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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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Episode 391 - Terror in Idaho

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2026/01/08

40 miles outside of Idaho Falls, a skeleton crew run a micro nuclear power plant. They are poorly trained with little experience. One mundane task is to handle fuel rods that could explode if moved a few inches too far. And one of those workers has been drinking too much...

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01:24:48

Episode 390 - Weird News - AI Armageddon Edition!!!

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2026/01/02

From AI Jesus to AI fakery to insanely irresponsible AI-fueled kid's toys to an AI end of the world, we explore some recent AI headlines that point the way to a scarier future.

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01:08:36

Episode 389 - Amelia Earhart (Almost) Flies Around...

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2025/12/26

The U.S. Navy went all out looking for Amelia Earhart or her plane but never found a shred. Since then, many have searched and some have claimed to have spotted the remains of the lost aircraft if not even of Amelia herself. What happened? Did they find temporary solace on a tiny isle? Were they captured by the Japanese? Was it a planned disappearance? Or did they simply run out of fuel and ditch the little Lockheed Electra into one fo the loneliest places on the planet?

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01:02:40

Episode 388 - Amelia Earhart (Almost) Flies Around...

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2025/12/18

Amelia Earhart set out to be a pioneer and she was. She flew fearlessly, broke records, and even found time for forward-looking fashion. When she set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the world, she knew the second to last leg landing on tiny Howland Is. in the vast Pacific would be the most dangerous. It was. Part 1 of 2.

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00:27:52

Weird Bit 72 - The Sordid Secret Behind Griffith Park

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2025/12/15

At nearly 7 square miles, Griffith Park is an urban wilderness in the heart of Los Angeles. The land was a gift from Col. Griffith J. Griffith. That was very generous. He was less generous to his wife Tina seven years later when he… Well, you'll see.

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00:42:42

Episode 387 - Tesla's Death Ray

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2025/11/27

Nikola Tesla was an acknowledged genius. He had countless patents for a huge variety of inventions – the first remote control, the Tesla Coil, alternating current, and best of all he had nothing to do with the Cybertruck. So is he said he had invented a death ray, you would have to believe him. Or would you?

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00:10:29

Weird Bit 71 - Quick Cryptid Corner: The Kikiyaon

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2025/11/24

If you're walking home through a dark forest in West Africa and hear a cry like that of a strangled man, you'd better run. The Kikiyaon is about to swoop down on you with its razor talons and sharp shoulder spurs. Part giant owl, part human, the Kikiyaon is a cryptid to be feared.

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00:50:01

Episode 386 - Weird News 11-13-25: Politics Edition!

Weird World Podcast ·

2025/11/14

You can't avoid political news these days, though you would probably like to. We promise these stories are more likely to say "WTF?" than WTF!"

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00:22:59

Weird Bit 70 - Probably Not The Last Word on 3I Atlast

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2025/11/11

Instellar comet / alien craft possibly coming for us 3I Atlas passed out from behind the sun settled all of our questions. It is, we can say for sure now, either a comet or an alien spacecraft probably bent on our destruction.

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01:20:04

Episode 385 - 3I Atlas - A Flyby From Far Away

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2025/11/06

31 Atlas is only the third interstellar object tracked into our solar system, a strange visitor from very, very far away. And while most scientists believe it to be a comet, there are enough questions to cause some folks to wonder if it is something … unnatural?

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01:06:07

Episode 384 - The Creepypasta Hall of Fame - Part 2

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2025/10/31

More classic creepypasta with tales of insomniac Russains, a disappearing town in Kansas, a wikipedia-obsessed figure skater, a mysterious puppet show, an overly animated amusement park dog, and the tragedy of a closed door.

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00:54:48

Episode 383 - The Creepypasta Hall of Fame - Part 1

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2025/10/30

Creepypastas - those spooky and terrifying stories that have the run of the internet - have become an art form. Here we share the best of the best, the most iconic and creepiest of creepypastas. In Part 1, we hear about a battle-scarred killer, a terrifyingly slender man, a killer proud of his masterpiece, and an eeriely calm woman with a kitten in her mouth.

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00:56:38

Episode 382 - Haunted Highway Part 2: The Hairy Hands...

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2025/10/27

If you're driving through the moors of Dartmoor keep a tight grip on the wheel. And if your car suddenly careens off the road, look down at the wheel and you just might see a pair of ghostly, and very hairy, hands atop your own. They mean you harm.

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00:26:29

Episode 381 - Haunted Highways Part 1 - The...

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2025/10/23

For one night in 1987, the Stocksbridge Bypass in Yorkshire was alive with spectral activity. Ghost children dancing, a ghost monk terrorizing constables, a police car battered by something unseen. What was the cause of this horror and will it return?

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00:58:13

Episode 380 - The Real Candyman

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2025/10/17

What's crawling between the walls of your old apartment building? Roaches? Rats? The cast of "Only Murders in the Building"? Ruthie May McCoy found out in the worse way that it could be something so much worse.

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01:01:43

Episode 379 - Spooky Stories From the Deep Dark Woods

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2025/10/10

Forests are spooky. That is just a straight up fact. Here are three stories from those spooky places: North Carolina's Devil's Tramping Ground where nothing grows but fear; the Scottish highlands where you stop into a haunted bothy at your own risk; and the infamous tale of a frighteningly tenacious forest stalker who just wanted to know how to get to Bells Canyon.

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00:56:44

Episode 378 - The Cursed Haunting of Dudleytown

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2025/10/03

Welcome to a new season of Hallow Weird World! We start with a spooky story about a town in Connecticut that has suffered from madness, disappearances, unexplained deaths, and strange dark figures in the forest for centuries. Welcome to Dudleytown.

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Episode 377 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake...

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2025/09/25

CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, murder, including of childrenThe young survivors of the massacre began to remember bits and pieces, but memories are tricky things and the hints and flashes lead no where solid. With the case still unsolved, we dissect the likeliest scenarios for what happened on that horrific day.

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Episode 376 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake...

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2025/09/18

CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, including harm to childrenWhile the French focus on Saad al-Hilli's brother fighting as the murder, the English believe the acutal target was the cyclist Molliere. The investigation cycles through one suspect after another - a serial killer, a gun nut, a former French Foreign Leggionairre - but one of the seem to fit. Then they find the mystery motorcyclist dressed in black...

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00:45:11

Episode 375 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake...

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2025/09/12

CONTENT WARNING: for violence and murder, including children victimsThe al-Hillis were a respectable English family yon a caravan vacation to France’s Lake Annecy near the border with Switzerland. They stop at a turnout for a nice family stroll in the forest. But when a cyclist stops at the same clearing moments later, he realizes he has stumbled onto an atrocity.

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