"...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, March 20, 2020

Weekend Link Dump

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


This week's Link Dump is proud to be hosted by...uh...

This guy.



What the hell was the Killhill Light?

The Goffle Road murders.

What it was like to be a Customs Officer in the Georgian era.

A haunted city hall.

Marilyn's deadly diary.

The travails of a Victorian female barber.

Solving--perhaps--a disappearance in Joshua Tree National Park.

Quarantine in the 19th century.

In which a 16th century lady tells a schoolmaster to go to hell.

The story of Puss in Boots.

A "poysoner's" dreadful punishment.

19th century beard sculpting.

Murder in high society.

Rambling through 17th century Ireland.

The corpse and the barber.

King Lear in quarantine, and other theatrical links.

Lonely Old London.

A "brutal and fiendish" crime.

Let's talk animated horse hairs.

Charles Lennox, Noble Radical.

Influenza and the Sun.

Fashion during a pandemic.

A walk along the River Lea.

Medicines for melancholy.

The North Pole could be called literally timeless.

This week in Russian Weird looks at a structure made of mammoth bones.

Remembering Thomas Coryate and his shoes.  (You might remember this post about him.)

The war that killed off a kettle.

Laudanum, a Victorian's best friend.

The rotten Mrs. Cotton.  Her best friend was arsenic.

The mysterious murder of William Robinson.

The creepy legend of the "Dog Boy" ghost.

A murder victim’s long-delayed burial.

A socialite turns to murder.

Censoring Anne Frank.

A Scottish stegosaur.

The cult of Breatharianism.

Some vintage Cat Ladies.

Well, this is embarrassing.

An extremely weird and gruesome murder.


And we're done for this week! Join me on Monday, when we'll look at a young woman's enigmatic fate. In the meantime, here's Van the Man.

2 comments:

  1. I recall first reading about revenue officers of the Crown in "Treasure Island"; I think Blind Pugh was ridden down by a couple of them.

    As for the fake Dead Sea Scrolls, maybe the museum could make a profit selling them to a museum dedicated to fakes. I'm sure there is one somewhere.

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  2. The most common theory regarding Bill Ewasko's disappearance in Joshua Tree National Park is that after becoming severely short of water during his hike he went on an urgent search for a water source, mostly likely descening the rugged slope of Smith Water Canyon, only for some fate to befall him on the way. As basis of this theory is the fact that his car contained a 12-pack of plastic water bottles (IINM 500-ml) with three missing. Three bottles woud have been completely inadequate for a long hike in the desert heat.
    What makes me a bit skeptical is the fact that no one knows whether he had started out with any water in addition to the three missing bottles. In fact, as an experienced desert hiker it seems unlikely that he would have broght along just three bottles.

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