
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

May 9, 2023 • 7min
Introducing The Conspirators
Leap Castle in Ireland is considered by many paranormal investigators to be the most haunted castle in the world, and it’s easy to see why. In this clip, Nate tells you all about Leap Castle’s bloody history, and about the terrifying discovery that was made in its walls. Join The Conspirators on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, as well as an ever-growing library of Patron-exclusive mini episodes. http://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Website: http://www.theconspiratorspodcast.com Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theconspiratorcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theconspiratorspodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theconspiratorspodcast/?hl=en Music: The following music was used for this media project: Music: Lucid Nightmare by Tim Kulig Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8492-lucid-nightmare License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

May 2, 2023 • 26min
The Bunny
Whether presented as urban legend, murderous maniac, or ghostly avenger, the Bunnyman of Virginia has haunted a certain overpass near Fairfax--Colchester Bridge--and its residents for more than fifty years. This week, we delve into the origins of the twisty rabbit’s tale. Pre-order Laurah’s book, LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Listen to The Dead Files wherever you get your podcasts. Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code STRANGE and depending on the model receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/strange today to get 10% off your first month. The I AM STORY podcast takes you inside this extraordinary fight for racial and economic justice. Go to wherever you get your podcasts to subscribe. Hosted, written, and researched by Laurah Norton Additional research by Bryan Worters Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023

Apr 26, 2023 • 8min
Introducing Stories With Sapphire
We love Stories With Sapphire — and we think you will, too. Links from Sapphire: If you have a story you'd like to share, email it to storieswithsapphire@gmail.com Send Sapphire a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storieswithsapphire/message Sign up for bone and tarot readings at storieswithsapphire.com Support Sapphire: https://anchor.fm/storieswithsapphire/support

Apr 18, 2023 • 34min
The Dogman
Perhaps it’s not the best-known cryptid, but the Michigan Dogman has crept across the Midwest’s imagination—and embedded itself in the region’s nightmares—largely thanks to a single event in 1987. Was it an attack? A sighting? A mysterious footprint? No, strangers, it was something even more powerful: a voice drifting out, over the radio waves. Special Thanks: Alvin WIlliams of Affirmative Murder for his vocal talents! Pre-order Laurah’s book, LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Go to HelloFresh.com/onestrangething50 and use code onestrangething50 for 50% off, plus your first box ships free This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/strange today to get 10% off your first month. Hosted, written, and researched by Laurah Norton Additional research by Michael Morrill Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023

Apr 4, 2023 • 24min
The Toy
A mannequin with human hair became a doll, and lifelong companion and/or scapegoat, for an eccentric Floridian artist. The rest is (haunted? possessed?) history, and it’s exactly as unsettling as you might guess. And then some. Go to HelloFresh.com/onestrangething50 and use code onestrangething50 for 50% off, plus your first box ships free Pre-order Laurah’s book, LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Hosted by Laurah Norton Researched by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie Written and Produced by Maura Currie Script-edited by Laurah Norton Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023 Scott Eyman, “The Legend of…” The Palm Beach Post, 1989. NA, “Doll with a spell,” The Miami Herald, 1996. NA, “The doll who lived,” Fort Lauderdale News, 1985. NA, “Artist Robert Eugene Otto,” The Miami Herald, 1974. NA, “Ghost No. 3,” The Palm Beach Post, 2000. Ellen Creager, “Doll is part of…” The Tampa Tribune, 2007. Jill Schensul, “In Key West, beware…” The Naples Daily News, 2014. Brad Bertelli, “A Halloween Story: Robert…” The Reporter, 2016. Shirrel Rhoades, “‘M3gan’ is familiar…” The Key West Citizen, 2023. NA, “Doll taking chills…” The Miami Herald, 2008. Robert the Doll’s online shop

Mar 28, 2023 • 21min
Premium Episode: The Trestle (And An Announcement)
In celebration of our new premium format—two premium episodes a month for both Apple Podcast premium subscribers and Patreon subscribers starting April 2023—we are sharing this premium episode with all listeners. The legend of Kentucky’s Pope Lick Monster is inexorably tied to the train bridge it supposedly guards—but what is the real danger: the goat-sheep cryptid, or our human need to seek out danger? Hosted by Laurah Norton Written by Liv Fallon Researched by Jessica Lee Produced and Script-edited by Maura Currie Engineered and Scored by Chaes Gray Pre-order Laurah’s book, LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Butcherbox: Get free Chicken Nuggets for a Year and 10 percent off your first box when you sign up today. That’s a 22 oz bag of gluten-free chicken nuggets in every order for a year when you sign up at butcherbox.com/OST and use code OST. 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023

Mar 21, 2023 • 30min
The Sightings
The Gulf Breeze UFO Sightings are among the most infamous in US extraterrestrial canon; Floridian Ed Walters claimed that for six months ranging from late 1987 through the spring of 1988, he experienced a number of close encounters with aliens and their space crafts: ones that he allegedly captured on film. MUFON investigators, skeptics, scientists, and even the X-Files’ Agent Fox Mulder have weighed in on Ed’s story: now, we invite you to consider whether the Gulf Breeze Sightings were one of the most remarkable instances of alien contact in history, or simply an elaborate hoax. Pre-order Laurah’s book, LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Butcherbox: Get free Chicken Nuggets for a Year and 10 percent off your first box when you sign up today. That’s a 22 oz bag of gluten-free chicken nuggets in every order for a year when you sign up at butcherbox.com/OST and use code OST. Listen to The Dead Files wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023

Mar 7, 2023 • 27min
The Sweetheart
South Florida’s Coral Castle is a marvel of human creativity, talent and engineering — so much so that how exactly it came into being is a mystery. But it’s also a monument to love, and loss, and some of the… weirder… corners of the human spirit. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Pick up where you left off to uncover new secrets or start your investigation today and download June’s Journey! Available on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on PC through Facebook Games. Hosted by Laurah Norton Researched by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie Produced, Written and Engineered 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023

Feb 27, 2023 • 12min
Introducing The Fall Line: The Case of Chairo Garibay
Introducing our podcast, The Fall Line, which focuses on cold cases that have not received enough attention—a clip from our recent three-part series on the case of Chairo Garibay. On December 11th, 2005, 20-year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never showed. She was reported missing to the Yuba County Sheriff, and both her family and law enforcement began a search that extended through Christmas. It would be five weeks before Chairo was found. Though there would eventually be a 50,000-dollar reward authorized in Chairo’s case, no one has been arrested for her murder. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Listen wherever you get podcasts. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-murder-of-chairo-garibay-ferreyra-part-1-i-know/id1244959034?i=1000593665540 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/40Sez4ld5ttmQmXYVlUPVr?si=mror2bfoRLaflSDaUaQHdA Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Translation by Guadalupe Lopez/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources 2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

Feb 21, 2023 • 27min
The Firestarters
In the 1940s, two Midwest families faced the same bizarre circumstance: unexplained fires that seemed to spring up from nowhere, burning all over their homes—with no clear source. Was it, as many in the small town of Odon, Indiana suspected, the work of a “fire poltergeist,” or some other supernatural force? Or could it be one of the many theories Air Force investigators floated at the second location, in Macomb Illinois? Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Try June's Journey! Pick up where you left off to uncover new secrets or start your investigation today and download June’s Journey! Available on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on PC through Facebook Games. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worters Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder 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 Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2023