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Cat, Dog, and Lobster Throw New York Restaurant Into Uproar

There are restaurant disturbances, and then there are restaurant disturbances involving a cat, a Boston Terrier, a fainting woman, a fallen waiter, and one extremely…

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Telephone Girls Risked Their Hair for the Switchboard

Before headsets became lightweight tools of modern communication, early telephone operators wore heavy metal bands across their heads as they worked long hours connecting calls…

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Texas Couple Frozen to Death on Pike’s Peak

In August 1911, a Texas couple set out to conquer one of America’s most famous mountains. What began as an ambitious afternoon hike up Pike’s…

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70 Bodies Found After Finleyville Coal Mine Blast

In April 1913, the hills around Finleyville, Pennsylvania, shook with the force of a mine explosion so violent it shattered windows hundreds of yards away….

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Missing Montana Miner Feared to Be Silver Lake Wild Man

In the summer of 1902, people traveling through the Silver Lake country near Anaconda, Montana, began telling stories about a strange figure hiding in the…

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Flagstaff Skunk Bite Scare Sends Rabies Victims to Chicago

What Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Freyer experienced near Marshall’s Lake was alarming. In the middle of the night, a skunk entered their camp and…

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Spokane Men Invent Coyne Helicopter Shaped Eerily Similar to Traditional UFO

At first glance, the Coyne Helicopter looks less like an early flying machine and more like something pulled from a century of UFO lore. The…

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Dogs Protect Body of Missing Idaho Miner

For nearly two weeks, Joseph Troyer’s lonely homestead sat without its owner. The 69-year-old Civil War veteran lived apart from others near Big Hole, Idaho,…

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Chicago Foreman Struck by Train Becomes Human Cannonball

Railroad work was dangerous in the best of weather, but winter made the job even more treacherous. Snow had to be cleared from the tracks…

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Posted in History Murder

Pottsville Boy Denies Making Grandmother His Target

In 1924, a 14-year-old boy from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, became the center of a grim and puzzling murder case after his grandmother was found dead and…

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