
A newsletter of U.S. oddities and forgotten stories that drift between folklore, myth, and truth. Drawn from old newspapers, research, oral traditions, and personal interviews, it explores the shadows where history and mystery intertwine.
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This is a sample of what the elite do at fashionable clubs.
This is a sample of the cordial welcome a popular New York club gives to strangers.—Pomeroy’s Advance Thought, 1889
On the evening of May 12, 1889, there was a me...
The Fox Sisters
It’s a fraud! Spiritualism is a fraud from the beginning to end! It’s all trick! There’s no truth in it!
It was 1888 in New York City. One of the famed Fox sisters, Margaret (Maggie) Fox Kane, made her declaration on a s...
A race of giants was unearthed in Georgia. Dried human bodies turned up on the frontier, not fossilized but mummified. A flying creature was chased down in the desert and shot. A mermaid toured Florida ports and was exhibited to the paying...
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Farmers navigating by lantern-light during the New England Dark Day. Illustration from Our First Century by R. M. Devens (1878)
Let us remark, how blac...
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“I can not help reflecting that if we fall, we fall, like Lucifer, out of the heavens, and that our arrival upon earth, or rather upon water—for we are...
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