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Tomcat and Anton are join by Aran from First Class Horror to discuss the strangeness behind the Irish Vanishing Triangle! Ireland's vanishing triangle is a term commonly used in the Irish media when referring to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women in the mid to late 1990s. The assumed first victim in the Vanishing Triangle is one of Ireland’s most infamous missing person’s cases...

We know him! You may know him? He's got the horns of goat and he sports the leathery wings of a bat.. It's one of the most famous cryptids next to bigfoot and mothman.. He may be the son of a witch.. You've all been waiting for him.. The leeds devil better known as "THE JERSEY DEVIL" The story of the Jersey Devil is an authentic folk legend. It is as varied as the number of people who claim to hav...

A summer getaway for the men in power to blow off steam from their "stressful" jobs or a satanic celebration, worshiping owls and sacrificing humans to an ancient god while getting hammered naked in the woods? Tomcat and Billy are going inside the Bohemian grove! For two weeks every summer, the 2,700-acre secured private camp, in the Ancient Redwood Forest of Northern California, plays host to som...

The hoseheads are back with baddest bitch from Norway Belle f*cking Gunness! She was dubbed lady bluebeard who killed merely for monetary gain (plus she probably enjoyed it). To outsiders, Belle Gunness might have looked like a lonely widow who lived in the American Midwest during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But in reality, she was a serial killer who murdered at least 14 people. And s...

Has Strange Juans come to an end? was Jesus a pedophile? Does Tomcat have ghosts babies waiting for him on the other side.... Find out if this is the finale of the side series you've all come to love. On this week's episode, Tomcat and Juan go on a full on rant about everything from abortions to necrophilia so stay tuned because... It's about to get STRANGE.. Juans? Follow the Strangeness! www.str...

When it comes to famous killers, more often than not the crime is connected to a man. However, there are plenty of notorious female killers that you might not be aware of. In fact, one of the most well-known types of killings performed by women is against their husbands, boyfriends or lovers. These women are known as black widows, a term that takes inspiration from black widow spiders. It was beli...

Lurking in the shadows of our society, there is a group that holds sinister intentions for the Earth. They come from a different world and are rumored to have interfered with the existence of mankind – perhaps even altering the genetic code of our ancestors. These mysterious beings are tied to nearly every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard of and are rumored to have infiltrated our societies at...

"On the outskirts of the national capital today, black limousines converge on hotels to a secret meeting that will last all weekend, its known as the Bilderberg Group"- Canadian News Reporter Reporting the Bilderberg Meeting in Ottawa, Canada The Bilderberg Group is a highly secretive group of Up to 150 of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful political leaders attend the annual event. The atte...

The planet we live in is often referred to as the Blue Planet as more than 70% of it is covered by water. It is believed that the water makes it possible for Earth to harbor life. On the other hand, some unusual things about the oceans and lakes confirm that they still have secrets waiting to be explored. The Michigan Triangle is one such example of mysteries hidden beneath the water. Although it...

John George Haigh, commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer convicted for the murder of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine. John Haigh bludgeoned to death or shot his victims and disposed of their bodies using sulphuric acid before forging their signatures so he could sell their possessions and collect large sums of money.  "Why are political speeches...

Tomcat and Anton are joined by a strange guest from across the pond, in Scotland. Ian Dyball from Baa-Ram-Ewe Podcast to discuss one of the most famous cryptids of all, The Loch Ness Monster! In the depths of Loch Ness a monster of the ages lurks in the murky waters. With a long neck and powerful fins, Ol’ Nessie manages to bring the mysteries of the past into the present. While not always visible...

We are joined by very special guest this week as Juan is busy changing dirty diapers and tending to a new born baby! Aran Doyle from first class horror has graced us with his presence on this episode as we dive back into hauntings and the paranormal but this time it's in Tomcat's home province of Ontario! From a screaming tunnel to an asylum plagued by tormented ghosts, there are many spirits roam...

It’s late, it’s dark and you’re in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps you’re in a desolate parking lot trying to get your car started or perhaps you’re nestled in the warmth of your own home reading yourself to sleep.. whatever the circumstance, you find yourself in an isolated locale when you’re suddenly startled by a sharp knock at the door or window. You look up from your steering wheel or cautious...

It is estimated that there are well over 200,000 unsolved murder cases in the United States alone, with some dating back as far as the 1960s. And even if a killer is eventually discovered by the police, some of these cold cases remain a mystery as lack of evidence. The mystery of the Allenstown Four, also known as the Bear Brook murders, first unraveled in 1985 when two bodies were found hidden in...

In 1978, a 16 year old boy named Luis Carlos Serra went missing from a village in Brazil and once he was found.. Oh boy did he have a story to tell! Tomcat and Anton discuss one of the most bizarre alien encounters Brazil has ever seen.. A normal day out in the jungle takes a STRANGE turn on this week's episode.  Follow all the madness on social media! Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/strang...

Tomcat and Anton are back in your ear holes with cover girls in a murderous world. In the late 1950s, a horrifying serial killer preyed on the young aspiring starlets of Hollywood, taking twisted “glamour” shots of his victims before sexually assaulting and murdering them. These horrifying killings were the work of Harvey Glatman, dubbed “The Glamour Girl Slayer.”   Follow all the madness on socia...

Cannock Chase is well-known for being saturated with ghostly goings-on, they've  got werewolves, UFOs, an alien pushing a car up a hill in 1960,  an old-man-with-a-cane-and-wide-brimmed-hat ghost, a "bedraggled woman" ghost, a ghostly parachutist, a phantom cyclist, a young monk ghost, a "tall hooded figure" near a cemetery, a witch's coven back in 1936 and of course the Pigman! "Oink Oink" muthaf...

There are many slightly weird holidays out there, but Easter, with its candy eggs, playful bunnies, and very serious religious element, might make you think why?  It's a mish-mash of ancient fertility symbols from various cultures, all wrapped up in a bow of modern consumerism. Like virtually every other Christian holiday, Easter has two thousand years of myths, legends, and misconceptions associa...

From zombies and werewolves, and even vampires, the hoseheads talk about news stories of real-life attacks by people (or creatures?) Are they real-life monsters? While there are reasonable explanations for many of these stories, it's not so difficult to speculate that some of these might have genuine supernatural origins. Others, however, demonstrate how disturbed minds can distort reality, causin...

In 1897, the Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the world to the vampire with his gothic horror novel Dracula. The story of Florencio Roque Fernández, who stalked the nights of Monteros, Argentina in the 1950s, begs the question: Are vampires real? We'll this guy defiantly thought so.. In the Tucumán province of Argentina, a mysterious figure stalked and killed women in their homes, even drank th...

Tis the feast of saint Patrick! Tomcat, Billy and Anton are celebrating as the Irish would with beers and bong tokes. On this very strange St. Paddy's Day special ☘️ We discuss different mythical monsters of Ireland and do what we do best, going off topic and drinking too much 😏🤣  Raise your glasses and spark up that green because it's getting strange!    Follow all the madness on social media!...

Can a song push a person to the edge enough to take their own life? or is it all just a coincidence? Tomcat and Billy talk about the infamous Hungarian suicide song for this week's strange topic!  Rezső Seress and László Jávor’s song “Gloomy Sunday” may be one of the most depressing songs ever recorded, and is commonly called “The Hungarian Suicide Song” because of its connection to a rash of 20th...

It's often said that war is hell, and it turns out that it provides the perfect cover for doing something just as awful — committing serial murders. For a handful of serial killers, the chaos and distractions of war provided perfect cover for killing not in the name of cause or country but for thrill of it.  Imagine living in the middle of World War II, wondering when you and your loved ones will...

Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased—21 women and 18 men of varying ages—were all found lying peaceably in matching dark clothes and Nike sneakers and had no noticeable signs of blood or trauma. It was later revealed that the men and women were members of the "Hea...

Clifford Robert Olson Jr. was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and young adults between the ages of 9 and 18 years in the early 1980s. Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist. The bodies of the three boys and eight girls, aged between 9 and 18, had been found in secluded areas within a 90-kilometre radius of Vancouver. Some of the victims had been r...