


Bold and Bleak Predictions from 1913 About the Future of Humanity

A Glimpse Behind the Sideshow Curtain: Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown

A Few Cruel and Very Unusual Punishments

A Selection of 19th-Century Crisis Apparitions

Meet the Medium Who Fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and then Confessed Everything

Alexandre Patty: The Man Who Walked on His Head and Headed Straight for Global Fame

Oscar Wilde Goes Wild from the Afterlife

Goat Has An Explosive Appetite, Freaks Out Entire Town

The Martians are Coming! Author David Baron Speaks About His New Book, “The Martians”

The Strangest Book on Earth: Take a Peek Behind the Sideshow Curtain with Showman C. M. Christ

The Werewolf of Bedburg: Peter Stump’s Damnable Life and Death

Merry Widow Hats Were Not Always So Merry

A Fatal Case of the Famed Bullet Catch

Why Do Sword Swallowers Do It? Hear It Straight From Their Steel-Guzzling Mouths in the To The Hilt Podcast.

The Strange Case of the One-Legged Man Who Assaulted a One-Armed Man with a Three-Legged Stool

Most Books Hope to Inspire You. This One Strongly Warns Against It.

Jim the Wonder Dog Truly Lived Up to His Name

Cults, Cryptids, and Cursed Objects: One Quirk Author Interviews Another

The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula Strikes Fear into Innocent Follicles

An Interview with a Horror Historian: Jeremy Dauber, Author of “American Scary”

The Ouija Board Told Her to Kill, She Listened

Don’t Mess with the Not-So-Greatest Knife Thrower

“Atlas of Paranormal Places” Enlightens Dark Tourists

The Man Who Didn’t Sleep for (At Least) Thirty Years

Skull Moss: History’s Gruesome Cure for Whatever Ails You

Did Aliens Leave Their Elongated Skulls Behind?

When the Earth was Flat and Surrounded by Walls of Ice

Meet Thomas Inglefield: A Peek into the Pages of “Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum”
The Case For Spirit Photography is Back From the Dead

Martians, Hoaxers, and UFOs at the Turn of the Century: The Great Airship Flap of 1896 and 1897

Peril and Pride in Proboscis Peanut-Pushing Up Pikes Peak

Warnings from Jupiter, and Other Extraterrestrial Experiences from Contactees of the 1950s

Just One of Hereward Carrington’s Many Adventures in Spiritualism

A Gang of Ghouls Go After Lincoln’s Body

We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies

Swallowing Swords and Loaded Guns: The Key to a Happy Marriage

Werewolf Stories to Tell Under a Full Moon (or Any Moon)

Angus MacAskill, World’s Strongest Giant?

The Wondrous, Marvelous, Curative Miracle That Wasn’t: Dr. Hercules Sanche’s Oxydonor

A Few Cases of Killer Pigs Facing Capital Punishment

Selections from The Book of Wonderful Characters

Thirteen Favors Given by a Hangman

Appetite for Intestinal Destruction: The Man Who Ate Glass, Nails, Tacks, and Frogs

A Conversation with the Dead About Levitation

Collect a Piece of Ricky Jay’s Extraordinary Collection

Remembering the Forgotten Georgia Wonder: Mattie Lee Price

Is Anybody Out There? The National UFO Historical Records Center Helps Search For Answers

Peek Inside the Life of a 1930s Sideshow Star: The Rubber Skin Lady’s Scrapbook is Now For Sale

39 Remarkable and Terrifying Things Experienced at a Eusapia Palladino Séance

A Strange Ouija Board Prediction and the Stranger Lives of the Blazek Sisters

He Was Buried Alive But Dug Up to Be Dissected By Anatomists

Mr. Boys: The Man Who Wanted to Leave His Body to the Girls

Four-Legged Phantoms and Paranormal Poultry

