Strange America

Weird but True Stories from the 1950's: Bizarre, Shocking, and Unbelievable Tales from America’s Atomic Age Think you know the 1950's? Think again. Beneath the surface of poodle skirts, chrome diners, and black-and-white TV was a decade overflowing with mystery, irony, and stranger-than-fiction true stories. This captivating collection reveals ten astonishing real-life events from the 1950's that defy expectation and logic—each one verified and rooted in historical fact. From radar panic over Washington D.C. to the eerie Phantom Whistler of New Jersey, from mid-air collisions with ...

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments.

In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived - three Spaniards and an African slave.

This is my database on North America that I started in the 1960s. It is time that it is out for people to read and use. I hope that you enjoy and are challenged, and entertained by it. I have tidied it up to make it readable. What the Hell has been happening in North America? In this book we have reports of Hairy Humanoids. Many in the forest but some coming out of what are called UFOs. We have reports of humanoids, and non-humanoids, coming out of these UFOs as well and interacting with people in strange and unusual ways. North America is so rich with these bizarre reports that it has ...

Throughout history there have been legends and mythologies of unusual and even bizarre residents and even visitors to this planet. From Hairy Hominoids to strange Lakemonsters, to falls of odd artifacts from the skies as well as even stranger luminous ones. To a zoologica of alien big cats and other strange creatures and Teachers from the planet Venus and the Pleiedes Constellation to lights blazing in the skies during earthquakes. From Gods to Demons, to Angels and Lucipher himself. To ear-aches and sunburns during interactions with luminous and electromagnetic phenomena. What if there was...

Weird but True Stories from the Great Depression: Bizarre, Shocking, and Unbelievable Tales from America's Darkest Decade Step beyond the breadlines and dust storms into the strangest corners of America’s hardest era. This captivating collection of weird but true stories from the Great Depression reveals a side of the 1930s you've never seen—filled with eccentric survival strategies, bizarre public stunts, surreal government projects, and the unforgettable humans behind it all. Meet the man who couldn’t be killed—even when poisoned, frozen, and gassed. Discover how flour sacks ...

Weird but True Stories from the Roaring 1920s: Strange and Bizarre Tales from the Prohibition Era is a riveting collection of real, historically documented events that prove truth is stranger than fiction. From haunted courtrooms and dance marathons that drove people to madness, to bootlegging schemes, deadly medical frauds, and a massacre that changed organized crime forever, this book explores the weirdest corners of 1920s America. Set against the backdrop of Prohibition, jazz, flappers, and gangsters, these ten unforgettable stories showcase the bizarre side of the decade that redefined ...

Discover the strangest side of the Civil War that textbooks left behind. From sneezed-out bullets and exploding mules to musical ceasefires and sky-high spies in balloons, Weird but True Stories from the Civil War reveals the bizarre, hilarious, and unbelievable moments that actually happened during America’s deadliest conflict. These aren’t fictional tales—they’re real events, drawn from eyewitness accounts, battlefield reports, and historical archives. Explore ten shocking stories that shine a light on the surreal side of 19th-century warfare, including a Confederate soldier who ...

Something was out there. Sometimes in the woods. Sometimes in graveyards. Sometimes already buried. Between 1780 and 1930, Americans reported things they didn’t understand and couldn’t identify. Hairy shapes at the edge of forests. Coffins reopened. Bodies inspected. Boogeyman in America pulls real cases from American newspapers and records, written when fear was fresh and answers were missing. Inside you’ll find: Beasts in the trees Disturbed graves Dead… or undead? Bodies that didn’t look right Plus much more No legends. No modern explanations. Just true American history at its ...

The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s.

The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.

Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, best-selling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, Clarence King was named by John Hay "the best and brightest of his generation". But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for 13 years he lived a double life - as the celebrated White explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a Black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.

Alien Harvest: The Ozark Connection In the mist‑covered hills and deep hollows of the Ozarks, a century of strange encounters comes to life in Alien Harvest: The Ozark Connection. Drawing from firsthand accounts, regional folklore, and long‑whispered legends, FK Sterling explores a landscape marked by unexplained lights, mysterious beings, and stories that refuse to fade. From crop circles carved into remote fields to rumors of hybrid experiments and the eerie “Bobbys” said to emerge from the corn at night, these tales blur the line between myth and possibility. A longtime Ozark ...

Crazy Horse was the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being “strange.” Crazy Horse fought in many battles, including the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the US government’s efforts to confine the Native Americans to reservations. Eventually, in the spring of 1877, he surrendered to military forces and ended up meeting a violent death. Now, nearly a century and a half later, Crazy Horse continues to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of people.

What if the America you know is only half the story? Beneath the official history of the United States lies another nation—one that exists in sealed archives, suppressed testimonies, and the fading memories of witnesses whose accounts were deemed too impossible to believe. This is the Whispering Republic, a shadow America where towns vanish from collective memory, where time flows backward, and where the dead return to age in reverse toward their own births. Twelve Chronicles. Twelve Impossibilities. One Terrifying Pattern. From the traveling theatre troupe in 1889 Kansas whose ...

The Unknown History of River Exploration in the United States, Canada and the Carribean before the Voyages of Columbus. Where did the early traders from Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and the British Isles first land in North America? Modern Science emphatically states that homo sapiens appeared in North America via Siberia and across the sunken land of Beringia, now the Bering Strait, around thirty thousand years ago. Many other scientists say only twelve thousand years ago in the Clovis Man period. Who are the rest of the homo sapiens, and others including neanderthals, that were...

Charged with racial, sexual, and political overtones, the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court justice was one of the most divisive spectacles the country has ever seen. Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment by Thomas, and the attacks on her that were part of his high-placed supporters rebuttal, both shocked the nation and split it into two camps. In this brilliant, often shocking book, Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, two of the nation's top investigative journalists, examine all aspects of this controversial case.

In this officially licensed collection, Marvel Comics heroes Thor and Loki regale us with engaging and fantastical retellings of the classic tales of Norse mythology. It’s a beautiful day in New York City and the Avengers have arranged a surprise birthday picnic for Peter Parker in Central...

This series of eight books is a compendium of all of my phenomenal research notes for North America covering the period of 1800 to 1999. There are over 2,400 pages of data on all sorts of phenomena from UFOs to Bigfoot and other monsters as well as spontaneous combustion and strange falls and events, except for ghosts and poltergeists.

This is a book about people’s encounters with UFOs in North America. Either by single people, groups of people or hordes of people. Many of the sightings include the Police and other forces so we may assume that they should be reliable witnesses. They happen everywhere and at any time and in this book they are in chronological order in each state so that you can refer to your home state easily to see what has happened there. This book is far from complete. You might notice that some of your favourites might be missing. I know that your Grandma saw something in the local lake or woods or ...