Head Scratchers & Good Stuff to Know

In the early 2000s, a family renovated a beautiful Victorian home in Newton, Massachusetts. After finally moving in, it wasn’t long before their five-year-old daughter, Julielle, began telling them stories of her new friend, Mrs. Woodman, who lived on the third floor and who wore long dresses. For... Sign in to see full entry.

Working with real estate, sheriff sales, and unclaimed property, I have learned that thousands of people have unclaimed money that they have no idea about due to companies neglecting to contact heirs and the rightful owners. Once I learned about our state's unclaimed property portal, I checked our... Sign in to see full entry.

In 1858, a 138-foot long, 385-ton wooden brig called the Black Hawk, sailed from Detroit, Michigan to Liverpool, England, carrying a terrifying piece of cargo. Stowed away among the 19,000 bushels of corn and padded parcels of stained glass, there was a barrel containing the pickled corpse of the... Sign in to see full entry.

A large group of people showed up at the London Borough Southwark docks after word spread that an angel appeared not long after the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. A photograph of the hovering angel confirmed that something truly divine happened during a time when people needed faith and hope... Sign in to see full entry.

The history of Captain Tony’s Saloon is a bit diabolic in nature when you look at the rich history of the place. Starting out as Key West’s only morgue, it onced housed bodies, and even had a few that were found under the floorboards during construction. The haunted saloon has witnessed murders, and... Sign in to see full entry.

During the construction of the famous Mount Rushmore monument, architect Gutzon Borglum wanted to create a Hall of Chronicles inside the cliff face. For this purpose, he excavated a cave behind the head of Abraham Lincoln. In 1998, more than 50 years after his death, copies of important documents... Sign in to see full entry.

In the early 1900s, down in Arkansas, the man who would come to be known as “Old Mike” was a familiar face in and around the city of Prescott. A traveling salesman, he would swing by each month to sell stationery to homes and local businesses. He occasionally stayed overnight, but he always left the... Sign in to see full entry.

Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 murder mystery novella, "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt," tells the story of Marie Rogêt, a beautiful young Parisian woman whose body was found, battered and bruised, in the Seine River. The tale captivated readers during its day, because, except for the victim's name, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

Old English Remedy Successfully Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Bacteria... By looking outside of the box, researchers turned to old world pratices, and the results were astounding. MRSA is stubborn; in fact t he drug-resistant superbug causes over 80,000 severe infections and 11,000 deaths each... Sign in to see full entry.

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