Head Scratchers & Good Stuff to Know

The legend of Silver Heels is a sad ghost story that was born somewhere after 1868, long after the miners at the Buckskin Joe mining camp, in Laurette, Colorado met a beautiful, local girl who was everyone’s preferred dancing partner. Her pretty silver heels glimmered from the light of the lanterns,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Aunty Greenleaf was a scrawny old woman with a wild thatch of gray hair and a crooked nose. She lived in a cottage surrounded by Blackthorn trees just outside of Wickhaven. She was known for selling herbal remedies to the folks in town. Mostly, people avoided her, except when someone got sick... Sign in to see full entry.

The French Minerve submarine has been found after disappearing in 1968. Fifty-two sailors were on board the Minerve when it vanished near the port of Toulon, on the French south coast, in January 1968. The precise reason behind the accident involving the Minerve has never been revealed.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Many years ago, there once was a trapper who roamed the wilds of Labrador, Canada on a sleigh pulled by pure white Huskies. He was a tall man, dressed in layer upon layer of animal skins, who drove his team with a terrible ferocity across the frozen tundra. The trapper was a cruel man, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

The train rumbled around him as he adjusted the throttle. The night shift was always the toughest, in the engineer's mind. He had rumbled through Timpas a few minutes ago and was on his way to Thatcher, Colorado. Not a bad stretch of road, and there was no better train in the entire Atchison,... Sign in to see full entry.

A boy had been out looking for work all day with no luck. His very large family was poor and hungry. When night fell, he was far from home. He decided to spend the night in an empty, rundown house. The minute he laid down he fell into a sound sleep. The boy was awakened quite suddenly by a thump on... Sign in to see full entry.

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