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Live Lizard Found In Woman’s Stomach

Swallowed a lizard? This one really makes me rather queasy. After eating a shrimp salad, a woman became very ill. A doctor was called in…

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How Science Traps Ghosts

It is 1922 and psychic investigators say they have the latest scientific tools to catch or discover ghosts. Granted, these tools include bells, pendulums, and…

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Boy Grows a Silver Tooth

I am not a medical expert, so to me this story sounds almost like the type of article that would be published in Weekly World…

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Pantaloons and a Psychic Love Affair

Pantaloons? Psychic love affair? What the hum am I reading? Oh wait, it’s a newspaper article from 1906. That explains everything. The article reads like…

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The Sixth Sense Fallacy

Here is an interesting article published in 1909 that does not deny the reality of psychic powers or the sixth sense, but likens them to…

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9 Crazy Superstitions About Your Eyebrows

Your eyes, your skin complexion, and even the shape of your eyebrows can tell a lot about you according to folk beliefs and superstitions. It…

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10 Strange Bread Baking Beliefs and Superstitions

Bread, long a symbol of plenty, was an important part of people’s diets for well over 2,000 years (long before the gluten free diets of…

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10 Strange Ways to Give a Friend Good Luck

They say that giving is the way to self-fulfillment, so why not gift your friends and family some good luck? After all, a bit of…

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6 Historical Facts About Carousels

Carousels, also called merry-go-rounds, used to be found in nearly all the big cities and in numerous parks. Some carousels were large while others were…

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10 Forgotten Brutal Murders From Over 100 Years Ago

Murder is the deliberate act of taking another person’s life. At no point in human history has the act of murder been eliminated from a…

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