The North Pond Hermit Who Outsourced Society
He spent twenty-seven years in a Maine woodlot, surviving on what he nicked, a radio, and a principled disdain for small talk.Read More 
Rasputin: The Man Who Wouldn't Stop Dying
They fed him poison, shot him, and the autopsy still blamed the river-Rasputin's end is the kind of messy legend even Moscow couldn't tidy up.Read More 
The Man Who Married Kittens (Victorian Taxidermy Chaos)
A Victorian taxidermist staged full-blown kitten weddings and schools out of stuffed animals and kept them in a tiny museum that people queued for like it was the weirdest cinema.Read More 
Tycho's Drunk Moose, Proper Classic
This bloke built an observatory, got a metal nose from a duel and kept a pet moose that downed beer and fell down the stairs - you couldn't make it up.Read More 
The Man Who Moved House To A Pillar And Stayed
Simeon Stylites spent decades living on a tiny column in Syria and somehow made it look like a lifestyle brand for saints.Read More 
The Bloke Who Ate a Plane (Seriously)
Michael Lotito munched bicycles, TVs and even a Cessna 150 - and no, he was not dieting.Read More 
Byron Kept A Bear At College, Naturally
Before Instagram, Lord Byron solved 'no dogs' rules by bringing a tame bear to Trinity and pretending it was perfectly normal.Read More 
Tesla and the White Pigeon: An Unromantic Romance
The great inventor secretly fed and nursed city pigeons for years and admitted he loved one particular white pigeon 'as a man loves a woman'-which is either poignant or the most efficient emotional engineering I have yet encountered.Read More
This Bloke Called Himself Emperor And Shops Took His Money
He went broke, crowned himself 'Emperor Norton I' in 1859, printed his own banknotes and San Francisco treated him like a celebrity - proper daft, and lovely.
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