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Weird World Podcast

Episode 325 - One Nation, Under Kids

June 20, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Would you take a bunch of kids from their homes, deny all contact with family, and see if they could survive on their in a New Mexico ghost town? You would if you were a CBS TV executive and had no moral compass. But then we wouldn't have had the sh*tshow that was "Kid Nation."

Episode 324 - How Flat is the Earth? Part 4

June 14, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Finally, we get to the answer - is the earth flat and how do we know? Then we wrap it up with what happened to Bob Knodel's expensive gyro experiment and Mad Mike Hughes' daring rocket test.

Episode 323 - How Flat is the Earth? Part 2

June 6, 2024 Dean Wehrli

We continue our deep dive into our flat earth even though we don’t know how shallow the crust is. What exactly does a flat earth look like (think a sprial of continents around the North Pole at the center of a disc)? And what do scientists have to say about why the earth might actually be round?

Episode 322 - How Flat is the Earth? Part 1

May 29, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Never have more people believed the earth is flat than right now. We know this is true because the concept of a flat earth is surprisingly recent and has really only exploded this century. We start a three-part deep dive below the flat surface of the earth by tracing its history up to the modern day.

Weird Bit 62 - Osama Bin Laden Action Figure!

May 26, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Sure, Osama Bin-Laden was popular in some quarters in the early 2000s, but action figure popular? And would the CIA make that Osama action figure? And send them to kids in Afghanistan? There has to be more to that story. There is.

Episode 321 - Mr. Dreamy

May 16, 2024 Dean Wehrli

He has a receding hairline over a round face and thick dark eyebrows. You don't know him and have never seen him - except in your dreams. He is "This Man," the dream invader who might calm you or guide you - or terrify you. And thousands of others have seen the same man in their dreams too.

Episode 320 - Vampire Dog of Cumberland

May 9, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Two words: Vampire. Dog.

Episode 319 - George Kenney and the Principles of Hypnosis

April 25, 2024 Dean Wehrli

George Kenney was a school principal who thought he could help troubled kids through hypnosis. If that sounds like a bad idea you're wrong. It was a horrific idea.

Episode 318 - Found and Lost: The Mysterious Fate of the Fausto

April 18, 2024 Dean Wehrli

In 1968, the Fausto and its crew disappeared on a routine run between two Canary Islands. Their rescue four days later was a miracle. But that was just the beginning of the inexplicable saga of the boat that was found, lost, found, and finally lost again.

Episode 317 - Weird News - April 2024

April 11, 2024 Dean Wehrli

It's been a while, but we have some good ones. Flying snakes, the shocking number of gay animals (personal trigger warning for Ron DeSantis), getting high on snake venom, AI turned on its masters, brain worms, the music police of Chechnya, the coming insect invasion, and the dangers of minor earthquakes in New Jersey coinciding with total eclipses of the sun.

Episode 316 - Down A Weirder Rabbit Hole: Alice In Wonderland Syndrome

March 28, 2024 Dean Wehrli

You might feel tiny, you might feel like a giant. You might think your head has ballooned and floats to the ceiling where you can look down on those around you. You might be high. You might have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. It might also be called DVPBR, I've heard it both ways.

Episode 315 - Don Decker, Strange Rainmaker

March 21, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Don Decker was under a lot of stress when he was staying with friends after his grandfather's funeral. He hallucinated, he collapsed, he could barely hold it together. Then it started to rain - inside the house. Then again at a nearby pizza place. Then again in a prison cell. Don Decker was not your usual rainmaker.

Stay tuned to the end to hear about Carey’s recently experienced unexplained phenomena. And, let’s hear from our audience, did every family have a point and shoot camera at the ready in 1983?

Weird Bit 61 - Quick Cryptid Corner - The Deadly Octopus of Oklahoma

March 17, 2024 Dean Wehrli

You may not think there are any octopuses in Oklahoma. Heck, you may not think there are any freshwater octopuses anywhere. But you might be wrong. There might be a reddish, horse-sized tentacled creature in several Oklahoma lakes that will drag you down to your death. Sorry, Oklahoma Tourist Board.

Weird Bit 60 - DB Cooper - Case Closed???

March 7, 2024 Dean Wehrli

This Just in: Man Confesses to Being DB Cooper!
Well, kind of. It was more the guy's wife who confessed to her son, but he had to wait until she died to tell anyone. And this is at least the sixth person to confess to being DB Cooper but this one just might be the real thing. Maybe.

Episode 314 - Abraham Lincoln Unravels a Murdery Mystery

February 29, 2024 Dean Wehrli

When two brothers are accused of murder by a third brother, it looks bad for them. Evidence piles up. There is going to be a shotgun trial. Luckily, they lived in Springfield, IL in 1841 and they could hire a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln to solve the mystery and save their necks.

Episode 313 - If You Are What You Wear And You Wear These Things, You're An Idiot

February 22, 2024 Dean Wehrli

If you bought a pair of JNCO jeans in 1998 you probably bought a pair of Google Glasses in 2013, but hopefully skipped the thong jeans fad a few years later. From bustles to bullet bras to window pants, we take a tour of some of the strangest fashions to ever humiliate a willing public.

Episode 312 - Devil Monkeys Among Us

February 15, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Everyone knows there are no monkeys native to North America. But what if everyone is wrong? Wouldn't that monkey be able to run fast, leap far, attack moving cars, eat sheep and occassionally people? Of course they would. And we would call them Devil Monkeys.

Episode 311 - The Strange Tale of the Colombian Twins

February 8, 2024 Dean Wehrli

When a woman saw a butcher at a grocery store in Bogota that looked eerily like a co-worker, it would set in motion a chain reaction that would end in a shocking revelation. And a certain hospital would have some explaining to do.

Episode 310 - Kasper Hauser: The Boy Who Fell To Earth, Part 2

February 1, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Kasper's story that began with such mystery ends even more strangely. Was he assassinated? Or did the footsteps in the bloody snow tell a different story? And who was Kasper Hauser?

Episode 309 - Kasper Hauser: The Boy Who Fell To Earth - Part 1

January 25, 2024 Dean Wehrli

Before Nuremberg was known for war trials it was the place where a teenage boy suddenly appeared from nowhere with a remarkable story to tell. Soon he was the toast of Europe and many wondered if he might even be someone very special.