Laura Wright
New Orleans possesses an unusual talent for turning history into legend. Sometimes the history is already strange...
History
Historical facts, figures, and oddities.
A car is supposed to be a machine. Steel, glass, rubber, wiring and fuel. It has no...
There is something immediately unsettling about an abandoned asylum. Long corridors disappear into darkness. Paint peels from...
Some archaeological mysteries begin with an artifact. Others begin with a newspaper story. The strange tale of...
Old books are filled with wonderfully peculiar things. Folklore, mythology, superstition and occult literature preserve thousands of...
The modern vampire is an alluring creature. He is immortal, beautiful and eternally young. He lives in...
Few women in the history of colonial South America acquired a reputation as terrible as that of...
A stone is an ordinary thing. We walk across them, build houses from them and toss them...
Werewolves have been hunted almost as long as they have been feared. Long before Hollywood gave the...
Imagine waking in the middle of the night to the unmistakable sound of someone chopping down a...
