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12/21/11
MYSTERIOUS RUNESTONES
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The once fossilized reading of prehistoric North America's discovery has come under increasing challenges as new facts are uncovered and...
12/13/11
Ex-Slave to Preacher
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The original Church of God congregation in Guthrie, Oklahoma was formed in 1905 by an ex-slave, George Winn according to Wikipedia . It ...
12/10/11
You Could Not Make This Stuff Up
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Why is one of the rarest finds among dinosaurs located in a North Carolina museum when it was found in Oklahoma? Why was this find reveale...
12/7/11
AN EARLY INTER-RACIAL CHURCH IN PRE-STATEHOOD OKLAHOMA
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This early work, ca. 1911, on the doctrine of entire sanctification, was offered in several 'conversations' suitable for reader'...
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12/6/11
HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'VE BEEN GOOD OR BAD ....AND WILL SEND THE KRAMPUS!
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Holiday traditions, like all folklore, have a marvelous tendency to change and adapt to varied cultural expectations and behaviors. Every...
12/4/11
THE MYSTERIOUS UFO CASE
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An alleged FBI telegram report dated July 15, 1947. Two interpretations of the handwritten note at the bottom, alleged to be from Hoover...
11/30/11
OLD MOORELAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (OK)
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Mooreland is a small community east of Woodward in northwest Oklahoma. The hospital at 6th and Krouth Streets (Blocks 4 & 5 of the Matt...
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11/27/11
SIZE IS JUST A NUMBER
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Why do women continue to allow this to happen? A recent battle between a marketing campaign and a Dallas based blogger underscores that so...
11/24/11
The Places Before the Places
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Sometimes people can assume that because they have always known of an area being a certain way, it had no existence before that time. It wa...
11/5/11
It Could Never Happen Here!
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Recently earthquakes occurring in out of the ordinary places bring up phrases like "such things never happening" in a certain loca...
10/30/11
THE HOLIDAY OF THE IMAGINATION
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I played an exotic gypsy on more than one occasion! Even reprised the role for a PTA Carnival! Why has Halloween been so popular? Why ...
Origins of the Holiday - Halloween
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I love October...the crunchy leaves, the chilly nights...and the drama and imagination of Halloween. I was one of those little kids that liv...
10/22/11
IN A GOTHIC MOOD
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My first copy was purchased at the college bookstore on clearance. Nearly everyone has enjoyed a Gothic tinged novel or movie at some p...
10/16/11
OCTOBER COUNTRY: The Shadow People
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They are described as blurs of smoky darkness, columns of dark thick something, silhouettes of a man in top hat, silhouettes of a man with ...
10/8/11
OKLAHOMA'S OVERHOLSER MANSION
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The Overholser Mansion was the first mansion in the city and constructed by local land dealer and entrepreneur, Henry Overholser in 1903. ...
10/2/11
OCTOBER COUNTRY: MORE FACES IN THE NIGHT
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On "Coast-to-Coast AM" (10/1/2011) a called reported going to sleep and seeking faces coming at here as she tried to go to sleep....
ECHOES OF GIANTS
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A recent internet hoax played up the giants among us theme with some patently unbelievable images. They suffer from the 'Godzilla Syn...
OCTOBER COUNTRY: THE DREAM MAN
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In honor of the season author Ray Bradbury called the October country 'Mystorical' will present some strange and mysterious stories ...
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9/7/11
WILD TIMES
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A tragic headline of 1933 caught my eye in an old paper. A boy, 8, was found hanging near Sallisaw. The community was already concerned o...
8/14/11
SACRED SPACES: EASY WORDS - HARDER WORK
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As the anniversary of 9/11 rolls around this year it will mark the opening of the memorial in NYC and in the field in Pennsylvania. The ter...
7/26/11
What Ever Happened?
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Shots from A Box Car Were Fatal to A Hutchinson Man Wellington, Kas., June 2 - John P. Cates, depot master, and yard watchman here for the...
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RAILROADS, VIOLENCE, AND GRUESOME DEATH
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WELLINGTON, KS., Nov. 22---Last evening, Levi Meeker, his wife and 8-year-old daughter were found dead on the Southern Kansas railroad track...
7/17/11
SOARING HIGH THROUGH CLEAR BLUE SKIES
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Oklahoma, with its vast vistas of sky and distant blue horizons, has long attracted those who love aviation. In August 1909, in Belle Isle...
HOW TO CREATE A HISTORICAL MYSTERY
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Photo from U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (Public Domain) On a sunny April morning in 1995, the worst terrorist act on US Soil occurred wit...
BEFORE THE MURRAH BUILDING BOMBING
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When the federal building in Oklahoma City exploded in April 1995, it was a shock that rippled at sonic speed across the psyche of the count...
7/15/11
THERE IS ALWAYS A STORY WITH THE PHOTO
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A little girl in Wellington, Kansas in the early 1960's and her first visit to the historic Antlers Hotel: I was waiting eagerl...
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6/1/11
CRY, BABY, CRY
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The urban legend, folklore, and sometimes out right 'fakelore' of the numerous Cry Baby Bridges across the country is only a little ...
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5/30/11
EARLY LEADERS REVEALED IN EARLY PHOTO
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In this photo from 1945 a young Oral Roberts is shown attending his denomination's general conference, held in Oklahoma City that year. ...
EARLY OKLAHOMA CITY CHURCH CONFERENCE
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In 1945, the Pentecostal Holiness Church meet in conference at the Oklahoma City First Church. This church had begun in 1907 in the old ...
5/29/11
Deadly Oklahoma Tornadoes
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According to NOAA , there have been several tornado storms since 1947 which ranked F4 and F5. The Woodward storm of April 1947 was part of ...
5/3/11
REAL LIFE MYSTERIES REALLY ARE THE BEST
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It has always been the silent voices, the untold stories, the hidden truths and the buried subtexts which have appealed as I began delving ...
4/25/11
ALL THE SIGNS ARE THERE: Is Your House Haunted?
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I was asked this the other day and as I searched I found there are numerous lists from as few as six signs to as many as sixteen and some wh...
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