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 31 - Betsy Aardsma and the Dangers of Libraries
Betsy wore a red dress to the library on the day after Thanksgiving in 1969. That way, no one could see the blood…
Sources:
https://medium.com/crimebeat/stabbing-in-the-stacks-the-unsolved-murder-…
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Episode 192 - The Disappearance of the Martin Family
It is sadly common for one person to disappear, but an entire family? Ken and Barbara Martin and their three youngest children vanished on a Christmas outing. It took days to realize they were gone…
01:10:30 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Episode 191 - The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 2
With surprising speed, the mood in Mattoon turns from vigilance to skepticism. Who and what was behind the mad gassings in Mattoon? Or, to some, did they even occur?
00:55:01 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Episode 190 - The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 1
The attacks started with a sickly sweet odor that paralyzed and sickened its victims. Soon a small town in World War Two-Era middle America was in a panic. Was there a mad gasser in their midst?
00:46:00 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
Episode 189 - Nick Lotz, the Biggest TV Star You've Never Heard Of
Nick Lotz led a normal college freshman life getting blackout drunk and high on opiates and Adderol. But then he realized he was different - he was the star of his own TV show. About him. Every day. …
01:06:44 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Episode 188 - The Devil Went Down to Devon
When the people of Devon in the UK awoke to find single file trails of cloven or horseshoe footprints in the snow, they wondered what had caused them. But when they realized they went on for mile af…
00:54:54 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Episode 187 - The Mystery Guest
Who were those old women who had spent the last 24 years in a hotel, never seen, never spoken to? It would take a dead body to re-discover Ida Wood, millionaire socialite who had disappeared over tw…
00:53:21 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Episode 186 - The Belmez Faces
When Maria Gomez Pereira saw a stain appear on her kitchen floor in Spain in 1971 she was annoyed. When the next morning that stain had morphed into a human face, she was scared. When more faces st…
00:57:14 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
Episode 185 - Keith Reinhard's Last Hike, Part 2
What happened to Tom Young, the man whose disappearance obsessed Keith Reinhard? Then what happened to Keith? What drove him up a treacherous mountain as darkness loomed, never to be seen again?
00:56:26 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Episode 184 - Keith Reinhard's Last Hike, Part 1
Keith Reinhard fled his mundane life to a living ghost town in the Rocky Mountains. There he obsessed over the disappearance of Tom Young - the man who had rented his shop space before him. Then Ke…
00:41:21 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Episode 183 - The Mystery of Room 1046
He was from out of town. He called himself Roland T. Owen. He was tortured and left to die in his hotel room in Kansas City. But who killed him, why and who was he? Because he was definitely not …
01:11:29 |
Sat 09 Jan 2021
Episode 182 - The Warminster Thing: Weirdness on Christmas Morning
Christmas Day 1964 brought strange sounds to the English village of Warminster. Something raked and scratched their roofs and even knocked them to the ground. Then pigeons died. Then they found mi…
Sat 26 Dec 2020
Episode 181 - Albert Bender and the Birth of Men in Black
Everyone knows Men in Black. Tommy Lee. Will. Chris and Tessa. But did you know who invented MIBs? Did you know just how nuts the original story was? Well now you will.
01:10:15 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Episode 180 - Birds Aren't Real
“The Man” wants you to believe those are birds flying through the air, watching you from the telephone line, and pooping on your car window. They’re not. They are something far more insidious than …
01:08:27 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Episode 179 - Lizzie Borden, Axe Murderer? Part 2
When another Fall Riverite is axe murdered just before the start of Lizzie’s trial, the town starts to wonder if the killings are connected. Did this help Lizzie get away with murder?
00:51:05 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Weird Bit 30 - Utah Monolith Update
The latest on the Utah monolith - we might know who took it and Monolith-mania begins, starting in Romania.
00:09:21 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Weird Bit 29 - Space Artistry?: The Utah Monolith
What is that ten-foot high metal monolith in the middle of the rugged Utah desert? A beacon? An art piece? An ode to 2001: Space Odyssey? Or something left by people from a place far, far away?
00:31:52 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
Episode 178 - Lizzie Borden, Axe Murderer?
The Borden House in Fall River, Mass in 1892 was a tense place. When Andrew and Abby Borden are axed to death in August of 1892, one of the most infamous murder in American history begins. And daug…
00:45:13 |
Thu 26 Nov 2020
Episode 177 - Weird World Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
We take our first stab at a review - The Haunting of Bly Manor. Join us as we dissect and distill this spooky but imperfect nine-part Netflix original. Warning: Pretty much everything is spoiled.
01:14:22 |
Sun 15 Nov 2020
Weird World Fiction - The Baby Next Door
Our first Weird World fictional foray tells the story of a man lurching toward his end, a woman hiding from shame, and a baby that won’t stop crying.
00:27:06 |
Sun 01 Nov 2020
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