On Boxing Day of 1799 the twenty-year-old chemist Humphry Davy – later to become Sir Humphry, inventor of the miners’...
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The story of tobacco is the story of the modern age. On 12th October 1492, within hours of his first...
A lady once asked me whether I believed in ghosts and apparitions. I answered with truth and simplicity: No, madam!...
Excerpted from Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction, available in Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon. The monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar, ten thousand...
Excerpt from Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction, available in paperback and Kindle editions from Amazon and other online stores. Megalith cultures...
Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction features 24 essays “exploring the twilight zones of history, culture and the human mind” (available in...
Excerpted from Darklore Volume 8, available from Amazon US and Amazon UK In February 1758 the 90-year-old Charles Lullin, a...
Excerpted from Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction, available in Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon. At the beginning of 1797, John Robison was a man with...
