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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
The Strange Company staff have already settled on their weekend plans.
Who the hell is Tom McCleod?
Con men and glass eyes.
James Dean's last gas station is gone.
A French cavalry officer's exile in America.
The Moon is leaving us, and didn't even bother to leave a note.
Sparta deserves to be remembered for more than its army.
Footprints show that humans were in North America much earlier than we thought.
When colonial America needed women. And beer. Not necessarily in that order.
This week in Russian Weird meets a carpet-covered car.
Madame Palatine dishes more Louis XIV-era dirt.
Where the very rich will be spending their weekend while I sit in the backyard drinking beer.
A look at a masterpiece of medieval literature.
A poltergeist who liked marijuana.
The woman who went from geisha to Western theater star.
An examination guide for the Bombay Staff Corps, 1864.
The people who tunneled their way out of East Germany.
Scientists are playing around with medieval gunpowder.
The "restless, turbulent, and bold" British House of Commons of 1833.
A vampire hunt that led to a ban on comic books.
Ian Fleming, craftsman. I'm no fan of the Bond movies, but I've read some of Fleming's work, just out of curiosity, and I was surprised how good they were. Spy/thriller fiction is not my sort of thing, but his works were very well-written.
Considering how 2021 is going so far, I'm not surprised that Chernobyl has decided to join the party.
The world's oldest grape vine.
The Prince Regent throws a whopper of a party.
The cryptids of Shropshire.
That time Jimmy Carter saw a UFO.
Beethoven's 10th symphony has just been completed.
A man's request to be buried at sea inside a piano. He wasn't, though, unfortunately for my Weird Wills collection.
A Vietnam battle that did not go well for America's helicopters.
An ancient document may tell us more about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The accidental color mauve.
The power of presidential photography.
Conservation work on an ancient city in Morocco.
Contemporary newspaper reports about the notorious Kray twins.
Benjamin Franklin, youthful prankster.
The disappearing (and, frankly, terrifying-looking) rope bridges of Peru.
An astonishingly brazen peddler of fake artifacts in India.
The legend of the Japanese Jesus.
The world's oldest jewelry.
The Lenten celebrations of Paris washerwomen.
Afghanistan faces a bleak archaeological future.
Humans have been using drugs and alcohol from way back.
Neanderthals and a discovery in a Gibraltar cave.
The history of Near Death Experiences.
The mystery of the Lambton Worm.
The baffling disappearance of Beverly Potts.
Four times a widower.
A chase scene involving children and dancing elves.
How knowledge about medicinal plants is being lost.
Samuel Pepys and a strange shipwreck.
Earth may have a twin lurking somewhere.
A Phoenix neighborhood has a whole lotta shakin' going on.
A broken engagement leads to murder.
Newly-released letters dealing with Victoria and Albert's marital quarrels.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a rich man's strange disappearance at sea. In the meantime, let's get piping!
I'd not heard of Brasidas before, but he seems more like my kind of Spartan than Leonidas. And the Lambton worm was probably, in origin, no more than a huge eel. But the legend is pretty good.
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