Under the city of love
A brief history of the Paris Catacombs By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In the grand scheme of things, the catacombs beneath Paris are a relatively recent creation — younger, in fact, than most of its...
Category: Dark History
Mad about Science: Doppelgängers and weird coincidences
By Brenden BobbyReader Staff History is full of weird coincidences. Enough people exist for a certain length of time and you are bound to have some expected, albeit unusual, occurrences. It’s just statistics at...
Sandpoint’s silent residents
An exploration of local cemeteries, Part 2 By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Wandering the grassy paths of any of Sandpoint’s historic cemeteries, it’s hard not to wonder what cruel twist of fate might have sent...
Mad about Science: Oakville blobs
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist We continue through October with another instance of unsolved mysteries. This is a story with twists and turns, and the potential of a massive government cover-up happening right in the...
Sandpoint’s silent residents
An exploration of local cemeteries By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Wandering the grassy paths of any of Sandpoint’s historic cemeteries, it’s hard not to wonder what cruel twist of fate might have sent each grave...
9/11: 25 years later
A look at one of America’s most trying days, by the numbers By Ben OlsonReader Staff Of all the numbers that mean something to the United States, perhaps 9/11 is the one that leaves us...
Snake oil and miracle grapefruits
Diet fads through the ages By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Humanity is, on the whole, a vain species, concerned with beauty standards and status throughout its history. We have also become accustomed to quick fixes,...
Dark History: Murders rock the Priest River Italian community
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The July 23 edition of the Reader republished a Northern Idaho News story from June 25, 1912, announcing the arrest of Joseph Caprai for the murder of one Charles Falcone,...
Mad about Science: Tuberculosis
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Editor’s note: Regular “Mad About Science” columnist Brenden Bobby is on a well-deserved vacation. He’ll be back next week. Tuberculosis is a disease that, to most, feels historic. It was...
Mark Fuhrman dies at 74
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Former Los Angeles Police Detective and longtime resident of Sandpoint and Spokane, Mark Fuhrman, died May 12 in Kootenai County. He was 74 years old. In 1996, Fuhrman was convicted...
