While giving a tour recently I was telling our guests the story of the Bigelow Hotel’s resident cat ghost. It got me thinking of how many haunted places have ghost…

As a weird kid growing up in the 80s, I have to say that Unsolved Mysteries gave me completely unrealistic expectations about the frequency of cases of amnesia and spontaneous…

Darius Flinders was an 11-year-old boy who was growing up in Ogden shortly after the turn of the 20th century. He lived with his parents in a small house just…

When I’m digging through various old newspapers looking for things to write about, I sometimes come across incredible headlines. My favorite so far appeared in the January 10, 1886 Salt…

Sounds like everyone’s worst nightmare, right? Unfortunately for a 13-year-old boy living in San Francisco in 1854, it was reality. On the evening of January 10, 1854, there was a…

There’s a legend surrounding Whiskey Pete’s Hotel & Casino in Primm, Nevada that says the place is haunted by old Whiskey Pete himself. Patrons and staff alike have reported the…