Author: StrangeAgo

Even prison guards could get themselves suspended at Sing Sing, especially when the guard in question had four legs, a shaggy coat, and a habit…

For more than a month, the disappearance of 15-year-old Elizabeth Johnson had troubled Kingston, New Jersey. She had vanished from her home on August 12,…

In the early 1900s, raising chicks successfully often depended on resourcefulness. Store-bought equipment could be costly, and many small farmers relied on homemade solutions built…

A fashionable New York apartment house became the scene of a grim mystery in September 1924 when two people were found dead and a third…

In the spring of 1912, fear traveled faster than fact. Across several states, newspapers were already whispering about an unknown “Ax Man” believed to have…

The people of Sandford, Indiana, felt the blast before they understood what had happened. One moment, an accommodation passenger train was slowing along the Big…

At the turn of the twentieth century, desperation often drove the sick toward strange and unsettling remedies. In New Orleans, one such treatment drew men,…

Something was stealing the young pigs from a small chicken and hog ranch along the San Antonio River, and 14-year-old Edmund Dullnig was determined to…

In Canton, Ohio, 1910,  a battery of seven boilers at the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company suddenly blew apart. The plant was left in…

Construction work in the heart of Washington, D.C., came to a sudden and terrifying halt when thousands of pounds of steel broke loose high above…