
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.
Latest episodes

Mar 4, 2025 • 21min
The Stones
In the early 1980s, a formerly quiet suburban street in Birmingham, England—Thornton Road—was struck by a series of bizarre rock attacks credited to unseen forces that some believed were paranormal in nature. . . even, perhaps, the work of a poltergeist. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Melissa Gold Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Get started at factormeals.com/FACTORPODCAST and use code FACTORPODCAST to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC

Feb 18, 2025 • 21min
The Vanishing Room
Discover chilling tales of women who check into hotels only to find their companions—and rooms—vanished without a trace. Explore a harrowing story of a mother’s illness that leads to a haunting realization for her daughter in Paris. Uncover the origins of the urban legend surrounding disappearing hotel rooms, alongside insights into the darker truths of hotel tragedies. Delve into the implications of erasing history in renovated spaces and the unsettling fears faced by solo female travelers. Shadows linger where memories fade.

Feb 4, 2025 • 19min
The Gate to Hell
Stull, Kansas is a tiny town that nevertheless has garnered a big reputation: as home to one of seven Gates to Hell. Its cemetery and church have long attracted tourists, thrill seekers, and a lot of unwanted attention. Hosted, Written and Researched by Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Get started at FACTOR MEALS.com/ost50off and use code ost50off to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping ! Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at NetSuite.com/ STRANGE Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC

Jan 21, 2025 • 25min
The Sewers
One of the United States’ most enduring urban legends swims just below the surface of our major urban centers—and most especially New York City: the belief that giant alligators live, and grow, in the sewers. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Melissa Gold and Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC

Jan 7, 2025 • 21min
The Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia is a historic site, home to the resting places of some of the United States’ most notable citizens—and plenty of haunting stories, too, from the rumors of a black iron dog that comes to life to protect the grave of a little girl to the rumors of the Richmond Vampire, said to skulk around the mausoleum of an account, W.W. Pool, who died back in 1922. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Melissa Gold and Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC

Dec 24, 2024 • 26min
The Lady
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall—a vast estate that has belonged to the Viscount and Marquess Townshends for hundreds of years—might be one of Britain’s most famous ghosts. She’s rumored to be Dorothy Walpole Townshend, wife to the second Viscount and sister to Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister. And an image of her ghost, descending the staircase that appeared in Country Life Magazine in December of 1936? That photo is certainly one of most of the most notable examples of spirit photography in existence. Really, this episode has a lot of pedigree. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast

Dec 10, 2024 • 26min
The Mud Monster
Back in 1973, at the beginning of the Bigfoot craze, Murphysboro, Illinois threw their cryptid hat in the ring: in the June of that year, a slimy, stinky, white-haired monster appeared on the banks of the Big Muddy River, and set off a commotion that remains a mystery today. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research: Anna Luria and Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 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 sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC

Nov 26, 2024 • 25min
The Time Traveler
At the dawn of the 21st century, an alleged time traveler going by the name of John Titor burst onto the early message-board scene, filling up forums with dire predictions of the future, grainy photos of “high tech” equipment, and details of his mission to save the world. Hosted, Written, and Researched by Laurah Norton Additional Research: Bryan Worters Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Note: PSMag was incorrectly referred to as PCMag; it is correct in our source attributions. Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 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 sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC

Nov 19, 2024 • 18min
Special Bonus: The Panics
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: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 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 sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC Works Cited N/A, AP, “Girls Faint From. . .” The Yazoo Herald, 1976. N/A, AP, “Fainting Rash Stops. . “ The Vicksburg Post, 1976. N/A, AP, “Southern School Girls. . .” Petaluma Argus-Courier, 1976. N/A, AP, “Reasons Probed For. . .” The Daily Herald, 1976. N/A, AP, “Girl Students Hit. . .” The Marion Star, 1976. N/A, AP, “Fainting Spells Making. . .” Neenah Menasha Northwestern, 1976. David Harrison, “Absentees From Byrd. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. Stuart Jeffries, “The Outbreak of. . .” The Guardian, 2007. N/A, WSLS, “CDC Probing Strange Illness, 2007. David Harrison, “Absentees From Byrd. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. David Harrison, “School Calls In. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. David Harrison, “School Officials: No. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. David Harrison, “Test Find No. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. David Harrison, “Twitching Arm Bothersome. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. Lauren Hellowski, “William Byrd High. . “ The Roanoke Times, 2024. David Harrison, “Stress Caused Twitching. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. N/A, “Asbestos Removal Will. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2023. Amanda Codispoti, “Board Paying For. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. N/A, “CDC Probing Strange. . “ The Roanoke Times, 2007. N/A, AP, “CDC Probing Twitching. . .” The AP, 2007. Marvin Anderson, “School Confronts Strange. . .” The Roanoke Times, 2007. Asbestos Information

Nov 14, 2024 • 5min
Listen Now - REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of history. Each week, Luke Lamana, a Marine Corp Reconnaissance Veteran, pulls back the curtain on what once was classified information exposing the secrets and lies behind the world’s most powerful institutions. From the hitmakers at Wondery and Ballen Studios, we bring you REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana. The stories are real, and the secrets are shocking. Listen Now: Wondery.fm/REDACTED_OST