DeadlyCurious is a slow-built archive of the strange, dramatic, and overlooked in human history. We publish stories sourced from primary documents where possible, edited for voice, fact-checked by hand, and pinned to the place on Earth where they unfolded.
Many of our pieces are written and researched with the help of AI tools. Every article is read, edited, fact-checked, and approved by a human editor before publication. When sources conflict, we say so. When something is uncertain, we say that too.
The columns
The Cabinet — Long stories about long-dead people. Deep historical deep-dives. Patient, novelistic, primary-source-heavy. The pieces meant to reward a slow Sunday read.
The Coroner’s Report — How people died, and what killed them. Deaths, disasters, and accidents — the dramatic, the absurd, the avoidable. Written with restraint, never with cheap thrill.
The Footnote — Short, strange, sourced. Brief pieces of weird trivia, each one a single surprising fact unfolded into its smallest necessary essay. Five-minute reads.
How to read
Start on the map if you like wandering. Start on all stories if you'd rather see what's new. Pick a column if you've found the voice you like best.
Corrections
If we got something wrong, please tell us. Errors are ours, and we'd rather fix them than defend them.