Head Scratchers & Good Stuff to Know

In the Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia, just a few blocks southwest from the famously spooky Mutter Museum, stands a modest little firehouse. Built sometime in the 19th century, the humble brick structure is tucked among other larger brick buildings on South 16th Street, making it easy to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Living near California, we packed up our car and made a day trip to Bodie when the girls were young. Unfortunately, our youngest daughter did not heed the warning about taking souvenirs...After discovering that she had brought home a piece of Bodie, we soon learned that the curse was a very real... Sign in to see full entry.

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.