The Radium Girls’ Glowing Bones
2026/07/01In the factories of the 1910s and 1920s, young women sat in long rows painting luminous numerals onto watch and instrument dials…
Curio Type: Medical Anomalies
The Barber-Surgeon’s Lancet
2026/06/27
For centuries the man who cut your hair also bled you, pulled teeth and set bones.
The Screaming Mummy
2026/06/26Among the royal caches of ancient Egypt, one body has never stopped screaming. Catalogued with the deliberately colourless name Unknown Man E,…
The Hands of the Capuchin Crypt
2026/06/24Beneath the Capuchin friary in Palermo lies a corridor of the standing dead. Some eight thousand bodies line these Sicilian catacombs, many…