The Victorian Era may not have had its own version of the Darwin Awards, but thanks to the miracle of newspaper records, we can reflect on the bizarre deaths and disasters of yore. The blog The Baby Died collects morbid clippings from 100 years ago, featuring billiard ball, corset, and umbrella-related demises.
Ross Horsley works at a local history library, where he encounters all manner of black-and-white oddities. His blog gathers offbeat crime reports — deaths, drunks, disorderlies — from English newspapers. And there’s some true strangeness among the records, such as death by billiard ball…
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