


Elmer McCurdy: The Outlaw Who Outlived All Others

Sylvester, the Mummy of the West

The Flying Saucers That Didn’t Attack Seattle in 1952

When Mozart Was Commissioned By a Ghost

Sideshow Hall of Fame Inducts the Class of 2022

The Cuter Side of the Other Side

The Ghosts of Dickens’s Past

A Ghost is Busted: The 12-Year-Old Who Spooked a New Jersey Town in 1900

Houdini’s Tales of Sword Swallowers, Fire Eaters, Poison Defiers, Human Ostriches, and Other Miracle Mongers

Haunted Sites, Miraculous Mediums, and Spirits Through the Centuries in Your Weird Historian’s New Book, “Chasing Ghosts”

When Flying Saucers Spoke and a Few People Listened

For Those Who Like Reading about the Writing of the Insane

Jack the Ripper, Hypnotism, and Murderous What-Ifs

The Time the Clock-Eyed Boy Had His Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Roadside Attractions and Other Curiosities with Ambassador of Odd, Tim O’Brien

Promises of Utopia: A Look Back at Kennedy vs Nixon vs the UFO Spacemen’s Candidate

Don’t Mess With the Knife Thrower: The Great Throwdini Talks Impalement Arts and Murderabilia

The Day a Baboon Walked the High Wire at Coney Island

For Sale: All the Things You Didn’t Know You Needed at Anastacia’s Antiques

Jack Hill Was Not the Sharpest Sword Swallower

Forget Martians—What About Life on Venus?

The Sword Swallower Who Almost Won America’s Got Talent: Meet Brett Loudermilk

The Curious Sale of the Damn Parrot Who Wouldn’t Shut the Hell Up

A Few Cases of Duels That Didn’t Happen in the Old West

Reminiscences of the Elephant Man, Now Available

When Baby Cages Were a Thing and Safety Wasn’t

The Time a Bearded Lady Went to Jail to Grow a New Beard

The Woman Who Laughed at Death: A Chat About Evatima Tardo with Bess Lovejoy

Thomas Schweicker, the Calligrapher Who Didn’t Need Hands or Arms

Just a Little Vampire Miscellanea

Cheers! From Mars! A Conversation About Alcohol in Space with Explore Mars CEO, Chris Carberry.

Talking UFOs and Extraterrestrials with Lee Speigel of The Phenomenon

The Art of the Art of Magic: An Interview with Philip David Treece

“We Don’t Have Meat Here” and Other News from the Afterlife

The Piano Medium That Played the Crowd

Excerpt from The Talking Dead: An Interview with Abe Lincoln
The Sight of Hell is Now On Sale—For Under Ten Bucks

In Case You Didn’t Know, Houdini’s Bathtub Could Be Yours
Everything You Need to Know About Spirit Slate Writing and, of course, Kindred Phenomena

Launching Everywhere on Earth: The Big Book of Mars

When Automatic Writing Brought Us Words from Beyond the Grave

Meet the Man Who Got Jilted By His Spirit Bride and Sued

How to See Ghosts in the Comfort of Your Own Home

A Few Not-So-Odd Questions for Freeman and Fugate Oddities.

Rope Escapes, Musical Ghosts, and the Mysterious Magic of the Davenport Brothers

Satan, the Rumplestiltskin of the Devil’s Bible

Meet George Romondo, the 18th-Century’s Most Eccentric Mimic

The Museum of Interesting Things is Exactly as Promised

Fun and Horror with Ventriloquism Through History

Alfred Pilgrim: The Boy Who Lived without Arms and Legs

Martin Van Butchell: The Man Who Embalmed his Wife and Cured Carbuncles

Chin Up, Head off: Headless Portraits in the Victorian Age

The World’s Greatest Knife-Throwing Mom (and the World’s Bravest Daughters)

