Showing posts with label cannibalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cannibalism. Show all posts
Thursday, May 2, 2013

"Starving time"

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The first permanent English settlement in the Americas was established at Jamestown, Virginia , in 1607 by 104 settlers who arrived aboard...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Packer's pistol

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On a recent episode of " Mysteries at the Museum ," I learned that storied "Colorado cannibal" Alferd* Packer ( 1842-...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Contemporary cannibalism?

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You hear stories that cannibalism is still practiced among the natives of some remote South Pacific islands, but headlines trumpet that as t...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Follow-ups

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*Don't forget to watch "Saturday Night Live" tonight, hosted by Betty White !* 4/19/10 Oklahoma City Bombing About this photo...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Eye news

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Today I offer for your consideration a long list of weird news about eyes. When I first filled out an organ donor card, I excluded my eyes b...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Pishtaco

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A horrifying story in the weird news today raises the specter of the pishtaco , a vampire-like demon in Andean folklore. Peruvian police h...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Grave and golem

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Today we have a guest post by Loren Rhoads . For 10 years, Loren edited the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity . Morbid Curiosity Cur...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Follow-ups

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Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin wearing one of his designer prostheses. I want to follow up on my posts, but the news items and comments are...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Vlad the Impaler

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A reader thoughtfully informed me last night that I had impugned the integrity of Lucrezia Panciatichi by mistaking her portrait for that of...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Zombies!?!

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Today a guest post by Holly McCarthy , who writes on the subject of certification for geriatric nursing : In January 2009, pranksters hacked...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Custom of the sea

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The so-called "custom of the sea" was the understanding that, in dire circumstances, sailors would be forgiven for resorting to s...
Saturday, November 8, 2008

The Raft of the Medusa

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I sought out this enormous oil painting, "The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), when I visited the Louvre. T...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Fortean Times review

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A review of Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West that I wrote appears in the current issue of Fortean Times . Co...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Franklin Expedition

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I just watched a very interesting program about the ill-fated Franklin Expedition airing on Discovery HD . Sir John Franklin, his two ships...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Alive!

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A couple of years ago, I went to a National Geographic Society lecture by a survivor of the plane crash of Uruguayan rugby players in the An...