Tag: South Dakota
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4-Year-Old Boy Hopped a Freight Train and Rode Into North Dakota
When a four-year-old boy vanished from his home in Lemmon, South Dakota, back in 1914, his widowed mother searched for him until nightfall. What she…
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Gruesome Find Near Sioux Falls Led to Injured Man
In 1914, a man walking along the Omaha railroad tracks near Sioux Falls made a gruesome discovery. M. Petit was on his way into the…
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South Dakota Woman Reportedly Driven Insane by Sliver Under Fingernail
A sliver beneath a fingernail is a small injury, painful but ordinary. In this 1915 account from South Dakota, however, that tiny wound was said…
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10 Strange Petrified Bodies and Body Parts Found in the United States
How many petrified bodies and body parts have been uncovered in the United States? Apparently far more than this article can cover. Since the 1800s,…
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6 Ultimately Disturbing Severed Hand Discoveries
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…
