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The Salem Witch Trials Actually Happened in...

October 26, 2023

On a crisp late April morning in 1692, Benjamin Hutchinson was on his way to a local tavern in the quiet New England farming community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, when he was stopped by 11-year-old Abigail Williams. Frantically, Williams gestured to a “little black” figure in the form of the area’s former local reverend, George Burroughs. Hutchinson could not see the specter, but trusted Williams—a “visionary girl” who’d already identified several witchcraft suspects tormenting local girls. Without hesitation, Hutchinson...

The Three Brujas in Taos, New Mexico

October 26, 2023

Among the stately granite tombstones in a quaint historical cemetery are three unmarked concrete graves. Local legend says that these graves hold the remains of three witches (or brujas) who inflicted some kind of horrible evil on the community, although it seems that no one living can remember exactly what that was. Whatever they did must have been bad though, because supposedly the graves are covered in concrete in order to seal off the spirits from the physical realm,...

Podcast: The Art of the Heist With...

October 26, 2023

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we chat with one of the leading experts on art theft—professor and author Noah Charney, who unpacks the cultural fascination with this type of crime. He also tells us the story of one of the most notorious real life art thieves. Charney is also teaching an Atlas Obscura course on art crime that begins November 7, 2023. To...

Impaled Horse Heads Are Appearing More and...

October 25, 2023

On the morning of April 29, 2022, members of a new-age commune outside of Reykjavik woke to a freshly severed horse head on a wooden pole pointed at their property. Any local who saw the grisly scene, blood-caked and mouth agape, would have immediately known what it meant. The Icelandic níðstöng (“nithing pole” or sometimes called a scorn pole) is a curse dating back to the Viking Age. It is believed to have been used as early as the...

La Muelita (The Little Molar) in Mexico...

October 25, 2023

Dr. Emilio Medellín Cordero might have Mexico City’s most appropriately shaped office. Designed to resemble a tooth, it could only have been built for a dentist, and the blue neon sign hanging above it, makes it clear that yes, here you can find a dentista. The building is not only peculiar for its shape but also its location. Found at the front of the entrance to a tall apartment building’s ground-level parking area, one could even picture it as...

This Italian City Is Obsessed With Squash

October 25, 2023

Pumpkin spice lattes may be few and far between in Italy, but for those gourd-lovers seeking to make the most of the season, there are few places more festive in fall than the northern Italian town of Ferrara. Located halfway between Venice and Florence, Ferrara was a center of art and innovation during the Renaissance as the home of the Este Court, a noble family whose wealth and power helped form the foundation of Italian culture centuries before the...

Sailing Stones of Bonnie Claire Playa in...

October 25, 2023

Stones aren’t known to move around much on their own. The most notable exceptions are the sailing stones of Racetrack Playa, which seemingly scoot around a dried-up lakebed all on their own. After years of hypothesizing about the reasons for the stones’ movement, scientists caught the sailing stones in action in 2013. Water accumulates on the playa in the winter, and when the weather conditions are just right, a thin layer of ice forms. As the ice breaks up into...

World's Largest Chile Pepper in Las Cruces,...

October 25, 2023

Red? Green? Christmas? It’s safe to say that Las Cruces, New Mexico is America’s epicenter of chile pepper tourism. And if you’re driving through the markets of nearby Hatch you’re going to need a place to stay. So where better to rest your head than the Big Chile Inn and Suites, in full view of the world’s largest chile pepper parked out front? The inn actually predates the giant mimetic capsicum plopped in its parking lot. In the 1960s,...

In October, Our Night Sky is Full...

October 25, 2023

Atlas Obscura’s Wondersky columnist Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning science journalist and author of the upcoming Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are (January 2024, Random House). She regularly shares the stories and secrets of our wondrous night sky. Once upon a time, Orion, a masterful hunter, boasted that he could kill all the animals of Earth if he wanted. Horrified, the Earth goddess Gaia had him murdered by...

The Grave of America's Unknown Child: Joseph...

October 25, 2023

On February 25, 1957, the deceased body of a young boy was found in a wooded area of a small Philadelphia neighborhood. The child was found in a cardboard box, severely beaten and malnourished, unclothed and wrapped in a blanket. He was estimated to be between the ages of four and six. Blunt force trauma was presumed to be the cause of death. Sadly, nobody ever claimed the child. And despite countless tips and leads being called in to...

Marietta House Museum in Glenn Dale, Maryland

October 25, 2023

Marietta, built during the years 1812-1813, is an important example of a Federal-style brick house. It was the home of prominent politician and jurist Gabriel Duvall. Duvall had a distinguished career as a representative in both the Maryland State Legislature and the U.S. Congress before being nominated to the Supreme Court by President James Madison. Scholars haven’t been particularly kind to Duvall. Debates involving choosing the most insignificant Supreme Court Justice still feature him as a leading candidate for...

Ancient Egyptians May Have Spiced Their Mummies

October 25, 2023

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE OCTOBER 21, 2023, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. When Dora Goldsmith wanted to know what newly deceased ancient Egyptians smelled like, she took an unorthodox approach: She partially mummified herself. Goldsmith is a PhD researcher working on her doctorate thesis in Egyptology at Freie Universität in Berlin. In an 18th-Dynasty recipe from a papyrus currently in the Louvre, Goldsmith found a recipe for an embalming fragrance,...

Caravaggio Sanctuary Guillotine in Santuario di Caravaggio,...

October 25, 2023

In the village of Caravaggio is a sanctuary dedicated to the worship of Santa Maria del Fonte (Saint Mary of the Spring), who, according to Catholic tradition, appeared to a shepherdess on May 26, 1432, at this very location. The sanctuary consists of a monumental church, surrounded by landscaped gardens and four symmetrical porticoes. Underneath this huge structure is a corridor running the whole width of the church. The corridor is divided into five sections, or cells. Approaching the...

Oklahoma National Stockyards in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

October 25, 2023

The beating heart of Oklahoma’s beef industry—and in fact the largest cattle market in the world—can be found just outside of the capital city at the Oklahoma National Stockyards. ONSY visitors will witness one of the last surviving stockyards of its kind, a 120-acre facility with live cattle, sprawling pens, and modern cowboys situated amidst a town comprised of century-old small businesses primarily catering to the work done within the stockyards. Tours of the stockyards traverse the grounds from...

Reform Bill Heads in Derby, England

October 25, 2023

As one makes their way up Friar Gate, (so named for a friary that once stood here in the 1300s) they might enjoy the sight of many respectable Georgian houses lining both sides of the street. Once they pass the old railway bridge and make their way up to the crest of a hill, they may also notice something peculiar surrounding the base of two London plane trees. It is here, that the visitor will see a vast collection...

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