"...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, May 10, 2024

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Behold, the entrance to this week's Link Dump!

I really need to get a pair of these for outside Strange Company HQ.



Watch out for the Wampus Cat!

The bizarre case of the Putney Pusher.

The celebration of strawberries.

The taming of a fungus.

The grave of an unknown shipwreck victim.

Newly discovered rock art in the Sahara.

A phantom sewing machine.

India's first selfie.

The intelligence of plants.

The horrors of 19th century merchant service.

Living in Versailles had it's share of horrors, too.

A bit of High Strangeness in Alaska.

Costa Rica's Cave of Death.  And the name is no joke.

The power of the 16th century veil.

A helicopter heroine.

The unsolved murder of a prospector.

Visits from dead mothers.

A look at time capsules.

The "King of the Beggars."

The rise of Parisian washerwomen.

The East India Company and an "intriguing character."

The origin of "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

We've probably been wrong about T. Rex.

An important Neolithic monument.

The weird inventions of a science fiction pioneer.

Science confirms some key events in the Bible.

A wartime rescue that ended in betrayal.

Some simple vintage recipes.

When you accidentally dig up a skeleton.

The relics of old St. Paul's Cathedral.

Reconstructing the face of a Neanderthal.

The wife, the farmhand, and murder.

A suspicious death and a murder.

Some portraits of East Enders.

When New York's Tank Corps had a mascot cat.

Yet another domestic murder.

There are people who pay good money to watch the birth of a Cabbage Patch Kid.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll hear a tale of ghostly vengeance.  In the meantime, there's nothin' like 1970s television.


1 comment:

  1. It's interesting that the wampus cat is based on what used to be in the region, not on what was still there. The East Enders depicted all look like characters, don't they? And what an interesting picture of the maharaja and his consort, taken by the king himself.

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