Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
The Strange Company HQ staffers wish you pleasant reading!
A handy reminder that bees are weird.
A look at medieval executioners.
The world's oldest dated printed book.
A stupid theory about the Salem Witch Trials that refuses to die.
The 11th century abbot and the recycled sarcophagus.
The duel between W.B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley.
The man who made a living from being a conjoined twin.
The death of Pretty Boy Floyd.
Remembering the Cat Lady of Spitalfields.
A pattern has been found in cases of alleged reincarnation.
The legend of "Mountain Charley."
The only prison with its own zoo.
In search of the Woman in Black.
A meeting with Bigfoot.
The oldest known dwelling in the Western Hemisphere.
The mystery of the Dancing Plague.
Remembering the Aberfan disaster.
Not to worry, just empty space sending out mysterious signals.
The cat who missed out on being the hero of Rikers Island.
If a ghost wants his widow to get the funeral money, you should probably oblige.
A notorious 19th century swindler.
New York's "house of many mysteries."
The woman who could sew with her tongue. And no improper jokes, please. I know what the internet is like.
When the Royal Society went ghost-hunting.
The mystery of the "Tully monster."
Some very disturbing deaths.
George III visits Oxford.
A really bad 18th century job.
A murderous medical student.
The real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
A cave of dragon bones.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unsolved Halloween murder. In the meantime, here's something a bit different.
Ergot caused the Salem Witch episode? I’d not heard of it, but I can imagine it being one of the theories thrown out about it. And I guess it should be thrown out. The cat-lady of Spitalfields sounds like she had a very useful and, in her own way, pleasant life. The article on reincarnation leads me to the question: “So what?” What has been accomplished by all that work. It’s amazing how people can be fooled by swindlers like Adele Spitzeder; the desire to be rich is powerful. The Casanova mansion sounds weird, though it was probably rather mundane. I’d rather be there than at the white lead works in Pimlico… And that Tully monster: Yikes!
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