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Back to SearchStony Hollow Road
Episode 68
A quiet stretch of road outside Burlington, Iowa carries a legend older than the pavement itself. What began as a tragic frontier tale shaped by dist…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Mathias Ham House
Episode 67
On the banks of the Mississippi near Dubuque, an ambitious river man named Mathias Ham built a fortune, a reputation, and eventually a limestone mans…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Farrar Schoolhouse
Episode 66
A towering brick school in the middle of rural Iowa was built as a promise of progress... bigger classrooms, brighter lights, a future measured in sq…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Squirrel Cage Prison
Episode 65
A 19th-century engineering marvel promised perfect efficiency and airtight security—by turning an entire jail into a rotating machine. Instead, it be…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Edinburgh Manor
Episode 64
A failed courthouse dream on the Iowa prairie slowly transformed into an institution built to house society’s forgotten. Over decades, it became a sy…
8 months ago
The Origin of "Sleep Tight"
A simple bedtime phrase hides a surprisingly dark past. What sounds like a comforting wish for rest leads back through shifting language, forgotten f…
8 months ago
Spring-Heeled Jack
In late-1700s London, panic spreads as a shadowy attacker becomes known as the London Monster... a very real threat that turns public fear into fashi…
8 months ago
The Beast of Busco
Episode 63
In the quiet farmland of Churubusco, Indiana, a small kettle lake became the center of national attention when locals claimed a giant prehistoric tur…
8 months ago
The Lingering Tragedy of the Whispers Estate (Indiana)
Episode 62
A quiet Victorian house in Mitchell, Indiana, carries a reputation far darker than its ornate woodwork suggests. Known as Whispers Estate, the home i…
8 months ago
The Pig Farm Hog-Trough Decapitations & Hell's Princess: Belle Gunness (Indiana True Crime)
Episode 61
A lonely Indiana farm becomes a legend factory: a “widow” with an ad in the paper, men who arrive with cash and vanish without a trace, and a fire th…
8 months ago