Author: StrangeAgo

Cosmetic baths from over 100 years ago were not so different from the all natural herb baths we take today. Sure, we won’t use rain…

Railroad accidents were extremely common in the 1800s and early 1900s. Every day, newspapers printed lists of accidents that happened on the railroads. Most of…

Potter’s field may seem like an odd name to give to a burial site that is meant for the bodies of the unknown, the poor,…

In 1902, a 34-year-old man was admitted to the London Hospital for having a tapeworm. He didn’t survive the medication they gave him and upon…

It is amazing how languages and words can get mixed up over the years, decades, and centuries. The Celtic (pronounced Keltic) languages, for example, are…

Swallowed a lizard? This one really makes me rather queasy. After eating a shrimp salad, a woman became very ill. A doctor was called in…

It is 1922 and psychic investigators say they have the latest scientific tools to catch or discover ghosts. Granted, these tools include bells, pendulums, and…

I am not a medical expert, so to me this story sounds almost like the type of article that would be published in Weekly World…

Pantaloons? Psychic love affair? What the hum am I reading? Oh wait, it’s a newspaper article from 1906. That explains everything. The article reads like…

Here is an interesting article published in 1909 that does not deny the reality of psychic powers or the sixth sense, but likens them to…