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Are you ready to question everything you thought you knew? Strange Stories uncovers the world's most baffling and inexplicable events.

From chilling paranormal encounters and unsolved mysteries to bizarre historical events and unbelievable true tales, we delve into the unknown. Each episode is a deep dive into narratives that defy logic, offering meticulously researched accounts and compelling storytelling that will keep you on the edge of your seat. We explore everything from cryptids and UFO sightings to strange disappearances and urban legends, making the unbelievable feel incredibly real.

New episodes of Strange Stories are released daily, Monday through Sunday, at 7:00 PM. Tune in for your daily dose of the peculiar and the profound, presented in an engaging narrative format designed to spark your imagination and curiosity.

This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the bizarre, the unexplained, and the thrilling side of reality. If you crave stories that challenge your perceptions and leave you wondering, you've found your next obsession.

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  • The Midnight Coal No One Should Have Seen
    Jul 30 2026
    The Midnight Coal No One Should Have Seen

    A retired teacher finds a fire rekindled beside his sleeping tarp and wood in the ring that isn't his - a coal had been burning underground and someone else had cut and left tulip poplar in the pit. How did a careful, experienced outdoorsman wake to a blaze he swears he had put out, and who left the wood?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the night Russell Sharp made camp to the morning Carl Owens discovered a man staring at a fire, and through the four-month reporting that traced the people and clues involved. Listen to hear how a hand-sawn stump, an invisible shelter, and an underground root fire almost close the story - and what detail remains unexplained.

    Person: Russell Sharp
    Person: George Pickett
    Person: Carl Owens
    Date: June 12-14 (night of June 12 to morning of June 14)
    Location: Blackthorn State Forest pull-off

    - Russell Sharp, age 62, retired earth science teacher with 28 years in the classroom and 9 years leading navigation workshops.
    - Carl Owens stopped at the Blackthorn pull-off at 7:40 a.m. on June 14 and saw a man beside a burning fire.
    - George Pickett, age 71, lived on a 42-acre private inholding within Blackthorn and had lived there since 1988.
    - George found a burning coal pressed against a surface root at about 2:00 a.m. on June 13 and then rebuilt the fire using tulip poplar from his stand.
    - Debra Keller spent four months reporting, finding a hand-sawn stump 1.5 miles from Russell's campsite and a 71-year-old man living in a shelter invisible from trails.

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    20 min
  • Locked Line, Dead Phone, Signal at 2:47 AM
    Jul 29 2026
    Locked Line, Dead Phone, Signal at 2:47 AM

    A dead telephone line recorded a returned signal at 2:47 AM on May 5, 2019, even though the junction box had been disconnected six months earlier; what could have triggered a line test in a physically disabled system? A motel room that hadn’t been rented in seven months contained a face-down handset and a printout that said only "Line test - signal returned." How are that log entry, a ringing heard down the hall, and a notebook note connected?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events as recorded and remembered: the system log, the motel owner's account, and the guest who woke to a distant ring and wrote in the dark. We trace where each piece of evidence was found and ask what mechanism could produce a signal on a dead line.

    Person: Gregory Myers
    Location: Saguaro Rest Motel, State Route 93, Calvary Flats area, Nevada
    Date: May 5, 2019 (log timestamped 2:47 AM)
    Owner: Phil Ochoa (motel owner for 14 years)
    Entry: "Line test - signal returned" printed in system queue

    - The phone in room fourteen was face-down on the nightstand with the cord coiled tight.
    - Room fourteen had been taken out of service and its line disconnected at the junction box on October 18 (six months earlier).
    - The system printed a single-page log entry timestamped five minutes before 3:00 AM saying "Line test - signal returned."
    - Gregory Myers, two doors away in room eight, woke "just before three in the morning," counted four rings, and wrote one sentence in his notebook.
    - Kevin Ochoa, a network infrastructure worker, confirmed the line was "physically dead" and that the returned-signal entry should not have been possible.

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    22 min
  • The Envelope That Knew the Flood Before It Happened
    Jul 28 2026
    The Envelope That Knew the Flood Before It Happened

    Fear that history can be lost in a single night - fourteen boxes of nineteenth-century letters turned to pulp before dawn - and a sealed envelope arrived eight days earlier describing the exact failure that caused it. Who sent a typed document dated April 5, 2011 that named the valve, the staircase, and the very collections that would be damaged, and why did one predicted detail still not make sense?

    In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the envelope’s discovery to the flood itself, laying out the maintenance notes, the buried culvert, and the staff actions that followed, and ask how an unfiled warning and a moved ledger changed what survived.

    Person: Todd Fitzgerald
    Date: April 14, 2011
    Location: Mossfield University Special Collections sub-basement
    Event: Drainage valve bracket failure causing flood
    Item: Manila envelope dated April 5, 2011

    - 1:44 AM on April 14, 2011 was the recorded time the valve bracket failed.
    - Fourteen boxes of nineteenth-century correspondence were destroyed before dawn.
    - Biscuit the golden retriever found the sealed envelope on April 9, 2011 at the uprooted birch tree.
    - The envelope contained eleven sheets typed on a manual typewriter dated April 5, 2011.
    - Todd Fitzgerald had moved the Hartwick ledgers approximately two feet higher in September 2010.

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    22 min
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