One Strange Thing is a podcast that investigates unexplainable news stories – Boing Boing
One Strange Thing is a podcast that investigates unexplainable news stories. I began listening to it last night on Apple Podcasts, and ended up playing 5 episodes. You can listen to a selection of free episodes on the podcast’s website, too.
I stayed up way past my bedtime because I was having too much fun. The strangest story I listened to last night was called “The House,” about a couple named Will and Minnie who called 911 in 1978 because the walls and floor of their house began to “bleed” actual human blood without any rational explanation.
The episodes range from the whimsical to the bizarre to the downright creepy. I can’t wait to binge-listen to some more episodes tonight.
A farmer in Ross County, Ohio called police this week after discovering that someone—or some thing—had made a mess of his barn and brutally killed his horse, dragging it into a nearby creek. The sheriff’s office investigated and determined that the culprit was “non-human.” From the deputy sheriff’s report: The farmer] stated today he found… READ THE REST
I don’t know what fills me with more dread: sheep walking in a circle with nothing in the middle, or turkeys walking in a circle around a dead cat? According to Dr. Peter Okong’o of Nairobi, Kenya, “The white rhino at the Nairobi national park has also been walking in circles but anticlockwise. A police… READ THE REST
For more than a century, travelers on Route 66 have reported seeing a weird glowing orange orb around the intersection of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The otherworldly orb, called the Hornet Spook Light, is usually seen on a short rural road just off 66 that’s nicknamed the Devil’s Promenade. According to a 2006 Joplin Globe… READ THE REST
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