How did someone who grew up in a Wyoming town better known for railroad workers and the world's largest outdoor rodeo become an Oscar-winning filmmaker? We find out about Dan Junge's journey from The Magic City of the Plains to

In 1862, a man was caught robbing so many graves in Salt Lake City, Utah that he was banished to a small island in The Great Salt Lake before disappearing entirely. Jennifer Jones of The Dead History Blog shares this story involving gra...

What happens when a biker, ultralight enthusiast, and scuba diver overcomes his wild past and opens a drive through known as "The Home of The Roadkill Burger" in Pinedale, Wyoming? AKA "The King Cone"Learn how Tommy Harkness kept his li...

In 2021, Cheyenne, Wyoming honored a local teenager who helped his community in a very, very Wyoming Way.

In the late 1980's, Carmen Singleton tried out for her tiny high school's football team in Hulett, Wyoming -just 10 miles away from Devils Tower. She describes what it was like going to her first day of practice including how some people made b...

In 1987, a town known more for refinery workers and antelope herds saw a Hollywood production company arrive to make a horror movie in it old penitentiary. After finding out that the 300 real inmates the filmmakers were planning on using were n...

In 1988, Anne Arden McDonald took her portrait in Wyoming's Gas Chamber in the old Penitentiary in Rawlins, WY (see episode's icon).  We ask her about the picture, why she took it, how she took it and how the scary old prison inspired the ...

From the early 1900's until the early 1980's Wyoming's only maximum security prison was just half a dozen blocks away from downtown. The site of murders, arson, many executions, and even a lynching, Mark Setright walks us through the creepy old...

In tiny Wheatland, Wyoming, Herschel "Tricky" Riggle had  a successful rodeo act involving a three legged horse and knife throwing. However, Wheatland's idyllic main street was rocked by violence in 1953 when Riggle shot two people to deat...

In 1958, Charles Starkweather was captured near Douglas, Wyoming after killing eleven people. We learn about the police chase through Douglas that lead to his capture as well as give a new look at the involvement or possible abduction of his fo...

Douglas, Wyoming was home to a massive Prisoner of War Camp during World War Two. When the war ended the camp was closed leaving behind only a hospital and an old officers' club where it's rumored some people never left.

In 1943 several thousand Prisoners of War from Germany and Italy were taken across the US to the tiny farming and ranching town of Douglas, Wyoming. This episode shares oral histories from people who remembered the camp and what they learned ab...

In 2017, Dallin Cooper left Riverton, Wyoming to live in China. While there, he ate strange things, slept on hard beds, and upon returning home, had an explanation about why so many toilets in Yellowstone get broken.

In June of 1942, Japanese forces invaded two small Islands that are part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.  We listen to two men who were there when the invasion started and one who fought to take it back. Please check out:

In 1980, George C Scott (Patton) stared in a horror movie about a haunted house called The Changeling.  Even though the film was set in Seattle, it was based on a story written b...

Bill Betenson is Butch Cassidy's great nephew and says that his great grandmother insisted that Cassidy came back to visit his family in Utah in 1925, seventeen years after his supposed death in a Bolivian shootout. While myths of outlaws survi...

Lois Christiansen & Wendy Peterson still live within walking distance of the Ghost Town of Piedmont, Wyoming where Butch Cassidy met with his lawyer to help a friend facing a murder trial. In 1869, angry railroad workers forced dignitaries ...

In the early 1980's, my older brother, Mark Petersen, started volunteering at a radio station in a log cabin with grass growing on it's roof near North Pole, Alaska. Known as King Jesus North Pole (KJNP), it broadcast religious messages to nati...

In 1993, Lisa Nicolle Hamilton's family moved into an old LDS church building built just after the American Civil War. She talks about what it was like growing up in the old building and how her family adapted the building into a home and the c...

A strange tale involving Spanish explorers, Mormon pioneers, a spiritualist, possible former members of Butch Cassidy's gang, and a school teacher from Wyoming's Bridger Valley who barely made it out of the Uinta's with his life.Note: T...

In a lonely spot along the Wyoming/Utah Border in the Uinta Mountains is a place called "Suicide Park." On this episode I try to find out how it got its name.Sources:History of lo...

Weird occurrences on a ranch in southwest Wyoming. Here are some other stories like this one:The Lady of Arlington

Across the Rocky Mountains Sheep Herders from places as diverse as Greece to Scotland and The Basque Region to Peru have left messages and drawings on Aspen Trees. We talk with Dr. Alison Krögel about some of the 300 aspen carvings she ...

We interview a new mortician about why she chose to do what she does, what it's really like working with decedents, and why we have morticians and funerals.

Despite their best efforts to remove all the bodies from a cemetery in Green River, Wyoming, remains of people and their graves continue to be found under and around The Sweetwater County Library.  In addition to physical items, staff and ...