Tag: New York City

Also known as the Washington Place Fire, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire claimed the lives of 146 workers. It was Saturday March 25, 1911. At…

The General Slocum was a side wheel passenger steamboat with a hull built out of white oak and yellow pine. On June 15, 1904, over…

The Windsor Hotel was built in Manhattan, New York in 1873. It was a luxury hotel for the rich and elite who preferred to lived…

America’s Greatest Playground In 1907, Coney Island was called America’s Greatest Playground. A Sunday Afternoon A Sunday afternoon in the new bowery at Coney Island,…

Ruth Wheeler grew up in poverty, but that did not stop her from following her dream of becoming a stenographer. At age 15 in 1910,…

They were called fiendish youths in the 1800 and 1900s, but they were simply children who sadistically hurt and sometimes murdered other people, both children…

Finding decomposed bodies was a regular occurrence in the past. In fact, if you would do a search on “decomposed body” in the newspaper archives,…

Severed hands were found on streets, bobbing along river banks, and found on trains in the early 1900s. In fact, severed hand stories were published…

Plenty of strange things have happened inside the almighty bathtub and history is full of both disturbing and chuckle-worthy bathtub stories. Did you know that…

There are reasons why children today find cellars so creepy. For one, people would often place dead bodies in the cellar for safe keeping until…