Imagine a group of strange people dressed in outrageous costumes and hideous masks beating on your door and windows on Christmas or New Year’s Eve demanding to be let in. Imagine them invading your ...

Today the Embarcadero is a lively promenade, filled with locals and tourists enjoying the bay vistas. But in the 19th century, San Francisco's waterfront was the home of one of the most bizarre ...

Michael P. Jones leads group tours of Portland's "Shanghai Tunnels," which were allegedly used to spirit kidnapped men into the hands of unscrupulous sea captains who then forced them into service in ...

The logbook of a few Icelandic trawler-men in 1947-1970. It was dangerous to go on a drinking spree in those days — the Icelandic trawlers were short of crew, so skippers went back to the old way of ...