Wesley Treat's Roadside Blog

The Arizona Daily Star is currently running their own version of Jeopardy over at azstarnet.com. They're calling it "Old Pueblo Jeopardy" and will be asking readers various questions about Arizona.

The winner will receive a copy of Weird Arizona, by yours truly, as well as some other coffee-table trivia books.

The deadline is 9 a.m. this Thursday, so head on over and enter for your chance to win!

Each book in the Weird series, if you aren't familiar, devotes an entire chapter to strange and mythical creatures like the New Jersey Devil, the Chupacabra and the elusive Thunderbird. As such, I've garnered a fair number of cryptozoologist fans. For them, I present this.

Bronner's in Michigan, which bills itself as the World's Largest Christmas Store, now offers glass holiday ornaments in the shape of Bigfoot! Read More »

Research for my next book, Weird Oklahoma, is well under way! I returned from my first trip to the Sooner State just last week and I've begun putting together short video blogs to share some of the things I saw along the way.

The video for Day 1 is now viewable below, and although it mostly covers my first night in an Oklahoma motel, there's plenty more to come, including a tour of a neglected passenger train, a dive into an abandoned, and supposedly haunted, 1930s storm shelter and the most daddy longlegs you've ever seen in one spot. Read More »

Did you know Thorazine is ideal to calm senile agitation? Were you aware that a thorough Lysol douche can ensure happy married love? I bet you didn't know that the wrong coffee can lead to child abuse or that flies, the most dangerous insects known, can lead to infant death.

Now, before you laugh at how gullible 20th-century consumers were, don't forget Smilin' Bob and the miracle, girth-increasing properties of male-enhancement herbs.

Still, ads of the past are amusing. And often very, very disturbing. Read More »

If you enjoyed the midcentury concept cars I posted about a couple weeks ago, then you'll probably like the new slideshow presented by Wired.

Wired attended the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach, California, where the cars were on display, and got some excellent shots up close and personal.