Death
Gentle Ben
Which scenario is more likely?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 27, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Television, 1960s
If America Dies…
Not exactly a question I had ever previously thought to ask.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 02, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Nature, PSA’s, Advertising, 1970s, North America
The Jake Bird Hex
From Wikipedia:
Bird then said, “I’m putting the Jake Bird hex on all of you who had anything to do with my being punished. Mark my words you will die before I do.” Allegedly, six people connected with the trial died: Judge Edward D. Hodge of a heart attack within a month of sentencing him to death, as did one of the officers who took his first confession. A police officer who took a second confession died, as did the court’s chief clerk, and one of Bird's prison guards. J.W. Selden, one of Bird’s lawyers, died on the first anniversary of his sentencing.
Modesto Bee - Nov 27, 1948
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 17, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Scary Criminals, 1940s
Tipu’s Tiger
Fascinating article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 14, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Death, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Puppets and Automatons, Nineteenth Century
The Atomiscope
Did this actually have radium inside it? How many cancers did this cause, carried about in Dennis the Menace's pockets?
Unfortunately, I've lost the source of this ad. Can anyone help?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 05, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Toys, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1940s
4-way Suicide
"Wearied of a life of egg frying," the unfortunate Jim Smith decided to end it all. But despite trying to torch, hang, poison, and shoot himself simultaneously, his plan didn't succeed.I'm skeptical that this ever happened. It sounds like the kind of thing reporters used to make up to pad newspaper columns. From The Seattle Star - March 24, 1922. (via Weird Shit in Historic Newspapers)
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 27, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Suicide, 1920s
Vincent Price and the Occult
Why don't the occult masters ever reveal anything useful, like winning lottery numbers?
Source is here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 26, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Superstition, 1970s
The Coldest Case
It appears that the 126 year old cold case of Jack the Ripper has been solved by DNA testing. A shawl that was alleged to have been found next to Catherine Eddowes, one of the Ripper's victims, carries mitochondrial DNA profiles from both Eddowes' line and the familial line of one of the Ripper suspects. Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski, who subsequently spent his later years in mental asylums, lived in the area of the killings, and was a suspect, left his DNA behind on a bloody shawl. That shawl turned out to be a time capsule for justice.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 19, 2014 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Evil, Science, Historical Figure, Seventeenth Century, Blood
A Singular Will
Source: Notes and Queries, Nov 6, 1858.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 13, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Law, Nineteenth Century
Death by Parrot
It sounds like the parrot had it in for Mrs. Fannie Stewart. Source: Los Angeles Times, Sep 25, 1947.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 10, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Death, 1940s
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