Posts in category Vintage + Historical Oddities

From effigy burning to plate breaking, furniture throwing, and demon visits, check out how locals in other parts of the world celebrate.

This urban myth proves you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet.

The giving of milk and cookies is said to have its origins not in gifts to Santa’s reindeer, but to the horse of the Norse god Odin!

A Christmas Carol was written to make Dickens’ views on the sorry state of Victorian society more palatable to his audience!

He became the dreaded Christmas scarecrow: adorned in straw as a disguise, waiting on lonely roads for a victim.

Where do pardoned gobblers go? The luckiest head to Disney World!

It’s inarguable the Thanksgiving food—and the company—have just gotten better over time.

Raccoons are supposedly full of meat less fatty than that of the more-commonly-consumed opossum.

While you’re probably used to sharing some of these famous stories with your kids, their original iterations are certainly far beyond G-ratings.

Audiences packed theaters to laugh at the sisters’ terrible performances. But there’s much more to their story.