Laura Wright
For centuries, people believed the dead could identify their own murderers. The practice was known as the...
witchcraft
In December 1938, newspapers across the country began reporting a bizarre story from the mountains of Southwest...
In the early twentieth century, newspapers told a strange story from Oak Level, Virginia, then known as...
A wealthy Virginia landowner named McKim seemed to possess almost everything a man of his time could...
According to an old Irish belief, some people entered the world possessing a strange and frightening gift....
For years, Major Thomas Weir seemed to be one of the last men in Edinburgh anyone would...
Their owners are documented. Their architecture is photographed. Their tragedies are repeated in books, television programs and...
Katherine Grady never reached Virginia. We know almost nothing about her life. We do not know where...
