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 290 - Weird News 8-18-23
Another grab bag of strange news ripped from the headlines. We have a website for assassins, some weird fish and worms, a president who apparently thinks elves are real, dumb criminals, then one terr…
01:02:29 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Episode 289 - Cryptic Corner - The Mongolian Death Worm
Can a three foot worm be a monster? Well, if it can attack from underground, is poison to the touch, can spit venom, and zap you like lightning, yes. Yes it can.
00:43:54 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Episode 288 - A Brief History of Cattle Mutilations - Part 2
In part 2 of our study of cattle mutilations, we continue our search for the culprits and then take a deep dive into the most likely explanation for this surprisingly widespread phenomenon that still…
01:11:38 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Episode 287 - The Demon Core
The nuclear core that was going to be the lethal heart of the third atomic bomb that would decimate another Japanese city never got the chance after Japan surrendered. It remained at Los Alamos where…
00:54:44 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
Episode 286 - A Brief History of Cattle Mutilations - Part 1
The aliens are at it again. Or the Satanic Cults, or the guys in black helicopters or possibly chupacabras. Let's find out who or what is doing terrible things to our cows and why.
00:54:30 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
Episode 285 - California's Phantom Lake Rises From the Dead
Tulare Lake sits in the middle of California, larger than four Disney Worlds, covering some of the most fertile farmland in the world - and it wasn't there last year. Plus bonus coverage on the metha…
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Episode 284 - The Robbers' Cave Experiment - Good Kids Gone Bad
What might happen if you isolated a bunch of 11-year-old boys and set them against each other? Would it be roasting marshmallows and telling scary stories around a campfire? Or it would be Lord of th…
00:58:58 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
Episode 283 - 1904 St Louis and the Greatest Olympics Ever
There was foxy boxing. There was barrel jumping. There was tug of war. There was a super racist thing called "Anthropology Days." And there was a grueling, near-lethal marathon almost won by a guy wh…
01:04:58 |
Thu 22 Jun 2023
Episode 282 - Losing Your Mind Along With Your Pounds
Without an ounce of exaggeration you need to listen to this episode to save your life. Grapefruit, sexy pineapples, wine and eggs, hooves and horns, drinking only milk. Here are some of the craziest …
00:59:29 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
Episode 281 - Weird News Updates
Updates on some of our favorite weird news items - boat-smashing Iberian orcas are getting more aggressive every day, drug-loving animals, and new science that might indicate our favorite cryptid the…
00:39:22 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
Episode 280 - An Outrage in Silicon Valley Part 2
1933 San Jose was in an uproar over the kidnapping of favorite son Brooke Hart. All it would take was a spark. When that spark came, it woud lead to one of the most heinous acts in California history…
00:57:18 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Episode 279 - An Outrage in Silicon Valley Part 1
With the Great Depression in full force, Brooke Hart made an inviting target. Rich, young, and driving a flashy yellow converible. Nabbed in broad daylight, his kidnappers teased the family for a wee…
00:46:42 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Episode 278 - The White River Monster
It may have been 12 feet long, it might have been 60, but it was big and it had no business being in the White River in Arkansas. Where did it go? Will it ever come back? And just what the hell was i…
01:09:28 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Episode 277 - The Zanesville Slaughter
The state of Ohio didn't think it was any of their business how many and what kind of animals you could keep. One man in Zanesville thought he should have lions and tigers and bears at his ranch. Tha…
01:13:18 |
Fri 05 May 2023
Weird Bit 53 - Is The Government Taking UFOs Seriously?
Did an armada of alien craft light up Lake Michigan in 1994? 300 people thought so. National Weather Service radar thought so. With no obvious explanation, this may be one of the best arguments for v…
00:15:55 |
Mon 01 May 2023
Episode 276 - The Michigan Light Show: A (Possibly) True UFO Story
Did an armada of alien craft light up Lake Michigan in 1994? 300 people thought so. National Weather Service radar thought so. With no obvious explanation, this may be one of the best arguments for v…
01:06:56 |
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Episode 275 - The Phoenix Lights: A UFO Flare Up
In 1997, the Valley of the Sun was set upon by an array of floating lights bright in the night sky. Was this the mother ship? And what was that giant five-light triangle soaring across northern Arizo…
01:07:12 |
Thu 13 Apr 2023
Episode 274 - Weird News #5
We have stories - the psychics who saved a woman's daughter by taking millions of dollars worth of art and jewelry from her. Cocaine Cat and a $63,000 iPhone. A pine nut farmer who took an unexpeced …
00:52:31 |
Thu 06 Apr 2023
Weird Bit 52 - Quick Cryptic Corner: Buru
If we had to pick one cryptid that has the best case for being an actual thing itmight be the buru. Did a 12+ foot aquatic lizard once inhabit a few isolated swampy valleys in India’s isolated nort…
00:25:07 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
Episode 273 - Eadward Muybridge and the "Gift" of Sudden Genius
Imagine if a terrible accident turned you into an overnight genius. For those who experience Acquired Savant Syndrome (ASS, seriously) this "gift" can sometimes come with a cost. Also naked tennis. W…
01:01:57 |
Thu 23 Mar 2023
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