Category: That’s Old News
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Cincinnati’s Music Hall: The Haunted Stage
Beneath Cincinnati Music Hall’s magnificent stage lies a history of forgotten graves. Explore the real burial grounds, eerie legends, and whispers of an audience that never leaves.
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The Phantom Miners of Moonville Tunnel
Deep in Ohio’s Zaleski State Forest, a forgotten mining town left behind a railroad tunnel—and a chilling legend of a lantern that refuses to go dark. Discover the history and hauntings of Moonville.
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The First Whispers of the Bennington Triangle
Deep in Vermont’s mountains lies a wilderness linked to unsettling disappearances and enduring legends. Explore the first whispers of the Bennington Triangle, where documented history and local folklore meet beneath the trees.
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Episode 7 — The field that stayed lit
Dateline: 3 September 1965, roadside, Route 150 near the power lines, Exeter, New Hampshire The Exeter News-Letter reported that a motorist and a police officer observed a cluster of bright lights hovering above a field shortly after 2:00 a.m. The lights were described as moving in formation before rising out of sight. The paper stated…
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Episode 6 — The boat that came back empty
Dateline: 11 October 1973, pier, Pascagoula River dock, 1200 Pascagoula Street, Pascagoula, Mississippi The Mississippi Press reported that two men left the pier at dusk in a skiff and were logged as overdue when they failed to return by 9:00 p.m. A search along the river turned up the empty boat adrift near the highway…
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Episode 5 — The plant that kept running
Dateline: 28 March 1979, control room, Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, 1000 River Road, Middletown, Pennsylvania The Harrisburg Patriot-News reported that operators noted a loss of feedwater at 4:00 a.m. and initiated emergency cooling under existing procedures. Radiation monitors registered a brief rise before returning to background levels by mid-morning. The paper stated that…
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Episode 4 — The clock that ran backward
In a bizarre incident on November 17, 1965, the Buffalo Evening News reported a sudden power outage at the Washington Street facility, causing street lights to fail and clocks to run backward. Despite the chaos, no injuries were reported, and the outage was attributed to a relay trip on the interconnected grid.
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Episode 3 — The patient who left through the wall
A mysterious disappearance at St. Mary’s Hospital in 1991 remains unsolved. Security searched the grounds but couldn’t locate the patient, who was later discharged without explanation.
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Episode 2 — The lights that moved the cattle
Dateline: 9 August 1983, fence line north of County Road 12, near Refugio, Texas The Refugio County Press carried a brief report from two ranch hands who watched low-moving colored lights cross a pasture shortly after 11 p.m. The following morning several head of cattle were found in an adjacent field whose gate had remained…
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Episode 1 — The wire that never slept
In 1978, a Davenport radio operator’s midnight radio operation led to a mysterious phenomenon, with notes appearing on earbuds left plugged in. This eerie tale has captivated residents for decades.