Laura Wright
On a January night in 1959, the Jackson family was returning home to Apple Grove, Virginia. Twenty-nine-year-old...
History
Historical facts, figures, and oddities.
Ancient Rome could be a dangerous place, particularly among those closest to power. Political rivals disappeared. Family...
The year 1348 was extraordinary for anyone interested in the history of weather, natural disasters, and strange...
The obsessive pursuit of thinness has stretched across much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For generations,...
Among the supernatural beings found in Mexican mythology were terrifying female spirits associated with death, childbirth, disease,...
Today, a crossroads is usually nothing more mysterious than a place where one road meets another. For...
In December 1938, newspapers across the country began reporting a bizarre story from the mountains of Southwest...
Near Richmond, Virginia, stands an old plantation house known as Tuckahoe, sometimes called the Randolph family mansion....
Vampire legends appear in cultures throughout the world. Some are centuries old, passed from generation to generation...
For genealogists, there is a frustrating moment that eventually arrives when researching almost any family. The records...
