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Memorial Day Weekend is upon us. The unofficial start of summer is at our doorstep. Now, if someone would please just tell Mother Nature. The 70 and 80-degree weather we were enjoying seems to have done a temporary disappearing act. Our friends over at  Dakota News Now say we can expect to see the temps slowly warm up again over the next few days as we ease back into the upper 70's and low 80's by the middle of next week. Not a minute too soon either, as the Sioux Falls Public pools and Wild Water West are scheduled to open today, in theory. I have a feeling the cooler temps might put a slig...

3:32 Frank Olson was born in 1910 to Olaf and Anna Olson in the town of Hurley.  He was an exceptional student and graduated from Hurley High School in 1927.  He went on to the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he distinguished himself as an honors student in the study of agriculture.  He briefly worked as a substitute teacher in Hurley but returned to Madison and earned a Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1938.  It was in Madison that he entered the R.O.T.C. and earned a commission in the army, although he remained on the inactive list.  He went on to Purdue University in Indiana where he...

11 Shows Like Stranger Things You Should Watch If You Like Stranger Things These should hold you over while you wait for Season 4 Liam Mathews Stranger Things Netflix The best thing about Netflix's sci-fi series Stranger Things is the sensation of watching a contemporary TV show that feels like a movie from the '80s. No other show has been able to capture that, which is why no other show in the past five years has been as successful as Stranger Things. There's no show exactly like Stranger Things. If you want an authentic '80s experience, you actually have to actually go back to the...

Some mysterious deaths just seem destined to lodge themselves into the annals of unsolved mysteries and generate stories of dark conspiracies and murders. Such cases can become embroiled with all manner of talk of nefarious dealings and sinister characters pulling the strings, and one such very odd case is that of a man who worked in the area of government mind-control experiments, fueling talk of cover-ups and ominous experiments in programming the human mind. On the cold morning of November 28, 1953, at around 2 am, people walking along Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York, were shocked to...

Today’s article is on the mysterious 1953 death of a man named Frank Olson, a brilliant chemist who, in the early 1950s, worked for the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division. Although Olson was at the forefront of researching mind-altering technology – such as MKUltra – his work was not destined to last. Nor was his life. Olson died on November 28, 1953, as a result of a fall from the 10th floor of the Statler Hotel, Manhattan. Was Olson pushed? Did he fall? Those questions still exist to this very day. When it comes to the matter of Frank Olson’s undeniably strange and suspicious...