When the people of Devon in the UK awoke to find single file trails of cloven or horseshoe footprints in the snow, they wondered what had caused them. But when they realized they went on for mile after mile, crossed rivers, danced atop roofs, and leapt high walls, they feared what might have caused them.
Episode 187 - The Mystery Guest
Who were those old women who had spent the last 24 years in a hotel, never seen, never spoken to? It would take a dead body to re-discover Ida Wood, millionaire socialite who had disappeared over two decades before.
Sources:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/05/ida-wood-recluse/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/everything-was-fake-but-her-wealth-4621153/
Episode 186 - The Belmez Faces
When Maria Gomez Pereira saw a stain appear on her kitchen floor in Spain in 1971 she was annoyed. When the next morning that stain had morphed into a human face, she was scared. When more faces started appearing the world came to Belmez to see the miraculous faces on her kitchen floor.
Episode 185 - Keith Reinhard's Last Hike, Part 2
What happened to Tom Young, the man whose disappearance obsessed Keith Reinhard? Then what happened to Keith? What drove him up a treacherous mountain as darkness loomed, never to be seen again?
Episode 184 - Keith Reinhard's Last Hike, Part 1
Keith Reinhard fled his mundane life to a living ghost town in the Rocky Mountains. There he obsessed over the disappearance of Tom Young - the man who had rented his shop space before him. Then Keith followed Tom into oblivion.
Episode 183 - The Mystery of Room 1046
He was from out of town. He called himself Roland T. Owen. He was tortured and left to die in his hotel room in Kansas City. But who killed him, why and who was he? Because he was definitely not named Roland T. Owen.
Sources:
https://the-line-up.com/roland-t-owen
https://allthatsinteresting.com/room-1046-murder-roland-t-owen
http://www.truecrimeneversleeps.com/the-mysterious-murder-of-roland-t-owen-in-room-1046/
Episode 182 - The Warminster Thing: Weirdness on Christmas Morning
Christmas Day 1964 brought strange sounds to the English village of Warminster. Something raked and scratched their roofs and even knocked them to the ground. Then pigeons died. Then they found mice with holes in them. Then, obviously, came the UFOS…
Episode 181 - Albert Bender and the Birth of Men in Black
Everyone knows Men in Black. Tommy Lee. Will. Chris and Tessa. But did you know who invented MIBs? Did you know just how nuts the original story was? Well now you will.
Episode 180 - Birds Aren't Real
“The Man” wants you to believe those are birds flying through the air, watching you from the telephone line, and pooping on your car window. They’re not. They are something far more insidious than even pigeons.
Sources:
https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/who-are-we
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg8p4n/birds-arent-real-they-are-government-spy-drones
Episode 179 - Lizzie Borden, Axe Murderer? Part 2
When another Fall Riverite is axe murdered just before the start of Lizzie’s trial, the town starts to wonder if the killings are connected. Did this help Lizzie get away with murder?
Weird Bit 30 - Utah Monolith Update
The latest on the Utah monolith - we might know who took it and Monolith-mania begins, starting in Romania.
Weird Bit 29 - Space Artistry?: The Utah Monolith
What is that ten-foot high metal monolith in the middle of the rugged Utah desert? A beacon? An art piece? An ode to 2001: Space Odyssey? Or something left by people from a place far, far away?
Episode 178 - Lizzie Borden, Axe Murderer?
The Borden house in Fall River, Mass in 1892 was a tense place. When Andrew and Abby Borden are axed to death in August of 1892, one of the most infamous murders in American history begins. And daughter Lizzie has some explaining to do.
Episode 177 - Weird World Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
We take our first stab at a review - The Haunting of Bly Manor. Join us as we dissect and distill this spooky but imperfect nine-part Netflix original. Warning: Pretty much everything is spoiled.
Weird World Fiction - The Baby Next Door
Our first Weird World fictional foray tells the story of a man lurching toward his end, a woman hiding from shame, and a baby that won’t stop crying.
Weird Bit 27 - Do You Believe In Ghosts?
Do you believe in ghosts? How about demons? Join us to learn how many believe and who they are.
Episode 176 - The Great Amherst Haunting
Canada’s most famous ghost story centers on a traumatized teen and the malevolent spirits that haunted her. For Esther Cox, strange noises would escalate to burning skin, a swollen body, mysterious fires, thunderous booming sounds, and the occasional flying knife.
Episode 175 - Slender Man
He is tall, he is slender, he is dark, and, for two teenage girls in Wisconsin, he was an inspiration for evil. He is Slender Man.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/milwaukee-suburb-tries-to-cope-with-slender-man-stabbing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/movies/slender-man-timeline.html
A documentary film on the incident called Beware the Slenderman, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky, HBO Films 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man
Weird Bit 26 - The Island of Lost Dolls
In the urban jungle of Mexico City is a quiet lake with an unspoiled island. There a man found a girl drowned on the shore. When he found her doll in the lake days later, he honored her in the spookiest way imaginable.
Episode 174 - Beware the Bunny Man
If you see a dim light in the forest near the bridge over Colchester Road, it’s already too late. The Bunny Man Killer, axe in hand, has been dispatching the curious since 1904 and he almost never leaves survivors. Almost…