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, there are a number of fantastic homes throughout the United States that are

shrouded in some kind of mystery or another, like a really good haunting or a murky past.

Or, even better, a curse.

Some of our favorites, in fact, have developed their own titles and are celebrated on their

independently supernatural merits.

We do appreciate a home that can stand on its own foundation.

California's Winchester House is perhaps the most famous of this genre. It exists within a strange

mix of true history and concocted folklore, and we can't imagine it any other way. The staircases to

nowhere, the hidden doors, the sense of panic, of trying to outrun the inevitable, that's written into every

eve and floorboard of the place.

We think it's that suspension of disbelief and erosion of the line between fact and fiction

that gives it a special flavor.

A classic mystery house then seems to be an organic thing, something that isn't built.

It just is, or it just becomes.

It would stand to reason then that the technical definition of a mystery house is something that

seldom, if ever, comes up for debate. Then again, there's always an exception, isn't there?

And there is substantial irony, we think, in the notion of announcing to the world that you're building a mystery

house. Does the name not imply that we're not supposed to be privy to the finer details,

the how and the why of it all? That's the tricky question on our doorstep today, the story

of a certain home in Callisbell, Montana.

The nature of the unexplained and your concept of the supernatural?

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