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Scandals & Mysteries in Newfoundland’s Farming History

The Things That Wash Up Here: Newfoundland’s Haunted History With Artillery Shells

The Point Rosee "Viking Site"

Bay of Dead Men: The Runaway Lady Who Swapped Silks for Saltwater

Colonial Abuse, Resource Robbery & Political Corruption in Newfoundland

The Dark Grip of Religion on Newfoundland’s Soul

THE MYSTERY OF THE VEILED VIRGIN: A MASTERPIECE, A SYMBOL, A SECRET

The Meteorite That Rode the Train: Newfoundland’s Celestial Visitor of 1895

The Bomber That Hit the Hill: Newfoundland’s Cold War Tragedy

The Ghost Ship of Cape Ray: The Shipwreck That Crawled Out of the Atlantic in Cape Ray

April 5th, 1932 – The Day Democracy Bled on the Steps of the Colonial Building

The Viking Explosion: Hollywood Meets a Newfoundland Death Trap

The Coffins in the Marsh - 1939

The Spy Who Wasn’t Shot: The German Agent of Argentia

Goose Bay: America’s War Playground in the North

The Night the Lights Went Out: St. John's 1942 Blackout and the Secrets Behind It

The Skeletons Beneath the Stitches: Job Street’s Forgotten Mass Grave

Death at the Barn Dance: The Knights of Columbus Hostel Fire – Newfoundland’s Wartime Cover-Up?

The Moratorium’s Real Agenda: Breaking Newfoundland’s Backbone

Camp 33: The Forgotten American Lodge That Still Haunts the Forest

The Gander Radiation Incident

The Numbers That Never Stopped: Newfoundland’s Cold War Radio Ghosts

The Forgotten Base: Nuclear Rumors, Missing Women, and the Ghosts of Stephenville

The Bell Island Boom: A Sonic Terror, Secret Weapons, and Something in the Sky

Her Majesty's Penitentiary: Part 3 - The Paper Trial, The Ghosts, and the Rotten Empire of Brick

THE GLASS COFFIN: The Beothuk Man and Child Newfoundland Tried to Forget

Her Majesty’s Penitentiary: Part 2 – Rage, Riots, and Redactions

Part 1: The Exodus — How Newfoundland’s Ghost Towns Were Born

Her Majesty’s Penitentiary: Part 1: The Stone Cage by the Lake

Joey Smallwood and the Rubber Boot Fiasco: Greed, Grift, and a Ghost Factory

The Forgotten Naval Empire: The Dark Secrets of Argentia, Newfoundland

Cod Moratorium: Newfoundland's Darkest Hour

The Tragic Tale of Josephine O'Brien and the Last Execution in Newfoundland

Historic Dogs of Newfoundland

The 1922 Carter's Hill Chinese Laundry Murders

A Tale of Betrayal: The U.S. Tariffs and Canada's Sacrifices

The Shadowy World of William Stephenson: The Real James Bond and His Newfoundland Connection

The Forgotten Child: The Tragic Case of Mary Ellen Hutchings

Newfoundland’s “Victory Tea” (1943) – The War-Time Tea That Kept an Island Caffeinated

The Forgotten Fear

The Forgotten Princess of Newfoundland

Newfoundland’s Deadliest Tsunami and Earthquake in 1929

The Forgotten Horror of Joan Ash: A 1960's True Crime Horror in Newfoundland

The Topsail Road Hermit

The Mysterious Disappearance and Murder of Dale Worthman and Kimberley Lockyer

Cooking Newfoundland Jiggs' Dinner the Traditional Way

Lost Voices of Davis Inlet: A Story of Struggle, Survival, and Resilience

Anniversary Post: The Ocean Ranger Disaster

The Ireland’s Eye Drug Bust: Newfoundland’s Wildest Crime Story

Historic Recipes: War Cake

The Forgotten Iron Rush: Lower Island Cove’s Mysterious Mining Past

The Demise of the Waterford Manor

Bowring Park: A Stroll Through Shadows and Light

THE MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS OF BENNETT’S LANE CEMETERY

How King Henry VII Named Newfoundland

The Tragic Case of Greg Parsons: A Son Falsely Accused of Murder

Operation Station Zebra: Espionage, Deception, and Cold War Intrigue

Nazis in Newfoundland: The Strange Case of Smallwood’s Shadow

The Waterford Files: A Dark Chapter of Newfoundland’s Mental Health History (Part 2)

The Forgotten HIV/AIDS Panic in Conception Bay North

The Waterford Files: A Dark Chapter of Newfoundland’s Mental Health History (Part 1)

One of the Four Corners of the Flat Earth? Welcome to Newfoundland and Labrador

Operation Roadrunner: The Wild Drug Bust That Rocked Bell Island, Newfoundland