Weird World Podcast

<p >What's the best date for a new couple? Dinner and a movie? A concert? A rave? Maybe something cultural like a museum? Or perhaps a steep climb up a rugged Alpine mountain. In Winter. At night? And, it turns out...

<p >In our first Weird World Weird New Weird Bit (WWWNWB, rolls off the tongue), we report on the recently released UFO files. Some puzzled astronauts, some grainy pictures, and some pretty odd red hot orbs highlight...

<p >What if it wasn't just RFK, Jr. driving away the best scientists in America? What if someone was abducting or killing the nation's best brains? The leading researchers on nuclear power, space technology and, let's...

<p >Part 2 of the Zodiac case focuses on the the potential additional victims of the killer that may have gone unnoticed. But Zodiac is probably most famous as the serial killer who was never caught. Or was he? Let's...

<p >America’s most famous monster cemented his status as much with his attention-seeking toying with press and police as he did with his demented deeds. In part 1, we explore both Zodiac’s actions and his incessant...

<p >Was there a Zodiac murder before we knew the name? The method was similar, the victim, and then the boasting letters to the police and papers. But this was years before Zodiac claimed his first victims… That we know...

<p >Content Warning: There is talk of suicide, sexual assault, coercion and manipulation. Please skip this episode if you need to.</p><p ></p><p >Maybe he had done a stretch in prison, but Talia's Dad Larry was still...

<p >The two boys who had seen the UFO crash in the New Mexico months before Roswell waited until they were old men to tell their story. They had dates and names and even a piece of the alien craft made from this exotic...

<p >Most folks date the modern UFO era from 1947. Kenneth Arnold saw those skipping saucers in Washington and Roswell became extraterrestrial crash landing central. But what if an alien craft smashed into the New...

<p >In 2019, a niche website focused on e-commerce made a passing reference to some minor legal trouble the head of eBay was in. Months of surveillance, harrassment, and death threats later, and the world knew not to...

<p >The money pit seems a perfectly devised trap - dig tantalizingly close to the treasure and the sea fills it yet again, wrecking your dreams. We end the Oak Island story with a deep dive into its history and if the...

<p >Chalino Sanchez had left behind a dangerous life in Sinaloa and by the early 1990s had become a narcocorrido singing star in the U.S. He had killed, had been shot, and sang of the exploits of the cartels. In May...

<p >What is at the bottom of the Oak Island Money Pit? We have theories. So many theories. Buried priate treasure. Loot from a French pay ship (which is a thing). Marie Antoinette's smuggled jewels. Knights Templar...

<p >Among get rich fantasies, finding buried treasure is harder than inheriting from a forgotten uncle, but way more fun. Oak Island has been enticing and frustrating treasure hunters for over 200 years with its...

<p >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...