The Some Weird Podcast

Bonus: Newfoundland Halloween Stories   Welcome back to The Some Weird Podcast! In this bonus episode we are talking about Halloween traditions from Newfoundland and Labrador. From root vegetables to sticks in boots to molasses candies this episode has a ton of weirdness.   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have y...

Finally! Our Season 7 Finale is here! In this episode we welcome back your best friend and mine Ted to talk about more weird stories from Newfoundland and Labrador. We’ll talk about the role two tiny French islands off the coast played during the prohibition era and take you on a journey down a haunted highway near Hell Hill. Throughout we have real articles about UFO sightings in the province fro...

In a time of posting, liking, and sharing just about anything it is inevitable that hoaxes are easily shared globally and some of these caused widespread panic. In this episode we discuss that time many people thought killer clowns were lurking around every corner and that other time when we were warned of a very strange bird-lady-creature called Momo that was causing kids to harm themselves over...

This is part 2 of our episode on Cults. In Cults Part 2: The 7M Tik Tok Cult we will talk about the current situation with 7M. Is it a church? A talent agency? A terrible place to work? We’re not sure but many are convinced this is one of the latest cults to spring up in the United States. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcas...

This is a two-part episode because there was just so much weirdness! In Cults Part 1: Heaven’s Gate we will talk about how this UFO cult started and how it ended. Stay tuned for the end bloopers for our tangent discussion on the best Jokers.   Cults Part 2 will be out on the next scheduled time. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.somewei...

Ever find something in an impossible place? Like your coat in the fridge or ice cream in your closet? How did you manage to get that stuff in such wrong places? What if you found a 1920s spark plug in a half-million-year-old geode or an aluminum wedge next to 10,000-year-old mastodon bones? These would be much more difficult to explain and yet these items have been found. In this episode we’re tal...

A photoshop contest brought forth a modern-day urban legend: Slenderman. Though we can clearly trace the origins of this monster’s creation, for at least 2 pre-teens, this fictional character became real enough to inspire a terrible crime. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on o...

Our planet is about 29% land and we’ve chopped that land up to create countries. Some of the borders we have created make sense and others…well not so much. In this episode, we tell you about Sealand, an independent principality off the English coast, and bizarre international borders between India and Bangladesh, Belgium and The Netherlands, and even Canada and the United States. Warning: some la...

Can anyone tell the future or do we just fill in the blanks in hindsight? Many believe some have genuinely had the gift of prognostication. People have been obsessed with French physician Nostradamus’ prophecies for 500 years. More recently, the oft-referenced animated show ‘The Simpsons’ has been touted as the modern Nostradamus. Is second sight a thing? Or do we believe what we want to believe?...

The tin-foil hat crowd believe that the whole moon landing was fake news. Why? We’ll report on their beliefs and present what they say is proof. Also, we’ll look at the super weird idea that Stanley Kubrick tattled on himself as the one who filmed the fake footage by putting Easter eggs in the 1980 movie ‘The Shining’. It’s a stretch and it’s some weird, b’y. Warning: some language or themes may n...

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing patterns in nonsense. We see clouds that look like all manner of things, everyday items that seem to have human expressions, and sometimes, Jesus shows up in toast! Other times, rando faces just appear on the kitchen floor. Why do we see them and why do they happen? Some weird, b’y! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out...

We’re back for a 7th season and we’re kicking it off with supernatural trials. There’s all kinds of defenses to use in a murder trial but have you ever heard of the ‘Bear Walker Defense’? It’s definitely a thing. Not into true crime? No problem! What do you think about real estate law? Did you ever buy a house only to find out later it was haunted? The case of Stambovsky v. Ackley resulted in Amer...

This is our last episode for Season 6. We welcome back our guest host Ted and we talk about more stories from Newfoundland and Labrador. We talk about the origins of the Screech In Ceremony where you can become an honorary Newfoundlander in just a few easy steps. Then we visit a forgotten monument that was meant to commemorate the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway. Finally, we reminisce about...

This episode was inspired by the super popular and super awesome video game and HBO adaptation “The Last of Us”. In the series, cordyceps evolve to spawn a zombie pandemic but is this more than science fiction? While nothing of this magnitude is likely to happen, the fungus ergot has been cited as the possible cause of an event in 1951 where many people in a small town had some pretty intense hall...

No brand new episode this week. Instead, please enjoy this remastered episode from our first season. Get ready for the creeps as we get personal with our experiences with sleep paralysis or, as it is called in Newfoundland, The Old Hag. In this nightmare fuel episode, we look at its origins across multiple cultures, what the heck is going on when we sleep and dream, and how can we prevent this ter...

In this episode we look into the namesake of Munchausen’s Syndrome. This is a condition where people fake being sick in order to gain sympathy from others. Then we look at the very strange case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard who suffered her whole life at the hands of her own mother who had the related Munchausen’s By Proxy Syndrome where a caregiver fakes or induces illness in their dependent to get sym...

Newfoundland and Labrador, joined Canada in 1949 with its own fully formed society. Many aspects of our cultural heritage persist today including our language and folklore. In part 1 of this bonus re-release episode we share listener stories including death tokens, a ghostly chicken, the Old Hag and more. In part 2, we’ll share stories of heroes and legends from the Newfoundland Rangers to the res...

Human bodies are generally made up of the same stuff but some peoples’ chemistry does some pretty freaky reactions. In this episode we talk about Gut Fermentation Syndrome where your body turns your gut into its very own microbrewery when you eat carbohydrates. We also delve into the mysterious case of Gloria Ramirez whose trip to the ER resulted in several people around her getting sick. Warning:...

High school students have had “Macbeth” on their required reading list for generations so we are all at least somewhat familiar with the play: witches tell a guy he will become king and his ambition drives him to do terrible things and eventually causes his downfall. You may also know that it is bad luck to say “Macbeth” in the theater but why is that? In this episode we will examine possible reas...

From Batman to Spiderman to The Tick and everything in between, superheroes are engrained in our pop culture. Whether you are a fan or not, you know the usual story: a seemingly normal person has an extraordinary experience that grants them some superpower that they must determine whether to use for the power of good or evil. It’s great entertainment! But there are some real people who claim to po...

At some point in our ancient history, we figured out we need to handle the mortal remains of our dearly departed. There have been three main methods: bury, cremate, mummify. But there have also been those on the fringe who figured they had a better idea. In this episode we are talking about a couple of these unique and questionable postmortem decisions. First, we look at magical necropants from Ic...

Some people think we only get one life to live and others think our spirit or soul returns again and again in different bodies. While past lives have never been 100% scientifically proven, The Division of Perceptual Studies at The University of Virginia has been studying this possibility for decades. In this episode we present two such cases. First, an American boy named James Leininger who rememb...

Every year we hear about someone randomly poisoning Halloween candy. This is a persistent urban legend but is based on a true story that happened in Texas in 1974. In this episode we will tell you all about piece of sh*t Ronald Clark O’Bryan’s unimaginable crime. Then, on a much needed lighter side, we learn about the folktale of Stingy Jack and how the Jack O’Lantern came to be. Warning: some lan...

The Mandela Effect is a very weird phenomenon where a significant number of people remember an event or piece of pop culture clearly in one way while a different significant number of people remember the same thing in a very different way. The term was coined by a paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome who posted on the Internet that she clearly remembered South African civil right leader Nelson...

Based on listeners votes we present Newfoundland-themed stories about statues, pirates and tables! Special guest Trivia Ted is all about statues great and small. Where did they come from and why do we have them? Barry gets into famed pirate Peter Easton and his possible buried treason which is allegedly protected by a ghost. Then Crissy tells table-centric urban legends from Memorial University of...