Bess Lovejoy's User Profile

Bess Lovejoy

Bess Lovejoy is a writer and editor in Seattle who specializes in obscure history. She is the bestselling author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses and Northwest Know-How: Haunts. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Public Domain Review, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere.

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Places added to Maple Ridge, British Columbia

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Places edited in La Push, Washington

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Trips Highlight

NEW —Wild South Africa

Delhi and Rajasthan: Colors of India

Upcoming Experiences

Accidental Discoveries

Monster of the Month w/ Colin Dickey: The "Mutes"

Rites of Spring: Nature, Myth, and Legends

Monster of the Month w/ Colin Dickey: Arctic Ghosts

Accidental Discoveries

Upcoming Courses

How to Grow a Dye Garden With Aaron Sanders Head

Life Without Light: Creatures in the Dark With Sarah McAnulty

A Brief History of Scent With Saskia Wilson-Brown

Clowning for Novices: History and Practice With Rose Carver

Designing Immersive Gatherings With Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects

Latest Places

The Piece of Cheese Cottage

Circus Liquor Clown

King Richard III's Car Park

Thiba Palace

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Latest Places to Eat & Drink

Futaba Cake Building

Lee & Rick’s Oyster Bar

Debauve & Gallais

Chorsu Bazaar

Levels Nigerian Cuisine

Most Recent Stories

The Mystery of Uruguay's Ferocious, All-Female Cannibal Insects

This Tiny Restaurant Helps Keep Kashmiri Cuisine Alive in Pakistan

James Bond’s Jetpack Escape in ‘Thunderball’ Almost Didn’t Happen

World-Competitive Escape Rooms Are Darker, Scarier, and More Scientific

Bess Lovejoy

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One Man’s Fight To Save a Mental Hospital's Forgotten Cemetery

How New Yorkers Became Convinced That Dinosaur Bones Were Buried in Central Park

Islands of The Undesirables: Rikers Island

Islands of the Undesirables: Hart Island

Islands of the Undesirables: Randall's Island and Wards Island

Islands of The Undesirables: Roosevelt Island

The McBarge: A Failed Floating McDonald's That Wants a Second Chance

One of Seattle's Most Beautiful and Ghostliest Theatres Goes Dark

The Sticky, Cult, & Giant Shoe Secrets of Seattle's Pike Place Market

Eight Beaches Where Strange Things Wash Ashore

Copyrighting Cartography with Fictional Places

Morbid Monday: Hazardous Dr. Hazzard, Whose Cure Was Starvation

Xylotheks: Wondrous Wooden Books That Hold Wooden Collections

The Fates of Famous Brains

Dante's Dust: A Curious Discovery in Florence's Central Library

Where Do Objects Go When They Die?

Has the wreckage of the ship that "changed human history" been found?

How the Ouija Board Got Its Name

Waiting for Houdini to Escape from Death

The Horror of Premature Burial

How Did Bits of Percy Shelley's Skull End Up in the New York Public Library?