The Black Eyes

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

One of the internet's most viral paranormal stories regards sightings of so-called BEKs, or Black-Eyed Kids. These coal-eyed children seem harmless at first—that is, until they start begging to come in. Just for a moment. They promise they won't hurt you. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Hosted, Written, and Researched by Laurah Norton Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething 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 You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find 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 AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC Works Cited ReignBot, "The Russian Sleep Experiment," YouTube Monstrous, "Don't Let Them In!. . ." PBS, 2021. Brian Bethel, (archived), "Brian Bethel Reports. . . " Abilene Reporter News, 2013. Brian Bethel's archived listserv post, 1998. David Mikkelson, "Black-Eyed Kids," Snopes, 2013. N/A, "Drone on Chase. . ." The Express & Star, 2015. Jason Offsut, "Black-Eyed Kids. . ." The Examiner, 2011. "Black-Eyed Children," It's Probably Aliens, 2019. Irish Post Staff, "Exploring Irish Mythology. . ." The Irish Post, 2021.

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0:00.0	I'm Lauren Orton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:09.8	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:28.1	Strangers, we assume that you, as lovers of the unusual and unexplainable have attained a comprehensive knowledge of the weird.
0:32.6	Alien terminology, cryptozoological details, every flavor of ghost imaginable.
0:38.3	And then there are the urban legends.
0:41.3	Our modern myths, with a strain of horror that are told like truth, you know, something that happened
0:48.3	years back, over in that one town.
0:51.3	Or maybe they happen to a friend of a friend, that story of the hook dangling
0:56.2	from the car door handle after a close call at a lover's lane, that fried rat in a bucket of chicken
1:02.5	from the fast food joint. The bloody woman summoned in the mirror, we bet that you could
1:08.4	name a dozen more. But there is another strain of spooky story, one that's unique to the 21st century,
1:15.6	that has a fully digital origin, the creepypasta.
1:19.6	The line between an urban legend and a creepypasta is admittedly a bit blurry, but creepy
1:25.6	pasta do tend to have some unique features.
1:29.6	They're horror stories that originate online, and they are meant to be fiction. Of course,
1:35.3	some do make it over to the other side, and they pass for real, and the lines, they do get blurred.
1:42.3	Sometimes they're connected with a specific image or video clip.
1:47.0	It's usually pretty easy to trace their origins if you do a little digging. You can find
1:52.5	when a story or meme first originated and began circulating on a board or site with just a little
1:59.0	effort. Plus, there are internet historians that have proven more than happy to create timelines
2:04.6	of how these legends have grown, and we do thank them for their service.
2:10.6	No doubt you have encountered many of the more famous examples.
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