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One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

The Crescent Hotel

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6763 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas bills itself as "America's Most Haunted Hotel"— complete with ghost tours, Victorian spirits, and enough paranormal activity to employ a full-time ghost-tour manager. But when guests started mysteriously fainting during tours? Well. The hotel’s history revealed itself to be darker than a few unsettled spirits in the guest rooms.  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 and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Anna Luria and Laurah Norton Engineered and Produced by Southern Gothic Media/Rachel Boyd Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/STRANGE and use promo code STRANGE at checkout!  We work with Amplitude Media Partners (AMP) to power our advertising and grow with the right sponsors. Contact AMP with any ad inquiries; sales@amplitudemediapartners.com.  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

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0:00.0

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0:47.3

I'm Lauren Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show will research the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

1:02.5

Strangers, we really have not spent enough time, your time, we mean, in Arkansas.

1:08.7

It's a great place for people like us who know that the Ozarks have a way of hiding things.

1:14.2

Tucked away in hollows and hills, you'll come upon all kinds of tales worth an episode.

1:23.2

Weird creatures, clear springs that heal wounds, decaying mansions sitting in the middle of nowhere, abandoned towns, and cursed.

1:28.1

Well, lots of cursed things. And the ghosts.

1:31.2

Oh, there are so many ghosts.

1:35.5

And the hauntings, well, they aren't always what you might expect.

1:41.6

The Ozarks are a wide and varied place, and they're home to all kinds of wonders,

1:43.9

not just of the natural sort. Explore long enough and you're apt to

1:46.8

stumble upon human-made luxury designed to appeal to a tourist elite. But that doesn't mean that

1:54.3

such sites aren't, well, spooky. One of those places is the beautiful Crescent Hotel nestled on West Mountain and Eureka Springs,

2:04.6

in the Ozarks. The property's official website explains that it was constructed in 1886,

2:10.6

and it is a breathtaking limestone affair, built by Irish stillmasons and perched above what's

2:17.4

described as, quote,

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