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In 1943 several thousand Prisoners of War from Germany and Italy were taken across the US to the tiny farming and ranching town of Douglas, Wyoming. This episode shares oral histories from people who remembered the camp and what they learned ab
In 2017, Dallin Cooper left Riverton, Wyoming to live in China. While there, he ate strange things, slept on hard beds, and upon returning home, had an explanation about why so many toilets in Yellowstone get broken.35 Chinese Translation Fails
In June of 1942, Japanese forces invaded two small Islands that are part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. We listen to two men who were there when the invasion started and one who fought to take it back. Please check out:The Battle of AttuEven Mo
In 1980, George C Scott (Patton) stared in a horror movie about a haunted house called The Changeling. Even though the film was set in Seattle, it was based on a story written by Russel Hunter who claimed to have paranormal experiences in his
Bill Betenson is Butch Cassidy's great nephew and says that his great grandmother insisted that Cassidy came back to visit his family in Utah in 1925, seventeen years after his supposed death in a Bolivian shootout. While myths of outlaws survi
Lois Christiansen & Wendy Peterson still live within walking distance of the Ghost Town of Piedmont, Wyoming where Butch Cassidy met with his lawyer to help a friend facing a murder trial. In 1869, angry railroad workers forced dignitaries head
In the early 1980's, my older brother, Mark Petersen, started volunteering at a radio station in a log cabin with grass growing on it's roof near North Pole, Alaska. Known as King Jesus North Pole (KJNP), it broadcast religious messages to nati
In 1993, Lisa Nicolle Hamilton's family moved into an old LDS church building built just after the American Civil War. She talks about what it was like growing up in the old building and how her family adapted the building into a home and the c
A strange tale involving Spanish explorers, Mormon pioneers, a spiritualist, possible former members of Butch Cassidy's gang, and a school teacher from Wyoming's Bridger Valley who barely made it out of the Uinta's with his life.Note: This Epis
In a lonely spot along the Wyoming/Utah Border in the Uinta Mountains is a place called "Suicide Park." On this episode I try to find out how it got its name.Sources:History of logging in SwedenVideo of man walking on logs in a river (starts ab
Weird occurrences on a ranch in southwest Wyoming. Here are some other stories like this one:The Lady of ArlingtonTeenaged Tours of an Old PrisonWhen your soda loving Bison gets murdered and mutilated - yes this really is a true story
Across the Rocky Mountains Sheep Herders from places as diverse as Greece to Scotland and The Basque Region to Peru have left messages and drawings on Aspen Trees. We talk with Dr. Alison Krögel about some of the 300 aspen carvings she has docu
We interview a new mortician about why she chose to do what she does, what it's really like working with decedents, and why we have morticians and funerals.
Despite their best efforts to remove all the bodies from a cemetery in Green River, Wyoming, remains of people and their graves continue to be found under and around The Sweetwater County Library. In addition to physical items, staff and visit
Harold Slagowski started construction on what would become a local landmark over fifty years ago using a Skill saw. Today it remains independent and still going, selling thick hamburgers with handmade patties and thick milkshakes. We ask Harold
In the late 1990's CJ Young's orange soda loving bison Ralphie was found mutilated. This is their story.
In the early 1970's, John Mionczynski was studying Big Horn Sheep in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains when something happened that would change his life forever. More info: Why no bones?Numbers of Black Bear in OregonWhat throws better? Primates
In the early 1970's, John Mionczynski went into Wyoming's Wind River Mountains to study Big Horn Sheep, but what happened to him one night opened his world to what else might be in the mountains.More:Where are Bigfoots Bones?Do Primates Throw T
Only about a decade before Neil Armstrong would walk on the moon, a posse was called in in Mountain View, Wyoming to hunt two "masked bandits" who robbed the Uinta County State Bank and then fled on horseback into the Uinta Mountains.
In the mid 1970’s, ranchers in Wyoming’s Bridger Valley suffered extensive cattle mutilations with little explanation of why or who was behind it. Former Uinta County Sheriff Leonard Hysell shares his memories of the mutilations as well as who
After going back to Rock Springs, Wyoming, Mark Pedri and his wife Kari moved into Mark's late grandfather's home and discovered a knife hidden in his bed. To learn more about this man who lived across the street from Mark for much of his life,
What happens when the old house you are given to live in for the summer has mice in the walls, lights that come on in the attic, and gives you horrible, horrible nightmares.Many thanks to Scott Leon Smith for his being on the show today. If yo
In 1881, confessed murderer George "Big Nose" Parrott was hanged by vigilantes after he tried to escape from jail in Rawlins, Wyoming. While that was the end of George, it wasn't the end of his remains. Some of them were given to a teenaged gir
In 1968, my Dad, Owen Petersen, left the Bridger Valley of Wyoming for Vietnam where he served as a platoon leader in the 3rd Marine Division. After he came home, he put the photos he took into an album that collected dust with our other photos
Jim Moretti was born in a tiny town in Southwest Wyoming in the late forties, but as his hometown became a ghost town, he stayed in the only hotel until the mid 1980s.The icon for this episode is a picture of the actual Carter Hotel in the stor
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