What’s Happening Along the Corpse Road

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Have you ever walked one of Europe's Corpse Roads? Traversing the rural countryside, you might encounter one of these roadways, paths marked with crucifixes...

Embrace the Unfamiliar

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This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested guest Caroline Lea. Lea suggests visiting a locale you don't normally visit and writing about it....

These are Some Very Loud Teeth

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It sounds like a demonic curse - or an awesome D&D spell - but the apparently real story of people whose teeth literally exploded...

These Rocks are Alive!

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Or maybe not. But they look cool! In Romania, the small town of Costesti boasts boulders--called trovants or living rocks--that excrete smaller versions of themselves,...

The Bag of Secrets

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Between the 1400s and 1800s, the UK government maintained a Bag of Secrets containing the records of notorious legal trials, most for treason. The...

The Man Who Couldn’t be Hanged

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In the early 1800s, petty thief Joseph Samuel was convicted of the murder of a local Australian policeman and sentenced to death by hanging....

The Farmers Who Tended Meteors

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In the early 1900s, drought-stricken farmers in Kansas traded harvesting crops for digging up meteors to sell. The practice turned out to be so...

Prompt: What Would Have Been Different?

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This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested by Annie Seyler. For a journaling and story exercise, pick a moment from your childhood that shaped...

Who Was the Leatherman

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Between 1857 and 1889, a man (purportedly) named Jules Bourglay or Rudoph Mossey repeatedly walked a 365 mile loop through western Connecticut and eastern...

The Lost Gods of Amorite

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Researchers have just discovered and decoded a language lost for thousands of years, and have translated the names of the lost gods of Mesopotamia....

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