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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Step on in for this week's Link Dump!
Don't be a wallflower!
A brief look at pet cemeteries.
The bison of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Those famed Hopkinsville Goblins.
Scientists have found oozing black eggs and nobody knows what in hell they are. Great.
A photography studio that turned matchmaker.
Life in Hong Kong during WWII.
The origins of the expression, "the whole nine yards."
In which we meet fairies riding around in a balloon.
A visit to Greyfriars Kirkyard.
The days of unclaimed letter lists.
The days when upper Manhattan had sleigh races.
Aerial photos of old London.
Crime and medieval pilgrimages.
Life in the 1902 German Navy.
Victorian electoral fraud.
The possibility that art existed before modern humans.
A meeting with a wood fairy.
The saddle that's rewriting the history of horseback riding.
A Gilded Age celebrity power couple.
Puffing for bronze monuments.
The Greek site that has seen a whole lot of battles.
Perhaps we all could be psychic.
A colonial con man.
A "lost" fragment of the New Testament has been found in the Vatican Archives.
Yet another spurned lover reaching for a gun.
The pigeon that Tesla loved.
A destructive Polish poltergeist.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an eerie sea mystery. In the meantime, here's a trip back to 1963.
Isn't that how many science fiction horror stories begin: finding unknown eggs deep under the sea and bringing them to the surface?? What a thrilling story was the destruction of the viaduct at Thermopylae; that's worthy of a movie - a real-life "Guns of Navarone". And the aerial photos of old London were wonderful: London when it's most prominent structure was a cathedral; now, the most prominent structure is a carnival ride...
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