Category: History
France’s Death Helmet – Terrifying Method of Capital Punishment
In 1898, a strange contraption called a death helmet was said to soon take the place of the guillotine. However, the death helmet was far…
Pennsylvania Woman Crushed to Jelly By Train
It is not so much that a woman was crushed by a train in 1871, but the headline of the article that detailed the gruesome…
Decapitated Heads That Bite
Do human heads remain “alive” after being decapitated? And if so, what do these heads do that make us believe there is still consciousness within…
The World’s First Video Game in 1909
While there were no gaming consoles in the early 1900s, there were moving pictures and, of course, plenty of guns to kickstart one of the…
The San Diego Giant – Real or Hoax?
Was the San Diego giant real or was it a hoax? While we will never know with absolute certainty either way, the story of this…
The Cardiff Giant – America’s Greatest Hoax
American history is full of hoaxes, but the great hoax ever in the United States was the Cardiff giant hoax. Discovery According to old newspaper…
10 Strange Petrified Bodies and Body Parts Found in the United States
How many petrified bodies and body parts have been uncovered in the United States? Apparently far more than this article can cover. Since the 1800s,…
6 Ultimately Disturbing Severed Hand Discoveries
Severed hands were found on streets, bobbing along river banks, and found on trains in the early 1900s. In fact, severed hand stories were published…
Blue Man of Spring Creek
One of the earliest sightings of the Blue Man occurred in 1865 when a hunter and trapper, “Blue Sol” Collins, spotted large footprints in the…
Wild Man of Ohio – Bigfoot Sighting
American history is full of possible Bigfoot sightings. All one has to do is search through the old newspapers to read up on sightings of…
