The Jackalope

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Wyoming’s favorite cryptid, the jackalope, is admittedly a hard sell as far as the supernatural goes—but as with most things, its origin story is quite the rabbit hole.

Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton

Research by Laurah Norton and Anna Luria

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0:00.0	Hey, strangers, we have started a substack. It's a fun little newsletter, but one where you can
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0:14.8	stories that aren't quite long enough for the podcast, but that we have been itching to share with you.
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0:39.0	Now, on with the show.
0:45.4	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing,
0:48.9	the show where we search the nation's news archives,
0:51.5	for stories that can't quite be explained.
1:04.0	Yeah. the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. As we gear up for our four-year anniversary, thanks for going steady with us for so long,
1:10.0	strangers.
1:14.6	We're bringing you some of our most requested episode topics.
1:20.5	The next three releases will be stories that you all, sweetly and politely, of course,
1:23.5	have never stopped asking us to do.
1:31.9	Up first to the plate is one of our very favorite portmanteaus, the jackaloupe, aka a horned jackrabbit.
1:39.3	It is truly an American monster, in that it is an absolutely grotesque mashup of things that should very certainly not be combined, but are nonetheless incredibly appealing. As a country, we are fond of
1:48.4	that approach, the Turducken, for instance, or a Taco Bell that is also a KFC. We crave adventure,
1:56.7	and it is terrible and beautiful. According to the town of Douglas Wyoming, which is the official home of the jackaloupe,
2:05.7	this creature comes with a very colorful legend.
2:09.5	Here are just a few of its excerpts.
2:13.2	Quote, the jackalope is the result of an auspicious mating of the jackrabbit and a now extinct pygmy deer,
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