Not everyone realizes that there are two rivers Styx and that they cross each other.  Also, not everyone knows that you can get vermouth made with water from the underworld.  It's all revealed in Le Journal Amusant, 1921.

We peeked into the haunted mirror and gained a pupil.  (They say that when the teacher is ready, the pupil will appear.)  See our haunted mirror in action in our video about a lucid waking experiment gone wrong.

The Fairy Story that Came True, Showing that All Modern Inventions Were Foreshadowed in Fairy Stories by Annie Pupin, 1913.

Here's a dinner table game involving a sharp knife, with points awarded for breaking dishes and soiling the table cloth.  From The Judge, 1921.

Here's how we know that the language spoken in heaven is Gaelic, and that the entrance to heaven, hell, and purgatory is in Ireland.  From the sublime novel The Demi-gods by James Stephens, 1921.

Tears in the fabric of space, described in Cosmopolitan, 1912.  "Many of the nebulous objects recently photographed have strange black holes, or gaps, in them, as distinct as drops or splashes of ink.  Some of them look like luminous veils, gemmed with thousands of stellar points, and torn in places as if the stars had lacerated them."

The unknown is uncentered.  (Note how the word "the" is an entire letter's width too far to the right.)  From The Unknown by Francis Lathom, 1826.

You've heard of the elephant in the room, but did you know he wears spectacles?  From Le Rire, 1894.

"What may seem surprising at first is that, whilst it appears to, the surface of the Sun is not actually burning at all!  Neither is it boiling nor bubbling as it appears to in high-resolution views." —Philip Pugh, Observing the Sun with CoronadoTM Telescopes.

On the rise: my collection of vintage sun imagery. 

When crossing, it is polite to hold the grim reaper's scythe.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.

Gargoyles send kisses to your family.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.

Emerson once said that books are noble, and here's proof.  By Emma Jane Worboise, 1871.

All those bugs in Florida -- they're tourists, too.  From The Judge, 1913.

"Put the groundhog back in Groundhog's Day" is a Googlewhack.  (Thanks, June!)

Mysticism can have hands and feet.  From Paul the Mystic by James Mann Campbell, 1908.  Perhaps mysticism with hands and feet looks like one of these creatures we saw previously.

"The whole world is governed largely by intuition, which is a method of knowing, without knowing why."  From The Occult and Biological Journal, 1900.