Hey, strangers, in our year and a half of production, we've never missed an episode, and we don't want to break that streak.

It would perhaps bring us bad luck, or maybe some kind of mysterious rash.

We're not very up on curses and would prefer to keep that knowledge to a minimum.

However, due to our extreme, and we mean that in an early 2000s

X-Games kind of way, travel schedules this month, we were unable to get a brand new episode

ready this week. But worry not. We are releasing one of our earliest premium episodes for you on the main feed,

remastered and cleaned up quite nicely, so our patrons will also enjoy a new listening experience.

We also have a brand spanking new premium episode coming in just a few days' time, and it's

going to be a fascinating one.

And by that, we mean that it's about a giant shark.

On the next episode to hit our main feed, we promise you a supersized cryptid story,

featuring one of our very favorite mysteries,

one that, uh, yours truly, actually remembers from her early childhood in South Carolina.

It involves lizard people, or, more specifically, lizard person.

Anyway, we can't wait to bring that story to you.

So, as we say in the South, y'all come back round soon.

Now, we hope you enjoy this spooky tale from yes, Florida,

where everything does indeed occur.

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 quite be explained.

Thank you. News Archives for stories that can't quite be explained. We begin today's episode with just a little history.

And like pretty much everything else that makes its way into the school books,

it turns out the truth is much uglier than what we were taught.

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