The Rays

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Roy Beebe was a Long Beach agricultural scientist with a predilection for giant vegetables — and, apparently, harnessing the power of cosmic rays — all in the name of optimal health. Whatever that means. And, in post-WWII America? People were ready to give his inventions a go. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Pre order Laurah's book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written, researched, produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie Hosted and edited by Laurah Norton Sources on our website: onestrangethingpodcast.com Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on twitter.com/OSTPod instagram.com/onestrangethingpod facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

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0:00.0	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.
0:37.2	Thank you. In the early 1940s, a man named Roy Beebe lived in Southern California.
0:40.6	There, he grew vegetables.
0:44.6	And we don't want you to imagine an old man,
0:47.1	puttering around his backyard garden and plucking underripe cherry tomatoes or mediocre melons.
0:52.8	No, this 58-year-old father of six
0:56.0	who sauntered through his yard and utility pants and galoshes,
1:00.0	he grew vegetables with a capital V, as in giant ones.
1:06.0	Imagine, if you will, five-pound tomatoes,
1:10.0	eight-pound onions, carrots two feet long, a mad scientist dream.
1:17.4	But there was not an experimental lab in sight. There was just Roy and his plants.
1:23.7	In August 1942, Wide World Report called the scene, quote,
1:28.6	A backyard geologic Garden of Eden.
1:32.3	Roy Bebe had made his family's Long Beach home, a bioscience playground.
1:37.3	Per the Long Beach Press Telegram, Roy was an agricultural chemist by trade.
1:42.9	As a child in Indiana, he developed an interest in plants,
1:46.7	and he was no stranger to backyard farming. Years before the giant vegetables that made headlines,
1:52.9	he'd grown several, quote, better than average crops of corn in his Long Beach backyard.
1:59.8	The craft corporation had taken note and hired him in
2:03.6	1938 to do soil research. Four years later, Roy's backyard vegetables once again drew attention.
2:12.8	His crop was big, literally. As he told Wide World reporter Ted Gill, his process for growing the giant veggies was deceptively
2:22.5	simple.
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