Category: U.S. Historical News

There was a huge kissing phobia in the early 1900s and it was recommended to use lemons and an antiseptic kissing screen if there was…

In 1888, a reporter traveled to Russia and asked an official there about how many people were killed by wolves each year. The official replied,…

Check out this “flying” fish merry go round car invented in 1904. I must admit that when it comes to carnival rides, the only one…

The past is filled with numerous strange and dangerous cures for illness, including this Romanian cure for convulsions. This news report appeared in 1909 and,…

There are excellent foster parents who provide children with love and care and then there are those who beat and abuse the innocent lives placed…

Bells have long been used as warnings, to announce events in a community, and as a means of driving out evil. The article below was…

The newspapers labeled them girl bandits, but they were actually young women (mostly) who robbed men on the streets and broke into people’s houses. They…

The Medfield Insane Asylum, in Medfield, Massachusetts, was established in 1892 and in only a few years, stories about the asylum began to circulate among…

Can you imagine what it is like to be boiled to death? It is not something we hear about all too often in this century,…

Throughout world history, torture has been used as a method for extracting confessions, acquiring information, to break and dehumanize an individual, and as a form…