Browsing: April 1

A Brief History On April 1, 1861, the municipality called East St. Louis was established.  At its peak East St. Louis, Illinois, was a great city. Built on the wetlands across from St. Louis after the Civil War the city forced itself on land the Mississippi River often tried to reclaim. East St. Louis survived and even thrived, with a booming industrial and commercial base. In the 1950s it reached its zenith of 82,000 people and was named an all American City, an honor proudly displayed on a billboard-sized sign in a park. Digging Deeper But alas, soon East St.…

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A Brief History On April 1, 2015, Ashland’s Hidden Realms opened for business.  The store started out of a desire to give people that love Retro games and anime a place to buy affordable and hard to find items in a brick and mortar store.  With the hope to provide a welcoming atmosphere, something other than the internet, the workers of Hidden Realms still do their best to uphold that idea today. Digging Deeper The store has an extensive inventory of everything from comic books to video games for sale as seen in the photo slide show below. Nevertheless, the…

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A Brief History This article presents a calendar of historical paranormal events that allegedly occurred in April! Digging Deeper On April 5, 2019, the chilling Stephen King story, Pet Sematary (novel 1983) is ready once again for widespread release on the big screen as a reboot of the 1989 movie version. April 10, 1904: “Wickedest Man in the World” Finishes “The Book Of The Law” April 14, 1561: UFOs Battle in the Sky Over Germany! April 17, 1897: UFO Crashes at Aurora, Texas! Alien Buried with “Christian Rites!” April 17, 2015: History vs. Hollywood: Unfriended (Cybernatural) April 18, 1857: The Spirits Book is Published in…

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A Brief History On April 1, 2017, news station EFKA reported that Chelsea Clinton was actually the love child of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  For mutual reasons, this alternative fact has been kept secret all these years, until now! Digging Deeper Reporters have cited “anonymous” sources that Vladimir Putin has turned this information into blackmail, forcing President Trump to greatly increase taxes on those with annual incomes above $200,000, doubling the top rate, and ending all Federal Income Tax on people with less than $200,000 of income! It is also reported by an unnamed source that read on the…

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A Brief History Recent news programs were flush with news about the 2016 Presidential race, and Rafael Eduardo (“Ted”) Cruz was featured in a couple of these videos, much to his embarrassment. Digging Deeper Bad enough the National Enquirer ran a story about Cruz having 5 “secret mistresses,” something that is extremely difficult for Cruz to disprove other than to deny the story, but a video of Cruz at age 18 talking about his ultimate goal of “world domination” is impossible to deny. Video embarrassment for Cruz continued with a film clip showing the Senator attempting to give his young…

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