Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Paul Newman and the Indy 500

November 21, 2019 | by Al Hunter

This is a reprint from a column first published in May 2010 to commemorate the recent sale of the Brickyard. I have many heroes in my life ranging from the rich and famous (Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr. to name a few) … Read More

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Pistol

November 14, 2019 | by Al Hunter

Eleanor Roosevelt is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential First Ladies in our country’s history. She routinely ranks first or second with Jacqueline Kennedy whenever public opinion polls are tallied. Dolley Madison, Abigail Adams, and Martha Washington usually round out the top five. Her White House tenure is … Read More

The Purdue Football Team’s Halloween Train Disaster, Part 2

November 7, 2019 | by Al Hunter

On Halloween of 1903, nearly 600 Purdue fans and players were traveling to Washington Park on Indy’s eastside for the Boilermaker’s annual in-state football rivalry game against Indiana University. On that frosty morning, the boisterous Boiler fans filled 14 train coaches to overflowing. The trains never arrived and the game … Read More

The Purdue Football Team’s Halloween Train Disaster, Part 1

October 31, 2019 | by Al Hunter

It was Saturday, October 31, 1903. The college football season was half over as the Purdue Boilermakers geared up for their annual in-state rivalry game against Indiana University. (The Old Oaken Bucket trophy was still 20 years in the future.) The rivalry had started a dozen years before in 1891 … Read More

Bloody Mary Brown — An Irvington Tale

October 24, 2019 | by Al Hunter

Fifteen years ago, Russ Simnick and I published our first book, Irvington Haunts. Haunted and Infamous Irvington. That first volume was a collection of fourteen different ghost stories gathered from the pages of Irvington’s haunted history. A few of those stories have fallen off the radar screen over the years. … Read More