Strange Company
A walk on the weird side of history
Monday, April 6, 2015
Alice Clement of the Chicago P.D.
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"I'd rather pinch a crook than eat. It's the best game in the world." ~Alice Clement Faubel While researching my earli...
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Friday, April 3, 2015
Weekend Link Dump
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It's Friday! Do try to cheer up. Here's the latest collection of links: What the hell is this bird-killing grey goo? W...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Newspaper Clipping of the Day
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This tale of a medium who "saw" a murder comes from the "Illustrated Police News" for August 22, 1896: Last month...
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Monday, March 30, 2015
The "Servant Girl Annihilator"
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Jack the Ripper is an enduring monument to the powers of a good press agent. The anonymous fiend's lingering, and likely eternal, s...
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Friday, March 27, 2015
Weekend Link Dump
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Ever wonder what is more unsettling than having one cat just sit and stare at you? Well, yes. Exactly. Let's go stare down s...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Book Clipping of the Day
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This account of the world's longest nap comes from Sabine Baring-Gould's "Yorkshire Oddities": At Laycock, two miles...
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Monday, March 23, 2015
The Morristown Ghost; or, Beware of Goblins Bearing Gifts
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"Her figure ’fore me. Now I ha’ ’t--how strong Imagination works! how she can frame Things which are not! methinks she stands afo...
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