Tag: Oklahoma
This Civil War Soldier Claimed He Met Abraham Lincoln Twice by Accident
Charles Wesley Ellis had lived the kind of life that seemed to collect stories. Years before the Civil War, while splitting rails in Tennessee, Ellis…
Widowed Mother Drove Four Children From Oklahoma to North Dakota in a Two-Person Buggy
In March 1911, a widowed mother placed her four young children into a small two-person buggy and began an extraordinary journey from Oklahoma to the…
Farmer Found Dead in Oklahoma Woods After Ax Severed an Artery
When John Richards walked into the Oklahoma timber to chop wood, he was only a quarter of a mile from home. He likely expected to…
Holdenville Fugitive Dodges Every Shot
In February 1911, a young Oklahoma man named Walter Davis was wanted for violating liquor laws when Sheriff Cal Edmonds and Deputy Sheriff Dale finally…
Nowata County, Oklahoma Ghost Eludes Pursuers
A strange red-orange ghost light is spotted traveling over the Oklahoma prairie and in 1926 people begin to try and hunt it down to find…
Strange Light Over Tulsa OK 1921
Source: The Morning Tulsa Daily World. March 05, 1921, Final Edition, Page 1. Strange Light in the Sky Huge Greenish Formation, Possibly Gascous, Observed by…
Man Made Insane By Bullies
People are cruel. We have problems with bullying in our schools and workforce, and it is no different than what people experienced over 100 years…
10 Creepy Torso Cases From The Past
It almost sounds like something out of a crime television series, but it happens all over the world and it has been happening long before…
