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5 Stories About People Struck By Lightning
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…
5 Stories of Deadly Bee Stings
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…
5 Gruesome Stories About Dislocated Necks and How Doctors Repaired Them
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…
5 More People Bound to Logs and Some Lived to Tell Their Stories
After researching the previous article on people tied to logs, I decided to continue looking into this gruesome punishment from the past and I have…
5 Stories of People Who Fell Off Bridges
While viewing some old photos of bridges, I casually wondered if anyone ever fell off these old bridges, and sure enough I found the stories…
5 Stories of People Lashed to Logs and Thrown into Rivers
Hi everyone. This is Elizabeth from StrangeAgo, and today I’ve got a few doozies for you. Before we begin, I have to admit I was…
Stories of 5 Bodies Found in Wells
I recently watched a Netflix show where a body had been discovered in a well and remembered that I had written about this topic once…
8 Unhappy Incidents Ending in “Ground Into Mincemeat”
On more than one occasion I have read the phrase “ground into mincemeat” while skimming through newspaper articles in the National Archives. So, today I…
4 People Who Were Tied to the Railroad Tracks
As a child I watched cartoons where characters were bound with rope and tossed onto the railroad tracks. I never realized that this actually happened…
Mandrake – Plant With a Soul
This article, originally published in 1905, discusses Medieval superstitions about the mandrake root and how it is still to this day kept as a doll….
