Category: U.S. Historical News
6 True Stories About Nurses in the Old Insane Asylums
I’ve covered abusive nurses in the old insane asylums, but I also wanted to cover the dangers nurses faced in unregulated insane asylums during the…
7 Upsetting Stories of American Ghouls
A ghoul is traditionally a living person who steals from the dead, and it was quite an occupation back in the early 1900s when incidents…
7 Awful Ways to Literally Lose Your Head
People were constantly losing their heads in the previous two centuries. It was so bad that it was rather common news that bodiless heads were…
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,…
