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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
I'd invite you all for dinner, but the kitchen staffers at Strange Company HQ are having One Of Those Days.
A plant that is "both ghost and vampire."
Victorian era swapping.
The practice of feeding the dead to vultures.
Railway travel in 19th century France.
Mexico's "back door to Hell."
Why "Fido" became a popular dog name.
Rules for medieval anchoresses.
Ancient fortune-telling tools.
A genealogist goes rogue.
Scary medieval animals.
Scary medieval witches.
The range of mystical experiences.
Drunken ghosts! Cannibal ghosts!
Julius Caesar vs. the pirates.
Humans aren't the only ones who like to tie one on.
When numbers were tactile.
Why ghosts aren't usually naked.
An alien abduction case in Los Angeles. (A caveat: I live in L.A., and it's often hard to tell the extraterrestrial visitors from the native residents. Just FYI.)
An alien abduction case in New York.
We see them here, we see them there, we see those damned ghosts everywhere.
A visit to the UK's most haunted castle.
A wild story about a royal dentist.
The piece of cheese that nearly destroyed a rocket test.
October 31 is more than just Halloween.
Mark Twain's haunted house.
A brief history of palm reading.
A brief history of the muses.
The grim side of Victorian humor.
A memorial to librarians who died during WWI.
The strange case of the vanishing police chief.
More evidence that we've been underestimating Neanderthals.
A diplomatic incident, 1600.
A previously unknown Chopin piece has been discovered.
Victorian scientists were fascinated by ghosts.
Ancient Mesopotamians were fascinated by beer.
The Harvard astrophysicist who's fascinated by alien wreckage.
Maybe we shouldn't meditate. (And don't even talk to me about hypnosis. I know someone who was really screwed up by that crap.)
A brief history of the word, "scary."
The skeleton that confirmed a Norse saga.
Why smugglers used to love ghost stories.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a young woman's puzzling death. In the meantime, here's a lovely bit of Bach.
