Believe it or nosh, Nostradamus predicted your next diet, 400 years before you were born.  It's proven in detail: Nostradamus Predicted Your Next Diet.

The skull on this black candle has such an uncanny presence that we asked our Spirit Box radio (as seen on the Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures"), "What is the nature of this candle?"  The Spirit Box swept through the otherworldly static in the atmosphere for an answer, and what we heard was quite intriguing.  See what you make of this:

"Hmm, excuse me … wake up … see it … the road there and back … that was confusing … pretty sad … the aggressive … flow bloodflow bloodflow … how long did it take? … do you wanna be … fine people … why not … nothing."

Here's the audio file:

For spiritual adventurers, this haunted candle is available in our Etsy store.

Here's how the ghost of a snore comes into being, from Sayings and Doings in America by Costard Sly, 1834.

You've heard that the future casts a shadow on the present, but it can also shine, as we see in this 1908 ad in The Sketch.

A postage stamp is a tiny Magna Charta.  From The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

Shimmering as if with the spark of life, this owl figurine has such an uncanny presence that we asked our Spirit Box radio (as seen on the Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures"), "What is the nature of this owl?" The Spirit Box swept through the otherworldly static in the atmosphere for an answer, and what we heard was quite intriguing:

"It came down … why not … honor him … it's not something you can underestimate … it's great for a lot of things."

Here's an mp3 of the Spirit Box audio:

You don't have to choose; you can have both!  "Doughnut life-preservers and a poetical horse."  From Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

"Beautiful paintings do not possess husbands."  From The Spell by William Dana Orcutt, 1909.

You've seen lost pet and lost child notices, but here's a lost home from Popular Mechanics, 1927.  For all we know, this home may still be lost.  If your ancestors lost a home and you think this might be your inheritance, please do get in touch.

You've heard of drawings made from photographs, but here's a photograph made from a drawing (as explained in the caption).  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

Everything wrong with the world can be traced to the fact that people have two sets of ears.  From The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

A robot that goes to church, from Popular Mechanics, 1929.

Seeing the number 7 stuck to Lady Barbarity, we wondered about the "barbarity of luck."  That phrase is a Googlewhack!

You've heard of a bearded clam, but here's a mustachioed oyster.  "The gift that fell from heaven."  From Stories in Precious Stones by Helen Zimmern, 1873.

You've heard of the search for the "missing link," but Shakespeare's Tempest washed it up in the form of Caliban.

"Tangoing by machinery."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.