In 1889, the Montana frontier witnessed a cold-blooded betrayal when a trusted hunting guide turned killer. What began as an expedition into the wilderness ended in murder when greed overcame loyalty. The guide who was suppos...
On April 22, 1920, someone entered a farmhouse three miles north of Turtle Lake, North Dakota, armed with a shotgun and a hatchet. By morning, eight people lay dead—seven members of the Wolf family and their teenage hired han...
187: Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hometownhistory/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: ht...
On July 5, 1943, just hours after Fourth of July celebrations had ended, the residents of Boise City, Oklahoma woke to the sound of explosions. Bombs were falling from the sky, and in the chaos, terrified citizens assumed the...
186: Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hometownhistory/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-...
186: Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hometownhistory/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-...
In February 1849, an enslaved sawmill worker named Appling approached his owner with an extraordinary proposal: he would murder Martin Posey's wife Matilda in exchange for a promise of freedom. What followed exposed the bruta...
In 1896, a five-year-old boy in Hagerstown, Indiana, lost his sight in a workshop accident. Doctors couldn't save his vision, and by age seven, Ralph Teetor would never see again. What happened next defied every expectation o...
In the early hours of January 18, 1884, the passenger steamer City of Columbus struck the jagged underwater rocks of Devil's Bridge off Gay Head, Massachusetts—now called Aquinnah—sending 103 people to their deaths within sig...
Episode Summary In 1931, seventeen-year-old Dewey Flack stepped off a train in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, carrying a one-way ticket and a promise to send money home to his family. Two weeks later, he was dead—his lungs fil...
The Story In the depths of the Great Depression, when unemployment in West Virginia topped 25% and families struggled to afford even basic necessities, something remarkable happened in Wheeling. Steel workers—machinists, cran...
On August 3, 1915, a wall of water tore through downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, at twenty-five miles per hour, destroying three hundred buildings and killing thirty-six to forty people in the city's deadliest disaster. The Mill ...
On the night of August 1, 1946, hundreds of World War II veterans laid siege to the McMinn County jail in Athens, Tennessee. Armed with rifles, Thompson submachine guns, and dynamite, they surrounded the brick building where ...
The Wealthiest People Per Capita in the World Were Being Murdered for Their Money. In the early 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma drove Pierce-Arrow automobiles, built terra-cotta mansions, and employed white cha...
Between 1866 and 1969, the Kingdom and later State of Hawai'i sent over eight thousand people diagnosed with Hansen's disease—then known as leprosy—to permanent exile on the Kalaupapa peninsula on the island of Moloka'i. This...
How survivors of America's last slave ship founded their own town in 1860s Alabama, creating a self-governed community that preserved African traditions against impossible odds and left a legacy still alive today.
In 1892, a quiet town in Rhode Island made headlines across the world when villagers exhumed a young woman’s body, convinced she was rising from the grave to prey on the living. Her name was Mercy Lena Brown—and she became th...
In 1920s Ottawa, Illinois, hundreds of young “shining women” painted watch dials with radium-laced paint they were told was harmless. Their luminous craft soon became a lethal sentence—and their fight for justice helped forge...
In the summer of 1944, as a devastating polio outbreak swept across North Carolina, hospitals were overwhelmed and children were dying. But in Hickory, a small city already stretched thin by World War II, something extraordin...
Nearly every American town has the same heart-in-crisis story: a once-bustling Main Street hollowed out by big-box stores, sprawl, and online shopping. In this episode, Shane zooms out to look at the nationwide Main Street mo...
World War trenches, inflatable splints, and airborne operating rooms—this finale races from post-Nightingale training schools to the helicopter pads of today. Host Shane Waters uncovers how pioneers like Mary Seacole , Clara ...
When war-torn wards near the Bosphorus Strait reeked of sewage and despair, Florence Nightingale arrived with 38 nurses, a ledger, and one stubborn oil-lamp. In today’s Hometown History, Shane Waters traces how Nightingale’s ...
Long before starched whites and stethoscopes, nursing grew out of medieval convents, overcrowded workhouses, and disease-ridden wards where desperate women labored with little training and even less respect. In this debut epi...
