Laura Wright
More than two centuries ago, a young woman died in Alexandria, Virginia, leaving behind one of the...
History
Historical facts, figures, and oddities.
Deep in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, near the community of Pocahontas in Tazewell County, there once...
A wealthy Virginia landowner named McKim seemed to possess almost everything a man of his time could...
True crime is not a modern obsession. Long before television documentaries reconstructed murders in painstaking detail, long...
According to an old Irish belief, some people entered the world possessing a strange and frightening gift....
Among the old ghost stories of Scotland, few were once as famous as the tale of Pearlin’...
In the Covent Garden portion of London, a tavern once stood that gained a reputation for causing...
Somewhere beneath a mountain, a king is sleeping. His sword remains beside him. His warriors sleep nearby....
There may be no town in the American West with a name better suited to becoming haunted....
Every city has a house teenagers dare one another to visit. Usually it stands somewhere out of...
