Weird World Podcast

Nov 29 2024 300 ep. 53 mins 1.1k
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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.

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Episode 345 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak - Part 2

Nov 29 2024 55 mins  
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 a DNA rabbit hole attempting to solve two mysteries - who is he and what happened to the real Paul Fronczack?

Episode 344 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak - Part 1

Nov 21 2024 51 mins  
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 parents took the baby home to raise as their own. But was he?

Episode 343 - The Good, The Bad and the BS: A Guide to Investigating the Unexplained

Nov 14 2024 72 mins  
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 to some crticial questions you might ask in trying to separate truth from grift.

Episode 342 - Beast of Bray Road

Oct 31 2024 75 mins  
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 it was more like a Bigfoot. All said the Beast of Bray Road scared the hell out of them.

Episode 341 - Sensed Presence: When There Is Something in the Room With You

Oct 24 2024 59 mins  
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?

Weird Bit 65 - The Lady Vanishes

Oct 21 2024 12 mins  
A mother and daughter's trip to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 leads to one of the greatest urban legends of all time.

Episode 340 - The Haunting of Hinton Ampner

Oct 17 2024 83 mins  
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. Groans, footsteps, slamming doors, piercing shrieks, badly buried bones, and phantoms rustling slik skirts through hallways, Hinton Ampner had it all.

Weird Bit 64 - The Scream Heard Round the World

Oct 13 2024 33 mins  
You have heard this scream. It has been around for over 70 years, has been heard in over 400 movies, TV shows, and video games. From a cowboy being eaten by an alligator to a stormtrooper being light sabered by Luke Skywalker, they all share the same bloodcurdling scream.

Episode 339 - The James Dean Death Car and Other Cursed Objects

Oct 12 2024 69 mins  
Some things need to be handled with more care than others. Like cursed things. Parts from James Dean Porsche Spyder. Three and a half foot dolls that might be haunted. Cursed paintings that start firres. Ancient boxes and even more ancient mummified bodies.

Episode 338 - Ghost Hunting in Hammersmith

Oct 03 2024 68 mins  
Welcome to Hallow Weird World 2024! An all-white apparition was terrorizing the citizens of Hammersmith 220 years ago. Francis Smith had had enough. But since Egon Spengler had not yet invented the proton pack, Francis went ghost hunting with a shotgun. It did not go well for him or the ghost.