1837 THE WHITE HOUSE smelled like an open toilet. Simon had heard that the new president styled himself a man of the people. He’d heard about the inauguration that was open to every citizen and ended with most of the White House’s furniture stolen or in splinters. &n...
According to mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt, Los Angeles sits above a lost city filled with golden treasures and mysterious inventions left by a race of Lizard People with intellects far in advance of our own. Shufelt says he found records of this reptile race in the ancient legends of the Hop...
tonight at the Gayety. Hard to enjoy the fan dance with that thing sitting beside me in the box. He showed me a copy of a magazine he said had been taken from the stands due to its strange and unsettling content. (Thankfully, he did not make me read it.) It was related to a supposed creature or a...
In 1867, a young sailor was tried and convicted of murdering two of his crew mates and drinking their blood. The papers called him a vampire. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him, sparing his life. He spent the rest of his days in an asylum for the...