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HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES

Posted on December 3, 2014 by [email protected]

I’m always intrigued by life’s mysteries; like, what’s another word for thesaurus and why can’t you shorten “abbreviation”? And tell me this - why is bra singular and panties plural? Here are some of History’s more weighty mysteries. I love … Continue reading →

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THE JOYS OF RESEARCH #2: SIBERIA. MIDNIGHT. JUST YOUR PAJAMAS.

Posted on October 8, 2014 by [email protected]

So this time it was the Trans Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostock. We had got as far as the tundra and so far no one had thrown up in the dining car. Things were looking good. There were four … Continue reading →

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The Black Witches of Mexico

Posted on July 21, 2014 by [email protected]

I was in Mexico researching a book and a writer friend told me about the black witches. I decided to go looking for one. It was in the south, in a town called Catemoco, that I finally tracked one down. … Continue reading →

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How wolves change rivers

Posted on April 25, 2014 by [email protected]

How can wolves change a river? They can. This has nothing to do with writing. I posted it here because it’s amazing. My brother just showed it to me. Do you think nothing you do matters? Watch this and see … Continue reading →

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THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

Posted on May 3, 2013 by [email protected]

155 years ago a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Madonna in a cave called the grotte de Massabielle. Since then the nearby town of Lourdes has grown into a major pilgrimage site for Catholics from … Continue reading →

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IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WYRD

Posted on April 22, 2013 by [email protected]

You can call me weird. I really don’t mind. In fact if you said I was in the way of the Wyrd, about two thousand years ago, it would have been a huge compliment. It would mean I was – … Continue reading →

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A LION. 2 UNARMED MEN. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WILL SHOCK YOU.

Posted on September 14, 2012 by [email protected]

There was a time not that very long ago in sunny England when you could buy a lion cub in Harrods for the very reasonable sum of 250 guineas. Two young ex-pat Aussies, John Rendell and Ace Bourke, decided to … Continue reading →

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MY NAME IS HARI. MATA HARI.

Posted on August 5, 2012 by [email protected]

The life and times of one of the world’s most famous female spy Just before dawn on October 15, 1917, a woman was woken by a deputation of religious and turnkeys in the Saint-Lazare prison, just outside Paris. She was … Continue reading →

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MORE SECRETS OF THE STIGMATA

Posted on June 29, 2012 by [email protected]

  In the Sound of Music the nuns sang ‘How do you solve a problem like Maria?’ It’s more likely the more pressing problem in the Alps around that time was: ‘How do you solve a problem like Therese?’ … Continue reading →

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HISTORY’S MYSTERIES: THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS GHOST SHIP

Posted on June 25, 2012 by [email protected]

On 4 December 1872, an American brigantine called The Mary Celeste was found drifting unmanned in the Atlantic ocean and what happened to her has become one of history’s greatest maritime mysteries. What happened to her? The master and entire … Continue reading →

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