Category: U.S. Historical News
Germany’s Axe and Block Executions – Early 20th Century
The gory details of the executions were never published in the German press and it was illegal in Germany to take photographs of executioners. For…
Gory Descriptions of European Executions in the Late 1800s
We don’t have to go far into European history to find torture and brutal executions that rival anything seen on Game of Thrones. The article…
American Body Snatchers
You’ve probably heard of body snatchers. Also known as Resurrectionists, they are commonly shown in movies digging up dead people to sell to doctors and…
Heart Revived After Condemned was Beheaded
In the early 1900s, Germany was still executing the condemned with an axe and, like the French, they were also experimenting with the bodies immediately…
8 True Horrors About the Camp Sumter Prison Camp – Civil War
During the early part of the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers were exchanged, but by 1863, the exchanges dropped to a mere trickle and…
Family Lost on the Empress of Ireland and the Lusitania
It was 1914 and William Mounsey’s wife, Fanny Sewell, took the Empress of Ireland to visit her family in England. The ship sank and Fanny’s…
Old Woman Starved and Put into the Poorhouse
Eighty-year-old Sarah Nary lived in her New York City home with her 12-year-old grandson back in 1913. The boy sold newspapers on the street corners…
Understanding the Plague Doctor’s Mask and Costume
The Black Death wiped out roughly 50 percent of Europe’s population in the fourteenth century. Its victims first showed flu-like symptoms. They had fever and…
Point Lookout POW Prison Camp of the Civil War
None of the prisons during the Civil War were pleasant places to be kept in, but some may argue that the POW prison at Point…
Russian Insane Asylum Inmates Become Cannibals
The title of this 1922 newspaper article hints at the cannibalism that took place during one of Russia’s famines, but does not mention it elsewhere….
