Strange Hour

About Strange Hour

Are you ready for the unknown? Strange Hour unlocks the bizarre, the unexplained, and the truly unsettling stories that defy logic. Every day, Strange Hour plunges you into a world of mysterious disappearances, baffling paranormal encounters, and chilling unsolved mysteries. We explore urban legends, cryptic phenomena, and real-life strange occurrences that will make you question everything you thought you knew. Prepare for compelling narratives and intriguing investigations into the fringe of human experience, from alien encounters to cryptids and conspiracy theories. New episodes arrive daily, seven days a week, at 9:00 AM, ensuring your dose of the strange and peculiar is always ready. Each installment delivers a focused, captivating story, perfect for your morning commute or an evening of contemplation. This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the weird, the unexplained stories, and the dark corners of our world. If you crave true strange tales and enjoy exploring the limits of reality, Strange Hour is your daily destination. Subscribe now and step into the Strange Hour.

Publisher

Creator at Obomedia

Category

fiction · fiction · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jul 2026

Latest episode

3 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

140 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Nov 2026

   The Boxcar That Appeared Where Rails Had Been Gone Eleven Years

   The Boxcar That Appeared Where Rails Had Been Gone Eleven Years Cold metal in the dark: a fifty-three-foot red boxcar sat at the end of a dead track that had no rails for eleven years, with a plastic-and-wire seal whose number matched a seal recorded as destroyed fourteen months earlier-how did it get there without tire marks, crane impressions, or any logged access? Who or what moved a sealed car forty feet onto a section of line that had been uncertified for over a decade? In this episode, we follow the sequence of routine shifts, maintenance checks, and log entries that converge on one impossible scene, and we trace the small mechanical and administrative failures that open the question of how a freight car arrived where records insist it could not. Person: Terry Allen Person: Gordon Green Person: Roy Vasquez Date: September 8 Object: fifty-three-foot red boxcar - The boxcar was observed at 11:20 PM on a Tuesday, sitting at the end of Track Nine where rails had been absent for eleven years. - Yard access logs showed no unauthorized entry in the 72 hours before Terry Allen reported the car. - The plastic-and-wire seal on the boxcar matched a Dexter Agricultural seal number that the database recorded as destroyed 14 months earlier. - A relay in the switching board controlling the approach to Track Nine had been found degraded and reset to a disabled position during calibration the previous Friday. - The boxcar rolled 40 feet-the exact length of buried rail that had never been removed from the switch end after an eleven-year-old derailment. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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   2 Nov 2026

   The Basement Curtain Moved - Nobody Can Explain Why

   The Basement Curtain Moved - Nobody Can Explain Why A single curtain in a locked, empty dormitory shifted on a still August morning - and that photograph traveled fast enough to pull someone back after eleven years. The image came with a smell that former residents say felt like a hot iron on cotton; what connected that odor to a twenty-two-day maintenance log gap and forty-seven burned bundles of institutional linen is still unresolved. What was really being hidden beneath Whitmore Hall, and why did one photo trigger a return nobody expected? In this episode, we tell what happened after a photo of a basement window reached a former student, and why she drove back to Whitmore Hall faster than usual. We lay out the timeline from the smell noticed in August 2005 to the locked building’s state in August 2017, and ask why records, linens, and memories point to a pattern that was never fully explained. Person: Erin O'Connor Person: Kelly Hunter Location: Whitmore Hall, Ashford Academy, Caldwell Township, Vermont Date: August 3, 2017 Event: 22-day maintenance log gap and 47 bundles of linen burned off-site - The basement window photographed measured 18 inches wide by 22 inches tall. - The building had been empty and unused for eleven years when the curtain moved. - Kelly Hunter was 28 years old and drove from six hours away in under 5 hours and 40 minutes after seeing the photo. - The maintenance log showed an uninterrupted record for 44 years except for a 22-day gap. - Forty-seven bundles of institutional linen were burned off-site on a date that aligns almost exactly with that 22-day gap. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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   1 Nov 2026

   He Walked Home, The Boat Came Back: The Alda Marie Mystery

   He Walked Home, The Boat Came Back: The Alda Marie Mystery Fear that something ordinary can return altered: a 22-foot lobster boat tied correctly to its slip, engine cold enough to touch, and its owner found unconscious eleven miles away - how did the Alda Marie come back by itself in the dark? In this episode, we present the timeline and witness accounts that trace four days in July 2011 around Gregory Keller, the Alda Marie, and a reconstructed journalistic investigation that lasted eight months; can the gaps in fuel, locations, and memory be reconciled into one explanation? Person: Gregory Keller Event: Boat trip departure and disappearance beginning July 10, 2011 Location: Willet's Cove harbor; Jonesport marina; Chandler's Neck boatyard; boat ramp eleven miles away Investigation: Eight-month journalistic reconstruction by Cheryl Davis - The Alda Marie is a 1997 lobster boat, 22 feet long, white hull with blue trim. - On July 11, 2011 Keller pumped 19 gallons of diesel at Jonesport, receipt signed and left aboard. - The boat’s fuel consumption was about 1 gallon per nautical mile and the tank capacity was 30 gallons. - A motion light at Chandler’s Neck lit a white hull on the night of July 12; the observer said the engine idled with a hesitant throttle. - On the morning of July 14 at 6:40 AM, Keith Mitchell found the Alda Marie tied at slip seven and its owner was later found unconscious on a boat ramp eleven miles away. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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