Tag: Massachusetts

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…

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…

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…

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…

Jane Toppan was a round woman who put on a happy smile as she cared for her patients. Little did anyone know, she was actually…