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One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
Release Date: 03/26/2024
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Teenagers have been accused of latching on to each others’ behaviors forever. But how do we separate fads, social contagions, and honest-to-goodness crises? This episode, we dig into two instances of apparent mass hysteria at American high schools. Hosted, Written, and Researched by Laurah Norton Additional Research by Anna Luria Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie Subscribe to our Substack: Sources on our website: Join us on for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: You can also subscribe to premium episodes on ...
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One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
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Pennsylvania’s saddest, ugliest, and somehow most adorable cryptid, the squonk, is here to teach you a valuable lesson. And to melt. There’s that, too. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning for FREE at Subscribe to our Substack: Sources on our website: Join us on for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Find us on : : ...
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Laurah is recovering from Covid. Thanks for your patience! 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? Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Sources on our...
info_outlineIn 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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