Explore published stories from Cavendish, Vermont, Estados Unidos and nearby.
The railway foreman survived an 1848 accident in Vermont and entered neuroscience history. Harlow’s reports, work in Chile, a burial record and modern reconstructions show how a real life became a simplified myth about personality.
97 km · Woodsville
In February 2004, a nursing student left Massachusetts without disclosing her destination and vanished after her car went off the road in New Hampshire. Police records, searches and her family’s account show what is known and what remains unresolved.
168 km · Salem
Between 1692 and 1693, the Massachusetts witchcraft crisis spread from a minister's home through several communities and left 25 people dead. Examination records, petitions and later reversals show how untestable evidence gained force, and how survivors fought to undo the judgments.
232 km · New Haven
Held at Yale as MS 408, the codex contains hard-to-identify plants, celestial diagrams, bathing figures and a script still without an accepted reading. This dossier follows the object, its ownership, the dating of its parchment and the actual limits of linguistic analysis.
248 km · Montreal
Student Jun Lin was murdered in Montreal in 2012. An international investigation reached Germany, and Luka Rocco Magnotta was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014. This dossier separates the verdict and documentary record from a sensational nickname that came to dominate the case.