ODD and More ODD part II

Οne more odd post for you!!!

When 5-year-old May Pierstorff asked to visit her grandmother, her parents had no money to buy a rail ticket. So they mailed her. In 1914, May’s parents proposed mailing her from Grangeville, parcel post to Lewiston, Idaho, 75 miles away. The postmaster found the “package” was under the 50-pound weight limit, so he winked at their plan, classed May as a baby chick, and put 53 cents in stamps on her coat. May rode in the train's mail car and was delivered safely to her grandparents.

Mary Todd Lincoln with the ‘ghost’ of her late husband. Deeply invested in the occult for most of her life, Mary became consumed with contacting Abraham Lincoln after his untimely assassination in 1865. She was constantly holding seances in an attempt to find her husband and in 1869- or thereabouts, as the date is not entirely known- she met William H. Mumler, a well-known ‘spirit photographer’. Mumler agreed to take a picture of Mary and ...

A forgotten profession: In the days before alarm clocks were widely affordable, people like Mary Smith of Brenton Street were employed to rouse sleeping people in the early hours of the morning. They were commonly known as ‘knocker-ups’ or ‘knocker-uppers’. Mrs. Smith was paid sixpence a week to shoot dried peas at market workers’ windows in Limehouse Fields, London. Photograph from Philip Davies’ Lost London: 1870-1945.

Reconstruction of the appearance of Argentavis Magnificens, the biggest & the heaviest bird capable to fly who lived six millions years ago in Argentina. Its wingspan was circa 7 m (22,9 feet), its estimated weight was 70 kg (154 pounds).

"Edward Mordrake was a 19th century English nobleman who had an extra face on the back of his head. According to the story, the extra face could neither eat nor speak, but it could laugh and cry. Edward begged doctors to have his ‘devil twin’ removed, because, supposedly, it whispered horrible things to him at night, but no doctor would attempt it. He committed suicide at the age of 23 by poisoning himself because he could no longer stand having to live with the face on the back of his head."

A New Mexico man’s attempt to create a storybook marriage proposal didn’t exactly go as planned, when his girlfriend swallowed the diamond engagement ring he’d hidden in her milkshake. It took a trip to the hospital and the X-ray, above, for Kaitlin Whipple to believe her boyfriend, Reed Harris’, tale of what happened. After returning from the hospital, Harris had a second chance to propose. She said yes. (Source: New York Daily News)

Date unknown. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples