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Here are two old paper doll patterns, Honolulu and Romanian, to add to the growing collection here on StrangeAgo. Two more unusual new members for…

Here is a 1912 article about a young man who invented a rat trap. The farm boy had no formal training and had never been…

By the 1920s, people interested in the world’s great mysteries and psychic sciences were creating machines and gadgets to try and understand psychic energies, ghosts,…

We thought asbestos was the greatest thing. It doesn’t burn and it had a zillion commercial uses. There was money in asbestos, and people were…

Welcome to the land of strange science, where the “modern” men of 1922 came up with ideas that would normally be reserved for science fiction…

Often mysterious figures in Medieval Japan, ninjas were the assassins and secret agents of the time. They could almost be considered the special forces of…

This hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, Mother Goose paper puzzle was originally published in the Evening Star newspaper, July 18, 1909. The…

The following article on testing diamonds was published in 1905 and discusses the methods regular people could use to try and figure out if a…

You hear very few references to the Man on the Moon these days, at least compared to when I was a kid in the 1970s….

Spiders have long been considered lucky in parts of Europe and in the United States. In Japan, the opposite is true and spiders are often…