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Mysterious Green Bottle With Masonic Symbols Found Buried at Cornerstone

In April 1919, a curious discovery at an armory building in Springfield (Massachusetts?) captivated local antiquarians—a mysterious green bottle buried at a cornerstone. It featured…

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Police Clash with 800 Strikers at Hood Rubber Co. in Watertown

Massachusetts police armed with night sticks attacked 800 strikers outside the Hood Rubber Co. plant, seriously injuring two women and one man. The conflict ended…

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Names of Those Executed During the Salem Witch Trials of 1692

The Salem witch trials of 1692 were a series of court trials and convictions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. The trials began…

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6 Unsettling Facts About the Medfield Insane Asylum

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…

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8 People Who Were Tarred and Feathered

Tar and feathering was a popular method of intimidation, torture, and vigilanteism in the early 1900s. There were numerous reports of tar and feather parties…

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6 Accounts of Electric Chair Executions from the Early 1900s

As electric chairs were first being installed in the United States, beginning in New York, people were assured that this was the pleasant way to…

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6 Cases of Bodies Being Found in the Cellar

There is a reason why cellars are scary and that is because it is where you hide the dead bodies. No, seriously. The cellar is…

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Posted in History Tragedies

The Cannibal Crew of the Whale Ship Essex

On August 12, 1819, the whale ship Essex left port in Nantucket, Massachusetts with plans to hunt down whales for their valuable oil, but the…

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Militiamen Bully People During Strike of 1912

Give people guns and the authority to terrify and antagonize the populace, and sure enough, things will turn ugly. In the 1912 account below, the…

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Striking Mill Workers Shot Down by Police

What we aren’t taught in schools is that the U.S. police had a reputation of shooting and murdering strikers back in the early 1900s. There…

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