Weird World Podcast
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A podcast that explores the unknown, the unexplained, the mysterious, the unsolved and the just plain strange. Bizarre crimes, disappearing people, odd creatures, creepy phenomena, it's all here. We won't solve every mystery, but we'll try to separate truth from fiction and let you decide.
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- Episode 414 - Scary Fairy Tales · 49 min · Episode 414Tinkerbell wasn't scary. Even Puck wasn't that scary. Mischievous maybe, but not dangerous. But real fairies could do terrible things. They might steal your baby, trap you in…
- Episode 412 - Zozo The Ouija Demon · 52 min · Episode 412As long as you don't actively call forth a demon via a Ouija board, you should be safe, right? Usually. But if some unguided hand begins to rapidly spell lout Z-O-Z-O across the…
- Weird Bit 76 - Wolves and Werewolves · 29 min · Episode 4135We kick off Hallow Weird World 2026 with a brief history of wolves that got a taste for us. Were any of them actually werewolves? If so, they are still with us, because wolves…
- Episode 410 - Oreo-Gate: When Cookies Kill · 1 h 0 min · Episode 410Remember the peanut allergy craze, when every other kid felt their throat constrict at the sight of a Snickers bar and Southwest Airlines had to switch to pretzels? Well, we've…
- Episode 408 - Betty and Barney Hill's Long Drive Home - Part 1 · 1 h 11 min · Episode 408The Hills figured they would get home to Portsmouth, NH no later than 3 a.m. after their late honeymoon in Canada. They would not. A strange light in the sky, a strange object…
- Episode 407 - Culinary Craziness · 1 h 10 min · Episode 407Remember when we all used to eat things laced with radium? No, of course, you don’t, because you’re alive. But people used to eat irradiated everything, including chocolate and…
- Episode 405 - Why Dogs Should Wear Pants and Other Bold Ideas of G Clifford Prout · 60 min · Episode 405Who hasn't been embarrassed at a friend's house when their dog licks its balls right in front of you. Or their ca brazenly showing off its butthole. Disgusting. G. Clifford Prout…
- Weird Bit 75 - Mail Babies · 23 min · Episode 4065Have you ever seen your postal carrier walking around with that big bag over their shoulder and thought - I wonder if I could mail my baby? Sure, we all have. You will be happy…
- Episode 404 - Divorce, Alpine Style · 52 min · Episode 404What's the best date for a new couple? Dinner and a movie? A concert? A rave? Maybe something cultural like a museum? Or perhaps a steep climb up a rugged Alpine mountain. In…
- Weird Bit 74 - Weird World Weird News Weird Bit: The UFO Files · 14 min · Episode 402In our first Weird World Weird New Weird Bit (WWWNWB, rolls off the tongue), we report on the recently released UFO files. Some puzzled astronauts, some grainy pictures, and some…
- Episode 403 - Winning the Nobel Prize for Murder: The Missing Scientists Conspiracy · 1 h 8 min · Episode 403What if it wasn't just RFK, Jr. driving away the best scientists in America? What if someone was abducting or killing the nation's best brains? The leading researchers on nuclear…
- Episode 402 - This is Zodiac Killing - Part 2 · 1 h 9 min · Episode 402Part 2 of the Zodiac case focuses on the the potential additional victims of the killer that may have gone unnoticed. But Zodiac is probably most famous as the serial killer who…
- Episode 401 - This is Zodiac Killing - Part 1 · 1 h 8 min · Episode 401America’s most famous monster cemented his status as much with his attention-seeking toying with press and police as he did with his demented deeds. In part 1, we explore both…
- Episode 400 - First Zodiac?: The Cheri Jo Bates Murder Mystery · 1 h 8 min · Episode 400Was there a Zodiac murder before we knew the name? The method was similar, the victim, and then the boasting letters to the police and papers. But this was years before Zodiac…
- Episode 399 - When Your Dad Starts A Sex Cult · 1 h 23 min · Episode 399Content Warning: There is talk of suicide, sexual assault, coercion and manipulation. Please skip this episode if you need to. Maybe he had done a stretch in prison, but Talia's…
- Episode 398 - Flashpoint: The Trinity UFO Crash - Part 2 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 398The two boys who had seen the UFO crash in the New Mexico months before Roswell waited until they were old men to tell their story. They had dates and names and even a piece of…
- Episode 397 - Flashpoint: The Trinity UFO Crash - Part 1 · 60 min · Episode 397Most folks date the modern UFO era from 1947. Kenneth Arnold saw those skipping saucers in Washington and Roswell became extraterrestrial crash landing central. But what if an…
- Episode 396 - EBay's Revenge · 56 min · Episode 396In 2019, a niche website focused on e-commerce made a passing reference to some minor legal trouble the head of eBay was in. Months of surveillance, harrassment, and death…
- Episode 395 - Oak Island Treasure - Part 3 · 1 h 1 min · Episode 395The money pit seems a perfectly devised trap - dig tantalizingly close to the treasure and the sea fills it yet again, wrecking your dreams. We end the Oak Island story with a…
- Episode 394 - Chalino's Last Note · 26 min · Episode 394Chalino Sanchez had left behind a dangerous life in Sinaloa and by the early 1990s had become a narcocorrido singing star in the U.S. He had killed, had been shot, and sang of…
- Episode 393 - Oak Island Treasure - Part 2 · 59 min · Episode 393What is at the bottom of the Oak Island Money Pit? We have theories. So many theories. Buried priate treasure. Loot from a French pay ship (which is a thing). Marie Antoinette's…
- Episode 392 - Oak Island Treasure - Part 1 · 1 h 27 min · Episode 392Among get rich fantasies, finding buried treasure is harder than inheriting from a forgotten uncle, but way more fun. Oak Island has been enticing and frustrating treasure…
- Episode 391 - Terror in Idaho · 1 h 4 min · Episode 39140 miles outside of Idaho Falls, a skeleton crew run a micro nuclear power plant. They are poorly trained with little experience. One mundane task is to handle fuel rods that…
- Episode 390 - Weird News - AI Armageddon Edition!!! · 1 h 24 min · Episode 390From AI Jesus to AI fakery to insanely irresponsible AI-fueled kid's toys to an AI end of the world, we explore some recent AI headlines that point the way to a scarier future.
- Episode 389 - Amelia Earhart (Almost) Flies Around the World Part 2 · 1 h 8 min · Episode 389The U.S. Navy went all out looking for Amelia Earhart or her plane but never found a shred. Since then, many have searched and some have claimed to have spotted the remains of…
- Episode 388 - Amelia Earhart (Almost) Flies Around the World, Part 1 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 388Amelia Earhart set out to be a pioneer and she was. She flew fearlessly, broke records, and even found time for forward-looking fashion. When she set out to be the first woman to…
- Weird Bit 72 - The Sordid Secret Behind Griffith Park · 28 min · Episode 387At nearly 7 square miles, Griffith Park is an urban wilderness in the heart of Los Angeles. The land was a gift from Col. Griffith J. Griffith. That was very generous. He was…
- Episode 387 - Tesla's Death Ray · 43 min · Episode 387Nikola Tesla was an acknowledged genius. He had countless patents for a huge variety of inventions – the first remote control, the Tesla Coil, alternating current, and best of…
- Weird Bit 71 - Quick Cryptid Corner: The Kikiyaon · 10 min · Episode 386If you're walking home through a dark forest in West Africa and hear a cry like that of a strangled man, you'd better run. The Kikiyaon is about to swoop down on you with its…
- Episode 386 - Weird News 11-13-25: Politics Edition! · 50 min · Episode 386You can't avoid political news these days, though you would probably like to. We promise these stories are more likely to say "WTF?" than WTF!"
- Weird Bit 70 - Probably Not The Last Word on 3I Atlast · 23 min · Episode 385Instellar comet / alien craft possibly coming for us 3I Atlas passed out from behind the sun settled all of our questions. It is, we can say for sure now, either a comet or an…
- Episode 385 - 3I Atlas - A Flyby From Far Away · 1 h 20 min · Episode 38531 Atlas is only the third interstellar object tracked into our solar system, a strange visitor from very, very far away. And while most scientists believe it to be a comet…
- Episode 384 - The Creepypasta Hall of Fame - Part 2 · 1 h 6 min · Episode 384More classic creepypasta with tales of insomniac Russains, a disappearing town in Kansas, a wikipedia-obsessed figure skater, a mysterious puppet show, an overly animated…
- Episode 383 - The Creepypasta Hall of Fame - Part 1 · 55 min · Episode 383Creepypastas - those spooky and terrifying stories that have the run of the internet - have become an art form. Here we share the best of the best, the most iconic and creepiest…
- Episode 382 - Haunted Highway Part 2: The Hairy Hands of Dartmoor · 57 min · Episode 382If you're driving through the moors of Dartmoor keep a tight grip on the wheel. And if your car suddenly careens off the road, look down at the wheel and you just might see a…
- Episode 381 - Haunted Highways Part 1 - The Stocksbridge Bypass: The One Night Haunted Highway · 26 min · Episode 381For one night in 1987, the Stocksbridge Bypass in Yorkshire was alive with spectral activity. Ghost children dancing, a ghost monk terrorizing constables, a police car battered…
- Episode 380 - The Real Candyman · 58 min · Episode 380What's crawling between the walls of your old apartment building? Roaches? Rats? The cast of "Only Murders in the Building"? Ruthie May McCoy found out in the worse way that it…
- Episode 379 - Spooky Stories From the Deep Dark Woods · 1 h 1 min · Episode 379Forests are spooky. That is just a straight up fact. Here are three stories from those spooky places: North Carolina's Devil's Tramping Ground where nothing grows but fear; the…
- Episode 378 - The Cursed Haunting of Dudleytown · 57 min · Episode 378Welcome to a new season of Hallow Weird World! We start with a spooky story about a town in Connecticut that has suffered from madness, disappearances, unexplained deaths, and…
- Episode 377 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings Part 3 · 50 min · Episode 377CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, murder, including of children The young survivors of the massacre began to remember bits and pieces, but memories are tricky things and the hints…
- Episode 376 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings Part 2 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 376CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, including harm to children While the French focus on Saad al-Hilli's brother fighting as the murder, the English believe the acutal target was the…
- Episode 375 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings - Part 1 · 45 min · Episode 375CONTENT WARNING: for violence and murder, including children victims The al-Hillis were a respectable English family yon a caravan vacation to France’s Lake Annecy near the…
- Episode 374 - Beware Cave-Dwelling Creatures in Arkansas · 36 min · Episode 374Arkansas has given us Walmart, free diamonds, the Clintons and the gowrow. You might not know about that last one, but it was said to be a bloodthirsty giant lizard-like…
- Weird Bit 69 - Fun With Politicians! · 27 min · Episode 373Politicians are usually such dicks, we all know that, but sometimes they can be fun. They can prank and kid and mock with the best of them. From JFK to Abe Lincoln to the Oregon…
- Episode 373 - The Epstein Files - Part 3 · 1 h 14 min · Episode 373CONTENT WARNING for mention of suicide and sexual abuse of women and minors. We've all heard of the "Epstein Files," but who was really attending his parties, what went on, and…
- Episode 372 - The Epstein Files - Part 2 · 53 min · Episode 372CONTENT WARNING: Talk of suicide, sexual abuse including of minors After his sweetheart deal, Jeffrey Epstein enjoyed a decade of freedom before he found the FBI was waiting for…
- Weird Bit 68 - Inkanyamba - The Storm Serpent of South Africa · 17 min · Episode 371Howick Falls in South Africa is breathtaking - crashing 310 feet over a cliff along the Umgeni River. But don't get too close because the Inkanyamba lives there, and it is a…
- Episode 371 - The Epstein Files - Part 1 · 1 h 6 min · Episode 371CONTENT WARNING - Sexual assault and abuse of women and minors The hallway approaching Jeffrey Epstein prison cell was videotaped and closely guarded, yet somehow he was able to…
- Episode 370 - The Domenici Affair · 1 h 10 min · Episode 370CONTENT WARNING for gun violence and harm to a child When a nice normal English family takes a camping trip through the south of France, they aren't usually murdered on the…
- Episode 369 - I'm AI and I'm Here to Help · 1 h 0 min · Episode 369CONTENT WARNING - There is discussion of mental illness, some domestic violence and suicide in this episode AI is revolutionizing everything, at least if you listen to the…
