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# weird
American History
The Old World’s Medieval Untouchables and Other Random Historical Facts
History has no shortage of the weird, the bizarre, and the little known. Did you know, for example, that medieval…
American History
Queen Victoria’s Chimney Stalker and Other Creepy Moments From History
One of the more unfortunate aspects of history – and of life in general, for that matter – is that…
Crime
Peter the Great Pickled the Head of His Wife’s Lover
Peter the Great (1672 - 1725) was a bad man to anger. A transformative figure in Russian history, Peter was…
Ancient History
10 of History’s Perverse Rulers
Being kinky or sexually weird is one thing when the kinky weirdo is an average person. It is something else…
Middle Ages
12 of the Most Unbelievably Strange Deaths of the Renaissance
The one commonality uniting all of mankind, regardless of time, place, race or sex is that sooner or later, everybody…
General
An 1890s Vampire Scare Terrified Rhode Island
In the modern era, we know that vampires and other ghouls belong firmly in the pages of fiction, but things…