HistoryfromSlate Magazine1 week agoThe Last Salem Witches, in This Week's Open ThreadIn 1692, eight people were hanged in Salem for witchcraft, and twenty were killed overall after refusing to confess.
UK newsfromwww.theguardian.com3 weeks agoMass psychogenic illness' caused toxic substance alert at Heathrow, says scientistA likely anxiety-based mass psychogenic illness caused 21 people at Heathrow Terminal 4 to fall ill despite emergency searches finding no hazardous substance.
MiscellaneousfromIndependent2 months ago'I had faith and I was swept up in the excitement': Ballinspittle and the rainy summer of the moving statuesStatues of the Virgin Mary were reported to have moved in Ballinspittle, Ireland, during the summer of 1985, attracting large crowds.