Strangeness | Vintage News
A horse named Comanche survived the Battle of Little Bighorn despite being shot seven times
The life of the knocker-upper: How “human alarms” made sure everyone was up for work
The earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood were violent and grotesque
A Victorian theory that Mars was once artificially irrigated by a desperate advanced civilization
After finding fame as Dracula, Bela Lugosi turned down the chance to play Frankenstein’s Monster, a role that went to little-known Boris Karloff
Disney softened the story of Pinocchio, originally that of an ungrateful and “wretched boy,” hanged for his mistakes
India’s 90-year-old “The Musalman” is the only daily hand-written newspaper in the world
The curious story of “Princess Caraboo,” who came to Bristol in 1817 saying she was royalty from an island in the Indian Ocean
In the ‘Devil’s Bible,’ largest surviving medieval manuscript, is a full-page portrait of the Devil himself
“Evacuate the children, put up the blackout curtains, kill the cat”: The mass pet killings of 1939
