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Mummy Found In Attic Of Peabody Museum Yale

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…

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Field Scientist Hunts For Plesiosaurus

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…

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Tenement House Fire in New York, 1903

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,…

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10 Little Known Uses for Vaseline

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…

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Cotton Factory Burned Down in 1907

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…

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Moore’s Story Clears Up Titanic’s End

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…

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Malignant Mummy Banished By British, Sent To U.S. On Titanic

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…

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A Family Cult Suicide in 1911

When I first read the title of this article, found in a 1911 newspaper, I was attracted to the use of the word “cult”. Upon…

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6 Reasons Why Old Insane Asylums Scare Us

What is our fascination with old, rundown insane asylums? Or better yet, why are we so fascinated by the idea of lunacy? This fascination is…

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First Woman Night Clerk

It is hard to imagine that there was a time when women were thought of as pretty much worthless. Then again, after doing some online…

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