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The Spook House

October 1, 2023 boneandsickle anomalies, curiosities, EPISODE, ghost stories, horror, literature, mystery, Southern Gothic, storytelling, Weird Fiction

“The Spook House,” an 1899 short story by Ambrose Bierce is suitably spooky for the season, but not in the[…]

A Remarkable Circumstance

February 9, 2023 boneandsickle anomalies, books, Britain, crime, criminals, curiosities, death, EPISODE, history, horror

A potpourri of peculiar tales culled from a favorite 19th-century volume. This episode features some outstanding British eccentrics, an extraordinary[…]

Electric Fairy Rings and the Slime from Space

May 30, 2022 boneandsickle alchemy, anomalies, astronomy, celestial phenomena, Charles Fort, curiosities, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folklore, history, meteors, Paracelsus, science fiction, Star Jelly, superstition

The folklore of fairy rings and “star jelly” is strangely connected to celestial phenomena, including lightning and shooting stars. We[…]