One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-...
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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Classic Episode: The Lizardman
A rural South Carolina town is struck by cryptid fever in the form of a seven-foot-tall lizardman with a taste for cars. . . specifically, for chewing on them.
29 min
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The Tramping Ground
In rural North Carolina, there’s a circle of earth where nothing grows.
21 min
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The Depths
For many years, residents of Montana have known: there are rumors of a monster lurking in Flathead Lake.
30 min
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The Wonder Horse
It’s a psychic horse, Strangers. The premise sells itself.
26 min
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Special Preview of Premium Episode 32 — The Cry...
A special sample of one of our favorite recent premium episodes, which concerns a cursed painting blamed for a spate of house fires.
9 min
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The Cure
Mercy Brown, Rhode Island vampire—allegedly so—is considered to be the last of the state’s unfortunate focal points in its 19th century vampire panics; but like so many other supernatural superstitions we dig into, there’s much more beneath the surface.
27 min
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Re-Release: The Blob
Texas is invaded by a very unwelcome, and extremely gelatinous, visitor.
24 min
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The Moose
In the woods of Maine, rumors of an uncatchable, immortal beast, the Specter Moose, have circulated for well over a century.
25 min
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A Very Haunted Crossover: Two Girls Tell Us Abo...
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.
37 min
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The Park Monster
Public parks are the people’s playground — but they’re also, quite possibly, home to some unusual residents.
26 min
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The Move
We can all agree that moving is no fun. But these Nevada families had to deal with some very opinionated spirits in the process, so just remember: it could always be worse.
23 min
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Introducing The Conspirators
Leap Castle in Ireland is considered by many paranormal investigators to be the most haunted castle in the world, and it’s easy to see why. In this episode I tell you all about Leap Castle’s bloody history, and about the terrifying discovery that was made in its walls.
7 min
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The Bunny
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.
25 min
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Introducing Stories With Sapphire
Introducing Stories With Sapphire
7 min
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The Dogman
Perhaps it’s not the best-known cryptid, but the Michigan Dogman has crept across the Midwest’s imagination—and embedded itself in the region’s nightmares—largely thanks to a single event in 1987.
33 min
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The Toy
A mannequin with human hair became a doll, and lifelong companion and/or scapegoat, for an eccentric Floridian artist.
24 min
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Premium Episode: The Trestle (And An Announcement)
In celebration of our new premium format—two premium episodes a month for both Apple Podcast premium subscribers and Patreon subscribers starting April 2023—we are sharing this premium episode with all listeners.
20 min
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The Sightings
The Gulf Breeze UFO Sightings are among the most infamous in US extraterrestrial canon; Floridian Ed Walters claimed that for six months ranging from late 1987 through the spring of 1988, he experienced a number of close encounters with aliens and their space crafts: ones that he allegedly captured on film.
30 min
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The Sweetheart
South Florida’s Coral Castle is a marvel of human creativity, talent and engineering.
27 min
45
Introducing The Fall Line: The Case of Chairo G...
Introducing our podcast, The Fall Line, which focuses on cold cases that have not received enough attention—a clip from our recent three-part series on the case of Chairo Garibay.
11 min
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The Firestarters
In the 1940s, two Midwest families faced the same bizarre circumstance: unexplained fires that seemed to spring up from nowhere, burning all over their homes—with no clear source.
26 min
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The Boy
In 1973, CB radio enthusiasts all over the U.S. — and apparently, the world — heard the panicked transmissions of a little boy in danger.
28 min
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The Grassman
In the late 1970s, a rural Ohio family came face-to-face--or maybe it’s fur-to-fur--with the Midwest’s most infamous version of Bigfoot, the Grassman.
25 min
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The Artifacts
Throughout the history of conventional archeology, artifacts have been found that seem to defy what we know about what we know.
24 min
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Holiday Re-Release: The Freeze
On one frigid December night in 1980, a stranded Minnesotan named Jean Hilliard earned a title no one would ever want: the Frozen Girl.
24 min