On This Day January 15
On this day in 1919, a storage vat containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst [...]
Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power
The Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power, sometimes called the Egyptian Handbook of Ritual Power, is [...]
On This Day January 8
On this day in 1800, after years of sightings and encounters, a feral twelve-year-old boy [...]
The Rohonc Codex
Continuing our tour of unsettling manuscripts and strange tomes, I submit the Rohonc Codex. Named [...]
On This Day January 1
On this day in 1900, Captain John Phillips, of the passenger steamer SS Warrimoo achieved [...]
The Smithfield Decretals
Unlike many of the books mentioned in my series of bizarre manuscripts, the contents of [...]
The Voynich Manuscript
No discussion of strange and ancient tomes would be complete without mentioning what might be [...]
On This Day December 18
On this day in 1867, John D. Rockefeller missed his morning train. While his luggage [...]
The Book of Soyga
The author and origin of the Book of Soyga are unknown, though according to sixteenth [...]
On This Day December 11
On this day in 1913, W.S. Fiddler of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan died suddenly while moving [...]
