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A Study of Strange

Convergent Content, LLC

For lovers of true crime, mysteries, and tales of strangeness, join host Michael May as he and a guest study stories of the unknown each week from unsolved true crime to unexplaine...

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Episode list

58

  • July 29, 2025

    14 min

    Dead In Their Sleep: The True Inspiration for Freddy Krueger

    In this chilling episode of A Study of Strange, we look at the terrifying real-life mystery that inspired A Nightmare on Elm Street: unexplained deaths of healthy Southeast Asian m...

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  • July 23, 2025

    43 min

    The Murder of Leota Camp REDUX

    A summer re-release of a classic episode! On July 10th, 1967, 25 year old mother of three, Leota Camp, was found by her young children, stabbed and bleeding in a small bedroom of t...

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  • July 2, 2025

    57 min

    Tensegrity and the Vanishing Witches PART TWO: The Cult of Carlos Castaneda

    We conclude the devilish and mysterious story surrounding the disappearance of a group of women involved in a small cult run by new age author Carlos Castaneda. Not many are aware ...

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  • June 24, 2025

    55 min

    Tensegrity and the Vanishing Witches: The Cult of Carlos Castaneda PART ONE

    Not many are aware that one of the most successful “new age” authors, Carlos Castaneda, lead a cult. The women that made up the inner circle of his cult were called “the witches” a...

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  • June 11, 2025

    17 min

    Four of the World's Most Haunted Paintings

    What makes an object haunted? These four paintings have strange and mysterious backgrounds, along with claims of supernatural phenomena. #1 The Hands Resist Him, #2 The Anguished M...

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  • June 3, 2025

    26 min

    Tunguska: When the Sky Exploded

    In 1908, something tore through the skies over Siberia and exploded with the force of a thousand Hiroshima bombs. Trees were flattened across 800 square miles, yet no impact crater...

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