For months, Hugh Farley and his family, along with their boarder, Joseph Kairns, would be terrorized by an unseen occupant. It all began in August of 1884, in a frame cottage house on North Halsted Street in Chicago. At first, it was just knocking on the walls, and missing food.Read More →
In 1848, in a small hamlet in New York, two young girls would help begin a movement that would eventually burn through the country. For them, it was just a prank on their mother, a prank that quickly got away from them. That movement was spiritualism. As the Black HillsRead More →
In December of 1885, May Howard was arrested and fined for being an inmate of a house of ill-fame in Rapid City, SD. It wasn’t the first time she would be arrested for, as the local paper stated, flaunting her shame in the face of decency, but it would beRead More →
Dustin WhiteEditor Stepping off a steamer in 1872, Mollie Myers would have a unique honor; she was the first white woman in Edwinton, the city that would become Bismarck. It was through a series of misfortunes that Mollie would arrive in what would become Bismarck. Having been sent down riverRead More →
Dustin WhiteEditor In 1883, the Mandan Pioneer printed a story about the discovery of two vast prehistoric cemeteries, where giants were said to have been buried. It didn’t take long for the story to spread throughout the country, reaching well respected publications such as the Scientific American. Labeled “A CityRead More →