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Episode 135: Does Buffalo, Iowa, Have a Haunted Cemetery?

In October 1959, a newspaper near Buffalo, Iowa, reported a bizarre story about what may have been a ghost in a local cemetery. Could the cemetery there actually be haunted, or was something else going on?    Sources Wundrum, Bill. Excursions Into Supernatural of the Quad Cities. Quad City Times, 10/25/1959

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John Shook’s Toes: Surgery on the Iowa Frontier

   Hard as it is to believe now, Scott County, Iowa, bordering the Mississippi River on the state’s eastern edge, was once America’s frontier. Before 1833, when the United States Congress opened what was then known as the Blackhawk Purchase to free settlement, nearly that entire region was as wild and untamed as anything the

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