Certainly Strange

When 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 strange and sometimes unexplainable tales of our past, ranging from unsolved murders to urban myths about something lurking in the woods... Each episode features another of these strange tales, every one of them claimed to be true.New episodes air each Friday.Listen to episodes on YouTube, Spotify, or Castbox!For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com

Have 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 sometimes unexplainable tales of our past, ranging from unsolved murders to urban myths about something lurking in the woods... Each episode features another of these strange tales, every one of them claimed to be true.New episodes air each Friday.Listen to episodes on YouTube, Spotify, or Castbox!For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com

Stranded 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 worst nightmare, or the worst nightmare of your parents. This is not just some strange and scary scenario that I have thought of myself – no, this was the reality of Brandon Swanson, who, at 3:10 am on May 14th, 2008, vanished without a trace, whilst talking on the phone with his parents.Certainly Strange is a podcast about the strange and sometimes unexplainable tales of our past, ranging from unsolved murders to urban myths about something lurking in the woods... Each episode features another of these strange tales, every one of them claimed to be true.New episodes air each Friday.Listen to episodes on YouTube, Spotify, or Castbox!For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com

Sometimes 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 from unsolved murders to urban myths about something lurking in the woods... Each episode features another of these strange tales, every one of them claimed to be true.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com

You 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 lurking in the woods... Each episode features another of these strange tales, every one of them claimed to be true.New episodes air each Friday.For a full transcript of the episode and the sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com

Do 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 sources used in the research, visit www.certainlystrange.com

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.com

Being 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.com

They 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 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.com