Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
However, I'm not sure I like what the Strange Company HQ staffers are planning for today's menu.
What the hell was the Dover Demon?
An archaeological mystery near Yellowstone.
A fatal obsession with an actress.
The "f word" goes a long way back.
In 1900, these were women's favorite weapons.
A look at the latest book about Poe. It sounds a bit pretentious, but whatever.
How do we talk to aliens? Assuming we want to.
Witchcraft has become a big business.
The "Black Bird" of Chernobyl.
Borley Rectory, our most controversial haunted house.
The Royal Navy versus pirates.
The man who went from reporting on Parliament to becoming an MP.
Pasteur and the "accidental vaccine."
Why some witches were hanged and some were burned.
Elephants are darn good doctors.
Octopuses are darn smart. Probably good doctors, too, who knows?
Over 700 years ago, a man died from being hit by a car. Well, all right, maybe it was a trebuchet.
The end of the Bronze Age.
Plants are turning themselves into fairy circles.
An "ancient underwater city" and Noah's Ark.
The Normandy invasion and "Operation Sparrow."
The Black Death really didn't know when to leave.
Selling coffins isn't always fun and games.
Brahms and "Madame Composer."
Several young women who were abducted from their cars.
The secretaries who made Elizabeth I sound angrier.
The legends of a haunted Alaskan island.
More talking dogs than you can shake a stick at.
A brief history of London Freemasonry.
A brief history of bedpans.
The doors of Old London.
The burials at Gobekli Tepe.
A small town with a lot of ghosts.
What disease did the Elephant Man have? (Short scientific answer: "Dunno.")
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an encounter with...fairies? Ghosts? God knows what? In the meantime, here's Handel.
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