Portal:Speculative fiction/Did you know

... that Annette Nelson's performance (pictured) as The Mountain Sylph in Washington, D.C. in 1837 was highly appreciated by a group of Native American chiefs?
... that the Phineas and Ferb character Perry the Platypus was made a platypus because of the animal's striking appearance?
... that the horror short story compilation novel Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales won five major awards and was nominated for another?
... that Zac Efron turned down the lead in Footloose to star in the romantic ghost story The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud?
... that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge's motion captures of humans?

... that a photograph of Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England, taken during a fire, appears to show the ghost of a young girl standing amidst the flames?