(1894, Blue Ridge Mountains) The Horrifying Case of Verna Sudduth
# Part 1 There are places in the mountains where the ground appears easier than it is. A slope rises gently beneath hardwoods. A path…
Read moreThe Greenland Trapper Who Spent One Winter Alone — He Was Not Alone
# Part 1 On the outer coast of East Greenland, there are places where the land seems to have been made without human beings in…
Read moreShe Married a Paralyzed Mafia King to Save Her Bankrupt Architecture Firm—Then His Rival Touched Her Family Bracelet at a Gala and Whispered the One Name That Should Have Been Impossible
The locksmith had already removed Audrey Whitaker’s brass nameplate when her phone began ringing again. She stood in the doorway of the architecture studio she…
Read moreThe Story of the Ferrickay Clan (1879, Ozarks) — The Savage Family The Whole Village Feared Exposed
# Part 1 In the winter of 1879, the people of Sallow Creek began locking their doors before the sun had finished going down. They…
Read moreThe Cane Clan of Silent Hollow — Appalachia’s Most Sinister Bloodline Finally Unearthed
# Part 1 There are hollows in the Kentucky mountains where the road narrows by degrees until a traveler begins to wonder whether he has…
Read moreThe Story of Chattins (1858, Ozarks) — The People Below Who Spoke a Language No one Could Identify
# Part 1 On the morning of April 11, 1858, a boy named Ephraim Barlow ran 3 miles through rain-darkened timber to the schoolhouse at…
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