Throughout history, flashes of group mania have taken hold of entire societies without warning. From dancing 'til you're dead, to laughing yourself into a stupor for days on end, the people struck down by these so-called plagues certainly weren’t having a good time, despite what might seem like a non-stop party attitude. One thing has perplexed researchers to this day: what is behind this mysterious phenomenon? This Week's Sponsors: Smalls - So head to Smalls.com/STRANGE and use promo code STRANGE at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping! Cerebral -  You can get an exclusive 50% off your first month of therapy by going to cerebral.com/strange  IQ Bar- Now get twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus get FREE shipping. To get your twenty percent off, just text STRANGE to 64000

Hey, Strange & Unexplained listeners!  We’re off this week for the Memorial Day holiday, but didn’t want to leave you with an empty feed, so we’re featuring an episode from another Obsessed Network show, “Crimes of the Centuries” Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking and horrifying to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, many of these crimes have been forgotten or lost to history. Until now.  Each week, award-winning report Amber Hunt takes a deep dive into one of these crimes, telling forgotten true crime tales that you may not have heard before. The episode we’re sharing today, “Chasing a Ghost,” tells the story of the murder of a small-town Pennsylvania police chief, which seemed like an open-and-shut case when it happened in December of 1980.  After all, whoever shot Gregory Adams appeared to have left a driver's license at the scene of the crime.  But investigators soon learned that the case would prove more challenging than expected, with a criminal who seemed to vanish into thin air for decades. We’ll be back with an all new S&U episode next week, so in the meantime, check out “Crimes of the Centuries” wherever you get your podcasts.

In the summer of 1976, a group of college students experienced something otherworldly while on a camping trip in the wilderness of Maine. The mystery surrounding the phenomenon would entangle the men for the next forty years, leading them down a road of experimentation and hypnosis in their search for answers as to what exactly happened to them that night. This Week's Sponsors: Cerebral -  You can get an exclusive 50% off your first month of therapy by going to cerebral.com/strange Grammarly - Go to grammarly.com/tone to download and learn more about Grammarly Premium’s advanced tone suggestions. Miracle Made- Go to TryMiracle.com/STRANGE and use the code STRANGE to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF.

Communing with nature sounds nice, sure, but wilderness can hide darkness in it’s miles of untamed trails. No matter how experienced a hiker you are, bad things have a tendency to be lurking out in the woods. Spanning over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is the longest foot-path in the world, but or some, it’s long walk straight into the hands of a killer. This Week's Sponsors:  Ritual - Visit ritual.com/STRANGE to start Ritual or add Synbiotic+ to your subscription today  IQBar - Get 20% off all IQBar products, plus get FREE shipping by texting STRANGE to 64000 Smalls - Head to smalls.com/STRANGE and use promo code STRANGE at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping!

Before the days of Jack the Ripper, there was another Jack terrorizing the streets of Victorian London. Spring-Heeled Jack, the fashionable shape-shifting Victorian Era boogeyman terrorized citizens from all walks of life for upwards of 50 years without ever directly taking a single life. Over a century later, the mystery remains: was this monster truly a lunatic on the loose, or merely an urban legend?  This Week's Sponsors:  Manukora - Head to manukora.com/STRANGE and use code STRANGE to get a free pack of compostable honey sticks with your order!  Cerebral - Go to cerebral.com/STRANGE for 50% or more off your first month of therapy!  Lumi - To learn more about microdosing THC go to microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping & 30% off your first order