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Stories from everyday people about things that don't happen everyday.
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What happens when a biker, ultralight enthusiast, and scuba diver overcomes his wild past and opens a drive through known as "The Home of The Roadkill Burger" in Pinedale, Wyoming? AKA "The King Cone"Learn how Tommy Harkness kept his lights on for years despite joking about how his burgers were made from animals scraped off of Wyoming's endless highways as well as hear his thoughts on life, Desert Storm, and even God. Visit Dave's Last Stand that is now in the same building where T...
In 2021, Cheyenne, Wyoming honored a local teenager who helped his community in a very, very Wyoming Way.
In the late 1980's, Carmen Singleton tried out for her tiny high school's football team in Hulett, Wyoming -just 10 miles away from Devils Tower. She describes what it was like going to her first day of practice including how some people made bets about how soon she would quit the team after being tackled and teased by the team. She describes what four years of football did for her and how attitudes started to change as people saw the fourteen year old girl continue to suit up and represent T...
In 1987, a town known more for refinery workers and antelope herds saw a Hollywood production company arrive to make a horror movie in it old penitentiary. After finding out that the 300 real inmates the filmmakers were planning on using were not going to be available, railroad workers, accountants, and roughnecks showed up to be in Renny Harlin's film Prison about the ghost of a wrongfully executed prisoner seeking revenge. To learn how you can go on a tour of Wyoming's Frontier Prison...
In 1988, Anne Arden McDonald took her portrait in Wyoming's Gas Chamber in the old Penitentiary in Rawlins, WY (see episode's icon). We ask her about the picture, why she took it, how she took it and how the scary old prison inspired the other photos she took there.Click Here to See More of Anne's Photos from The PrisonClick Here to See Anne's Website and More of Her WorkClick Here to Visit Wyoming's Frontier Prison's Website
From the early 1900's until the early 1980's Wyoming's only maximum security prison was just half a dozen blocks away from downtown. The site of murders, arson, many executions, and even a lynching, Mark Setright walks us through the creepy old building on Walnut Street and describes the brutal and surreal events that happened within its walls. From an escape of almost 30 inmates that lead to locals shooting at prisoners trying to steal clothing from their clothes lines, a prison riot t...
In tiny Wheatland, Wyoming, Herschel "Tricky" Riggle had a successful rodeo act involving a three legged horse and knife throwing. However, Wheatland's idyllic main street was rocked by violence in 1953 when Riggle shot two people to death in the town's small café. We hear what happened and how some people still believe Governor Milward Simpson's reaction to the event had an impact on his 1958 attempt at re-election.Drawn to the Archives - And A Crime by Robin Everett (Story about Riggl...
In 1958, Charles Starkweather was captured near Douglas, Wyoming after killing eleven people. We learn about the police chase through Douglas that lead to his capture as well as give a new look at the involvement or possible abduction of his former girlfriend, Carol Ann Fugate.The Killing Spree that Transfixed a Nation by Lesley Wischmann Starkweather by Harry N MacleanMy Story by Elizabeth SmartCaril Fugate on A Current AffairWatch the trailer for BadlandsListen to Nebraska by Bruce Spr...
Douglas, Wyoming was home to a massive Prisoner of War Camp during World War Two. When the war ended the camp was closed leaving behind only a hospital and an old officers' club where it's rumored some people never left. How Can I Visit The Old Officers' Club?Haunted CheyenneStumbling on SkeletonsA Trail of Human SkeletonsOdd Fellows Have Skeletons In Their Closets
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 about the people held inside.Click here to see how you can arrange a visit to the remaining Officers' Club.#WorldWarTwo #POWs #Wyoming #CampDouglas
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 FailsWhen East Meets West, Toilet Seats Take a Beating - Mike KoshmrlAs Asian Tourism Soars, the Mystery of Broken Toilet Seats Has Been Solved - Tom HowardWhat Diseases Can You Get From Sitting on a Toilet? - Dan Brennan MDWhy Do Chinese People Love Taking ...
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 More About The BattleAleut Evacuation & Internment during World war IIJoseph Sasser's Full InterviewCharles House's Full InterviewNurses' CampsAttu Boy (Nick Golodoff's Story)Last Letters From Attu (Etta Jones' Story)
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 home near Cheesman Park in Denver, CO in 1969. (See Photo)We talk with Katie Rudolph at the Denver Public Library about her research into Hunter's story and compare it with the movie while trying to see if there is any truth to his strange and frei...
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 surviving their supposed deaths are common, Bill and his great grandmother share a very convincing story and DNA evidence also makes the time and place of Cassidy's death highly questionable. If you enjoy this episode, you might like this one about Butch Cas...
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 headed to the Golden Spike Ceremony in Utah off the tracks and held them there until they were paid. We ask our interviewees what it's like living and growing up in this remote spot so close to a ghost town that played a big part in Western Histor...
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 native people in Alaska's interior and even into the Soviet Union. Mark tells us what it was like working at a station where he butchered his own meat and sent on-air messages to trappers and gold miners in Alaska's remote regions.Photo of KJNP Courte...
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 community's reaction to the church's new use. Lisa's YouTube ChannelThe Old Grantsville ChurchTwinpectol (Lisa's brothers' band with the song about living in the Church)Hey Kim and Katie (Lisa's relatives' podcast)
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 Episode's icon is a photo of a known mine near Park City, UT and is not of any lost mines.Sources Cited:-Footprints In The Wilderness: A history of The Lost Rhoades Mines-Faded Footprints: The Lost Rhoades Gold Mines & Other Hidden Treasures of the Uint...
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 about 6 mins 19 sec)What and how much did lumberjacks eat?The icon for this episode is a photo of logging from 1939 in Wisconsin courtesy of The National Archives.
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
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