The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “12 historical figures who were downright bizarre.”
- The Life & Legend of Emperor Norton
- The astronomer’s nose: Tycho Brahe’s controversial prosthesis
- The Amateur of Fashion: Robert “Romeo” Coates
- Le Pétomane
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland
- Charles Waterton
- Lord Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson
- Gérard de Nerval – the man who walked lobsters
- Walter Rothschild: A curious life
- Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over
- 1879-1912 : 10 000 Days, 93 000 Hours, 33 years of hardship