Weird History and the Italian Bride: Julia Petta

Bread, Meat, and Murder - The Dark Origins of the Sandwich

The 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, is credited with inventing the sandwich. But his legacy isn't just about stacked bread and meat - there's also corruption, betrayal, and even murder.

MISSING - Anna Locascio: What Happened to Her?

Anna Locascio, missing from her home since the night of July 1, 1918. Check out the podcast, Wicked Words, for more.

The Sweating Sickness: What Was It?

In the summer of 1485, the first outbreak of a strange new illness swept through England in what was the be the first of several ‘waves’ over the next seventy years.

Weird History and the Italian Bride: Julia Petta

In Hillside, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, is Mount Carmel Cemetery. In addition to being the final resting place of Al Capone, Dion O'Banion and other notorious Chicago mobsters, the cemetery is also the burial place of a woman named Julia Buccola Petta. While her name may not spring to mind as a part of Chicago history, for those intrigued by the supernatural, she is better known as the "Italian Bride."

Romanov Family Massacre: The Brutal End to a Dynasty

In the midst of the Russian Revolution, the imperial family was killed by the Bolsheviks, a horrific execution that ended a 300-year dynasty. It was July 1918, when Czar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and their servants were brutally murdered by the revolutionary Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. A gruesome incident, the execution of the imperial Romanov family and their associates would change Russian history forever.