Symbol Signaling

July 12, 2020 10:27 pm Published by

History is filled with mentions of hidden messages and double meanings used in secret societies. One of the most interesting we’ve seen to date is called symbol signaling. What is Symbol Signaling? Societies determine a symbol to use and then come up with ways of indicating the symbol in documents, art, books or anything their… View Article

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Chest of Unopened Letters // The Brienne Chest

June 10, 2020 12:52 am Published by

It’s no secret that we at the Society of Curiosities love a good story – and it doesn’t get much better than a chest from the 17th and 18th century filled with thousands of undelivered letters! The trunk was bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum in the Hague in 1926, but remained mostly forgotten until… View Article

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