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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...

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

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

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

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

  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...

  Yes, indeed, another year has come to an end, which means it's time for my annual look at this blog's best--or, at least, most pop...