Odd County Files

By Cory Li

Odd County Files is a documentary-style mystery podcast about strange local stories, coastal folklore, forgotten industrial history, small-town rituals, and unusual facts from the American West Coast ... more

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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.

Odd County Files episodes:

June 20, 2026 The Poisoned Well of St. Austell
🪝 In 1993, the entire population of a quiet Cornish village fell mysteriously ill. Local doctors were baffled. The water supply was tested. What they found changed the village forever.
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14min
June 19, 2026 The Night the Hospital Lost a Body — San Francisco
🪝 In December 1974, a body went missing from San Francisco General Hospital. Not from the morgue. Not from a storage room. From an operating table.
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14min
June 18, 2026 The Vanishing of Edwin C. Smith
🪝 On a warm August morning in 1950, census worker Edwin C. Smith walked into a Kansas wheat field to finish one last interview. He was never seen alive again.
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14min
June 18, 2026 The Island That Sank Twice — The Strange Case of Bermeja
🪝 An island that appeared on maps for over four hundred years was suddenly gone. No storm sank it. No earthquake destroyed it. Bermeja simply vanished.
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14min
June 12, 2026 EP005: The Ghosts of Stanley Hotel
In 1974 Stephen King stayed at an almost empty hotel in Colorado. He had a nightmare. He wrote The Shining. But the ghosts were already there.
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6min
June 12, 2026 EP004: The Island That Sank Twice - Bermeja
An island appeared on maps for 400 years. Then in 1997 it vanished. Billions in oil rights depended on whether it existed or not.
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6min
June 12, 2026 EP003: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
17-year-old Juliane Koepcke fell 18,000 feet into the Amazon rainforest after her plane broke apart mid-air. She survived alone for 11 days.
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5min
June 12, 2026 EP002: Lawn Chair Larry
In 1982, a California man bought 45 weather balloons, strapped them to a lawn chair, and flew to 16,000 feet. The FAA was not amused.
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6min
June 12, 2026 EP001: The Loneliest Phone Booth in the Mojave Desert
A single payphone, miles from anywhere, in the middle of the Mojave Desert. In 1997 the internet discovered it. People drove across the country just to answer it.
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6min
June 09, 2026 Maritime Oddity
California's Accidental Shipwreck Graveyard, Right Under Everyone's Nose
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5min

FAQs about Odd County Files:

How many episodes does Odd County Files have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.