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Certainly StrangeAliens.That's right! You've read the title correctly! ALIENS. Apparently, we're doing that now. Ughhhhhhhh. Just listen to this episode so I'll never have to talk about aliens again. Please.
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(yes, I finally managed to get my hands on that URL. Imagine some confetti. There, a party.)2024-11-2924 minCertainly StrangeWhat Lurks Beneath: A Small History of Sea MonstersIn the ocean many things are hidden. Ever since the beginning of times people have feared the sea. And rightfully so. Even today, we know frighteningly little about what lurks beneath. It is no wonder, then, that maps of the world have the images of terrifying sea monsters drawn into them. For what sort of creatures could live in those greats depts and salt waters, beyond storms, if not monsters?
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2024-11-1516 minCertainly StrangeThe Ghost of Ghost Alley: Murder and Ghosts of the Amsterdam Red Light DistrictIt is 8 am at Zeedijk in Amsterdam. Every day I pass through this area on my way to work, preferring it over the tourist packed road to Dam Square. Yet never had I given thought to one of the small alleys that lead off of Zeedijk. ‘Spook steeg’, or ‘Ghost Alley’, is its name. For years this alley was under lock and key, after having issues with drug dealers and junkies – and, if one is to believe the stories... a ghost.
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2024-11-0119 minCertainly StrangePossessed By A Boardgame: The Ouija Demon, The Murder of Nellie Herd, and other strange stories (Halloween Special part 2)Nearly everyone who has ever dared to lay a finger on a Ouija board has a story. Of strange knocking, shaking tables, the Ouija board making strange moves, of strange voices in the darkness - Not all of these can be explained with science. So, let me tell you some of these strangest of stories; of demons, of ghosts, of possessions, and even… of murder. Happy Halloween.
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2024-10-2521 minCertainly StrangeTrial By Ouija Board: The Murder of Harry and Nicola Fuller (Halloween Special part 1)When you walk across a graveyard, on a gloomy
day in October – there is one truth that will resonate through the cold and the rain and the grey clouds that float overhead; the dead are silent.
But, what if there was a tool to make the dead speak? Why wouldn’t we speak to those who have died? Especially when you are trying to solve their murder…
Happy Halloween!
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2024-10-1820 minCertainly StrangeHow To Haunt A House: The Spooks of The Monte Cristo HomesteadThere sat a house upon the hill – in its days of splendour it was a mansion where great balls where held and where the local gentry spent their days playing tennis and golf. For all those who looked upon it, it inspired dreams of the better life. But that was a long time ago. Now, the house that sat upon that hill could only inspire nightmares...
CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes mentions of SA, child abuse, and suicide. If you yourself are struggling with suicidal thoughts, know that help is available:
...2024-09-2720 minCertainly StrangeDon't F*ck With Nature: The Mystery of the Missing 411Thousands of people go missing in the wilderness in the United States, some to be never found again – and others to be found, dead or alive, in a state that offers more questions than answers...
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2024-09-1338 minCertainly StrangeWho Killed Mozart?: The Strange Death of Amadeus MozartA knock came at the door. Amadeus Mozart received an anonymous request for a requiem (a death mass). Not long after - he was dead. This has made people speculate, was the requiem requested by his killer? After all, hadn't Mozart said he thought he was being poisoned? But if that is true... who killed Mozart?
Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast2024-09-0626 minCertainly StrangeDear David: A Twitter Horror Story“So, my apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child and he’s trying to kill me.”
This was tweeted on Augustus 7th, 2017, by animator Adam Ellis. His comics are often light-hearted, but this was something completely different. For months, Adam would record his experiences being haunted on Twitter, becoming the very first Twitter horror story.2024-08-3039 minCertainly StrangeThe Worst of Luck: The Disappearance of the Yuba County FiveJoseph Schons was having the worst day of his life. He was sitting in the snow with his Volkswagen Beetle, in the middle of nowhere, and he was stuck. And worse – he suddenly started feeling a tightness in his chest that could only mean one thing; he was having a heart attack. Schons decided to hike the 8 miles back to the bar where he had first came from. On his way, Schons passed a blue 1969 Mercury Montego left abandoned in the snow, not knowing that he had just passed the car that would become a centre piece in a pu...2024-08-2340 minCertainly StrangeEd And Lorraine Warren's Cabinet of CuriositiesEd and Lorraine Warren. Anyone who loves to dive into stories of haunted houses and demonic possessions knows these two names. Of their many cases, they often brought home items that were said to be haunted or possessed and they put them in a room in their house, their own special way of guarding the rest of the world
from the horrors that these items were capable of. This room would become the Warrens’ Occult Museum and each of the items on display there have their own story to tell.
Follow us over on In...2024-04-2637 minCertainly StrangeThe Ghosts of Versailles: A Time Travel IncidentConsidering the history of the Chateau de Versailles, it is no wonder that there rumours that the chateau and its gardens are haunted. And according to two women, they have seen the ghost of Marie Antoinette. Or perhaps it was not a ghost at all...
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2024-04-1927 minCertainly StrangeMurdering The Mad Monk: The Many Deaths of RasputinThe last days of the Romanovs, of the Tsardom of Russia, are stained with blood and mystery – yet all of it seems to be overshadowed by a figure of true strangeness, whose sudden appearance on the world stage can only be deemed as completely absurd. Yet, his rise to power seems to pale in comparison to his death – or rather, his utter refusal to die.
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2024-04-0552 minCertainly StrangeThe Black Cat And The Hex Murder of 1934It had been seven years – seven long, depressing, cursed years. Literally, cursed. It had been eight years since Susan Mummey, “the witch of Ringtown Valley,” had cursed Albert Shinsky. It drove him mad. No, it drove him more than mad: it drove him to murder.
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2024-03-2924 minCertainly StrangeThe Man Who Could Eat Everything: The Curious Case of TarrareHe is… thin?! That’s what everyone immediately thought when they met the strange man that they had heard so much about. Despite the fact that he could eat and eat and eat, anything and everything, Tarrare was severely underweight. And what he ate – would turn your stomach.
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2024-03-1517 minCertainly StrangeA Stranger Walks Into A Lobby: The Puzzling Murder of Room 1046On January 2, 1935, at 1:20 p.m., a stranger in a long overcoat stepped into the lobby of the President Hotel in Kansas City. Two days later, he would be found stabbed in a locked room within the same hotel. It is the sort of murder mystery that would feature in a story with a detective like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Benoit Blanc. But it truly did happen.
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2024-03-0824 minCertainly StrangeWant To Play A Game?: The Mystery of Cicada 3301In the vast landscape of the internet, amidst the memes, cat videos, and the weekly celebrity being cancelled by social media, there lays a world of wonder, of online sleuths solving cold cases, of hackers exposing government secrets… and in 2012, a mystery was born.
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2024-03-0134 minCertainly StrangeThe Skinwalker Murder of 1987If a stranger calls out to you at night, a voice so very human but
distant, it is best you do not listen. Do not follow that voice into the night – you do not know what will wait for you there. Fear for Skinwalkers runs deep and the belief that they are real is still very much alive. Still, it shocked the nation when a woman was killed in Flaggstaff Arizona in 1987 and the defense of the main suspect claimed that it was not him – but a skinwalker who had killed her.
Follow us on i...2024-02-1630 minCertainly StrangeA Madness Sandwich: Pont-Saint-Esprit and the CIA Mind Control Experiments
A little girl screamed as she was being chased by man-eating tigers. A husband and wife chased each other with knives in their hands. A man smashed all his furniture in an attempt to fend off the terrible beasts that hunted him. A woman cried over how her little children had been ground into sausages.
The village of Pont-Saint-Esprit had gone mad. But why? It was all because of… bread! But some people speculate something dark was at play here…
Follow us on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast2024-02-0916 minCertainly StrangeEvery Hotel Has Got A Ghost: The Hauntings of The Stanley HotelThe weather was horrendous. A storm was brewing as Stephen and his wife Tabatha were driving through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. From a distance, they could see a building, massive, bright white and with a crimson roof that made it stand out against the dark clouds. The hotel that was dawning before them
had been recommended by some of the locals, and as they checked in, they were informed that they would be the only guests staying in the hotel that night, as the hotel was about to close for the winter. They had dinner in the dining...2024-02-0220 minCertainly StrangeHave You Seen This Man?: The Man Everyone Dreams OfA face has been haunting me. Not that of a friend, or a colleague, and no – not my own. It is a face that I saw on the internet, a single drawing of a man’s face. This man’s face gives me such an unsettling feeling in my gut, a feeling of dread that creeps up my spine and gets a hold of me. And when I read the story behind the face, I grew even more disturbed. But that was not even the whole of the story…
Rate and review us at Spotify...2024-01-2617 minCertainly Strange:) - The Smiley Face Killers“I don’t know where I am. I’m so cold. Please help me, I’m lost.” These were the words spoken by Dakota James, a 23 year-old student in Pittsburgh on the evening of December the 15th, 2016, when calling his friend, Shelley. 5 weeks later, on January the 25th, Dakota James disappeared. His case would be one similar to hunderds more in America...
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2024-01-1935 minCertainly StrangeHALLOWEEN SPECIAL: The White LadiesAs you wander into the fields near my village, you will find little hills. They are graves - the burial mounds of an ancient people. And as the fog rises between these mounds, the people around here whisper the name Witte Wieven, or White Ladies... but who or what are they? Dive into the most famous piece of Dutch Folklore with me for this Halloween special!
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2023-10-2715 minCertainly StrangeObey Or Else: The Circleville LettersEveryone has secrets, even in a village where everyone seems to know everyone. Perhaps even especially in small villages such as those. But this anonymous writer seemed to know all of them, of everyone. About the things that happened between closed doors. An unseen stalker in the shadows, lurking where you least expect it. Like big brother, watching you. Inhabitants of the small village of Circleville received more than 1000 letters over the span of 20 years by an anonymous writer who threatened people to reveal all their secrets – and if they didn’t, people would die. And this writer didn’t just...2023-09-0839 minCertainly StrangeDo You Fear The Big Bad Wolf?: The Werewolf Scare of the 1500sThere live things in the forest that you know to fear. There is always
something lurking in the shadows that is out to get you. If you were a farmer anywhere during the middle ages, or even in the ages that came after that, there was one creature that you feared most of all. The wolf.
We have all heard about how much people used to fear witches, but wolves, or rather, people who had the ability to change their shape into that of a wolf, were perhaps even more frighting. And in some cases, we are...2023-09-0117 minCertainly StrangeA Strange History of Masked BallsFrom bigfoot to trees, from nearly burning a king alive to a vintage attempt at Transformers... When you think of masked balls, you probably think of wide halls and chandeliers, women dressed in beautiful gowns and men in elaborate suits, their faces hidden behind colourful masks. But as much as media likes to romanticize these masquerades, the history behind them can be quite strange and quite gruesome at times. But mostly, it’s just strange.
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2023-08-2512 minCertainly StrangeThe Man In The Iron MaskIt was the 1680´s in France, the time of Louis XIV, The Sun King, a rule under which France thrived into becoming the jewel of Europe. But, as they say, the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows. In a solitary cell in the Bastille sat a man, his face obscured by a deep black velvet mask. No one was allowed to know his identity or to know his face, and the man was not allowed to speak.
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2023-08-0426 minCertainly StrangeThe Mystery Writer Who Became A Mystery: The Vanishing of Agatha ChristieThe greatest mystery of Agatha Christie is herself. On December 4, 1926, she vanished and was nowhere to be found. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains mentions of suicidal thoughts
This episode features a promo for the podcast Shitting Bricks.
Follow us on instagram @certainlystrangethepodcast or visit our website, www.certainlystrange.com2023-07-2824 minCertainly StrangeThe Curse of MacbethDouble double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble. These lines will forever be associated with witchcraft. Not just because these lines are spoken by witches, but also because the play these lines are from is believed to be cursed. THIS EPISODE INCLUDES SEVERAL MENTIONS OF SUICIDE.
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2023-07-2115 minCertainly StrangeThe House That Kills: The Curse of The Palazzo DarioHome is where the heart is. Your home is your most sacred space, where you feel guarded and safe from the dangers of the outside world. But, if the stories are to be believed, there is one house in particular that wishes nothing but harm upon anyone who dares live inside its walls.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains several mentions of cases of suicide.
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2023-07-1416 minCertainly StrangeSleeping Beauty: The Sleeping Girl of TurvilleIt seems to be straight out of the storybooks of the brothers Grimm. A girl who fell asleep and who did not wake up for 9 whole years. That is, if we are to believe the story. But perhaps this real-life fairytale has a darker side to it that you might expect...
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2023-07-0725 minCertainly StrangeThe Secret of Glamis CastleSome secrets are made to be found out with time, yet some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. The latter speaks for the secret of Glamis Castle, so very dark no one dared speak of it – until it was lost to time. But with enough clues, we might deduce the nature of this mystery. And if what I have found is true, these secrets of the castle are quite dark indeed.
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2023-06-3013 minCertainly StrangeRatcatcher: The Mystery of the Missing Children of HamlinWe have nothing to fear from fairy tales. The evil witches and wicked stepmothers are nothing more than words on the pages of a book, the tales of our own imagination and nothing more. But this is not true for all fairy tales. Some fairy tales, you see, are true. And one of these tales is the story of a ratcatcher who stole 130 children away from the German city of Hamelin, never to be seen again.
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Certainly StrangeThe Death of The Swan King: The Mysterious Death of King Ludwig IIThere lay two bodies in the shallow water, dead, and one of them was a king. King Ludwig II of Bavaria had many names. The mad king, the fairy tale king, the swan king. He loved nothing more than fairy tales, and the buildings he commissioned seemed truly as if they had come straight out of a story book. How terrible, then, that his life should change into a tragedy, a murder mystery no one quite seems to be able to solve. There, the two bodies lay in the shallow water, dead, and neither of them had drowned.
2023-01-2718 minCertainly StrangeI Do Believe In Fairies: The Cottingley Fairy AffairWe all tell a white lie once in a while, simply because it is convenient. But imagine one of those simple, small lies spinning out of control so thoroughly that you suddenly are in the spotlights of an entire nation, with one of the most famous writers in history swearing that your little lie is the truth. This is exactly what happened with Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths when they tried to trick their mothers into thinking that fairies were real – simply so that they would not be mad at them for making their clothes wet.
Follow us...2023-01-2016 minCertainly StrangeHow To Fake A Haunting: The "Most Haunted House" in EnglandThe footsteps stopped right in front of her room, like they did every night. Ethel lay in bed, frozen in fear with her bedsheets pulled up to her chin. She hardly even dared to breathe, afraid that whomever – or whatever, was outside of her door would hear her. Then came the knocks, and then the whispers, hardly audible even in the silence of the night. But there was something, she could sense it. And what else would you expect, when you are a kid living in the most haunted house in England. The most haunted house – an impressive title in a...2023-01-1321 min
Certainly StrangeThe Devil's Own Gang of Thieves: The BuckridersIn the 18th century, in the Netherlands and Belgium there were whispers of demons who rode goats through the night sky, robbing any house and church they came upon. Even though witches and fairies have, for most people, faded into the back pages of history as nothing more than fairy tales, I can assure you, the Buckriders were quite real. For more, follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast or visit our website, certainlystrange.com2022-12-3016 min
Certainly StrangeThe True Hauntings of The Phantom of The OperaLot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. – These lines feature at the opening of the musical The Phantom of the Opera, an adaptation of a book by the same name. There might be a little bit more truth to the fiction than one might think, however, when on may 20th, 1896 the weights of the chandelier of the Paris Opera broke and killed a woman in the audience. Yes, rumours had already long echoed through the halls of the Paris Opera. The opera wa...2022-12-2308 min
Certainly StrangeSomeone Inside The House: The Mystery of The Hinterkaifeck MurdersThe house was haunted. The housemaid swore by it. She heard footsteps coming from the attic and strange voices in the walls. Things were displaced whilst everyone swore that they hadn’t touched them. There was only one explanation according to Kreszenz Rieger and that was that the farm on which she worked was haunted. But was it, really?This episode includes a promo for Paranomal Exposed. Follow us on instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast or visit our website, certainlystrange.com2022-12-1622 min
Certainly StrangeThe Legend Of The Flying DutchmanThe sea is deep and dark and as much of a mystery to us as the starry skies that we look up to at night, and it has frightened us since the beginning of time. Wherever ships went, whispers of sea monsters were carried on the wind, and stories of ghost ships that seem to never lay anchor, doomed to forever dwell in the unending blue. And the most famous of all these ghost stories is that of the Flying Dutchman.This episode can be viewed over on YouTube on the channel Anemone Nova. Visit certainlystrange.com for more info...2022-12-0916 min
Certainly StrangeMurdered By A Ghost: The Bloody Mysteries of the Hoosac TunnelWhen tragedy strikes, there tends to be an echo. It leaves this thick atmosphere of grief and misfortune; some call them ghosts. Though tragic, they are altogether harmless, aren’t they? When Ringo Kelley was found strangled on the exact spot that his friends had died; deaths that he had been responsible for, people could not help but scratch their heads, wondering whether the dead had returned from the grave to exact their revenge. This week's episode includes a promo for the podcast Haunted or Hoax. Find them wherever you listen to podcasts.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the str...2022-11-2514 min
Certainly StrangeGlitch: The Bizarre Phenomenon of Experiencing A Different DimensionHave you ever felt strange, like something is just not quite right but you can’t exactly explain why? Have you ever stepped into a room that seemed to exist on an entire different layer of reality, or have had an interaction with a person that the next moment just wasn’t there? There are many stories online about people claiming to have accidentally stumbled into a different dimension, and though only for a short moment it has left a lasting mark on them, questioning the very fabric of our reality. Certainly Strange is a podcast about the strange and somet...2022-11-1831 min
Certainly StrangeWithout A Trace: The Puzzling Disappearance of Brandon SwansonStranded in the middle of the night with your car stuck in a ditch. It is a place and time where all manner of things can happen, and I imagine that all the worse scenarios run through your mind as you try to call for help. Your friends don’t pick up their phone – of course, it is the middle of the night. But luckily your parents do. They agree to come and get you, and all is well, isn’t it? But all those horror scenarios that you’ve thought up – they might yet come true. It might sound like your...2022-11-1130 min
Certainly StrangeThe Phantom Figure: Emilie Sagee And The Strange History of DoppelgangersSometimes you get the feeling that you are not quite alone, but as you look around, there is no one there. Yet again there is that feeling like there is someone standing right behind you. It is one of those common feelings of paranoia everybody gets once in a while. But in one instance in history it seems that this feeling was quite right, as the students of a girl’s school later swore, their teacher had a doppelganger, standing always right behind her. Certainly Strange is a podcast about the strange and sometimes unexplainable tales of our past, ranging fro...2022-11-0423 min
Certainly StrangeThe Axeman: The Villisca Axe MurdersYou perhaps feel safest when you are in your own bed, underneath the blankets, under the silent cover of night. But this is also the time when you feel most vulnerable. It is not without reason that children cry out in the night about a monster underneath the bed. We all fear the bogeyman and the chance that he might be lurking in the dark shadows of the night, and for some, this fear becomes reality. Certainly Strange is a podcast about the strange and sometimes unexplainable tales of our past, ranging from unsolved murders to urban myths about something l...2022-10-3117 min
Certainly StrangeTrailer Certainly StrangeHistory is filled with the strangest stories, and I love diving into them and finding out what’s really behind them. Who was the man in the iron mask? How did Rasputin survive being murdered multiple times? And what’s the deal with the missing children of Hamlin? My podcast, certainly strange, is a collection of bizarre tales such as these. In each episode, I tell one of these stories and try to solve their puzzle, or at least share a theory or two.
If this sounds interesting to you, come and join me on this journey thro...2022-10-0900 min
Certainly StrangeThe Watcher of 657 BoulevardDo you know that feeling of being watched, that feeling upon your back, creeping up your spine, that you are not alone? Imagine that feeling, that lingering feeling, and living with it for the rest of your life? This is the nightmare faced by Maria and Derek Broaddus. And it all started simply with a letter, delivered to their newly bought home, signed The Watcher.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the...2022-01-2121 min
Certainly StrangeBait and Switch: The Case of 'Not Townsend'William Townsend was an everyday sort of criminal. All his criminal acts were quite ordinary. Though brutal and vile acts, they lacked any type of pizazz or showmanship. You might wonder how such an unnoteworthy person could have become the centrepiece of one of the greatest criminal mysteries of the 19th century.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2022-01-1415 min
Certainly StrangeThe Lighthouse Keepers: The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Flannan Isles Lighthouse KeepersBeing a lighthouse keeper is a lonely business. Especially when you are located on an island with no other people around besides your colleagues. There are only grass planes and an endless grey sea. There is nowhere to go. What, then, if all lighthouse keepers suddenly disappeared?Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2022-01-0717 min
Certainly StrangeThey Ate The Prime Minister: The Murders Of The Brothers De WittThey ate the prime minister. Quite a gruesome sentence, isn’t it? But it was exactly what happened in the Netherlands in 1672. Johan de Witt was blamed for everything that went wrong. Under his rule, the Republic had flourished as the greatest trading nation in the world and possessed the greatest fleet upon the sea under the command of the great admiral Michiel de Ruyter. But when war broke out on four fronts and economic troubles began, Johan was the one who was blamed.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be...2021-12-3110 min
Certainly StrangeUnsinkable: The Predictions Of The Sinking Of The TitanicThe year was 1898, and author Norman Robertson published a novel called ‘Futility: The Wreck of the Titan’ In the book, Robertson tells the tragic story of a ship he called The Titan, taking travellers from South Hampton to New York. A ship described as unsinkable. Of course, it was not unsinkable, as you might have guessed from the title of the book. But how did it sink? Well, it hit an iceberg. It sounds eerily familiar, doesn’t it?Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New ep...2021-12-2408 min
Certainly StrangeTwo Red Eyes: The Legend of The MothmanThey had just driven past an abandoned generator plant when they saw… something. A huge figure in the darkness, just off the side of the road. And it was watching them. With huge, blood-red eyes.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-12-1714 min
Certainly StrangeA Haunted Painting: The Curse of The Crying Boy PaintingsThere were flames everywhere. The fire licked at the curtains and ate away on the carpet, reducing everything in the home to ash. The fire had been caused by a charred frying pan and had spread quickly throughout the house. There was nothing left of the home of Ron and Mary Hall. The fire had destroyed everything in its path. Everything, except for one painting. The painting of a crying boy.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full...2021-12-1012 min
Certainly StrangeThe Ghost WriterOne late night in 1984, Ken Webster and his girlfriend Debbie came home from a night out in the town. As they arrived at the house, nothing seemed especially out of the ordinary, but what they found inside was something… strange. In the dark, the green letters flickered as a message had appeared on their computer.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-12-0314 min
Certainly Strange"I Die": The Mystery of The S.S. Ourang MedanThe mystery of the Ourang Medan belongs to the secrets that the sea will never surrender. Although I have seen the ship myself, although I have seen the twenty-two dead sailors and their officers on the deck and on the bridge of the Ourang Medan myself and have touched them, I cannot explain the fate that befell the ship and its crew.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in...2021-11-2614 min
Certainly StrangeThe Ghosts of the Japanese Taxi ServiceA woman wearing a winter coat climbed into a taxi near Ishinomaki station. She asked the driver to take her to Minamihama district, to which he responded, “There is nothing left there. Why to Minamihama? And aren’t you hot wearing that coat?” Then the woman asked him in a trembling voice, “Am I dead?”Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-11-1912 min
Certainly StrangeThe Terror of London: The Urban Myth of Spring-Heeled JackThe Victorian era was a time of shadows and superstitions. In every corner of London’s dark streets lived a mystery or a monster. One of the most popular and certainly strange urban legends of this time is the story of the leaping devil, Spring-Heeled Jack.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-11-1221 min
Certainly Strange"Robert Did It!": The Story of A Haunted DollRobert was never intended to be sold as a toy. Robert was actually a clown or jester, meant to serve as a window display for a toy store. Perhaps this is why he had such a… mischievous nature.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-11-0518 min
Certainly StrangeThe Murder That Never Was: The Mystery of The "Death" of James HarrisonA murder was committed, a confession was made... All the police needed now, was a body. But the body would turn up quite differently than anyone expected.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-10-2912 min
Certainly StrangeA Cursed Ship: The Strange Occurrences on The Mary Celeste12 days long, the Mary Celeste had sailed without crew and without a clue of what might have happened to them.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-10-2212 min
Certainly StrangeTo Kill A Ghost: The Murder of The Hammersmith GhostUsually, ghosts are harmless. But this was not the case with the ghost that haunted Hammersmith.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the unexplainable. Each episode features another strange tale, claimed to be based on true events.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com2021-10-1516 min