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A mummy's curse
Statue of Herbert Ingram, Sr. in BostonIt's a rainy summer Sunday here in Pennsylvania, which makes it a great day for pouring yourself another cup of coffee and reading about the strange and bizarre....
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Did Aliens Sabotage SpaceX Launch? Our Money is on the US Gov't.
September came in with a bang... at least for Elon Musk and his ill-fated SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, which burst into flames on its Cape Canaveral launchpad during a routine check, taking a $200...
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From India to the Planet Mars: The Life and Times of Helene Smith
A drawing by Helene SmithMany strange books have been published on the topic of the supernatural, but one of the most remarkable is "From India to the Planet Mars", published in 1899 by Theodore...
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The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax?
In November of 1890, the Rolling Mill Hill section of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was thrust into the spotlight, thanks to a bizarre haunting which attracted crowds of hundreds to a plain wooden house...
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My Strangest Experience: The Thing in the Attic
Victorian mansions form "Millionaire's Row" on Fourth Street in WilliamsportWe invite readers to share their most bizarre experiences and encounters, and so far we have received a few humdingers-- from...
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The Curse of John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes BoothHistory remembers John Wilkes Booth as the actor-turned-Southern sympathizer who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. While the fate of Booth, along...
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Lord of the Bees?
The June 19, 1895 edition of the Kansas City Times describes the strange story of the funeral of a young boy who was fascinated with bees.
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An Ohio Spook Story
Stumbled across this interesting story, from the Feb. 21, 1891 edition of the Pittsburgh Dispatch:
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Strange History: The Uncanny Death of George Melchior
A Ramble in Mental TelepathyOne of the many mansions that lined Chicago's Drexel BoulevardOn a cold winter night in Chicago in 1894, there occurred an incident most bizarre and remarkable. The...
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JOTB weighs in on the death of Max Spiers
It's not every day a conspiracy theorist's death makes headlines in mainstream news outlets; In the past 24 hours, I've seen stories about Max's death everywhere from the New York Post to The Sun to...
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The woman who couldn't stay married
The above newspaper item from 1925 describes Ms. LaForge, perhaps the most divorced woman in American history. What makes her story even more unique is that most of Ms. LaForge's divorces came at a...
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John Dempsey goes hunting for humans
In the summer of 1878, John Dempsey of Staten Island, New York, decided to hunt his fellow man for sport. The following story appeared in the August 17, 1878 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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The bone-chilling tale of the real Alice Cooper
Henry Ford established a plant in Walkerville in 1904 (date of photo unknown)According to urban legend, legendary rocker Vincent Furnier adopted the stage name of Alice Cooper after the name was...
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David Rice Atchison: The Man who was President for One Day
Being that today is Election Day I thought it would be fitting to write about something presidential. And, being a website devoted to the strange and bizarre, the logical choice would have been to...
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An intimate look at a 19th century morgue
In 1894, the city of Philadelphia completed construction of a new morgue on Wood Street. Philadelphians were proud of their new state-of-the-art morgue, so proud, in fact, that the Philadelphia Times...
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The most tragic coincidence that has ever happened
The only thing worse than getting hit by a train is getting hit by a funeral train. Such was the tragic fate of an unfortunate man who, in 1891, made the mistake of getting in the way of General...
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My Strangest Experience: The Boy Outside the Tent
Lake Brownwood State ParkHow do we decide which reader-submitted stories to include in our My Strangest Experience series? We like to use a little something we call the tingle test. That's when you...
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Rubba Mumma: The Strange Superstition of Jamaica's River Mother
Jamaican plantation workers cutting sugarcane in 1891Of the many odd superstitions from the West Indies, the superstition of Jamaica's river mother, or Rubba Mumma, is perhaps the most famous and...
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The Best of Pennsylvania Oddities
If you enjoy Journal of the Bizarre, be sure to visit our sister blog, Pennsylvania Oddities, where we delve into all things odd and peculiar from around the Keystone State. From unsolved murders to...
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Haunted Apples: The Legend of Micah Rood
From the Granny Smith to the red delicious, there are hundreds of varieties of apples-- but only one of them recalls the legend of a blood-chilling murder.This particular variety of apple comes from...
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