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American history is filled with Ku Klux Klan atrocities, making accounts in which their intended victims successfully fought back comparatively rare. This isn’t meant to diminish the horrors endured by innocent people, but rather to highlight one extraordinary incident in…
Kleptomania has long been associated with a seemingly irresistible compulsion to steal, sometimes involving objects of little practical or financial value. Historic newspapers occasionally described particularly baffling thieves as suffering from a “mania” for stealing. These three historic Virginia thieves…
In October 1903, Edward “Ted” Leisenring Wentz, a wealthy young coal executive from one of Philadelphia’s prominent families, rode into the mountains of Southwest Virginia and disappeared. His disappearance triggered one of the largest searches the region had ever seen.…
The mysterious Bermuda Triangle has long fascinated researchers and history buffs, but many are surprised to learn that Appalachia also harbors areas known for strange events, disappearances, and other oddities. One such place is Black Mountain, a range along the…