The Grave Symbolism Of Cemeteries
Some grave carvings were symbols of the dead’s summoning to hell.
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
Living In The Futuro
Some out-of-this-world architecture.
Unexplained Death Dioramas From the 1940s
They depict real crime scenes.
America’s Favorite Pastime: Live Train Crashing
A wild cascade of wreckage tossed hundreds of yards in every direction.
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.