History
Terror in the Heartland: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping
Much of the twisty, grizzly story behind the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping has never been fully told. And one key element of Kansas City’s crime of the century remains tantalizingly unresolved.
One War Leads to Another
A new exhibit, “The Vietnam War: 1945-1975,” opens at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on Nov. 8 and runs through next May.
Taco Bell’s Seven Layers of Mystery
Flatland’s curiousKC team explores whether Kansas City is home of the first enclosed Taco Bell restaurant.
Kansas City-Area Historic Sites Look to Halloween for Haunting Revenue
Nonprofits that own or maintain historic structures across Kansas City are hosting their own ghost tours and paranormal investigations.
Bringing Out the Dead: The Great Stockyard Fire of 1917
One of the biggest agricultural disasters in Kansas City history occurred in 1917, when a fire scorched the stockyard in the West Bottoms, leaving thousands of dead cattle and hogs charred in its wake.