the elderly couple bought a condemned mountain guest house for eleven dollars—then the floor beneath the fireplace revealed why someone was desperate to make them leave

Part 1 By the time Allara understood that Silas’s fires were going to fail, twenty-three people were already depending on them. The wind coming down…

Part 1 In the late summer of 1987, a truck from the Halverson Woolen Mill backed slowly down the gravel drive of the Skogan farm…

Part 1 Three weeks after Thomas Harper was buried, Evelyn finally unlocked the timber shed behind their Missouri farmhouse. She stood outside with the key…

Part 1 The first thing Marcus Benton noticed about the house on Fieldstone Hill was that it sounded occupied. Not by footsteps. Not by voices….

Part 1 On a Thursday afternoon in June of 1881, Adelene Culver stood at the edge of a Kansas railroad yard and watched three men…

Part 1 Ellen Mercer had been scraping dirt from the sixth stall for twenty minutes when the floor moved beneath her boots. It dropped only…