Simply Weird

Tales from around The World that are bizarre and unexplained. From Time Travel to Out of Place Artefacts, Read it Here

Shrunken Head

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/shrunken-head 25th Dec 2022 -  Perhaps no one image is as easily recognized as The ''Shrunken Head''. ''Replicas'' (mostly cloth or rubber), were a popular ''back of Magazine' …

Edward Moordrake

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/edward-moordrake 25th Dec 2022 - Perhaps a 19th Century Urban Legend, The Story of Edward Moordrake is indeed bizarre (if true). Around 1895 in Boston – a Tale circulated about …

Wild Peter

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/wild-peter 25th Dec 2022 - In a ''Tale'' from 1724 and Hanover, Germany – ''Wild Peter'' was said to have been an abandoned 12 years old Boy. How He lost His Family is unc …

The Giant of Castelanu

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-giant-of-castelanu 25th Dec 2022 - ''Discovered'' in 1890 in Castelanu, France, the so-called ''Giant of Castelanu'' were reputedly the skeletal remains of a Neolithic Race of Proto-Hum …

Psionics

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/psionics 24th Dec 2022 - The term ''Psionics'' is seen as a ''Fringe Science'' Belief which can trace it's origins to the 1950s and ''Science-Fiction'' Writing. It deals with …

Chromotherapy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/chromotherapy 24th Dec 2022 - Although the use of directed light to ''heal'' people of various illnesses is a concept traced to Ancient Greece, Chromotherapy was heavily experiment …

The Gallinipper

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-gallinipper 24th Dec 2022 -  In what could easily be seen as 19th Century ''Urban Legend'' – The Tale of The ''Gallinipper'' (a name created by North Carolina Resident …

Jenny Hanivers

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/jenny-hanivers 24th Dec 2022 - A ''Legend'' from several Scandinavian Countries, the term ''Jenny Haniver'' was first recorded in the 15th Century AD. Many Sailors said that there w …

St. Patrick's Purgatory

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/st-patricks-purgatory 24th Dec 2022 - Located on Station Island, Lough Derg, Ireland – ‘’St. Patrick’s Purgatory’’ is a name given to – what some …

The Claw of Archimedes

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-claw-of-archimedes 24th Dec 2022 - This “device” was said to have existed in Ancient Syracuse (Sicily - 2nd B.C.) and was used to protect it's Harbor from enemy attack. Alth …

Archimedes ''Heat Ray''

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/archimedes-heat-ray 24th Dec 2022 - Long speculated at by Historians, Engineering Genius Archimedes, was known to have purportedly crafted various “engines” to defend Greek C …

The Angel of Hadley

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-angel-of-hadley 23rd Dec 2022 - In a very bizarre Colonial American piece of mythos – The Township of Hadley, Massachusetts (US) is host to the legend of how a ‘’my …