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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by another of our Halloween Cats!
How the hell did King Tut die?
A cursed cruise ship.
The first time American military pilots encountered UFOs.
Newly-found evidence suggesting that Geoffrey Chaucer may not have been a rapist, after all.
Buffalo Bill in Paris.
Some unlikely military victories.
The 17th century Ladies Charity School House in Highgate.
The saga of Lord Uxbridge's leg.
The funeral of King Edward IV.
Some Mayan sacrifice victims had blue string in their teeth, and people have questions.
An early 14th century abduction and rape.
The speculation that extraterrestrials visited ancient Sumer.
The corpse in the train car.
The last African slave to be brought to America.
The shooting at Greenwood Park Mall.
A visit to Old St. Pancras Churchyard.
A very odd case of "criminal conversation." You don't see too many of those where the dissection of human bodies pops up in the evidence.
Mystic fictions and lawless fantasies.
The world's tallest natural arch.
Stories from the files of M15.
Art as a Tudor political tool.
The ancient Narmer Palette.
So, a guy is buried alive, only to have his grave robbed, and he comes to while being dissected by anatomists. Bad day.
Analyzing Amelia Earhart's hands.
Arson on Easter Island.
Murder in the Vale of Tempe.
Belle Starr, American outlaw.
Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones.
The wrecking of HMS Sceptre.
Using eggs to predict the future.
Why you can't tickle yourself.
The mystery of Royston Cave.
Vintage photos of London at night.
Some Liverpool poisoners.
Some interesting modern headstones.
It turns out that Guy Fawkes is everywhere except the British Museum.
A spiritualist killed himself in order to prove that there is life after death. Didn't go according to plan.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an intriguing case of alleged reincarnation. In the meantime, here's the Baltimore Consort:
The wreck of the Sceptre is a terrifying story - and it occurred all within sight of land, not on the high seas. Who would want to burn Easter Island? Unthinkable. And the story about Chaucer is truly a revelation.
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