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Eamonn Wolfenden
May 1, 20213 min read
From the Innocent Souls: The Devil's Contortions (Demons and Exorcism)
For reasons unknown, perfectly normal people sometimes suddenly exhibit a dramatic change of being. Their actions become violent and seeming
Henrik Zander
Apr 30, 20214 min read
Count Saint Germain: A man who knows everything and who never dies
Count Saint Germain was a confidant of two kings of France, a dazzlingly rich and gifted social figure, the subject of a thousand rumors...
Christiane Schilling
Apr 30, 20212 min read
The Discovery of An Abandoned French Vessel: Curious Circumstances
The Times of London on November 6, 1840, printed this account from a correspondent in the Bahamas: A large French vessel, bound from........
Agnieszka Walach
Apr 25, 20212 min read
The Tragic Case Of Charley Ross One reason the parental advice “never accept candy from strangers”
One reason the parental advice “never accept candy from strangers” became a very familiar phrase was the sensational July 1874 kidnapping of
David Stigwood
Apr 25, 20212 min read
Captain George Musalas Colvocoresses: An Impossible Suicide? (Crime Meter)
In 1872 Captain George Musalas Colvocoresses was found shot to death on a well -frequented street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A pistol and..
Prévost Carletti
Apr 24, 20215 min read
Spontaneous Human Combustion: When Truth Is as Strange as Fiction
Spontaneous human combustion was such a well- known phenomenon during the late 18th and 19th centuries that a number of authors used it to..
Patricia Thompson
Apr 21, 20212 min read
Daily Strange's Toxic Thursday A Hidden Fire: State of Combustion
n 1847 a French couple was indicted for murdering the man’s father and burning his body to conceal the crime. They claimed that the 71-ye...
Agnieszka Walach
Apr 16, 20212 min read
The Most Tragic and Weird Coincidences in American History: Lincoln and Kennedy
Two of the most tragic and dramatic deaths in American history, the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and , involve the follo...
David Stigwood
Apr 16, 20214 min read
The Most Optimistic Expectations: The Perfect Day (Daily Strange's Fearless Friday)
Everyone, from time to time, experiences one of those perfect days when everything seems to fall into place, a day that exceeds the most....
László Harkányi
Apr 15, 20213 min read
Daily Strange's Toxic Thursday: A Pact With Satan
When Clara Germana Cele was 16 years old, she made a pact with Satan—or so she told, her confessor, Father Erasmus Horner, at the mission...
Magnus Perfort
Apr 14, 20215 min read
Medium Cool: Home on the Range (Wicked Wednesday)
The most famous medium of the late 19th century—the golden age of mediums and spiritualistic phenomena— was a Scottish-American named Daniel
Henrik Zander
Apr 14, 20212 min read
Wicked Wednesday: Visitor in the Night
Stationed in Asia on a U.S. government assignment during 1960 - 1961, Mr. and Mrs. John Church spent their vacation in India. It was while..
Þorsteinn Bøving
Apr 13, 20214 min read
Daily Strange's Tricky Tuesday: The Deadly Magic of Believing
From the days of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to modern times in Haiti, Australia, Africa, and elsewhere, healthy people have turned sick a
Lisette Cornwell
Apr 13, 20212 min read
Tricky Tueasday: Zombie Explained (Rage of the Walking Dead)
The repeated reports of zombies, people in a trance like state working as slaves in the fields of Haiti, gain credence by virtue of a ......
Daily Strange
Apr 12, 20213 min read
Mad Monday Discussions; Demonic Possession, Epilepsy, or Hysteria? Mystery behind the mystery
As far as many doctors and psychiatrists are concerned, the diagnosis of demonic possession is one that reeks of medieval superstition and..
Eamonn Wolfenden
Apr 11, 20215 min read
Daily Strange's Spooky Sunday: The Demon's Daughter
The victim of one of the most detailed instances of demonic possession in 20th-century America was a mid western woman whose real name was..
Þorsteinn Bøving
Apr 10, 20212 min read
Daily Strange's Sacred Saturday: The Plowboy Prophet
Robert Nixon, a rural visionary who, by reputation, was held to be mentally retarded, was born around 1467 on a farm in the county of...
Agnieszka Walach
Apr 10, 20212 min read
Sacred Saturday: Walking around to the other side of the horses --- Benjamin Bathurst's Story
In 1809 England sought to persuade Austria to join the confederation opposing Napoleon. Benjamin Bathurst, a 25-year-old diplomat who had al
David Stigwood
Apr 9, 20212 min read
Fearless Friday: Charles Haskell and the history of madness at sea (A Real Life Ghost Story)
Between 1830 and 1892 nearly 600 ships and more than 3,000 lives were lost in the treacherous and gale-swept waters of the Grand Banks, off
Christiane Schilling
Apr 9, 20212 min read
Daily Strange's Fearless Friday: Spectral Incursions
Those who scorn the idea that spooks and specters prowl and shimmer through the world do so because no one has so far caught a ghost in a...
Stanislav Farada
Apr 8, 20213 min read
Daily's Strange's Toxic Thursday: Inexplicable Explanations
In addition to more or less scientific explanations of skyfalls are others that invoke mechanisms even more mysterious than the phenomena...
Patricia Thompson
Apr 7, 20212 min read
Daily Strange's Wicked Wednesday: A Psychic Rainy Season
It began one October day in 1963, when the Francis Martin family of Methuen, Massachusetts, noticed a damp patch appearing on the wall of th
Lianella Mancinotti
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Daily Strange's Tricky Tuesday: A Feeling of Terror and Panic...
Hereward Hubert Lavington Carrington (October 17, 1880 - December 26, 1958) was one of the pioneers of psychical research in the United...
László Harkányi
Apr 6, 20212 min read
Tricky Tuesday: A Holy Mystery - Saint Francis the Fire Handler
For some saints' immunity to fire seems to be a special mark of grace, while for a few less exalted men and women the same immunity seems a
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