The Mud Monster
One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries
Laurah Norton
4.6 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Lauren Orton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's |
| 0:10.2 | news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. |
| 0:29.6 | Strangers, we are heading into the holidays, which means it's about time for a Midwestern cryptid story from 1973, right? Good, we thought so. We are nothing, if not seasonally appropriate, podcasters. |
| 0:39.5 | And what says holly jolly like a mud monster that terrorized Illinois in one of the hottest months |
| 0:46.2 | of the year? So, without further ado, let's travel to small town Illinois, where our tale began. |
| 0:54.6 | Now, normally, we are scraping for information on such events, |
| 0:59.0 | but the town of Murphy's Borough was kind enough to upload their entire police file. |
| 1:04.3 | So between that and local news coverage, |
| 1:06.9 | we've got a pretty solid accounting of the events that began in June of 1973, or at least |
| 1:13.7 | what people think happened. |
| 1:15.7 | That can always get a little sticky, can't it? |
| 1:19.1 | And we're not even accounting for all that mud. |
| 1:22.3 | So, Murphysboro, it's a town of less than 8,000, that's per the census, that was settled near the big muddy |
| 1:29.9 | river, which feeds into the Mississippi. Like much of southern Illinois, it was originally a coal town. |
| 1:36.8 | Now its official website tells us that people visit for the local Apple Festival and because of the |
| 1:42.6 | town's convenient location to parks and scenic |
| 1:45.4 | sites. But Murphy's Brough is perhaps best known for the Bigfoot-like creature who did some |
| 1:51.8 | minor terrorizing of its residents 50 years ago, creating a mystery that the town still has not |
| 1:58.8 | fully unpacked. |
| 2:06.1 | If you've got a good memory for our episodes, then you might recall that there were a spate of such sightings across Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri back in the early 1970s. |
| 2:13.1 | We've actually covered a few of them so far on the podcast. |
| 2:16.9 | The Spotsville Monster, |
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