A Sack of Sacred Skulls That Makes It Rain Has Disappeared
On the rolling prairie of western North Dakota, fields of wheat, barley and rye kiss a sky that is too often blue and dry, but ...
On the rolling prairie of western North Dakota, fields of wheat, barley and rye kiss a sky that is too often blue and dry, but ...
Bratislav Stojanovic wakes up every morning in a tomb. For 15 years the Serbian man has been sleeping in a cemetery in the city of ...
John Pope was born and raised in New Orleans and has been working at the Times-Picayune since 1973, when the paper was called the States-Item. ...
Why visit Gibsland, Louisiana? Because it was near here that America’s most famous love-tangled pair of murderers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, met their end, ...
Seven miles. That’s how far downstream the Mississippi River carried my grandfather when he swam across at Baton Rouge. The year must have been about ...
Spring has sprung and summer is fast approaching, that means pool parties and potato salad and sleepaway camp and killer bees.
New Orleans is a small town, everyone has their favorite local cobbler or po-boy shop and when it comes to funeral bagpipes the go-to woman ...
A hellhound is a supernatural dog. One thinks of mangled black fur, hot breath steaming forth on cold moonlit nights, glowing red eyes, superhuman strength, ...
Recently, I found myself wondering if there were any haunted pet cemeteries in New Orleans. The good lady Miss Karret then showed me a story ...
The hurricane was not a major one but the sea still punched through a levee in tiny Braithwaite, 15 miles south of New Orleans and ...
The coldest woman on earth just might be Anna Bagenholm, a Swedish radiologist. On May 20, 1999 she officially set the record of lowest human body ...
A blizzard is bearing down on New York City, so it’s a good time to talk about blizzard deaths. Usually, this means freezing to death, ...
The evidence is a collection of photographs from the Cammie G. Henry Research Center, at Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches, Louisiana. These images date back ...
Christmas shopping deaths seem to fall into two categories: Those people so enthusiastic about Christmas shopping that they cause the death of themselves or others ...
In a world where humans regularly live to 120, retirement might occur at 105. Other people might retire at 65 then return to school and ...