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🗓️ 4 October 2022
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A roadside tourist attraction on the outskirts of Montana’s wilderness claims to showcase the laws of physics gone berserk — but is there potentially more happening there, and more that’s much harder to explain?
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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. |
0:17.0 | Strangers, there are a number of fantastic homes throughout the United States that are |
0:26.2 | shrouded in some kind of mystery or another, like a really good haunting or a murky past. |
0:33.3 | Or, even better, a curse. |
0:37.2 | Some of our favorites, in fact, have developed their own titles and are celebrated on their |
0:42.3 | independently supernatural merits. |
0:45.3 | We do appreciate a home that can stand on its own foundation. |
0:51.3 | California's Winchester House is perhaps the most famous of this genre. It exists within a strange |
0:57.8 | mix of true history and concocted folklore, and we can't imagine it any other way. The staircases to |
1:05.5 | nowhere, the hidden doors, the sense of panic, of trying to outrun the inevitable, that's written into every |
1:13.6 | eve and floorboard of the place. |
1:17.0 | We think it's that suspension of disbelief and erosion of the line between fact and fiction |
1:23.0 | that gives it a special flavor. |
1:27.1 | A classic mystery house then seems to be an organic thing, something that isn't built. |
1:34.3 | It just is, or it just becomes. |
1:40.3 | It would stand to reason then that the technical definition of a mystery house is something that |
1:46.7 | seldom, if ever, comes up for debate. Then again, there's always an exception, isn't there? |
1:54.8 | And there is substantial irony, we think, in the notion of announcing to the world that you're building a mystery |
2:02.2 | house. Does the name not imply that we're not supposed to be privy to the finer details, |
2:08.7 | the how and the why of it all? That's the tricky question on our doorstep today, the story |
2:15.5 | of a certain home in Callisbell, Montana. |
2:19.5 | The nature of the unexplained and your concept of the supernatural? |
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