Strange Bodies

Encore: Elbows on the Table: Professor Segato’s Petrified Corpse Furniture

In an obscure museum in Florence, Italy, there is an object–a table top–which looks like it is inlaid with polished semi-precious stones. In fact, it is made of pieces of petrified human corpses.

The Sitting Dead – Bizarre Burials and Curious Coffins

The Sitting Dead – Bizarre Burials and Curious Coffins A cavalcade of curious coffins and bizarre burials: standing, sitting, on horseback, in a whiskey barrel, or a brick…

A Curious County: Bracken County, Kentucky Forteana

A Curious County: Bracken County, Kentucky Forteana A “Devil’s Backbone,” a treasure cave with a giant skeleton, an imposter on a grand scale, mysterious faces in window glass, big snakes, fiery devils, and sin-induced levitation—who knew that one small and very rural Kentucky county could be so infested with fortean excitement?

Current Events: Electric Ladies: Interesting People #6

Current Events: Electric Ladies: Interesting People #6 An illuminating look at three 19th-century Electric Ladies, two of whom do not fit the usual profile of PK experiencer.

Entombed in Cement at the Keokuk Dam and the Big Four Bridge

Entombed in Cement at the Keokuk Dam and the Big Four Bridge Two of those classic “man entombed in cement while the authorities look the other way” stories that MUST be legend and not fact.

Treasure Caves and Giant Skeletons

Stories of the discovery of two midwestern “treasure caves,” that were claimed to be the tombs of giants. What happened to the artifacts and the giant skeletons?

A Curse Visited on a Family of Zoarites in Western New York

In an isolated valley in Western New York lived a colony of strangely malformed settlers. It was almost as though they had been marked by the Devil himself.

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