"...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, October 30, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

 


Everyone here at Strange Company HQ wishes you a happy Halloween!



In which an 18th century priest meets a troll.

Gunnhild, Mother of Kings.

The strange case of the Crow Hill Bones.

So now we know what is the oldest pub in England.

The Abominable Snowman visits Massachusetts.

I thought you'd like to know that someone is cataloging public restrooms.  (And, yeah, I don't want to know what this person's other hobbies might be.)

All right, I know you're itching to read about coffin torpedoes.

A haunted Pennsylvania farm.

Rewritng Mesoamerican history.

Gef, everyone's favorite talking mongoose.

A UFO wave in Puerto Rico.

A terrifying wake.

The difference between Suffragettes and Suffragists.

More particularly disturbing deaths.

Mysteries of the pyramids.

A brief history of dangerous fairies.

AI is helping scientists recover a library from Pompeii.

When London had a railway for the dead.

A real-life Dr. Frankenstein.

An example of ancient Roman nanotech.

The Green Man of Pittsburgh.

How Bruce McCandless earned the Medal of Honor.

An 1888 electric vehicle.  (As an aside, "Flocken Elektrowagen" would be a great name for an electropunk band.)

Ivan the Terrible wanted to marry Elizabeth I, and wouldn't they have been a fun couple.

Three hangings in Pennsylvania.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a young man's eerie death.  In the meantime, here's Linda Thompson.

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