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Sabrina Imbler

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2019

Hi! I'm a staff writer for Atlas Obscura. Reach me at sabrina.imbler@atlasobscura.com.

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The sawed-off shotgun, collected from Bonnie and Clyde's hideout.

crime

For Sale: Bonnie and Clyde’s Sawed-Off Shotgun

Plus Bonnie’s poetry, wanted posters, and a bloodied bandage.

By Sabrina Imbler
A crab crusted in parasites.

disasters

A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland

A nightmare at 6,000 feet.

By Sabrina Imbler
A woolly mammoth on display at the Natural History Museum, Vienna.

bones

Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males

One theory is that reckless young bison and mammoths got into more trouble.

By Sabrina Imbler
Mission San Diego de Alcala, built from a kit.

architecture

Is the End Coming for a Problematic California Grade School Tradition?

The mission model project has long glossed over the brutal treatment of Native Americans.

By Sabrina Imbler
The running buffalo clover, tiny and resilient.

forests

How a Tiny Plant Made a Big Comeback in West Virginia

The running buffalo clover may soon be removed from the endangered species list.

By Sabrina Imbler
The skull of Lilias Adie, an accused witch, is superimposed over her face in this 2018 reconstruction by forensic artist Christopher Rynn.

cemeteries

Scottish Authorities Are Trying to Reunite a 'Witch' With Her Skull

Lilias Adie's head has been missing since 1938.

By Sabrina Imbler
Only a few inches long, Sloan's viperfish is an apex predator in the twilight zone.

oceans

The Ocean's Eerie Twilight Zone Is in Murky Legal Water

Scientists are trying to keep one of the world’s last great wildernesses intact.

By Sabrina Imbler
Baby loggerhead turtles, newly hatched in South Africa.

turtles

Found: Fossilized Tracks of Baby Sea Turtles in South Africa

Prehistoric squee!

By Sabrina Imbler
A sheep and a bear square off in a 2018 protest in France.

hunting

In the Pyrenees Mountains, It’s Bears vs. Sheep vs. Humans

A bear named Claverina has stoked an age-old debate about where predators belong.

By Sabrina Imbler
Somewhere within the halls of the Strasbourg Zoological Museum, you might stumble upon a hoax.

natural history museums

Zoology’s Favorite Hoax Was an Island Rat That Hopped on Its Nose

Harald Strümpke didn’t just create a lost archipelago, he created a sensation.

By Sabrina Imbler
A Loa water frog in its stream.

rivers

Saving the World’s Last 14 Loa Water Frogs

The endangered amphibians were found camped out in a lonely brown puddle in Chile.

By Sabrina Imbler
The Raitt Street mural around four years ago, faded and in disrepair.

murals

California's Mexican-American History Is Disappearing Beneath White Paint

It’s surprisingly hard to protect beloved public art.

By Sabrina Imbler
Castleton Tower, standing tall and vibrating ever so slightly.

national parks

Climbers in Utah Scaled a 400-Foot Rock to Measure How It Moves

Scientists say Castleton Tower is always vibrating, but doesn’t seem in danger of falling down.

By Sabrina Imbler
Nothing hits the spot like a bit of wrestling!

games

Between Plagues, Medieval Peasants Enjoyed Bawdiness and Brawling

To chill like a peasant, attend a farcical play and wrestle with your friends.

By Sabrina Imbler
For Ancient Mesoamericans, the best way to chill was to get really, really hot.

volcanoes

Ancient Mesoamericans Calmed Down and Hooked Up in Sweaty Steam Baths

Temazcales helped indigenous people let off steam, until colonialism came along.

By Sabrina Imbler
Fourteen great songs, one iconic shirt.

islands

The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt

The aloha shirt has many possible inventors and a long, fraught cultural history.

By Sabrina Imbler
Bunches and bunches of Cavendishes.

food

No, the Banana Apocalypse Is Not Around the Corner

But Colombia’s outbreak of lethal banana fungus is still bad news.

By Sabrina Imbler
A Nicholls' toadlet, barely an inch long.

industrial

Biologists Relocated 30,000 Animals to Make Room for a Natural Gas Plant

It took seven years to evacuate all the goannas, echidnas, and venomous snakes.

By Sabrina Imbler
The car arrived dusty and battered.

automotive history

For Sale: The Dalai Lama’s 1966 Land Rover

The vintage 4x4 traversed rural roads in Dharamsala for 10 years, with His Holiness in tow.

By Sabrina Imbler
Etchison rappels into yet another mine.

gold rush

North Carolina’s Abandoned Gold Mines Don’t Have Gold, But Do Have Bats

A deadly disease could devastate these thriving colonies of winged critters.

By Sabrina Imbler
Rama's father receiving a medal from King Sihanouk, who was cut out of the photo.

genocide

One Family’s Story of Survival Under the Khmer Rouge, No Longer Buried

Photos testify to the Rama’s journey from Battambang to Shreveport.

By Sabrina Imbler
In a Special Room in an Ohio Library, Toni Morrison’s Legacy Lives On

libraries

In a Special Room in an Ohio Library, Toni Morrison’s Legacy Lives On

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist never lost touch with her hometown.

By Sabrina Imbler
A bronze cast of the Army-owned Wankel's T. Rex, affectionately nicknamed "Big Mike," guards the Museum of the Rockies.

dinosaurs

Why Does the U.S. Army Own So Many Fossils?

Turns out massive flood control projects are a great way to find dinosaurs.

By Sabrina Imbler
On the left, a musician wears an unguent cone.

perfume

Researchers Concocted an Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra

One archaeologist describes the spicy, musky scent as "the Chanel No. 5 of ancient Egypt."

By Sabrina Imbler
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