On the morning of June 10, 1912, a quiet house in Villisca, Iowa, concealed a devastating crime. Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young sisters visiting for a sleepover had been killed with an axe. Eight people were dead, six of them children. Despite years of investigation, competing accusations, a confession, and two criminal trials, no one was convicted of their murders. The case remains unsolved. Today, the former Moore home is known as the Villisca Ax

In late November 1928, a killing in a remote York County, Pennsylvania hollow became one of America’s most notorious intersections of folk belief, fear, sensational journalism, and criminal justice. Nelson D. Rehmeyer—a farmer and practitioner of Pennsylvania German ritual healing commonly called powwowing—was beaten, strangled, and burned inside his home by three people who believed he had cursed them. Often reduced to a “witch murder” or ghost-story shorthand, the Hex Hollo

The Greenbrier Ghost: Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in West Virginia in 1897. Her husband called it heart disease. Her mother said Zona’s spirit named him. The autopsy found a broken neck. Hitched 2 Homicide.