Over the years, there were searches for remains of a spaceship-like object, but the Journal finally exposed the story as a hoax in 1927.

By the mid-1870s, Nebraska’s open-range cattle industry was experiencing ownership disputes caused by unregulated “round-ups”.

Were it not for Francis Burt’s digestive problems, Bellevue might be Nebraska’s big city and Omaha its suburb.

Tucked away in a sandstone outcropping in Jefferson County, Nebraska, is an oddity that will amaze anyone who visits: a rock-cut tomb carved by hand a century ago.