Hey, strangers, we have a seriously spooky and, dare we say it, ambitious October lineup planned for you with two highly requested stories planned for the month.

And, for the first time ever, our show release day is falling on Halloween. We're pretty excited about that.

This week, we're rerunning one of our classic episodes to get you

in the mood, and it's one of my personal favorites. It's a little-known vampire tale set in the

heart of vampire territory. You know, Wisconsin. What? Did you think it was all cheese? Well,

listen and enjoy. We'll see you soon with our new episodes titled The Witch and The Devil. We bet you can guess what those are going to cover.

I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing. The show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

Because you, dear listeners, are discerning consumers of the unusual, and dare we say, the strange,

we assume you have at least a working knowledge of the creatures who populate the spookier corners of the human mind.

And we're not even talking about cryptids this time. Think even stronger nightmare

fuel. You know the things that go bump and slither and scitch-scratch in the night, the werewolves

and the zombies and the ghouls, and the vampires. Americans have long had an interest in the nocturnal and the ghouls. And the vampires.

Americans have long had an interest in the nocturnal and the fanged, although we must point out vampire sightings have never caught on the way UFOs have, nor have they come close to touching

the popularity of Bigfoot in this country. Maybe, to be fair, we've been distracted

by all those clowns. Who can say? But there have been a few notable exceptions to this rule,

and one of those is a story from the unlikely and very cheesy state of Wisconsin. That is a compliment.

If you're educated enough in Tales of the Weird, you might even have heard of this one before,

the Mineral Point Vampire Siding of 1981.

As we dug into this tale, we found quite a few oddities, not all of which concern the paranormal event itself.

So, not a moment to waste. Let's sharpen our teeth and get to it.

Mineral Point is a town in Iowa County, Wisconsin, that's held steady at a population of less than 3,000 for decades.

Not exactly a bustling metropolis, but a metropolis was never the intention. Mineral

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