Archive for January 10th, 2025

Man Finds Lost Christmas Present from 46 Years Ago While Remodeling Home

Tim King does home remodeling in western Chicago. Recently, he worked on the home that belonged to his parents. While tearing down some drywall, he found a wrapped Christmas present. It had his name on it and dated back...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Man-Finds-Lost-Christmas-Present-from-46-Years-Ago/

Revisiting the Curious Case of the Flaming Hand of Doom

There are thousands of stories of weird events that got their 15 minutes -or a year- of sensation then faded from public memory. Such is the case of a hand that fell from the sky in Bargaintown, New Jersey. In 1916, Henr...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Revisiting-the-Curious-Case-of-the-Flaming-Hand-of-Doom/

Inheritance Powder: The History of Arsenic

We've posted quite a few stories about arsenic over the past twenty years here at Neatorama because there are so many things to say about the historic poison. However, you might not have been reading this blog that long,...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Inheritance-Powder-The-History-of-Arsenic/

Trapped by a Blizzard in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range

Embed from Getty ImagesA group of 226 travelers from the Midwest to California got caught in a terrible blizzard in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. They could go no further, and were snowbound. You think you know thi...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Trapped-by-a-Blizzard-in-the-Sierra-Nevada-Mountain-Range/
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