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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Brief Announcement
09/20/2024
Brief Announcement
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The Mandela Effect
09/17/2024
The Mandela Effect
Have you experienced The Mandela Effect? Fruit of the Loom, Darth Vader, The Berenstain Bears, Shazam—there are now dozens of examples of this phenomenon that some claim is easily explained by memory or psychology. Others, though, have different theories—weird ones. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Jackalope
09/03/2024
The Jackalope
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 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Hands Resist Him
08/20/2024
The Hands Resist Him
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 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Hodag
08/06/2024
The Hodag
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 Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Connecticut Witch
07/23/2024
The Connecticut Witch
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 Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Sightings
07/09/2024
The Sightings
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. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced and Engineered Maura Currie 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Skunk Ape
06/25/2024
The Skunk Ape
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. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced and Engineered Maura Currie 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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The Chupacabra
06/11/2024
The Chupacabra
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. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie 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 : : and We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC
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Classic Episode: The Bunny
05/28/2024
Classic Episode: The Bunny
Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives.
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Classic Episode: The Moth
05/14/2024
Classic Episode: The Moth
Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives.
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The Mine Fire
04/30/2024
The Mine Fire
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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The Nightcrawlers
04/16/2024
The Nightcrawlers
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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A Very Haunted Crossover: Two Girls Tell Us About One Strange Ghost
04/02/2024
A Very Haunted Crossover: Two Girls Tell Us About One Strange Ghost
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.
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Premium Preview: The Bureau
03/26/2024
Premium Preview: The Bureau
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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The Wolf Girl
03/19/2024
The Wolf Girl
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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The Missouri Monster
03/05/2024
The Missouri Monster
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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Premium Preview: The Mystery Mansion
02/27/2024
Premium Preview: The Mystery Mansion
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 behest of ghosts. But this is One Strange Thing, and strangers know that ther
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The Hog
02/20/2024
The Hog
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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The Symphony
02/06/2024
The Symphony
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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The Off-World
01/23/2024
The Off-World
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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The Covered Bridge
01/09/2024
The Covered Bridge
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.
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The Night Before
12/26/2023
The Night Before
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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Introducing It's Haunted... What Now?
12/18/2023
Introducing It's Haunted... What Now?
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.
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Re-Release: The Genius
12/12/2023
Re-Release: The Genius
Laurah’s out sick; please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes.
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The Van Meter Visitor
11/28/2023
The Van Meter Visitor
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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Premium Preview: The Spottsville Monster
11/24/2023
Premium Preview: The Spottsville Monster
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.
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The Angel
11/14/2023
The Angel
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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The Devil
10/31/2023
The Devil
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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Listen Now: New Podcast “Ghost Story”
10/23/2023
Listen Now: New Podcast “Ghost Story”
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 – killed by two gunshots to the face. Could there be a connection? Tristan
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