The Victorians' Curious Obsession With Shrunken Heads
They treated real human heads like holiday souvenirs, and the trade turned into a proper moral mess - ghastly, fascinating and utterly Victorian.Read More 
The Boy in the Box That Keeps Knocking
A nameless little boy was found in a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957 and six decades later we still own the silence.Read More 
It Rains Fish in Yoro - Yeah, Really
Every year a Honduran town wakes up to live fish on the pavement and calls it Lluvia de Peces; scientists shrug, priests bless, and everyone throws a party.Read More 
The Man Who Moved Into An Airport Terminal
One Iranian refugee set up camp in Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport and did not leave the departures lounge for nearly two decades - and no, it was not a very good holiday.Read More 
The Archerfish That Shoots Bugs Off Leaves (And It's Brilliant)
A small fish spits tiny, perfectly aimed water jets to knock insects into the drink and does it with theatrical contempt.Read More 
Toadstones: The Rings That 'Sniffed' Poison
Once, genteel folk strapped fossil teeth to their fingers and sincerely expected them to sweat when poison was near.Read More 
Nature's Daft Bonus: The Extra Testicle
Occasionally a bloke turns up with a spare testicle - triorchidism - and the human body continues to be cheerfully useless at etiquette.Read More 
Those Tiny Spare Bones Hiding In Your Skull
Some people carry secret extra skull tiles called Wormian bones and yes, they can make doctors scratch their heads like a pub quiz gone wrong.Read More 
Dead Hands That Refuse To Let Go
Some corpses clamp down in a violent, immediate death grip called cadaveric spasm, preserving the final act like a ghastly photograph.Read More 
Kayardild: The Language That Stacks Cases
Out on a small Australian island some nouns get so many endings they look like grammatical onions - and they actually mean something.Read More 