Strangeness | Vintage News
Jean-Paul Sartre’s bad mescaline trip led to the philosopher being followed by imaginary crabs for years
Henbane: Egyptians smoked it, witches used it for “flying ointment,” and it poisoned Hamlet’s father
The curious story of “Princess Caraboo,” who came to Bristol in 1817
The eccentric life and mysterious death of pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe
The earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood were violent and grotesque
In Ancient Rome, slaves ruled during the holiday of Saturnalia
In 1885, a Victorian barmaid’s suicide attempt was thwarted by her own crinoline
Now a Tom Cruise film, the story of Barry Seal, American pilot for the Medellín Cartel
Hollywood’s first sex scandal but not its last: the trial of comic Fatty Arbuckle
The heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick, the real “Elephant Man”
