Long before modern-day yard sales, garage sales and moving sales, people disposed of their unwanted household items by dropping them down the hole of their outhouse. Broken pottery, used ink bottles, ...

HICKORY CORNERS — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-year-old poop. Hendrichsen's hobby is collecting antique glass bottles — ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Tom Majewski is like someone who tears out the last chapter of a mystery novel, or leaves the theater before the movie ends. Majewski's hobby is digging up old outhouse pits and ...

BRAINERD - "There's somebody home," Mark Youngblood said as he wiped away the dirt from a glass bottle he'd just unearthed. "That means there's a name on it," said Brian Mann, who stood near the ...

BUXTON, N.D. – An old outhouse pit might not be the first place that comes to mind when searching for buried treasure. But for Tom Askjem, yesterday’s toilets are a treasure trove of information that ...

It’s hard for us to imagine today that 100 years ago, people had to make a hasty retreat to an outhouse when nature called. Neither would we imagine that 100 years later, some people would be eager to ...

ARLINGTON — They found shoes, old pennies, buttons, broken plates and a pipe that looks like something Sherlock Holmes would have smoked. An archaeological team excavated a 115-year-old outhouse in ...

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 4, 1989: A rural Lawrence man found himself in a messy predicament overnight when he was caught in the pit of an outhouse at Clinton Lake for nearly ...

There were times, when she was younger, that Lori Poland would get the knowing look – the look that told her she had been recognized. Like the day in her 20s when her car was towed. She got to the ...

Sep. 24—OTSEGO COUNTY — A Michigan woman who dropped her Apple watch into an outhouse toilet Tuesday morning lowered herself into the excrement-filled vault to retrieve it. Then she couldn't get out.

BRAINERD - "There's somebody home," Mark Youngblood said as he wiped away the dirt from a glass bottle he'd just unearthed. "That means there's a name on it," said Brian Mann, who stood near the ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Tom Majewski is like someone who tears out the last chapter of a mystery novel, or leaves the theater before the movie ends. Majewski's hobby is digging up old outhouse pits ...