How the remains of five 'missing' Archbishops of Canterbury were found by accident."Since the discovery, a square manhole has been let into the chancel floor, with a glazed panel that will offer a glimpse of the steps leading down to the vault. The coffins - which have been left exactly where they were discovered, undisturbed - will be out of ( Read more... )

CIA used psychics to spy on Iran.

It's the sort of thing that gives one faith in the Powers and Principalities.

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"And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the older world, the first observers of mutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to inquire, what has America done for the benefit of mankind ( Read more... )

Another post in the 'too long etc' category. I admit to not having read all of the TLS article. Yet. I'm interested though because I've read one book by this author and, as I recall, was a little dubious at the time. I began here (one of my regular blog stops), then followed his links to The Man Behind the Great Dickens and Dostoevsky Hoax and ( Read more... )

The search for the identity of D B Cooper continues.

Citizen Sleuths.

Don't miss the clip-on tie!

Clare Gass fonds : P185. Diary.

This fonds is held at the Osler Library, McGill University ( Read more... )

Little girl, rose still in hand, found in coffin beneath SF home. Beware! If you don't stop the video after it's done you'll have to listen to Nancy Pelosi defend Clinton. Urp.

I pinned this but I like it too much not to post it here as well. "Winston Churchill pets a cat, 24th May 1952." The cat might have had a different perspective.


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In the realms of cool, this is very cool indeed.

CSI: Dixie."Coroners’ inquests are some of the richest records we have of life and death in the nineteenth century South. As mortals, we all die, but we do not die equally. Race, place, gender, profession, behavior, and good and bad luck play large roles in determining how we go out of the world. ( Read more... )