A Curious Compendium of Strange Events, Volume One by Phineas Strange A Curious Compendium of Strange Events, Volume One gathers true tales of oddities, mysteries, miracles, and madness from every corner of the world. Curated by Phineas Strange, this collection explores the strange-but-true stories that history forgot to explain. Each chapter delivers a fast, atmospheric dive into real events drawn from newspapers, eyewitness accounts, historical records, and documented anomalies. Inside these pages you'll find unexplained encounters, eerie coincidences, bizarre tragedies, curious survivals, impossible moments, and hidden stories that sit just beyond the edges of everyday life. These aren't rumors or recycled folklore. Every account is grounded in verifiable sources, crafted to preserve the facts while capturing the unsettling, fascinating, or quietly haunting moments that make the world far stranger than we admit. Perfect for readers who enjoy true mysteries, strange history, unexplained phenomena, odd events, real-life X-Files cases, uncanny coincidences, paranormal history, forgotten headlines, and the kinds of stories that keep you turning pages long past midnight. A Curious Compendium of Strange Events, Volume One is the first entry in The Phineas Strange Compendium, an ongoing archive of true stories that prove reality is rarely boring-and often profoundly weird.