Category: U.S. Historical News

Swallowed a lizard? This one really makes me rather queasy. After eating a shrimp salad, a woman became very ill. A doctor was called in…

I am not a medical expert, so to me this story sounds almost like the type of article that would be published in Weekly World…

Carousels, also called merry-go-rounds, used to be found in nearly all the big cities and in numerous parks. Some carousels were large while others were…

The 1800s were a strange world when it came to medical experiments. Doctors, scientists, and curious neighbors were testing out all sorts of bizarre theories….

In the early 1900s, newspaper readers were captivated by reports of a strange light in the night sky—a dim, rounded glow that puzzled even the…