
Curious Creatures Archive


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

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

A Few Cases of Killer Pigs Facing Capital Punishment

The Day a Baboon Walked the High Wire at Coney Island

The Curious Sale of the Damn Parrot Who Wouldn’t Shut the Hell Up

Just a Little Vampire Miscellanea

Circus Posters, an Electric Chair, and Other Ways to Make Your Home More Interesting

Looking for a 19th-Century Anatomical Model or a Ceramic Poppyseed Bagel? The Doyle Oddities Auction Has It All.

The Greatest Robot of the 1700s was a Pooping Duck

Where to Find a 19th-Century Anatomical Model of a Horse and Other Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Have

George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities and Wonders Will Creep You Out

Can a Chimpanzee Become Human?

The Museum of the Weird Lives Up to its Name

The Twisted and Beautifully Bizarre Creatures from The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel

A Brief History of the Brief History of Hen Fever

J. Fred Muggs, the Chimpanzee Star Who Was Viral Before Viral Was A Thing

The Monopod, or The One-Legged Man with a Giant Foot To Block the Sun

A Rather Brief Visit to the Panotti on “All Ears Islands”

Freaky Fish Collections in the 1930s

Tales of Headless Chickens and the Unexpected Lives They Led

Professor Fischer and His Most Extraordinary Hen with a Human Face

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
![Toby The Sapient Pig, 1817 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tobythesapientpig-1871-crop-370x297.jpg)
Words of Wisdom from History’s Most Scholarly Swine
![Lady Wonder - By Francis Wickware (Dr. Rhine and ESP. Life Magazine. April. 15, 1940) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lady_Wonder_Horse-By-Francis-Wickware-Dr.-Rhine-and-ESP.-Life-Magazine.-April.-15-1940-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-370x297.png)
Lady Wonder: The Nostradamus of Horses

The Russian Scientist Who Believed Two Heads Were Better Than One

When this Dog Talked, the World Listened

Forty-Four Presidents, a Hippo, Two Lions, a Wallaby, Two Alligators and One Bad-Tempered Badger.
