HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Enjoy this vintage Mickey Mouse cartoon. It’s rather reminiscent of the Buster Keaton film The Electric House.
31 Days of Halloween – October 30
So, I am a certified cryptozoologist. Yep. That’s a thing. A thing that is completely illegitimate unless you pay someone a few dollars to send you a fill-in-the-blank diploma. Which my awesome husband did for me last Christmas. And though we joke about it, I am fascinated with the idea of creatures that shouldn’t exist,…
31 Days of Halloween – October 29
In 1922, King Tut’s tomb was found. It was still sealed, meaning it had not been plundered as ad most of the ancient Egyptian tombs. While it is generally considered taboo to disturb the sleep of the dead, archaeologists deemed this find too important to history and science to leave as was found — despite…
31 Days of Halloween – October 28
There have been funerary rites for centuries. Across the cultures, one thing that is constant is that it is disrespectful to disturb a tomb. When medicine began to study human anatomy in earnest there was a surge in grave robbing. How else could a student learn? And as various plagues killed massive swathes of the…
31 Days of Halloween – October 27
Conan Doyle is invariably linked to his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. The stories skyrocketed him to fame and the tales are STILL spawning new fans, more than 100 years later. Conan Doyle wrote numerous other stories as well. Some were more of what we would call science fiction (like The Lost World, with time…