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Friday, January 16, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to this week's Link Dump! One of the Strange Company staffers is on jury duty, and I hear things are going about the way you...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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Via Newspapers.com One of the more unusual “death omen” stories appeared in the “Sentinel and Democrat,” April 10, 1844: Mr. Ponting, a tail...
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Monday, January 12, 2026

The Crossbow Murder

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Arlene Hoffman “Death by crossbow” sounds like something you’d see in medieval records, or an episode of “Midsomer Murders,” not in a modern...
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Friday, January 9, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where our hosts will be the cats of Manx! An ancient "party boat." An important incident i...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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Via Newspapers.com Hey, when a boxing, beer-guzzling cat becomes the subject of litigation, I’m there .  The “San Francisco Examiner,” Octob...
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Monday, January 5, 2026

The Automobile From the Past: A Time-Slip Story

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In the Spring 1988 issue of “Strange Magazine,” Ken Meaux described a very eerie event experienced by someone he had personally interviewed,...
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Friday, January 2, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to the first Link Dump of 2026! The U-2 incident. Yet another rejected suitor turns to murder. The theory that we started out as M...
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