History’s Dark Corners

Episode Description Just outside St. Louis, an old road winds through a wooded hollow near the Meramec River. Today, it’s known as Rock Hollow Trail. But generations of locals still call it Zombie Road. For decades...

In 1905, before Oklahoma was even a state, a young mother boarded a train with her baby daughter and a plan to start over. Katie DeWitt James was supposed to reach family in Ripley. Instead, she disappeared near...

In the summer of 1988, a seventeen-year-old named Christopher Davis said he was driving home near Bishopville, South Carolina, when his tire went flat beside Scape Ore Swamp. What happened next became one of the...

Before Las Vegas became the place people went to chase fortune, there was Virginia City — a booming silver town built on the Comstock Lode, where wealth rose from deep beneath the Nevada mountains. But under the wooden...

<p>Hawaii is known for its beauty, but after dark, some stories take on a very different feeling.</p> <p>In this episode of History’s Dark Corners, we’re putting a pin in Hawaii and exploring the chilling legend of the...

<p>In the early 1900s, lonely men answered newspaper ads from a widow in La Porte, Indiana. She promised them a fresh start, a farm, maybe even love.</p> <p>But after they arrived, many of them were never heard from...

<p>In a quiet cemetery near Cassadaga, Florida, there’s a small brick bench with a dark reputation.</p> <p>Some say it began as a mourning seat, built from love and grief. Others know it by a much more unsettling name...

<p>Deep in the swampy bottomlands of southwest Arkansas, near the small town of Fouke, people have whispered for decades about a strange creature moving through the woods. Tall, hairy, and almost human, the Fouke...

<p>Deep in the woods of New York—and scattered across the Northeast—there are hundreds of stone chambers no one can fully explain.</p> <p>Some are small and hidden. Others are large enough to step inside. All of them...

<p>In the early 1800s, along the border of Delaware and Maryland, people began to disappear.</p> <p>Not people escaping slavery.</p> <p>Free people.</p> <p>Men, women, and children who had proof of who they were… and...

<p>For more than a century, the Old Idaho State Penitentiary held some of the most dangerous—and most complicated—people in the region.</p> <p>Built by inmates in 1870, the prison quickly became a place defined by...

<p>In the forests of Pennsylvania, there are stories of something moving through the sky—something far larger than any bird should be.</p> <p>For decades, people have reported sightings of massive winged creatures...

<p>In the 1800s, as ancient burial mounds across the Midwest were opened, newspapers began reporting something strange.</p> <p>Not just artifacts.<br> Not just burials.</p> <p>But giant human skeletons.</p> <p>Some...

<p>High above a quiet valley in southern Ohio… there’s something in the ground that shouldn’t be there.</p> <p>A massive serpent, stretched across a narrow ridge.<br> Carefully shaped. Intentionally placed.<br> And...

<p>For more than a century, strange lights have been appearing in the desert near Marfa, Texas.</p> <p>Travelers have reported glowing orbs drifting across the desert floor. Ranchers have watched them split apart and...