Episodes

  • Michigan's Unknown First Serial Killer: Henry Scott Mausell

    Michigan's Unknown First Serial Killer: Henry Scott Mausell
    Sep 26 2025
    Michigan’s first “official” serial killer is usually dated to the 1960s. But the records say otherwise.In 1916, a new husband, a picnic, and a bag left at a Grand Rapids grocery store unraveled a man of many names-- James Allen, James Curtis, John Allerton-- until only one remained: Henry Scott Mausell. We trace the pattern that shadowed Mausell for years: a dead son, two sisters in a staged scene, and countless women who answered his letters and disappeared. Welcome to The Archives.Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives
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    29 mins
  • Pirates on the Great Lakes

    Pirates on the Great Lakes
    Sep 18 2025
    When we think of pirates, we picture the tropics. Rum. Cannonballs. Eye patches and parrots. But not all piracy came with a flag. And some of it happened much closer to home. In this episode, we dive into the eerie and violent history of piracy on the Great Lakes and inland waterways-- from the Harpe Brothers and the bloody bluffs of Cave-in-Rock to the Apostle Islands bandits and a timber thief turned government informant. These are stories without palm trees. Without treasure maps. Just cold water, easy targets, and men who vanished into the fog. Welcome to The Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.com Instagram: @allieinthearchives
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    29 mins
  • Michigan's House of David

    Michigan's House of David
    Aug 28 2025
    At the height of its influence, the House of David was a utopian religious colony in Michigan—a place that promised purity, community, and the second coming of Christ. But behind its walls, something far darker was unfolding. This episode unearths the rise and fall of Benjamin Purnell, a charismatic preacher who claimed to be the seventh and final messenger of God. As his following grew into the thousands, so did the accusations: fraud, abuse, and the exploitation of teenage girls. We trace his early life, his mysterious disappearances, the shocking 1927 trial, and the devastating legacy left in his wake. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.com Instagram: @allieinthearchives
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    30 mins
  • The Italian Hall Disaster

    The Italian Hall Disaster
    Aug 8 2025
    On Christmas Eve, 1913, nearly 700 striking miners and their families packed into the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan, for a children’s holiday party. It was meant to be a moment of joy during a season of hunger and fear. Then someone shouted a single word: Fire. What followed was one of the most horrifying tragedies in Michigan’s history. Seventy-three people died, fifty-nine of them children. And over a century later, we still don’t know who was responsible. In this episode, we travel to the copper mines of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, trace the rise of Calumet, and examine the brutal strike that set the stage for a massacre. We follow the grief, the cover-up, and the generations-long fight for truth. Because the fire was a lie.But the cost was real. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives
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    32 mins
  • The Black Legion

    The Black Legion
    Aug 1 2025
    You’ve heard of the KKK. But you probably haven’t heard of this other group.The one that wore black robes instead of white. That hid in mayor’s offices, police stations, and factory floors. That didn’t march, but hunted. They called themselves the Black Legion.And for a time, they were one of the most dangerous domestic terror groups in the country. In this episode, we uncover their strange origins, their brutal tactics, and the chilling truth behind the murders they carried out—including the suspicious death of a Black activist in Lansing… whose son would later be known as Malcolm X. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives
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    44 mins
  • Six Blocks Away

    Six Blocks Away
    Jul 24 2025
    On a warm August evening in 1930, fifteen-year-old Alice Collier was sent to the corner store to buy a dozen eggs. She never came back. What followed was a citywide search, a grieving mother’s voice on the radio, and months of rumors that led nowhere-- until a rabbit hunter stumbled across her body in a field nearly ten miles from home. This episode traces the disappearance, the brutal discovery, and the confession that cracked the case open-- revealing not just one horrifying crime, but something far worse. Because the man who killed Alice wasn’t a stranger. He lived just down the street. And for a while, at least, he looked like everyone else. Instagram: @allieinthearchives Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comAdopt A Pet FentonAdopt Bentley!
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    43 mins
  • Sharp Edges

    Sharp Edges
    Jul 10 2025
    In the fall of 1898, a wealthy former legislator in Battle Creek, Michigan, died quietly in his home. He was 80. His new wife was 28. And just weeks after their wedding, he was gone. At first, no one questioned it.Until a servant came forward with a story—one so strange, so specific, it cracked the case wide open. But the questions didn’t end with one death.They spread-- through old family wills, upstairs visitors, and a string of illnesses no one could explain. And at the center of it all stood a nurse.Calm. Capable. Smiling. This is the story of Mary Butterfield Sanderson.And the house on East Main Street where everything began.
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    35 mins
  • The Other Machine Henry Built

    The Other Machine Henry Built
    Jul 3 2025
    Henry Ford is often remembered as the man who put America on wheels. An industrial titan, a visionary, a symbol of progress. But beneath the shine of the Model-T lies a darker legacy. This episode unearths the other machine Ford built: one driven by control, fear, and silence. From his antisemitic publications that inspired Nazi ideology, to his private army that brutalized labor organizers, to the utopian rubber empire he tried to construct in the Amazon rainforest-- this is the side of Henry Ford history prefers to forget. With real photos, video archives, and chilling quotes from the men who followed him, this episode explores what happens when a man decides not just to build cars... but to engineer people. Click the link in the episode description to view archival photos, documents, and more. Welcome to the Archives. Archived DocumentsThe Ford Hunger March video archiveBloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.com Instagram: @allieinthearchives
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    35 mins