The Some Weird Podcast

We're back! It's your favorite sister brother team from Newfoundland with a brand new season of The Some Weird Podcast; a podcast about strange and unusual stories told by your cohosts Crissy and Barry. This season will have stories about people who were lost and found under very bizarre circumstances. Stories behind some WTF deathbed confessions. We'll talk about unusual ways humans have employed...

So here we are, the last episode of the third season of the Some weird podcast. So far this season, we have told you some extraordinary tales about aliens, strange medical conditions, and inspirations for some of the scariest movies ever filmed. For this episode, we decided to go back to where it all began, Newfoundland. It as the inspiration for the genesis of the podcast. And although we have br...

Ever have a dream where something in the dream mirrored something in the real world? I can remember having a dream where I was sitting in class in my elementary school and I heard the bells of the church that was next door ringing only to wake and realize that my real-life alarm clock was going off (probably longer than it should have). It’s pretty common for things happening in real life to affec...

Death is a part of life. Although they are polar opposites you can’t have one without the other. Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be very difficult. Death can also be very cruel taking someone from this Earth way too soon and making them suffer as they make their journey to the other side. When this happens, you take time to mourn your loss. You don’t ever truly get over it but eventually...

Tale as old as time. No, not Beauty and the Beast: a story of bestiality and Stockholm Syndrome thinly veiled as a romance for the ages and cleaned up and sanitized by Disney for your viewing pleasure. No not that one, I am talking about a much older story: that of the eternal struggle of good vs evil. This theme is woven in the threads of almost all our stories at some level. If you are a Christi...

Have you ever heard the expression “your mind is playing tricks on you”? you wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. As you stumble your way to the door, you catch a glimpse of a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye. Or, maybe you go to the local grocery store and see a monkey man hanging around the train tracks behind the building. You quickly shake your head to refocus an...

B’ys. What was on the go in colonial times? European nations were fighting over which sovereign got to own lands all around the globe. Lands which were already clearly occupied by people but still acquired for the glory - or perhaps more precisely for the coffers - of this crown or that. The sun never set on the British Empire, am I right? Look at our own island of Newfoundland – here was Britain’...

What is time?  Not an easy thing to define yet we are all slaves to it.  I wish I could do that, but I don't have enough time.  Excuse me, do you have the time?  Oh no, I'm going to be late.  But time is not just the hours minutes and seconds in which we schedule our daily routines, history is defined by time.  Watch a John Hughes movie and you are instantly brought b...

Human beings have invented some pretty impressive stuff. From the wheel to the printing press to the iPhone and beyond in, from the perspective of all of time, the blink of the eye. Some human-made experimental weapons may have even caused our friends at the Dyatlov Pass Incident from our last episode to flee their tent in the dead of the Russian winter to meet their deaths. Speaking of everything...

On January 23rd, 1959, a 23 year old engineering student named Igor Dyatlov led a group of ten experienced hikers on an expedition to earn his grade 3 certification. At the time, this was the highest certification available in the Soviet Union and brought great honor to those that achieved it. On what should have been a trip of a lifetime ended in disaster when "an unusual event of unknown origin"...

On a clear morning following a raging thunderstorm in November of 1980, the family of a 32 year old British Columbian man named Granger Taylor woke to find him missing and in his place was this bizarre note: Dear Mother and Father, I have gone away to walk aboard an alien spaceship. As recurring dreams assured me a 42 month interstellar voyage to explore the vast universe, then return. I am leavin...

The Some Weird Podcast is back with Season 3! We've explored Newfoundland and Labrador and the rest of Canada in seasons 1 and 2 and now we are venturing out with 10 all new episodes featuring some of the weirdest stories without borders all presented with our Newfoundland flair. We've got UFOs, time slips, and the real life stories behind some of our favorite horror movies just to name a few. The...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 13: Nunavut We have finally made it to the last territory to join the country of Canada. Created in 1999, Nunavut is the largest territory but has the smallest population and is full of wonderful stories. We’ll get philosophical with the meaning of dreams and the concept of the soul(s). We’ll get the nearest to heaven (or at least to Mars) on Devon Island. A...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 12b: Newfoundland and Labrador The stories from Newfoundland and Labrador continue with Part 2 of our home province. Here, we’ll share stories of heroes and legends from the Newfoundland Rangers to the rescue of almost 200 Americans from their shipwrecked Truxtun and Pollux by civilians in a small outport community to the possibly supernatural origins of Fat...

Season 2: The Great Weird North.  Episode 12a: Newfoundland and Labrador.  We have finally made it home. Our province, 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 this episode we share listener stories including death tokens, a ghostly chicken, the Old Hag a...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 11: Saskatchewan On September 1, 1905, Saskatchewan became Canada’s 9th province. Here, in the land of the Wheat Kings, a lot of weird things have happened and in this episode we’ll share a couple of our favourites. First, there is the incredible story of the madman/genius/prophetic letter writer Tom Sukanen who dedicated his life to building a boat with his...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 10: Alberta Alberta is a province with oil, cowboys, Rocky Mountains, North America’s largest shopping mall and tons of wrestlers. It also has its fair share of weird stories from a man who dreamt of his brother’s murder to a ghost town that is completely underwater. Even though it is landlocked, it has its very own mermaid (merman?) and, of course, a wild m...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 9: Yukon Territory You know about the Klondike Gold Rush … or do you? The true story of the weirdest gold rush and the colourful characters that were attracted to (or products of) this definitive part of Yukon history are explored in this episode. The seemingly magical draw of all that fortune persists well over 100 years later and that idea led a marketing...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 8: Prince Edward Island We’re back on the East Coast this week with Canada’s 7th province Prince Edward Island. We explain just who Prince Edward was as we reminisce about driving to the smallest province in a Chevette and about the deliciousness that is Cow’s Ice Cream! Good Times! Do you like stories about ghosts haunting the places of their Earthly demise...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 7: British Columbia In this episode we are in the most westerly province in Canada. The stories from our Pacific Northwest are some weird. If you’ve ever wanted to know the full story of train robber Bill Miner made famous by one of the National Film Board of Canada’s Vignettes from back in the day you have come to the right place. Ever hear about loose feet...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 6: The Northwest Territories North of 60 is a unique land of magic and mystery. In this episode, we tell you the story of the Dene folk hero Yamǫ́rıa who rid the north of scary giant beavers. Evidence of his adventures still dot the land of the Northwest Territories. Then, we take a morbid turn into greed and mystery with stories of the Headless Valley. Wer...

S02E05: Manitoba Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 5: Manitoba Are badgers capable of empathy? What would they feed a human child if the need should ever arise? In this episode, we discuss these questions and we explore one of the most well-documented cases of a UFO sightings in history: The Falcon Lake Incident. Plus, we check out a haunted theater and get to some deep soul-searching with q...

S02E04: Quebec Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 4: Quebec It is time to visit Quebec. While it’s known as the French province there is so much more that makes this slice of Canada unique. We talk about a decapitated sex worker who is seen every seven years in Montreal and how the demand for fancy hats helped shape a brand new version of the werewolf. Of course, what would this episode be wi...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 3: Ontario In this episode we travel to the most populous province in Canada. You’ll learn important life lessons like why you should not play with dynamite and how to prevent the undead from rising from their graves to suck your blood. Crissy exposes her dark fascination with Sesame Street and Barry lays out all the practical and inexpensive ways to deal wi...

Season 2: The Great Weird North Episode 2: Nova Scotia Donairs, explosions, poltergeists and the hairy man! In this episode, we get into the weird side of the second of the four original provinces. Is there a benevolent Sasquatch-esque being roaming the wilds of Cape Breton? Did a pyromaniacal ghost haunt a young woman in Amherst? Probably. Whether you are Come From Away or a Come From Here there...