Scientific Oddities

The Vapor-man of Brown’s Woods A strange column of vapor shaped like a colossal man startles two witnesses in Brown’s Wood, Maryland.

Miss Neas’s Bones of Contention Doctors and other witnesses reported seeing hundreds of bones working their way through Sarah Neas’s skin

The Stone of Lorain A mysterious stone engraved with a ship, a name, and a date is found in Lorain County Ohio in 1838.

The Ice Viking or Entombed in an Iceberg for Centuries Drifting for ten centuries through the uncharted seas north of the Arctic Circle, traversing heaven knows how many thousand miles of snow and silence, perhaps pushed by the ever-grinding ice floes of the North Pole itself, the body of a Viking king a thousand years old has been returned at last to civilization.

The Woman in Black in the Window A group of men whose veracity cannot be questioned sees the apparition of a Woman in Black in a Primghar, Iowa window.

Vision of Seven Moons A gentleman sees some lunar oddities–multiple moons over the course of eighteen consecutive months.

Dermographia on Face and Knee Today we peer into the face of Mrs. Marcil of St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba, Canada, and onto the–well, knee–of a French schoolgirl for some mysterious markings.

Superfluous Snakes Today is the birthday of Charles Hoy Fort and what better way to celebrate than with a shower of snakes?

Fluff Sees a Phantom Mr Llewellyn’s cat, Fluff, sees a menacing phantom “Thing” baffling his master.