Category: U.S. Historical News

When officers arrested Policarpo Benegas in 1909, he did not simply object to being taken to jail. He tried to bring his six-month-old baby with…

South of Eufaula, a southbound Missouri, Kansas & Texas train came upon a burning trestle near Wirth and was forced to halt before the flames…

Between 3 and 4 each morning, while much of the town still slept, a sound rolled out over the Gulf Coast and called the workers…

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…

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…

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…

For a time, Washington, D.C., had a mystery hanging over it. In the western sky, residents saw a strange light that seemed to take the…