


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

Jack Hill Was Not the Sharpest Sword Swallower

Forget Martians—What About Life on Venus?

The Sword Swallower Who Almost Won America’s Got Talent: Meet Brett Loudermilk

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

A Few Cases of Duels That Didn’t Happen in the Old West

Reminiscences of the Elephant Man, Now Available

When Baby Cages Were a Thing and Safety Wasn’t

The Time a Bearded Lady Went to Jail to Grow a New Beard

The Woman Who Laughed at Death: A Chat About Evatima Tardo with Bess Lovejoy

Thomas Schweicker, the Calligrapher Who Didn’t Need Hands or Arms

Just a Little Vampire Miscellanea

Cheers! From Mars! A Conversation About Alcohol in Space with Explore Mars CEO, Chris Carberry.

Talking UFOs and Extraterrestrials with Lee Speigel of The Phenomenon

The Art of the Art of Magic: An Interview with Philip David Treece

“We Don’t Have Meat Here” and Other News from the Afterlife

The Piano Medium That Played the Crowd

Excerpt from The Talking Dead: An Interview with Abe Lincoln

The Sight of Hell is Now On Sale—For Under Ten Bucks

In Case You Didn’t Know, Houdini’s Bathtub Could Be Yours

Everything You Need to Know About Spirit Slate Writing and, of course, Kindred Phenomena

Launching Everywhere on Earth: The Big Book of Mars

When Automatic Writing Brought Us Words from Beyond the Grave

Meet the Man Who Got Jilted By His Spirit Bride and Sued

How to See Ghosts in the Comfort of Your Own Home

A Few Not-So-Odd Questions for Freeman and Fugate Oddities.

Rope Escapes, Musical Ghosts, and the Mysterious Magic of the Davenport Brothers

Satan, the Rumplestiltskin of the Devil’s Bible

Meet George Romondo, the 18th-Century’s Most Eccentric Mimic

The Museum of Interesting Things is Exactly as Promised

Fun and Horror with Ventriloquism Through History

Alfred Pilgrim: The Boy Who Lived without Arms and Legs

Martin Van Butchell: The Man Who Embalmed his Wife and Cured Carbuncles

Chin Up, Head off: Headless Portraits in the Victorian Age

The World’s Greatest Knife-Throwing Mom (and the World’s Bravest Daughters)

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

Mother Shipton: The Witch of York, England’s Prophetess, the Devil’s Daughter, or Hoax?

A Fiery Tour of Hell for Children and other Youngsters

The Night Joseph Dunninger Spooked a Spiritualist with a $21,000 Check

The Iron Chair and Jean Calas’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in 1762

The Strange Afterlife of the Eccentric Hannah Beswick

Anatomy Takes on All Forms at Amsterdam’s Museum Vrolik

Four Crappy Ailments Once Believed to Have Been Cured by Reptile Poop

The Man Who Grows Reached the Height of Vaudeville and Astounded Scientists

A Rather Brief History of Life on the Moon

Blood Rushed to Their Heads, And Sometimes Beyond: Meet the Victorian Ceiling Walkers

True Ghost Stories, According to Psychic Investigator Hereward Carrington

Bringing Lorraine Warren Back From the Grave

A Few Brief Words and Illustrations Brought to You From the Dead

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
