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.

Strangers, is there anything better than that combination of the paranormal and the internet?

If you've been listening for a while, then you know that we certainly love that special blend of the digital and the unexplained that is served up across networks, connecting to networks,

connecting to networks. We've covered weird YouTube and the recesses of Reddit and creepypastas

galore, but never have we ever truly done a deep dive into the unexplained side of Twitter,

or X if you prefer.

For the purposes of our story today, it will be the former, because it took place way back

in 2017, before, well, a lot of things happened.

Twitter has traditionally been a place for people to fire off their thoughts, whatever they might be, and kind of just

let them float off into the ether. Celebrities especially enjoy doing that, and in the early days,

most of all. For instance, in January of 2012, Justin Bieber simply shared, quote, I love,

Arm. Us too, Justin. And in July of Justin Bieber simply shared, quote, I love arm.

Us too, Justin.

And in July of 2018, Post Malone plaintively asked, quote, is meatball and fruit?

Dionne Warwick, who, if you're too young to remember, once had her very own psychic friends network, and that's probably something

that we should get into one day, has dropped many food-for-thought bangers on the app, including

this one in February of 2020.

Quote, high at Chance the Rapper.

If you are very obviously a rapper, why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop

thinking about this. Or in December of 2020, quote, don't you think I would have warned you all about

iTunes making you have that YouTube album if I were actually psychic? We do think that these

examples capture how easy it can be to just tweet out into the universe.

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