This week's Link Dump is proud to be sponsored by royalty!
Watch out for those sea vamps!
Watch out for those haunted mirrors!
Marie Antoinette and a notable royal hunt.
The Doge of Genoa goes up against Louis XII. And eventually wishes he hadn't.
The long history of "Jack and the Beanstalk."
Stolen Nazi era items at the British Library.
A rock band whose music you undoubtedly know. Even though you've never heard of them.
A new look at an old case I covered on this blog a while back: The Green Bicycle Mystery.
The mystery light of Ballymoney.
The link between fraud and proper haberdashery.
Scientists are searching for a parallel universe. As if the one we already have isn't bad enough.
An unlucky lucky cat.
How the 18th century gave us those three magic words, "Pooping robot duck."
The conclusion to last week's post about the saga of Mermanjan.
The Mitford sisters were an odd lot. But you probably already knew that.
Speaking of peculiar families, here's the woman who had her daughter sterilized.
Robert Kirk and the fairies.
This week in Russian Weird: what in hell was this submarine up to?
This week in Russian Weird also features in the Darwin Awards.
All you need to know about Victorian corpse coolers.
A Georgian-era home and its residents.
Did D.B. Cooper recently pass away in San Diego?
The American Revolution's Dr. Strange.
Poor old Pompeii. First the volcano, and now this.
Don't spit!
The voyage that inspired "Moby Dick."
Uncovering a Viking boat burial in Sweden.
That time it was claimed Mark Twain acted as a ghostwriter. I am speaking quite literally.
If you go to chiropractors, thank a ghost.
You can't keep a good cockatoo down.
The Ghost Club.
Queen Victoria's hairdresser.
The strange case of the missing girl and the Vatican.
Murder in a boarding house.
A professor's mysterious suicide.
A brief history of the hot dog.
For dessert, a brief history of chocolate and vanilla.
John Quincy Adams, dirty dancer.
And, of course, a brief history of picnics.
Britain's most haunted village.
America's most haunted small town.
LSD and a legendary suicide.
An abandoned French time capsule.
If you're anxious to obtain information about how to eat from, uh, the wrong end, have I got the link for you. And yes, this is a Thomas Morris post. Consider yourselves warned.
And yet another Link Dump comes to a close. See you on Monday, when we'll look at an Icelandic poltergeist. In the meantime, it's summer, so this means War:
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