The idea that Mary Toft gave birth to rabbits is ridiculous. The fact that most of Britain believed her story is even more astounding.An illustration of Mary Toft supposedly giving birth to rabbits.Wikimedia Commons
What if dreaming of something could make you give birth to that thing?
In the case of Mary Toft, in 1726, she convinced much of Britain that she was giving birth to rabbits. Here’s how it happened: Read More...
Albert Pike's Masonic writings were taken out of context by an anti-Freemason author who made him out to be an occultist who regularly practiced summoning the devil.On August 15, 1871, American Freemason Albert Pike sent an extraordinary letter to the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini. The letter (which was briefly displayed at the British Museum before mysteriously disappearing in the 1970s), predicted a series of events that would take place decades after the author’s own death. Read More...
The former gym teacher shipwrecked on the uninhabited Sardinian island while attempting to sail to Polynesia in 1989 — and decided to stay. But now, the 81-year-old is being forced to leave.FacebookMauro Morandi, a.k.a. “the Italian Robinson Crusoe.”
Mauro Morandi led a comfortable life as a gym teacher in Modena, Italy, before his sense of adventure took him to sea in 1989. But when his expedition failed and he landed on the remote Isle of Budelli off the coast of Sardinia, he decided to become the deserted island’s caretaker — and has voluntarily lived alone there ever since. Read More...
