The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: America’s Strangest Phantom Attacker
— April 20, 2026In the late summer of 1944, the quiet town of Mattoon, Illinois, became the…
A judge in Ontario, Canada, decided that the best way to stop a 24-year-old man from assaulting women was to ban him from having a girlfriend for three years. Steven Cranley had a history of assaulting his girlfriends and was said by doctors to have serious problems handling rejection. Cranley managed to make it half-way though his lonely sentence before he assaulted another woman he knew and was sentenced to two years in jail.
In the late summer of 1944, the quiet town of Mattoon, Illinois, became the…
In the quiet coastal town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, a strange and unsettling mystery gripped…
It started like any other quiet night at the Ashland ABC Store, one of…
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