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50 States of Strange

Ezekiel Gloam

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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Death of a Mentalist

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

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It’s a fraud! Spiritualism is a fraud from the beginning to end! It’s all trick! There’s no truth in it!

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Giant Lies and Missing Monsters

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...

5 months ago

Strange Gloom

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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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The Lost Aeronaut

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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...

8 months ago
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