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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The Lovers
A historic hotel isn't all sunshine and beaches: it's a monument to a lost love… and, apparently, it’s a great place to haunt.
20 min
77
Introducing: What Was That Like
Introducing: What Was That Like
10 min
78
The Haunting
A Wisconsin family has a run-in with a terrifying spectral presence that seems to be haunting their. . . furniture.
26 min
79
The Flying Men
Two women in small-town Washington see something odd in the skies, but can’t get anyone else to admit to seeing it.
21 min
80
The Elves
24 min
81
The Abduction
In 1976, a quartet of campers in the Maine wilderness would have an experience that would transform them into the Allagash Four--known in UFO circles as some of the most famous “alien abductees’ of all time.
26 min
82
The Vampire
Since 1981, the story of The Mineral Point Vampire has been an established point of spooky pride in Wisconsin monster lore; on this episode, we sink our fangs in to explore the odder points of the alleged creature sightings.
22 min
83
Introducing This Is Actually Happening
Introducing This Is Actually Happening
8 min
84
The Raptors
Small-town Illinois is hit by an airborne scourge, and a young boy claims to have taken flight; are the creatures high in the sky birdzillas, thunderbirds, common turkey vultures, or something else altogether?
24 min
85
The Clowns
This Halloween episode, we follow the phantom clown phenomenon to its beginning: the 1980s, where sightings cropped up in cities across the United States, and the fears of children caused quite the stir--and a serious problem for local van owners.
26 min
86
The Demon
In this super-sized October treat, we explore the legend of one of the United State’s more elusive cryptids: the Dover Demon, who made a one-night-only appearance in 1977.
28 min
87
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
88
The Monster
In Texarkana, it’s said a mysterious creature roams the states’ borderlands; whether you call it The Fouke Monster, It, or The Boggy Creek Monster, this reportedly reticent cryptid decided to stir up some trouble—and excitement—in 1971.
25 min
89
Introducing Suspect
Introducing Suspect
6 min
90
The Pits
In 1954, Washington state was hit by a mysterious plague... of something deeply concerning to insurance adjusters.
26 min
91
The Castle
Boyce Gulley was a man with a deadly illness, and a vision: he would build a sandcastle in the desert, one that would never wash away.
25 min
92
The Cat
Cats have always a reputation for magical affinity--for the ability to walk between worlds; so, is it so strange to imagine they might shepherd us between them?
26 min
93
The Lights
Nearly every region of the United States has its own lore surrounding supernatural “lights” that have no clear source—and the Ozarks are no exception.
22 min
94
The Chase
Two small-town deputies’ encounter with the unknown takes them on the ride of their lives.
23 min
95
The Beast
The residents of small-town Elkhorn, Wisconsin, have a very hairy problem.
28 min
96
The Cadet
A West Point Cadet receives a mysterious visitor. . . and then vanishes.
26 min
97
Patreon Preview: The Poet
Every student of literature has studied the work of American romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe — but no one, so far, has fully unpacked the truth behind his mysterious death.
17 min
98
The Blob
Texas is invaded by a very unwelcome, and extremely gelatinous, visitor.
24 min
99
The Barber
A prowler with peculiar predilections stalks the nighttime streets of World-War-II era Mississippi.
20 min
100
The Visitors
Folks want to feel safe at home--and secure; but how much do we really want to know about the things that lurk outside, in the dark?
24 min