Strange and Dreadful Things

When May Lewis came home, no one else was there. Where had her parents gone, and what was behind the bedroom door that wouldn’t open?    

Mary and Alonzo Singer were murdered in their rural Indiana home with an axe. What events led up to it, and what did it have to do with a lonely teamster named Charles Clark?      

In 1907, Henry Warren walked into a local newspaper and placed an ad for a wife. He became a sensation, and was dubbed ‘Loving Henry.’ But Warren was harboring a dark secret that was only revealed decades later.    

Sod houses and dugouts were dwellings that faded away on the prairie. Many pioneers also passed through history, the stories of their lives forgotten. Hear the short tale of how one young couple met their sad end in Nebraska.    

August 30, 1945, was a day like any other in DeWitt, Iowa. That is, until the explosions started. What happened that fateful afternoon, and what is its connection to the modern day?

We love getting presents in the mail. But what happens when something so ordinary turns deadly? One unfortunate farm family in 1922 Wisconsin found out first hand when they received a deadly delivery.

In 1943, Lt. Naomi Cheney came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to serve her country during World War II. Instead, her unsolved murder became the oldest in Sioux Falls history when she took her last walk home.

Judge John Dillon was a self-made, ultra-successful man. He was rational and logical. But when his wife and daughter were about to travel to Europe in 1898, eerie premonitions of impending disaster would change his life forever.    

People love stories of buried treasure, but that’s not the only thing that people bury. A group of North Dakota workmen discovered this in 1915 when they uncovered buried secrets no one was ever meant to find.  

In 1905, a St. Paul, Minnesota butcher was brutally murdered in his shop. When police began investigating, little did they know that they were on the trail of one of the most cold-blooded killers they had ever seen.    

Thomas Clark seemed like an ordinary Indiana farmer until he went away to the asylum. They said he was cured. But, in 1922, he committed a horrible crime that proved that his unseen malady was far from improved.        

In the late 1960’s, a fraternity in Davenport, Iowa moved into a comfortable new chapter home. Before long, they discovered that a spectral visitor also came with the property. How would you handle this uninvited guest?  

In 1925, a terrible event took place in Wisconsin that literally shook a city and left one man dead. The police were baffled, until the culprit was revealed in an unlikely set of circumstances.  

Floods are a terrifying force of nature. They're even more terrifying when they strike seemingly out of nowhere. In the 1950's, a legendary flood struck western Iowa that would claim many, and would forever change the lives of all those who survived.

There is a story from a small town in eastern Iowa about a giant. He was tall and strong, and weighed more than two men put together. All of it's true, and the truth is stranger than any story ever told about him.

In a perfect world, parents are supposed to provide guidance and protection. But we don’t live in a perfect world. In 1901, two people had to deal with awful situations caused by their parents in Indiana.

Winter driving is something that virtually all Midwestern drivers have to face down at some point. One night in 1926, Singleton Gardiner discovered just how bad it could be when he found his car sliding toward the side of a moving train in rural Illinois.  

Johann Whynack was married to Marie, the love of his life. He adored her, she hated him. Marie treated him like dirt, but Johann endured out of love. What happened one dark night in 1914 when Johann reached his breaking point?

In 1919, Irene Hoskins burst into her neighbors house, bleeding profusely. The story she told them would change their lives forever. What horrible event took place at the Hoskins' rural Iowa farm?