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Odd Trails

The Owl & The Three Hooded Figures – Ep. 219

Odd Trails

Andy & Brandon Lanier

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode features a strange white owl encounter, missing time, a haunted newspaper office, a shapeshifter in rural India, a protective shadow figure in a Minnesota farmhouse, and more.

Stories in this episode:

- The Laugh, by Handheldmirror
- The Hallway, by Eric
- The Owl and the 3 Hooded Figures, by Anonymous
- Weretiger, by M. Benedict
- The Time Everything Slowed Down, by Cai
- Meeting the Shadow, by Kathleen
- Odd Life Event, by Character-Ad6260

Submissions: stories@oddtrails.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Odd Trails is a true paranormal podcast.

0:02.7

If you have a story to share, send it to Stories at oddtrails.com.

0:06.8

Enjoy the show.

0:10.4

Forget facts.

0:12.3

Forget logic.

0:14.3

Forget everything that seems real.

0:17.2

You just trust.

0:21.6

Believe. Believe. You just trust, believe. You know your life is just a dream, don't you? The Laugh by Handheld Mirror

1:00.7

When I was young in late elementary school, I had just moved in with my dad.

1:09.0

He didn't have custody of me before that, and since he was a recovering

1:13.4

alcoholic, he had a hard time finding a job, so we were living in an apartment. It was on the second

1:21.2

floor, and there was a sidewalk that ran right past the building. It wasn't great, but it was enough for us. Now, it was me, my dad, and

1:31.7

my older brother. My brother and I shared a room since it was only a two-bedroom apartment. I slept on

1:38.6

a cot right in front of the window facing away from it. My brother slept on the opposite side of the room facing the closet.

1:46.8

When I was a kid, I was really skittish. I was scared of everything. We had to keep the door

1:52.1

open at night in case I ran to my dad's room because I was terrified of something. This was one of

1:58.7

those nights where I just couldn't sleep.

2:02.9

That part wasn't unusual.

2:07.0

What was unusual was that at some point,

2:09.5

I noticed something felt off.

2:12.9

I didn't know how to explain it,

2:15.1

just that something had changed.

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