The story of what really happened to them that day gets 'curiouser and curiouser'. [=stranger and stranger]
The 'curious' [='inquisitive'] reader can find more information in the back of the book.
By a 'curious' coincidence, they bought a house the same day their old one burned down.
(..) That's why there's no sense to be killin' you yet. Apple? Arr! No! I'm curious. After killing me, what is it you're planning on doing next? Aah! Aaaah! Look! (..)2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl