britain The story behind the Cottingley fairies hoax of 1917 Gareth Branwyn

History The Strand once published a jade specimen worth exactly one fat man Ellsworth Toohey

Weird The erotic séances that scandalized 1920s spiritualism Popkin

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

futility closet In 1917 two English girls came home with a photograph of fairies Futility Closet

lawsuits The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle filed a lawsuit against "Enola Holmes" for having emotions Thom Dunn

music Catchy German cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" but with lyrics about Sherlock Holmes David Pescovitz

sherlock holmes Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection, free Kindle edition Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet What Mark Twain learned from a palm reader Futility Closet

Comic Books Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee Wink

podcasts Aesop's fables as written by a computer Futility Closet

copyright The twisted history of the Happy Birthday song—and the copyright shenanigans that keep it profitable Glenn Fleishman