The Wonder Horse

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In a dark period of American history, an unexpected hero lifted spirits and predicted the results of horse races. Lady Wonder, a chestnut-brown horse, could do it all: spell, read minds, and see into the future. And people went all in — even when she picked up some unusual extracurriculars.

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0:00.0	Just a note at the top.
0:03.2	There's discussion of investigations into the disappearances of children near the end of the episode.
0:09.3	So, listener discretion is advised.
0:16.8	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing.
0:20.4	The show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:36.0	Listen, strangers.
0:43.3	We know that we normally start off an episode with a snappy introduction of some kind,
0:48.2	something that gets you warmed up, gets those brain cells firing.
0:57.8	Maybe it opens whatever third eye specifically is interested in cryptids. All of these responses are to be expected.
1:06.1	But we're not going to bother with any of that today, because today's story is about a psychic horse. And if that's not enough to get your attention, well, we don't know what would be.
1:17.5	This horse, aptly named Lady Wonder, galloped onto the national news cycle in April of 1930.
1:27.0	According to the Universal Press, it was at that time that Lady
1:30.9	Wonder had done something extraordinary. As the UP wrote, quote, it should have been obvious years ago,
1:39.0	but millions of men have bet themselves into bankruptcy because they didn't think of it.
1:49.4	The way to win on horse races, apparently, is to let a horse pick them for you.
1:55.3	The UP explained that Lady Wonder, a four-year-old chestnut-colored mare, had made a series of very solid predictions on a series of big horse races,
2:01.7	the opening day of the season of the Pinlaco track in Baltimore.
2:06.6	Now, we're sure you're wondering, as most people would,
2:10.2	how Lady Wonder was able to communicate her feelings on equine athleticism.
2:15.8	Well, have we got an answer for you? The UP wrote that Lady Wonder
2:21.0	had been taught to use a contraption, a sort of giant typewriter, to spell things out.
2:27.3	This had been a project of her owner, Claudia Fonda, since Lady Wonder was a tiny foal.
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