By Robert Damon Schneck
American background is greater than simply what you learn on your highschool textbooks.
There's a wild and peculiar part to America's previous, choked with unfamiliar beings, strange happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and author Robert Damon Schneck has spent greater than a decade dedicated to sleuthing out those forgotten bizarre, ugly, and mysterious gem stones of yankee heritage, like:
• the guy who preached sturdy health and wellbeing via blood-drinking.
• The California relations pushed insane by way of Ouija board séances, and the nationwide panic that they ignited
• The West Virginia city named after its resident poltergeist, who used to be enthusiastic about slicing every thing into crescent shapes.
• The Antichrist-obsessed cult chief whose disciples grew to become brutal murderers, all within the identify of saving her (and the world).
You’ll additionally know about do-it-yourself guillotines, magical ape-men on Mt. St. Helens, the psychic who smuggled a crystal ball into the White condo, and the origins of these baffling smooth bogeys, evil clowns using vans.
These traditionally researched, scrupulously demonstrated, and continuously shockingly precise stories during this assortment come from an the United States that lies past the skyscrapers, cornfields, and suburban strip shops the place we make our homes—a position the place monsters safeguard buried treasures, schoolgirls advance stigmata, and we by no means run out of odd issues.
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Moro to the state mental hospital at Stockton, and Mrs. Bottini and Josephine Soldavini to the Napa asylum. ”11 A few days after that, Captain O’Day, of San Francisco’s Potrero police station, filed a report with his chief on March 4 expressing concerns about officer Elmer H. Dean, who “had been acting peculiarly and talked much of the information he had obtained from a Ouija board. ” Dean borrowed a revolver from the station and did not report to work the next morning. He was found at Berkeley and sent to the Anderson sanitarium at Fruitvale but escaped, jumping onto the running board of a passing car, pointing the gun at the driver, and demanding to be taken back to Berkeley.
Sly later married Eunice Baker, who was fifty-three years old when she gave birth to Rhoda’s half brother Samuel in 1803. At age four Samuel, called “Sammy,” suffered a serious head injury that damaged his brain and left him weak-minded. Around 1800, Rhoda married a distiller named Ira Wakeman (b. 10 Little can be said about Mrs. Wakeman’s spiritual development, though she reportedly attended Methodist meetings and read the Bible, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and a popular devotional book titled The Saints Everlasting Rest by the Rev.
P. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-698-17692-8 1. Parapsychology—United States. 2. Supernatural. 3. Occultism—United States. 4. Curiosities and wonders—United States. 5. United States—History—Miscellanea. I. Title. 94—dc23 Version_1 CONTENTS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Title Page Copyright The Wee-Jee Fiends Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist The Littlest Stigmatic The Four Wild Men of Dr. Dedge Holy Geist The Man in Room 41 and Other Autodecapitants Bigfoot’s Gold: The Secret of Ape Canyon Psychic in the White House Ku Klux Klowns The Blood Gospel Afterword: Idiot Joy Notes Index The Wee-Jee Fiends | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From the Oakland (CA) Tribune, December 26, 1919: Richmond Milliner Is Run Down by Speeding Motorist, Who Fails to Halt Car After Fatally Injuring the Victim.
