Tamam Shud
December 1st marks the seventy-third anniversary of the discovery of the Somerton Man, also known as the Tamam Shud Case. This [...]
The California Alligator Farm
Before the Tiger King forced the nation to gasp with a collective “WTF!?”, there was [...]
On This Day November 19
On this day in 1929, occultist Netta Fornario is found dead on the island of [...]
The Corpsewood Manor Murders
Dr. Charles Scudder was many things, an artist, musician, professor of pharmacology, and a practicing member of [...]
The Lost Dutchman Mine Part Eleven: The Stone Maps
The Dutchman is a complicated story, with few facts and endless conjecture. By the mid [...]
The Lost Dutchman Mine Part 5: Jim Bark
Understanding the truth of Jacob Waltz’s lost mine is a bit like trying to assemble [...]
The Failure of the Reconstruction
There was a time in American history, where we as a nation had an unprecedented [...]
Josh Gibson
If you’ve ever been to a Major League ballpark, you’ve likely seen the number 42 [...]
Robert Smalls, The Slave That Stole a Confederate Warship
In 1861 Robert Smalls was a slave conscripted into the service of the Confederate Navy [...]
Madam C.J. Walker, The First African American Woman Millionaire
Sarah Breedlove was born in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana; the first of her family to [...]