Category: history

May 9, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE PLAGUE DOCTORS RETURN

During the plague in the 17th century, doctors would wear a duck-like outfit when they tended to patients because they

May 4, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

CLASS OF 2020: BORN IN SIN. COME ON IN

The class of 2020… born in the aftermath of 9/11.. They were the first high school class to learn about 9/11 as a past event..

Sure there a were a few stragglers that entered the planet prior to September 11, 2001, but for most of them, the world before the terror attacks would be alien.. just as alien as life before the great 2020 pandemic, which canceled their prom, graduation, and memories..

May 2, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

HEAR HIM RE-ROAR: KIM JONG UN RETURNS! Show us the numbers stations!

Just days ago the world speculated.. the numbers stations went wild! Where was Kim Jong Un!? Dead!? Covid!? A doctor’s mistake costing him his life?

As the hours of mystery turned into days, we were all under an impression that Kim Yo Jong could assume the throne.

And then with a whimper instead of a bang, it appears Lil Kim has returned from the depths of his mysterious void..

The numbers stations may tell all tales. If you understand the tale.

April 22, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Mike Mulligan still has his steam shovel

Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel

This was a children’s book by Virginia Lee Burton.

It was first published in 1939, in the wake of the Great Depression, it features Mike Mulligan, a steam shovel operator, and his steam shovel Mary Anne.

April 19, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend, heard it from a friend you were coughing around

Conspiracies and pandemics have long been intertwined.

April 12, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Darkest Easter Vigil

In the modern times of churches being closed during a pandemic, we find solace in history.. old newspapers.. and strange stories of Pottsville patients jumping from hospital windows !