by Court | Dec 19, 2022
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Let’s talk about Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” – the OG holiday ghost story that brings together two great tastes that taste great together – hauntings and shit-talking rich people. I recently watched the FX’s 2019...
by Court | Feb 14, 2022
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! There are only a few acceptable options for celebrating: • Worshiping the actual skull of St. Valentine• Sending your friends dictator memes• Learning about the ghosts of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre!!! SO WELCOME TO PROHIBITION ERA...
by Court | Jul 16, 2021
This cemetery is in Crescent City, California, wayyyy up on the North Coast of our state. It’s beautiful and wild up here. The sea has battered this town for centuries now, graveyard included. It’s sun and salt bleached, but a massive tangle of swamp lies just behind...
by Court | Feb 15, 2021
The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln by Alonzo Chappel, 1868 You know I love a good corpse story, and Lincoln’s earthly remains went on a JOURNEY. They were not finally, officially laid to rest until 1901 – thirty six fucking years after his death. His body toured...
by Court | Apr 10, 2020
In 1793, Philadelphia was besieged by Yellow Fever. It likely arrived with white refugees fleeing the Haitian Revolution, and Dr. Benjamin Rush noticed that those people weren’t getting as sick. He postulated – WRONGLY – that because of this, black people...
by Court | Feb 28, 2020
Most of you have heard about the Donner Party – the group of white settlers who ventured into California before the Gold Rush, got stuck in the mountains, and had to eat each other to survive. It’s grisly, it’s grotesque, and it’s a staple of American culture....
