Allie In the Archives
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The Greatest Race on Earth: New York to Paris, 1908
In 1908, six teams stood in Times Square, pointed their automobiles west, and decided to drive to Paris, France. There were no highways.No GPS.No reliable maps. But there were blizzards dumping feet…
The Bath School Disaster
On May 18, 1927, a series of explosions tore through Bath Township, Michigan, killing forty-four people and injuring dozens more in what remains the deadliest act of school violence in American…
Charles Dickens and the Ghost of Christmas Past
Charles Dickens is synonymous with Christmas. With generosity. Redemption. Kindness. But behind the stories that shaped Victorian morality was another story-- one carefully rewritten, tightly…
Talking to the Dead: The History of Spiritualism in Michigan
Long before ghost tour tickets were sold and Ouija boards became party games, Michigan was at the center of a national movement-- one that believed the dead were still speaking, and the living could…
Burt Lake Burn-Out
It began as an eviction.It ended in fire. In 1900, the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa watched their homes burn on the shores of northern Michigan-- a community destroyed not by war, but by…
Haunted Michigan: The Stories Behind the Ghosts
Across Michigan, old buildings whisper their stories. The Linden Hotel in Genesee County. A grand home in Fenton. A quiet farmhouse in Maybee. Each has its own ghosts-- and its own history to explain…
Magdelaine La Framboise: Mackinac Island's Merchant Queen
Just off the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, where Lake Huron turns cold and clear, there’s an island that remembers. Beneath the postcard charm of Mackinac-- the fudge shops, the…
Michigan's Unknown First Serial Killer: Henry Scott Mausell
Michigan’s first “official” serial killer is usually dated to the 1960s. But the records say otherwise.In 1916, a new husband, a picnic, and a bag left at a Grand Rapids grocery store unraveled a man…
Pirates on the Great Lakes
When we think of pirates, we picture the tropics. Rum. Cannonballs. Eye patches and parrots. But not all piracy came with a flag. And some of it happened much closer to home. In this episode, we…
Michigan's House of David
At the height of its influence, the House of David was a utopian religious colony in Michigan—a place that promised purity, community, and the second coming of Christ. But behind its walls, something…
The Italian Hall Disaster
On Christmas Eve, 1913, nearly 700 striking miners and their families packed into the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan, for a children’s holiday party. It was meant to be a moment of joy during a…
The Black Legion
You’ve heard of the KKK. But you probably haven’t heard of this other group.The one that wore black robes instead of white. That hid in mayor’s offices, police stations, and factory floors. That…
Six Blocks Away
On a warm August evening in 1930, fifteen-year-old Alice Collier was sent to the corner store to buy a dozen eggs. She never came back. What followed was a citywide search, a grieving mother’s voice…
Sharp Edges
In the fall of 1898, a wealthy former legislator in Battle Creek, Michigan, died quietly in his home. He was 80. His new wife was 28. And just weeks after their wedding, he was gone. At first, no one…
The Other Machine Henry Built
Henry Ford is often remembered as the man who put America on wheels. An industrial titan, a visionary, a symbol of progress. But beneath the shine of the Model-T lies a darker legacy. This episode…
Joe Smallbone
In Fenton, Michigan, the name Joe Smallbone still lingers—like the faint hum of a radio just past the dial. He was the town’s quiet repairman. A man who lived alone in a soot-covered house on Wakeman…
Beneath The Bridge
In 1935, the body of seven-year-old Richard Streicher Jr. was found beneath a footbridge in Ypsilanti, Michigan—cleaned, staged, and partially frozen. His murder shocked the town, but within months,…
Only to Pray
In the spring of 1922, 25-year-old Gertrude Hanna stepped out into a rainstorm and vanished. Nearly a month later, her body was found in the basement of a vacant church parsonage—bound, poisoned, and…
The Last Witch of Kalamazoo
In 1929, the body of Etta Fairchild was found at the bottom of a backyard cistern in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her skull had been shattered. Her body was wrapped in wire and weighted with a cement block.…
The Man in the Yellow Skirt
In 1934, Paul Ostin was a husband, a father, and just another working man in Detroit. Then he was found dead—posed beneath a tree, dressed in women’s clothing. For a few weeks, the newspapers…
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