At the turn of the 20th century, Scranton’s Bull’s Head neighborhood — a bustling Italian immigrant enclave — became the unlikely backdrop for one of the region’s most violent and mysterious crime waves. Known as the Black Hand Society, this secretive group blended extortion, family feuds, and street justice, shaping a chapter of American Mafia-style lore far removed from the Southern Italian shadows most of us imagine. Tonight, we dig into the rise of the Black Hand in Bull’s Head — the deadly disputes, the infamous murders, and the feud that gripped a community struggling to find order amid chaos.