The day Mrs. Miller was snatched from her bed : Parishville, 1812 -- The last laugh : Fall Island, Potsdam, 1817 -- The woman who was won in a game of cards : Evans Mills, 1841 -- Treasure Island and the fabled money hole: Wilson Hill, Louisville, 1842 -- The day Daniel Murdock rose from the grave: Stockholm, 1850s -- The invasion of the body snatchers : northern New York, 1800s -- Mystery hermit, eccentric recluse, or hunted assassin? : Maple Island, Clayton, 1865 -- Wild men of northern New York (the hairy, scary kind) : 1874/1948 -- Hip to be hobo : Clinton County, 1880/1925 -- The man who stole a hundred horses : Franklin County, 1890/1906 -- The tarring and feathering of Mrs. Covey : Jayville/Fine, 1895 -- The taking (and return, seventeen years later) of little Freddie Brosseau : Potsdam, 1896 -- Beware of brothels (and maidens with blonde tresses) : northern New York, early 1900s -- The man who scared his wife to death : Sissonville/Potsdam, 1902 -- The North Country gypsy invasion : 1890s/1920s -- The election day massacre in a town dubbed "Bloodville" : Saranac Lake, 1902 -- The girl who was traded for chickens : Schuyler Falls, 1908 -- By the promise of pretty clothes : northern New York, 1901/1909 -- Girl with the evil eye : Hogansburg, 1912 -- So the Devil would leave him alone : Westport/North Hudson, 1975