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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
The Strange Company staffers are here to bring you this week's news from A to Z!
What the hell is a stately home?
Where the hell is Planet Nine?
Organ transplants may trigger changes in personality. (Two of my relatives had, at different times, large blood transfusions. Afterwards, they both had vivid dreams where they were certain they were "seeing" events in the lives of their blood donors. There's a lot about the human body that we simply don't understand.)
On a related note, we may not know jack about evolution, either.
A really weird sound has been recorded deep in the Pacific.
Three castaways prove that cliches sometimes work.
Yet another ancient city that's rewriting history.
A particularly barbaric Neolithic human sacrifice.
A funeral that featured an arrest.
The latest theory about the Voynich Manuscript.
The origins of the phrase, "Roger that."
Medieval dogs had some pretty cool names.
More on that story I linked to earlier about the Scottish whaler stranded in the Arctic.
A murder/suicide from 1912.
The bathroom that features a Neanderthal.
WWII's Operation Title.
The strange tale of a firefighter's handprint.
Star forts and conspiracy theories.
Old Hollywood's most famous "fixer."
17th century tanks.
The case of an Indian stranded in Italy, 1879.
So, let's talk writs of replevin on corpses.
Charles Fort as UFO pioneer.
In which we learn that Joseph Stalin's granddaughter is a Buddhist antique store owner in Portland, Oregon. It's pleasant to think that the old monster would be highly irritated at this.
Remembering the magazine devoted to flappers.
Benjamin Franklin on 1760s British politics.
A wife and a vampire go to court.
An important farm laborer strike.
A sci-fi author's strange double life.
Charles Darwin's correspondents.
Some curious ways of holding land in medieval England.
Culinary fusion goes a long way back.
When scientists got drunk on nitrogen for God and country.
The last of London's phone boxes.
Something weird just fell into the Delaware River.
Emily Dickinson wasn't all that reclusive.
The "walk of shame."
A shrewd--and murderous--rascal.
London's time-traveling tomb.
The "Peanuts" character who wound up with an ax in her head.
An ancient monument has been discovered in France, and everyone's puzzled about it.
The origins of the phrase, "left for dead."
Yet another mysterious disappearance in the wilderness.
Finding Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
The many descendants of Charlemagne.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a hissing ghost in Detroit. In the meantime, here's one of my favorites from back in the day.
Stately homes... My pet peeve with regard to English houses is that people think a manor is the house, rather than an administrative unit. The human sacrifice story was gruesome; it's too bad we've just shifted such killings into crime, rather than religion. I recall reading collections of the earliest 'Peanuts' comics; I don't recall Charlotte Braun, but then she didn't last long; I probably would have done what Schultz did long before he did... Organ transplants and others' lives. Can memories be genetic? I once had a sci-fi premise that never went anywhere about a race whose memories were inherited from generation to generation. Maybe they are in humans...
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