The disappearance of Dorothy Arnold was the most-talked-about scandal in 1910 Manhattan. A wealthy socialite, the 25-year-old aspiring writer went out one day, telling her mother she was going to buy a new evening gown. She ran into a friend, whom she told that she was going for a walk in Central Park. That was…
Everyone knows the famous story of Amelia Earhart, one of the greatest aviators of her time, who disappeared in 1937 in an attempt to fly around the world. The thing is, though, that that’s not the whole story. Her plane didn’t simply vanish, as everybody thought for years; naval ships were receiving radio transmissions from…
In 1974, Lord Lucan (who was once considered for the role of James Bond) got fed up with battling his wife for custody of their three children, and with spying on them and recording their telephone conversations, and decided to simply bludgeon her to death in a darkened room. The problem with committing murder in a…
Barbara Newhall Follett was a bit of a writing prodigy in the Jazz Age. She published a critically acclaimed novel at age 13. Everybody agreed that she would be the next great American writer, and she probably would have been, if it hadn’t been for her father. He ran off with a younger woman, leaving…
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Jim Sullivan was a cult folk-rocker in the ’60s and ’70s who was just days away from his big break when he disappeared. This was a man who had all the talent, all the right connections, and had just landed a gig in Nashville, Tennessee, that would have been his big break … if he…
Waverly Hills Sanatorium sits on land that was originally purchased by Major Thomas H. Hays in 1883. Major Hays was in need of a school for his daughters to attend, so he started a one-room schoolhouse that was located on Pages Lane. He hired a woman named Lizzie Lee Harris to teach at the school….
The Indiana Medical History Museum is located in the oldest surviving pathology building in the country. The Indianapolis museum recreates amphitheaters and laboratories that were once used by the Central State Hospital, which treated a variety of different mental health-related illnesses from 1848 until the late 1990s. The site is allegedly haunted by former patients.
A secret doorway used in the 1880s but hidden until 2011 is now on display at the DeSoto House Hotel in Galena, Illinois. The doorway was uncovered when the hotel staff was repairing flood damages, and the spot became notorious for ghost sightings. A plaque in the hotel describes a “lady in black” who allegedly haunts the doorway.
The Old Idaho Penitentiary, located in Boise, opened in 1872 and housed some of the region’s most dangerous criminals until it closed for good 101 years later. Visitors can now tour the old jail, including cells that many claim are haunted by old inmates.
