

Kyla Cathey
Joined: Aug 19, 2015
Kyla Cathey is a freelance journalist and enormous history nerd from Galt, California. When she's not reading or writing about dead people with far more interesting lives than her own, she's generally being bossed around by her cats.




Some families were so desperate to save their loved ones from a mysterious illness, they were willing to try anything, even exhuming them.
He led farm workers to victory in California’s landmark Delano grape strike.
She’s usually a footnote in stories about Doc Holliday and his friend Wyatt Earp, but the duo might never have even met if it weren’t for this woman.
Every time period has its strange stories, and the Wild West is no different—whether it's outlaw corpses or feral camel ghosts.
These felines—explorers, war heroes, psychics, and political figures—were celebrated long before the internet.
The last surviving member of the Wild Bunch, she died in 1961.