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.
SOS Calls in 2024: A Breakdown of Why and Where People Triggered Their InReach Devices
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How Cannibalism on the High Seas Became Illegal
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Weekend Warm-Up: The Great Southern Country
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Exploration Mysteries: A 16th-Century Arctic Expedition Ends in Disaster
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Shipwrecks, Aquatic Beasties and More: The Best Underwater Photography of 2025
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The Mystery of Skymaster Flight 2469, Lost Somewhere in the Yukon in 1950
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Resurrecting An Extinct Grain from a 19th-Century Shipwreck
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Paddler ‘Swallowed’ and Spat Out by Humpback Whale
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AI Upgrade Allows Robot to Waltz With Human Partner
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Daredevil Does World’s First ‘Endless Skydive’
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Translate this Ancient Script and Earn $1 Million
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A Mysterious Fungus Turns Irish Cave Spiders Into Zombies
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Footprints Preserved in Stone Show Bronze Age People Fleeing Vesuvius Eruption
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Meet a New, Bigger, and Even More Venomous Australian Spider
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‘The Blob’ to Blame for Mysterious Mass Die-Off of Seabirds
From the summer of 2015 to the spring of...
