Charlotte Canda: A Tragic Death and Magnificent Monument
Robert Wadlow, the Tallest Man Ever, Should’ve Been Nine Feet Tall
Where to Find a 19th-Century Anatomical Model of a Horse and Other Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Have
Murder, Accidental Deaths and Other Misfortunes When Hypnosis Goes Wrong
A Few Curious Tales of Human Tails
Black Scorpion is Selling His Super Happy Fun Hands
The Sacred Hairy Family of Burma, Lobster Boy’s Hand, and Other Oddities from The Freakatorium That Could Be Yours
Are There Ghosts of People Who Spoke to Ghosts? Meet the Spiritualists of Green-Wood Cemetery.
An Interview with Mariam Dadgar, the Fortune-Telling Bearded Lady
A Peek into The Haunted Houses of Camille Flammarion
Harry Houdini vs the Spirit Photographers and the Ghosts That Weren’t
A Work of Human Art 66 Years in the Making
George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities and Wonders Will Creep You Out
Can a Chimpanzee Become Human?
The 360th Anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s Afterlife
Thank You Ward Hall, King of the Sideshows, for all the Wonders of the World
Ezekiel Eads, the Earless Man Who Heard Through His Mouth
William Mumler and the Great Spirit Photograph Craze of the 1860s
The Museum of the Weird Lives Up to its Name
The Man Who Ate Anything and a Whole Lot of It
Benjamin Franklin Outwits Death and Keeps Writing Clever Aphorisms
Just a Simple Case of Poltergeist from 1925
Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem from the Spirit World
The Twisted and Beautifully Bizarre Creatures from The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel
Happy 208th Birthday to The Greatest Showman on Earth, P.T. Barnum
A Brief History of the Brief History of Hen Fever
Exposing Ectoplasm and the Fraudulent Mediums Who Coughed It Up
God Told This Man to Fast for 52 Days, Then Let Him Drink Squirrel Soup
The Golden Lotus: A Millennia of Tortured Feet and Fashion
A Few Things to Know About the Extraordinary Tocci Brothers
Photographing Thoughts and Souls with Hippolyte Baraduc
How many beings lived on Jupiter in 1830?
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”
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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
The French Botanist Who Figured Out What Martians Look Like
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)
Intelligent Life on Mars and the Canals that Put Us Earthlings to Shame
Freaky Fish Collections in the 1930s
The Time a Man Tried to Take Blondin’s Life While Riding Piggyback on the High Wire
An Extraordinary Feat of Penmanship, or a Beautiful Example of Evil Spirit Writing
Brief Notes on Martin Laurello, the Human Owl
Earth to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact Martians via Radio
Seeing Through the Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Astral Projection and the Quest to Photograph the Soul
Excerpts from a Phrenological Review of Oliver Cromwell’s Embalmed Head
