Afraid of Being Abducted by Aliens? There’s Insurance for That.
18th-Century Philosopher Jeremy Bentham is on Tour
The Myth and Mayhem of the Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar
The Hanged Man Who Lived to Murder Again (and Other Bungled Executions)
Intelligent Life on Mars and the Canals that Put Us Earthlings to Shame
Freaky Fish Collections in the 1930s
The Time a Man Tried to Take Blondin’s Life While Riding Piggyback on the High Wire
An Extraordinary Feat of Penmanship, or a Beautiful Example of Evil Spirit Writing
Brief Notes on Martin Laurello, the Human Owl
Earth to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact Martians via Radio
Seeing Through the Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Astral Projection and the Quest to Photograph the Soul
Excerpts from a Phrenological Review of Oliver Cromwell’s Embalmed Head
Tales of Headless Chickens and the Unexpected Lives They Led
The Great Mass Telepathy Experiment of 1927
A Rambling Description from 1820 of Armless Wonder John Valerius
How to Become a Three-Legged or Four-Legged Woman if You’re Not One Already
Fancy Dinners and Psychic Orgies with the London Ghost Club
Professor Fischer and His Most Extraordinary Hen with a Human Face
200 Words About the Man with Two Noses and Three Eyes
Giant Mirrors for Mars and a Plea to Andrew Carnegie
Taphophobia and a Little Help From Dead-Houses
Things Said About the Talking Mongoose of the Isle of Man
Nikolai Kobelkoff: No Arms, No Legs, Lots of Everything Else
Johnny Fox: A Tribute to the King of Swords
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Things to Know About the No Noses Club
A Case of Hypnotism Gone Wrong and a Desperate Attempt to Make It Right
Dan Rice, The Clown Who Ran For President
The Irish Giant vs. The Eager Anatomist
Myths and Misunderstandings Regarding Mermaids
After 92 Years, A Two-Headed Calf Get Its Own Festival
Stone-Eaters: A Hard Way to Make An Easy Buck
Daniel Lambert and the Origins of Obesity on Exhibition
The Unfortunate Case of the Two-Headed Sparrow
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Proper Care for the Not-Quite-Dead-Yet: The London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial
Les Diableries: A Jaunt Through Hell in Spectacular 3D
Lottie Fowler: The Psychic Who Officially Went Insane
Galileo Observed the Universe. You Can Observe His Fingers.
Inside the Never-Before-Seen Scrapbook of the Rubber Skin Lady, a 1930s-era Sideshow Star
Death, Design, and the Extraordinary Crypt of the Capuchin Monks
Body Snatching and a Singular Case of a Corpse’s Revenge
A Clever Escape For The Buried Alive
A Short History of the Exhibition of Ossified People
Post-Mortem Telepathic Hypnotism: A Theory on Haunted Houses
Dr. Ding and His Three Extreme Fingernails
The Wonderful and Eccentric Lazarus Colloredo and his Parasitic Twin
A Strange Case of Animals Generating Within the Human Body
A Short Story About The Long Nose of Thomas Wedders
The Funeral Rite Few Could Stomach
Medusa Van Allen: The Woman Who Couldn’t Grow
Mars Has Women. And Other Tall People with Big Ears.
Just a Few Tricks Mediums Use To Lift Tables At Séances
![Ted Serios, by Jule Eisenbud [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ted_Serios_1-crop-370x297.jpg)
Ted Serios, the Man Who Could Print Photos From His Mind
![Toby The Sapient Pig, 1817 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tobythesapientpig-1871-crop-370x297.jpg)