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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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Summary
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 know that there’s always more to the story than what first appears. . . or apparates.
Hosted by Laurah Norton
Written by Liv Fallon
Researched by Bryan Worters
Edited by Laurah Norton and Maura Currie
Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, strangers. We're sure that many of you know that we have a great premium feed available |
| 0:07.8 | both on Patreon and Apple Premium. We're very close to releasing our 50th episode, and we thought |
| 0:13.7 | we'd share a clip from one of our favorites with you this week. If you'd like to hear the rest, |
| 0:18.3 | you can join us on Apple Premium or on Patreon. |
| 0:21.7 | So, without further ado, here's a sample from The Mystery Mansion. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's |
| 0:34.9 | news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. |
| 0:50.3 | For fans of the paranormal, there's nothing more classic than a haunted house. |
| 0:56.0 | It's historical, it's spooky, and it can exist anywhere. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, anywhere that's associated with death. |
| 1:04.2 | Say a house was built on top of a battlefield or an unmarked cemetery. |
| 1:09.0 | Or maybe it was the location of a few grisly historic murders. |
| 1:14.0 | And then an unsuspecting family moves in |
| 1:17.2 | and has an instant ticket to Poultergeist city, |
| 1:21.0 | at least according to the enthusiasts who want to believe, |
| 1:25.1 | or the unlucky residents who begin to believe once those pots and pans go flying. |
| 1:32.0 | Now, the best haunted houses have a good backstory, something you can really sink your teeth into, |
| 1:38.6 | with all the names and dates and details of the events that made their ghosts permanent residence. |
| 1:45.1 | Think of the Lizzie Borden House. |
| 1:47.6 | According to its website, the infamous crimes that occurred there |
| 1:51.3 | make it the most haunted house in the United States. |
| 1:55.4 | When people visit a famous haunted place, like the Lizzie Borden House, |
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