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
Episode 143 - Strange Lakes: Skeleton Lake and Lake Peigneur
How did all those bodies get into a tiny lake in an isolated Himalayan valley? And you’ll never guess how old they were. Then find out if it is a good idea to drill for oil in a lake above a mine. …
00:53:46 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Episode 142 - Mothman's Grandpa: The Van Meter Visitor
It was part man, part bat, part kangaroo, part light-emitting unicorn, and bulletproof. And it apparently really hated Van Meter, Iowa.
01:07:08 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Episode 141 - Orphan? The Strange Adoption of Natalia Grace
Was Natalia Grace a six year old from Ukraine when she was adopted by an American family? Or 14? Or 22? Was she even from Ukraine? This is the story of the strangest adoption since “Orphan.”
01:06:06 |
Sat 07 Dec 2019
Episode 140 - The Weirdest Songs Ever, Part 2
Okay, now for the 10 weirdest wildly popular songs of all time. Songs that millions of people inexplicably said, “I will pay money to hear that song over and over again.”
01:01:39 |
Fri 29 Nov 2019
Episode 139 - The Weirdest Songs Ever, Part 1
There are tons of strange songs, but here we stick to songs that topped the charts despite their strangeness. First up - the 20 runners up, then next week the Weirdest 10.
01:02:20 |
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Episode 138 - The Disappearance of Zigmund Adamski - Part 2
The case takes a turn when Constable Godfrey "remembers" what happened to him after he saw something hovering in the early morning mist. And we try to figure out what happened to Zigmund for five day…
01:07:22 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Episode 137 - The Disappearance of Zigmund Adamski - Part 1
Zigmund Adamski goes missing in 1980. Five days later he is found dead, but weirdly clean atop a pile of coal. Police are baffled - until one of them sees something that makes him wonder if Zigmund…
00:54:19 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
Episode 136 - Carl Tanzler: Devoted Lover and Psychopath
Doctor, count, husband, lover, Carl Tanzler was so many things. It was just that those last two things involved a dead woman. Happy Halloween!
Sources:
Carl Tanzler: In Love with the Dead
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00:57:26 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Episode 135 - Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind
Extraterrestrials don’t just need us for our access to phones. They also want to have sex with us. A lot, if you go by how many humans claim to have been nailed by ETs. Warning: Listener discreti…
01:08:26 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Episode 134 - Dr. Moron
Meet the man who invented the word moron. Hitler absolutely loved him, and he influenced American science for decades. Thank you, Dr. Moron.
Sources:
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity …
01:11:27 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Weird Bit 22 - The London Monster
When a crazed man started stabbing women in the butts with pins in 1788, the city was in an uproar. But when he started slashing their dresses with a knife, well, that’s a panic.
00:21:36 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Episode 133 - Affluenza: First World Problem
Ethan Couch was drunk and high when he drove his truck at 70 mph into a group of people, killing four. It was not his fault, though, he was suffering the dread disease "affluenza." Warning: This e…
01:29:12 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
Episode 132 - Strange Sports Stories
You don’t have to be a sports fan to appreciate these weird tales from the world of sports. Enjoy these little nuggets of soccer wars, ear biting, knee capping, bird killing, and on-field explosions…
01:06:06 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Episode 130 - Uncle Clarence
A six year old girl and her grandmother were attacked in their home. She fled to her neighbor’s house after the killer left. She shouldn’t have.
Sources:
Maurice Possley, National Registry of Exon…
00:58:06 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Episode 129 - The Man Who Stared at Goats (Balls)
Before you join your significant other for a romantic spin in an outdoor bathtub, you might want to check with Dr. Brinkley. His diagnosis might be painful and insane, but what procedure involving g…
01:06:03 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
Episode 128 - Legends of the Goat Men
Are goat-like humanoid creatures running around the woods and train tracks of the U.S. countryside doing terrible things to people? Probably.
00:47:28 |
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Episode 127 - Nuking the Moon
Elon Musk wants to hit Mars with nuclear warheads. Not long ago, some slightly more serious people wanted to nuke the Moon and even got a young Carl Sagan to help them do it.
00:48:26 |
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Episode 126 - The Green Children of Woolpit
In 12th Century rural England, two children were found by a wolf pit. They wore strange clothes, couldn’t speak English, had green skin, loved fava beans, and had an amazing story to tell. Did we m…
00:50:10 |
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Episode 125 - Doppelgangers: One Two Many
You look across a room only to see yourself looking back at you. That’s your doppelganger, and - if the experience of Abraham Lincoln is any guide - this might not end well.
01:17:14 |
Thu 08 Aug 2019
Episode 124 - The Disappearances of Hannah Upp
Hannah Upp disappeared in the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma, never to be seen again. That was odd. What was odder was that this wasn’t the first time she had disappeared. Or even the se…
01:05:47 |
Wed 31 Jul 2019
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