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Jan 1, 1901 · 3:43
There are on record numerous incidents in which dogs have shown an almost human sensitivity, more startling than these…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:26
There are thousands of cases similar to that of the girl named Rose Pugliese, no single one of them perhaps is of earth…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:11
A strange man appears on the road behind Catherine O’Rouke and stops on the road to talk to Molly Donovan. However…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:33
The name of James Watt is invariably associated with the invention of the steam engine and with little else. It is not…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:11
Of all the amazing stories of the sea there is one that invariably evokes a smile of scepticism and disbelief. But that…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:15
At a time when he had already achieved recognition as one of America's most eminent inventors and physicists, Thomas…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:41
In annals of the strange and the incredible, death has always played a significant role for it is inevitable that the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:52
So rapid has been the advance of 20th Century science in the diagnosis and cure of disease, that one pictures men of…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:35
In the records of the American criminal courts we might expect to find stirring stories of human conflict and, indeed,…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:48
The Poltergeist or Playful Spirit has been for centuries a familiar figure in the literature of psychic al research. No…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:30
Of all the secrets that lie buried with the dead none is more challenging, none more tantalising than the secret which…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:24
The amazing story of David Lang of Gallatin, Tennessee, was first publicised by none other than the famous American…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:34
Out of the tell-tale traces embedded in the ancient rocks science has constructed a picture of pre-historic life. This…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:30
Contrary to popular belief and through the conceptions of the writers of horror stories, strange and mysterious events…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:33
Stories of sudden and mysterious disappearances are not uncommon and according to the familiar pattern a perfectly…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:24
Philosophers in their writings as well as ordinary men in their everyday lives are accustomed to make a sharp…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:37
It is said that banshees were abroad the night before the strange disappearance of the two young sons of Mauro Pansini,…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:32
The occurrence of strange and inexplicable events during times of violent civil disorders has frequently been noted.…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:52
Through the ages in all cultures, in all countries, the belief has persisted that certain men are able to transform…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:43
Even as late as the first World War, men climbed into the cockpits of their planes with a strange sense of exhilaration…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:34
Literally millions of human beings have known the sensation of leaving their native earth and soaring above the clouds;…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:43
It is not remarkable that so many of the reported ghosts and phantoms and supernatural visions have been observed just…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:32
Try as they will the men of science cannot quite strip death of the air of mystery which hovers over it. Especially is…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:53
We think of the pioneers and trail blazers of the old West as rugged and realistic men who would be not in the least…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:37
There are people so thoroughly conventional and so eminently proper that one feels nothing unusual could ever happen to…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:34
Every human being it is said is part of the social fabric and indeed so obvious does this seem that if ever we should…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:17
One of the most baffling of all scientific phenomena is the phenomenon known as ‘stigmatisation’. In spite of our…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:49
The record of famous charlatans and frauds is cluttered with the names of those who have earned their living by…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:47
The great Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova has been dead now for many years but her many admirers still recall the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:49
High in the history of brilliant military masterpieces stands the capture of Jerusalem from the Turks by British forces…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:50
Whether it be a magnificent cathedral or merely a frame shack, a house of prayer is invariably vested with an air of…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:42
Out of the annals of the strange and the incredible accounts of nightmarish creatures often appear to challenge our…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:47
Nature is whimsical and unpredictable and sometimes, in a perverse mood, she delights in creating freaks and…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:34
So permeated with mysticism are the writings of Pierre Loti the great French romanticist that it comes as no surprise…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:39
For most readers of the daily newspapers bank robberies are common and rather unmysterious events but there is on…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:29
In the little town of Neston in Cheshire, England Teresa Higginson is well remembered. Tor it was she who had an…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:45
Dreams the modern psychologist tells us, are the expression of unconscious drives, the fulfilment of wishes which we…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:32
Slowly and laboriously from rocks and tablets of stone, the historians have pieced together a picture of the ancient…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:38
The nature of death and the fate of the human soul after death are riddles to which no man has found a key but there…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:35
Throughout the British Aisles air-raid shelters are a common sight but in the town of Sheraton there stands one older…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:34
Of all the objects in the heavens none has been more closely nor more consistently observed than the moon. Now that man…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:28
Stories of human beings who, by a wave of a magic wand, are transformed into animals are an inevitable part of the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:47
The sight of all battle fields invariably evokes in our mind’s eye a vision of the men who fought on them in a former…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:47
The supernatural is not selective; a scientist working in his laboratory, a housewife bent over her ironing board, all…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:44
Of all the strange tales in the annals of the incredible stories of curses are perhaps the most difficult to accept.…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:43
The favourite locale of riders of romantic adventure from Dumas to Sabatini has always been the Wayside Tavern. One of…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:36
In cases of accidental death, the greatest tragedy always lies in the fact that the disaster might have been avoided.…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:22
Millions of square miles of ocean floor have never ever been observed by human eyes and so, it should not be surprising…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:53
Work of the great Doctor Sigmund Freud centred the attention of the whole scientific world on the subject of dreams. It…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:39
The experience of the Reverend Whamby of Marquam Hill is fiercely unique in the annals of the strange and the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:30
There is an element of pathos as well as comedy in the curious story of ‘the Cumston’s of Leeds’ for they were people…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:44
‘Gee’ is one that comes easily to the lips of scientists it serves to explain a multitude of phenomena which might…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:20
In the works of Robert Browning there is a logic, a precision, and an intellectual acuteness which suggests the respect…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:49
Nothing has proved more indispensible to the progress of humanity than fire. Neither has anything been more violently…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:31
There are few of us who have not, at one time or another had the sensation of reliving an experience which is actually…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:41
So close are the ties of blood, we are rarely surprised when we hear of a man or a woman who has been saved from death…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:47
That faith in witchcraft is not easily abandoned is indicated by the fact that in England it continued to exercise an…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:35
We believe that dream symbols are merely the expression of our own suppressed fears and desires and we feel safe in…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:39
The floor of the ocean has always been associated with strange legends and fantastic creatures. Most of these are, of…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:29
The thing happened on an autumn afternoon in the city of Norfolk, Virginia and to try to explain it you must know also…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:44
The history of the worker’s long and bitter struggle for a decent standard of living has been marked now and then by…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:42
Physicians of the mind from witch doctors to psychoanalysis’s have been fascinated by the phenomenon of dreams; and…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:31
Death under mysterious circumstances is not unusual, but the case of J. Temple Thurston differs somewhat from the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:39
Out of the fires of war have come countless stories of strange and incredible events Many of these, science has…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:39
In today’s modern world we tend to ridicule the idea that there are people possessed with the power of transforming…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:24
There was nothing uncommon about the ghost at the Royal Irish Constabulary barrack and the only reason for singling him…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:37
To those who appreciate music but do not create it, the whole process of musical composition is a major mystery and…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:44
It is customary to associate stories of the supernatural with hot tropical countries; and while it is true that many…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:46
In the annals of the strange and the incredible, the sources of our stories are often those professions which one would…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:38
As the creator and producer of the Incredible But True series it is not within my province to judge our stories, only…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:36
If the police magistrate seems to act too hastily in the matter he is scarcely to be blamed. For after all if madness,…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:37
There are many baffling accounts in the chronicles of strange events. Accounts of men who can read another man’s most…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:33
Throughout the years ships that sail the seas have proved a plentiful source of tales of the strange and the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:38
The Wanderer, the ship that Captain Brander commanded was a fine four-masted bark that made her maiden voyage in the…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:43
Strange and mysterious though our dreams may seem, it is usually possible to relate them to our past life but there are…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:29
If you were to read Dr L. C. Woodman’s sober and scientific credos on the affair in the Michigan Medical News you would…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:44
When a man of science, a man of whose erudition and integrity have never been questioned tells us of an experience that…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:36
The story of Daniel Kipperidge was submitted by a listener to this series; but it is only one of thousands of such…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:41
Harry Nichols’ vision is one of those stories which carry within itself the ring of truth; for the facts of the case…
Jan 1, 1901 · 3:47
There are strange tales of violent death visited upon those who violated the sanctity of King Tut’s last resting place;…
Ned · your guide to the archive
Ned here. Forty-odd years I've spent with these old shows — and if you took to Incredible But True, I'd wager my last valve you'll love this lot.
