Category: U.S. Historical News
Mummies Ground Up For Paint For Pictures
Ancient Egyptian mummies would be ground up and used for making paint. It is fascinating and gross at the same time — immortality in art,…
Telepathy Exercises from the Early 1900s
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
