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Category: Weird News
Mummy Paint, 1903
From New-York Tribune, December 20, 1903
MUMMIES GROUND UP FOR PAINT FOR PICTURES.
Afford Beautiful Tint for Brown Hair with Glint of Gold – Industry Threatened with Extinction from Lack of Material.
Mummy – powdered mummy – makes one of the best and most popular colors used by artists. Every large dealer in oil paints sells powdered mummy, and almost every manufacturer of pigments has a mummy department, where, in a spice laden atmosphere, amid surroundings picturesque and grewsome, young men and women grind up the dried bodies of Egyptian princesses and priests, mix the powder with poppy oil and bottle it for the market in little tubes of tin. Continue reading “Mummy Paint, 1903”
Thought Earth Hollow, 1923
Skull Rock, 1897
West Superior, Wis.. July 20.—On a steep, rocky bluff overhanging a narrow inlet of the Lake of the Woods, about two and one half miles from the mining village of Rat Portage, Ontario, stands one of the most freakish objects to be found anywhere in the world. It consists of a ledge of solid granite which bears a most grotesque resemblance to a human head, its cavernous mouth partly open, its features distorted with a horrible grin. Rude art has supplemented nature in perfecting the resemblance. This monstrosity is commonly known as “Devil’s head,” but is also called “skull rock.” It is about twenty feet high above the bluff, and about twenty-one feet in width at the widest part. Ears, eyes, and a mouth are plainly visible —the latter appearing in the form of a cave, which extends back in the stone about ten feet, and then, like a veritable throat, shoots down a considerable distance into the hill on which it rests. Continue reading “Skull Rock, 1897”
The Hollowness of the Earth, 1908
Science Finds The Fabled Unicorn?
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Wild Man of the Woods, 1878
Headline from the Pulaski Citizen., November 07, 1878
The Flamingo Murders, 1925
Evening Star, Washington D.C., August 17, 1925
The Phantom of the Poles, 1908
The Phantom of the Poles is a book written by William Reed, and published in 1906. It attempts to explain certain mysterious phenomena reported by polar explorers by postulating that the Earth is in fact hollow, with holes at its poles. (Wikipedia)
The Undiscovered World, 1875
Article in the Wichita City Eagle, December 02, 1875 concerning Cleves Symmes theory on the hollow earth. (Reformatted to fit the page horizontally, click images to see full size)