The Shadow Between Three Names
History remembers the names of men first. It carves them into buildings, headlines, and verdicts, while the women caught between them become footnotes. They were called muses, temptresses, excuses. In...
16 Feb 49min
Poison- If Walls Could Talk...
In this episode, we shine light on two stories involving arsenic poisoning. First is the true story of the Watkins family of Manchester, Michigan, whose children were slowly poisoned by arsenic-laced ...
2 Feb 46min
Buried Dead or Alive
In this episode of Shadows from the Tree, we discuss the 19th century fear of being buried alive, taphophobia. This wasn't an abstract of irrational fear for people of the era, but a response to genui...
19 Jan 38min
Unsung Heroes
In our next episode of Shadows from the Tree, we take a turn and uncover tales of heroic endeavors of men who thought nothing of risking their own lives to save a child in need. Ralph A Cook, a motorm...
5 Jan 33min
Mines & Molasses
Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy with the tales of the Monongah Mine Disaster in WV, and the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston...
24 Nov 202544min
Marked by Birth
In 1927, Carrie Buck was sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics law—labeled “feebleminded” and unfit to reproduce. Decades earlier, Amanda Dickson, the mixed-race daughter of a Georgia plantation owner ...
10 Nov 202542min
When the Witch was Silenced and the Ghost Spoke
In this episode of Shadows from the Tree, we explore two stories bound by belief — one silenced by hysteria, the other revived by a haunting. In 1692 Salem Village, Rebecca Nurse, a devoted mother and...
27 Okt 202535min
