Category: Culture
How To Read Your Fortune In The Numbers Of Your Birth Date
Discover your overall ruling birth number and what it means. This content comes from a newspaper article published in 1914. How To Read Your Fortune…
Warrant Issued For The Arrest Of Eloping Pastor
It isn’t so much that the pastor eloped with the choir girl. Life happens. What I find interesting is the sternness of the church itself….
Husband and Wife Spiritualists Go to Court
Two spiritualists get married. Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it? Except the article below really isn’t a joke. The problem is that…
How To Start Seeing Ghosts
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…
Sir Conan Doyle Talks About Spirit Ectoplasm
Who here is surprised to see the name Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the word ectoplasm on the same page? Probably no one, as everyone…
Anti Cremation in the 1800s United States
When cremation started to gain traction in the United States in the 1800s, not everyone was happy about it. Sure, cremation is cheaper than burial…
Ancient Egyptian Antiques Made To Order
Fake ancient Egyptian antiques are still bought and sold today, just as they were back in the early 1900s. I even own a few because…
British Soldier Charms During the Second Boer War
Soldiers to this day carry lucky charms with them. The charm can be a letter, a photo, or some other small object. The writer of…
Belief in a Suicide Wind
I have never heard of a suicide wind before, but it sounds like a great premise to a horror story. From a 1904 newspaper article:…
1916 List Of Foods Forbidden To Baby Such As Beer And Whisky
Okay, folks. Don’t feed your baby beer. Keep the wine for yourself and skip the coffee, too. Here is a list of foods, published in…
