Weekend Link Dump

Welcome to this week's Link Dump!However, I'm not sure I like what the Strange Company HQ staffers are planning for today's menu.What the hell was the Dover Demon?An archaeological mystery near Yellowstone.A fatal obsession with an actress.The "f word" goes a long way back.In 1900, these were women's favorite weapons.A look at the latest book about Poe. It sounds a bit pretentious, but whatever.How do we talk to aliens? Assuming we want to.Witchcraft has become a big business.The "Black Bird" of Chernobyl.Borley Rectory, our most controversial haunted house.The Royal Navy versus pirates.The man who went from reporting on Parliament to becoming an MP.Pasteur and the "accidental vaccine."Why some witches were hanged and some were burned.Elephants are darn good doctors.Octopuses are darn smart. Probably good doctors, too, who knows?Over 700 years ago, a man died from being hit by a car. Well, all right, maybe it was a trebuchet. The end of the Bronze Age.Plants are turning themselves…