OrangeBean Indiana | Celebrating Indiana and the Midwest, One Oddity at a Time

Do You Remember the Sonic Booms?

January 21, 2022

US Army to Asian Carp: “Die.”

January 15, 2022

Secrets Behind America’s Favorite Soft Drinks

January 10, 2022

1964: the Beatles Come to the Indy Fairgrounds

December 29, 2021

Mold-A-Rama Toys Marks 60 Years of Hot Plastic

December 24, 2021

Midwest Tales

The Midwest’s Best Corn Mazes

October 18, 2021

Looking to get lost this Halloween?

The Rocket That Hit a Chicago School

October 8, 2021

How Sliced Bread Became Great

October 1, 2021

1940: 74 Freight Cars Crush Doodlebug Train

September 30, 2021

The First Ferris Wheel Still Exists! Mostly.

September 26, 2021

The History of Odd Hoosier Graves

September 26, 2021

Newport History Goes Uphill Both Ways

September 23, 2021

The Creepiest State Park in Illinois

September 19, 2021

The Clean & Bright Family Express

September 18, 2021

Oldies, But Goodies

Hoosier Quarries Built Industrial America

June 27, 2018

Toughest. Hoosier. Ever.

June 29, 2018

The Eastland Disaster: How 848 People Died 20 Feet From a Chicago Wharf in...

July 4, 2018

The Bloody Angle and Indiana’s Gallant Fourteenth

July 5, 2018

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