Archive for
‘November, 2013’

The Turkey Horror, an 1895 Holiday Cartoon.

Tales of Terrible Turkeys: A Thanksgiving Post Tales of terrible and vindictive turkeys. Long before the invention of the deep-fat turkey fryer so loathed by the underwriting community, dangerous turkeys were in the news.

The proper footwear is essential on the road to dusty death. Many cultures have a tradition of proper footwear for corpses. Why do the dead need shoes?

Little Howard Winham demands two of everything–one for himself and–most baffling for his parents–one for his dead twin?

Subterranean Mysteries of Ohio Mysterious vaults found in Ohio. Giant bones! Roman coins! Strange hieroglyphics on a mine wall! Sensational….

A man with a venomous plan for clearing out the German trenches in World War I.

Feeding Private Rex and a Colonel Presents Arms: Two Stories from the Great War Two curiously solid apparitions from the trenches of the Great War. “Lieut. Smith said that it was quite a common occurrence for men in the war zone to see the ghosts of their comrades who had been killed.”

Shell Mischief: A Spiritualist Issues a Warning of Danger from the Sea An English Spiritualist performs a number of psychometric experiments in “Shell Mischief” with young ladies in darkened rooms. Of these experiments he wrote: “I draw the special attention of the medical profession to the serious physical injury many delicate persons receive, especially females; from the very common, very natural, and English-like custom of placing specimens of minerals, crystals, and shells upon the sitting-room tables and elsewhere.”

Hickman Whittington: Amateur Exorcist Coal miner and farmer Hickman Whittington took out classified ads stating that he could rid any house of any ghost with a single, secret Bible verse. It was guaranteed and absolutely free except for expenses.