One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
Paranormal, unexplainable, and uncanny stories aren't just in the fiction section. They happen every day, to people just like you. One Strange Thing brings you family-friendly stories from America's newspaper archives. And they all have something in common: an element that can't be explained by logic alone. Join us on our trek through small town U.S.A.'s oddities - and prepare to wonder what oddities are hiding in your hometown, too.
Episodes
Wyoming’s favorite cryptid, the jackalope, is admittedly a hard sell as far as the supernatural goes—but as with most things, its origin story is quite the rabbit hole.
Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton
Research by Laurah Norton and Anna Luria
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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Back in 2000, one of the first viral “haunted” Ebay auctions listed an allegedly cursed painting titled The Hands Resist Him; it was alleged to spark all kinds of supernatural activity, which surprised exactly no one who’d gazed upon the spooky work. But was it actually plagued by any sort of ill-luck or tied to true ghostly activity?
In the late 19th century, in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, the hodag—a monster that sprung up in the tall tales of local logging camps— made its national debut when one was supposedly captured alive and put on display at a county fair. We are very sorry we missed it.
Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton
Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters
Produced by Maura Currie
In Southwestern Connecticut, in a little village tucked into Monroe, there’s a legend of a local witch named Hannah Cranna—a woman who killed her husband and got away with it. But that’s just the start of trouble caused by an elderly woman who ran circles around her neighbors.
Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton
Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters
Produced by Maura Currie
...Back in 1966, dozens of UFO sightings swept the Ann Arbor, Michigan area—and then crept through the Midwest, into New England, and beyond. And the scores of people who reported sightings—including an entire college dormitory—weren’t ready to accept the official explanation for what they experienced.
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Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters...
Coming to you deep from Florida’s swamps and, well, wherever else it wants to be, is the Sunshine State’s favorite cryptid, the skunk ape: an extra smelly bigfoot who grew popular in the 1970s but, perhaps, has been around a lot longer than that.
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Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters
Produced and Engineered Maura Currie
A relative newcomer to the cryptid fold, the chupacabra made its worldwide debut in 1995, when mysterious livestock attacks were reported across Puerto Rico—and a strange creature was accused of draining blood and sowing mayhem wherever it appeared.
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Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters
Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie
Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives.
Whether presented as urban legend, murderous maniac, or ghostly avenger, the Bunnyman of Virginia has haunted a certain overpass near Fairfax--Colchester Bridge--and its residents for more than fifty years. This week, we delve into the origins of the twisty rabbit’s tale.
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Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives.
West Virginia isn’t the only region to boast its very own Mothman; since the mid-20 century, Chicago and the Lake Michigan area has had reports of flying humanoids, and those sightings have only picked up since 2011. Why have sightings of the Chicago or Lake Michigan Mothman increased, and what’s behi...
Centralia, Pennsylvania was a busy mining town until a fire of unclear origins started — and swept its way beneath the town. To this day, the mine shafts that built Centralia are destroying it. But could a curse be to blame for everything?
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Research by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie
Produced and Written by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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Back in 2007, the world was thrilled to discover there was a new cryptid—or alien—or something—on the scene: The Fresno Nightcrawler. And even better, it was absolutely adorable (as long as you have a fondness for walking pants). But what evidence exists for this mysterious new creature?
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This week, we’re bringing you a full-length bonus crossover episode with our friends Corrine and Sabrina, hosts of Two Girls One Ghost -- AKA, the most haunted podcast in America.
We visited their show to tell one of your favorite unexplained stories, so be sure to go check it out! You can find Two Girls One Ghost wherever you listen to podcasts—listen if you dare. You can find their show on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.ap...
In the 1960s, one hopeful British psychiatrist hoped he could prevent disaster—not with science, but with the supernatural. For a number of years. Dr. John Barker’s “Premonition Bureaus” collected psychic visions with a single goal: stopping tragedy before it could strike.
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Researched by Anna Luria
Edited by Laurah Norton and Maura Currie
Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie
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Some say that a werewolf once lived in Georgia -- a young woman, Emily Isabella Burt, who was born roughly 20 years before the Civil War. Sound like an unusual set up for a lycanthropic tale? We thought so, too.
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Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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The Thing, The Missouri Monster, Momo—whatever you might call the shambling sasquatch that tore through the small town of Louisiana, MO, this lesser-known Bigfoot was, for a few weeks in 1972, the frenzied focus of locals and paranormal researchers alike.
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Please enjoy a preview of the great premium content we offer with the first half of our episode on The Mystery Mansion. You can hear the entire episode and nearly 50 other premium episodes on Patreon or via Apple Premium. The Winchester Mystery House, or Mystery Mansion, is infamous in paranormal circles; after all, Sarah Winchester is purported to be a haunted woman who was compelled to continue never-ending construction at the b...
The world has already considered the perils of facing 30-50 feral hogs—but has perhaps forgotten the terror and excitement that struck South Georgia in the early 2000s, when folks had to deal with one very large one: Hogzilla.
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Researched by Bryan Worters and Laurah Norton
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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Classical music composers throughout time have envied Beethoven’s output — and the fact that his ninth symphony, with “Ode To Joy,” was such a juggernaut. But there’s an old superstition about composing ninth and tenth symphonies in Beethoven’s wake… and there’ve been enough deaths involved that the prospect of a curse is worth considering.
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Researched by Anna Luria, Bryan Worters and Maura Currie
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On Labor Day of 1969, dozens of residents of Berkshire County, MA, experienced the extraordinary—wide spread UFO sightings—and a few even went further: to the off world.
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Researched by Anna Luria and Laurah Norton
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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Vermont is home to many, many historic bridges — and if that doesn’t strike your fancy, the ghost haunting the Stowe Hollow bridge might. But who that ghost is, and why she’s so mad, are lost to history… and may never have been all that clear to begin with.
Hosted by Laurah Norton
Written, Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie
Researched by Anna Luria and Maura Currie
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