One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

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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. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores...

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. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true s...

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 weig...

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. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to...

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 loca...

In 1973, CB radio enthusiasts all over the U.S. — and apparently, the world — heard the panicked transmissions of a little boy calling himself "Larry," who claimed to be in danger. So why couldn't an army of New Mexico volunteers and law enforcement find "Little Lost Larry?" One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research...

In the late 1970s, a rural Ohio family came face-to-face--or maybe it's fur-to-fur--with the Midwest's most infamous version of Bigfoot, the Grassman. Whether you call it Orange Eyes or The Minerva Monster, the creature who allegedly lurked in Paris Township in 1978 created much unwanted attention for the unhappy objects of its attention. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the a...

Throughout the history of conventional archeology, artifacts have been found that seem to defy what we know about what we know. Did the Maine Penny, the Shroud of Turin, and the Antikythera Mechanism simply evade our previous understandings of what ancient societies were doing, and where, and when — or is there a case to be made for otherworldly intervention? One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mys...

On one frigid December night in 1980, a stranded Minnesotan named Jean Hilliard earned a title no one would ever want: the Frozen Girl. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Myster...

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? One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the arch...

Denver International Airport has its fair share of the bizarre, the unsettling, the mysterious, and the downright inexplicable — but, if you ask us, the giant, neon blue, potentially cursed horse nicknamed "Bluecifer" really takes the cake. Gird your loins and giddy up. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with...

In a frightening rural Texas encounter that would come to be known as the Cash-Landrum incident, two middle-aged women and a young boy claimed they were confronted by a strange, shining diamond in the sky: a UFO that left them with long-lasting and serious physical effects. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research...

Post Malone, a curse that follows the owners of a mysterious cabinet, and an uneasy spirit known as a Dybbuk (or Dibbuk)—yes, we've got the full deck for you this Halloween week. We delve into the most infamous piece in Zack Bagans' museum collection, and how it has—possibly—wreaked havoc on the lives of its owners. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplai...

During the swell of the Satanic Panic, New England's premiere paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, headed to the Pennsylvania home of Jack and Janet Smurl, who believed they were beset by unwelcome visitors: demonic ones. The Smurls' strange experiences were chalked up to a cash grab by some, but could they have truly been in need of an exorcism--or was the problem actually a differen...

A roadside tourist attraction on the outskirts of Montana's wilderness claims to showcase the laws of physics gone berserk — but is there potentially more happening there, and more that's much harder to explain? One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stor...

A New Jersey family purchases their dream home, complete with Victorian charm, new appliances… and a very, very creepy stalker. The Watcher is ready for them; are they ready for the Watcher letters? One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffl...

This story has everything: alien activity, a green phantom and/or creature, Project Blue Book — even West Virginia. Yes, strangers, it's time for that one-hit wonder, the Flatwoods Monster…and all the trouble it caused in mid century Appalachia. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to...

The notion of striking it rich at the Lost Dutchman Mine has drawn many adventurers to the outskirts of Phoenix, over the course of a little over a century. But how much potential wealth is worth dying for — and how many people have to lose their lives before a legend starts looking a little more like a curse? One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, b...

The Black Dog of Hanging Hills is a spectral beast with a fascinating backstory that makes us question the line between fact and and fiction—and sightings of it seem to go back more than a century in Connecticut, making it one of the more fascinating paranormal creatures of the Northeast. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous histo...

In April of 1964, a Socorro, New Mexico police officer, Lonnie Zamora, experienced one of the most famous UFO sightings in US history—one often overshadowed by the more famous Roswell incident some years before. Lonnie's story has it all: Project Blue Book, aliens, the CIA. . .and a lot of half-baked explanations. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplaine...

The "Bermuda Triangle" of the United States, The Bennington Triangle in Vermont, has been shrouded in mystery since the 1940s, when a series of disappearances occurred in the area. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that...

In Loveland, Ohio, the 2016 phenomenon of Pokémon Go led to a sighting of the legendary cryptid, the Loveland Frog, or reawakened decades-old stories of anthropomorphic frogmen roaming the waterways—and streets—of this small town. But separating fact-—or what seems to be fact—from fiction proves harder than it might seem. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the un...

Perhaps some people are born lucky. . . and then there are others, who have singular experiences that can be described as, well, miracles. That seems to have been the case for fifteen people in a small Nebraska town in 1950. * We have learned that there is an alternative pronunciation for the word "Beatrice" which, while we are studious researchers, it did not even occur to us to look up. We are s...

In 1973, a Falkville, Alabama police chief went out to answer a mysterious call about an otherworldly sighting—a figure, a metal man running down the rural roads outside of town—and began an encounter of third kind that would turn his life upside down. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical...