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Paranormal, The Unexplained, Weird News & More...Hosted by Jon F. Merz, Author - Actor - Adventurer. New episodes weekly. Be sure to subscribe! Email: theweeklystrange@gmail.com
Jon F Merz hosts The Weekly Strange, a fiction show with 95 episodes published.
The map of the Neolithic revolution just changed forever. In January 2026, receding waters of the Atatürk Dam in the Adıyaman province of Turkey revealed something archaeologists thought was confined to a small cluster:
You don’t expect to find a legend just miles from a bustling city, but something changed in Jon's suburban Boston back yard last May. We often think of Sasquatch as a creature of the deep Pacific Northwest, but what Jon
Deep within the "Terra Firme" of the Amazon Rainforest, where human footprints are rare and ancient ruins are swallowed by the canopy, lives a creature that shouldn't exist. It is known as the Mapinguari - the Brazilian
We often think of Bigfoot as a creature of the deep, untouched wilderness of the Pacific Northwest or the vast North Woods of Maine. But what if the world's most elusive apex predator is living right on the edge of the B
September 19, 1961, changed the landscape of the paranormal forever. While driving through the dark mountain passes of Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a craft that would result in the wo
Deep in the forests of the Northeast, something ancient and aggressive is being seen. It isn't a bear, and it definitely isn't a werewolf. In this video, Jon investigates the terrifying reality of the New England Dogman.
Is it possible for a 8-foot-tall apex predator to cross one of the most guarded waterways in America? Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is famous for its beaches, but for cryptid researchers, the real story lies in the dense pine
Is Sasquatch hiding in the Bay State? While many associate Bigfoot with the Pacific Northwest, Massachusetts has a dense history of sightings that suggest a sophisticated, seasonal migration pattern. In this deep-dive do
It is perhaps the most persistent urban legend in history. You’re driving down a lonely highway at night, you pick up a quiet passenger in distress, and minutes later, they simply vanish from your moving vehicle. From Re
Is it a machine, a biological entity, or a glitch in our sensors? The Jellyfish UAP has become one of the most baffling categories of unidentified phenomena ever recorded by the US military. From the leaked 2018 footage
On a clear, sunny day in November 2025, seasoned semi-truck driver Wayne Yarian saw a 7-foot, dark brown, muscular bipedal creature walking across a field near Garden Valley, Texas. This was not a fleeting glimpse—the wi
The Dybbuk Box is famous as the source of strokes, nightmares, and financial ruin—a small, antique wine cabinet containing a malevolent Jewish possessing spirit. Its story has inspired a major horror film and now resides
Around 1200 BCE, an unprecedented catastrophe struck the ancient world, bringing down nearly every major civilization from Greece to Mesopotamia. This event, known as the Bronze Age Collapse, was fueled by an enigmatic a
The Barmanou is perhaps the most compelling and terrifying human-like cryptid you’ve never heard of. Forget the giant Yeti; meet the Wild Man of the Hindu Kush—a stocky, muscular creature that some researchers believe is
Dive into the details of the highly corroborated Tehran UFO Incident of September 19, 1976, one of the most compelling military-UAP confrontations in history, verified by a declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (
Journey to southeastern Turkey and explore Göbekli Tepe, the world’s oldest known temple, a monumental site dating back to 9600 BCE—predating Stonehenge by six millennia and the Egyptian pyramids by seven. Built by hunte
Dive into the details of one of the most compelling and high-credibility Bigfoot reports of this season: the daylight sighting on I-80 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, in early October 2025. Jon breaks down the testimony
Step back to January 1996, when the quiet city of Varginha, Brazil, became the site of one of the most explosive and chilling UAP incidents in modern history. Often called the "Brazilian Roswell," this case involves mult
Dive into the terrifying truth of the Bridgewater Triangle, a 200 square-mile vortex of paranormal activity in southeastern Massachusetts that has baffled researchers for centuries. This episode covers the geographic bou
After its discovery in 2017, the long lost city of Peñico, a 3,800-year-old city belonging to the ancient Caral civilization—the oldest urban society in the Americas, is finally unveiled This major archaeological announc
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