Ancient

Back to 1869 to the story of Jabari, a giant African hunter boy whose presence and skills shocked the US South and sparked fear, rumors, […]

The Story of the Ferrickay Clan (1879, Ozarks) — The Savage Family The Whole Village Feared Exposed In the winter of 1879, the people of […]

The Whitmore Clan of Bleakwater Fork — The Most Twisted Mountain Family the Smokies Ever Produced In the autumn of 1931, a federal survey crew […]

They Selected The Fleshy Boy For Torture: Shawnee Indians Attack Virginia Settlers, 1758 Woodstock, Virginia, 1758. The Indians traveled east of the Appalachian Mountains and […]

The afternoon sun filtered through the slats of the heavy jacarandá shutters, painting stripes of light and dust across the waxed floor of the bedroom. […]

She had lost everything except the sweetness in her eyes. Bald due to a sickness, rejected by her stepmother, and threatened by the very people […]

Slave Who Hung the Master’s Entire Family on the Same Tree That Claimed His Wife’s Life In the sweltering, blood-soaked history of 1856 Louisiana, few […]

In 1874, Mississippi officials made a decision they believed would end a single man’s rebellion in one afternoon. They gathered 100 paid bounty hunters, armed, […]

In 1858, on the Ellington plantation of Louisiana, a black enslaved woman named Mara vanished. On the same night, 17 overseers were found dead in […]

The year was 1858, and the air in lowland South Carolina hung heavy with the scent of blooming magnolia and freshly turned earth. Evergreen Plantation […]