The Nightcrawlers
One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
One Strange Thing
4.4 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Back in 2007, the world was thrilled to discover there was a new cryptid—or alien—or something—on the scene: The Fresno Nightcrawler. And even better, it was absolutely adorable (as long as you have a fondness for walking pants). But what evidence exists for this mysterious new creature?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Lauren 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. |
| 0:33.7 | Thank you. Strangers, we think that it's safe to say that, as of late, the world has been distinctly lacking in magic. |
| 0:40.1 | There's an alarming vacuum when it comes to genuine, sweeping wonder, the kind of fantastic story that strikes a chord in a town or a state and gathers everyone up in the excitement |
| 0:47.1 | of wanting to believe. Let it be said, we do enjoy our creepypastas and our viral videos. |
| 0:55.1 | We hope that's obvious. |
| 0:56.7 | But the purely digital spread of this or that creature or the hundredth-threaded spooky tale |
| 1:02.9 | lacks a certain something. |
| 1:06.6 | As we sift through the news archives, and we rediscover the last century's bizarre tales of vampire panics and bleeding houses and haunted furniture, we can't help but be a little jealous. |
| 1:20.6 | As soon as something interesting hits our news feeds today, it's explained away as AI in less than five minutes. There's no drama to it. Of course, |
| 1:31.9 | the internet is going to be a part of any modern paranormal story. We can't live without it. |
| 1:37.9 | And we'd have a hard time delivering podcast to you if we had to do that manually. But we do |
| 1:43.7 | pine for a good local story that springs |
| 1:46.8 | up in the regional news. That's why we were so pleased when we first encountered a tale that |
| 1:53.4 | popped up in Fresno, California back in 2007. Now, Fresno does have at least some reputation for being, well, strange. Perhaps not |
| 2:05.5 | nationally, as the city is more properly known for being in the San Joaquin Valley and being home |
| 2:11.5 | to a vast array of agriculture and architecture. But if you dig just a little deeper, and we have, you'll uncover a nice |
| 2:20.1 | little lizardy underbelly of the unexplained. In fact, there's an entire website Weird Fresno |
| 2:27.1 | devoted to the subject. Its author, Michael Banty, has been tracking the San Joaquin Valley's |
| 2:32.9 | unexplained news and digging into its |
| 2:35.4 | shadowy history since 2008. And it's safe to say that he has not run out of material. With a tone |
| 2:42.3 | varying from serious documentation to respectful bemusement, Michael's blog details everything from UFOs to a |
| 2:50.3 | quote, supposedly evil gnome that was terrorizing a farmhouse. |
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