Tales Of High Strangeness

In 1848 a Royal Navy captain watched sixty feet of something pass his ship, and wrote to the Admiralty. Seven sea serpent sightings from the sworn record, 1734 to 1905: a mission journal, a magistrate's depositions, a court affidavit, a police-court declaration, the officers of the royal yacht, and two zoologists who could not name what they saw.    

On 4 August 1577, in two Suffolk churches nine miles apart, something came in out of the storm. Two people died at their prayers in Bungay. At Blythburgh the steeple came down, and the scorch marks are still on the north door.

How could someone be seen in two places at the same time… and have no idea it’s happening? In this episode of THS Case Files, we explore one of the most unsettling mimic cases ever recorded - the 19th-century account of Émilie Sagée, a schoolteacher repeatedly witnessed appearing simultaneously in multiple locations by dozens of students. This isn’t a story of hallucination, folklore, or a ghost of the dead. It’s a case of a living double - a presence that mirrored her movements, borrowed her appearance, and emerged most strongly when she was at her weakest… all without her awareness.

On a humid August night in 1955, eleven people barricaded themselves inside a small farmhouse in rural Kentucky-convinced they were under siege by something not human. What followed was nearly four hours of gunfire, glowing figures at the windows, clawed hands on the roof… and a frantic midnight dash to the police station in nearby Hopkinsville. In this episode, we investigate the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter, one of the most controversial and misunderstood cases in UFO history. Through eyewitness testimony, historical context, and skeptical analysis, we explore what really happened that night-and why the story refuses to fade. Was this a genuine extraterrestrial encounter? A case of fear, misidentification, and owls in the dark? Or something far stranger? This is the full story-told as a documentary narrative-examining both belief and doubt, and the cultural moment that made a legend possible.

Five true encounters. Five witnesses who still don’t have answers. One long, unsettling journey into the world of humanoids, mimics, and things that move in the dark. These are real accounts, retold in the Tales of High Strangeness campfire style - atmospheric, grounded, and designed to stay with you long after the episode ends. If you enjoy humanoid sightings, cryptid encounters, mimicry tales, or unexplained wilderness experiences… this one is for you. Adapted from true firsthand reports (with permission).