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Turnip Prize entrants from 2013, including "Melancholy," "Pilot Light," and "Hair of the Dog"

competitions

Entries for the Turnip Prize Are Now Open

The annual contest celebrates very low-effort art.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
November 1, 2017
Cratena peregrina grows up to two inches in length and prefers to live on the rocky sea bottom.

slugs

The Luminescent Underwater Slug Pirates of the Mediterranean Sea

Crafty nudibranchs get two meals in one.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
November 1, 2017
Police search the Deans' garden in Winton.

new zealand

Was Minnie Dean Really the Wickedest Woman in New Zealand History?

Revisiting the case of the only woman ever executed on its shores.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
November 1, 2017
Remember: don't drink and drone.

story

The Future Is Here: Watch a Drone Mix a Cocktail Like an Expert

A perfectly unnecessary way to serve a drink.

From Per La Mente
Rows of sugar skulls.

mexico

The Sweet Secrets of a Fifth-Generation Sugar Skull Maker

Elvira Mondragón Garcia's products range from the size of a gum ball to a human head.

Ximena N. Larkin
Atlas Obscura
November 1, 2017
A smattering of beings described as monstrous in medieval times, including a blemmye (second from right).

31 days of halloween

The Modern Lives of Medieval Monster Scholars

It's an interesting time to see the world through the eyes of blemmyes and demons.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
Spiderwebs help catch pesky fruit flies.

spiders

The Heritage Beer Brewed With Some Help From Spiders

When fruit flies love your beer, you don't mind a few webs in the brewery.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
The Hudson at the Tappan Zee, Francis Silva, 1876.

boats

The Effort to Bring Sail Freight Back to New York’s Hudson River

What's old is new again.

Kelsey Kennedy
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
Louise Huebner, Official Witch of Los Angeles County, making turtle soup for her family in the 1970s.

31 days of halloween

A Look Back at America's Psychedelic Countercultural Witch Music

Occult albums in the '60s and '70s combined ambient tunes and spoken spells.

Alison Fensterstock
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
A 16th-century anatomical lecture in London.

31 days of halloween

European 'Corpse Medicine' Promised Better Health Through Cannibalism

“Take the fresh, unspotted cadaver of a redheaded man..."

Natalie Zarrelli
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
Lilias Adie's face, reconstructed from century-old images of her skull.

31 days of halloween

Meet a Scottish 'Witch' Who Died 300 Years Ago

Digital reconstruction gives a face to a sad tale.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
The orange stem belongs to the original mushroom; the grey head to the bodysnatching parasite.

mushrooms

Found: A Rare Bodysnatching Fungus

The Powdercap Strangler is no joke.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
A Parisian inspects mushrooms growing in the tunnels underneath the city.

underground cooking

The Secret History of Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms

In the 1800s, farmers cultivated mushrooms in abandoned quarries underneath the French capital.

Emily Monaco
Atlas Obscura
October 31, 2017
Welcome to Your Worst Nightmares

dreams

Welcome to Your Worst Nightmares

We asked you to tell us about them, and they are chilling.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
October 30, 2017
Into the Veil 2017.

events

Revisit the Enchantment of 'Into the Veil'

A short film for those who missed this year's big event in New York—or want to relive it.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
October 30, 2017
"Shelley" is an artificial intelligence bot who writes stories inspired by a subreddit of aspiring horror writers.

artificial intelligence

An Artificial Intelligence Bot Writes Stories of the Macabre

"Shelley" conjures tales of disembodied mouths, surprise male pregnancies, and a house full of dolls.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
October 30, 2017
Members of the Ichthyophagous Club are caricatured on a menu at one of their banquets.

menu monday

The Club Dedicated to Eating Unconventional Aquatic Creatures

The Ichthyophagous Club changed America's relationship to seafood.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
October 30, 2017
Edvard Munch's Love and Pain (1895), often referred to as Vampire. Munch is reported to have said it depicts a woman kissing a man's neck—nothing more.

vampires

The Myth of a Medical Explanation for Vampirism

The problem is that real people suffer from these conditions.

Kelsey Kennedy
Atlas Obscura
October 30, 2017
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