Lou Bodenhemier
Lou Bodenhemier
Lou Bodenhemier
Lou Bodenhemier holds an MA in History from the University of Limerick and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He’s interested in maritime and disaster history as well as criminal history, and his dissertation focused on the werewolf trials of early modern Europe. At the present moment he can most likely be found perusing records of shipboard crime and punishment during the Age of Sail, or failing that, writing historical fiction horror stories. He lives in Dublin and hates the sun.
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Weekend Warm-Up: North Shore Betty
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The Long Search for the ‘Tryall,’ Australia’s First Shipwreck
In May of 1622, the English East India Company...
Greenlandic Ice Cores Chart 12,000 Years of Civilization
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Why Rich Europeans Ate Up All The Egyptian Mummies
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Injured Climber’s Rescue From California Peak Needed Five Helicopters
Around 3:30 pm on July 2, an SOS signal...
SS Bessemer, the Disastrous Seasickness-Proof Ship
Perhaps the most famous ship in exploration history, the Fram...
How A Scottish Botanist Stole the Secrets of Tea from China
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Weekend Warm-Up: I Left $100K in Cameras on a Wolf Kill
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Tourist Trapped in Indonesian Volcano Found Dead
Juliana Marins, who fell from the trail on Indonesia's...
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Rescuers are still trying to reach a Brazilian tourist...
Weekend Warm-Up: Disney’s Vintage ‘The Alaskan Eskimo’
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‘Dragon Man’ from 1930s Actually First Denisovan Skull Found
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Hoax or Mistake? The Bird Audubon Painted That Never Existed
On Dec. 3, 1827, an engraving changed the world...
