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History is full of cases involving dead bodies being dug up out of the ground. Some of the accounts are worse than others, a few…

Embalming in the early 20th century was not an exact science, and just about everyone was giving the process a shot. Whether it was a…

Insane children were an epidemic in the 1920s. Of course, any type of poor behavior or emotional outbursts were considered signs of insanity back then….

The goddess Venus was a Roman goddess of love and beauty. In many ways she was like the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, and the…

The owl, a symbol of wisdom and the sacred bird of Athena, is steeped in superstitions. Since the Christian era, the bird has been riddled…

Becoming a (or an) historian without a college degree is a controversial topic. People who have spent years getting their Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees…

Handmade paper bag Halloween masks are easily scarier than any rubber horror mask you can buy online. Why? I have no idea. They are just…

If you think that the pumpkin frenzy every fall is a millennial thing, you have not seen all the pumpkin recipes from the early 1900s….

Cold water treatment, or more popularly called cold water torture, was a method used to torture the insane for bad behavior. Insane asylums of the…

The narwhal is a tusked porpoise that lives in the waters of the Arctic. In the early 1900s, the narwhal was hunted almost mercilessly. Today,…