Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
The Archive of Disturbed Houses
An interactive archive of newspaper accounts of ghostly disturbances from 1662 to 1929.
Why it surfacedRead each case as it was originally reported, guess whether the cause was a ghost, rat, pipe, fraud, or something unsolved, then compare your guess with the period's verdict. The archive's examples include a musical haunting traced to corroded plumbing and windows supposedly broken by airborne railway gravel.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.