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A decapitated baby in Gettysburg
I write a local history column for The Gettysburg Times. About a month ago, I found a story from 1949 about a worker in a sewer plant finding a baby's head in the filter. The doctors determined the baby had been a few day's old when it's head had been chopped off. The body was never found so they didn't know whether it was male or female (in the days before chromosomal checking). No news was ever found out about the baby despite a reward being offered. I think this struck me as scary because you don't think of something like that in rural America in 1949. At least I don't.
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