"...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, June 26, 2020

Weekend Link Dump

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

This week's Link Dump has the honor to be hosted by royalty!

All bow down to the beautiful Fritz.

Via British Newspaper Archive

Do different cat breeds have different personalities?

A haunted sanitarium.

Haunted hotel rooms.

So it turns out the Fenn treasure may come with a surprise bonus!

The call of the void.  (Or, as Poe called it, the "Imp of the Perverse.")

A very strange micronation.

Encountering an "It" on the road to Ravensden.

Mourning the lost patents.

All hail the potato!

The weirdness of the platypus.

A mysterious ancient golden chamber.

The pros and cons of Napoleon.

A significant 30,000 year old burial site.

The man who gave the world fake ghost photos.

What it was like to be a poor child in 19th century New York.

The lore of Anansi the Spider.

Pfui.  This woman says cat men are the best men.

A "most horrible murder."

A brief history of door handles.

A recipe for medieval midsummer cherry pudding.

A disappearance at the Grand Canyon.

The most dreadful execution of the Salem Witch Trials.

A pixie hitches a ride on a plane.

The Paris of the Arctic.

I Fought the Emu, and the Emu Won.

Volcanoes that changed history.

Archivists feud in the Tower of London.

The fiery Willie Brough.

The hell of Okinawa.

A reminder of how little we know of our own planet.

The world's first astronomical site.

A fine example of Bolshevik gratitude.

If you're getting married, it would be wise to avoid hearses.

Vampire hunting in Hungary.

Puritans vs. long hair.

Australia's Sundown Murders.

A Pompeii summer solstice.

A paranormal cautionary tale.

In search of a mysterious suffragette.

The hidden garden of St. Mary's.

The Cline Falls ax attack.

Honor--of a sort--among thieves.

America's first female astronomer.

A fraudulent shipwreck.

Sam, the unsinkable cat.

In which hedgehogs have a bowling tournament.

George Washington as the foster father of his country.

Two imaginative but incompetent murderers.

The creepy lore surrounding a chained oak.

When Emily met Thomas.

The stone chambers of New England.

The secret tunnels of Liverpool.

The Molly Houses of London.

Minor spirits and Italian paganism.

I'm sure this will end just freaking well.

A triple ax murder.

A revenge murder and a lynching.

Malcolm the Maiden, King of Scots.

Thus ends yet another Link Dump. See you on Monday, when we'll look at a scandalous poisoning mystery. In the meantime, long may you run!

2 comments:

  1. The article on Dickinson was very interesting. Who would have guessed that she was a blabbermouth - under the right circumstances? It seems she was extraordinarily lonely - or perhaps she just needed an audience.

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  2. The poor 19th century child. The artcle begins by saying he is in a hospital recovering form a broken leg. later in the story it becomes obvious that he was nto recoverign form abroken leg, bjut was there for another reason. ???? Sloppy writign. especially if they wanted this ot be belived as a true story, which I doubt it was.

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