A mysterious, "magnetic" light. (Via Newspapers.com) strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/09/newspa…

The secretary bird is the mascot the world needs right now.

#OTD 1848 Poe, using the pseudonym “Edward ST Grey” wrote to Sarah Helen Whitman asking for her autograph.

It's #FolkloreThursday! (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith)

German lore says that if someone old or ill sees two cats fighting, they will not survive for long. The cats are the Devil and an angel in disguise, brawling over who will get that person’s soul. #FolkloreThursday

Meanwhile, in the world of goats...(Ontario Daily Report 1912, via Newspapers.com)

I'd love to know the replies to this one. (New York Herald 1863, via Newspapers.com)

Today's Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats. Dance party!

#OTD 1845 a London journal reviewed Poe’s “Tales”: “Mr Poe could not possibly send forth a book without some marks of his genius.”

Weekend Link Dump: Hermit mathematicians, saintly kings, spy whales, smart crows, body snatchers, the Little Gaelic People & more! strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/09/weeken…

This week's #ForteanFriday meets a mermaid! (London Morning Post 1824, via Newspapers.com)

Meanwhile, in the world of goats... (Ontario Daily Report 1936, via Newspapers.com)

Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats welcomes our Weekend Drunken Kittens!

#OTD 1839 the "New York Star" commented that Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" "would have been considered a chef d’oeuvre if it had appeared in the pages of Blackwood.”

It's #Caturday!

Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is this Los Angeles resident who managed to make radio history. (Santa Cruz Sentinel 1927, via Newspapers.com)

This week's #Caturday scorecard: Billy Jones: 0 Valuable dog and "ordinary house cat": 1 (Fort Worth Star Telegram 1934, via Newspapers.com)

Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats celebrates #NationalBeerLoversDay!

#Caturday history: During WWII, a group of Coast Guardsmen were given this kitten. She was named “Dee-Day” & became mascot for a tank-landing ship. On D-Day, she & her ship landed on Normandy. The ship unloaded its men and equipment without serious casualties. (U.S. National Archives)