When new color tvs were radioactive
According to a recent post from Mental FlossTesting in 1967 revealed that large-screen models of GE color televisions sets were...
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The world’s tallest man.
Known as the “Alton Giant,” Robert Wadlow from Alton, IL, reached a towering height of 8ft 11”. Wadlow suffered from...
The haunted Milwaukee hotel terrifying baseball players
“It was more like a moving light that kind of passed through the room. It was very strange. The room...
A riverboat buried under a cornfield
A cornfield in Kansas is the last place you’d expect to discover a buried shipwreck.In 1988, Kansas City resident David...
Cleveland’s flammable river
"The Cuyahoga will live in infamy as the only river that was ever declared a fire hazard." - Congressman Louis...
How a “Mad Gasser” terrified a town in rural Illinois
"He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows.” -...
When St. Louis hosted the most bizarre race in Olympic History.
In 1904, St. Louis hosted the Summer Olympics, to coincide with the upcoming World’s Fair located in the city’s Forest...
Kansas’ Panic Over Women’s STDs
In 1917, the state of Kansas passed a law, Chapter 205, State of Kansas Quarantine. Over 5000 women suspected of...
Chicago’s most infamous ghost
Jerry Paulus’s Story In 1939, a Chicagoan named Jerry Paulus headed out to a dance hall called Liberty Grove and...