Misc. Archive
Skull Moss: History’s Gruesome Cure for Whatever Ails You
When the Earth was Flat and Surrounded by Walls of Ice
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
A Gang of Ghouls Go After Lincoln’s Body
The Wondrous, Marvelous, Curative Miracle That Wasn’t: Dr. Hercules Sanche’s Oxydonor
Thirteen Favors Given by a Hangman
Collect a Piece of Ricky Jay’s Extraordinary Collection
He Was Buried Alive But Dug Up to Be Dissected By Anatomists
Holy Land USA is Now Creepy Land USA
The Flying Saucers That Didn’t Attack Seattle in 1952
Houdini’s Tales of Sword Swallowers, Fire Eaters, Poison Defiers, Human Ostriches, and Other Miracle Mongers
For Those Who Like Reading about the Writing of the Insane
Promises of Utopia: A Look Back at Kennedy vs Nixon vs the UFO Spacemen’s Candidate
Don’t Mess With the Knife Thrower: The Great Throwdini Talks Impalement Arts and Murderabilia
The Day a Baboon Walked the High Wire at Coney Island
For Sale: All the Things You Didn’t Know You Needed at Anastacia’s Antiques
A Few Cases of Duels That Didn’t Happen in the Old West
When Baby Cages Were a Thing and Safety Wasn’t
In Case You Didn’t Know, Houdini’s Bathtub Could Be Yours
A Few Not-So-Odd Questions for Freeman and Fugate Oddities.
The Museum of Interesting Things is Exactly as Promised
Fun and Horror with Ventriloquism Through History
Chin Up, Head off: Headless Portraits in the Victorian Age
Circus Posters, an Electric Chair, and Other Ways to Make Your Home More Interesting
The Iron Chair and Jean Calas’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in 1762
Looking for a 19th-Century Anatomical Model or a Ceramic Poppyseed Bagel? The Doyle Oddities Auction Has It All.
That Time When Body Snatchers Entered the City of the Dead
Charlotte Canda: A Tragic Death and Magnificent Monument
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
The Monopod, or The One-Legged Man with a Giant Foot To Block the Sun
![Charlie Chaplin's grave. By Giramondo1 from Vila Isabel, Brasil (Charlie Chaplin, R.I.P.Uploaded by Manoillon) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Charlie_Chaplin_grave-crop-370x297.jpg)
Silent Film Star Charlie Chaplin Makes Noise After Being Stolen From His Grave
The Dynasphere: The Car of the Future that Never Made it to the Future
Fred Ott and the First Sneeze Ever Caught on Film
Hooligans, Hat Smashing, and a Night of Police-Ordered Spankings
Afraid of Being Abducted by Aliens? There’s Insurance for That.
18th-Century Philosopher Jeremy Bentham is on Tour
The Myth and Mayhem of the Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar
The Hanged Man Who Lived to Murder Again (and Other Bungled Executions)
The Time a Man Tried to Take Blondin’s Life While Riding Piggyback on the High Wire
Taphophobia and a Little Help From Dead-Houses
![Artificial nose, 17th-18th century, made of plated metal. Such noses would have been made to replace an original, which may have been congenitally absent or deformed, lost through accident or during combat or due to a degenerative disease, such as syphilis. By Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Artificial_nose_17th-18th_century_By-Science-Museum-London-Science-and-Society-Picture-Library-CC-BY-SA-2.0-via-Wikimedia-Commons-370x297.jpg)
Things to Know About the No Noses Club
A Case of Hypnotism Gone Wrong and a Desperate Attempt to Make It Right
After 92 Years, A Two-Headed Calf Get Its Own Festival
![Premature Burial [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons-Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story The Premature Burial by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919.](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/premature-burial-crop-370x297.jpg)
Proper Care for the Not-Quite-Dead-Yet: The London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial
Les Diableries: A Jaunt Through Hell in Spectacular 3D
Galileo Observed the Universe. You Can Observe His Fingers.
Death, Design, and the Extraordinary Crypt of the Capuchin Monks
Body Snatching and a Singular Case of a Corpse’s Revenge
A Clever Escape For The Buried Alive
The Funeral Rite Few Could Stomach
Clifford Calverley: Flirting with Death for Fun and Fame
