One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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. Enjoy this bonus Patreon-exclusive episode from One Strange Thing, and join our Patreon to binge eight other premium episodes—plus experience a fresh one each month! You’ll also get premium blogs and plenty of other fun content.  To sign up for our feed--which also offers early, ad-free access to regular episodes, visit: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Works Cited:  N/A, “Chronology of the Life of Edgar Allan Poe.” Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore Snodgrass, Joseph E. “Sketches of Eminent Men. Edgar Allen Poe.” The Saturday Express,1855.  N/A, “Poe’s Tragic Death.” Morristown Gazette Mail. 1933. Davis, Jack F. “Did Election Mob. . .” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1949.  Davis, Jack F. “Some Biographies Claim. . .” Democrat and Chronicle, 1949.  N/A, “Death of Edgar A Poe.” The Baltimore Sun, 1 Francis, Roger A. “The Final Days . . .” Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, vol. 60, no. 2, Aug. 2009, pp. 165–173. Crenson, Mat. “Master of Macabre. . ” The Monitor, 1996.  N/A, “DEATH OF EDGAR A POE.” The Baltimore Sun, 2018.  N/A, “Edgar A. Poe.” Vicksburg Daily Whig, 1849. Gelling, Natasha. “The (Still) Mysterious Death. . .” Smithsonian Magazine. “mania a potu.” Oxford University Press. Lexico.com.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

Texas is invaded by a very unwelcome, and extremely gelatinous, visitor. Could this blob be a particularly virulent fungi--or, as residents suspect, something a little more extraterrestrial?  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Special thanks to Bradley George of WUSF for lending us his voice. Hosted and Edited by Laurah Norton Written, Researched, Engineered, Scored, and Produced by Maura Currie  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 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

A prowler with peculiar predilections stalks the nighttime streets of World-War-II era Mississippi. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written and Hosted by Laurah Norton Researched by Bryan Worters   Engineered, Edited, Scored, and Produced by Maura Currie  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 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

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?  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written, Researched, and Hosted by Laurah Norton  Engineered, Edited, Scored, and Produced by Maura Currie  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

When a blackbird flock in Beebe, Arkansas plummets to the earth, conspiracy theorists are interested; imagine their surprise when, over the next week, a dozen or more similar events occur across the globe.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Special thanks to Robin Warder (The Trail Went Cold), Kristi Lee (Canadian True Crime), and Micheal Whelan (Unresolved) for lending us their voice acting talents!  Written and Hosted by Laurah Norton  Engineered, Edited, Scored, and Produced by Maura Currie  Researched by Laurah Norton and Jessica Ann  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

After visiting an aircraft museum, a young boy begins to have disturbing dreams of World-War-II-era air battles. But after he begins to show an amazing knowledge of both the aircraft and a specific ship--and battle--from the era, his parents question whether he’s actually “dreaming” at all. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written and Hosted by Laurah Norton  Engineered, Scored, and Produced by Maura Currie  Researched by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

In Montgomery Township in New Jersey, locals expect to enjoy a Turkey Trot on Thanksiving--not an apparent bank robbery attempt. Their local police force was faced with a stone-cold suspect unwilling to respond to any demands.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton  Produced, scored, and edited by Maura Currie  Additional Research by Lex Weathers  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

Edwin Robinson, a Falmouth, Maine resident who’d been in a serious 18-wheeler accident, experienced a bizarre series of events after being struck by lightning--all because he’d wanted to rescue his pet chicken, TukTuk, from a storm.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written and hosted by Laurah Norton  Produced, scored, and edited by Maura Currie  Researched by Bryan Worters, with additional research by Laurah Norton  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

Roy Beebe was a Long Beach agricultural scientist with a predilection for giant vegetables — and, apparently, harnessing the power of cosmic rays — all in the name of optimal health. Whatever that means. And, in post-WWII America? People were ready to give his inventions a go.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written, researched, produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie  Hosted and edited by Laurah Norton  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

A very unusual vigilante captured the attention of Melbourne, Florida in in the mid-1970s; this “Robin Hood of the Space Coast” set out to right the wrongs of the world the best way he knew how. With bread.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written and hosted by Laurah Norton  Produced, scored, and edited by Maura Currie  Researched by Bryan Worters, with additional research by Laurah Norton  Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing