In February 1883, dozens of men and boys descended into...

  Legend has it that a man named William Hennebry...

Mabel Moore had just gone to St. Louis with her...

Mabel Moore stared out the window of her St. Louis...

Carol Eberle was getting married, and she was overjoyed. But...

  Lorna Mae leaned against the fence post, resting her...

Swift Runner and his family journeyed into the Canadian wilderness...

    Swift Runner slowly squeezed the trigger, holding his...

Henry Kuehl was just trying to do his job. On...

  We don’t know why Juergen Gluhm came to America....

Sam Smith was a desperate man. He couldn’t find a...

Jelena was nervous. Something was wrong. She couldn’t put her...

Imagine driving near Chicago’s Mount Carmel Cemetery and seeing a...

The driver leaned forward in his seat, squinting through the...

William Nelson was a private pilot who had just married...

  Jose Esquivel was startled when he heard the frantic...

In late 1990, the body of Mary Lou Pratt was...

  At first, the kids thought that the woman in...

Every Halloween, every village, town, and city dredge up their...

  It’s Halloween again! It’s time for stories of ghouls,...

When Johann Whynack married his Marie, he hoped that they...

  Johann Whynack checked the clock. It was just after...

In 1965, two police officers knocked on the door of...

  Officer Charles Bullock knocked loudly on the front door...

In 1996, Bobie and Marilyn Blewer, professional food vendors from...

Standing in the hot Florida sun, Jerimy realized that he...

When it was built in 1903, the Claypool Hotel was...

  Bates House had to go. It was beautiful and...

In 1954, two maids found a horrible odor coming from...

  Dorothy Poore was nervous. She knew that there were...

  Lillian McNamara wondered how many times she had checked...

Maoma Ridings had joined the United States Army during World...

In 1990, a highway patrolman in Arizona stopped to check...

  The young teenager was ecstatic. Her and her boyfriend...

In January of 1926, Ed Rinebold was driving his normal...

Ed Rinebold drove his delivery truck carefully down the icy...

On the night of October 9, 1896, the town of...

Fall had settled into the rolling hills of Adams County...

No one had seen Percy Smith since he had gone...

  Eulalia Smith had been worried about her husband since...

Christine Leidel thought the fortune teller seemed nice enough, but...

  Catherine had been a bit stand-offish when the fortune...

In 2007, a woman contacted the press with a startling...

  Some say that there was a monster in Green...

Swede and Fay Lewis had always been a stormy one,...

  Fayette, or Fay for short, was 17 years old...

  The fire had started at around 2 a.m. in...

In this, the second part of the tragic story of...

In the early hours of January 7, 1950, flames illuminated...

  Lucille Kalloway checked the clock. It was just before...

Earl Albert Nead was born on November 13, 1937. By...

On Christmas Eve, 1937, Gertrude and Willard Shaw were at...

Line shaft technology may have revolutionized industry, but they posed...

Frank Nead smiled, his shoes slapping hard on the concrete...

Jesse Stanbridge was just another railroad cop doing his job...

Jesse Stanbridge’s breath came in a plume as the bitter...

Mary Stewart had died too young, and her husband, William,...

  Mary was gone, and there was no bringing her...

Happy Halloween, everyone! For our Halloween episode this year, I’ll...

Historians are keepers of the stories of the dead. I...

The Rock and Roll Mansion in Davenport, Iowa, is a...

  Emma Harvey had lived a good life, but now...

Dr. William Stoecks was a dedicated physician and surgeon, treating...

Davenport, Iowa, has played host to several strange events over...

Amelia Rohwedder was a middle-aged woman recovering from heart problems....

After the American Civil War, Davenport, Iowa was a rapidly...

Ever find yourself in a situation where your instincts just...

Ever find yourself in a situation where your instincts scream...

Quarters One has sat on Arsenal Island for 150 years....

The aide walked through the third floor of the house,...

James Chapman and his wife, Clementine, had no idea who...

  James Chapman walked out onto the porch to greet...

Jim Arpy was a veteran reporter who loved a great...

Hampton, Illinois is a quiet river town nestled into the...

  When the Reverend Clarence Valentine Sheatsley walked into his...

When Reverend Clarence Sheatsley found his wife, Addie, in the...

In this short story, the assembled crowd at the Saunders,...

Competition amongst growing cities on the Midwestern frontier could be...

William Engelberg was probably looking for a better life when...

  When William Engelberg came to America, he was probably...

In 1962, Continental Airlines Boeing 707 Flight 11 crashed in...

  It was just another day for James Clarity. He...

While investigators were dealing with a devastating plane crash near...

Carefully, the fireman removed the man from the fuselage. He...

As the Great Depression gripped the nation, two mass murders...

  August is always hot in Iowa. The sun beats...

All Thaddeus Fancher wanted to do was have a drink....

  All Thaddeus S. Fancher wanted to do was have...

In 1924, Bernice Zalimas was accused of poisoning her husband...

Bernice Martikonis was young when she first came to America,...

During an almost ten-year period, the Botkin family faced two...

Have you ever sat and watched people? I mean, not...

In this continuation, we find that Dr. Frank Loomis has...

On February 22, 1927, Dr. Frank Loomis left his home...

In 1927, Detroit police were convinced that Dr. Frank Loomis...

I’ve always been fond of going for long walks. When...

Ever been afraid of a stranger hiding in your house?...

At one point when I was in college, I lived...

The mansion was a secret hidden in plain sight, overlooking...

The mansion was a secret hidden in plain sight. Situated...

In 1912, a horrific murder took place in Villisca, Iowa....

Villisca is a sleepy town in southwest Iowa. While there’s...

When you wander around the dark by yourself for hours...

In this short story that your grandma didn’t want you...

  In 1947, a woman’s mutilated body was found on...

George Whitbeck pointed to the patch of grass where he...

When two children found a body floating in the river,...

When Steve Lanigan first saw the bloated shape floating in...

Courthouses were a big boost for the economies of frontier...

Courthouses are, without a doubt, iconic structures within our civilized...

John David owed Arvid Helloian a debt. Arvid was content...

  It was cold that early February morning as the...

When Olive Funk was killed, nearly everyone saw it happen....

    The handgun glinted in the sun, shaking slightly...

In 1906, everyone loved Grace Reed. Everyone wanted to be...

  It was a beautiful evening, Grace Reed thought. She...

In 1940, a burning car in rural South Dakota held...