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History’s Dark Corners explores America’s forgotten mysteries, eerie folklore, true crime, and unsettling legends—one state at a time. Each episode shines a lantern on the shadows where history and myth meet, uncovering dark stories that refuse to be forgotten.
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The Dark History Of Iowa: The Villisca Axe Murders, Part Two: The Man From the Train (opens the original)
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In Part Two of the Villisca Axe Murders, we examine the case’s most troubling suspects, a confession no jury trusted, and the theory that Villisca was one stop in a series of murders committed by a killer traveling by train. Then we return to the little house on East Second Street—and the unsettling stories that have lingered there ever since.
The Dark History of Iowa: The Villisca Axe Murders, Part 1 (opens the original)
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The Dark History of Iowa: The Villisca Axe Murders, Part 1 On the morning of June 10, 1912, eight people were found murdered inside a quiet home in Villisca, Iowa. Joe and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young sisters who had been invited to spend the night were all dead. The murder weapon had been left behind. The crime scene was quickly overwhelmed. And whoever entered the house during the night was gone. More than a century later, no one knows for certain who killed them. In Part 1,
The Dark History of Missouri: Zombie Road (opens the original)
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Just outside St. Louis, a quiet trail hides a much darker reputation. For generations, locals have called it Zombie Road—a place tied to railroad tragedies, ghostly lights, children heard laughing in the woods, and dark figures said to watch from between the trees. In this episode of *History’s Dark Corners*, we head to Missouri to explore the history, folklore, and hauntings behind one of the state’s most unsettling legends.
The Dark History of Oklahoma: Dead Woman’s Crossing (opens the original)
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In 1905, before Oklahoma was even a state, Katie DeWitt James boarded a train with her baby daughter and a plan to start over. But after meeting a woman on the train, Katie vanished near Weatherford, Oklahoma, leaving behind a mystery that became one of the state’s most haunting legends: Dead Woman’s Crossing.
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