Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Watergate and the Indianapolis Connection

June 27, 2019 | by Al Hunter

Al is on assignment. This is a reprint from the June 29, 2012 issue. Last week I wrote about the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the fall from grace of the Richard Nixon administration. There are not many voices left to clarify the events and personalities from that … Read More

John Lennon’s Tooth and Doodles

June 20, 2019 | by Al Hunter

Al Hunter is on assignment this week. This article originally ran in the November 11, 2011 issue. The last couple of weeks have witnessed yet another sign of the staying power of the Beatles as a couple of items hit the auction block at two different auction houses in Great … Read More

Robert Todd Lincoln Checks In

June 13, 2019 | by Al Hunter

This column was originally published in February, 2011. Anyone who reads my column regularly knows that I have a love of odd, unusual history relics, ghost stories and collectibles. I spend a lot of time at antique shows, flea markets, libraries and historic buildings and about once a year, I … Read More

Irvington’s Link to the Formation of the F.B.I.

June 6, 2019 | by Al Hunter

This article originally ran in the January 19, 2009 edition of the Eastside Voice. I spent this past weekend with the great-great-grandson of H.H. Holmes, “Bloodstains” author Jeff Mudgett, and the film crew from Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures” series. We gathered to tape a show inside the home where Holmes … Read More

The Life (and Death) of John Dillinger’s Red Hamilton, Part 2

May 23, 2019 | by Al Hunter

The Dillinger gang was speeding towards Chicago underworld “fixer” Dr. Joseph Moran. During World War I, Moran served honorably as a pilot in the Army Signal Corps rising to the rank of lieutenant. His addiction to alcohol eventually gained him an unscrupulous reputation as the windy city’s best “pin artist” … Read More