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 358 - Weird News 03/14/25: Dumb Shaming
You might call it dumb, but let's call it poor judgment. This week in weird news we highlight some very poor decisions. Things like do-it-yourself cryogenics, surgeons that did not put sticky notes o…
00:57:46 |
Sun 16 Mar 2025
Episode 357 - Capturing the Dead - William H Mumler and the Birth of Spirit Photography
Thanks to photoshop, the only limit on how we can mess with pictures is our imagination. But back in the 19th century, William H. Mumler began capturing people in his family portraits that had never …
00:53:10 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Episode 356 - A Town Called Chaos
When a group of hardcore Libertarians took the political reins of a little town in New Hampshire they figured they would face opposition. Hostility from government-loving locals, from the teacher and…
01:05:53 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
Episode 355 - Kalanoro - Madagascar's Mini Monsters
Does an ancient race of small hairy humanoids with sharp claws and nasty fangs still live in the deepest jungles of modern Madagascar? Many locals are terrified of these Kalanoro, because, though onl…
00:44:22 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Episode 354 - Canada Invents a Gaydar
Every straight guy will say something about their “gaydar” at least 3 times a year if they work in an office. But there was a time when Canada - yes, Canada - thought they really could build a devic…
00:42:48 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Episode 353 - The Third Wave: Or How To Turn Your Highschool History Class Into a Cult
Do you think you could become a Nazi? With the right circumstances, the right environment, the right pressures? In 1967, none of the students in Ron Jones' high school history class thought so - unti…
01:17:45 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Episode 352 - The White House Farm Murder Mystery - Part 3
The case against Jeremy hinges on the smallest details - was the silencer on the rifle? Whose blood was that on the barrel of the gun? Was it even actually blood? And is Jeremy willing to go to any l…
01:29:26 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Episode 351 - The White House Farm Murder Mystery - Part 2
The seemingly simple, if horrific case, of murder-suicide explodes when Jeremy's ex tells the police of her deep, dark secret. Did Jeremy in fact extinguish his immediate family to get the family for…
01:08:43 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Episode 350 - The White House Farm Murder Mystery - Part 1
The Bamber family was modern English countryside gentry, but there was trouble broiling beneath the surface. Son Jeremy was loathed by most and daughter Sheila had two children from a broken marriage…
01:14:58 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Episode 349 - Weird News Update - Fading Drones?
Should this be the last time we trust anything coming out of New Jersey? JK, but it does seem that maybe the drone scare was more War of the Worlds than Pearl Harbor. Let's get into the latest on the…
00:22:04 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Episode 348 - Weird World Weird News Special Report: New Jersey Drone Invasion!
The drone invasion of New Jersey has shocked the nation. Or at least New Jersey. Is it China? Is it a secret military project? Is it underfunded alien naturlists studying us in an oddly low-tech way?…
00:54:58 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
Episode 347 - Weird News - UFO Edition
Let's catch up on some of the latest UFO-related items from around the world, and also Las Vegas. Tiny alien mummies, the latest unexplained UAP sightings from the government agency investigating tho…
01:04:12 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Episode 346 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak - Part 3
The FBI reopens its investigation into what happened to the real Paul Fronczack. Disturbing details of a brutal childhood emerge with twins disappearing and a family afraid to ask questions. DNA test…
01:07:00 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
Episode 345 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak - Part 2
Paul Fronczack is about to have a baby so wants to uncover more of his murky past. A DNA test proves he is, surprise, not really Paul Fronczack. The story becomes a media sensation as Paul goes down …
00:55:31 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
Episode 344 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak - Part 1
One day old Paul Fronczack was stolen from his mother's arms in a Chicago hospital. After an agonizing year, authorities in New Jersey thought they found the boy abandoned in Newark. The relieved par…
00:51:23 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Episode 343 - The Good, The Bad and the BS: A Guide to Investigating the Unexplained
We may live in a "post-truth" era, but that is no reason to give up on discovering the truth when you're researching the paranormal, the strange, the unanswered. So, with humility, we present a guide…
01:12:46 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Episode 342 - Beast of Bray Road
It chased little kids. It ran down cars. It lurched from the woods on foggy nights to terrify those unlucky enough to stop along Wisconsin's lonely Bray Road. Some said it was a werewolf. Some said …
01:15:55 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Episode 341 - Sensed Presence: When There Is Something in the Room With You
Every culture the world has ever known has had ghosts. Could there be an answer for those ghosts we feel as an unexplained presence? Are those ghosts "all in our mind," though in a very unusual way?
00:59:22 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Weird Bit 65 - The Lady Vanishes
A mother and daughter's trip to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 leads to one of the greatest urban legends of all time.
00:12:32 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Episode 340 - The Haunting of Hinton Ampner
It is getting hard to find big old houses that aren't haunted these days, but Hinton Ampner was a big old house by middle of the 18th century and even then it was terrifying master and servant alike.…
01:23:12 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
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