Curious Creatures Archive
A Few Cases of Killer Pigs Facing Capital Punishment
The Day a Baboon Walked the High Wire at Coney Island
The Curious Sale of the Damn Parrot Who Wouldn’t Shut the Hell Up
Just a Little Vampire Miscellanea
Circus Posters, an Electric Chair, and Other Ways to Make Your Home More Interesting
Looking for a 19th-Century Anatomical Model or a Ceramic Poppyseed Bagel? The Doyle Oddities Auction Has It All.
The Greatest Robot of the 1700s was a Pooping Duck
Where to Find a 19th-Century Anatomical Model of a Horse and Other Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Have
George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities and Wonders Will Creep You Out
Can a Chimpanzee Become Human?
The Museum of the Weird Lives Up to its Name
The Twisted and Beautifully Bizarre Creatures from The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel
A Brief History of the Brief History of Hen Fever
J. Fred Muggs, the Chimpanzee Star Who Was Viral Before Viral Was A Thing
The Monopod, or The One-Legged Man with a Giant Foot To Block the Sun
A Rather Brief Visit to the Panotti on “All Ears Islands”
Freaky Fish Collections in the 1930s
Tales of Headless Chickens and the Unexpected Lives They Led
Professor Fischer and His Most Extraordinary Hen with a Human Face
Things Said About the Talking Mongoose of the Isle of Man
Myths and Misunderstandings Regarding Mermaids
After 92 Years, A Two-Headed Calf Get Its Own Festival
The Unfortunate Case of the Two-Headed Sparrow
![Toby The Sapient Pig, 1817 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tobythesapientpig-1871-crop-370x297.jpg)
Words of Wisdom from History’s Most Scholarly Swine
![Lady Wonder - By Francis Wickware (Dr. Rhine and ESP. Life Magazine. April. 15, 1940) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lady_Wonder_Horse-By-Francis-Wickware-Dr.-Rhine-and-ESP.-Life-Magazine.-April.-15-1940-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-370x297.png)
Lady Wonder: The Nostradamus of Horses
The Russian Scientist Who Believed Two Heads Were Better Than One
When this Dog Talked, the World Listened
Forty-Four Presidents, a Hippo, Two Lions, a Wallaby, Two Alligators and One Bad-Tempered Badger.
