betting this particular experiment won't end well.
Mars may be hiding water.
A perfumer's varied side interests.
"Hanged by a harlot" is one heck of an epitaph.
New York's Missionary Cats.
A bad master/servant relationship turns deadly.
The woman who yarnbombed rock stars.
Spring in Spitalfields.
Reading an unknown man's life through his tattoos.
Unusual rock art.
How to be an Irish paid mourner.
The painless Eva Kennedy.
The world's oldest known woven basket.
The Scottish missionary who died in the Holocaust.
A 19th century police corruption scandal.
Tina Resch and the debatable poltergeists.
More fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been found.
A Mothering Sunday without a mother.
San Francisco's "Demon of the Belfry."
The gruesome world of Georgian dentures.
Some pioneering women doctors.
Neanderthals as artists.
Some ghostly treasure stories.
The murder of a mill girl.
The largest accidental oil spill in history.
18th century travel quarantine.
Our modern world: we're polluting the sky with silver iodide, very possibly for no good reason. And you wonder why I prefer to hang around cats.
The sad end of the phony Hapsburg.
Tibby Tinkler, Yorkshire bookseller.
The rather creepy "Pauli Effect."
A notorious London hotel fire.
This week in Russian Weird looks at UFOs and the Road of Bones. And apartment buildings that badly need defrosting.
Explaining the "Doorway Effect."
A prominent 19th century medium.
The latest on the Antikythera Mechanism.
A famed "dog-faced boy."
A Bronze Age burial that may have been fit for a queen.
19th century beard styles.
Fact and fiction about the Ledston Witch.
The world's oldest impact crater...isn't.
An accepted forgery maybe...isn't.
And that's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly nasty haunted house. In the meantime, here's another historical dance party.
Regarding the German tourist who ended up in Bangor instead of San Francisco - a number of people have ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada instead of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They often seem to be young Europeans who are really astonished about how cheap it is to fly to Sydney, NS - which, in fact it is, compared to the cost of getting to Australia. So they buy a ticket, get off the plane, and then notice the complete lack of a major city. I think one of them started to suspect something was wrong when he got on the plane for the last leg of his flight and noticed that it was rather small for a flight across most of Canada and the Pacific Ocean.
ReplyDeleteI suggest Sydney, Nova Scotia, build a replica opera house to the one in Sydney, Australia. Just to mess with people.
DeleteHmmm, living out of touch underground....have any of them listened to this?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/listen/21052/mysteries/Mysterious_Traveler/49_05_24__205__Behind_The_Locked.html
That 'doorway effect' is ery interesting. I believe that the article is right when it suggests moving to a different room may be the cause; moving from a sitting room to a kitchen must be like travelling to a different world, in terms of rooms. Your mind briefly imitates a dog's easily distracted attention, viewing all the surroundings and determining where you now are - and forgets the more immediate things it should be recalling. But if the problem with certain tests was the similarity of computer-generated 'rooms', it makes me wonder how many other tests were skewed by using computer simulation, instead of the real thing.
ReplyDeleteThe Duke of Wellington has always interested me; a more complex man than many might have thought.
And I'd love to know the plot of 'Naughty Anthony'...