"...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, September 15, 2023

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

It's time for this week's Link Dump!

And the Strange Company HQ choir is singing with joy!



A marriage ends in murder.

Norway's "gold find of the century."

The man who was tried for being a werewolf.

Feeling under the weather?  Try a...uh, rectal dilator.

Here's your big chance to smell like mummified organs!

Why you would not want this pilot to fly your plane.

Mysterious Arabian stone structures.

The airships of medieval Ireland.

Possible life on a faraway planet.

The music of the Holocaust.

The real nurses of MASH.

A look at Victorian "mystery" novels.

The forgotten calotype.

The church that features a mammoth bone.

The lesser-known geysers of Yellowstone.

Mysterious ancient jade discs.

How to reuse all those spare tombstones you have lying around.

Nothing says "fun visit to a hotel!" like having to sign a liability waiver.

The Age of Enlightenment in Slovenia.

The oldest known evidence of footwear.

In search of lost books.

How to smuggle elephants.

A new look at the "magic bullet theory."

London's churchyard gardens.

Science tries to explain why vampires hate garlic.

Mount Shasta's very weird reputation.

The sin-eaters.

A scandalous elopement, 1825.

When the Sahara Desert was green.

When you could send kids via Parcel Post.

Before Count Dracula, there was The Vampyre.

The short life of a "typical" 19th century working-class woman.

The origins of Sinn Féin.

Some mysterious ancient stones.

An 1804 child star.

Early Modern medicine for travelers.

A visit to St. Anne's Limehouse.

That's a wrap for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unusual ghost story.  In the meantime, the Bee Gees go rockabilly!


1 comment:

  1. The thing that struck me most about St Anne's Limehouse was the height of the risers on the winding staircase; climbing it must have been tough but descending downright dangerous! The article on vampires and garlic makes sense. I would vote for porphyria rather than rabies, though, since rabies kills people off relatively swiftly. And a very interesting discovery in Norway; the Old World has all the good fortune in long-buried gold and silver artifacts.

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