From Oklahoma Paranormal (2008 ): "Local historian Marilyn A. Hudson presents an intriguing theory concerning the alleged "Effi...

Recent news coverage has brought new noterity to the story of female spirit inhabiting the now renovated Skirvin Hotel.   The legend:  A m...

As Rod Serling said, there is a signpost up ahead...or in this case, along Highway 81 in southern Kansas in a small town begun in the cattle...

Generations of people in Oklahoma City were born, educated and lived in the area descriptively called by author Lawrence Thompson in his ...

In Oklahoma City in 1913 two men came to speak in several churches - three Methodist, one Congregational and one Presbyterian - on the prob...

A recent news piece about a demon possessed house and family in Illinois reminded me of stories mentioned in passing conversations with peop...

Born in Texas about 1888. Lee Roy White aka, 'Lasses or Lee, had been in some of the better minstrel companies touring America in the e...

In March of 1918 a troupe pulled into Oklahoma City for a run in the local theater, The Overholser, for three days.  Top rated minstrel sho...

Professor Al J. Palmer . According to a story uncovered, while Dr. Dean C. Dutton was pastor of Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church (1919-19...

 "WCTU Window at Wesley UMC, Oklahoma City"  "The white  ribbon bow was selected to ...

  Masonic Lodge/Journal Record Building designed by Leonard H. Bailey What do the Masonic Lodge Building (now the Journal Record...

New Wesley Ties to Anton Classen Unearthed Anton H. Classen Jr. This early business leader of Oklahoma City was also a Method...

In convention in October of 1910 the Oklahoma Methodist Episcopal Church, North set aside $300 to build a new work in what was then the nor...

For me, there is no greater mystery than an old house.  I want to know its history, the people who lived there and the times they experie...

One of the interesting and noteworthy aspects about the work of the modern antiquarian is that in this connected and tech rich world so man...

During its life the Halliburton also existed in partner forms.  Scott-Halliburton (later Gloyd-Halliburton, McEwen-Halliburton, finally simp...

Forever connected to the Nazi Movement beginning in 1920's Germany, the shape commonly known as the swastika has much older roots. It i...

In the 1980's alternatives to traditional jail sentences for sex predators were gaining popularity. It was a process of slowly acceptin...

For a automobile that did not have a long initial life the 1982 Grand Marquis apparently was a popular car then - and now - for criminal el...

The post WWI years were wild, frenzied, and tended to flaunt social conventions in response, no doubt, to the combustion of war, the loss o...

July 11, 1942 a young waitress in Oklahoma City, Norma J. Cowan, ended her shift, put away her apron and decided to walk the five blocks to...

In 1893, Ada Curnutt (or Carnutt) as a deputy U.S. Marshall for a brief time in 1893 as she arrested a couple of forgers.  Normally the Dis...

The city directory of Oklahoma City for 1905 lists several business men. These may not be the only ones - others may have been in the commu...

I remember when I first learned of this thing called 'Urban Renewal' that left in its wake the slaughtered bodies of the past, that...