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:...

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...

Strangers, this week we bring you a spooktacular crossover with Tenderfoot TV’s Rattled and Shook. Meredith and Laurah bring you two terrifying tales with a side of paranormal analysis. Plus, you’ll hear a bit about the bonus content and a hint at the special holiday episode we have planned for the rest of the month!  Rattled and Shook:  Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Intro voicework by Miles Agee ...

Though the mountain region isn’t traditionally known for its immortal undead, there is a tale of one particular vampire—or specifically, a vampire’s grave—in a little town in Lafayette, Colorado.  Hosted, Written, and Researched by 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...

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 regards sightings of so-called BEKs, or Black-Eyed Kids. These coal-eyed children seem harmless at first—that is, until they start begging to come in. Just for a moment. They promise they won’t hurt you.    Hosted, Written, and Researched by Laurah...

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  Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder    Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning for FREE at NetSuite.com/STRANGE   Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething   Sources on our website:...

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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 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...

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 NetSuite.com/STRANGE   Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething   Sources on our website:...

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...

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: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on...

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: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join...

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: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ ...

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: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes,...

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: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and...

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 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.  Order Laurah’s book, LAY THEM TO REST: ...

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 Lake Michigan area has had reports of flying humanoids, and those sightings have only picked up since 2011. Why have sightings of the Chicago or Lake Michigan Mothman increased, and what’s behind the mysterious wings in the sky?  Hosted and...

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?  Hosted by Laurah Norton Research by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie Produced and Written 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...

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?  Check out NetSuite.com/STRANGE to get your own free KPI Checklist. Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive...

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 unexplained stories, so be sure to go check it out! You can find Two Girls One Ghost wherever you listen to podcasts—listen if you dare. You can find their show on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-girls-one-ghost/id1271249164  Head to...

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.  Hosted by Laurah Norton  Researched by Anna Luria  Edited by Laurah Norton and Maura Currie  Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie  Works Cited: Bastian, Jonathan. “Predicting the future: The true story of the...

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 Researched by Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie  Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Special Thanks to Denise Roffe and The Southeastern Institute of Paranormal Research Check out NetSuite.com/STRANGE to get your own free KPI Checklist. Sources on our...

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. Head to factormeals.com/ost50 and use code ost50 to get 50% off! Check out NetSuite.com/STRANGE to get your own free KPI Checklist. Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Bryan Worter Produced and Engineered...

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...