Strangeness | Vintage News
Barefoot and starved, Spartan boys underwent grueling combat training but were also punished for not answering questions briefly and wittily enough
Krämerbrücke, the beautiful 600-year-old Merchant’s Bridge, packed with half-timbered buildings
The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France
Moondyne Joe, the escape artist that no prison could hold, not even a specially designed concrete “escape-proof” cell
During the California Gold Rush, an English would-be prospector published and sold 100,000 copies of his satirical Miners’ Ten Commandments
“The Wealthiest Woman in America” was so stingy she took her injured son to a free clinic and so paranoid that she slept holding a gun, a chain of bank-deposit keys around her waist
Cornwall’s Museum of Witchcraft & Magic houses 3,000 objects and 7,000 books but even so is not as interesting as its founder, Cecil Williamson
Beethoven’s “Elise” was the name of Therese Malfatti, incorrectly transcribed because of Beethoven’s bad handwriting
Weird professions that no longer exist
The Ted Bundy enigma: A law student and suicide-hotline volunteer who was a serial killer
