Strangeness | Vintage News
A Victorian theory that Mars was once artificially irrigated by a desperate advanced civilization
A massive windstorm blew so many tumbleweeds into a city in New Mexico that people were trapped in their homes
When writer Ken Kesey first tried LSD, it was as a volunteer test subject for the Army
When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century”
Ratcatchers, the pest control of the Victorian Age, had their own rock star: Jack Black and his pursuit of the “fancy rat”
The Collyer brothers were found amid 120 tons of belongings, including 250,000 books and several bowling balls, in their Fifth Avenue mansion
Swedes swarmed a Lufthansa contest offering a fully funded brand-new life in Berlin, even changing their names to qualify
Take-out restaurants existed in ancient Rome and were called “thermopolia”
The early version of chess was chaturanga, a 7th century AD Indian board game of elephants, generals, and chariots
Mystery: Hours before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found in the gutter, disheveled and raving
