The Angel
One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
One Strange Thing
4.4 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A cemetery in Iowa City is famous — not really for anyone laid to rest there, but for a statue. The Black Angel is mysterious and otherworldly — and her metamorphosis, both physical and in legend, leaves us with a lot of questions.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, |
| 0:08.8 | the show where we search the nation's news archives, |
| 0:11.9 | for stories that can't quite be explained. |
| 0:33.6 | Thank you. Today, strangers, our story takes us to a state that we've never before visited on our trek through this nation's weird stuff. |
| 0:42.3 | We're in Iowa, home to 3 million people and 23 million hogs, give or take. Those are real census and USDA figures, by the way, and we are not here to knock hogs, or |
| 0:48.8 | Iowans. |
| 0:50.2 | But a more than 7-1 hog-to-person ratio just felt worth mentioning, because it's, well, |
| 0:56.9 | a lot of swine. We're certainly delighted to share that figure with you today. However, |
| 1:03.2 | this episode is not about farm animals. But it does concern Iowa City, the state's fifth biggest |
| 1:10.6 | metro area. Per the city's official website, it's home to a City, the state's fifth biggest metro area. |
| 1:12.1 | Per the city's official website, it's home to a lot of history. |
| 1:16.3 | Iowa City was briefly the state capital, and the University of Iowa was founded there in 1847. |
| 1:23.4 | And the city is also home to the famous Oakland Cemetery. |
| 1:28.3 | It's a city-run burial ground that first opened in 1843, and it's still operational today. |
| 1:35.3 | Across its 40 acres are the resting places of many noteworthy Iowans. |
| 1:40.3 | But today's story is focused less on those who are under the ground and more on a certain |
| 1:47.4 | statue that stands above it. |
| 1:50.1 | And we should note, before we get in too deep, throughout this episode, you'll hear a lot from |
| 1:56.7 | the Iowa City Press Citizen. |
| 1:59.5 | It's not the case that we're leaning hard on one article here. |
| 2:03.7 | Rather, this publication has doggedly covered this story and this statue since the 1970s. |
| 2:11.4 | And we salute them for making our lives easier. |
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