Scientific Oddities

Poisoned by a Blotter A young woman is nearly killed by a blotter soaked in poisonous perfume.

Dr. Sinclair and the Fourth Dimension A respectable physician terrifies himself with his esoteric studies –and receives some visitors from the Fourth Dimension with a plan to end the First World War.

The Goblin Jacket A strange, but pointless manifestation of a murdered fisherman: his jacket floating in a pond in Barbados.

A Light of Peculiar Color A Civil War soldier tells how he was lost in a cave and saved by some luminous being.

A Weeping Virgin Ends in Tears. A sensational case of a weeping Virgin Mary statue in Bordeaux and its several dire sequels.

Mummy and Child In 1885, G.F. Martindale and his party made an amazing discovery in a cave in the Yosemite Valley: the mummified body of a giant woman, still holding an infant.

Mr. Miller Wants to Speak to You: A Dead Friend on the Phone. A phone call from the dead apparently put through a personal assistant in the Afterlife.

Raining Sovereigns: Mysterious Money Falls

The Mansfield Memorial Museum: Celebrating Atlas Obscura Day in Ohio In honor of Atlas Obscura Day. A visit to the unique Ohio museum founded by amateur naturalist Edward Wilkinson and brought brilliantly back to life by Scott Schaut.