The Waterfall That Swallowed Half A River
There's a waterfall in Minnesota where one side vanishes into a boiling pothole and people have been chucking trainers and theories into it for a century.Read More 
The House That Ate a China Shop (In the Best Way)
There is a tiny French house literally mosaicked from other people's broken plates by one obsessive man and I go there in my brain when life needs a weird hug.Read More 
When Corpses Clock In: Welcome to the Body Farm
There is, rather splendidly, a university garden where donated dead people teach police how to stop being wrong about time of death.Read More 
The Sodder Children: A Christmas Vanish
On Christmas Eve 1945 a West Virginia house burned and five of the Sodder kids never reappeared-no bones, no bodies, and a family left to run a private detective agency called stubbornness.Read More 
They Doused Every Hearth And Made Fire With Sticks
When a village couldn't trust doctors, they snuffed every home fire, rubbed wood until it screamed and turned the ashes into anti-plague talismans.Read More 
Valentich: The Pilot Who Phoned the Night Sky
On October 21 1978 a small Cessna rang Melbourne approach to report a strange craft, emitted a gobsmacking last transmission and then simply vanished like a badly behaved piece of luggage.Read More 
Romans Wore Little Wangs For Luck, Proper
They actually hung tiny bronze penises about like talismans to scare off the evil eye - Romans were oddly practical about indecent knickknacks.Read More 
When Your Ear Decides to Rumble
Some folks can flex a tiny middle ear muscle and make their own low, buzzing tinnitus - and no, it is not madness, it is anatomy showing off.Read More 
When Strasbourg Decided to Dance Itself to Bits
In the summer of 1518 one woman started jigging in Strasbourg and within days the town had choreographed its own mild apocalypse - the council's solution was to hire a band.Read More 
They Bound Books In Human Skin, Proper Mad
Victorians sometimes literally used human skin to bind books and a few are still in libraries - disgusting and oddly useful.Read More 