United Kingdom
AWOL Through Sleepwalking
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 13, 2025 -
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Category: Military, Royalty, Sleep and Dreams, 1920s, United Kingdom, Anomie, Exhaustion, and General Malaise
Motel Automat
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 07, 2025 -
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Category: Inventions, Shopping, Hotels, 1960s, United Kingdom
The Elusive Scottish Haggis
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 27, 2024 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Humor, United Kingdom
Smog Helmet
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 23, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1950s, United Kingdom
Fresh Out of Borstal
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 10, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, Prisons, 1970s, United Kingdom
The Devon Octopus Invasion
Summer of 1950: A strange Cold War conspiracy theory circulated among fishermen in Devon. They attributed a large number of octopuses in the coastal waters to the presence of Russian trawlers "fitted with tanks containing octopuses," releasing the creatures near the coast.
Plymouth Western Morning News - Sep 28, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 11, 2024 -
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Category: Fish, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1950s, United Kingdom
Please don’t throw explosives in the trash
A very British way of asking people to not blow up garbage workers:
Derby Evening Telegraph - May 14, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 08, 2024 -
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Category: 1960s, United Kingdom, Weapons
Rene Strange, Singing Cartoonist
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 11, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Puppets and Automatons, Cartoons, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
Unauthorized Dwellings 34
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 01, 2024 -
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Category: Unauthorized Dwellings, 1940s, United Kingdom
The Wayfarer’s Dole
From Gastro Obscura:The Church's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 25, 2024 -
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Category: Food, History, Religion, United Kingdom, Alcohol
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