by mike | Aug 15, 2024 | Death, Disasters, Life, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
This disaster in the Big Apple preceded 9/11 by nearly a century. I first presented this post in 2021. The 9/11 terrorist attack on New York in 2001 was—and still is—the city’s worst disaster involving loss of life. Prior to that, the dubious record was held by an...
by mike | Jun 3, 2024 | Disasters, Mysteries, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
The Zebrina was a schooner-rigged, three-masted sailing barge of 189 tons, built in 1873 in Whitstable, England. The owners’ original goal was for the ship to serve as a trading vessel along the Rio de la Plata in South America, which it did for the first seven years....
by mike | Oct 2, 2023 | Disasters, Mysteries, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
If you’ve watched the 1977 Steven Spielberg classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (who hasn’t?), you might recall the opening sequence. Researchers are summoned to the Sonoran Desert in Mexico, where a group of old planes—Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, to...
by mike | Aug 14, 2023 | Death, Disasters, Mysteries, Myths & Legends, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
The Dutch vessel was called the SS Ourang Medan, which translated from Malay to “Man of Medan,” the latter being a Sumatran island. So much has been written and discussed about the unimaginable incident that brought this ship’s name into the public spectrum. But what...
by mike | Jan 24, 2022 | California, Disasters, Mysteries, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
I’ve written about ghost ships and ghost trains, but a Ghost Blimp? This true story about an incident that took place during World War II ranks way up there on the Weird-O-Meter, I kid you not. A ROUTINE MISSION The U.S. Navy commissioned a number of non-rigid...
by mike | Sep 20, 2021 | Death, Disasters, Uncategorized |
Imagine that you’re a Union soldier imprisoned by the Confederacy during the Civil War. When the war ends you and your fellow prisoners are freed, and you’re finally going home! But you never make it there. Why? Because your northward journey up the Mississippi River...
