There have been too many weird coincidences in crime to fit into one episode, so we did two. First we bring you the infamous Whit Monday murders - two women murdered, their bodies found 300 yards apart, same age, both out dancing, both allegedly murdered by men named Thornton. The catch? The murders happened 157 years apart.
Episode 89 - Burn, Baby, Burn! Spontaneous Human Combustion
What can burn a body to cinder in hours without damaging flammable objects right next to it? Nothing, that’s what. Nothing except Spontaneous Human Combustion.
Episode 88 - Top 10 Scary Halloween Games
Do you like to conjure demons and evil spirits? Do you have an endless supply of candles and mirrors? If the answer to these questions is not just “Yes,” but “Hell yes!” then you need to listen. But first go get a candle and stare into a mirror.
Episode 87 - The Man Who (Almost) Killed Halloween
Halloween is Weird World’s favorite holiday. One sick man and his giant Pixy Stix almost ruined Halloween forever back on a dark day in Texas in 1974.
Episode 86: Black Eyed Kids: Teenagers Scare the Living Sh*t Out of Us
You’ve heard of Children of the Damned. You’ve heard of Children of the Corn. You’ve heard of Sweet Child of Mine. Now we have kids with soulless black eyes who invade your personal space - and want to inside your house.
Episode 85 - The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
He could scratch you and spit blue flame in your face, then run away really fast and leap moderately high walls in a single bound. He was Spring-Heeled Jack and he terrorized England in the 19th century.
This is the first in our (almost) month long celebration of Halloween. Let’s face it, it’s the funnest holiday we have.
Episode 84 - In Flight Part 2: A Boy and His Balloon
Was there a little boy trapped in that giant UFO-shaped balloon racing through the Colorado sky? We could ask him, but he will probably just flub his line and puke on live TV.
Episode 83 - In Flight Part 1: Lawn Chair Larry, American Dreamer
One man, one dream, one bottle of Coke, one sandwich, one lawn chair, one pellet gun - and 40 giant weather balloons. There was no way this plan could go wrong.
Weird Bit 19 - Santiago Flight 513: The Flight That Time Forgot
Did Flight 513 bound for Santiago, Chile finally land - 35 years after it took off? If so, did the airline’s on-time record ever recover? And wait until you find out what happened to the passengers…
Episode 82 - Beware The Illuminati!
Jay Z and Beyonce. Kanye and probably Kim. Eminem. Well, pretty much all of hip hop, but also Obama and the Bushes and Queen Elizabeth. All modern members of the Illuminati - the most dangerous group you are not allowed to know about.
Episode 81 - The Missing Sodder Children
Five Sodder children supposedly died in a fire on Christmas Eve 1945. But if they did, where were the burned bodies? And who made the strange phone call that night? And who took the ladder that could save them? And who were those kids seen with strangers the next morning?
Episode 80 - Those Daring Young Men in Their Lead Masks
Two men found dead on a hill in Rio in 1966. Nice suits? Check. Raincoats? Check. A bunch of money? Check. Cryptic instructions in a notebook? Check. Homemade lead masks on their faces? Check and check.
Episode 79 - The Chicago Tylenol Murders
Who put cyanide in Tylenol in 1982 and randomly murdered seven people in Chicago? We still don't know, but we think it wasn't the angry guy who tried to frame his wife's ex-boss. Or was it?
Episode 78 - The Redunkulous Homunculus
The greatest medical mind of the middle ages said you could make real live little humans from semen, a cow, blood, and a dark room. Let's give it a shot.
Episode 77 - The Voynich Manuscript
This book is written in indecipherable letters, has pictures of unknown plants and animals and naked women, and no one knows who wrote it. Yet it's still better than Fifty Shades of Gray. Let's investigate the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Episode 76 - The Kelly-Hopkinsville Horror
Was it an alien attack that caused a houseful of Kentuckians to flee in terror from their home in the middle of the night? Or was it something even worse? (Spoiler: it wasn't something worse, but that sounded really scary.)
Episode 75 - The Shadow People are Here
They flicker at the edge of our vision, dark, ominous and... shadowy? Most of the time they just aren't that into us, but sometimes they mean us harm. You'd better listen to this podcast for your own safety.
Episode 74 - The Other Murder of a JFK Mistress
Mary Pinchot Meyer tried to get her lover John F. Kennedy to smoke pot and drop acid in the name of peace. Then she was murdered... Cue ominous, suggestive music.
Episode 73 - A Military Quickie: The British-Zanzibar War
Someone said all's fair in love and war. But not this. This war was not cool - but at least it only lasted 38 minutes, the shortest war ever.
Episode 72 - The Sherri Papini "Kidnapping"
She was a young, pretty mother of two, so when Sherri Papini disappeared while out jogging, naturally it was big news. But was she really kidnapped? Or is there more to this mystery than who stole Sherri Papini for three weeks?