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 27 - Do You Believe In Ghosts?
Do you believe in ghosts? How about demons? Join us to learn how many believe and who they are.
00:37:28 |
Sun 01 Nov 2020
Episode 176 - The Great Amherst Haunting
Canada’s most famous ghost story centers on a traumatized teen and the malevolent spirits that haunted her. For Esther Cox, strange noises would escalate to burning skin, a swollen body, mysterious …
01:04:12 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Episode 175 - Slender Man
He is tall, he is slender, he is dark, and, for two teenage girls in Wisconsin, he was an inspiration for evil. He is Slender Man.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/milwaukee-suburb-…
01:09:21 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Weird Bit 26 - The Island of Lost Dolls
In the urban jungle of Mexico City is a quiet lake with an unspoiled island. There a man found a girl drowned on the shore. When he found her doll in the lake days later, he honored her in the spook…
00:20:17 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
Episode 174 - Beware the Bunny Man
If you see a dim light in the forest near the bridge over Colchester Road, it's already too late. The Bunny Man Killer, axe in hand, has been dispatching the curious since 1904 and he almost never l…
00:49:13 |
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Episode 173 - Mowgli's Palace - The Scariest Place on Earth
Spooky 2020 Halloween Episode #1
Mowgli’s Palace was going to be the next great Disney theme park - until they abandoned it at the last minute. Years later, an intrepid urban explorer who didn’t th…
00:45:09 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
Weird Bit 25 - Cry Baby Bridges
They dot the landscape of America - lonely bridges where unspeakable things happened and the only reminder of them is the cry of a ghostly child.
Sources:
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/crybaby bridge
www…
00:23:02 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
Episode 172 - Mokele-Mbembe: The Dinosaur That Won't Die
Is there a living dinosaur hidden in the wilds of Central Africa? One that stops rivers and kills unwary canoeists for sport? Meet the mokele-mbembe, sole exhibit of a real life Jurassic Park.
00:59:02 |
Fri 18 Sep 2020
Episode 171 - Lost in Knoxville: The Blair Adams Murder Mystery
Blair Adams fled Canada with a ticket to Germany, rerouted to Washington, D.C. and drove to Knoxville, Tennessee, a city he had never seen. He said someone was chasing him. His friends and family t…
01:08:57 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Episode 170 - Satanic Panic - When the Devil Made You Do It and You Didn't Even Know It
The Devil made Paul Ingram do it and he didn’t even know it. Terrible things, wicked things, and he took the rap and went to prison on his own confession. But did Paul Ingram really do any of those…
01:09:32 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Episode 169 - The Absurd Search for the Lost City of Timbuktu
Alexander Gordon Laing had that confident swagger of every European colonialist who went stomping into some new land to civilize and bleed it. So why shouldn’t he cross the entire Sahara Desert to f…
01:02:55 |
Thu 06 Aug 2020
Stupid Questions Coming Soon
Coming soon to a podcast app near you, Stupid Questions, brought to you by the people behind the Weird World podcast (us). This is just a little announcement and some info about the new podcast. We…
00:01:41 |
Sat 01 Aug 2020
Episode 168 - The Patterson-Gimlin Film: 60 Seconds of Swinging Sasquatch Part 2
In Part 2 of the Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film we explore what may have been the origin and intent of the film. It may have been a n idea so crazy it actually worked.
01:04:46 |
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Weird Bit 24 - The Wayfair Conspiracy
Was Wayfair selling young girls in high priced, ugly cabinets? Or young boys stuffed into $9,999 Zodiac pillows? Doesn’t sound possible, yet many people came across the products listed on the websit…
00:36:04 |
Mon 20 Jul 2020
Episode 167 - The Patterson-Gimlin Film: 60 Seconds of Swinging Sasquatch Part 1
It is at least the second most famous amateur film ever taken. That iconic look back from a massive hairy bi-ped in the California forest. Was it incontrovertible proof of a living Bigfoot? Or was…
01:03:11 |
Sat 18 Jul 2020
Episode 166 - The Weird World About A Weird World
Ruth kept her kids in suspense all their lives. There were the sudden moves across the country, the surprise camping trips, the strange demands. Then one day she told them the truth. The very weir…
01:23:41 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
Episode 165 - The Swamp Sisters
It was Grey Gardens meets Crocodile Dundee. It was two aging sisters enduing an increasingly awful existence amid decaying splendor - until one of them died and the other disappeared.
Sources:
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01:00:54 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Episode 164 - The Alien Autopsy Film
There may be more recent pretenders, but there is only one real alien autopsy film, and when Fox TV aired it in 1995 it caused a sensation. We bring you the wild ride of how the film came to be, wha…
01:01:38 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Episode 163 - Phineas Gage: The Man With Too Many Holes In His Head
Three feet seven inches. That’s 1.09 meters. That was the size of the iron rod that pierced Phineas Gage’s head. But why take our word for it? Take his. Because, massive hole in his head or not,…
01:04:05 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Episode 162 - What Happened to Brittany?
Brittany Murphy was the bright young star of Hollywood - until she met Simon Monjack. A few years later Brittany was dead at 32 of… pneumonia and anemia? That was odd. But when Simon died a few mo…
01:01:25 |
Sat 13 Jun 2020
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