The Vanishing Room

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It's a horrifying tale that's been passed around, in many versions, for well over a hundred years: women traveling check into a hotel, leave an ailing companion behind, and return to discover that she—and her room—have disappeared. 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 Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Melissa Gold Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Take the next step to improving your health: go to lumen.me/STRANGE to get 20% off your Lumen. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode! Get up to 10 FREE meals and a free high protein item for life at hellofresh.com/hellofreshpodcast Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC

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0:00.0	This episode's topic is morbid by nature, so listener discretion for our youngest listeners is perhaps advised.
0:13.0	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.
0:31.5	Strangers, if you were a child of the 1980s or 1990s, then you might be familiar with a certain book series.
0:39.4	Scary stories to tell in the dark.
0:42.7	There were plenty of these anthologies, with their creepy, sketchy, black and white covers,
0:48.4	splashed with just a little red.
0:50.7	They were full of short, nightmarish tales that were plucked from who knows where,
0:56.0	and they were virtually guaranteed to keep us up far past our bedtimes. And generations of
1:03.1	children, who are now adults, we guess, we are still convinced that any girl with a ribbon tied
1:10.1	around her neck should be avoided at all costs.
1:14.2	You never know what it might come loose and her head will simply topple off.
1:19.2	Honestly, it was traumatizing.
1:21.8	It still is.
1:22.9	And probably a formative experience for a lot of goths.
1:28.7	But that's hardly the only memorable tale brought to us by author Alvin Schwartz.
1:34.9	If we read you the beginning of this one, we suspect that it will be familiar.
1:40.4	It appeared in the third collection of his scary story series.
1:48.2	This one set some time vaguely in the third collection of his scary story series. This one set sometime vaguely in the past.
2:02.4	It's titled, Maybe You Will Remember. Mrs. Gibbs and her 16-year-old daughter Rosemary arrived in Paris on a hot morning in July. They had been on a vacation and now were returning home.
2:09.4	But Mrs. Gibbs did not feel well, so they decided to rest in Paris for a few days before going on. The city was crowded with tourists. Still, they found a place to stay at a good hotel. They
2:16.8	had a lovely room overlooking a park.
2:19.7	It had yellow walls, a blue carpet, and white furniture. As soon as they unpacked, Mrs. Gibbs
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