Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

A Gunfight With Colonel Sanders

December 11, 2025 | by Al Hunter

Colonel Harland Sanders died 45 years ago this week (December 16, 1980). My wife and I love those TV ads; our kids think they are creepy. Colonel Sanders is perhaps the best known fast food namesake our country has ever known. He is also a lot more complicated than he … Read More

The Kings of Ebenezer

December 4, 2025 | by Al Hunter

Although the anniversary date has recently passed, my mind wanders back to a sad incident from 51 years ago. I was almost 12 years old and thunderstruck by the news, and even more stunned by the fact that no one seemed to care about it as much as I did. … Read More

My World’s Fair Daydream — 50 Years On

November 26, 2025 | by Al Hunter

We all do it, some more than others I suppose, but we all do it: Daydream. Winning the lottery, scoring a hole-in-one, dating a movie star or maybe embarking on an exotic vacation, we all daydream. For me, I daydream about history. Lately, I’ve been daydreaming about the 1964-65 New … Read More

The search for Pukwudgies

November 20, 2025 | by Al Hunter

This article first appeared in September 2009 A couple dozen members of Irvington’s “Ichabod Crane Society of Things that Go Bump in the Night” met at Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana to search for the mythical “Pukwudgies” that have reportedly roamed the forests and river banks of central Indiana … Read More

“The Marble Heart”

November 13, 2025 | by Al Hunter

One hundred and sixty two years ago, an ominous event took place that must surely ranks among the most unusual portentous footnotes in all of American history. On November 9, 1863, just nine days before he boarded a train bound for Gettysburg enroute to deliver the most famous speech in … Read More