In the late 1800s, the people of Van Meter, Iowa, were beset by a most unwelcome (and stinky) guest who eluded capture and left the residents terrified. Was The Van Meter Visitor real, or just the product of one person's vivid imagination?

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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In the 1970s and early 80s, in the grittier part of Hollywood, where the money, drugs, and body hair were flowing freely, one porn star got himself enmeshed in a world of drugs and violence, a world in which no one would escape.

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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When the brother of an Ohio Congressman was found dead under suspicious circumstances, the investigation into his death was strangely perfunctory and hurried. When the Congressman himself died two years later under suspicious circumstances, everyone said, "Nothing to see here, folks," and his autopsy was sealed. What happened to the Ashbrook brothers, and why?

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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Suspicious Minds podcast. Host Sean King O’Grady talks to psychologists, philosophers, historians, and theologians to understand how AI intersects with apocalyptic planning, analysis, and debate. And most importantly to understand if AI could end the world as we know it. Season 2 of the Webby-nominated podcast is out now. Listen to Suspicious Minds where you’re listening to this podcast.

Conning people into buying bogus "cures" is nothing new. In the early 1900's Linda Hazzard put her own spin on the age-old practice. Her patients would find themselves out much more than the price of her "treatment."

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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In this special two-part crossover, I join Carter Roy, host of Murder: True Crime Stories, to trace the rise of the so-called paradise on the island of Floreana, the strange settlers who built it, and the slow unraveling that would soon turn the Enchanted Islands into one of the strangest unsolved cases of the 20th century.

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Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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There is a road in Ohio ominously called Gore Orphanage Road. In a classic case of a snake eating its tail, the road's evocative name (named only in part for an orphanage that had once stood there) inspired tales of terror. But were those tales true, or just the morphing of various legends blended over time?

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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On May 22nd, 2011, one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history struck the town of Joplin, Missouri. After the dust settled, survivors began sharing stories of ethereal, otherworldly beings who protected them and kept them alive, or shepherded their loved ones to the other side. What exactly were The Butterfly People of Joplin?

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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Dorothy Kilgallen spent her career doggedly sniffing out the truth and that really pissed off J. Edgar Hoover and his minions. And then she was found dead in her home under extremely suspicious circumstances. They wanted us to think she killed herself. If she'd still been alive, she never would have let them get away with it.

Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com

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