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One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Midwest Bigfoot is back, strangers—this time in Central Illinois, with the nickname of CoHoMo (we don't pick these), a cryptid romp through the wilderness, and a suspicious number of teenagers allowed to investigate and provide tour-guide services to reporters and visitors alike. The 1970s seemed like a good time. 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 Written and Hosted by Laurah Norton Researched by Anna Luria and Laurah Norton Engineered by Southern Gothic Media/Rachel Boyd 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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing.
0:09.1	The show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:30.1	Strangers, we often think it was probably pretty fun to be a teenager in the 1970s.
0:36.9	Now, we're not discounting the turmoil of that time, of course, so don't misunderstand us.
0:40.3	But, based on the music and the fun that we've seen in movies like Dazed and Confused and Rock and Roll High School, which we understand to be
0:46.1	documentaries, things were also pretty exciting. And we have definitely got the impression that
0:52.5	in the pre-internet age,
0:54.3	kids were, well, pretty good at entertaining themselves,
0:58.5	something that could end very well or very badly, depending on your perspective.
1:04.2	And that's actually been a key point in a number of our stories on this show.
1:08.8	And it's perhaps why we've had so many teenage witnesses
1:12.3	pop up in our cryptid tales in, yes, America's News Archives. There was a heck of a lot of camping
1:20.3	and woods wandering going on back then. There were wing cats and spaceships and flatwoods
1:26.3	monsters. Who knows what one might encounter while wandering aimlessly around the creeks and abandoned
1:32.5	mineshafts of this great nation.
1:35.6	Speaking of that, we've got a story today that intersects with another tale that we told
1:41.7	you last year.
1:43.2	We've mentioned before on the podcast that the
1:45.8	Midwest was practically crawling with bigfoots between roughly 1972 and 1978, give or take a few
1:53.5	years, and allowing for a generous definition of what the Midwest might entail. But for the purposes
2:00.5	of our episode, we're discussing Illinois.
2:03.6	And most people feel pretty good about Illinois in a Midwest kind of way.
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