This week's Link Dump suffered a slight delay in publication. The Strange Company HQ staff were running late.
What the hell was the Beast of Gevaudan? Now we know?
What the hell are Irish banshees?
Where the hell is the tomb of Genghis Khan?
How the hell did Ludwig II die?
Who the hell were the Green Children of Woolpit?
A playwright from the Little Theater movement.
The Soviets and Western culture.
The Weird Wild Man of Sublime, Texas.
A Victorian joke book.
The eternal Jack the Ripper.
A vengeful ghost in India.
Norwegian UFOs.
Now, this is a royal wedding.
The female Lawrence of Arabia.
Edith Wilson, widow and con artist.
The battle of Halidon Hill.
A 17th century witch trial.
The Flying Dutchman and some cursed letters.
What it was like to do hard labor in Victorian prisons.
How it was shown that Leif Erikson beat Columbus to North America.
You want to know why 19th century Frenchwomen were afraid to lose their husbands? The consequences were so damned complicated.
An Irish tapping ghost.
A near-fatal millipede.
The 18th century was the Age of Melancholy.
It didn't pay to be an ally of Richard II.
Emma and her exorcisms.
Ancient Romans built invisibility cloaks. Sort of.
Comets and Gobekli Tepe.
A British diplomat turns to science fiction. (Part Two is here.)
The room that can drive you mad.
Civil War soldiers and "Angel's Glow."
The mystery of the undecorated Egyptian tomb.
A balloon locomotive.
The first sound recordings.
Some assorted facts about Napoleon.
What the well-dressed 18th century astronomer was wearing.
Women and Wedgwood.
Anna Ruppert's dangerous beauty.
The history of the Charter Fair.
A mysterious murder in Maine.
A jockey's restless ghost.
And there you have it for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll talk Edwardian Lady Parachutists. In the meantime, here's one of my favorite folk songs.
I had never heard of the beast of Gevaudan. It's interesting that the theory holds that it was a maneless male lion. The two 'man-eaters of Tsavo' were maneless lions, and behaved in an unorthodox fashion. I wonder if the beast inspired the premise of the movie "Brotherhood of the Wolf" (which was otherwise not connected to reality.)
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