Tuesday, June 15
A 1642 image of a stingray, produced by Ulisse Aldrovani, who reported that the creatures "love music, the dance and witty remarks," I know not how.
Cabinet of Curiosities
UK's The Guardian asks the paranormal question: "Where have all the UFOs gone?" Apparently X-Files-level weirdness is getting scarce of late: looks like Nessie hasn't surfaced lately, and poltergeist reports are down. Obviously, they haven't been on this website lately. Nessie, incidentally, has the distinction of having been exorcized by St. Columba. If that isn't enough for your daily bizarro quotient, pay a call on Strange Science, a portmanteau of the odd dead ends of scientific history culled from engravings, yellowing bestiaries and once-impeccable Enlightenment reports. While there, you can rummage through images of the sea monk; the delightful bearded whale; the Danish skvader, a spurious crossbreed of a woodcock and a rabbit; and the nightmare fossil hallucigenia. For all your other cryptozoological needs, check out this purported pleiosaur (or shark) carcass trawled up off New Zealand in 1977.
The Shrine of the Holy Whapping: Because, if we didn't find it first, Fr. Bryce would probably link to it eventually anyway.
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