Category: U.S. Historical News
The Slocum Disaster of 1904
The General Slocum was a side wheel passenger steamboat with a hull built out of white oak and yellow pine. On June 15, 1904, over…
Windsor Hotel Fire of 1899
The Windsor Hotel was built in Manhattan, New York in 1873. It was a luxury hotel for the rich and elite who preferred to lived…
The Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse
On January 28, 1922, shortly after 9 pm, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC collapsed under the heavy weight of snow. The…
Visits to the Morgue as Entertainment and Punishment
In 1921, a fire broke out at the Hotel Colonial in Hoboken, New Jersey. Eleven lives were tragically ended. The burned bodies were taken to…
Ancient Egypt – Mummified Crocodiles, Tattoos, and Cinderella
Crocodile Mummies According to the Smithsonian, ancient Egyptians hunted crocodiles for the sole purpose of turning them into mummies. That’s right. In ancient Egypt, embalmers…
Vlad Tepes Method of Impalement
Impalement was a torturous form of execution. There were several ways in which our ancestors impaled people, and research shows that Vlad the Impaler used…
How Captain Blackbeard Met His End
Blackbeard is probably one of the most recognizable names in the history of pirates, but his career as a captain on a pirate ship was…
The Execution of Pirate Captain William Kidd
Accounts about the life of Captain William Kidd vary. We know that he was born in Scotland in either 1645 or 1654. Almost nothing is…
Executed and Gibbeted for All to See
Gibbeting is an old form of post-mortem punishment. When a person in England was condemned to the gibbet for murder, smuggling, or stealing, he was…
Trial by Water During the Witch Craze
According to the Code of Hammurabi, a set of laws written in 1754 BC: “If a man charges another with black magic and has not…
