The Feejee Mermaid
2026/07/06The public who queued in 1842 to see a genuine mermaid were promised something lovely and shown something appalling. The Feejee Mermaid,…
Curio Type: Historical Mysteries
The London Beer Flood of 1814
2026/07/05On the seventeenth of October 1814, the poor of the St Giles rookery in London were killed by beer. At the Horse…
The Codex Gigas
2026/07/04
A medieval manuscript so large it needed animal skins by the herd, and a legend of a pact.
The Mary Celeste
2026/07/02On the fifth of December 1872, the crew of the British brigantine Dei Gratia sighted a ship behaving oddly in the mid-Atlantic,…
The Voynich Manuscript
2026/06/27Bound in limp vellum and running to some two hundred and forty surviving pages, the Voynich Manuscript is a book that no…