The Farmers Who Tended Meteors
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...
The Lost Gods of Amorite
Researchers have just discovered and decoded a language lost for thousands of years, and have translated the names of the lost gods of Mesopotamia....
The Doppelganger Murder
A 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman tricked police into believing she'd been murdered, when in reality she and a friend had stalked and killed her lookalike....
These Weapons of War Will Make You Sick
Biological warfare wasn't an invention of the 20th century. After far back as the 14th century B.C., armies used diseases and toxins as weapons of...
The 2,500 Year Old Love Letter
A post on Archaeology World shares the discovery of a 2,500 year-old love letter found in Iznik, formerly ancient Nicaea. Engraved on the sarcophagus...
Blood Tells the Tale
An article on Strange Ago shares 10 superstitions about blood that you can use to make your writing even creepier. Of course, we know...
The Flower of Temple Street was a Killer Diller
The week before the discovery of the Black Dahlia murder, the Flower of Temple Street was all the buzz in Los Angeles. In 1947,...
The Power of 3,000 Year Old Wishes
Archaeologists in Germering, Germany, have unearthed a 3,000-year-old wooden wishing well filled with over 100 well-preserved artifacts. Experts believe that people left the objects...
120 Kicking Scene Prompts
Industrial Scripts shares 120 prompts to kick off a scene in your story. The prompts are separated into different categories based on the expected emotions...
The Haunted Schoolroom
In April 1944, in the last year of World War II, investigators believed the Wild Plum school, a one-room schoolhouse in Stark County, North...
