Weird World Podcast

Oct 24 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 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.

Episode 337 - Cat-Eating Haitians and Other Weird Conspiracies of 2024

Sep 26 2024 75 mins  
If you heard that Haitian immigrants are eating the cats and dogs of their new neighbors in Springfield, Ohio you know that crazy political conspiracy theories are having a moment.

Episode 336 - Air, Land, and Sea - The Monsters of Coney Island

Sep 13 2024 42 mins  
Coney Island has long been done for amusement parks and hot dog eating contests. And now monsters.

Episode 335 - Dorothy Martin, the End of the World, and the Birth of Cognitive Dissonance

Sep 05 2024 73 mins  
Dorothy Martin led a pretty normal 1950s housewife life in Chicago, but she was itching for something to do with her spare time. Lucky for us, she landed on doomsday cult leader as a hobby, because her quest eventually led to the development of a foundtional theory of modern psychology.

Episode 334 - The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel - Part 2

Aug 23 2024 65 mins  
CONTENT WARNING: TALK OF SUICIDE, DEATH AND RELIGIOUS TRAUMA - Feel free to sit this one out. In a trial of the century atomosphere, two Catholic priests and the parents of Anneliese Michel go on trial for negligent homicide. A key defense was that Anneliese really was possessed? Was she?