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A walk on the weird side of history

Friday, January 23, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to this week's Link Dump! Feel free to join the Strange Company staffers in winter's first snowball fight. No, most mediev...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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Via Newspapers.com This evocative tale of a missing person’s ghost appeared in the “Democratic Northwest,” October 18. 1894: Fully 20 years ...
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Monday, January 19, 2026

The Baron and the Ghost

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On December 24th, 1922, the “Weekly Dispatch” carried a Christmas ghost story narrated by the wonderfully named Alexander Peregrine Fuller-A...
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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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