History

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Ancient Lodging Discovery Rewrites Icelandic Local Settlement History

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what appears to be an ancient lodging almost 20 feet wide and 65 feet long in central Reykjavík. A government-sponsored team stumbled across the remains of the building and believes it predates

Ancient Civilizations / Archaeology / Discovery

Famed English King’s Remains Discovered – Under a Parking Lot!

King Richard III’s body has been missing for several centuries now. Most historians figured the guy was buried near Leicester, England…somewhere. Nobody could figure out where the hell the body ended up after Henry VIII’s people lost the re

Archaeology / Burial / Corpse

Archaeologists Find Bilbo Baggins’ House and Hobbiton

Okay, maybe not quite – at least it looks like Bilbo’s house from the photo of the archeological site. What scientists do think they’ve found is the oldest town in Europe, dating back to somewhere around 4500 BC; 1,500 years before the star

History

Man Discovers 16th Century Well…Under His Sofa!

We’re pretty sure that some of you have been in a house or a building with sagging floorboards before and just never really gave much thought to what was causing the sagging. Probably just figured,”Meh…old house. Sags.” End of story. Mr. St

Archaeology / Discovery / History

Death Valley Truck’s Grisly History

Sitting out in the middle of Death Valley is a grim reminder of one of the most horrific and notable murder stories in American history. Recently journalist Amy Beddows rolled through Death Valley in search of that grisly reminder. Arriving

Cult / History / Legend

Voynich Decoded?

The Voynich manuscript, a mysterious medieval document that has confounded the best cryptographers for centuries may finally have been cracked. A researcher studying the manuscript suggests that the secret coding may be anagrams created by

Archeology / Hidden Symbols / History

Spring Heeled Jack: A Fire-Breathing Terror For 19th-Century London

Weird Things Culture Researcher Matt Finaly takes a weekly look into the social, political and cultural climates of a populace at the time it was affected by a legendary paranormal, extraterrestrial or cryptid phenomenon. It appears on Tues

Culture / History / Religion

Creepy Bird Masks of the 14th Century

Image Credit: j_naturalia_2 We know what you’re thinking, and no the Bird People have not decided to rise up against their human overlords….yet. The photo above depicts an individual fashioning the get up Plague Doctors wore when visiting p

Disease / History

World War 2 UFO Footage

1 minute and 48 seconds into the above video you see a strange ball of light that appears to leap across the screen from one grouping of clouds to another just as the plane is taking off from the aircraft carrier. This video is being touted

History / UFO