Author: StrangeAgo

I thought that the whole telepathy things was super popular from the 1950s to the 1960s, but it turns out it was a popular subject…

Imagine going up into the attic and finding a mummy stashed away in a box. I’d be freaking ecstatic, as was the Peabody Museum when…

Growing up, absolutely loving cryptozoology, I never knew that old newspapers would be a great source for researching hunts for creatures like the plesiosaurus. Expects…

While the New York State Tenement House Act (1867) required tenement homes to have fire escapes, tragedies continued to happen. In the newspaper article below,…

Phonographs are taking over the planet and one day records will be sent out weekly to everyone who owns a player. While certainly dated (1920),…

Vaseline, a product generically called petroleum jelly, is a byproduct of oil drilling. It is the dirty sludge, called rod wax, that gunks up the…

Working in the mills and factories was dangerous in the past. There were no safety regulations and when a fire broke out, it was total…

A lot of strange stories came out of the Titanic’s sinking. Two of them had to do with two separate ships that were sighted in…

Newspapers from the late 1800s and early 1900s have numerous accounts of indigenous people from all over the world. This particular article covers the domestic…

And so the curse of the mummy begins! What is interesting about this report of a cursed mummy is the claim that it was sent…