Author: StrangeAgo

Polio was originally called “infant paralysis.” The newspaper report below comes from 1922, 33 years before a safe vaccination was discovered and used on the…

Here is a sweet mention of fairies in a 1911 newspaper article involving a opera singer’s success. DID THE FAIRIES HELP THIS “LITTLEST SOPRANO?” MAGGIE…

Biowarfare is nothing new, and when you begin reading newspapers from over 100 years ago you will see that people had the same exact fears…

Should the captain of the crew of the Titanic known that the skip was in danger when they entered that fateful spot so many years…

Love divinations on Halloween night can get pretty interesting. Here is one of the lesser known divinations that requires a group of people to discover…

Many of us go through life wanting to believe in the existence of ghosts, even though we have never seen one. Maybe we are located…

Imagine a time when getting thwacked by a head hunter was a real possibility. Unbelievably, this was a possibility even in the early 1900s, as…

This story comes from 1912. Surprised? Don’t be. In fact, American women have been kidnapped and sold to other countries since the writing of the…

Horrific murders are not just a thing of the present day. This story tells of an unknown woman found dead, with her skull split open….

Ismay, the controlling builder of the Titanic, will forever be known as a coward. While on the maiden voyage (and only voyage) of the Titanic,…