Author: StrangeAgo

In the small township of Cleveland, South Carolina, families had come together inside the schoolhouse, filling the building with neighbors, children, and familiar faces. But…

In Trinidad, Colorado, in 1908, James R. Howard, a 28-year-old blacksmith, went with his friend Fred Long to a bluff to blast out rock. The…

At the Newcastle County Workhouse in Wilmington, Delaware, James Dudley Major, also known as Earl White, was fastened to the whipping post and given 40…

In a ravine three miles west of Roseburg, Oregon, a burned and wrecked car belonging to Dr. R.M. Brumfield, a local dentist, was found twisted…

Shortly before one o’clock in the afternoon, emergency calls rang out from Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first reports were alarming enough: prisoners had…

Edgar Allan Poe has always been difficult to separate from his legend. To many readers, Poe is remembered as the haunted genius of American literature….

In 1902, newspapers reported what they called an “epidemic” of sudden illness and nervous collapse among some of the most celebrated actresses of the day. …

Near Patton, not far from Cape Girardeau, the headless body of 30-year-old John Zoubeck was found in December 1926. At first, the circumstances raised more…

It started as a simple act of kindness on a lonely Georgia highway. In March 1925, Professor William C. Wright pulled his car over to…

In 1902, a few kisses in a Newark park were enough to land one couple before Judge Herman Schalk and cost them $10. The story…