CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Dolores Moran's contract stipulated that she would never display 3:45 or 9:15. As Paris Hilton discovered, there's no turning back times one later regrets. From Cine-Mundial, 1944.
A giant orb of light by a snowy tree. To demystify it, as Scott Neustadter has said, would merely disappoint those of us who love not knowing. From West Virginia Wesleyan's yearbook of 1965.
A photo from Baron Von Schrenck-Notzing's The Materialization of Phenomena, in which a nun's veiled face emerges from the right side of a spirit medium's head. From Current Opinion, 1922.
Can you see what's wrong with this photo? If only the photographer had shifted just a few inches to the right, it would have looked like the gentleman had actual horns. This sort of lost opportunity is heartbreaking. From Eastern Kentucky State College's 1966 yearbook.
On a hunch, we analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app to see if the figure at the end of the hallway is a ghost. Sure enough, it has a skull face.
This haunted photograph appears in Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1991. Why are glowing lights so ghostly? We explored the answer in the context of this other ghostly photo.
You've heard that some musical pieces are labeled "con brio," meaning that they are to be played "brightly." Here's what it looks like. From the University of Southern Mississippi's 1985 yearbook.