Tag: Montana
Montana Town Accused of Shipping Its Sick and Poor to Billings
Billings officials were growing tired of being treated as Montana’s dumping ground for the poor, sick, and unwanted. In March 1901, the complaint was aimed…
Butte Miner Vanished After Cave-In — Then People Claimed They Saw Him Alive
Two weeks after a deadly cave-in inside Butte’s Minnie Healy Mine, four bodies had been recovered from beneath the rock and dirt. The fifth man,…
Helena Mining Leader Found Dying Outside Hospital
In January 1909, a mysterious note lured a prominent Montana mining man into the cold darkness of a winter night. By dawn, he was dying…
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…
