Category: History

A 19-year-old was discovered unconscious on a train with her hands tied and a bottle of chloroform nearby. The oddest part about this story is…

There were a lot of unsolved missing person cases in the past such as the Wisconsin one below from 1912 where a man boarded a…

Of all the strange places to find a hoard of gold, one man found a stash of gold coins inside a pipe near Center City…

The 37-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of Abner Lee, the prospector who discovered the famous Lee Silver Mine in California, was solved with the discovery…

As reported in 1936, a farmer in Hudson, Hans Peterson, had been uncovering Civil War-era gold coins in his backyard three years.  The total value…

During a fuel (coal) crisis in 1922, Maine’s governor told his constituents to begin cutting wood in preparation for the cold winter months. Governor Urges…

The Pascagoula region, explored by D’Iberville in 1699, is steeped in history, from mysterious shell mounds and eerie music to the establishment of a fort…

John W. Staggs, a farmer and father of 16 from Lawrence County, struck gold—literally—when he discovered a small fortune buried on his property.  While plowing…

As a digital news producer, I often find myself writing news reports about local car accidents, but what about the buggy in the past? Were…

An amusing news report published in 1912 tells us that a group of husbands had to ask the police to stop their wives from gambling…