Zigmund Adamski goes missing in 1980. Five days later he is found dead, but weirdly clean atop a pile of coal. Police are baffled - until one of them sees something that makes him wonder if Zigmund had been abducted by some from far, far away…
Episode 136 - Carl Tanzler: Devoted Lover and Psychopath
Doctor, count, husband, lover, Carl Tanzler was so many things. It was just that those last two things involved a dead woman. Happy Halloween!
Sources:
Carl Tanzler: In Love with the Dead
https://www.historicmysteries.com/carl-tanzler-in-love-with-the-dead/
Carl Tanzler Kept a Corpse Bride for 7 Years in an Actual American Horror Story, Moriah Gill, June 28, 2019
https://rare.us/people/carl-tanzler-elena-hoyos-florida/
Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy, Jessica Guerra, October 27, 2014
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-the-macabre-romance-of-a-man-and-a-mummy
Episode 135 - Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind
Extraterrestrials don’t just need us for our access to phones. They also want to have sex with us. A lot, if you go by how many humans claim to have been nailed by ETs. Warning: Listener discretion is advised, as in we advise you to listen to this episode.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounter
https://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/u/ufo/close-encounters/
https://curiosity.com/topics/the-hynek-scale-is-a-six-item-system-for-classifying-ufo-sightings-and-alien-contact-curiosity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Villas_Boas
https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/19/sex-with-an-alien-was-the-most-pleasure-i-ever-had-et-lovers-reveal-secrets-in-new-book-7959148/
https://www.vice/com/en_us/article/9bzp37/the-paranormal-portraitist-0000576-v22n2
https://livescience.com/20250-alien-abductions-origins.html
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/pl-column-alieninvasion/
Episode 134 - Dr. Moron
Meet the man who invented the word moron. Hitler absolutely loved him, and he influenced American science for decades. Thank you, Dr. Moron.
Sources:
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (1912) by Henry Goddard
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987907/
Who Was Deborah Kallikak? Article by J. David Smith
Podcast – Science VS. by Gimlet Media
Weird Bit 22 - The London Monster
When a crazed man started stabbing women in the butts with pins in 1788, the city was in an uproar. But when he started slashing their dresses with a knife, well, that’s a panic.
Episode 133 - Affluenza: First World Problem
Ethan Couch was drunk and high when he drove his truck at 70 mph into a group of people, killing four. It was not his fault, though, he was suffering the dread disease “affluenza.” Warning: This episode will piss you off.
Sources:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-gender-ourselves/201601/is-affluenza-real
http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/affluenza-teen-s-psychological-condition-even-real
Episode 132 - Strange Sports Stories
You don’t have to be a sports fan to appreciate these weird tales from the world of sports. Enjoy these little nuggets of soccer wars, ear biting, knee capping, bird killing, and on-field explosions - you deserve it.
Episode 131 - Murder in Jefferson Davis Parish
From 2005 to 2009, eight women were murdered in Jennings, Louisiana. It might have been a serial killer. It might have been something far worse. These murders are the subject of the new Showtime series, Murder in the Bayou.
Sources:
Dark Truth Behind 8 Sex Workers Murdered in the Bayou, Rolling Stone article by Cady Drell - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/dark-truth-behind-8-sex-workers-murdered-in-the-bayou-113264/
Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8, Medium article by Ethan Brown - https://medium.com/matter/who-killed-the-jeff-davis-8-d1b813e13581
Murder in Jeff Davis Parish - https://jdpkiller.wordpress.com/
Episode 130 - Uncle Clarence
A six year old girl and her grandmother were attacked in their home. She fled to her neighbor’s house after the killer left. She shouldn’t have.
Sources:
Maurice Possley, National Registry of Exonerations - https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3202
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Elkins
https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/clarence-elkins/
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-54-melinda-and-clarence-11-4-2016/
NBC news - Killer Instinct on Dateline
Episode 129 - The Man Who Stared at Goats (Balls)
Before you join your significant other for a romantic spin in an outdoor bathtub, you might want to check with Dr. Brinkley. His diagnosis might be painful and insane, but what procedure involving goat testicles isn’t?
Episode 128 - Legends of the Goat Men
Are goat-like humanoid creatures running around the woods and train tracks of the U.S. countryside doing terrible things to people? Probably.
Episode 127 - Nuking the Moon
Elon Musk wants to hit Mars with nuclear warheads. Not long ago, some slightly more serious people wanted to nuke the Moon and even got a young Carl Sagan to help them do it.
Episode 126 - The Green Children of Woolpit
In 12th Century rural England, two children were found by a wolf pit. They wore strange clothes, couldn’t speak English, had green skin, loved fava beans, and had an amazing story to tell. Did we mention they had green skin?
Episode 125 - Doppelgangers: One Two Many
You look across a room only to see yourself looking back at you. That’s your doppelganger, and - if the experience of Abraham Lincoln is any guide - this might not end well.
Episode 124 - The Disappearances of Hannah Upp
Hannah Upp disappeared in the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma, never to be seen again. That was odd. What was odder was that this wasn’t the first time she had disappeared. Or even the second…
Episode 123 - Murder at the Vatican
15-year old Emanuela Orlandi lived in Vatican City. She disappeared in 1983. What happened to Emanuela? And are her bones hidden at the Vatican?
Episode 122 - Dr. Croghan's Cave People
You have money, tuberculosis, and the biggest cave system on the planet. What are you going to do? Save the world, that’s what. We’re sure this will turn out great.
Episode 121 - The Weirdest Worst TV Shows of All Time
We did weird movies a while back, now we do TV. And it’s worse - Cop Rock worse.
Weird Bit 21 - The Real Kentucky Blues
Every University of Kentucky basketball fan bleeds blue. The Fugate family of Troublesome Creek, KY took that one step further - by having blue skin.
Episode 120 - Murder By The Book
When Polish police began to find similarities between a real life murder and fictional murder, they started to wonder - did the author take his research a little too literally?