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 272 - Big Flops and Drops - Part 2
Maybe even weirder than mega movie flops are prominent movies and television shows with major talent and money behind them that were literally buried. Two seasons of an animated Star Wars series? Nev…
00:40:30 |
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Episode 271 - Big Flops and Drops - Part 1
This is in episode about Heaven's Gate, but not the suicide cult. About Cats but not the animal, Sahara but not the desert, and Battleship but not the game. This is about the biggest movie flops ever…
01:09:17 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Episode 270 - The Magical Mystery of the Placebo Effect
We are all familiar with the placebo effect - how medicinal mind over matter can make the pain go away. But the placebo effect might either be so much more - or a lot less - than we think.
01:06:00 |
Thu 09 Mar 2023
Episode 269 - Beyond Dyatlov: The Korovina Mystery Deaths
What happened to the nine Dyatlov Pass hikers found dead in the Russian wilderness in 1959 is a classic mystery. But 20 years later what killed five hikers in the Ural Mountains is stranger still sin…
00:59:20 |
Thu 02 Mar 2023
Episode 268 - Weird News 4
More weird news - anthropology edition! In this episode we bring you skulls washing ashore in Florida, ancient amputations, Polish vampires, a six-inch "alien" skeleton from Chile, and the intriguin…
00:48:59 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Episode 267 - The Japanese Balloon Bombs of World War II
Sure China is sending balloons to spy on the United States, but during WWII Japan sent thousands of balloons over the U.S. mainland to start fires and wreak havoc. There were some close calls, but o…
00:55:31 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Weird Bit 51 - Quick Cryptid Corner - The Kappa
Introducing Quick Cryptid Corner! - brief takes on unexplained creatures from across the globe. We start with the Kappa, a Japanese beast of lakes and rivers with a turtle shell, a water-filled dish…
00:19:28 |
Sun 12 Feb 2023
Episode 266 - Frank Olson, The Man Who Really Did Know Too Much
Frank Olson was there at the inception of MK Ultra. He worked hard at developing mind control drugs, but eventually something got in the way - a conscience. Olson tried to free himself from the awful…
01:03:18 |
Thu 02 Feb 2023
Episode 265 - MK Ultra and the Quest for Mind Control Part 2
In Part 2 of the MK Ultra saga we work through the lowlights of the worst things researchers did in their quest for mind control. Finally, it would all come crashing down and eventually exposed, but …
01:05:32 |
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Episode 264 - MK Ultra and the Quest for Mind Control - Part 1
After WWII ended the CIA thought the West was in imminent danger of succumbing to a red tide sweeping the world. They would do anything to win. Anything - including trying to control minds and turn…
01:08:41 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Episode 263 - Arm in the Aquarium
It was a lovely autumn day in Sydney's Coogee Bay Aquarium in April of 1935. Kids squealed at the newest attraction - a 14-foot tiger shark circling its tank. Squeals turned to screams, though, when …
00:34:13 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Episode 262 - Have A Weird New Year
Celebrating the start of a new year is global. Some of us do so in weird and wonderful ways. Here is a taste of strange new year traditions from around the world.
00:48:21 |
Mon 02 Jan 2023
Episode 261 - The Actual War on Christmas
Before there was Walmart telling their greeters to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" there were the Puritans. Those guys followed their anti-Christmas bias all the way to banning obse…
00:33:54 |
Mon 26 Dec 2022
Episode 260 - Dying to Sleep: Death by Nightmare Syndrome
The premise of horror hit Nightmare on Elm Street was that you could die in your dreams. That can't really happen, can it? For over 100 new immigrants to the U.S. in the 1980s, it could. This is the …
00:52:15 |
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Episode 259 - Judge Crater and the Greatest Vanishing Act of All Time
Before there was Jimmy Hoffa, there was Judge Joseph Crater. How could a well-known New York Supreme Court judge vanish without even a suggestion of a trace? And when Judge Crater disappeared, he sta…
01:05:51 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
Weird Bit 50 - The Boy in the Box and the Unknown Woman of Rahway
We will soon know the identity of the mysterious Boy in the Box, but another unknown murder victim remains a mystery. Who was the well-dressed woman found with her throat slit in Rahway, New Jersey …
00:30:40 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
Episode 258 - Weird News #3
This time we bring you killer whales and kangaroos, a real life Winnie the Pooh who gets high on honey, splooting squirrels, cloning a thylacine, and sleepy chicken that is not what you think. And y…
01:00:01 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Episode 257 - More Free Range Kids
The “Pony Boys” wanted to take their Shetland pony to the Montreal Expo, 350 miles from home. Sure, said their mom, knowing her kids were ages 9 and 11. And shouldn’t little Lennie ride his horse G…
00:44:23 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Episode 256 - The Irish Vanishing Triangle
Did a serial killer stalk Irish women through the 1990s? If so, no one ever found their remains or the monster who did it. Or was there never any connection at all?
01:10:38 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Weird Bit 49 - Erwin the German Who Thought He Was in San Francisco But Was in Bangor
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Sources
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/01/11/podcast-episode-327-the-misplaced-tourist/
Bangor Daily News article by Kent Ward, December 4, 2009
00:20:02 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
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