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
127 - Asinine Assassins Part 2: Assassining All Over the World
This week we're wrapping up this 2-part series with 3 stories of people who tried to be assassins and...kind of succeeded.
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126 - Asinine Assassins Part 1: Presidential Assassins
This week we're starting a new series on people who were bad at being assassins. Specifically, we're looking at three presidential assassination attempts gone wrong.
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125 - Amazing Tales of Survival Part 2
This week we're wrapping up our series of amazing survival stories.
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124 - Amazing Tales of Survival Part 1
This week we're starting a 2-part series with 5 stories of unbelievable survival. These people should have all died—numerous times—but defied death and went on to have happy lives.
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123 - Cannibals!
This week we're really getting into this show's wheelhouse with a handful of stories about people eating people.
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122 - The Alamo Christian Foundation
In one of our longest episodes ever, we explore the insane story of a cult, their leaders, and how it all fell apart...eventually.
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121 - Tales from Texas
This week, we're going down to Texas to look at a handful of paranormal stories from the 1800s. Why? Because it's my show.
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120 - Mysterious Murders!
3 murders. 3 mysteries. Who did it? The world may never know...
(IT WAS PAUL MUELLER!)
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119 - Angry People
This week, we're looking at 3 stories from history where people got really mad about something and then got real silly.
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118 - Failed Utopias
Heads up snowflakey libs, this one's gonna sting. This week we're going hard at 3 communities who thought they could create a utopia where everyone participated equally and no hierarchy…
117 - Richard Ramirez
Do you know the full story of The Night Stalker? He's one of America's most famous serial killers, and we tell his story on this week's episode.
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116 - Strange Ships
Boats are cool, I guess. Here are 4 stories about some ghost ships.
I also make a fairly big announcement at the start.
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115 - The Murder of James Bulger
This story is infuriating, and only party because a little boy dies. The ineptitude of the British government is also pretty irritating. You'll see why in this episode.
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114 - Norman Baker
Who was Norman Baker? Why is everyone getting cancer? What do the cows have to do with it? Find out on this week's episode!
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113 - Early German Killers
This week we're looking at two stories of very prolific serial killers from Germany's early history. Are these stories completely true? Probably not, but they're still weird.
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112 - Ted Kaczynski
You know he was the Unabomber, but why? This week, we look at the full story of Ted Kaczynski and how the government may have been the entire reason he went crazy to begin with.
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111 - Killer Women
This week we look at 3 stories of women who really enjoyed killing people!
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110 - Weird War Stories
War can be weird, especially when one side is just trying to conquer the other, but especially when one side isn't actually fighting anyone. What does any of that mean? Find out on this…
109 - Serial Killer Sampler Part 1: Godino, Kiss, and Villegas
Well, I might have gone too far this week. We'll see if next week's episode gets published! But for now, here are three stories about some more serial killers from history.
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108 - Morbid Massacres
This week we're looking at two notable mass shootings, which turns into a totally fun discussion about gun control!
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