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Weird World Podcast

Weird World Podcast

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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00:57:46

Episode 358 - Weird News 03/14/25: Dumb Shaming

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2025/03/16

You might call it dumb, but let's call it poor judgment. This week in weird news we highlight some very poor decisions. Things like do-it-yourself cryogenics, surgeons that did not put sticky notes on the organs they were supposed to remove, people who start a war with raccoons, and so much more.

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00:53:10

Episode 357 - Capturing the Dead - William H Mumler...

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2025/03/06

Thanks to photoshop, the only limit on how we can mess with pictures is our imagination. But back in the 19th century, William H. Mumler began capturing people in his family portraits that had never been inside his studio - at least not while they were alive.

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01:05:53

Episode 356 - A Town Called Chaos

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2025/02/28

When a group of hardcore Libertarians took the political reins of a little town in New Hampshire they figured they would face opposition. Hostility from government-loving locals, from the teacher and cops they would try to fire, the usual suspects. But they didn't know they would also be attacked by the bears.

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00:44:22

Episode 355 - Kalanoro - Madagascar's Mini Monsters

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2025/02/14

Does an ancient race of small hairy humanoids with sharp claws and nasty fangs still live in the deepest jungles of modern Madagascar? Many locals are terrified of these Kalanoro, because, though only not quite three feet tall, they have been known to kidnap and kill humans.

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00:42:48

Episode 354 - Canada Invents a Gaydar

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2025/02/06

Every straight guy will say something about their “gaydar” at least 3 times a year if they work in an office. But there was a time when Canada - yes, Canada - thought they really could build a device that could tell if someone was gay or not, and that this was a good thing.

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01:17:45

Episode 353 - The Third Wave: Or How To Turn Your...

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2025/01/23

Do you think you could become a Nazi? With the right circumstances, the right environment, the right pressures? In 1967, none of the students in Ron Jones' high school history class thought so - until they did.

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01:29:26

Episode 352 - The White House Farm Murder Mystery -...

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2025/01/17

The case against Jeremy hinges on the smallest details - was the silencer on the rifle? Whose blood was that on the barrel of the gun? Was it even actually blood? And is Jeremy willing to go to any length to get his hands on the money? Or is it is someone else?

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01:08:43

Episode 351 - The White House Farm Murder Mystery -...

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2025/01/10

The seemingly simple, if horrific case, of murder-suicide explodes when Jeremy's ex tells the police of her deep, dark secret. Did Jeremy in fact extinguish his immediate family to get the family fortune? Or this something deeper going on here.

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01:14:58

Episode 350 - The White House Farm Murder Mystery -...

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2025/01/03

The Bamber family was modern English countryside gentry, but there was trouble broiling beneath the surface. Son Jeremy was loathed by most and daughter Sheila had two children from a broken marriage and serious psychological issues. In the early morning of Aug. 7, 1985, a horrific act started one of the most polarizing murder mysteries in English history. Part 1 of 3.

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00:22:04

Episode 349 - Weird News Update - Fading Drones?

Weird World Podcast ·

2024/12/19

Should this be the last time we trust anything coming out of New Jersey? JK, but it does seem that maybe the drone scare was more War of the Worlds than Pearl Harbor. Let's get into the latest on the New Jersey Drone Invasion (question mark?)

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00:54:58

Episode 348 - Weird World Weird News Special Report:...

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2024/12/16

The drone invasion of New Jersey has shocked the nation. Or at least New Jersey. Is it China? Is it a secret military project? Is it underfunded alien naturlists studying us in an oddly low-tech way? Or have we just begun to realize that, damn, there are a lot of drones up in the sky these days?

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01:04:12

Episode 347 - Weird News - UFO Edition

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2024/12/13

Let's catch up on some of the latest UFO-related items from around the world, and also Las Vegas. Tiny alien mummies, the latest unexplained UAP sightings from the government agency investigating those things now, a predicted battle in the sky between us and them, and a 10-foot, bright-eyed, big-mouthed alien that crash-landed in Las Vegas and hung out in a family's backyard for a bit.

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01:07:00

Episode 346 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak -...

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2024/12/06

The FBI reopens its investigation into what happened to the real Paul Fronczack. Disturbing details of a brutal childhood emerge with twins disappearing and a family afraid to ask questions. DNA testing finally reveals the truth and decades of lies unwind.

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00:55:31

Episode 345 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak -...

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2024/11/29

Paul Fronczack is about to have a baby so wants to uncover more of his murky past. A DNA test proves he is, surprise, not really Paul Fronczack. The story becomes a media sensation as Paul goes down a DNA rabbit hole attempting to solve two mysteries - who is he and what happened to the real Paul Fronczack?

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00:51:23

Episode 344 - The Changeling Life of Paul Fronczak -...

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2024/11/22

One day old Paul Fronczack was stolen from his mother's arms in a Chicago hospital. After an agonizing year, authorities in New Jersey thought they found the boy abandoned in Newark. The relieved parents took the baby home to raise as their own. But was he?

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01:12:46

Episode 343 - The Good, The Bad and the BS: A Guide...

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2024/11/14

We may live in a "post-truth" era, but that is no reason to give up on discovering the truth when you're researching the paranormal, the strange, the unanswered. So, with humility, we present a guide to some crticial questions you might ask in trying to separate truth from grift.

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01:15:55

Episode 342 - Beast of Bray Road

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2024/10/31

It chased little kids. It ran down cars. It lurched from the woods on foggy nights to terrify those unlucky enough to stop along Wisconsin's lonely Bray Road. Some said it was a werewolf. Some said it was more like a Bigfoot. All said the Beast of Bray Road scared the hell out of them.

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00:59:22

Episode 341 - Sensed Presence: When There Is...

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2024/10/24

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?

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00:12:32

Weird Bit 65 - The Lady Vanishes

Weird World Podcast ·

2024/10/21

A mother and daughter's trip to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 leads to one of the greatest urban legends of all time.

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01:23:12

Episode 340 - The Haunting of Hinton Ampner

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2024/10/18

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.

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