Who Was Charles Hatfield? The Secrets of the Infamous “Rainmaker”
Of all the strange chapters in the history of American folklore, few are as compelling and perplexing as that of Charles Hatfield. He is remembered by a single, spectacular epithet: “The Rainmaker.” For a brief period in the early 20th century, Charles Hatfield was a national celebrity, a man who claimed to have harnessed the secrets of the…