America’s Favorite Pastime: Live Train Crashing
A wild cascade of wreckage tossed hundreds of yards in every direction.
Posts in category Vintage + Historical Oddities
All the bizarre, seldom seen, and utterly delightfully odd and strange people, places and stories from a bygone era
Was George Washington The Founding Father of Marijuana?
Rumors of Washington’s blunt-smoking days have been greatly exaggerated…
The Fact And Fiction Behind Exorcisms
The ending of The Exorcist? It makes no sense.
The Hidden Mothers In Victorian Baby Photos
Why were mothers hidden behind curtains and under cloths?
The Living Legacy of Lucy the Elephant
An elephant who’s impossible to forget.
An 18th-Century Chess-Playing Robot: The Mechanical Turk
Keeping queens and kings in “échec” since 1769.
That Time The U.S. Military Accidentally Dropped An Atomic Bomb
An airman accidentally pulled the manual release, sending the bomb crashing through closed bomb bay doors.
The Man Who Bought Stonehenge At Auction
American millionaires wanted to buy it and ship it stateside!
The Cardiff Giant: A Stone Man’s Secrets
Even P.T. Barnum tried to buy the giant.
Children Played With Toy Guillotines During The Great Terror
Children would decapitate dolls, even live rats, with their bladed toys.