The Witch

We're checking into the Hotel Galvez in Galveston this week to tell the tale of Audra, the lovelorn ghost bride.   Written Hosted, and Researched by Laurah Norton  Additional Research by Anna Luria  Engineered by Southern Gothic Media    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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC  

The Bell family was prominent and well-liked by their neighbors in Robertson County, Tennessee. So when an apparent spirit manifested in the Bell home, people believed them. And when that so-called witch pivoted from conjuring snacks to causing young lovers to break up, and a patriarch to pass away suddenly… people had questions.  Since September is a three-episode month, this is a rebroadcast of our classic episode, 77: The Witch.    Hosted by Laurah Norton Research by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie Written and 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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething   We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC  

In 2017, a creepy ghost story took over twitter, line by line, as an artist began to recount his experience with a spirit--a child--named “Dear David.”    Hosted and Written  by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Anna Luria Engineered by Southern Gothic Media   Check out Adam Ellis’ books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Adam-Ellis/146778774   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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething   We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC  

From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every Wednesday as we explore the real people at the center of the world’s most shocking secrets and nefarious organizations. Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes is a Crime House Original powered by PAVE Studios. Follow the show now so you don’t miss a single story. Listen and follow here: https://link.podtrac.com/9iuxhol7

Louisiana is home to many things: some of the United States’ finest cooking, seemingly endless stretches of marshy land, and one particularly smelly, web-toed creature known as the Honey Island Swamp Monster. This is a full mainfeed release of Premium Episode 45: The Swamp.    Hosted and Written  by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Anna Luria Written, Produced 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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething   We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC   Works Cited Meghan Holmes, “The Honey Island Swamp Monster.” Country Roads Magazine, 2021. Richard Boyd, “Honey Island Tale Recounted.”  The Times-Picayune, 2000. Richard Boyd, “Author Thinks Sighting. . .”  The Times-Picayune, 2000. Richard Boyd, “Close Encounters of. . .”  The Times-Picayune, 2000. Jane Triola, “Swamp Monster Is. . .” The Times-Picayune, 2006. Joni Hess, “What is the. . .” The Times-Picayune, 2022. Hal Ledet, “Swamp Creature Sighted.“ The Morning Advocate, 1981. N/A, UPI, “Man Claims Creature. . .”  The State Times Advocate, 1973. Richard Adams, “ Louisiana Man Has. . . “ The Sun, 1981. Joni Hess, “Is There Really. . .” The New Orleans Advocate, 2022. Experience New Orleans Tourist Site  Official Gulf Coast Heritage: Mississippi Cajun Encounters Tourist Site  Pearl River Tours  PBS: Primates  Harlan Ford Footage

Known as the “British Mothman,” of the most mysterious—and obscure—cryptids in our critter collection is the Owlman of Cornwall, a monster that first appeared in the tiny village in Mawnan Smith.    Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Melissa Gold  Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder  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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething   We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC  

We’ve discussed a number of curses on the podcast before—but this episode, we dive into the murky waters of  allegedly evil  phone numbers and YouTube videos. Can receiving a call, owning a number, or watching a video really cause someone’s death?    Hosted, Written, and Researched  by Laurah Norton Engineered 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 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangethingFind us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607   We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC  

We wanted to share this episode of a show we think you'll love. They're Not Shadows shares spooky stories of the paranormal, the supernatural and the unexplained.  Find TNS wherever you get your podcasts.

Laurah is out sick this week; please enjoy the full release of Premium Episode 64, The Hands. In Southwestern England, a legend grew along the road now known along the B3212—one that involved an invisible entity that forced drivers off the roads  and into dangerous, and even fatal, accidents.    Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Research by Laurah Norton and Melissa Gold  Engineered by Brand Schexnayder  Produced by Maura Currie   Works Cited    Kevin Dixon, “Dartmoor’s Hairy Hands. . .” We Are South Devon, 2021. Tim Sandler, “Hairy Hands.” Legendary Dartmoor, 2016.  Christ Dovi, “Dozens of Callers. . .” The Richmond Times Dispatch, 2002.  N/A, “The Hairy Hands.” Haunted Devon, 2021. BBC Devon, “Definitely Not A. . .” BBC, 2014 (Archived). Blake Smith, “The Hairy Hands. . .” The Skeptic, 2022.  Bott, M. H. P. ; Day, A. A. ; Masson-Smith, D., “The Geological Interpretation of Gravity. . . “   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 251: 992, 1958. Frances W. Green, “The interpretation of magnetic anomalies. . .” Masters thesis, Durham University, 1979.  What Lies Beyond Message Board Jane Gilbert “Letterboxing on Dartmoor. . .” Time Travel Britain, 2006. “Adverse Camber.” Cycling Coalition of Great Britain.  NSC, “Car Crash Deaths and Rates.” NSC, 2022.  N/A, “The Age of the Automobile.” US History.org, 2024.    

We’ve told you over and over: if Virginia Is for Lovers, then West Virginia Is for Cryptids. And today, we’re introducing you to a new one: the Grafton Monster.    Hosted, Written and Researched by Laurah Norton  Produced by Maura Currie  Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder    Download the free e-book “Navigating Global Trade: 3 Insights for Leaders” at NetSuite.com/STRANGE  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 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangethingFind us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607   We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025  All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast  & The Fall Line Podcast LLC