The Clowns

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This Halloween episode, we follow the phantom clown phenomenon to its beginning: the 1980s, where sightings cropped up in cities across the United States, and the fears of children caused quite the stir--and a serious problem for local van owners. 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 Laurah's book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written and Hosted by Laurah Norton Researched by Bryan Worters, with additional research by Laurah Norton Engineered, Edited, Scored, 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 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? 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://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

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0:00.0	A quick note to our loyal strangers.
0:02.9	This episode is a little scarier than our usual fare.
0:07.8	Nothing grotesque or salacious, of course.
0:10.6	We're clinging to that clean rating with all our might.
0:14.3	But overall, the story might be a bit too frightening for the little ones in the audience, who we know like to listen along.
0:23.6	Now, on with the creep show.
0:29.6	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
0:38.7	quite be explained.
0:49.7	It's finally here, Halloween.
0:53.2	Well, practically, as close as we're going to get anyway with this Tuesday release schedule.
0:59.8	So, welcome to our second, supersized October episode.
1:05.5	We've enjoyed digging into the legends that make us think of spooky season,
1:10.6	the phantoms and creepers and haunts
1:12.8	who crawl and slither along the corners of our cultural imagination.
1:18.0	You'll recognize them, the archetypes that exist both in our waking lives and in our
1:24.0	nightmares, the flapping bats and creeping spiders, the howling wolves, the dense forest,
1:30.8	and the lonely roads, the scarecrowes in the fields.
1:35.3	And then there are the clowns.
1:38.4	Clowns are spooky.
1:39.6	That's not news to anyone who has read Stephen King or heard of John Wayne Gacy or honestly
1:45.7	watched a single episode of Bozo from the 1970s.
1:50.6	Seriously, who greenlit that?
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