Tag: Montana
Butte Mob Hunts Detective After Shooting of Harry Cole
Butte, Montana, was no stranger to violence in the early 1900s. It was a hard mining city, crowded with saloons, laborers, gamblers, detectives, and men…
Missing Montana Miner Feared to Be Silver Lake Wild Man
In the summer of 1902, people traveling through the Silver Lake country near Anaconda, Montana, began telling stories about a strange figure hiding in the…
Boy’s decomposed body found under sack of oats
A group of boys were shooting fireworks outside of a warehouse in Montana when a driver and owner of the warehouse dragged one of the…
Cigar-shaped UFOs were called flying bananas to humiliate witnesses
It wasn’t enough that reporters and the powers-that-be ridiculed people for seeing flying saucers, but when a large number of people spotted a cigar-shaped UFO,…
Strange Light Sightings From a Hundred Years Ago
A mysterious light seen in the dead of night is disturbing to anyone who catches sight of it. It’s creepy, frightening, and curious. And that…
Strange 1895 Report of Ball Lightning
Ball lightning is rare and fascinating. It is also seldom reported, so when we came across this report of ball lightning from 1895, we knew…
