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Hometown History
Discover the untold stories hidden in your own backyard with Hometown History. We bring to life the forgotten events and local legends that never made it into the textbooks. Each episode uncovers the mysteries and pivotal moments that shaped small towns across the nation. Join us as we delve deep in...
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East Montpelier, Vermont: The 14-Hour Marriage That Ended in Murder
On September 5th, 1889, George Gould walked up the path to the Cutler farm in East Montpelier, Vermont, with his new wife Laura. They had been married...
Lewistown, Montana: When the Guide Became the Killer (1889)
In 1889, the Montana frontier witnessed a cold-blooded betrayal when a trusted hunting guide turned killer. What began as an expedition into the wilde...
Turtle Lake, North Dakota: The Wolf Family Murders of 1920
On April 22, 1920, someone entered a farmhouse three miles north of Turtle Lake, North Dakota, armed with a shotgun and a hatchet. By morning, eight p...
Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room
187: Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room
Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town
On July 5, 1943, just hours after Fourth of July celebrations had ended, the residents of Boise City, Oklahoma woke to the sound of explosions. Bombs...
Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
186: Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
186: Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850
In February 1849, an enslaved sawmill worker named Appling approached his owner with an extraordinary proposal: he would murder Martin Posey's wife Ma...
Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control
In 1896, a five-year-old boy in Hagerstown, Indiana, lost his sight in a workshop accident. Doctors couldn't save his vision, and by age seven, Ralph...
Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore
In the early hours of January 18, 1884, the passenger steamer City of Columbus struck the jagged underwater rocks of Devil's Bridge off Gay Head, Mass...
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up
In 1931, seventeen-year-old Dewey Flack stepped off a train in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, carrying a one-way ticket and a promise to send money hom...
Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars
The Story
In the depths of the Great Depression, when unemployment in West Virginia topped 25% and families struggled to afford even basic neces...
Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36
On August 3, 1915, a wall of water tore through downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, at twenty-five miles per hour, destroying three hundred buildings and kil...
Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform
On the night of August 1, 1946, hundreds of World War II veterans laid siege to the McMinn County jail in Athens, Tennessee. Armed with rifles, Thomps...
Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
The Wealthiest People Per Capita in the World Were Being Murdered for Their Money.
In the early 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma d...
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
Between 1866 and 1969, the Kingdom and later State of Hawai'i sent over eight thousand people diagnosed with Hansen's disease—then known as leprosy—to...
Africatown: The Last Slave Ship Survivors Who Built a Town
In July 1860, under cover of darkness, 110 West Africans were smuggled into Mobile Bay aboard the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to reach American...
171: The Last New England Vampire
On a cold March morning in 1892, five men gathered at Chestnut Hill Baptist Church cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island, to open a family crypt. Inside la...
170: Radium Girls of Ottawa: Shining Women, Deadly Glow
In 1922, a dream factory opened in Ottawa, Illinois, offering young women exceptional wages to paint luminous watch dials with a miracle element calle...
169: When Lightning Struck the Big Top
On June 10, 1897, the Ringling Brothers circus arrived in Wahpeton, North Dakota, transforming the small frontier town's ordinary morning into an extr...
168: The Miracle of Hickory: A Hospital in 54 Hours
In the summer of 1944, as World War II raged overseas and medical resources stretched thin, a deadly polio outbreak swept through western North Caroli...
167: How America’s Main Streets Are Fighting Back—The Wabash Playbook
In 1880, Wabash, Indiana became the first city in the world to light its streets with electricity—earning gasps of wonder and cries of "miracle!" But...
166: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 3 – The Rise of Modern Nursing
From battlefield tents to modern hospitals, nursing transformed from humble care work into one of the world's most trusted professions. This episode t...
165: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 2 – Florence Nightingale and the War on Death
It's 2:30 in the morning, November 1854. In a makeshift army hospital above the Bosphorus, rats scurry between cots as another stretcher swings throug...
164: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 1: The Dark Origins of Nursing
In 1910, Florence Nightingale died, leaving behind a transformed profession. But there was a time when nursing wasn't noble—it was shameful work that...
163: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Sodder Children: A Christmas Eve Tragedy
On Christmas Eve 1945, five children vanished from their family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. When fire consumed the Sodder residence that nigh...
162: The Bone Wars: Paleontology’s Greatest Rivalry
When Othniel Charles Marsh secretly arranged to steal fossils from his friend Edward Drinker Cope's excavation site in 1868, he ignited one of the mos...
161: The Curse of Rebel Without a Cause: Hollywood’s Tragic Tale
In 1955, Rebel Without a Cause became one of Hollywood's most iconic films, capturing teenage rebellion with raw honesty. Within months of the premier...
160: Psychiana: The Mail-Order Religion That Swept America
In 1929, a recovering alcoholic and twice-discharged military veteran named Frank Bruce Robinson made a $2,500 investment that would transform a small...
159: The Vanishing of Judge Crater: New York’s Greatest Mystery
In August 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater walked into a taxi on a Manhattan street corner and vanished completely. His disappearanc...
158: How a Telegraph Cable Launched Tiffany & Co. to Fame
In August 1858, when the first transatlantic telegraph cable failed after just three weeks, most people saw disaster. Charles Lewis Tiffany saw opport...
157: The Vanishing of Ambrose Bierce: A Literary Mystery
In December 1913, one of America's most acclaimed writers sent his final letter from Chihuahua, Mexico, stating he was heading "tomorrow for an unknow...
156: Beneath the Greenbrier: America’s Cold War Bunker Exposed
Hidden beneath one of America's most luxurious resorts lies one of the Cold War's most remarkable secrets. From 1959 to 1992, the elegant Greenbrier R...
155: The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
In 1872, two Kentucky prospectors walked into a San Francisco banker's office carrying a leather bag filled with rough diamonds. They claimed to have...
154: Secrets in Stone: The Mystery of Coral Castle
In the 1920s, a 5-foot-tall, 100-pound man suffering from tuberculosis began quarrying massive coral blocks—some weighing 30 tons each. Working alone...
153: Crafting a Revolution: The Legacy of Paul Revere
Paul Revere's midnight ride is legendary, but his real weapon wasn't a horse—it was his silversmith's tools. Through powerful engravings and propagand...
152: The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run
Between 1934 and 1938, a methodical killer terrorized Cleveland's Kingsbury Run, leaving behind 13 dismembered, decapitated bodies—many drained of blo...
151: Beyond the Myths: The Real Secret Societies of America
In 1864, Washington D.C. witnessed the birth of America's first congressionally-chartered fraternal organization—the Knights of Pythias. Based on an a...
150: Shadow of Pearl Harbor: The Internment of Japanese Americans
In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the military unprecedented power to forcibly remove anyone deemed a...
149: America’s Youngest Serial Killer: The Crimes of Jesse Pomeroy
In 1874, a 14-year-old boy named Jesse Pomeroy was sentenced to death for the brutal torture and murder of at least two children in Massachusetts. His...