Our Weird World
Each week, host John Hinson takes a look at weird, crazy, and forgotten stories from the history of humankind. He covers true crime, paranormal, and other strange stories and tries to put some humor into it, or maybe he's just an apathetic dick - that's up to you to decide.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 287
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
107 - Early Christian Martyrs Part 3
This week I continue to alienate my listener base by take a super skeptical look at more stories from early Christian martyrs.
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106 - Awful Women in History
This show was a train wreck, but we made it through. We for real end Women's History Month the only way we know how - completely irreverently.
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105 - Great Women in History
We're definitely and totally not coincidentally wrapping up Women's History Month with a look at some great women from history!
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104 - Bestiality!
I'm sorry this is how we're closing out Year 2 of the show. We'll get through it together.
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103 - Creepy Kids
Kids are creepy. This week's episode looks at three stories where kids were extra creepy. There's also a weird Josef Fritzl tangent that I do not apologize for.
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102 - Incredible Feats of Human Stupidity
It's always fun to laugh at dumb people, right? This week, we're looking at 4 stories from people who were just too stupid for their own good.
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101 - Johann Unterweger & Robert Pickton
You actually want to listen to another episode? After last week's debacle? Well, hi!
This week, we're looking at the stories of two fun serial killers, Johann Unterweger and Robert Pickt…
100 - Yahweh ben Yahweh and the Drunk 100th Episode Celebration!
WOW! We made it 100 episodes of this dumb little show. To celebrate, I took every single liquor in my cabinet, mixed it together, and drank it extremely too fast. I'm not sure if this e…
099 - Sports!
Sports can be weird! This week we have two stories from the sports world that you likely haven't heard of before.
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098 - Weird Ways to Die
I get it - this entire show was built on people dying. But this episode is different, because these deaths weren't the result of war, serial killers, or anything relatively more ordinar…
097 - Spontaneous Human Combustion
Can people just randomly burst into flames and die? Maybe it doesn't happen exactly like that, but this week we look at three stories where it seems like that's just what happened.
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096 - Insane Soldiers
War is crazy, and these soldiers made sure of it. This week we're covering a handful of stories about soldiers who did things never thought possible of a human being.
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095 - Animal Problems
This week, we're taking a break from people and crime and silliness and talking about weird ways animals have impacted history.
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094 - Nannie Doss
Happy New Year! We start out 2022 with the story of "The Giggling Granny," Nannie Doss, who murdered a lot of family members to get that insurance money.
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093 - Barney and Betty Hill
Closing out 2021 with a weird story. One night in the 1960s, Barney and Betty Hill had something very strange happen to them in rural New Hampshire. Was it aliens? Was it a hallucinatio…
092 - Peter Kürten
WARNING: Really awful episode alert!
We wrap up an unintentional trilogy of awful stories with the story of German serial killer Peter Kürten. This one gets pretty gory pretty quick. The…
091 - South American Killers
Get ready to be outraged. Did you know that, at least during the times these stories occurred, the maximum amount of time you could spend in a South American prison was only 40 years? W…
090 - Belle Gunness
It's time for a female serial killer story! Belle Gunness was a Norwegian immigrant who came to America to take advantage of men and insurance money. Get ready for a lot of Swedish Chef…
089 - Twins!
I should apologize about this one beforehand. It gets weird. But twins leave me with so many questions! This week, we're looking at five weird stories from sets of twins through history…
088 - Mary Toft and Patrick Kearney
Nothing unique this week, just two different stories about two awful people.
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