In Iceland, a Letter sent to a farm with hand-drawn map instead of address gets there anyway!
We are in Iceland, and even if this is a country considered as a beautiful travel destination, it hasn’t lost its small village charm: in fact here a letter with […]
Biddy Early: Healer, Herbalist, Clairvoyant…or Witch?
On the afternoon of 22nd April, 1874 a woman called Biddy Early died in her small, two-roomed, mud-walled cottage. Her life story was first published in 1903 and since that […]
William Hope: the most famous medium in London and his photographies.
During the period of World War I in England, William Hope was a well known and popular character: he was not only a spiritual medium, able to contact the dead, […]
The best Japanese craftsmen make a series of Furniture for Cats.
The tendency to create specific objects for pets is constantly increasing, thanks also to the media success that our small friends receive on social networks and on the web. The […]
The Mystery of Rennes le Chateau.
It was a simple country priest to discover (and to keep hidden) what Rennes-le-Chateau has kept since the times of the Knights Templar. It has little more than a handful […]
William Utermohlen: the artist who documented the progression of Alzheimer’s disease with harrowing self-portraits.
In 1995, at the age of 61, the American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In response to his illness, the artist, who lived in London, began a […]
The Splendid Waves of the 19th century paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky.
The painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, in the nineteenth century, was the author of some of the most incredible paintings representing the sea. Of Russian-Armenian origin, he was one of the […]
Borley Rectory: the most haunted place in the UK.
When we hear about places haunted by ghosts and poltergeists, one of the first to be remembered is surely the Borley Rectory, in England. This construction was investigated by the […]
The Dramatic Enigma of the Sodder family: what happened to the 5 children?
George, immigrated to America from Sardinia, where met his wife, Jennie, was also from Italy, so getting married, settling in West Virginia, and having 10 children. It seems that George […]
The “Pig” on the Lion of Lucerne: the invisible joke of an Unpaid Sculptor.
The “Lion of Lucerne” is one of the most famous tourist attractions of the Swiss city: a mortally wounded lion, carved in the rock, in a large former sandstone quarry, […]
The illustrated guide of the ’30s that explained how not to die electrocuted.
Some of the pictures from the German book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern illustrate totally plausible ways one might die of electrocution, for instance touching a lamp while in the bathtub […]
The murder of Julia Thomas: the dismembered and boiled widow who shocked Victorian London.
The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, know as the “Barnes Mystery” or the “Richmond Murder” by the press, was one of the most notorious crimes in late 19th-century Britain. Julia […]
“Just Do It”: the Nike Slogan inspired by the last words of a condemned to death.
We all know that Nike sportswear company is among the most popular in the world. It became famous during the ’80s and exploded in popularity in the 90s (often called […]
Time me, gentlemen! Robert Liston: the legendary Scottish Surgeon nicknamed “The Fastest Knife in the West End”.
Robert Liston was born on 28 October 1794 in Ecclesmachan, Scotland, and his father was the Reverend Henry Liston, the village minister and a pipe organ inventor. His name was […]
Pablo Eskobear: the incredible story of the bear that ate 40 kg of pure Colombian cocaine~
In Chattahoochee forest, in December 1985, as usual, there were several inhabitants: obviously bears, wolves and other animals, but try to imagine. One minute a bear trying to find enough […]
Shirokorechenskoe: the Incredible Cemetery of the Russian Gangsters.
Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts of Yekaterinburg, Russia, is the last abode of many famous local people, including artists, scientists and heroes from the World War II, often […]
