One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

A History and True Crime podcast featuring Laurah Norton

 6 people rated this podcast
One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

A History and True Crime podcast featuring Laurah Norton
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In celebration of spooky season, we’re sharing one of our most popular premium episodes with the main feed. If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe on Patreon or Apple podcasts!   One of the internet’s most viral paranormal stories rega
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  En
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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 differen
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 Lur
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
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 v
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
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 ac
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 tha
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 app
Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives. Whether presented as urban legend, murderous maniac, or ghostly avenger, the Bunnyman of Virginia has haunted a
Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives. West Virginia isn’t the only region to boast its very own Mothman; since the mid-20 century, Chicago and the La
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?  Ho
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 evide
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 unexplain
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 tr
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 Researche
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 researc
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 Myster
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 Writ
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
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
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 t
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 V
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