What are the odds of two murderers having the same name? Strangely that is what happened in the case of a couple found in the Mohave Desert...

Writing and researching for some of the books I write involves a lot of background digging and sometimes all the information is not found i...

A revisit to an article I originally published in 2008... SKIRVIN HOTEL, THE "EFFIE,' GHOST, AND A THEORY Local historian ...

Just in time for Halloween...    Once upon time there were two sisters Mamie Durieux and Mrs. Dan Patton.  Mamie had wondered off from ...

1910 Man Writing He was born in Tennessee about 1870 to parents born in Tennessee.  In 1910, he published a long narrative poem with a ...

The numbers are staggering.  Nearly 700,000 people reported missing in 2013. Men, women, and children.  The worst part is not that they are...

Looking at a crime over cultural or economic divides can be challenging. Secrets, in-crowd status, outsider vantage points become mixed up ...

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...