Hosted by Cory Li · EN · 21 episodes
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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 and beyond.Each episode follows one real place, one odd record, or one unsettling local memory, with a focus on modern stories from the 1990s to recent years. Calm, atmospheric, and curious: a quiet archive of places where history, rumor, geography, and human behavior meet.
Cory Li hosts Odd County Files, a society show with 21 episodes published.
In 897 AD, Pope Stephen VI exhumed the corpse of his predecessor Formosus, dressed it in papal robes, and put it on trial in St. Peter's Basilica. The dead pope was found guilty, stripped, mutilated, and thrown into the
🪝 Five months after D.B. Cooper vanished, a Utah man pulled the exact same skyjacking — and almost got away.
🪝 A man died alone, leaving a house packed with 40 tons of trash — and his family fought the city to keep it.
🪝 A half-man, half-goat creature with an axe terrorized D.C. suburbs — and police took it seriously.
🪝 In 1997, a man called into a radio show claiming a bottomless hole sat on his property — and the government sealed it. Was it a hoax, or something stranger?
In 1922, a German farm family of six was brutally murdered with a mattock. But the killer had been living in the house for days before the attack — feeding the animals, eating their food, lighting the stove. Footprints i
Nine experienced hikers died in the Ural Mountains in 1959 under circumstances that defy explanation. Their tent was slashed from the inside. Some were barefoot. Some had catastrophic internal injuries. The case remains
📝 MH370 vanished from radar in March 2014. Despite the largest search in aviation history, the plane was never found. New debris drift analysis (2023-2024) points to a search zone nobody has looked at yet.
🪝 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.
🪝 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.
🪝 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.
🪝 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.
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.
An island appeared on maps for 400 years. Then in 1997 it vanished. Billions in oil rights depended on whether it existed or not.
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.
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.
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.
California's Accidental Shipwreck Graveyard, Right Under Everyone's Nose
The Portland Warehouse That Burned and Became an Accidental Art Landmark
McMinnville's UFO Festival: A Town Turns One Photo Case into an Annual Alien Ritual
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