Weird World Podcast

Our first Weird World fictional foray tells the story of a man lurching toward his end, a woman hiding from shame, and a baby that won’t stop crying.

Do you believe in ghosts? How about demons? Join us to learn how many believe and who they are.

Canada’s most famous ghost story centers on a traumatized teen and the malevolent spirits that haunted her. For Esther Cox, strange noises would escalate to burning skin, a swollen body, mysterious fires, thunderous booming sounds, and the occasional flying knife.

He is tall, he is slender, he is dark, and, for two teenage girls in Wisconsin, he was an inspiration for evil. He is Slender Man. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/milwaukee-suburb-tries-to-cope-with-slender-man-stabbing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/movies/slender-man-timeline.html A documentary film on the incident called Beware the Slenderman , directed by Irene Taylor B...

In the urban jungle of Mexico City is a quiet lake with an unspoiled island. There a man found a girl drowned on the shore. When he found her doll in the lake days later, he honored her in the spookiest way imaginable.

If you see a dim light in the forest near the bridge over Colchester Road, it's already too late. The Bunny Man Killer, axe in hand, has been dispatching the curious since 1904 and he almost never leaves survivors. Almost...

Spooky 2020 Halloween Episode #1 Mowgli’s Palace was going to be the next great Disney theme park - until they abandoned it at the last minute. Years later, an intrepid urban explorer who didn’t think to bring a flashlight, cell phone or common sense found out why…

They dot the landscape of America - lonely bridges where unspeakable things happened and the only reminder of them is the cry of a ghostly child. Sources: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/crybaby bridge www.theoccultmuseum.com www.ranker.com/list/crybabybridgebackstory/christopherschultz www.blairwitch.fandom.com/crybaby bridge

Is there a living dinosaur hidden in the wilds of Central Africa? One that stops rivers and kills unwary canoeists for sport? Meet the mokele-mbembe, sole exhibit of a real life Jurassic Park.

Blair Adams fled Canada with a ticket to Germany, rerouted to Washington, D.C. and drove to Knoxville, Tennessee, a city he had never seen. He said someone was chasing him. His friends and family thought he was having a breakdown. Then they found Blair in a parking lot, murdered. Sources: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/11/unsolved-canadian-blair-adams-raced-knox-county-slain-hal...

The Devil made Paul Ingram do it and he didn’t even know it. Terrible things, wicked things, and he took the rap and went to prison on his own confession. But did Paul Ingram really do any of those terrible things? DISCLAIMER for descriptions of sexual and satanic ritual abuse. This episode is not for young listeners. Sources: http://www.religioustolerance.org/ra_ingra.htm https://blogs.brown.edu/...

Alexander Gordon Laing had that confident swagger of every European colonialist who went stomping into some new land to civilize and bleed it. So why shouldn’t he cross the entire Sahara Desert to find a lost city in the middle of Africa? Sources: The Mammoth Book of Losers by Karl Shaw https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Alexander_Gordon_Laing http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/2008/0...

Coming soon to a podcast app near you, Stupid Questions, brought to you by the people behind the Weird World podcast (us). This is just a little announcement and some info about the new podcast. We hope you'll listen to it and keep listening to us on Weird World.

In Part 2 of the Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film we explore what may have been the origin and intent of the film. It may have been a n idea so crazy it actually worked.

Was Wayfair selling young girls in high priced, ugly cabinets? Or young boys stuffed into $9,999 Zodiac pillows? Doesn’t sound possible, yet many people came across the products listed on the website and leapt to those logical conclusions, and found all the evidence online they needed to back it up. Sources: Kids Shipped in Armoires? The Person Who Started the Wayfair Conspiracy Speaks By Andrew W...

It is at least the second most famous amateur film ever taken. That iconic look back from a massive hairy bi-ped in the California forest. Was it incontrovertible proof of a living Bigfoot? Or was it a man in a monkey suit? Let’s decide.

Ruth kept her kids in suspense all their lives. There were the sudden moves across the country, the surprise camping trips, the strange demands. Then one day she told them the truth. The very weird truth. Sources: “The Story of a Weird World I Was Warned Never To Tell,” by Sarah McDermott, BBC World Service https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42951788 “Childhood on the Run”, by Tim Lewis https://www....

It was Grey Gardens meets Crocodile Dundee. It was two aging sisters enduing an increasingly awful existence amid decaying splendor - until one of them died and the other disappeared. Sources: The Peculiar World of Margaret Clement, by Annie O'Riley, April 28, 2014 https://www.oddhistory.com.au/gippsland/the-peculiar-world-of-margaret-clement/ https://www.historicmysteries.com/lady-of-the-swamp/ h...

There may be more recent pretenders, but there is only one real alien autopsy film, and when Fox TV aired it in 1995 it caused a sensation. We bring you the wild ride of how the film came to be, what people thought about it, and why Fox kept blurring out those alien naughty bits.

Three feet seven inches. That’s 1.09 meters. That was the size of the iron rod that pierced Phineas Gage’s head. But why take our word for it? Take his. Because, massive hole in his head or not, Phineas lived to tell.

Brittany Murphy was the bright young star of Hollywood - until she met Simon Monjack. A few years later Brittany was dead at 32 of… pneumonia and anemia? That was odd. But when Simon died a few months later - of pneumonia and anemia - that was weird.

We continue our quest to find the best / worst Coronavirus conspiracy theories. If Covid-19 is a deep state big pharma bioweapon, wouldn’t you want to know?

You have your Plandemic, sure, but there is a rich array of conspiracy theories spiraling through the world as fast as the virus. Here are some of the best / worst. Warning to Bill Gates and Verizon - you are not going to like this. Sources (Plandemic debunking): livescience buzzfeed science New York Times Factcheck.org