Author: StrangeAgo

Scottish nobleman, Walter Stewart, was believed to have wanted the crown of King James I of Scotland for himself, but when he was found complicit…

The story of the Halifax Gibbet begins and ends in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The little town had its humble beginnings in sheep farming. Eventually,…

The Wild West was full of danger, fortune, and men who were willing to risk anything for the promise of fame, money, and freedom. In…

Our ancients had many strange beliefs and superstitions about magnets (lodestones). In the article below, published in 1913, the unknown author brings up some of…

Most of us have heard stories about hangings in the Old West, the firing squads in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah, the electric chair, and the…

The article below gives a basic description of Nikola Tesla’s magnetic motor and its most basic applications. Originally published in 1895. Tesla’s Magic Motor A…

I pulled this article from a newspaper published in 1920 because it touches on a bit of the history of the magnet, and it also…

Before 1889, Colorado hangings were public and gruesome. Those condemned to die by hanging sometimes twitched and kicked about on the end of a rope…

Hi everyone. It’s Elizabeth, and I am taking a momentary break from our dark and depressing past. For a bit of fun, I went to…

Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. The king put together a written set of legal code that contained 282…