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 Starkwea…

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 Cheyenne Stumbling on Skeletons A Trail of Human Skeletons Odd Fellows Have Skele…

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.…

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 Fails When East Meets West, Toilet Seats Take a Beating - Mike Koshmrl As Asian Tourism Soars, the Mystery of …

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 Attu Even More About The Battle Aleut Evacuation & Internment during World war II Joseph Sasser's Full Interview Char…

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 …

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 DN…

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 ou…

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…

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 Channel The Old Grantsville Church Twinpectol …

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: -Fo…

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 Sweden Video 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 loggi…

Weird occurrences on a ranch in southwest Wyoming. Here are some other stories like this one: The Lady of Arlington Teenaged Tours of an Old Prison When your soda loving Bison gets murdered and mutilated - yes this really is a true storyAv CJ Young

Across the Rocky Mountains Sheep Herders from places as diverse as Greece to Scotland and The Basque Region to Peru have left messages and drawings on Aspen Trees. We talk with Dr. Alison Krögel about some of the 300 aspen carvings she has documented and the deeper meanings and connections she's found in them at times. Please check out her website …

We interview a new mortician about why she chose to do what she does, what it's really like working with decedents, and why we have morticians and funerals.Av Kristen Lamphere

Despite their best efforts to remove all the bodies from a cemetery in Green River, Wyoming, remains of people and their graves continue to be found under and around The Sweetwater County Library. In addition to physical items, staff and visitors have also claimed to have frightening and unusual encounters there. We interview two people who've work…

Harold Slagowski started construction on what would become a local landmark over fifty years ago using a Skill saw. Today it remains independent and still going, selling thick hamburgers with handmade patties and thick milkshakes. We ask Harold what got it started and what kept it going. Please eat at the Mountain View Drive Inn located at 551 WY-4…

In the late 1990's CJ Young's orange soda loving bison Ralphie was found mutilated. This is their story.Av CJ Young

In the early 1970's, John Mionczynski was studying Big Horn Sheep in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains when something happened that would change his life forever. More info: Why no bones? Numbers of Black Bear in Oregon What throws better? Primates or People? Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science - Dr Jeff Meldrum The Relic Hominoid Inquiry The Scientist Gr…

Only about a decade before Neil Armstrong would walk on the moon, a posse was called in in Mountain View, Wyoming to hunt two "masked bandits" who robbed the Uinta County State Bank and then fled on horseback into the Uinta Mountains.

In the mid 1970’s, ranchers in Wyoming’s Bridger Valley suffered extensive cattle mutilations with little explanation of why or who was behind it. Former Uinta County Sheriff Leonard Hysell shares his memories of the mutilations as well as who he believes was behind it all. Sources Sited: Army: Nerve Agent Near Dead Utah sheep in ’68 – Jim Woolf. T…

After going back to Rock Springs, Wyoming, Mark Pedri and his wife Kari moved into Mark's late grandfather's home and discovered a knife hidden in his bed. To learn more about this man who lived across the street from Mark for much of his life, he goes on a journey over 5,000 miles away from Wyoming to find out more about the things his grandfather…

What happens when the old house you are given to live in for the summer has mice in the walls, lights that come on in the attic, and gives you horrible, horrible nightmares. Many thanks to Scott Leon Smith for his being on the show today. If you are looking for an actor or voice actor here is Scott's website Monster Vox Productions. Scott's reading…

In 1881, confessed murderer George "Big Nose" Parrott was hanged by vigilantes after he tried to escape from jail in Rawlins, Wyoming. While that was the end of George, it wasn't the end of his remains. Some of them were given to a teenaged girl, some were hidden in a barrel to be discovered in 1950 when a store was being built in Rawlins, and some…

In 1968, my Dad, Owen Petersen, left the Bridger Valley of Wyoming for Vietnam where he served as a platoon leader in the 3rd Marine Division. After he came home, he put the photos he took into an album that collected dust with our other photos. In this interview we ask him about those pictures and what it was like to be boots on the ground in the …

Jim Moretti was born in a tiny town in Southwest Wyoming in the late forties, but as his hometown became a ghost town, he stayed in the only hotel until the mid 1980s. The icon for this episode is a picture of the actual Carter Hotel in the story.Av Jim Moretti

In 1969 James Barret was in the passenger seat of a plane headed to Riverton, Wyoming when the pilot suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and couldn't fly the plane. This is James' story about what he did to survive. Links to other plane crash stories: Crash of Flight 409 near Laramie, WY Bomber Mountain Check out The Wyoming State Archives Oral History …

At 7:28 AM United Airlines Flight 409 crashed in the rugged Snowy Range of southern Wyoming on October 6th 1955. It was the worst civilian air disaster to that date in America killing all 66 people on board. Volunteer mountain climbers were called in from The University of Wyoming in Laramie to help recover the remains. Why exactly the plane crashe…

In 2020 Libby Bushell was putting in a new sewer line on her property in Cheyenne, Wyoming when she got the shock of her life. Please stay tuned if more info from The Laramie County Coroner becomes available.Av Libby Bushell, Dr. Spencer Pelton

The story of a murder at Fremont Canyon Bridge in Wyoming and one man's journey to visit the scene of the crime and tell the story of what happened and how it impacted Casper and Wyoming. NOTE: This story contains accounts of suicide and sexual assault. Buy your copy of Ron Franscell's book about the murder: The Darkest Night. Ron's website: www.ro…

In 2020 a light descended by Interstate 80 in southwest Wyoming. Olen House talks about what he saw and how people have related to the photos he took of it. To get your own copy of Olen's book email him at: ojhouse53@yahoo.com To learn more about sundogs visit this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog…

What is it like living in a fire watch tower in the remote parts of the mountains? We talked with Samsara Duffey about her adventures living in watch towers for 26 seasons. Photo courtesy of Samsara Duffey. Learn how to use the fire finder at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8A2KZ4WDscAv Samsara Duffey

What happens when your sixth grade teacher sees a UFO? Thanks Ms E for being on the show.Av Dean Petersen

A flooded funeral home... A frightening photo... Welcome back to That Doesn't Happen Every Day!Av Dean Petersen

In 1939, Earl Durand went on a rampage across North Western Wyoming that came to a violent end when he tried to rob the bank in Powell. Thanks to Jerred Metz for appearing on the show. Please check out his book "The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand." Thanks to Mark Junge for letting me use his recording of Tipton Cox. That recording along with many …

What does it actually feel like to be bitten by a rattlesnake? One man describes being bitten by a rattlesnake very far from a hospital in the remoter parts of Wyoming.Av Dean Petersen

We talk with someone who hiked to a remote ridge in Wyoming to learn more about the crash of B-17 Bomber during WWII. If you'd like to see a museum display about the crash here is the website for the Jim Gatchell Museum in Buffalo, WY. Photo courtesy of Sylvia Bruner.Av Sylvia Bruner

If you knew something terrible had happened in a house, would you move into it? We talk with a man who moved his business into a house in Downtown Cheyenne where a man was murdered and buried in the basement and what happened after that. If you'd like to learn more about Alan Ross and his murder please watch the documentary, "Missing Allen." If you…

Aaron Blair worked as a corrections officer in Wyoming's only Maximum Security Prison for twenty years. He shares what it's like to be in the middle of a Prison Riot and some of the funny and tragic things that happened while he was there. If you'd like to help corrections officers visit this link. If you'd like to watch the documentary, Echoes fro…

There are about 20 one room school houses still operating in Wyoming. We interview Gene Gagliano who left New York State to teach at an isolated one room schoolhouse at the foot of The Bighorn Mountains. MORE INFO: The one room schoolhouse featured in the story was the Kearney School. The photo used for this story's icon was taken in 1908 inside th…

In this episode we hear the story of a woman seen during a fishing trip whose unsettling presence and manner has scared hunters with guns and even made one woman go to the emergency room to check if she was hallucinating. Please Visit Our Facebook Page.Av CJ Young

What was your first job? One of CJ Young's first jobs was to give tours in an abandoned penitentiary known for creepy happenings. He tells us about just a few of these experiences in this episode. Here's the link to the penitentiary. Here's our Facebook page.Av CJ Young

Ever been to a famous person's house? Ever lived in one? In this episode we'll hear the stories of my family renting a house that belonged to a man who would one day become and American Icon. Please visit our Facebook page.Av Dean Petersen