Vampires come in many fictional forms, some of them serious, some of them silly. But what form do real vampires come in? Do vampires exist? There is a fascinating and suggestive tale from the history of New...
For more than three decades, the RMS Queen Mary sailed the North Atlantic. During World War II, the ship worked to defeat Hitler; during times of peace, the Queen Mary was the vessel of choice for the...
The only thing crazier than the story of Bella Gunness is what’s been happening on her old property ever since.
If you live in the Midwest, then you have heard of the
famous...
Her name was Moll Derry, but everyone knew her as the Witch of the Monongahela.
In the ancient hills and misty hollows of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, generations of locals have passed down stories...
SUBJECT WARNING: This story contains graphic detail of a 1982 Lafayette, Indiana murder.
It is one of the strangest and most horrifying murder cases
in Lafayette history—a case that is still difficult to read...
Edgar Allan Poe wrote his great works while living in several homes across several cities, scattered along America's East Coast. While Baltimore's claim is the most famous -- it was there that Poe died in 1849 --...
Galveston, Texas: The Evening of September 8, 1900.
Though federal officials warned Galveston of an incoming storm, the patchy morning sky made the swells threatening to breach the seawall seem manageable.A...
By the time Elbert Gary had completed his plans, the Indiana city of Gary and its mills could boast twelve blast furnaces, forty-seven steel furnaces, an impressive harbor -- and an unknown number of lingering ghosts.
In Marquette, Michigan, stands the old Holy Family Orphanage. Built in the early 1900s, the orphanage quickly built a reputation not as a safe haven as it was intended, but as a dark and dangerous place for...
Ghosts are a hearty lot. They persist long after their first sighting and may carry with them the history of a significant event, or the soul of a cherished local landmark. Their tales are perennial and evergreen,...