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Toronto Man Claims Responsibility for Mother’s Murder After the Father Hangs

In the summer of 1920, newspapers across North America carried a gut wrenching report from Canada: a young farmer named Arnell Love had confessed to…

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Parents soak children’s beds in gasoline and set them on fire, father survived

A horrifying news report published in 1921 tells us that a wife and husband decided to kill themselves and their four children to keep the…

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Posted in Tragedies U.S. Historical News

First Hand Accounts of the Wreck of SS Valencia

“All hope gone! “Not a woman on board is saved! “Such was the pitiless message that flashed over the wires last night to the Van…

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Mysterious Legless Man of Acadia

Here is a true story that could spark the imagination of any writer, even during the direst moments of writer’s block. A man is found…

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Posted in U.S. Historical News

Whales Washed Ashore in 1903

Whenever we see a beached whale, we also see dozens of concerned volunteers working to get the whale back out to sea. Most of us…

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