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Titled as a Children’s Horoscope, here is the fortune teller that children were encouraged to cut out of the newspaper, pin together, and tell their…

Hi everyone, this is Elizabeth from Strange Ago, and today I want to share a few newspaper stories that I found to be rather unusual,…

On October 28, 1906, a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad electric train fell off a draw bridge. 53 of the roughly 88 people on the…

This article, published in 1900, explores the Navajo superstition that states it is very unlucky to make a fire out of wood that has been…

In my previous article about dislocated necks, I covered mostly those who survived and their medical treatment. For this article, we are going to take…

There are so many stories about people adopting pets and discovering that they adopted a wild animal. This particular story was published in 1955: “About…

Hi everyone, this is Elizabeth from StrangeAgo and today my mood is rather dark. And so for this article we are going to take a…

After looking into deadly bee stings, I had to ask myself what other things frighten people. Well, lightning, of course. Some people love the storms…

I love bees and all that they do when it comes to pollination and making honey. However, getting unexpectedly stung by more than one bee…

Just the mere thought of a dislocated neck is unsettling, and yet newspapers from long ago shared detailed stories of those who were injured in…