Weird World Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Weird Bit 35 - The Australian Death Bone and the Will to Die
How powerful is belief? Powerful enough to kill? To some indigenous Australians, the mere pointing of a bone can seal a terrible fate.
00:26:41 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
Episode 207 - The Seven Year Murder of Cindy James
For almost seven years Cindy James was harassed, attacked, and terrorized. Did Cindy have a vicious enemy who would not rest until she was broken or dead? Or was Cindy’s enemy much closer to home?
01:01:08 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Episode 206 - The Mysterious Death of Jack Wheeler
Jack Wheeler was a stridently conventional man. West Point grad, military veteran, White House aide. Everything about Jack Wheeler was normal - until two days of strange behavior that culminated in…
01:25:07 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Episode 205 - An Alan Smithee Film
Over 30 years, Alan Smithee directed more than 25 feature films. He was praised by Roger Ebert. He directed such stars as Richard Widmark, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster a…
00:58:27 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Weird Bit 34 - Robert Pakington and the Worst First
Robert Pakington was a wealthy English reformer during the reign of Henry VIII. Who knew that what happened to him on a walk to church in 1536 would change the world forever in a very ugly way.
00:24:25 |
Mon 06 Sep 2021
Episode 204 - My Name is Dan Cooper - The DB Cooper Hijacking Part 3
As law enforcement gave up on ever catching the only successful hijacker in the nation’s history, the question became - who was DB Cooper? Was it the smoke jumper? The terrible skydiving instructo…
01:17:56 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Episode 203 - My Name is Dan Cooper - The DB Cooper Hijacking Part 2
The moment Flight 305 touches down in Reno, the authorities swarm. But DB Cooper had already leapt into the rainy night somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Where did he jump? Did he survive? And,…
00:59:42 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
Episode 202 - My Name is Dan Cooper - The DB Cooper Hijacking Part 1
An aggressively normal man bought a one-way ticket on Flight 305 to Seattle, ordered a bourbon and soda, then told the flight attendant he had a bomb in his briefcase. And so started one of the most…
00:59:32 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Weird Bit 34 - Jetpack Jerry
Jetpack Jerry (not his real name) has been spotted 6,000 feet up in the air around LAX. Alien? Angel? Psychotic? Eccentric billionaire? Awesome dude? That guy who invented the Segway (oh, wait,…
00:29:06 |
Mon 09 Aug 2021
Weird Bit 33 - Updates: Killer Bears in Japan and Murder Hornets in the US
Callback updates: Japanese brown bears wreaking havoc in Hokkaido and Murder Hornets coming back to America. Oh, and we forgot to tell you we are taking a little summer break, but we will be back s…
00:16:57 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Episode 201 - Inzomnia - Dying to Sleep
For one unnamed family in Italy, weirdly copious sweating, high blood pressure, dilated eyes, stiff limbs and impotence were more ominous than they might be for most people. For this family, they si…
00:59:59 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Episode 200 - The Montauk Project
When Ed Bielek saw the movie, The Philadelphia Experiment, something sparked in his primal memory. Something from his past in Montauk on Long Island, New York. In a flash, Bielek realized he could …
01:23:43 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Episode 199 - The Philadelphia Experiment
It was an astounding event that crossed paranormal fields - aliens, teleportation, time travel, secret government conspiracies. It was the Philadelphia Experiment. It was also a fantastic movie in …
00:59:00 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Episode 198 - The Accidental Tourist and The Disappearing Tourist: Carl McCunn and Atsumi Yoshikubo
Carl McCunn looked forward to another summer in the rugged Alaskan interior photographing wildlife. But what exactly did he say to the bush pilot he thought was going to pick him up when winter loom…
01:07:24 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Episode 197 - Denise Huskins and Her Supposedly Hoax Kidnapping
What would you do if you were kidnapped by an invader in the middle of the night? He holds you, he threatens you, he assaults you. But then what would you do if you were finally released and the po…
01:06:28 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Weird Bit 32 - April Fool's Truthing
Discover which of our April Fool’s stories was real and which two were fake. Quasi-spoiler alert - we tricked most of you.
00:07:20 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Episode 196 - The Phantom Slayer Murder Mystery Part 2
The Phantom Slayer commits his most horrific attack on a couple in their own home. Texarkana devolves into panic and paranoia. Will we ever know who this monster was?
01:08:47 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Episode 195 - The Phantom Slayer Murder Mystery, Part 1
First you see a man walking toward your car in the dead of the night in a deserted lovers' lane. Then you see he is wearing some kind of hood over his head. Then you see he is holding a gun. The P…
01:01:06 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Episode 194 - Hey Mr. Submarine Man
If you invented a working submarine, would you: A) Humble brag this in every conversation (“Oh, you started a yeast culture? Hm, that reminds me of when I made a working submarine in my garage.”), B…
00:48:20 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
Episode 193 - Of Ghost Grannies, Alien Bigfoots, and Shooting Up Peanut Butter and Mayo
It's April Fool's Day but no one is going to trick our listeners. Except us. Three strange stories. Two are made up, one is real. Your job is to figure out which one. Go to our Facebook page to …
01:06:28 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
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