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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Many people moved to Granbury, Texas for the peace and quiet. Then, a noisy neighbor moved in – and strange things began happening in town.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Going down there was, it kind of felt like I was at the beginning of a horror movie,

0:07.5

where you're in a small town and there are all these strange, potentially interconnected,

0:12.2

but bad things that are happening to people around the town and people are getting sick.

0:16.9

Some of it seems almost mystical or supernatural in a way.

0:22.0

This is Andrew Chow.

0:23.7

He's a reporter for Time magazine, and he's talking about this small town in Texas called Granbury.

0:30.4

Granbury lies about an hour's drive southwest of Fort Worth.

0:36.3

It's a small town, historic town, with, know, a very charming Main Street, opera house.

0:42.1

It's just a small Texas town, tacos, barbecue.

0:46.9

Andrew recently spent a lot of time in Granbury.

0:50.2

Because over the past couple of years, something sort of strange started happening in town.

0:58.1

Yeah, so a lot of people actually who I talked to down there said that they moved out there for

1:02.5

the peace and quiet. There were a lot of people who moved from the city, Fort Worth or Dallas,

1:07.4

or from Houston, to Granbury for the Peace. But in the past couple years,

1:12.9

peace has been a little bit hard to come by. There was this sort of humming noise that emerged,

1:19.1

especially at night when the traffic had subsided and crept into people's homes.

1:32.1

And it's a little strange because, you know, a lot of people sleep with a, like, a white noise machine.

1:33.1

But this, it became different.

1:35.9

It was a different sort of hump.

1:37.6

There was a vibrational aspect to it.

1:40.2

It was rattling people's windows.

1:42.5

It was sort of shaking their beds.

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