For today's mini episode, I decided to get into a Halloween theme and tell some spooky (but true) additional history stories. All of the stories in today's episode were printed in historical newspapers and were never really 'solved.'
SOURCES
- Associated Press. “Atlanta’s House That Bleeds Could Be Homicide or Hoax.” The Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia),September 11, 1987. www.newspapers.com.
- “Black Flash in Old Provincetown Says ‘Booh’ and Are Folks Scared!” The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), October 24, 1939. www.newspapers.com.
- “Boys on Cape Start Search for Prowler.” The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), October 26, 1939. www.newspapers.com.
- Clark, Matt. “A (Black) Flash in the PAN: Provincetown’s Boogeyman.” ptownie, June 15, 2023. https://ptownie.com/history/a-black-flash-in-the-pan-provincetowns-boogeyman/.
- “Eight Killed By Fiend At Villisca, IA.” The Daily Times (Davenport, Iowa), June 10, 1912. www.newspapers.com.
- “A Haunted Mine.” The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California), November 27, 1887. www.newspapers.com.
- “Henry McDaniel Takes Shot at Unusual Visitor.” Carmi Times (Carmi, Illinois), April 26, 1973. www.newspapers.com.
- “History of the Villisca Axe Murders - the Murders.” Villisca Axe Murder House, January 3, 2024. https://murderhouse.com/the-house-and-murders/the-murders/.
- “Mine Gives Up a Ghastly Secret.” TheInter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), February 24, 1896.
- Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Summer 1977. http://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/92904-2009.pdf.
- “No Kangaroo, But A Bear Is Loose.” Carmi Times (Carmi, Illinois), April 30, 1973. www.newspapers.com.
SOUND SOURCES
- Al Jolson. “I’ll Say She Does.” www.pixapay.com/music.
- InspectorJ. “Bell, Candle Damper A (H4n).wav.” November 17, 2017. www.freesound.org.
- Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies. “Cold Winter Blues.” www.pixabay.com/music.
