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.
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April 30, 2024 • 24 mins
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?
Hosted by Laurah Norton
Research by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie
Produced and Written by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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April 16, 2024 • 20 mins
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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April 2, 2024 • 39 mins
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.app...
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March 26, 2024 • 27 mins
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.
Hosted by Laurah Norton
Researched by Anna Luria
Edited by Laurah Norton and Maura Currie
Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie
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March 19, 2024 • 27 mins
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.
Hosted, Written, and Researched by Laurah Norton
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
Special Thanks to Denise Roffe and The Southeastern Institute of Paranormal Research
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March 5, 2024 • 26 mins
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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February 27, 2024 • 14 mins
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...
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February 20, 2024 • 28 mins
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.
Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton
Researched by Bryan Worters and Laurah Norton
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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February 6, 2024 • 19 mins
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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January 23, 2024 • 28 mins
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.
Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton
Researched by Anna Luria and Laurah Norton
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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January 9, 2024 • 21 mins
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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December 26, 2023 • 30 mins
For two hundred years, a very famous poem has heralded the holiday season, and for some, the arrival of Santa Claus—but perhaps less known is the mystery it brings along with it. Whether you know it as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” or “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” there’s more to this one than mice and stockings and ho ho ho.
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December 18, 2023 • 11 mins
Our friend Lanie hosts a show that we think you'll love, Strangers. We'll let her take it from here — but if you like what you hear, find It's Haunted... What Now? wherever you listen. Or, connect with the show on Twitter @podcast_haunted, Instagram: @Itshauntedwhatnow, or at hauntedpod.com.
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, is one of the world’s most elusive and intriguing creatures. The first written account...
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December 12, 2023 • 28 mins
Laurah’s out sick; please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes.
A Washington man named Jason Padgett loved partying, muscle cars, and getting buff at the local gym, and would have been content to live his life singing karaoke and chasing girls--until a fateful attack changed his worldview. . . quite literally. When he woke up the next day after receiving serious blows to the head, Jason realized that he could see thi...
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November 28, 2023 • 22 mins
In 1903, the residents of tiny Van Meter, Iowa, were faced with a terrible and fascinating sight: a strange and glowing creature—a visitor, perhaps—that seemingly manifested from the abandoned mines.
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Hosted and written by Laurah Norton
Researched by Laurah Norton and Anna Luria
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November 24, 2023 • 7 mins
We love bringing you tales from the archives every other week, but if you can't get enough One Strange Thing, you should know: we drop two extra episodes a month for our premium supporters.
We're giving you a little taste of our most recent bonus episode here — but if you want to hear the rest, and we hope you do, come hang out with our premium supporters.
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November 14, 2023 • 25 mins
A cemetery in Iowa City is famous — not really for anyone laid to rest there, but for a statue. The Black Angel is mysterious and otherworldly — and her metamorphosis, both physical and in legend, leaves us with a lot of questions.
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October 31, 2023 • 32 mins
The Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey gave birth to one of America’s most famous cryptids—a beast known as the Leeds Devil. Of course, you might be more familiar with the moniker “The Jersey Devil”—whether or not you know much of the history of how the creature has come to haunt the northeastern imagination.
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October 23, 2023 • 9 mins
Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. It just so happens that the house Tristan grew up in is right next door to the house where his wife’s great grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was murdered – kille...
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October 17, 2023 • 27 mins
The Bell family was prominent and well-liked by their neighbors in Robertson County, Tennessee. So when an apparent spirit manifested in the Bell home, people believed them. And when that so-called witch pivoted from conjuring snacks to causing young lovers to break up, and a patriarch to pass away suddenly… people had questions.
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