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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
I advise you to pay close attention to this week's WLD.
There will be a quiz afterwards.
A rock star's strange death.
Two strange deaths which inspired a rock song.
A bunch of old skeletons found walled up in a monastery. Paging M.R. James!
Earth's strangest mammal. (Personally, I would have put human beings in the number-one slot, but...)
That time when Los Angeles went nuts over Sir Walter Scott.
Some teenagers find out the hard way why a house was haunted.
Yet another Jack the Ripper suspect.
The blue-blooded Bohemian's bra.
Mrs. Bungay and the undertaker.
An eccentric's lost grave.
Winter in 19th century London parks.
The "scandal sheets" of Regency England.
The last Civil War widow just died.
That time John Adams gave everyone the flu.
The Wardle UFO incident.
Early modern diet tips.
Yellowstone's lost history.
Uncovering a necropolis from the early Bronze Age.
Discovering an Emperor's tomb.
Why Venus is not an ideal vacation spot.
The first humans in the Americas were probably much earlier than we have thought.
The pigs of Camp Thomas Paine.
The "brown babies" of WWII.
Britain's very bad winter of 1763.
Iowa's strange cult city.
The case of the disappearing heiress.
The man who invented Aztec crystal skulls.
How Archie Leach portrayed Cary Grant.
Napoleon's sanest sister.
Science explains why cats love catnip.
The latest from Easter Island.
There may be more Dead Sea Scrolls.
A famous diver's strange death.
Peanut butter: from sanitarium to supermarket.
A notable 20th century psychic.
19th century hair combs.
The deadly vamp of New Orleans.
The shortest street in the world.
The hacker who saved the internet.
That's it for this week! Tune in on Monday, when we'll look at a famed Southern haunted house. In the meantime, here's a jaunty little tune from the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra:
A most interesting mystery, the death of Kramer. I don't put much stock in a paranoid's claim that if he dies, it won't be suicide or accident; a paranoid would say that. But his behaviour was certainly strange, though perhaps not out of keeping with someone whose mind is becoming unhinged.
ReplyDeleteAnd the article on Cary Grant is fascinating. It sounds like Eyman's book is much more a psychological biography than most others would be. Grant sounds like he had rather a sad life, after all.