Aug 24, 2026

It runs a 165 miles from Portage to Green Bay, and for over 300 years, it has never stopped collecting the dead.

War. Fire. Disease. Explosions. Murder. And beneath all of it — the stories that won't die: 

A king once ordered a genocide to control it. A mill worker ran into a fire he couldn't survive to save it.  A...

Jun 29, 2026

In the summer of 1994 in Baraboo, a fourteen-year-old boy named Chris Steiner went to bed early on the night of July 3rd, anxious for the upcoming July 4th Holiday. 

By morning he was gone.

A week later, his body was pulled from the Wisconsin River.

The cause of death: accidental drowning. Case closed.

But the bones...

May 28, 2026

On a quiet spring morning in La Crosse,  a twenty-year-old woman was suddenly gone — dead of a heroin overdose in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. What followed was a legal case that almost never happens: two men charged not with drug delivery, but with homicide.

At the center of it all is a law named for...

Apr 2, 2026

During the Minnesota Sioux Uprising of 1862, which created a stream of settlers fleeing their homes to get out of the way of an advancing warpath, a young mother protecting her small children became a national hero; the poster child for a loving, devoted mother. 

A decade later, now living in the western Wisconsin...

Feb 23, 2026

On December 10th, 1967, a crowd was gathering outside of The Factory in Madison, as Otis Redding was scheduled to play 2 shows there that evening. The Factory was a newer venue in Madison, and Otis Redding was one of the fastest growing musical acts in the world, just coming off his renowned performance at the Monterey...