Today, we tell a story about a place that over a century ago was said to have been shrouded in mystery and fear, known for inexplicable and mysterious disappearances. That,
Our story today involves a member of the infamous Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy’s gang. Known as the wildest of the bunch, Harvey Alexander Logan, better known as Kid Curry, was
On this day in 1900, William Justus Goebel was sworn in as Kentucky’s 34th governor. While lying in a hospital bed after having been shot in the chest by an
Joe Brown was a hell-raiser, thug and violent alcoholic who terrorized the town of Whitmer, West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century. He did, that is, until he
In the early 1900’s a young mother in Polk County, North Carolina, had a decision to make. She had separated from her abusive husband and had several young children to
In the fall of 1910, 17-year-old Robert Carter was a prisoner in the Dandridge, Tennessee, jail, convicted of larceny of corn from the farm of a Mr. McMahan. He was
In 1902 coal miners struck the mines along the New River, seeking better wages and better working conditions. The strike continued until February 25, 1903, when a massive gun battle
Granny women were the healers and caretakers of folks in Appalachia, dispensing folk remedies, serving as midwives, and even dousing for water. These women were essential in rural Appalachia, where
At the turn of the 20th century a wealthy and politically connected man from Grainger County, Tennessee, lost a lawsuit filed by a widow and was ordered to pay her
Starting in the latter part of the 19th century and continuing up into the 20th century a valley in Clay County, West Virginia, became the site of a series of