Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

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

Bonnie & Clyde, Part 4

October 17, 2019 | by Al Hunter

There have been some changes to my “Bonnie and Clyde” story series in the years since I first wrote it. This past September, my wife and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. For our milestone anniversary we visited Las Vegas, Nevada, which is an odd choice since neither of us … Read More