The Wallula Treasure
In 1859, gold was discovered in Idaho, and Wallula was the jumping off point for…
In 1859, gold was discovered in Idaho, and Wallula was the jumping off point for miners headed to the gold fields. From Wallula they headed east (or returned) on Dorsey Baker’s Walla Walla and Columbia Line. It was also known as the Rawhide Railroad, because according to early travelers, the original rail lines were made…
Nestled in Tallahassee’s oldest public cemetery, the curious grave of Elizabeth “Bessie” Budd-Graham is a unique memorial to a woman some believe was a kindly “white witch.” The Old City Cemetery was established in 1829
In this picture, Frank Zappa is enjoying some family time with his parents in this deep purple living room. Somebody definitely loved the color purple. As a musician, Frank Zappa played a variety of classical, jazz, pop, and rock music. Unlike most rock stars, he was against using drugs after a few times of using…
A husband and wife singing sensation, Sonny and Cher recorded “I Got You Babe” in 1965. They also made their first television appearance on American Bandstand in 1965. American Bandstand, hosted by Dick Clark, was a platform for many artists to perform while teenagers (that got chosen to be on the show) would dance. What…
Debbi Fields was one of the first girls hired (at the age of 13) in Oakland as a “ball girl” a term they used for the girls that teams hired to throw shag balls in the foul area. Later, as an entrepreneur, she, with the help of her husband, Randy Fields, operated the business of…
The Grinning Man, sometimes referred to as Indrid Cold, is an entity first spotted in the 1960s in New Jersey. He is sometimes connected to UFO sightings and the cryptid Mothman, and is believed to be an extra/ultraterrestrial being. Appearance The Grinning Man is uniformly described as a tall man, wearing a shiny metallic-like set of green…
Operators (also known as Hook Operators) are humanoid entities that are physically indistinguishable from normal humans but which have psychic capabilities which they use to control the majority of other humans who are psychically inert. While Operators outwardly behave as if they are normal human beings their psychic correspondences reveal an entirely separate culture and society fixed…
The University of Tampa’s Plant Hall is now an academic building, but it previously served as a 500 room hotel that hosted the likes of Teddy Roosevelt and Babe Ruth as guests. It is now said to be rife with paranormal activity including the disembodied voices of long-dead servants and the sound of rolling dice!…
Not only is Sulphur Springs Tower one of the most haunted places in Tampa, but there is also a pretty interesting story linked to it. The tower that you see today was actually built to replace a tower that was once a marker on many pirate treasure maps! According to local legend, it is now…
The Sandown Clown was a strange being encountered by two young children vacationing at Lake Common, Sandown, Isle of Wight (UK) in May of 1973. Following a sound like an ambulance siren, the children wandered across a footbridge over a stream, and met a curious, unidentifiable being that has been described as “a cross between a clown,…