Category: History
Black River Falls Strange Light 1899
Strange Light in the Sky Source: The Indianapolis Journal. November 30, 1899, Page 2. Indianapolis, Indiana. Looked Like Half the Tail of the Great Ante-War…
Strange Airship Over Indianapolis 1903
Strange Airship Over Indianapolis Source: Evening Journal. September 14, 1903, Page 5. Wilmington, Delaware. Indianapolis, Sept. 14. – A torpedo-shaped airship about 30 feet long,…
SS Eastland Disaster of 1915
On the morning of July 24, 1915, passengers boarded the SS Eastland. They were the families and employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works,…
Strange Blue Bullet Shaped Light Seen West of Chapel Hill N.C. 1956
Source: The Chapel Hill Weekly. December 04, 1956, Page 1. Duncan Ivey Sees Strange Blue Light Duncan Ivey, who lives in the country west of…
Strange Light in Sky Mystifying to Peasants of France 1922
Strange Light in Sky Mystifying to Peasants of France Source: Brownsville Herald. December 24, 1922, Page 1. Angers, France, Dec. 23. – Superstitious peasants of…
Strange Light in Alaska 1933
Strange Light Reported Source: Evening Star. February 24, 1933, Page A-2. Washington, DC. Anchorage, Alaska, February 24. – Dr. Ralph Tuck, Government geologist with the…
Airship Passed Here
Airship Passed Here Source: Wood County Reporter. April 15, 1897. Page 1. That mystifying and strange airship, balloon, meteor, tailless comet, wandering star, headlight of…
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Also known as the Washington Place Fire, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire claimed the lives of 146 workers. It was Saturday March 25, 1911. At…
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
While I know that most of you want me to get into the gory details about Mary’s death, I’m going to first give a quick…
US Quarantine During the Spanish Flu
From January 1918 to December 1920, it is estimated that the Spanish Flu infected about 500 million people worldwide and ended the lives of 50…
