That Doesn't Happen Every Day

Send us Fan Mail In 1958, Charles Starkweather was captured near Douglas, Wyoming after killing eleven people. We learn about the police chase through Douglas that lead to his capture as well as give a new look at the involvement or possible abduction of his former girlfriend, Carol Ann Fugate. The Killing Spree that Transfixed a Nation by Lesley Wischmann Starkweather   by Harry N Maclean My Stor...

Send us Fan Mail Douglas, Wyoming was home to a massive Prisoner of War Camp during World War Two. When the war ended the camp was closed leaving behind only a hospital and an old officers' club where it's rumored some people never left. How Can I Visit The Old Officers' Club? Haunted Cheyenne Stumbling on Skeletons A Trail of Human Skeletons Odd Fellows Have Skeletons In Their Clos...

Send us Fan Mail In 1943 several thousand Prisoners of War from Germany and Italy were taken across the US to the tiny farming and ranching town of Douglas, Wyoming. This episode shares oral histories from people who remembered the camp and what they learned about the people held inside. Click here to see how you can arrange a visit to the remaining Officers' Club. #WorldWarTwo #POWs #Wyoming...

Send us Fan Mail In 2017, Dallin Cooper left Riverton, Wyoming to live in China. While there, he ate strange things, slept on hard beds, and upon returning home, had an explanation about why so many toilets in Yellowstone get broken. 35 Chinese Translation Fails When East Meets West, Toilet Seats Take a Beating - Mike Koshmrl As Asian Tourism Soars, the Mystery of Broken Toilet Seats Has Been Solv...

Send us Fan Mail In June of 1942, Japanese forces invaded two small Islands that are part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.  We listen to two men who were there when the invasion started and one who fought to take it back. Please check out: The Battle of Attu Even More About The Battle Aleut Evacuation & Internment during World war II Joseph Sasser's Full Interview Charles House's F...

Send us Fan Mail In 1980, George C Scott (Patton) stared in a horror movie about a haunted house called The Changeling .  Even though the film was set in Seattle, it was based on a story written by Russel Hunter who claimed to have paranormal experiences in his home near Cheesman Park in Denver, CO in 1969. (See Photo) We talk with Katie Rudolph at the Denver Public Library about her research into...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Betenson is Butch Cassidy's great nephew and says that his great grandmother insisted that Cassidy came back to visit his family in Utah in 1925, seventeen years after his supposed death in a Bolivian shootout. While myths of outlaws surviving their supposed deaths are common, Bill and his great grandmother share a very convincing story and DNA evidence also makes the ti...

Send us Fan Mail Lois Christiansen & Wendy Peterson still live within walking distance of the Ghost Town of Piedmont, Wyoming where Butch Cassidy met with his lawyer to help a friend facing a murder trial. In 1869, angry railroad workers forced dignitaries headed to the Golden Spike Ceremony in Utah off the tracks and held them there until they were paid.  We ask our interviewees what it'...

Send us Fan Mail In the early 1980's, my older brother, Mark Petersen, started volunteering at a radio station in a log cabin with grass growing on it's roof near North Pole, Alaska. Known as King Jesus North Pole (KJNP), it broadcast religious messages to native people in Alaska's interior and even into the Soviet Union. Mark tells us what it was like working at a station where he...

Send us Fan Mail In 1993, Lisa Nicolle Hamilton's family moved into an old LDS church building built just after the American Civil War. She talks about what it was like growing up in the old building and how her family adapted the building into a home and the community's reaction to the church's new use. Lisa's YouTube Channel The Old Grantsville Church Twinpectol (Lisa's...

Send us Fan Mail A strange tale involving Spanish explorers, Mormon pioneers, a spiritualist, possible former members of Butch Cassidy's gang, and a school teacher from Wyoming's Bridger Valley who barely made it out of the Uinta's with his life. Note: This Episode's icon is a photo of a known mine near Park City, UT and is not of any lost mines. Sources Cited: -Footprints In T...

Send us Fan Mail In a lonely spot along the Wyoming/Utah Border in the Uinta Mountains is a place called "Suicide Park." On this episode I try to find out how it got its name. Sources: History of logging in Sweden Video of man walking on logs in a river (starts about 6 mins 19 sec) What and how much did lumberjacks eat? The icon for this episode is a photo of logging from 1939 in Wiscons...

Send us Fan Mail Weird occurrences on a ranch in southwest Wyoming. Here are some other stories like this one: The Lady of Arlington Teenaged Tours of an Old Prison When your soda loving Bison gets murdered and mutilated - yes this really is a true story Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Across the Rocky Mountains Sheep Herders from places as diverse as Greece to Scotland and The Basque Region to Peru have left messages and drawings on Aspen Trees. We talk with Dr. Alison Krögel about some of the 300 aspen carvings she has documented and the deeper meanings and connections she's found in them at times. Please check out her website The Aspen Archives  to learn...

Send us Fan Mail We interview a new mortician about why she chose to do what she does, what it's really like working with decedents, and why we have morticians and funerals. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Despite their best efforts to remove all the bodies from a cemetery in Green River, Wyoming, remains of people and their graves continue to be found under and around The Sweetwater County Library.  In addition to physical items, staff and visitors have also claimed to have frightening and unusual encounters there.  We interview two people who've worked there about some the we...

Send us Fan Mail Harold Slagowski started construction on what would become a local landmark over fifty years ago using a Skill saw. Today it remains independent and still going, selling thick hamburgers with handmade patties and thick milkshakes. We ask Harold what got it started and what kept it going. Please eat at the Mountain View Drive Inn located at 551 WY-414, Mountain View, WY 82939. Forb...

Send us Fan Mail In the late 1990's CJ Young's orange soda loving bison Ralphie was found mutilated. This is their story. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In the early 1970's, John Mionczynski was studying Big Horn Sheep in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains when something happened that would change his life forever. More info: Why no bones? Numbers of Black Bear in Oregon What throws better? Primates or People? Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science - Dr Jeff Meldrum The Relic Hominoid Inquiry The Scientist Grover Krantz Risked It A...

Send us Fan Mail Only about a decade before Neil Armstrong would walk on the moon, a posse was called in in Mountain View, Wyoming to hunt two "masked bandits" who robbed the Uinta County State Bank and then fled on horseback into the Uinta Mountains. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In the mid 1970’s, ranchers in Wyoming’s Bridger Valley suffered extensive cattle mutilations with little explanation of why or who was behind it. Former Uinta County Sheriff Leonard Hysell shares his memories of the mutilations as well as who he believes was behind it all. Sources Sited: Army: Nerve Agent Near Dead Utah sheep in ’68 – Jim Woolf. The Salt Lake Tribune 1998 Did Dug...

Send us Fan Mail After going back to Rock Springs, Wyoming, Mark Pedri and his wife Kari moved into Mark's late grandfather's home and discovered a knife hidden in his bed. To learn more about this man who lived across the street from Mark for much of his life, he goes on a journey over 5,000 miles away from Wyoming to find out more about the things his grandfather never talked about. Ma...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the old house you are given to live in for the summer has mice in the walls, lights that come on in the attic,  and gives you horrible, horrible nightmares. Many thanks to Scott Leon Smith for his being on the show today. If you are looking for an actor or voice actor here is Scott's website Monster Vox Productions . Scott's reading of The Burqa Cave wr...

Send us Fan Mail In 1881, confessed murderer George "Big Nose" Parrott was hanged by vigilantes after he tried to escape from jail in Rawlins, Wyoming. While that was the end of George, it wasn't the end of his remains. Some of them were given to a teenaged girl, some were hidden in a barrel to be discovered in 1950 when a store was being built in Rawlins, and some of them were used...

Send us Fan Mail In 1968, my Dad, Owen Petersen, left the Bridger Valley of Wyoming for Vietnam where he served as a platoon leader in the 3rd Marine Division. After he came home, he put the photos he took into an album that collected dust with our other photos. In this interview we ask him about those pictures and what it was like to be boots on the ground in the war. Veteran Suicide and Crisis L...