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Chupacabra

In May 2010, Runaway Bay officials named the chupacabra the city’s official mascot four months after the rumored creature was discovered on hole No. 14 at The Club at Runaway Bay.

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Aurora Alien

Residents of Aurora will tell you that the story of what happened in the small town in Wise County on April 17, 1897, is either the truth or a remarkable hoax.

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Modern-Day Bonnie and Clyde

Lawrence Edward and Alice Hart Byrom were sentenced to time in jail in 1985 following a series of 14 robberies of 10 small, North Texas banks between March 1970 and November 1983, including one in Rhome.

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Grady Lewis

Boyd’s Grady Lewis brought America one of its most popular and common styles of footwear.

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