NSHS Returns Ponca Remains
The NSHS recently returned its last ancestral Ponca remains to the tribe for reburial. The objects include skeletal remains and funerary objects mostly from the 1700s ...
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“Look! Up in the Air. . .!
Ghostly Airships of the 1890s
Long before airships (dirigibles) were flying successfully, people were seeing ships flying through the air. In November 1896 ...
Nebraska’s 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic (Pandemic)
In this picture, a group of men wearing protective masks in front of the Fred J. Stain Furniture and Undertaking Store in Shelby, Nebraska on December 8, ...
Monsters Make Big Splash in Small Lake
Walgren Lake (formerly Alkali Lake) near Hay Springs, Nebraska has long been the purported home of an elusive "sea monster." Descriptions range from a "roaring, ...
Chadron’s Petrified Man
In 1893 John G. Maher concocted a hoax inspired by fossil discoveries. Maher commissioned a detailed concrete cast of a man, then buried it north of Chadron. It was ...
But He Looks So Natural!
Source: Nebraska State Historical Society Public Records
John O'Connor died on August 17, 1913, in Hastings, leaving no known heirs or will and a $100,000 fortune. ...
Shocking Medical Breakthroughs
From the snake oil salesmen of the past to the infomercial pitchmen of today, the public has been bombarded with devices, diets, and medicines promising relief from ...
It’s All in Your Head
Phrenology bust and chart belonging to Frederick Blaine Humphrey of Lincoln. Phrenology was a popular nineteenth-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's ...
Politics Makes for Strange Campaign Memorabilia
As the saying goes, politics makes for strange bedfellows. Although in the case of these items developed for Nebraska political candidates, it might be more accurate to ...
Wildcat Notes
The first Nebraska banks were created by the territorial legislature in 1855.
They were authorized to issue bank notes as money without any underlying assets. These ...
Nebraska’s Perfectly Peculiar People
Each state has its share of wonderfully wacky, unique, and downright fabulous people. Here are a few of ours.
Miles Maryott
Miles Maryott, born in Burt County ...
Behemoth Baby of Beaver City
Mary Chambers of Beaver City, said to be the world's largest baby, weighed a hundred pounds when she was two years old.
Mary's remarkable proportions (as well as the ...
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