


A Fiery Tour of Hell for Children and other Youngsters

The Night Joseph Dunninger Spooked a Spiritualist with a $21,000 Check

The Iron Chair and Jean Calas’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in 1762

The Strange Afterlife of the Eccentric Hannah Beswick

Anatomy Takes on All Forms at Amsterdam’s Museum Vrolik

Four Crappy Ailments Once Believed to Have Been Cured by Reptile Poop

The Man Who Grows Reached the Height of Vaudeville and Astounded Scientists

A Rather Brief History of Life on the Moon

Blood Rushed to Their Heads, And Sometimes Beyond: Meet the Victorian Ceiling Walkers

True Ghost Stories, According to Psychic Investigator Hereward Carrington

Bringing Lorraine Warren Back From the Grave

A Few Brief Words and Illustrations Brought to You From the Dead

Looking for a 19th-Century Anatomical Model or a Ceramic Poppyseed Bagel? The Doyle Oddities Auction Has It All.

That Time When Body Snatchers Entered the City of the Dead

The Greatest Robot of the 1700s was a Pooping Duck

Charlotte Canda: A Tragic Death and Magnificent Monument

Robert Wadlow, the Tallest Man Ever, Should’ve Been Nine Feet Tall

Where to Find a 19th-Century Anatomical Model of a Horse and Other Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Have

Murder, Accidental Deaths and Other Misfortunes When Hypnosis Goes Wrong

A Few Curious Tales of Human Tails

Black Scorpion is Selling His Super Happy Fun Hands

The Sacred Hairy Family of Burma, Lobster Boy’s Hand, and Other Oddities from The Freakatorium That Could Be Yours

Are There Ghosts of People Who Spoke to Ghosts? Meet the Spiritualists of Green-Wood Cemetery.

An Interview with Mariam Dadgar, the Fortune-Telling Bearded Lady

A Peek into The Haunted Houses of Camille Flammarion

Harry Houdini vs the Spirit Photographers and the Ghosts That Weren’t

A Work of Human Art 66 Years in the Making

George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities and Wonders Will Creep You Out

Can a Chimpanzee Become Human?

The 360th Anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s Afterlife

Thank You Ward Hall, King of the Sideshows, for all the Wonders of the World

Ezekiel Eads, the Earless Man Who Heard Through His Mouth

William Mumler and the Great Spirit Photograph Craze of the 1860s

The Museum of the Weird Lives Up to its Name

The Man Who Ate Anything and a Whole Lot of It

Benjamin Franklin Outwits Death and Keeps Writing Clever Aphorisms

Just a Simple Case of Poltergeist from 1925

Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem from the Spirit World

The Twisted and Beautifully Bizarre Creatures from The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel
Happy 208th Birthday to The Greatest Showman on Earth, P.T. Barnum

A Brief History of the Brief History of Hen Fever

Exposing Ectoplasm and the Fraudulent Mediums Who Coughed It Up

God Told This Man to Fast for 52 Days, Then Let Him Drink Squirrel Soup

The Golden Lotus: A Millennia of Tortured Feet and Fashion

A Few Things to Know About the Extraordinary Tocci Brothers

Photographing Thoughts and Souls with Hippolyte Baraduc

How many beings lived on Jupiter in 1830?

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”
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Silent Film Star Charlie Chaplin Makes Noise After Being Stolen From His Grave

The Dynasphere: The Car of the Future that Never Made it to the Future

Fred Ott and the First Sneeze Ever Caught on Film

