Carol Eberle was getting married, and she was overjoyed. But no one else really was. Something had happened just a few weeks before that had soured several people toward Carol in their small North Dakota town. She didn’t care one bit what they thought, but sometimes karma has a way of catching up with people. […]
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Lorna Mae leaned against the fence post, resting her back. Dawn had just broken on the horizon, bathing the farm in a golden light. Lorna loved this time of morning. Everything seemed so new, so fresh. It was like the cares of yesterday had fallen away, replaced by brand new opportunities. She was usually
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Earl Albert Nead was born on November 13, 1937. By Christmas Day, he was dead, the victim of a horrible accident. But as police looked into things, the more it appeared that Earl’s death was deliberate. What had happened in that small Wisconsin apartment that Christmas? Sources Boy of Nine Years is Fatally Injured.
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On Christmas Eve, 1937, Gertrude and Willard Shaw were at their Wisconsin home, anticipating the holiday festivities the next day. Near midnight, Gertrude noticed bright lights out in the yard, right in front of one of their windows. The couple thought that it must have been a car, so went outside to see who it
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Line shaft technology may have revolutionized industry, but they posed a very real danger to the workers who toiled around them. In 1922, nine-year-old Frank Nead found that out in a tragic and horrific accident. Sources Met Tragic Death. The Courier, 4/25/1907 Boy of Nine Years is Fatally Injured. Stevens Point Journal, 3/8/1922
Frank Nead smiled, his shoes slapping hard on the concrete floor of the automobile shop. He ran with all of the boundless energy of a nine-year-old as he chased his friend, determined to catch him. Frank’s legs ached and his lungs burned, but still he ran. The boy could see his friend, occasionally glancing back
The first time that I remember hearing about a place called “dead man’s” anything was when I was over at a friend’s house in Rock Island, Illinois. We were out riding bikes and one of them made mention that we were coming up on ‘dead man’s hill.’ Clueless, I asked what that meant. One of
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The Death Curve of Cambridge, Illinois, will forever be linked to the story of a woman who committed a horrible crime nearby. What really happened there, and does her ghost still haunt the area? Sources Slayer of Her 7 Children Had Been Insane for Years. Chicago Tribune, 10/2/1905 Family of Nine is Wiped Out
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As America prepared to fight World War I, the deadliest pandemic the world has ever seen arrived silently. 50 million people died. Do some of them still wander the earth? Sources Garamone, Jim. World War I: Building the American Military. http://www.defense.gov Barry, John M. The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and
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