An article about the survival of Mary Applebee, who survived partially underwater in a capsized boat for five days in 1833 before being rescued... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn why his cousin Jacob Bailey’s wife and daughter had died on the same day in 1852... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about two crew members who survived the Titanic disaster: Violet Jessop and Charles Lightoller... (Read More)
An article about the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident on 28 March 1979 and its eerie similarities to the just-released move The China Syndrome... (Read More)
An article about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on 1 February 2003 that killed all seven members of the crew... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about his 4th Great-Uncle Moses Plummer, who was involved in “The Great Catastrophe of 1855” in Meredith, New Hampshire... (Read More)
An article about the shipwreck of the SS Central America on 12 September 1857, with more than 400 people dead and tons of California gold lost... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the tragic sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania in 1915 by a German submarine... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find stories that seem unbelievable, yet really happened... (Read More)
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