Weird America

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 ...

America is turning 250, and somehow the party includes cracked bells, haunted taverns, giant president heads, battlefield ghosts, roadside diners, patriotic gift shops, and one suspicious cannon nobody fully trusts. Weird America 250 is a funny, strange, story-packed road trip through the odd places, dramatic legends, historic landmarks, and bizarre tourist traditions that helped shape the United States. This is not a dry textbook or a stiff patriotic lecture. It is a lively travel-guide-style journey through the country’s most memorable historic stops, from Philadelphia’s Independence ...

Oh, Florida! To some people it's a paradise. To others it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these, and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no "Stand Your Ground" - you get the idea.

America looks completely different from a train window. In Weird America by Train, the journey is just as entertaining as the destination. Ride across mountains, deserts, plains, river valleys, Great Lakes country, coastal landscapes, historic railroad towns, and some of the strangest stations in the United States—all without arguing over directions or staring at the taillights of an RV climbing a mountain pass. Travel aboard legendary routes including the California Zephyr, Empire Builder, Coast Starlight, Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, City of New Orleans, Cardinal, Lake Shore Limited...

America’s national parks are famous for jaw-dropping beauty, peaceful trails, and inspirational scenery. They are also full of boiling geysers, bison traffic jams, haunted caves, volcanic drama, desert death traps, giant trees, tourist disasters, strange legends, creepy wildlife encounters, and places where the ground itself seems to be saying, “Maybe don’t stand there.” Weird National Parks Stories takes readers on a funny road trip through some of America’s strangest and most unforgettable parks, from Yellowstone’s explosive geysers and Grand Canyon’s dizzying cliffs to ...

Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another “flyover state.” A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States In this book, Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare. Raised in Tulsa, Cobb engages Oklahomans across the boundaries of race and class to hear their troubles, anxieties, and aspirations and delves deep to understand their contradictory and often stridently independent attitudes.

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 ...

America’s highways are haunted, and the ghosts have excellent tourist infrastructure. Take an unforgettable road trip through the strangest, creepiest, and most legendary places in the country. Explore haunted hotels, foggy cemeteries, abandoned mining towns, historic battlefields, eerie lighthouses, notorious prisons, ghostly ships, Route 66 ruins, and old buildings where the past apparently refuses to check out. Along the way, discover the chilling stories behind Salem, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, Savannah, New Orleans, Tombstone, Alcatraz, the Queen Mary, the Stanley Hotel, and many ...

America has never seen a canyon, prairie, forest, or historic mystery without wondering, “Could we put on a show here?” Weird Outdoor Shows Across America takes readers on an entertaining road trip to the country’s strangest open-air performances. Discover Broadway-style musicals beneath Utah’s red cliffs, opera in the New Mexico desert, Shakespeare in Central Park, cowboy spectacles in the North Dakota Badlands, pioneer pageants on the prairie, and the unsolved mystery of Roanoke Island performed under the stars. Along the way, explore: • The giant TEXAS Outdoor Musical inside ...

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that...

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 ...

Weird American Bigfoot Road Trip is the ultimate guide to America's strangest Sasquatch destinations, where legendary footprints, mysterious encounters, quirky museums, giant roadside statues, and small towns that proudly embrace their hairy celebrity all become unforgettable stops on one hilarious adventure. Follow Bigfoot from the towering redwoods of Northern California to the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, through the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, across the Midwest, and deep into Appalachia. Visit the famous Patterson-Gimlin film site, stand beside the original Bluff Creek ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being Weird Is Your Superpower: 5 People Who Turned Their Weirdness into Success: They say you are weird and that you don't fit in with the in-crowd. Well, 5 very powerful and successful people were just like you, so please embrace your weirdness. It is that weirdness that makes you special and unique as a person, and this e-book will motivate and inspire you to tap into that weird greatness that lays dormient within you. This great book fully explains why being weird makes you interesting and can give you an unfair advantage in life. Please empower yourself with this good read.

Step into New Orleans, where the sidewalks sweat, the balconies look haunted, the cemeteries rise above the ground, and the ghosts seem to have better nightlife than most visitors. Weird New Orleans Stories is a funny, strange, story-rich road trip through one of America’s most unforgettable cities. This is not a normal travel guide. It is a weird travel adventure through haunted streets, voodoo legends, vampire lore, Mardi Gras madness, jazz history, cemetery cities, swamp stories, pirate rumors, old hotels, strange museums, and restaurants where the walls seem to know more than the ...

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to...

Get ready for the strangest road trip through the Sunshine State. Weird Central Florida Stories: The Ultimate Road Trip Guide takes you deep into the bizarre heart of Florida — where giant roadside oranges, haunted beach hotels, swamp ghosts, UFO sightings, escaped monkeys, alligator-filled golf courses, and rocket launches somehow all exist in the same stretch of highway. This funny and fascinating travel book explores the weirdest true stories, forgotten attractions, creepy legends, bizarre tourist traps, and unbelievable local history hiding across Central Florida. From the strange ...

With more than 34 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! Ella Mentry School has been taken over by a prank-palooza in this holiday-themed My Weird School Special from New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman. A.J. and the gang are tired of Miss Banks and her...

Ghosts, Pirates, Hidden Alleys & Strange Tales from America’s Oldest City Step into the wonderfully weird world of St. Augustine, Florida — where ancient forts fire cannons beside the ocean, ghost tours roam brick streets at midnight, pirates still haunt the waterfront, and peacocks scream outside historic cemeteries like feathered little maniacs. In Weird St. Augustine Stories, you’ll explore the strange, funny, spooky, and unforgettable side of America’s oldest city. Wander through hidden courtyards, haunted taverns, mysterious alleyways, pirate legends, historic forts, old ...