weird history Archive
The Book Written by the Ghost of Mark Twain is Back from the Dead
The Strangest Book on Earth: Take a Peek Behind the Sideshow Curtain with Showman C. M. Christ
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula Strikes Fear into Innocent Follicles
A Few Cases of Killer Pigs Facing Capital Punishment
The 360th Anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s Afterlife
Hooligans, Hat Smashing, and a Night of Police-Ordered Spankings
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
![Premature Burial [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons-Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story The Premature Burial by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919.](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/premature-burial-crop-370x297.jpg)
Proper Care for the Not-Quite-Dead-Yet: The London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial
A Clever Escape For The Buried Alive
Post-Mortem Telepathic Hypnotism: A Theory on Haunted Houses
History’s Most Unusual Gift: A Table Made of Brains, Ears, a Foot and Other Preserved Body Parts
The Unfortunate Career of Charles-Henri Sanson: Executioner of France
![Pharmacie Rustique, by Nach Natur gezeichn et von G. Locher (1730 - 1795) (1774), graviert von Bartholomäus Hübner (1775) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Pharmacie_Rustique-By-Nach-Natur-gezeichn-et-von-G.-Locher-1730-1795-1774-graviert-von-Bartholomäus-Hübner-1775-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-cropped-370x297.jpg)
7 Examples of Medical Remedies Using Animal Dung from 1747
The Oddest Family That Ever Lived
The Car Only a Horse Could Love
The Russian Scientist Who Believed Two Heads Were Better Than One
When this Dog Talked, the World Listened
Raining Cats and Dogs is One Thing, but Frogs and Fish?
The Very Serious History of Silly Putty
Forty-Four Presidents, a Hippo, Two Lions, a Wallaby, Two Alligators and One Bad-Tempered Badger.
See a Knife Thrower, Sword Swallower and Other Sideshow Performers in 3D
Before Email, The Fastest Way To Send Mail Was By Missile
When Man-Bats Lived on the Moon
Clever Hans: The Horse That Knew Everything (Sort Of)
The Man Who Was Twice As Big As Andre the Giant
The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
