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House of Strange
House of Strange is a weekly dark history and folklore podcast explore the world's most chilling historical crimes, unsolved mysteries, and ancient legends. Dive deep into the supernatural beliefs, spooky urban legends, and unexplained events from around the world that blur the line between reality and the unknown. If you love macabre tales, weird history, and eerie true stories, subscribe to discover why the world is far stranger than you think.
Episodes
House of StrangeThe Knight Who Fell: Gilles de Rais and the Crimes of a Medieval Knight
Once celebrated as a hero of France, Gilles de Rais fought alongside Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years’ War, rising to become one of the wealthiest and most…
House of StrangeThe Prince of Fear: Vlad the Impaler
Few rulers in history have inspired as much terror as Vlad the Impaler, the fifteenth-century prince of Wallachia whose brutality helped inspire the legend of…
House of StrangeThe Stranger Who Knew Too Much: Count Cagliostro
In 18th-century Europe, a mysterious figure emerged from obscurity and captivated the royal courts with claims of ancient wisdom, miraculous healing, and…
House of StrangeThe Immortal Stranger: The Count of Saint-Germain
The Count of Saint-Germain seemed to appear from nowhere. Moving through the royal courts of 18th-century Europe, he spoke multiple languages, displayed…
House of StrangeThe Village That Disappeared: The Lost Colony of Roanoke
In 1587, more than one hundred English settlers established a colony on Roanoke Island. Three years later, Governor John White returned to find the settlement…
House of StrangeThe Man No One Knew: The Somerton Man
In December 1948, the body of an unidentified man was discovered on Somerton Beach near Adelaide, Australia. With no identification, labels removed from his…
House of StrangeThe Boy With No Past: The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
In 1828, a mysterious young man named Kaspar Hauser appeared on the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, carrying two letters and claiming to have spent much of his…
House of StrangeThe Children Who Vanished: The Princes in the Tower
In 1483, two young brothers disappeared inside the Tower of London and became the center of one of the most enduring mysteries in English history. Edward V and…
House of StrangeThe Face No One Saw: The Man in the Iron Mask
For more than three centuries, the identity of the prisoner remembered as the Man in the Iron Mask has remained one of the most enduring mysteries of French…
House of StrangeThe Attic Files: The Accused
An accusation of witchcraft could destroy a life long before guilt was ever proven. In the return of The Attic Files, The House of Strange explores three…
House of StrangeThe Blood Countess: The Legend of Elizabeth Báthory
Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Hungarian noblewoman remembered as the Blood Countess, has become one of history’s most notorious figures. From Čachtice Castle…
House of StrangeThe Werewolf of Dole: The Trial of Gilles Garnier
In 1573, Gilles Garnier was put on trial in Dole, France, accused of crimes that would make him infamous as the Werewolf of Dole. As fear of werewolves and…
House of StrangeThe Cannibal Clan of Scotland: The Legend of Sawney Bean
The legend of Sawney Bean is one of Scotland’s darkest and most enduring tales. According to the story, Bean and his family lived hidden in a coastal cave…
House of StrangeThe Story You Are Not Supposed to Tell: Kuchisake-onna
Kuchisake-onna, the Slit-Mouthed Woman, is one of Japan’s most terrifying and enduring urban legends. According to the story, a masked woman approaches…
House of StrangeYou Don't Answer the Call: Voices in Scandinavian Folklore
Across Scandinavian and Northern European folklore, a strange warning appears again and again: if you hear your name called in the wilderness, do not answer…
House of StrangeHe Arrives Before Himself: The Fetch of Irish Folklore
In Irish folklore, the fetch is a mysterious double of a living person, an apparition whose appearance could be interpreted as an omen of approaching death…
House of StrangeThe Attic Files: The Shape Fear Prefers
Across cultures, fear takes different forms, but the patterns beneath them can feel strangely familiar. In this episode of The Attic Files, we explore six…
House of StrangeBONUS - Forgotten Echoes: This Wasn't Meant to Last
In 1408, a marriage was recorded at Hvalsey Church in Greenland. Names were written. Witnesses were listed. It was an ordinary entry, created with the same…
House of StrangeThose Who Leave Do Not Return: The Qivittoq
In Greenlandic folklore, the qivittoq is someone who leaves their community behind and disappears into the wilderness, crossing a boundary between exile and…
House of StrangeThe Sound That Made People Turn Back: The Ozark Howler
Deep in the Ozark Mountains, stories persist of a mysterious creature known as the Ozark Howler, a beast identified as much by its terrifying cry as by the…
House of StrangeThe Attic Files: Places That Notice You
Some places become famous not simply for what happened there, but for what people continue to experience after they arrive. In this episode of The Attic Files…
House of StrangeBONUS - Liminal Notes: When Did This Become Normal?
here are moments when something changes… quietly. Not all at once. Not enough to name. Just enough to notice — and then, over time, enough to forget that it…
House of StrangeThe Winter Before The End: The Year Without a Summer
In 1816, summer seemed to disappear. Temperatures plunged, frost and snow struck during months that should have been warm, crops failed, and communities across…
House of StrangeThe Bell That Still Rings: The Lost Town of Dunwich
Once one of medieval England’s most important coastal towns, Dunwich was slowly consumed by the North Sea. Powerful storms battered the Suffolk coast, churches…
House of StrangeBONUS - Forgotten Echoes: Somebody Remembered This
Not every story survives intact. Some arrive in fragments — a line in an old record, a memory passed quietly between generations, a moment that refuses to…
House of StrangeThe Attic Files: Where Dreams Begin to Overlap
Dreams are supposed to belong to the person dreaming them. But across history and cultures, there are accounts suggesting the boundaries between dreams may not…
House of StrangeThe Dog At The Threshold: Black Shuck
In 1577, a violent storm struck East Anglia as something terrifying was said to enter the churches at Bungay and Blythburgh: a great black dog whose appearance…
House of StrangeWhere The Road Decides: Roads in Folklre
Across folklore, roads are more than ways of getting from one place to another. They are boundaries where travelers can become lost, misled, or drawn away from…
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The Hollow Earth and the Edge of Reason
For centuries, stories have imagined hidden worlds beneath our feet, but the Hollow Earth theory transformed ancient ideas of subterranean realms into…
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The Attic Files: Dreams of the Dead
Can dreams warn of death, carry messages from those we've lost, or reveal something before it happens? In this episode of The Attic Files, we explore six…
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The Ghost of Greenbrier
In 1897, the death of Zona Heaster Shue in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, became the center of one of America’s strangest murder cases and the legend now…
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The Mothman's Warning
In 1966, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, became the center of a strange series of sightings involving the creature now known as the Mothman. Witnesses described…
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The Attic Files: Haunted Objects and Memory
Can an object become haunted by the people who owned it, the events surrounding it, or simply the stories we continue to tell about it? In this episode of The…
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The Shadow Over Bennington: The Bennington Triangle
Between 1945 and 1950, a series of mysterious disappearances in southwestern Vermont helped create the legend now known as the Bennington Triangle. Centered…
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The Curse of the Dybbuk: The Dybbuk Box
In 2001, an antique wine cabinet appeared on eBay accompanied by a frightening story: it supposedly contained a malevolent spirit known as a dybbuk. The object…
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The Attic Files: Alien Myths or Human Patterns?
Before UFOs became flying saucers and alien encounters became part of popular culture, a series of strange sightings helped shape how America imagined visitors…
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The Lights Over Flatwoods: The Flatwoods Monster
In September 1952, a strange light crossed the sky above Flatwoods, West Virginia, sending a group of local children and adults searching for whatever had come…
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The Green Children of Woolpit
In 12th-century England, two mysterious children appeared near the village of Woolpit in Suffolk. Their skin was said to be green, they spoke an unfamiliar…